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4 unusual facts about William Aylesbury


Enrico Caterino Davila

An English translation was made for Charles I of England by William Aylesbury, published as The Historie of the Civil Warres of France (1647).

William Aylesbury

Early in 1656, however, he obtained the office of secretary to Major-General Robert Sedgwick, who had just been appointed Governor of Jamaica, and finally left England.

On the fall of Charles I, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Antwerp; and he took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde.

His sister Frances married Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Clarendon.



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