By The Name Of Rice - An Historical Sketch Of Deacon Edmund Rice, The Pilgrim (1594-1663), Founder Of The English Family Of Rice In The United States - And Of His Descendants To The Fourth Generation

BY THE NAME OF RICE: An Historical Sketch Of Deacon Edmund Rice, The Pilgrim (1594-1663), Founder Of The English Family Of Rice In The United States: And Of His Descendants To The Fourth Generation. Charles Elmer Rice Author of the History of the H-a Family, History of the Hole F d y in England and America, The Wrighb of Kclvedon Hallsm - S - 1 Batered according to Act of Chgreu in tbe yeu 1910, by CBulem Bbprcr Rice, in the o e of the Librarian of m e s a at Waahbgmm L i m k d o f w L i c h t h i r h w m b e r There is a good and sufficient reason or thii but it is too lengthyto explain M y in these pages. In brief, the effete elder branch ran out of male heirs in the year 1756 and it took a patent from the crown to keep up the title, by allowing the earldom to revert - to the heirs, male, rough Lady Cecil De Cardome1 Rice. Such a crisis in the Rice family will be quite unthinkable to one who reads further in this little book.