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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, Catherine of Braganza, Thomas Barlow, Edmund Berry Godfrey, Titus Oates, George Treby, Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, William Scroggs, Charles Blount, Stephen College, William Harbord, Stephen Dugdale, Maurus Corker, Edward Fitzharris, Henry Cornish, Henry Pollexfen, Miles Prance, John Warner, George Wakeman, Edward Turberville, John Sergeant, Elkanah Settle, John Hall, Israel Tonge, William Bedloe, William Jones, Richard Strange. Excerpt: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, KG (20 February 1632 - 26 July 1712), English statesman, commonly known also by his earlier and then subsidiary titles of 2nd Baronet, of Kiveton, in the Baronetage of England, 1st Viscount Osborne, in the Peerage of Scotland, and 1st Baron Osborne, 1st Viscount Latimer, 1st Earl of Danby and 1st Marquess of Carmarthen in the Peerage of England, served in a variety of offices under Kings Charles II and William III of England. The son of Sir Edward Osborne, Bart., of Kiveton, Yorkshire, Danby was born in 1632. He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne (d. 1585), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married. Thomas Osborne, the future Lord Treasurer, succeeded to the baronetcy and estates in Yorkshire on his father Edward's death in 1647, and, after unsuccessfully courting his cousin Dorothy Osborne, married Lady Bridget Bertie, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, in 1651. They had nine children: Osborne was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbour in Yorkshire, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Bucki...
