The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME VII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE HON. WILLIAM CORNWALLIS, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE HON. EDWARD BOSCAWEN, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE AUGUSTUS LORD VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF RICHARD KEMPENFELT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- APPENDIX TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD LORD HAWKE, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE HON. WILLIAM CORNWALLIS, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME VII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE HON. WILLIAM CORNWALLIS, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE HON. EDWARD BOSCAWEN, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE AUGUSTUS LORD VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF RICHARD KEMPENFELT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- APPENDIX TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD LORD HAWKE, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN
- INDEX
Summary
Justum ac tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solidâ; neque Auster
Dux inquieti turbidus Adriæ;
Nec fulminantis magna Jovis manus;
Si fractus illabatur orbis,
Impavidum tenent ruinæ.
Horace, lib. 3 III.Thus the grim lion his retreat maintains,
Beset with watchful dogs and shouting swains,
Long stands the showering darts, and missile fires,
Then sourly slow the indignant beast retires
So turn'd stern Ajax, by whole hosts repell'd,
While his swoln heart at every stroke rebell'd.
Pope's Iliad.The noble family of Cornwallis are said to have come originally from Ireland, and it was a younger branch of the house which settled in this kingdom about the reign of Edward the Third.
William Harvey, Esq. Clarenceux, King of Arms, in his visitation of the county of Suffolk in 1561, mentions Thomas Cornwalleys (as the name was anciently written), of London, merchant, who is the first that appears in this account, and gives the particulars of a deed drawn in Edward the Third's time, which he saw, and also the arms of the family engraven on stone in the church porch of Otley, near Broome, which corresponded with the seal on the above mentioned deed; this gentleman was Sheriff of London in 1378. In the succeeding reign of Richard the Second, John Cornwallis was Knight of the Shire for Suffolk in two Parliaments.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 1 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1802