hand unknown. Lord Egmont, in his history of the House of Yvery,' has given a full account of this transaction, and other particulars of Sir Philip's family.

Thomas Earl of Ossory, equally qualified to shine in the camp or at court, in the tumult of war, or amidst the elegancies of peace; of unbounded courage, singular modesty, and inflexible integrity. He died in 1680, at the age of 46. The noblest testimony of his worth was given by his afflicted father, when he declared, that he would not exchange his dead son for any living son in Christendom.

On the right hand side of the room, next the windows, is a curious painting, containing two portraits, Sir Edward Hyde, and his wife, with the initials E. H. and the date 1579.

Sir Richard Southwell, 1585.

Richard Southwell, a fine old head; probably. the favourite of Henry VIII. who made him one of the executors of his will.

Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham, lord high admiral of England; a deservedly-esteemed favourite of Queen Elizabeth, to the splendour of whose annals, his abilities, as a naval commander, contributed largely. In 1588, he destroyed the Spanish Armada, the remembrance

of which atchievement is preserved in the tapestry hangings of the House of Lords, executed by Francis Spiering, from designs of Cornelius Vroom. The year 1596 added another triumph to his list of victories-the capture of Cadiz, and the burning of the Spanish fleet. Being a man of great splendour and expence, he was sent by the peaceful fames ambassador into Spain, where he made his entrée with a retinue of five hundred persons, to the great astonishment, of the Spaniards, who did not expect such taste and magnificence from a nation of heretics. He died 1624, aged 87; having married Catherine, daughter of Henry Lord Hunsdon, by whom he had two sons and three daughters, of which the eldest, Elizabeth, married Sir Robert Southwell, (before mentioned) of Woodrising in Norfolk.

Thomas Earl of Strafford, 1640; painted the year before his execution. He forms a prominent feature in the reign of Charles I. distinguished in the outset of life by professions of patriotism, which were soon converted into most determined support and furtherance of the measures pursued at the period when he lived. Whilst lord-deputy of Ireland, in the true spirit of a proselyte, he adopted acts of

rigour and oppression beyond all precedent and endurance; the severity of his government drew forth the execrations of the nation, and could not secure him the protection of the sovereign; although whilst in confinement, he received assurances that he should not suffer in life, honour, or estate. When informed, therefore, that the king had granted a commission to pass the bill of attainder, he exclaimed, “ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation." Our detestation of the crimes of the man must for the moment subside, whilst we admire the magnanimity of the hero in the hour of expiation: the lieutenant of the Tower offered him a coach to convey him to the scaffold, lest he should be torn to pieces by the populace, but he replied, "I die to please the people, and am "willing to die in their own way!"

Sir William Godolphin, under-secretary to Bennet Earl of Arlington, and a zealous supporter of prerogative; he succeeded Edward Earl of Sandwich as ambassador to Madrid, where he embraced the Catholic faith, in which he died.

Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord-keeper in the reign of Queen Mary, and the first of that title who ranked as lord-chancellor; more distinguished,

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however, as the father of Francis Lord Verulam, to whom he was as inferior in legal and philosophical knowledge, as he was superior in rigid and inflexible integrity. He died 1579.

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, lord-chancellor. In a collection of portraits, we naturally look for the likeness of this nobleman; the admission is a tribute indisputably due to the greatest moral painter of the age in which he lived, such certainly was Lord Clarendon, who has left us full lengths of the court of Charles I. drawn with less of the artist's licence than could be expected from one who had been so actively employed in those days of party jealousy and intrigue. Charles II. gave him the title of Chancellor of England; his writings have secured him that of chancellor of human nature. It has been said of him, that he wrote for prerogative; it must in truth be added, that he acted for liberty. Obiit 1674.

Charles I. (small) by Vandyke.

Charles II. by Sir Peter Lely; an extremely fine painting, particularly in point of drapery. Head of Saint Peter, and its companion, by Rembrandt.

A very fine bronze antique, nearly as large as life, of Antinous, the pathic and freedman of

Adrian; which our female cicerone, by à most whimsical string of misnomers, converted into Antoninus, the friend of Alexander the Great.

Portrait of S' Gravesmaar, lieut.-general; a noble Dutchman, whose family is at present one of the most respectable in Holland. In the breakfast-room are the portraits of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, daughter of Richard Jennings, esq; of Sunbridge in Hertfordshire. Her Grace's character will be found in the busy political reign of the high church Anne, in almost every year of which she appears to have been actively employed. Guided by the mistaken policy of preferring gain to fame, she at last fell a sacrifice to the enemies which a favourite's situation naturally created, and which her unbounded avarice had too successfully encouraged. She lived to feel herself the neglected subject of that monarch to whom she had so long appeared as chief adviser; and died immensely rich, but entirely unlamented, in 1744, aged 85.

Mrs. Ashburnham, afterwards the wife of Edward Dering.

Lady Clifford's dressing-room contains a choice collection of fine paintings and curious miniatures; amongst the former are,