NICOLAS

NICOLAS. The late Sir Plarris Nicolas, the well-known antiquary and historian, descended from a Breton family who flourished in the XIII. and XIV. cent., one of whose members came into England at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled at Looe in Cornwall.

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