The quarrel of Hohenlo with Sir Edward Norris had been, by the exertions of Buckhurst, amicably arranged: the Count became an intimate friend of Sir John, "to the Gladding of all such as wished well to, the country;" but he nourished a deadly hatred to the Earl.
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