Knt.
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Sr Edmond Andros, Knt. born at London, 6 Dec. 1637, made Gentl: in Ordinary to the Queen of Bohemia, Ao 1660, and Major to the Regimt of foot sent into America Ao 1666.
From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore
Granted then to one Richard Snow, of whom the records are silent; by him sold, in Elizabeth's reign, to Sir John Osborne, Knt., thus becoming the ancestral home of our Dorothy.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
By Jane, daughter of Sir John Fogge, Knt., he left issue two daughters and coheirs: Ann, the eldest, aet.
From Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 by Various
Sir Richard Shuckburgh, Knt., eldest son and heir, was in no way inferior to his ancestors.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
"Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., was buryed" at Bitton.
From Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 by Various
I am in for Life, and am bound to subscribe my self, with great Sorrow of Heart, Your humble Servant, John Enville, Knt.'
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
And in the next year we discover,— "Died, on Wednesday last, at her jointure house, Putney, in her sixty-eighth year, the amiable and elegant Lady Copperas, relict of the late Sir Nicholas, Knt."
From The Disowned — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
A curious and valuable account-roll of Sir John Williams, Knt.,
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
IV. for the restitution in blood and estate of Thomas Fulford, Knt. eldest son of Baldewyn Fulford, late of Fulford, in the county of Devonshire, Knt.
From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton
IV., married, according to the pedigrees of Fiennes, "Sir William Griffith, of North Wales, Knt."
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