PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF

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PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF , a title first borne by Charles (1657168o), an illegitimate son of the English king Charles II. by Catharine Pegge, who was created

earl

EARL

in 1675. The title became extinct on his death in October 1680. In 1682

Thomas

Windsor Hickman-Windsor, 7th Baron Windsor de Stanwell (c. 16271687), who had fought for Charles I. at Naseby, was created

earl

EARL

of Plymouth. His father was Dixie Hickman of Kew, Surrey, and his mother, Elizabeth, was a sister of

Thomas

Windsor, 6th Baron Windsor de Stanwell (15961641); having inherited the estates of his uncle and taken the additional name of Windsor, the abeyance of the barony of Windsor de Stanwell was terminated in his favour and he became the 7th baron. From 16614663 he was nominally

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Jamaica. His grandson Other (16791725) was the 2nd earl, and the earldom became extinct when

Henry

, the 8th earl, died in December 1843. Called again out of abeyance, the barony of Windsor came in 18J5 to Harriet, a daughter of Other Archer, the 6th earl (17891833), and the wife of Robert

Henry

Clive

(17891854), a younger son of Edward

Clive

, 1st earl of

Powis

POWIS, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

. She was succeeded in 186g by her grandson, Robert George Windsor-Clive, who became the 14th Baron Windsor. After serving as paymaster-general in 18911892 and first

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of works from 19021905, Lord Windsor was created earl of Plymouth in 1905.
i The Samoan Islanders unite the two conceptions: the entrance to their spirit-land is at the westernmost point of the westernmost island, where the ghosts descend by two holes into the under-world. Long ago the inhabitants of the French coast of the English Channel believed that the souls of the dead were ferried across to Britain, and there are still traces of this belief in the folk-

lore

LORE
LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

of Brittany (Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. 64; Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, ii. 694). In classical mythology the underground Hades prevailed over the western. It was an

Etruscan

ETRUSCAN

custom at the foundation of a city to dig a deep hole in the earth and close it with a stone; 0n three days in the year this stone was removed and the ghosts were then supposed to ascend from the lower world. In Asia

Minor

caves filled with mephitic vapours or containing hot springs were known as Plutonia or Charonia. The most famous entrances to the under-world were at Taenarum in Laconia, Heraclea on the Euxine, and at the Lake Avernus in Italy.

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