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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: 37. Chapters: Aaron Smith (conspirator), Adam Elliot (traveller), Catherine of Braganza, Charles Blount (deist), Edmund Berry Godfrey, Edward Fitzharris, Edward Turberville, Elkanah Settle, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, George Treby (judge), George Wakeman, Henry Cornish, Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, Henry Pollexfen, Israel Tonge, John Goad, John Hall (bishop), John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, John Sergeant (priest), John Warner (Jesuit), Matthew Poole, Maurus Corker, Miles Prance, Peter Atwood, Richard Strange (Jesuit), Stephen College, Stephen Dugdale, Thomas Barlow (bishop), Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, Titus Oates, William Bedloe, William Harbord (politician), William Jones (law-officer), William Scroggs. Excerpt: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, KG (20 February 1632 26 July 1712), English statesman (commonly known as Lord Danby and Carmarthen when he was a prominent political figure), 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, Thomas Osborne 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, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, in 1651. Osborne was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbour in Yorkshire, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. In 1661 he was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire and was then elected MP for York in 1665. He made the "first step in his future rise" by joining Buckingham in his attack on the Earl of Clarendon in 1667. In 1668 he was appointed joint Treasurer of the Navy with Sir Thomas Lyttelton, and subsequently sole treasurer. He succeeded Sir William Coventry as commissioner for the state treasury in 1669, and in 1673 was appointed a commissioner for the admiralty. He was created Viscount Osborne in the Scottish peerage on 2 February 1673, and a privy councillor on 3 May. On 19 June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on 27 June 1674 he was created Earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his third son Peregrine Osborne. He was appointed the same
