The Lansdowne Family have exchangedthename of Petty for Fitzmauriee; and yet that William Petty, who was the son of •an old Eomsey clothier, and founded the family, was really a greater man than any of his descendants. But then the Petty family has no hoar of antiquity about it, and,' therefore, the family silently drop it. And in three peerages that lie before me little or no mention is made of William Petty ; but in one I am gravely told that the family descends in direct line from Fitzotho' castellan of Windsor under William the Norman ! 0 vanitas vanitath !as Thackeray often, ®$B&~*lUw tWst& PTO
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 241, 13 April 1866, Page 2
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