The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-05-03
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Among the descendants Of Thomas
rlantagenet, Duke Of Gloucester 9Th
son Of Edward III, was Stephen J.
Penny who was not many years ago
sexton -at st. GeorgSA Hanover
Square, London. j
Among the lineal descendants Of
Edmund Of Woodstock. Earl Of Kent
and sixth son Of Edward L, occur .
butcher and toll.gatherer; The first
. Joseph Smart, Of Halesowen, the
latter George Wilmont a keeper Of
tho turnpike gate At Cooper's bank.
near Dudley.
A story IL told Of scion Of the great
house Of Urquhart Of Cromarty who
was necessitated by his extravagance
to sell his inheritance. and who. sink,
ing stop by step 10 tho lowest depths
of wretchedness. came ut last wan
dering beggar 10 the door which had
once been his own.
! No race in Europe surpassed the
iPlantagenets in royal position and
personal achievements and yet. not
to descend further than tho year 1857.
the great great grandson Of Margaret
Plantagenet daughter aud heiress Of
George, Duke OF q arence. followed
the trade Of a shoe- maker in Newport,
Saion
Fraser. of Kirkhill, relates that he
saw the Earl III .Ftaquair cousin Of
James WI. begging in the streets Of
E linburgh. 'f1e was" says Fraser.
'iu an antique garb, and wore broad
old hat. short cloak and pannier
brooches. and l contributed toward
his relief We gave him noble He
was standing with his hat oil. and re-
ceived the piece of money from my
hand as humbly and thankfully as tho
poorest applicant"
One of Cromwell's grandl daughters,
after seeing her husband die in tho
work.house Of o small Suffolk town,
died herself a pauper. leaving two
daughters, the elder the wife of q
shoemaker and the younger the wife
of butchers son, who had been her
fellow-servanL Another Of Oliver
Cromwelrs granddaughters had two
children. of whom the son became q
small working jeweler and the daugh.
ter the mistress of a small school at
Mildenhall.
Before the time Of the Protector tho
Cromwell family possessed estates
equal to those Of the wealthiest peers
of the present day. and the great
Oliver himself inherited considerable
property. which. augmented from
private sources, made up total
sufficient to maintain his family per-
,petually in easy circumstances. But
within q century after his death
Thomas Cromwell. his great grand.
son, was q grocer on Snow Hill and
his son Oliver. the last male heir. an
attorney in London.
When the twelfth Earl Of Crawford
was imprisoned in Edinburgh castle
to restrain his recklessness and prodi-
gality he left one child. . daughter.
who. having no one whatever 10 look
after her. received not a scrap Of edu.
cation and was allowed 10 run about
like gypsy. She eloped with COM
mon crier and at one period Of her life
lived by mendicancy. Charles IL
granted her a pension Of $500 year.
but owing to her utter degeneracy. It
proved more huraful than beneficial.
The male head dcthiss family died In
the year 1744. in the capacity of hostler
in an inn at Kirkwall. in the Orkney
islands. The estate had been dissi-
pated by the 'spenthrift earl" his
father. and with his patrimony he.
Lord Lindsay Earl of Crawford.
bought small property, on which he
resided for some years. until through
adverse fortune, this went too. and to
save himself from starvation he was
fain to 60 as hostler. Chicago NeiOa
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