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Excerpt from Records of the Chicheley Plowdens, A. D. 1590-1913: With Four Alphabetical Indices, Four Pedigree Sheets, and a Portrait of Edmund, the Great Elizabethan Lawyer There are many oil paintings of great merit in Plowden Hall, chie y portraits of members of the family by various eminent artists. In the chapel is a portrait of St Francis of Assisi, attributed to Michelangelo; and there are three portraits by Sir Peter Lely, one by Van Dyck, and another by Angelica Kauffmann; and several beautiful miniatures. The Plowden estate in Shropshire is very greatly woodland, and Plowden Wood in particular is very large, a six-mile walk round, and has much wild game in it. The Records of the Plowden Family by Barbara M. Plowden, contains the history of the elder branch, and much of the above has been extracted from it, with the kind permission of the present squire. The present work, there fore, only aims at giving concisely the leading facts connected with the elder branch in the form of an alphabetical index brought up to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."