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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Stuart. (search)
ng down his foes. Stuart seems to have inherited that trait of the family blood — for it seems tolerably well established that he and Rupert were descended from the same stock, and scions of that family which has given to the world men of brain and courage, as well as faineans and libertines. To notice briefly this not uninteresting point, the family likeness in the traits of Stuart and Prince Rupert is very curious. Both were utterly devoted to a principle which was their life-blood — in Rupert it was the love of royalty, in Stuart the love of Virginia. Both were men of the most impetuous temper, chafing at opposition, and ready at any instant to match themselves against their adversaries, and conquer or die. Both were devoted to the love of ladies, gallant to the echo; of a proud and splendid loyalty to their word; of unshrinking courage; kind and compassionate in temper, gay and smiling in address; fonder of fighting than of looking to the commissariat; adored by their men, who
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coinage, United States (search)
on, said Wood had the conscience to make thirteen shillings out of a pound of brass. The power of coinage was exercised by several of the independent States from 1778 until the adoption of the national Constitution. A mint was established at Rupert, Vt., by legislative authority in 1785, whence copper cents were issued, bearing on one side a plough and a sun rising from behind hills, and on the other a radiated eye surrounded by thirteen stars. Some half-cents also were issued by the Vermontntre, the sentence We are one. On the other side a sun-dial, with the sun above it, and the word Fugio; and around whole, Continental currency, 1776. Below the dial, Mind business. A few of these pieces, it is said, were struck in a mint at Rupert, Vt. The national Constitution vested the right of coinage exclusively in the national government. The establishment of a mint was authorized by act of Congress in April, 1792, but it did not go into full operation until 1795. During the interv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hudson Bay Company, the. (search)
Hudson Bay Company, the. In 1666 Captain Gillam was sent from England in a ship to search for a northwest passage to India through Hudson Bay. He sailed into Baffin Bay but was turned back at lat. 75° N. by the ice-pack. He then entered Hudson Bay, and sailed to the southern end of it, where, at the mouth of a river which he named Rupert, he built a fort which he named Charles, and laid the foundations of a fur-trade with the natives. Two years afterwards the Hudson Bay Company was chartered. The King gave to Prince Rupert, and several lords, knights, and merchants associated with him, a charter, under the title of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay. The charter ceded to the company the whole trade of the waters within the entrance to Hudson Strait and of the adjacent territories. The original sum invested by the company was a little more than $50,000. No trade in the world was so profitable as that engaged in by the Hudson Bay Comp
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
words, pole-axes, and petronels; this includes Rupert's own lifeguard of chosen men. Lord Wentworth,nd fifty dragoons, is commanded by Will Legge, Rupert's life-long friend and correspondent; and Herbof its own. No use for the King to hang two of Rupert's men for stealing, when their commander couldvation was a victory. To say, therefore, that Rupert's men never starved, is to say that they alway on foot, some on horseback. More and more of Rupert's men rush in; they fight through the stragglitreat,--treasures that otherwise no trooper of Rupert's would have spared: scarlet cloth, bedding, sse high-born, dissolute, reckless Cavaliers of Rupert's. I have seen them running up walls twenty fepikes of the London train-bands. Nor can even Rupert's men claim to monopolize the courage of the Kce is needed: the enemy are scattered, and, as Rupert's Cavaliers are dashing on, in their accustomeincidences in their lives. At the marriage of Rupert's mother, the student Hampden was chosen to wr
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
ebecca Swan 1 Dec. 1768, and had Richard, b. 6 Oct. 1769, settled in Haverhill, N. H.; William, b. 1784, settled in Rutland, Vt., and perhaps others. 12. Samuel, the reputed s. of Samuel (7) by Bethia Grover of Watertown, b. 1739, was placed under guardianship of Samuel Stratton 31 Mar. 1755, being then sixteen years old. He in. Mary Mullett 21 Dec. 1761 (being styled Samuel Gookin, Jr.), and had Mary, bap. 3 Oct. 1762, and others. Samuel the f. rem. to Suffield, Conn., and thence to Rupert, Vt., where he d. 2 April 1812. 13. Edmund, s. of Edmund (10), res. in Brighton, and m. Sarah Learned 18 Oct. 1791, by whom he had William Boyes, bap. Ap. 1792, entered the Army, and is supposed to have died in the service; Sarah, bap. 14 Ap. 1793; Charlotte, bap. 14 Aug. 1796; Samuel Learned, b.——, established himself in business in Memphis, Tenn., and d. at Florence, Ala.; and perhaps others. Edmund the f. d. at Claremont, N. H., about 1843. 14. Squire, s. of Edmund (10), res. in Bri
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, G. (search)
ebecca Swan 1 Dec. 1768, and had Richard, b. 6 Oct. 1769, settled in Haverhill, N. H.; William, b. 1784, settled in Rutland, Vt., and perhaps others. 12. Samuel, the reputed s. of Samuel (7) by Bethia Grover of Watertown, b. 1739, was placed under guardianship of Samuel Stratton 31 Mar. 1755, being then sixteen years old. He in. Mary Mullett 21 Dec. 1761 (being styled Samuel Gookin, Jr.), and had Mary, bap. 3 Oct. 1762, and others. Samuel the f. rem. to Suffield, Conn., and thence to Rupert, Vt., where he d. 2 April 1812. 13. Edmund, s. of Edmund (10), res. in Brighton, and m. Sarah Learned 18 Oct. 1791, by whom he had William Boyes, bap. Ap. 1792, entered the Army, and is supposed to have died in the service; Sarah, bap. 14 Ap. 1793; Charlotte, bap. 14 Aug. 1796; Samuel Learned, b.——, established himself in business in Memphis, Tenn., and d. at Florence, Ala.; and perhaps others. Edmund the f. d. at Claremont, N. H., about 1843. 14. Squire, s. of Edmund (10), res. in Bri
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
ng,— Pray let the old man rest.” ‘Now, out upon thee, canting knave!’ And strong hands shook the door. ‘Believe me, Macy,’ quoth the priest, ‘Thou lt rue thy conduct sore.’ Then kindled Macy's eye of fire: “No priest who walks the earth, Shall pluck away the stranger-guest Made welcome to my hearth.” Down from his cottage wall he caught The matchlock, hotly tried At Preston-pans and Marston-moor, By fiery Ireton's side: Where Puritan, and Cavalier, With shout and psalm contended; And Rupert's oath, and Cromwell's prayer, With battle-thunder blended. Up rose the ancient stranger then: “My spirit is not free To bring the wrath and violence Of evil men on thee; “And for thyself, I pray forbear, Bethink thee of thy Lord, Who healed again the smitten ear, And sheathed His follower's sword. “I go, as to the slaughter led. Friends of the poor, farewell!” Beneath his hand the oaken door Back on its hinges fell. “Come forth, old graybeard, yea and nay,”
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
gine that, in the assemblies of the primitive Quakers, such stirring battle-cries and warlike tropes, even when employed in enforcing or illustrating the doctrines of peace, must have made many a stout heart to beat quicker, under its drab coloring, with recollections of Naseby and Preston; transporting many a listener from the benches of his place of worship to the ranks of Ireton and Lambert, and causing him to hear, in the place of the solemn and nasal tones of the preacher, the blast of Rupert's bugles, and the answering shout of Cromwell's pikemen: Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered! Of this class was John Roberts. He threw off his knapsack, and went back to his small homestead, contented with the privilege of supporting himself and family by daily toil, and grumbling in concert with his old campaign brothers at the new order of things in Church and State. To his apprehension, the Golden Days of England ended with the parade on Blackheath to receive the restored
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
abusive language to Mrs. Mary E. Clasby. In this case it appears that the Clasbys are sub-tenants of Rupert, the latter claiming an exclusive right to the use of the passage. To this R. objected, and enforced his protest so far as to have the look-taken-from the door, for which complaint was made and a mass of testimony on each side given. His Honor bound Mr. and Mrs. Rupert over to keep the peace in the sum of $150 each, thereby conceding to the complainants the right to the passage way. Rupert's entrance is through his store. Dick, slave of the city of Richmond, was ordered twenty lashes for having in his possession on Saturday night last a lot of coat, supposed to have been stolen from the gashouse. Seaton Anderson, charged with being a runaway from the batteries, was sent back after a hearing by the Mayor yesterday. A charge was preferred against James, slave of James Moore, of being out after hours without a proper pass and having a pair of shoes in his possessio
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
The Rev. J. P. Gardner, a missionary in Rupert's Land, gives the following word of eighteen syllables as an illustration of the peculiarity of the Indian language: " Kegu wecheahpe towke sinne mecte sooi nenna wawan." --"I will dine with you."--[Mobile Advertiser.] The following syllables in English will be found very good as an answer-- "notifiknowit."
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