ORANGE. A AVilliam de Orenge is a Domesday tenant in co. Bucks. AVhence this " William of Orange " came, I cannot guess ; certainly not, I should say, from the district from which his great namesake, some six hundred years later, originally had his title, that being a small town and ancient principality in the South of France, about twenty miles from Avignon, and formerly a dependency of Holland.

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