INTERESTING MEMOIRS

OF

JAMES Earl of DERBY,

THE

LIFE OF O. CROMWELL,

Hiftory of the Rebellion,

AND

Life of BUONAPARTE.

OF

JAMES EARL OF DERBY,

With an Account of the

Life of Oliver Cromwell,

Including a complete

Hiftory of the Rebellion in the Years 1745-6,

To which is added,

THE LIFE OF

Napoleone Buonaparte,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

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HY J. LANG, 13, Fenwick-Street, liverpooL.

1804.

390.

OF

JAMES EARL OF DERBY.

HE noble Lord whofe various tranfactions in

Tlife are recorded in the following pages, was the

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eldest son of William Earl of Derby, and the feventh Earl of his family. He married Charlotte daughter of Claud de la Trovers, by Charlotte his wife, daughter to the renowned Count William of Naffau Prince of Orange, by his wife Charlotte de Bourbon of the royal houfe of France; by which marriage he ftood relied to the Kings of France, and to the Houfes of Bourbon, Monpeffier, Conde, Dukes of Anjou, Kings of Naples and Sicily, Arch Duke of Auftria, Kings of Spain, Earls and Dukes of Savoy, Dukes of Milan, and to moft of fovereign Princes in Europe.

He was called to Parliament by writ from King Charles I. in the year 1627, being the third of his reign, by the stile and title of Sir James Stanley, Knight of the Bath, and Chevaliere de Strange, without any local place, and as fuch fat in the Houfe of Peers feveral Parliaments, when his father fat there as Earl of Derby.

Sir William Dugdale fays of this noble Peer, that setting afide the great ftate he lived in, and his wonderful hofpitality and beneficence to his neighbours, friends and fervants, he was a perfon highly accomplished with learning, prudence, loyalty, and true valour;

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