now fallen into the ducal houfe of Medinaceti. Joining
to the duke’s palace, in a church belonging to a
convent of nuns, there is an elegant marble monument
to the memory of an Englifh lady of the noble; family of
Harrington, with the following infcription:
, A Q U I Y A C E D O N A M A R G A R I T A H A R R I N T O N H I J A
D E J A C O B O H A R R I N T O N B A R O N D E E X T O N , Y DE DON
A L U C I A H I J A DE G U I L L E RM O S IDNE I V I S C O N D E DE
L I S L E , B A R O N DE R E N H U R S T , N A C I D A E N I N G L A T E R RA,
M U G E R D E D O N B E N I T O D E C I SN E R O S , C U Y A S
S IN G U L A R E S V I R T U D E S P U D I E R A N H A Z E R L A INS IG N
E Q U A N D O L E F A L T A R A N T A N T O S T I T U L O S DE N O B
L E Z A P A R A SERLO. R O G A D PO R E L L CX A DIOS . M U RIO
EN M A D R ID A N N O D E u6oi.
D O N A J U A N A D E F E R IA , P R IMA , A L B A C E A Y PA-
T R O N A , EN, C U M P L IM I E N T O D E SU AM O R Y D E L T E S T
A M E N T O M A N D O H A Z E R E S T A C A P I L L A Y S E P U L T
U R A .
In E N G L I S H .
Here lies Margaret Harrinton, daughter o f James Harrinton, Baron
o f Exton, and o f Lucy, daughter o f William Sidney Vifcounl Lijle, Baron
o f Renhurjl, born in England, Wife o f Don Benito de Cifneros,
whofe Jingular virtues would have rendered her illujlrious, even i f her
many other titles had-been wanting. Fray to God fo r her. She died in
Madrid in the year 1 6 0 1 .
The lady Ja ne de Feria, coujin, executrix, and palronefs, as a proof
° f
o f her love, and in compliance with 'the will, ordered this chapel and monument
to be eredled (a).
Proceeding from Zafra to Sta- Marta. the country improves
for about five leagues to Zarza del Angel, then
you pafs by Monafterio to Fuente de Cantos where the
Sierra Morena begins : Sta- Olalla is the firft village in
the kingdom of Seville, it being a difmal and melancholy
journey o f ten hours over thefe dreary hills to Caff el
Blanco, with the fame plants as at Almaden, to which
may be added the wild germander. Great efforts have
M There feems to be fome error in this infcription, it was John Harrington, who the firft
of James I. was created baron Harrington o f Exton, in 1613. He died at Wormes in Germany,
his iffue John furvived him but a few months; nor does it appear that Sir William
Sydney, of Penfhurft in Kent, was ever raifed to the peerage, though his defcendants might
have had the title o f Vifcount Lifle and Baron of Penihurft.
Dona Juana de Feria was the only daughter o f Sir William Dormer by his firit wife Mary
Sydney, whofe .youngeft lifter was mother o f Margaret Harrington. She was maid o f honour
to queen Mary, and when the Conde to Fcria came into England as ambafla-
dor to the queen in her laft il'lnefs from Philip the lid , he fell in love with this lady,
and married her, and they had a fon born at MechKn, September 28th, 1559. The
Conde was made a Duke eight years after, and died in 1 5 7 1 : and the family is now extind,
A pi&ure o f the Dutchefs of Feria, fuppofed to be o f the hand o f Sir Antonio More, is in
the poffeffion of the Rev. Mr. de Salis. She is in the drefs of a nun, with this infcription on
it, D. Jana Dormer Ferize Ducifla Vidua D. Gomelii Suarez de Figueroa y Cordova Ferize
Ducis ast. 35. A . D. I 572, As retired into a convent the year after her huiband died,
perhaps this might be the reafon that flie did not a flume the title o f Dutchefs on the monumental
infcription to the memory o f her coufin Margaret Harrington, who probably went to
Spain with her. The Jefuit Ribadeneira, who came into England with the Conde de Feria,
as his chaplain, but principally with a defign to procure a fettlement here for his order, continued
his attachment to the Dutchefs o f Feria, and -dedicated to her his fecond volume of
lives of faints, which is dated at Madrid June 15, 1608. I am indebted for this communication
to my worthy friend the Rev. Mr. John Bowie, o f Idmifton.
been