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near Bodmin as the family seat. Richard became a baronet, and the baronet's hand on the shields engraved on the principal door of
Lanhydrock House bear testimony to this. The barony was purchased for £10,000 in 1625. This ennoblement was claimed, by the opponents of the Duke of Buckingham, to have
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from the sidelines. He, like other Lords who had sided with
Parliament, was marginalised by the so-called Independents who saw no future in continuing negotiations with King Charles. The execution of the King would have appalled him.
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