L a d y A n n e
C l i f f o r d .
dangerous voyages, when more interefting and tender clames u»*
the prefence of a parent. How mult he have been affeited by u
refufal, when he found that he had loft both on his return from twi
of his expeditions, if the heart o f a hero does not too often diyeftic-
felf of the tender fenfations !
' The letters of this lady are extant in manufcript, and alio njj
diary ; ihe unfortunately marries without liking, and meets with til
fame return. She mentions feveral minutiae that I omit, being onl
proofs of her great attention to accuracy. She complains <vea|
ofthecoolnefsofherLord, and his negleft of his daughter“
Clifford -, and endured great poverty, of which ihe writes in. a mol
moving ftrain to James I. to feveral great perfons, and to the Eal
himfelf. All her letters are humble, fuppliant, and pathetic, yf
the Earl was faid to have parted with her on account of her hi J
fpirit *.. fi
Above the two principal figures are painted the heads of twl
lifters of the Earl, Anne, Countefs of Warwick, and ElmltM
Countefs of Bath ; and two, the fillers of the Countefs ; FrmM
married to Philip, Lord Wharton; and Margaret, Countefs ofl
Derby. Beneath each is a long infcription. The feveral infcriJ
tons were compofed by Anne Clifford,, with the affiftance of Judgl
Hales, who perufed and methodized for her the neceifary papers anl
evidences '
The two fide-leaves ihew the portraits of her celebrated daughtef
Anne Clifford, afterwards Countefs of Barfet, Pembroke, and MrniM
• T hefe, and feveral other anecdotes o f the family, I found in certain MS. letf
ters and dianes o f the Countefs and her daughter,
t Life o f Lord Keeper North.
tniry.
10-/j; the moft eminent perfon of her age for intellectual accomteliihments,
for fpirit, magnificence, and deeds of benevolence.
loth thefe paintings are full lengths : the one reprefents her at the
a g e of thirteen, Handing in her ftudy, drefied in white, embroidered
Lith flowers, her head adorned with great pearls. One hand is on a
Lufic-book ; her lute lies by her. The books inform us of the
faihionable courfe of reading among people of rank in her days. I
Lerceived among them, Eufebius,. St. Auguftine, Sir Philip Sidney smadia,
Godfrey of Boulogne, the French Academy, Camden, Ortelius,
Upippa on the Vanity of occult Sciences, &c. &c. Above are the
heads of Mr. Samuel Daniel, her tutor,, and Mrs. Anne Taylor, her
governefs ; the laft appearing, as the infcription fays ihe was, a
relkious and good woman. This memorial of the inftruftors of
t ' i
her youth is. a moft grateful acknowledgement of the benefits ihe
received from them. She was certainly a moft happy fubjeit to
work on ; for,- according to her own account, old Mr. John Den-
\bm, a great aftronomer, in her father’s houfe, ufed to fay, ‘ that
1 the fweet influence of the Pleiades, and the bands of Orion,
'* were powerful both at her conception and birth J| and when
Ihe grew up, Doftor Donne is reported to have faid of her, that
i fit knew well how to difcourfe of all things, from predefiination to
'■hfdk*.
In the other leaf ihe appears in her middle age, in the ftate of
widowhood, dreifed in a black gown, and black veil, and white
fcves, and round her wafte is a chain of great pearls ; her hair long
and brown; her wedding ring on the thumb of her right hand,
* Biihop Rainbow's difcourfe at her funeral, in 1657.
which