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may take notice of their increase, their counsels and proceedings, and use all due means by execution of the laws to prevent all mischievous designs against the peace and safety of this kingdom.

194. Thus some good course be taken to discover the counterfeit and false conformity of Papists to the Church, by colour whereof persons very much disaffected to the true religion have been admitted into place of greatest authority and trust in the kingdom.

195. For the better preservation of the laws and liberties of the kingdom, that all illegal grievances and exactions be presented and punished at the sessions and

assizes.

196. And that Judges and Justices be very careful to give this in charge to the grand jury, and both the Sheriff and Justices to be sworn to the due execution of the Petition of Right and other laws. 197. That His Majesty be humbly petitioned by both Houses to employ such counsellors, ambassadors and other ministers, in managing his business at home and abroad as the Parliament may have cause to confide in, without which we cannot give His Majesty such supplies for support of his own estate, nor such assistance to the Protestant party beyond the sea, as is desired.

198. It may often fall out that the Commons may have just cause to take exceptions at some men for being councillors, and yet not charge those men with crimes, for there be grounds of diffidence which lie not in proof.

199. There are others, which though they may be proved, yet are not legally criminal.

proceed against them in any legal way of charge or impeachment.

202. That all Councillors of State may be sworn to observe those laws which concern the subject in his liberty, that they may likewise take an oath not to receive or give reward or pension from any foreign prince, but such as they shall within some reasonable time discover to the Lords of His Majesty's Council.

203. And although they should wickedly forswear themselves, yet it may herein do good to make them known to be false and perjured to those who employ them, and thereby bring them into as little credit with them as with us.

204. That His Majesty may have cause to be in love with good counsel and good men, by shewing him in an humble and dutiful manner how full of advantage it would be to himself, to see his own estate settled in a plentiful condition to support his honour; to see his people united in ways of duty to him, and endeavours of the public good, etc.

Granger, FRANCIS, statesman; born in Suffield, Conn., Dec. 1, 1792; graduated at Yale in 1811; Whig candidate for VicePresident in 1836; member of Congress, 1835-37 and 1839-41; Postmaster-General in 1841. He died in Canandaigua, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1868.

Granger, GIDEON, statesman; born in Suffield, Conn., July 19, 1767; graduated at Yale College in 1787; became a lawyer; Postmaster-General in 1801-14. His publications include a Fourth of July oration and Political Essays. He died in Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1822.

Granger, GORDON, military officer; born in New York City, in 1821; graduated at 200. To be a known favourer of Papists, West Point in 1845; served in the war or to have been very forward in defending with Mexico. He served under Halleck or countenancing some great offenders and Grant in the West, and was made questioned in Parliament; or to speak major-general of volunteers, Sept. 17, 1862. contemptuously of either Houses of Parliament or Parliamentary proceedings.

201. Or such as are factors or agents for any foreign prince of another religion; such are justly suspected to get councillors' places, or any other of trust concerning public employment for money; for all these and divers others we may have great reason to be earnest with His Majesty, not to put his great affairs into such hands, though we may be unwilling to

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He commanded the district of central Kentucky, was put in command of the 4th Army Corps after the battle of Chickamauga, was engaged in the struggle on Missionary Ridge, November, 1863, and was active in the military movements that led to the capture of Mobile in 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service' in 1866; was promoted to colonel in the regular army the same year; and died in Santa Fé, N. M., Jan. 10, 1876.

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Granger, MOSES MOORHEAD, lawyer; New York, and in 1889 President Harri

born in Zanesville, O., Oct. 22, 1831; graduated at Kenyon College in 1850; practised law at Zanesville from 1853 to 1861; served throughout the Civil War in the National army with much distinction, and received the brevet of colonel. He is the author of Washington Versus Jefferson, and The Case Tried by Battle in 1861-65.

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son appointed him minister to AustriaHungary, where he remained till 1893. He was a police commissioner in New York City through the administration of Mayor Strong. In 1898, on the call for volunteers for the war with Spain, Colonel Grant offered his services to the President, and went to the front as colonel of the 14th New York regiment. On May 27 he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers; served in the Porto Rico campaign; and after the war was ap pointed commander of the military district of San Juan. While holding this post he organized an effective police Grant, FREDERICK DENT, military offi- force for the city similar in plan to that cer; born in St. Louis, Mo., May 30, 1850; of New York City. Subsequently he was eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant; was with ordered to the Philippine Islands, where his father at various times during the he rendered such valuable service in Civil War; graduated at the United operations against the insurgents, and also States Military Academy in 1871; accom- as an administrative officer, that on the panied General Sherman on his European reorganization of the regular army in trip in 1872; was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of General Sheridan with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1873; took

Granite State, a popular name for the State of New Hampshire, because the mountainous portions of it are largely composed of granite.

FREDERICK DENT GRANT.

part in the campaign on the frontier against the Indians; accompanied his father on his trip around the world; and resigned his commission in the army in 1881. In 1887 he was defeated as Republican candidate for secretary of state of

February, 1901, President McKinley appointed him one of the new brigadiergenerals. In August, 1904, he was given command of the Department of the East.

Grant, JAMES, military officer; born in Ballendalloch, Scotland, in 1720; was major of the Montgomery Highlanders in 1757. He was in the expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758, and in 1760 was governor of East Florida. He led an expedition against the Cherokees in May, 1761, was acting brigadier-general in the battle of Long Island in 1776, and was made major-general in 1777. He was with Howe in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1777. He fought the Americans at Monmouth in 1778, and in November sailed in command of troops sent against the French in the West Indies, taking St. Lucia in December. In 1791 he was made governor of Stirling Castle, and was several years in Parliament. It is said that he was such a notorious gourmand in his later life that he required his cook to sleep in the same room with him. He died April 13, 1806.

Grant, ROBERT, author; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1852; graduated at Harvard College in 1873; later began law practice in his native city. He is the author of Yankee Doodle; The Oldest School in America, etc.

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Grant, ULYSSES SIMPSON, eighteenth of the 21st Illinois Infantry. In May, President of the United States; named at 1861, he was appointed a brigadier-general birth HIRAM ULYSSES, but, through an of volunteers, and placed in command at error when he entered the Military Cairo. He occupied Paducah, broke up Academy, he was given the Christian the Confederate camp at Belmont, and in names which he afterwards adopted; born February, 1862, captured Forts Henry and

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in Point Pleasant, O., April 27, 1822; Donelson. He was then promoted to graduated at West Point in 1843. He major general; conducted the battle of served in the war with Mexico, first under Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, and for a General Taylor, and then under General while was second in command to Halleck. Scott, taking part in every battle between He performed excellent service in the Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. He West and Southwest, especially in the was made captain in 1853, and resigned vicinity of the Mississippi River, and at the next year, when he settled in St. and near the Tennessee River, in 1863. Louis. He was one of the first to offer He was promoted to lieutenant-general his services to the national government March 1, 1864, and awarded a gold medal when the Civil War broke out, but, as no by Congress. He issued his first order as notice was taken of him, became colonel general-in-chief of the armies of the Unit

dent of the United States by the Republi can party, and was re-elected in 1872 He retired from the office March 4, 1877 and soon afterwards made a journe around the world, receiving great honor everywhere.

Towards the close of his life he wa financially ruined by an unprinciple

ed States at Nashville, March 17, 1864. In the grand movements of the armies in 1864, he accompanied that of the Potomac, with his headquarters "in the field," and he remained with it until he signed the articles of capitulation at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865. In 1866 he was promoted to general of the United States army. After the war Grant fixed sharper. Congress created him a genera his headquarters at Washington. When on the retired list; and, to make furthe President Johnson suspended Stanton from provision for his family, he began com the office of Secretary of War, Grant piling Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, was put in his place ad interim. Stan- work that was completed shortly befor ton was reinstated by the Senate, Jan. 14, his death, on Mount McGregor, N. Y 1868. In 1868, Grant was elected Presi- July 23, 1885. His remains lie in th

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