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Excerpt from Savile Correspondence: Letters to and From Henry Savile, Esq., Envoy at Paris, and Vice-Chamberlain to Charles II. And James II.; Including Letters From His Brother George Marquess of Halifax
In the same reign of Edward III. The family divided itself into two main branches, in the persons of two brothers, John of Tankersley, and Henry of Bradley. The senior branch, to which the following pages relate, acquired its greatest renown in the pemn of George first Marquess oalifax. Thejnnior branch is mentioned in these letters as also of Copley and Methley, and having produced one of the most learned men of our country, Sir Henry Savile, the Provost of Eton, and founder of the Snvilinn professorships of astronomy and geometry in the University of Oxford; and his brother, John Savile, a Baron ofthe Exchequer (1598 is now represented by the Earl of Mexborough.
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