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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797 (search)
he storm-cloud flies, The threatening billow on the deep Obedient lies.) The very same year the county palatine of Chester received the same relief from its oppression, and the same remedy to its disorders. Before this time Chester was little less distempered than Wales. The inhabitants, without rights themselves, were the fittest to destroy the rights of others: and from thence Richard II. drew the standing army of archers, with which for a time he oppressed England. The people of Chester applied to Parliament in a petition penned as I shall read to you: To the king our sovereign lord, in most humble wise shown unto your excellent Majesty, the inhabitants of your Grace's county palatine of Chester; That where the said county palatine of Chester is and hath been always hitherto exempt. excluded and separated out and from your high court of Parliament, to have any knights and burgesses within the said court; by reason whereof the said inhabitants have hitherto sustained
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clarke, George -1763 (search)
Clarke, George -1763 Colonial governor; born in England; came to America during the reign of Queen Anne; and settled in New York. When Governor Cosby died he was proclaimed governor pro tem. by the council, and later was commissioned lieutenant-governor by the British government. He died in Chester, England, in 1763.