Well, boronia, I don't know who Clarendon was. Except for a street in Boston. So now I
have something to look up. Thanks, Bill

Encyclopeida says:
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of (1609-74), English statesman and historian, born in Dinton, and educated at the University of Oxford. Hyde practiced law and, in 1640, entered Parliament. In 1645 he represented Charles I, king of England, in an unsuccessful attempt to end the first English Civil War (see English Revolution). The following year Hyde became adviser to the future king Charles II and went into exile with him until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Hyde was created a baron the same year and was made an earl in 1661. He served as lord chancellor from 1660 to 1667, giving his name to the Clarendon Code, which imposed restrictions on religious dissenters. He was dismissed from office after his negotiation of the unpopular Treaty of Breda, which concluded the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Clarendon then left for France, where he spent the rest of his life writing. His posthumously published History of the Rebellion (3 vol., 1702-4) is the best contemporary account of the English civil wars.
Clarendon's eldest daughter, Anne Hyde, married the duke of York, who in 1685 became King James II.



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