H is son.
worth of fweetmeats; another to eat a pye compofed of amber,
grife, muik and magifterial of pearl *. It is not furprizing M
with all thefe extravagancies he wafted above four hundred thou,
fand pounds ; nor that his generofity, attended, with uncommoi
affability and gracefulnefs of manners, and with a great and uni
verfal underftanding, ihould rivet him in the affeftion and efteeJ
of the whole Englijh nation. But that with the luxury of an Apica
he could mingle the honeft fentiments of a Clarendon in his advis
to his prince i"; and that he dared to deliver to his opiniatix
mafter difagreeable truths, and unpalatable counfels, are fail)
more aftoniihing than any of his wafteful fooleries. To conclude
he finilhed his life in 1636; -and quitted the ftage comiiva fatur\
dying, as the noble hiftorian obferves, with as much tranquillitj
•of mind to all appearance, as ufed to attend a man of the mol
fevere exercife of virtue; and with as little apprehenfion of death,
which he expedited many days.
In this apartment is a half-length of his fon and fucceiTorlt
the title; but in the dining-room is a full-length of the fame,)
moft beautiful portrait, by Cornelius Janfen. It is difficult to fi[
which is moft elegant, the perfon or the drefs of this young noble-
man, for it is drawn at an eariy period of life: all his father1!
# Lloyd, ii, 62.
+ Cabala as quoted in Drake’ s Parliamentary Hiftory, V . 530.
t Old OJborn, vol. I . p. IJ 7 , makes him die like a blafphemous lunatic) i»
when his own weaknefs had palled a judgment, that he could not live many dayi,
■he did not forbear his entertainments, but made divers brave cloaths, as befaH
to outface naked and defpicable death w ithal, faying, that Nature wanted -ur,!-1
Jove or power, in making man mortal and fu b jea to difeafu.
fancy
fancy feems exerted in the habit, befet with loops and buttons :
a ïove-lock graces one fide of his neck : one hand is on his ftaff
of office, the other on his fide. His hiftory is but brief. He
married Margaret, daughter of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford ;
was appointed captain of the yeomen of the guard to Charles I. and
for taking an aftive part in putting the commiffion of array in
execution, in the county of EJfex, was by the Parliament fent to
the Tower. In 1643 he appears among the nobility, who figned
the letter at Oxford to the popular general ; but foon after deferted
the royal caufe, and took the oath appointed by parliament for
thsfe who flung themfelves under its proteftion*. At length,
diftrefled in his circumftances, he retired to Barbadoes -f, an ifland
granted to his father D ;• and died in 1660.
But the moft remarkable Head is that of the celebrated Catherine,
Countefs of Befmond. She lived to the age of fome years
above a hundred and forty, and died in the reign of fames I.
Sir Walter Raleigh fpeaks of her marriage as a fail: well
known to all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munfier J. He
gives us room to think that Ihe died before the publication of his
Hiftory, which was in the year 1614, Suppofing then her lady-
Ihip’s age to have been a hundred and fifty at the time of her death,
ihe might have danced in the court of King Edward, at the age of
nineteen, a blooming widow ; that prince not dying till 1483.
-»'his lady was a moft popular fubjeft with the painters : be-
Cdes this at Dupplin, there are not fewer than four others in Great-
* Whitelock, 83, 143. j- Staggering State, &c. 151 .
Î Hift. o f the World. Book I. C h . V . Seft. V . p. 66.
Britain,