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(Macky says, "Charles Earl of Winchdiea is of the family of Fincb*. was bought into the govcniinent by my Lord Nottingham on the Queen's ac. cession to thethronet when he was made warden of the Cinque portt» under the Prince of Denmark, governor of Dover castlci and sent envoy extraordi - nary to the court of Hanover.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges 1812
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