The LIFE of

Edward Earl of Clarendon ;

From his Birth to the Reftoration of theRoyal Family in 1660.

PART the FIRST.

Montpelier , q3 July 1 668.

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-LIE was born in Dinton in the County of Wilts , fix partM iles from Salijbury , in the Houfe of his Father who I.

was Henry Hyde , the third Son of Laurence Hyde , of ^ Mr ‘

Wefl-Hatch , Efq, which Laurence was the younger Birth.

Son of Robert Hyde of Nor bury in the County of Chef- Hi * Gens,1 °'ter , Efq; which Eftate of Norbury had continued in KY ‘that Family , and defcended from Father to Son frombefore the Conqueft, and continues to his Day in Ed-ward Hyde , who is pofTeffed thereof: Theother Eftateof Hyde having fome Ages fince fallen into that ofNorbury , by a Marriage, and continues ftill in thatHoufe.

Laurence , being as was faid, the younger Son of Some AccountRobert Hyde oiNorbury, and theCuftom of that Coun- ut^i/orlna-ty of Chejler being, to make fmall Provifions for the iwher.youngerSons of the beft Families, was by theCarcandProvidence of his Mother, well educated, and whenhis Age was fit for it, was placed as aClerk in one of theAuditor’s Office* of the Exchequer, \yhere He gainedVol. I. B

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