slide , inc. , operator of the urltoken website , was a web 2.0 company founded by max levchin and based in san francisco , california .

originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as myspace , the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of third-party applications for facebook .

the company was acquired by google on august 4 , 2010 and shut down on march 6 , 2012 .

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and so committed is mr . levchin to seeing urltoken succeed that he keeps a blood - pressure monitor on his desk . “i don’t know what i would do if i couldn’t start companies , ” he said . “i’d probably think about slitting my wrists . ”
a site for sharing photos and video was not necessarily mr . levchin’s favorite among the dozen or so ideas he pondered . but he chose urltoken precisely because he thought it had the greatest potential to become a business that could surpass paypal in size and reach .
slide , founded by paypal co - founder max levchin , makes widgets that help people express themselves . the company took a big risk in 2006 when they gave users the ability to auto - insert slide shows into their myspace pages and blasting bulletins out to all their friends . they did this by asking users to hand over their myspace credentials , and doing all the hard work for them . this is a clear violation of myspace ' s terms of service , though , and most people expected slide to receive a cease and desist letter and / or get access turned off . but that never happened , and slide ' s big bet has paid off . slide has since evolved to offer a number of widgets . users create and personalize widgets on urltoken and can then use them on social networks , blogs and desktops .
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a few years ago , mr . levchin , one of the young princes of silicon valley , bought his first home , a 12 - room edwardian high atop a hill here , for $ 3 . 4 million . but mr . levchin , who made a fortune at age 27 selling paypal , the online payment service he helped start in 1998 , never moved in . he sold it two years later without having slept there for even one night .
since then , mr . levchin has moved into his second home , a more expensive one found for him by nellie minkova , his girlfriend of eight years who has become his fiancée . but so consumed is he by work on his second company , an internet start - up focused on sharing photos and videos , that the cartons that contain what mr . levchin described as “85 percent of my worldly possessions” are still stacked in his living room , five months after moving day .
mr . levchin , who is now 32 , is typical of a new generation of junior titans in silicon valley who might be called the prematurely rich — techies worth tens of millions of dollars , sometimes more , at an age when many others are just starting to figure out what to do with their lives .
the internet , a low - overhead medium with a global reach , has greatly accelerated the wealth creation phenomenon , producing a larger breed of multimillionaires even younger and richer than in the past .
they are happy to be wealthy , of course , but many of these baby - faced technology tycoons often seem indifferent to the buying power of their money , at least at this stage of their lives . instead , nearly all of them have chosen to throw themselves back into a start - up , not so much because they want a spectacular new home or a personal jet — though many of them do — but because they are in a competition with themselves and one another .
“for most of us , doing it again means surpassing what we’ve done previously , ” said peter a . thiel , mr . levchin’s partner at paypal , who also has started a new business , a hedge fund called clarium capital . “and that can be a really high bar . ”
even among this jittery group of overachievers , mr . levchin stands out . in part that is because outdoing paypal may be an all - but - impossible goal . mr . levchin acknowledges that he has already earned more money than he could ever spend . but he said he would not consider slide . com , the photo and video sharing site he founded in 2005 that is still in its start - up phase , a success unless it is ultimately worth , in real dollars , “at least $ 1 . 54 billion”— the price ebay paid for paypal .
during his paypal days , mr . levchin was so committed to seeing the company succeed that he often sacked out at the office in a sleeping bag he kept under his desk . considering that he described his apartment during some of this time as “scary , ” that had a certain logic . cardboard boxes served as his living room furniture ; a discarded computer desk was his dining room table .
these days , despite the phenomenal success of paypal , which gave him the bulk of a fortune worth around $ 100 million , mr . levchin continues to work an average of 15 to 18 hours a day .
“we occasionally go out to eat , he sleeps a few hours , he works out , ” ms . minkova said . “but other than that , max works . ”
ms . minkova half - joked that she might appreciate her occasional evenings out with mr . levchin more , if only he were not on his blackberry , answering e - mail messages and checking his web site .
one friend , dennis fong , who sold a company to mtv networks last year for $ 102 million ( and is already at work on a new start - up ) , talks about the “weird growling sound” that mr . levchin tends to make when someone even mentions the name of his chief rival , rockyou .
maximillian rafael levchin was born and raised in kiev , ukraine , a jew living under soviet rule for 16 years . as the soviet union was crumbling , the family moved to the united states and settled in chicago . but the worst year of his life , he said , was not when he was growing up but after ebay bought paypal .
he thought he would spend the time after the sale “exploring my inner self . ” instead , he spent the better part of 12 months “feeling worthless and stupid” and baffled by what he might do with the remainder of his life . he felt too young to retire or downshift a gear or two — and too restless to become a philanthropist .
“i enjoy sitting on nice beaches and hanging out with my girlfriend and playing with my dog , but that’s three hours a day , ” mr . levchin said . “what about the remaining 18 hours i’m awake ? ”
at first , free time was not much of a problem . coming into a lot of money at a very young age , mr . levchin found himself forced to ponder things like irrevocable trusts and secondary beneficiaries . several times a week , he would listen to the gentle hectoring of older , well - dressed men and women whom he playfully mimicked , employing a basso profondo , game - show announcer’s voice .
“think of the kids you don’t have , ” mr . levchin quoted them as saying . “think of your unborn grandkids . ”
as those obligations of his new wealth subsided , mr . levchin contemplated what he might do next . for a time , mr . levchin , a graduate of the university of illinois at urbana - champaign , thought about returning to school and earning a doctorate . that is what his mother , a physicist , had always wanted him to do , and it seemed to suit his temperament .
but discussions with a friend who teaches computer science at stanford convinced him that academia was not the life for him . “this friend said , ‘don’t kid yourself , you’re going to start another company , ’” mr . levchin said . “it was one of those things where as soon as he said it , i knew it was true . ”
he thought , too , about becoming a venture capitalist or an angel investor , a well - paved path for generations of entrepreneurs before him . sequoia capital , one of silicon valley’s top venture firms , gave him a desk to use while he figured out his next step . the partners at sequoia would regularly invite him to join pitch meetings , but that experience taught him that he was hardly suited to the more nurturing side of the profession .
“i took this perverse pleasure in seeing if i could make someone cry , ” he said .
at sequoia , mr . levchin met james hong , another successful entrepreneur who today is one of his closest friends .
“we’d go out drinking , and max’d talk about how miserable he was , and i’d talk about how miserable i was , ” said mr . hong , who was 27 when he and a friend started hotornot , a web site popular with the under - 30 crowd .
while not nearly as rich as mr . levchin , mr . hong describes himself as well off enough so that work is optional . he was collecting more than $ 1 million a year from hotornot , a project he and his partner had created in seven days and which demanded little of his time .
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“all of a sudden , you have the luxury — or the curse — of being able to ponder the meaning of life , ” mr . hong said . “you ask yourself , ‘why am i not happier given how lucky i’ve been ? ’”
only later did mr . hong diagnose the real source of his angst : he was not doing much of anything . so like most of his peers , mr . hong decided to throw himself back into work , in his case refocusing on hotornot in the hopes of transforming the web site into a larger business .
in silicon valley , said robert i . sutton , a professor of management science and engineering at stanford and co - founder of the stanford technology ventures program , remaining relevant , if not also admired and respected , requires that an entrepreneur continue to speed along in the fast lane .
“in other parts of the country , things like a great estate are the symbols people most respect , ” mr . sutton said . “but here , the greatest status symbol is a person’s ability , ” he added , to “still bring out hot new companies” and show that you are “working on the hot new technologies . ”
some , of course , choose to step off the start - up merry - go - round . pierre omidyar , 40 , the founder of ebay , remains chairman of that company , but he gave up the day - to - day operations in the late 1990s . since that time , mr . omidyar , who has a net worth of $ 9 billion , has devoted most of his work energies to philanthropic causes and investments in projects in the united states and in the developing world .
mr . levchin concluded that his competitive drive was too strong for that kind of life . during his time off , he competed with mr . hong over who was the more frugal of the two and challenged him to push - up contests at the gym . “no matter how many i’d do , ” mr . hong said , “he’d have to do that many plus two . ”
taking five max levchin spends a moment with his dog , uma , but usually he works 15 to 18 hours a day at his start - up company , slide . com .
so mr . levchin did what any young titan in his position might have done . he dipped into his deep reserves of cash to pay for a large loft space and hired a half dozen of the smartest computer programmers he knew .
“i knew i wanted to be a c . e . o . , ” mr . levchin said . “i just didn’t know the c . e . o . of what . ”
mr . levchin proved vigorous in his pursuit of the right start - up . there are those in silicon valley who still create new companies out of a desire to crack a challenging technical problem . but not mr . levchin , who , like many of the area’s most highly regarded software engineers nowadays , views himself as the creator of potentially lucrative businesses more than simply the architect of a nifty new technology .
“it’s easier to start the next company than it was in the past , ” said marc andreessen , who was a co - founder of netscape communications in 1994 , when he was 22 . it is also potentially more lucrative than it was even a dozen years ago , said mr . andreessen , who despite a net worth estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars is now at work on his third start - up , a social networking company called ning .
“for the first time in history , you have a global market of 1 billion - plus people , all connected over an interactive network , ” mr . andreessen said . “the opportunities are bigger than ever before . ”
in 2005 , when he started slide , the internet already had plenty of popular photo - sharing sites , but mr . levchin saw a new way to cash in on the desire of so many to express themselves in cyberspace : a service that gives people an easy way to dress up their blogs and personal pages with photo slide shows , videos and the like .
facebook users , for instance , use slide - produced playthings like its multimedia “funwall” or the “superpoke” widgets that let them hug or punch a fellow member ( figuratively speaking ) or even throw a virtual sheep at someone ( as apparently 20 , 000 people an hour choose to do , according to slide ) .
more than 130 million people viewed at least one slide multimedia presentation in june , according to the internet traffic monitor comscore .
“i’d run any company ; it’s completely irrelevant to me , ” mr . levchin said . “it’s really about this drive to win . ”
yet what mr . levchin calls “my particular brand of obsession” comes with a cost . he wishes he gave more to charity , but he can never seem to find the time . “it’s pathetic how much i give compared to other people i know worth considerably less , ” he said . and his desire to earn even more means he pays little attention to the wealth he already has in the bank .
“this ‘next race’ attitude really shapes your brain , ” mr . levchin said . “it’s ‘ready , set , go , ’ and nothing else really matters . ”
the three - story , five - bedroom house he shares with ms . minkova cost him $ 5 . 3 million , but it seems to be his only big post - paypal indulgence .
indeed , mr . levchin has not splurged on the pricey luxuries that some other silicon valley luminaries enjoy . those twin kings of the valley’s under - 35 set — google’s co - founders , sergey brin and larry page , with a combined net worth of more than $ 40 billion — have splurged on a fully loaded customized boeing 767 - 200 . but for mr . levchin , there is no six - figure car parked in his driveway , and dinners out tend to be at chain eateries rather than at high - end restaurants .
“spending money is a fine pursuit , and anyone’s welcome to do it , ” said scott banister , a close friend of mr . levchin’s since college who recently sold an antispam company to cisco for $ 830 million and is now working on a social networking site , zivity , which he describes as a “cross between playboy and american idol . ”
“but then obviously at that point , you’re spending , ” he said , “not producing . ”
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san francisco ( reuters ) - slide inc . , a start - up that allows web users to publish online slideshows of photos and other digital media , said on tuesday it had received additional funding from two top silicon valley venture firms .
slide was started by max levchin , co - founder of paypal , the world ' s most popular online payment service which was sold to online auctioneer ebay inc . ( ebay . o ) in 2002 for $ 1 . 5 billion .
slide ' s new financing round was led by mayfield fund and includes investments from khosla ventures and two previous investors , bluerun ventures and founders fund . exact terms were not disclosed , but levchin said :
it is in the millions .
levchin aims to make slide the leader of a new category he describes as online storytelling through multimedia , a focus that is meant to distinguish it from many photo - sharing sites .
growing largely through word - of - mouth recommendation , slide ranks as the sixth - most - visited u . s . photo entertainment site , according to web measurement firm hitwise inc , attracting more visitors than sites such as snapfish and shutterfly ( sfly . o ) .
in terms of visitors , it is neck and neck with yahoo inc . ' s ( yhoo . o ) flickr in the category , while photobucket . com , a photo and video - sharing site popular among myspace users , is no . 1 .
filmloop , which also helps users create online slideshows , is most frequently compared to slide . but by contrast , it ranks 86th among u . s . users in hitwise ' s list of photo sites .
levchin founded san francisco - based slide as a personal pastime after selling paypal . when he received his first round of funding in 2005 from bluerun , also paypal ' s first venture backer , he began to put slide on a business footing , he said .
vinod khosla , one of silicon valley ' s best - known venture capitalists , said in a statement he was betting on the track record of levchin ,
who has already proven his drive , purpose and ability when he built and grew paypal .
mayfield managing director allen morgan will be on slide ' s board of directors and khosla will join the board of advisers .
levchin said the new money will help slide grow by funding more staff , network capacity and faster product development .
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anthony slide has served as both associate archivist of the american film institute ( acquiring and preserving films for the national film collection at the library of congress ) and as resident film historian of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences . he published his first book ,
, both of which are considered definitive works in their respective fields . among his most recent academic books are
( 2010 ) , published by the university press of mississippi . he is also editor of the “filmmakers” series published by scarecrow press , and numbering more than 115 volumes . his 1986 book ,
( published in 1994 ) was named outstanding academic book of the year by “choice” magazine , best reference book of the year by “library journal” and outstanding reference source of the year by the american library association .
in 1990 , in recognition of his work on the history of popular entertainment , bowling green university awarded anthony slide a honorary doctorate of letters . at that time he was hailed by lillian gish as “our preeminent historian of the silent film . ”
anthony slide has been active as a specialist appraiser of entertainment - related items for more than twenty years , and has gained a national reputation in the field . he has appraised papers , correspondence , books , photographs , posters , music , lobby cards , video tapes , audio recordings , motion picture film elements , equipment , and awards , relating to all aspects of popular entertainment , for estate , insurance and tax purposes . the largest collection he has appraised is the archives of producer david l . wolper , and his best - known appraisal is of the abraham zapruder film of the kennedy assassination . he has appraised the papers of individuals as varied as silent screen star marion davies and blacklisted screenwriter ring lardner , jr . , and collections as small as one scrapbook and as large as 1 , 500 boxes . in his capacity as an appraiser for the los angeles community redevelopment agency , he has been recognized in los angeles superior court as an expert witness .
: among the unique objects that anthony slide has been asked to value are artie shaw’s clarinet , donated to the smithsonian institution , and the articulated werewolf’s head from the john landis production of an american werewolf in london . from batman ( 1989 ) , anthony slide appraised for michael keaton the costume he wore as the title character .
: anthony slide has valued many awards , including oscars , emmys and golden globes ; he has appraised the irving g . thalberg memorial awards presented to david o . selznick and darryl f . zanuck , and the academy awards of margaret booth , louis derochemont , katharine hepburn , harold lloyd , mercedes mccambridge , david o . selznick , shelley winters , david l . wolper , and william wyler , among others . for insurance purposes , he valued the largest group of oscars ever gathered together on one occasion at the request of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences .
: anthony slide has appraised the value of copyrights of many individual feature films and television productions , including the independent and experimental productions of lenny lipton , jr . , the ken murray hollywood home movie library , the newsreel library of the mexican company , noticiero continental , and the independent productions ( and other assets ) of documentary filmmaker marlon t . riggs .
: anthony slide has appraised film collections donated to the academy of motion picture arts and sciences , the american film institute , the lilly library of indiana university , the library of congress , pacific film archive , the national museum of natural history of the smithsonian institution , and the ucla film and television archive . he has valued the largest independent 16mm film library in the world , belonging to director / collector david bradley , and consisting of more than 5 , 000 titles ; and the film collections of entertainer mel torme and producer jack haley , jr . he has also appraised a number of commercial 16mm film libraries , as well as libraries of laser discs and videotapes .
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edward berkeley portman ( 31 january 1771 – 19 january 1823 , rome ) was an 18th-century housing developer and politician .

he was the son of henry portman , and ultimately a descendant of the tudor landowner sir william portman .

edward continued his father 's work developing the family lands in london into the portman estate .

he also sat as member of parliament for boroughbridge between 1802 and 1806 and for dorset between 1806 and 1823 .

edward portman

son of edward berkeley portman and lucy portman husband of emma portman father of william henry berkeley portman , 2nd viscount portman ; hon . edwin berkeley portman ; reverend hon . walter berkeley portman and hon . maurice berkeley portman brother of wyndham berkeley portman ; harriet ella dugdale ; marianne drummond ; lucy wingfield - digby and rev . fitzhardinge berkeley portman
portman , edward berkeley , first viscount portman ( 1799–1888 ) , politician , born at bryanston , dorset , on 9 july 1799 , was the son of edward berkeley portman ( d . 1823 ) of bryanston and orchard portman , somerset , and his first wife , lucy , elder daughter of the revd thomas whitby . . .
edward berkley portman in myheritage family trees ( beddy / buchanan / bosman / von abo / hockly / lindl . . . )
king edward ' s devise , entirely autograph . ( ms . petyt 47 , f . 317 . )
' mr . edward cross , brother of the deceased , said the deceased was 54 years of age . he saw
king edward ' s minutes for his last will , as transcribed by secretary petre . ( ms , petyt 47 , f . 416 . )
until that abrupt switch , portman had opposed same - sex marriage . but his son ' s disclosure ' allowed me to think of this from a new perspective , ' portman said .
two years ago , his son will came out to portman and his wife , jane , during will’s freshman year at yale university , which eventually led portman to support same - sex marriage .
death . viscountess dies . london , wednesday . viscountess portman , widow of the fourth viscount portman , died in hospital from shock following a fire at her home in prince ' s gate .
from 11 april 1946 , her married name became portman . after her marriage , nancy maureen franklin was styled as
the first limitation of king edward ' s settlement was , to the lady frances ' s issue male born before the king ' s death , and in default of such issue to the lady jane ' s heirs male . this arrangement would have fully answered the duke of northumberland ' s ambitious views , had king edward survived the birth of a son to the lady jane . in that case the infant would have succeeded to the crown immediately on king edward ' s death , and northumberland would have been grandfather of the actual monarch .
just this past election year , portman was vetted by romney ' s campaign team as a vice - presidential option .
portman previously endorsed same - sex marriage , explaining that he changed his views after his son revealed he was gay .
king edward proceeded further , to prepare minutes for his last will : these also were transcribed by secretary petre , and the transcript in his handwriting is preserved in the same repository with the foregoing .
privy councillors . sir john mason , sir ralph sadler , sir richard sackville chancellor of the court of augmentations , sir edward north , sir anthony sentleger , sir william paget , sir richard southwell .
portman said he discussed the issue with members of his church’s community and former republican vice president dick cheney , whose daughter is gay .
in an op - ed for the dispatch in friday ' s paper , portman says the admission by will , a junior at yale , lead to the reversal . portman writes that his son helped him see that gay people don ' t choose to be gay :
kirk and portman are both up for reelection next year , with kirk facing a potentially difficult reelection bid in a blue - leaning state .
judges . sir roger cholmeley chief justice of the king ' s bench , sir edward mountague chief justice of the common pleas , henry bradshaw chief baron of the exchequer , sir john baker chancellor of the exchequer , sir humfrey browne justice of the common pleas , sir william portman justice of the king ' s bench , sir robert bowes master of the rolls .
portman was the first republican senator to declare support for gay marriage , going public in2013 after announcing that his son , will , is gay .
t . cant . t . ely , canc . wynchester . northubrland . j . bedford . h . suffolk . w . northt . h . shrewesbury . f . huntyngdon . penbroke . e . clynton . t . darcy . g . cobham . r . ryche . t . cheyne . john gate . william petre . joan ' cheek , w . cecill . edward mountagu . john bakere . edward gryffyn . john lucas . john gosnold .
27 . ibid . 2 dec . ; fox strangways mss 242 , portman to ilchester , 24 - 29 nov . , 3 dec . 1830 .
portman also said that he informed 2012 gop presidential nominee mitt romney that his son was gay when he was being interviewed as a possible running mate .
b . 9 july 1799 , 1st s . of edward berkeley portman i * and 1st w . lucy , da . of rev . thomas whitby of portland place , mdx . and cresswell , staffs . educ . eton c . 1811 ; christ church , oxf . 1817 . m . 16 june 1827 , lady emma lascelles , da . of henry lascelles† , 2nd earl of harewood , 4s . ( 1 d . v . p . ) 2da . ( 1 d . v . p . ) . suc . fa . 1823 ; cr . bar . portman 27 jan . 1837 ; visct . portman 28 mar . 1873 . d . 19 nov . 1888 .
after the federal government deemed that schools must allow students to use bathrooms that matchtheir gender identity , portman said the executive branch should stay out of the issue .
wedding report . ( jun 1908 ) . bride of seventy - one , lord portman weds in 78th year . not often is a great - grandfather married . the honour belongs to viscount portman , who was married recently at st mary ' s church , bryanston square , to mrs . livingstone learmonth , who is 71 .
we miss the names of the attorney - general edward gryffyn and john lucas master of the requests , which are among the signatures in p . 91 , attached to the engagement made in the king ' s presence . the former retained his place in the service of queen mary .
“i told mitt romney everything , ” portman told cnn . “that process is — intrusive would be one way to put it . but no , yeah , i told him everything . ”
portman has a 100 percent rating from national right to life and was an original co - sponsor ofthe ban on so - called partial - birth abortion when he was in the house .
their conversation turned on some recent defeat of the whigs , when , mr . portman attempting to explain it , mr . dawson laughingly said , ‘oh , you are a mere bundle of sticks and will always be beaten’ . this taunt rather excited mr . portman , while at the same time he felt its truth , and he reported mr . dawson’s words to his friends .
sen . rob portman ( r - ohio ) , once a staunch opponent of gay marriage , says that he now supports same - sex nuptials after his son told him he was gay .
“i’m announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples’ opportunity to marry , ” portman said , according to cnn .
portman has an a rating from the nra . he sided this year with a majority of republicans in atest vote opposing a bill that would ban those on the no - fly list from buying guns .
that he ' s backing same - sex marriage—a reversal from his previous political history which includes votes against same - sex marriage and gay adoption . portman says the reason for his change of heart is his own
. it ' s not known if portman discussed the issue of same - sex marriage with romney or , if he had been picked , if he would have backed those initiatives despite having a gay son .
editor ' s note : this is the last in a series of three stories about the issues in the u . s . senate race between republican sen . rob portman and democratic former gov . ted strickland .
frances viscountess portman is 20 degrees from william foster , 17 degrees from alexander hamilton and 7 degrees from victoria of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland on our single family tree . login to find your connection .
the main difference of king edward ' s devise from king henry ' s settlement consisted in the total exclusion of his two sisters . [ 2 ] in the exclusion of the descendants of his aunt margaret queen of scots , on whom the crown ultimately devolved after the lapse of half a century , he merely followed the precedent of his father ' s will .
portman agrees that the immigration system is broken but says he can support a plan only if itincludes sufficient border controls and enforcement of immigration laws in workplaces . he opposed a2013 immigration proposal , saying that the bill did not include those elements .
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sen . rob portman had a change of heart about whether same - sex couples should beallowed to marry . former ohio gov . ted strickland shifted more slowly on that issue but made a farmore dramatic change in his support for gun control .
portman says the reversal stems from his 21 - year - old gay son coming out to him two years ago , as he now becomes the first republican senator on that side of the controversial issue as it heads for landmark arguements in the supreme court .
32 . portman’s name is not in the surviving partial division lists , but during the dorset by - election , he , like ponsonby , was attacked for having voted against giving the franchise to farmers ( dorset co . chron . 6 oct . 1831 ) .
nominally , the two candidates for the u . s . senate fit into their ideological boxes : portman , therepublican , is more conservative , and strickland , the democrat , more liberal . but on social issues , enough nuances exist to puncture the usual stereotypes :
portman opposes using taxpayer money to pay for abortions and is a co - sponsor of a bill thatwould ban taxpayer funding from going to abortions . he also has voted to block taxpayer dollarsgoing to the united nations while any member nation forces citizens to undergo abortions .
viscount portman , who is m . f . h . of the portman hunt , was born in london in the reign of george iv . educated at eton and oxford , he entered parliament , and sat as a whig for 33 years in the house of commons . he is now one of the most popular sportsmen and landlords in the country , and probably one of the oldest masters of foxhounds . the newsletter : an australian paper for australian people ( sydney , nsw : 1900 - 1918 ) 1 aug 1908 , p7 urltoken
portman adds that he ' s voicing his support for gay marriage now because the supreme court will be hearing arguments soon on california ' s prop . 8 , a state ban on same - sex marriage , as well as the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act . according to
“i have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad , the government shouldn’t deny them the opportunity to get married , ” portman wrote friday in an op - ed in the columbus dispatch .
4 . dorset co . chron . 22 nov . 1888 ; t . w . mayberry , orchard and the portmans , 5 , 38 , 40 ; m . portman , bryanston , picture of a fam . 129 - 32 ; sir m . nathan , annals of west coker , 419 .
another remarkable feature of the devise is this , that , as originally drawn , it contemplated only a male successor . it will be remembered that england had as yet obeyed no reigning queen ; and that the empress maud and margaret countess of richmond had been instances of heiresses living whilst their sons sat on the throne . henry viii . had indeed bequeathed the crown in contingent remainder to his daughters ; but , after them , the next remainder created by his will was to
to the heirs of the body of the lady frances
his niece , not the the lady frances herself . thus the duchess of suffolk had been already passed over by henry viii , as she was now again by king edward . following the like scheme throughout , all the other female heirs were passed over in favor of their male issue not yet born . now , it was an extraordinary circumstance in the state of the blood royal at this period , that , whilst the living descendants of henry the seventh were ( exclusive of the scottish line , [ 3 ] ) seven in number of the female sex , there was not one male except king edward himself . ( see the table prefixed to these remarks . ) it was this fact that conferred genealogical importance , in the political speculation of the time , on the earl of devonshire , as a male descendant of king edward iv and on cardinal pole , as the male descendant and representative of george duke of clarence .
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portman said he was concerned that the democratic bills being considered didn ' t adequatelyprotect the rights of those mistakenly put on such lists . he also supported a republican proposalthat would delay , but not ban , suspected terrorists from buying guns . that measure would direct theattorney general to take a suspected terrorist into custody if he or she attempted to buy agun .
38 . fox strangways mss 332 , murray to ilchester [ 7 oct . ] , latter to portman , 18 oct . , reply , 19 oct . ; bristol univ . lib . pinney mss , domestic box r , bdle . 5 , lady smith to frances pinney [ 19 oct . ] ; dorset co . chron . 27 oct . 1831 .
“the overriding message of love and compassion that i take from the bible , and certainly the golden rule , and the fact that i believe we are all created by our maker , that has all influenced me in terms of my change on this issue , ” portman told reporters during an interview in his office on thursday , according to the plain dealer .
at the conclusion of the ceremony , most of the guests went on to a luncheon which was given at montague - square , the residence of the hon . charles and mrs . hanbury lennox . later , lord portman and his bride departed for bryanston , the bride travelling in a costume of nankin blue tussore silk , and a large feathered hat to match .
portman was popular as a reformer and was certain of being returned , while calcraft , with whom he declined to join , stood against the anti - reformer bankes . on all six days of the poll he was ahead of the other two candidates , to each of whom he gave £3 , 000 towards their costs . according to grey , this curious gesture was designed ‘to show his impartiality , being himself a reformer and supporter of government’ . he was elected with calcraft , which he hailed as indicative of the triumph of reform , and at a celebration dinner in blandford , 23 may 1831 , he promised the electors that ‘give me but the opportunity of meeting you , and you may depend upon it , you will never find me wanting’ . 29 however , bankes recorded in his journal that portman had desired that the poll should not be closed early on the day the contest ended
engagement . noel christian , eldest surviving son of the late mr : a . j . livingstone - learmonth and of viscountess portman , and winifred margaret ( wynne ) , eldest daughter of mr . james h . ismay , iwerne , minster - house , blanford , dorset , and of the late lady margaret ismay , and granddaughter of the late marquess of hertford . the australasian ( melbourne , vic . : 1864 - 1946 ) 15 mar 1913 , p38 urltoken
i have stated in the note at page 4 , that besides the letters patent of the 21st of june 1553 , which were designed to place the lady jane next in succession to the crown , there are two other documents extant , exhibiting the earlier stages of this daring effort of northumberland ' s policy . having subsequently , by favour of the hon . society of the inner temple , examined the original documents seen by bishop burnet and strype , i take this opportunity to give a more exact account of them . the
devise for the succession ,
in king edward ' s own handwriting , will especially claim further consideration than has hitherto been bestowed upon it , on account of some very remarkable peculiarities , both of its original construction and its subsequent modification .
in conformity with the enactment of his 35th year , king henry the eighth made a will , and by that will the crown was to devolve , 1 . on his son edward and the heirs of his body ; 2 . on his own heirs by queen katharine ( parr ) or any other future wife ; 3 . on his daughter mary ; 4 . on his daughter elizabeth ; 5 . on the heirs of the body of his niece the lady frances ; 6 . on those of her sister the lady eleanor ; 7 . to the next rightful heirs . in the event of either the lady mary or the lady elizabeth marrying without the consent of the privy council , they were respectively to be passed over as if they were dead without lawful issue .
from the transcript of ralph starkey in the ms . harl . 35 , f . 364 , which is preceded by this title :
a true coppi of the counterfet wille supposed to be the laste wille and testament of kinge edwarde the sixt , forged and published under the great seale of englande by the confederacie of the dukes of suffolke and northumberlande , on the behalfe of the lady jane , eldest daughter to the said duke of suffolke , and testefied with the handes of 101 of the cheife of the nobilliti and princepall men of note of this kingdome ; dated the 21 day of june an [ n ] o . 1553 ;
and followed by this memorandum :
this is a true coppie of edward the sixte his will , taken out of the originall under the greate seale , which sir robart cotton delyvered to the kinges majestie the xijth of apprill 1611 , at roystorne , to be canseled .
as a result , with the other county members lawley and wynne pendarves , he was instrumental in setting up the meeting in early march 1830 at which lord althorp was chosen as leader of the whig opposition in the commons . 21 thereafter during the session portman regularly made interventions and divided ( or paired ) with them for lower taxes and expenditure . he made a long speech urging inquiry into the state of the poor , 9 mar . , and advocated assisted emigration , 23 mar . he objected to allowing the sale of beer for on - consumption , 3 may , and the following day , in what lord howick * called ‘a most absurd speech’ , moved ( and was a teller for ) an unsuccessful wrecking amendment against the second reading of the beer bill . 22 he conceded that his earlier assumptions about the number of government placemen were exaggerated , 14 may , but nevertheless divided with opposition for information on privy councillors’ emoluments that day . he left london in late may 1830 because of his wife’s illness . 23
in september 1825 , during speculation over a possible dissolution , he issued an address indicating his intention to stand again for the county at the next general election . he declined to attend a meeting of dorset landowners in blandford , 9 jan . 1826 , but expressed approval of their plans to form an agricultural association to promote protection . 10 he was elected to brooks’s , 15 feb . , sponsored by lord fitzwilliam and john calcraft , member for wareham . he voted against receiving the report on the salary of the president of the board of trade , 10 apr . , and spoke in defence of british ship owners , 27 apr . 11 with sir thomas lethbridge , the somerset county member , he was a teller for the minority for a select committee on distress in the manufacturing districts , 2 may . he approved ministers’ resolution to admit bonded corn , 4 may , but opposed the introduction of corn from abroad , 5 may , and abandoned his attempt to strengthen government proposals by fixing minimum and maximum prices , 12 may . as bankes had replaced pitt earlier that year , he was returned unopposed with him for dorset at the general election in june , when he reiterated his desire to be independent . 12 portman , who the previous year had published a pamphlet of rules , regulations and tables for the constitution of a friendly society , was heavily involved in the establishment of one in dorset in late 1826 . 13
unlike his father , portman , who was assiduous in presenting county petitions and serving on select committees , sided almost unwaveringly with the whig opposition to the liverpool administration . 7 he voted for the first time , 24 apr . 1823 , in favour of russell’s motion for parliamentary reform , an occasion which he afterwards alluded to with satisfaction . 8 according to a later recollection , he was present for the debates on spain at the end of that month . 9 he voted with ministers against the production of papers on catholic office - holders , 19 feb . , but against them on reform of the representation of edinburgh , 26 feb . 1824 , and on several other occasions that session . he made his first known speech against the silk bill , 5 mar . he offered a suggestion on the county courts bill , 26 mar . , and voted to permit defence by counsel in felony cases , 6 apr . he paired for inquiries into the state of ireland , 11 may , and the trial of the methodist missionary john smith in demerara , 11 june 1824 , when he defended the county magistrates over the imprisonment of richard carlile in dorchester gaol . he was granted one month’s sick leave , 10 feb . 1825 . he gave his ‘hearty concurrence’ to the catholic relief bill , 21 apr . , which he said was ‘called for by imperious necessity’ to ensure peace in ireland ; he voted for it that day , as he did again on 10 may 1825 .
he seconded the formal reappointment of manners sutton as speaker , 14 nov . 1826 . he spoke in defence of agricultural protection , 1 , 12 mar . , when he observed that ‘the landed interest , by conceding that 60 s . should be the minimum price , had conceded as much as they could concede’ ; but he distanced himself from the fears of other agriculturists over the corn bill , 2 apr . 1827 . he voted for catholic relief , 6 mar . he brought up , but dissented from , an anti - catholic petition from blandford , 13 mar . , when he asked ministers if they had any plans to ameliorate the condition of the poor in ireland . he divided for tierney’s amendment to postpone the committee of supply , 30 mar . , and for inquiry into the irish miscellaneous estimates , 5 apr . on 2 may he expressed the hope that canning’s difficulties in forming his administration would not lead to the public being inflamed over religious issues . he presented and endorsed the dorset landowners’ petition against the importation of foreign wool , 28 may , when he failed to obtain a select committee on this , but stated his general approval of administration . 14 in june 1827 he made a surprising match with a daughter of the moderate tory lord harewood . her sister - in - law lady caroline lascelles , who described portman as ‘very good - looking , and particularly gentlemanlike and pleasing’ , noted that ‘they will not be very rich in the first instance , but in four or five years he will be in receipt of his whole fortune , which will then go on increasing . it is a very brilliant marriage altogether’ . 15
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date was a by - election . dates shown in normal type were general elections ,
grounds of non - consummation of the marriage . shortly afterwards , sarah eloped with john
margetts and went through a form of marriage with margetts on 24 october 1809 . from
gardner , then known as john margetts , who was born in july 1811 .
and heir presumptive at the time ) . in the words of contemporary newspaper reports
of the name of john margetts…… . [ their son ] john margetts assumed the title of the earl
townshend , commonly called the earl of leicester .
[ lord brougham ] called upon their
mentioned are not children of the most honourable george ferrars , marquis townshend .
ferrars , marquis townshend .
the act received royal assent on 12 july 1843 , after which
john assumed his mother ' s maiden name , being known thereafter as john dunn gardner .
' on sunday morning mr . john kynaston cross , late member of parliament for bolton and under -
where he had committed suicide . it is understood that mr . cross went to bed in his usual
health on saturday night . on sunday morning he was found suspended from the wardrobe in
kicked the stool over . he was cut down , but was found to have been dead some time . he
' yesterday afternoon mr . edge , county coroner , held an inquest respecting the death of mr .
sunday morning at a quarter - past 9 , and then cutting a piece out of the door to turn the lock .
he found the deceased hanging from the end of the wardrobe by a twisted double fish line .
deceased must have been dead some hours . the bed had not been slept in .
he last saw his father alive on saturday night in the library . it was not unusual for mr . cross
continent . he was then particularly cheerful . attacks of depression were a common symptom
of diabetes , but they were only temporary . there was nothing in the character of the disease
itself to lead to suicide . when on the continent mr . cross was one of the most genial of men .
' the coroner summed up , observing that mr . cross no doubt committed the act while suffering
from nervous depression . the jury found a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane . '
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ingram was elected to the house of commons for boston in 1856 . on 8 september 1860 , he
to milwaukee when the lady elgin collided with the schooner augusta . although the lady
way to the lady elgin as is dictated by the usual rule of sailing .
was about 25 miles from chicago and 10 miles from land . the collision took place at the
midships gangway and on the larboard [ port or left ] side of the steamer . the two vessels
blowing freshly , drifted from the steamer very soon . when the collision occurred there
were music and dancing going forward in the principal cabin . immediately after the crash
of collision both ceased , and the steamer sank half an hour later . passing through the cabin
i saw the ladies pale , motionless and silent . there was no cry , no shriek on board , no
sound of any kind but that of escaping steam and surging waves . whether the ladies were
i could not say . a boat was lowered for the purpose of examining the leak , which soon made
someone had taken possession of one of them , and the boat was consequently useless . we
from it by the fury of the waves , and washed ashore at the village of winetka . there were
only two other boats on the steamer . one of these took 13 persons from her , all of whom
alive , the other four being drowned on the beach when the boat drifted there . the rush of
had ceased working in consequence . the wind was blowing so hard and in such a direction
most of them will probably be washed ashore in the vicinity of winetka . '
' sir william edge , liberal m . p . for bosworth , just failed to reach the mining town of ibstock ,
in leicestershire , on saturday before a number of pigeons which he had raced from london .
before the birds . the birds , which numbered 130 , were released about noon . as soon as
the last one had left sir william edge jumped into a taxicab and drove to st . pancras . he
had 20 minutes in which to catch his train . owing to a mishap on the line between kettering
and bedford , the train arrived at leicester 26 minutes late . he drove by car to ibstock ,
reed died on 5 october 1896 as a result of a carriage accident . the ' manchester guardian ' of
' on saturday , mr . h . b . reed , the conservative member for east bradford , was driving a pony
carriage near the village of st . lawrence , in the isle of wight , when the pony swerved , and
the carriage was thrown into a bank . it upset , and mr . reed was thrown out , sustaining a cut
letter to his uncle , sir e . reed , written on sunday , he never mentioned it . later in the day ,
however , he had a relapse , and became unconscious . he never rallied , and died shortly after
nine o ' clock yesterday morning . a colleague of mr . reed ' s in the house of commons states
that the hon . member met with a similar accident about three months ago . returning home in
suddenly stopped , and mr . reed was thrown forward on to the pavement , where he lay
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ld . lt . som . 1839 - 64 ; commr . duchy of cornwall 1840 ; councillor , duchy of lancaster 1847 ; chairman , q . sess . dorset 1861 - 82 ; councillor to prince of wales 1863 ; ld . warden of the stannaries 1865 - d .
pres . european life insurance co . 1823 - 8 ; pres . philological sch . 1835 - d . ; pres . r . agricultural soc . 1846 , 1857 , 1862 .
as he hoped to avoid a public dinner , and the annoyance of sitting down surrounded by many of those who supported him , of whom he seemed much ashamed ; and he expressed himself afterwards as being tired of the representation of the county , and solicitous to find some proper occasion of withdrawing from it , so that he might live more in the country , and perform those duties in which he might be more permanently useful . he may perhaps speculate upon a peerage , but i should otherwise rather consider him as fond of the business of the house of commons in which he frequently takes a share .
1 . add . 51342 , fox strangways to lady ilchester , 30 jan . 1823 .
5 . western flying post , 17 , 24 feb . , 3 mar . 1823 ; grosvenor mss 9 / 10 / 94 ; 11 / 40 .
8 . for example , dorset co . chron . 12 may 1831 ; russell later corresp . ii . 52 .
13 . western flying post , 8 , 15 july , 23 , 30 dec . 1826 .
21 . grey mss , howick jnl . 3 mar . 1830 ; le marchant , 243 ; a . mitchell , whigs in opposition , 226 .
25 . add . 36466 , f . 167 ; dorset ro , fox strangways mss d / fsi 332 , phelips to ilchester , 4 july 1830 .
29 . ibid . 28 apr . , 5 , 12 , 19 , 26 may ; derby mss 920 der ( 14 ) 117 / 5 , grey to smith stanley , 11 may 1831 ; m . brock , great reform act , 200 .
30 . dorset ro , bankes mss d / bkl , bankes jnl . 174 .
36 . this corresp . is in ibid . se / nc / 5 . see dorset .
37 . the times , 5 oct . 1831 ; dorset pollbook ( sept . - oct . 1831 ) , 2 .
39 . lady holland to son , 124 ; nls mss 24762 , f . 49 .
40 . fox strangways mss 332 , parry okeden to ilchester , 28 dec . 1831 , 14 jan . 1832 .
44 . nlw , ormathwaite mss fg / 1 / 6 , p . 48 ; add . 51601 , lady cowper to lady holland , tues . [ mar . ] ; dorset co . chron . 29 mar . , 5 , 12 apr . ; western flying post , 2 apr . 1832 .
45 . dorset co . chron . 5 july ; brougham mss , horne to brougham [ 25 aug . ] ; the times , 4 oct . , 11 - 13 dec . 1832 .
46 . j . v . beckett , aristocracy in england ( 1988 ) , 292 .
47 . dorset co . chron . 22 , 29 nov . ; the times , 20 nov . 1888 , 25 feb . 1889 ; dnb ; oxford dnb .
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he later wrote : “two years ago , my son will , then a college freshman , told my wife , jane , and me that he is gay . he said he’d known for some time , and that his sexual orientation wasn’t something he chose ; it was simply a part of who he is . jane and i were proud of him for his honesty and courage . we were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he’d always been . the only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love . ”
he also said : “it allowed me to think of this issue from a new perspective , and that’s of a dad who loves his son a lot and wants him to have the same opportunities that his brother and sister would have — to have a relationship like jane and i have had for over 26 years . ”
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21 - year - old gay son , who came out to him two years ago , and he becomes the first republican senator on that side of the controversial issue as it heads for landmark arguments in the supreme court .
says his son will revealed his sexual orientation to his parents in february 2011 . that was about
class walk out of his commencement speech in protest of his anti - gay record . that record includes a 2004 vote for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage , and in 1999 , support for a bill that would bar gay and lesbian couples from adopting .
two years ago , my son will , then a college freshman , told my wife , jane , and me that he is gay . he said he’d known for some time , and that his sexual orientation wasn’t something he chose ; it was simply a part of who he is . jane and i were proud of him for his honesty and courage . we were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he’d always been . the only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love .
he is now the only republican currently in the senate to support marriage equality , but he ' s not the only one in congress . florida rep . ileana ros - lehtinen , who has a transgender son , in 2011 be
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i . t he w ill of k ing e dward the s ixth , and his d evise for the s uccession to the c rown .
by way of introduction it may be remarked , that several acts of parliament [ 1 ] passed in the reign of henry viii . had encouraged the theory that the succession was in the sovereign ' s power of appointment . by the 28th hen . viii . it was limited to the issue that might arise from his marriage with queen jane ( seymour ) , and in default thereof it was enacted
that your highness shall have full and plenar power and authority to give , dispose , appoint , assign , declare , and limit by your letters patent under your great seal , or else by your last will made in writing , and signed with your most gracious hand , at your only pleasure , from time to time hereafter , the imperial crown of this realm .
by the 35th henry viii . the ladies mary and elizabeth , though both then illegitimate by former acts of parliament , were placed next in succession in default of issue of their brother or further issue of the king , but both their titles were to be
with such conditions as by his highness shall be limited by his letters patent , under his great seal , or by his majesty ' s last will in writing , signed with his gracious hand ;
and on the failure of all the three children and their issue the succession of the crown in reversion or remainder was to be limited by the king ' s appointment as before , according to the terms of the act 28 hen . viii . already recited .
these , then , formed the precedents on which the duke of northumberland assumed that the succession might again be modified by the act of the reigning monarch , expressed by letters patent and by a last will , - - to be confirmed by act of parliament , as the opportunity for such ratification might arrive .
but the rapid decline of the king ' s health did not allow time for the project to arrive at maturity . it became necessary to name some existing person as an immediate successor , and to terminate an arrangement , which , designating only a future and unborn heir , might have the effect of placing the crown in abeyance . under these circumstances , the obvious course would have been to prefer the lady frances , she being the first in order of the heirs female already nominated . this did not suit northumberland ' s purpose . it would have had the effect of transferring his own power into the hands of the duke of suffolk , the lady ' s husband . besides , the duchess of suffolk was still a young woman ( she was seventeen months younger [ 4 ] than queen mary , ) and might live long . she might even yet have a son , if not by her present by a future husband , and thus totally exclude northumberland ' s posterity .
the next alternative was to appoint the lady jane to be the positive heir to the throne . this was actually done , by altering the words
in the king ' s autograph
devise
a pen is drawn through the letter s , which still remains on the paper , and the words
and her
are written above the line . the duke of northumberland ' s immediate object , namely the succession of the lady jane , was thus attained ; and , for consistency ' s sake , her sisters the ladies katharine and mary were placed in the like condition of personal inheritance , in the letters patent , though this does not appear in the devise ; whilst the lady margaret was inconsistently passed over , as in the devise when first written , and ( like the lady frances ) was named only as conveying a contingent remainder to her male issue .
it is obvious that the duke of northumberland undertook a task which had many difficult stages before it could result in success . in the first place he had to reconcile the king to his views , next the council , thirdly the lawyers , fourthly the parliament , fifthly , and above all , the nation . in the first of these endeavours he had , so far as we know , little or no resistance : the king , probably chiefly influenced by religious arguments , not only assented to his minister ' s suggestions , but exercised his personal authority to coerce the council and the lawyers . how the project was carried with these parties we are informed , by the apology of archbishop cranmer , [ 5 ] and by the respective narratives of secretary cecill and chief justice montagu . [ 6 ] with a parliament , as parliaments were then , there can be little doubt of its success had it come to the trial . with the nation , when the struggle arrived , the duke ' s failure was entire , for no minister was ever more unpopular , or more universally hated , than this
tyrant
as he was called , [ 7 ] the merciless
bear of warwick .
besides , such was the people ' s sense of justice , and so entirely was their opinion of hereditary right involved in that sentiment , that even the most devoted protestants were , from their conscientious loyalty , among the most faithful supporters of the lady mary .
to return to the mode of procedure in framing the legal settlement , as evidenced by the existing documents . the first step must have been some dictation to the youthful monarch , either in a written or oral form . the next step was the king ' s drawing out , entirely with his own hand ,
my devise for the succession
( the document which follows ) . the third step , - - after the alterations we have already considered and others had been made , - - was to make a fair transcript : this was done by secretary petre , and the king added his signature to each of the six paragraphs . this authenticated copy was then delivered
to certain judges and other learned men ,
that they might prepare the settlement accordingly . at the same time an engagement was entered into , by which the council pledged themselves , by their signatures , [ 8 ] to support the said limitation of the crown , and to punish any person attempting to vary or swerve from it ( see this document hereafter ) . lastly , the letters patent were duly drawn , and executed on the 21st of june , [ 9 ] in the form hereafter printed , pp . 91 - 100 .
in the conviction that more accurate copies of these very important documents than it was customary to edit in the days of burnet or strype , will be acceptable to historical inquirers , i have transcribed them with great care . the first is the king ' s
devise ,
in which the reader will please to observe that all words printed in italic type are those which in the original have the pen drawn through them , and that the parentheses denote the words inserted above the lines .
l . for lakke of issu ( masle ) of my body ( to the issu ( masle ) cumming of thissu femal , as i haue after declared ) . to the l frau [ n ] ceses heires masles , for lakke of ( if she have any ) such issu ( befor my death ) to the l ' jane s ( and her ) heires masles , to the l katerins heires masles , to the l maries heires masles , to the heires masles of the daughters wich she [ 10 ] shal haue hereafter . then to the l margets heires masles . for lakke of such issu , to th ' eires masles of the l janes daughters . to th ' eires masles of the l katerins daughters , and so forth til yow come to the l margets ( daughters ) heires masles .
2 . if after my death theire masle be entred into 18 yere old , then he to have the hole rule and gouernau [ n ] ce therof .
3 . but if he be under 18 , then his mother to be gouuernres til he entre 18 yere old , but to doe nothing w [ i ] t [ h ] out th ' auise ( and agreme [ n ] t ) of 6 parcel of a counsel to be pointed by my last will to the nombre of 20 .
4 . if the mother die befor th ' eire entre into 18 the realme to be gouuerned by the cou [ n ] sel prouided that after he be 14 yere al great matters of importaunce be opened to him .
5 . if i died w [ i ] t [ h ] out issu , and ther were none heire masle , then the l fraunces to be ( gouuernres ) rege [ n ] t . for lakke of her , the her eldest daughters , [ 11 ] and for lakke of them the l marget to be gouuernres after as is aforsaid , til sume heire masle be borne , and then the mother of that child to be gouuernres .
6 . and if during the rule of the gouuernres ther die 4 of the counsel , then shal she by her letters cal an asse [ n ] ble of the counsel wtin on month folowing and chose 4 more , wherin she shal haue thre uoices . but after her death the 16 shal chose emong themselfes til th ' eire come to ( 18 erased ) 14 yeare olde , and then he by ther aduice shal chose the [ n ] . [ 12 ]