The title of Baron Monson was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1728. It is still extant. The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala Births January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. ...
During the second of these ventures Monson had the ill-luck to be taken prisoner by the Spaniards in a recaptured prize, and was for a time detained at Lisbon in captivity.
Monson claimed to have extirpated these pests, but it is certain that they were numerous a generation later.
Monson's elder brother, Sir Thomas Monson (1564-1641), was one of James I's favourites, and was made a baronet in 1611.
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