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His Father Died: A staunch Cromwellian, he sat in Parliament from 1654 until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Goffe was excepted from the royalist "act of indemnity" (exemption from penalties) but escaped to New England with his father-in-law, Gen. Edward Whalley, and hid until the hunt died down. In 1664 he went to Hadley, Mass., where legend (retold by Scott in Peverill of the Peak and by Cooper in The Borderers] reports him as having rallied the inhabitants to repel an Indian attack. He died about 1679, probably in Hadley.
RANJIT SINGH or RUNJIT SINGH,run'jit siN'ha, Indian maharaja, founder of the Sikh kingdom in the Punjab: b. Gujranwala, Punjab, Nov. 13, 1780; d. Lahore, June 27, 1839. His father, Maha Singh, was chief of the Suker-chakia clan, whose headquarters was at Gujranwala, and his mother was a princess of Jind. An attack of smallpox deprived him of his left eye. His father died when he was 12, and he then came under the tutelage of a widow, named Sada Kaur, who was the head of the Kanhaya clan, and to whose daughter he was affianced.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father. |
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