to the dignity of earl of Cleveland by Charles I. in the first year of his reign; and during the misfortunes of that injured monarch aided the royal cause with the most extraordinary prudence, courage, and loyalty, and had at last the good fortune to see the restoration of Charles II.; whom he accompanied in his triumphant entry into London, at the head of three hundred noblemen and gentlemen. With this monarch he enjoyed the same esteem as he had with James and Charles I. and, moreover, was also appointed to fill the same honourable posts that he had enjoyed during their reigns.

He died the 25th of March, 1667, aged 76. By Anne, his first wife, daughter of Sir John Crofts, of Saxham, in the county of Suffolk, knt. he had three sons, Thomas, William, and Charles; also three daughters, Anne, who died an infant, Mary, who died unmarried, and another Anne, who became the wife of John, lord Lovelace. His second wife was Catharine, daughter and coheir of Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield, in Essex; by whom he had one daughter, Catharine, married to William Spenser, of Cople, in the county of Bedford.

The male issue of the Earl of Cleveland dying in their father's time, the earldom became extinct; and the barony of Wentworth descended to his granddaughter and heir, Henrietta Wentworth, so well known in history as connected with the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth.

LORD LICHFIELD. Vertue sc. One of the set of Loyalists; in the collection of the (late) Duke of Kent.

Bernard Stuart, earl of Lichfield, was the youngest of the five sons of the Duke of Richmond and Lenox, who served in the royal army. He commanded the king's troop, which consisted of a hundred and twenty persons of rank and fortune; who, on every occasion, exerted themselves with a generous ardour for their sovereign, and were victorious in several actions. He was created earl of Lichfieldt in consideration of his gallant behaviour near that city. This excellent young nobleman, who was as much esteemed

He had seven sons in all.

+ Heylin says, in his "

Help to History," that he was not actually created; but he is contradicted by Lord Clarendon, and others.

for his virtues in private life, as he was admired for his valour and conduct in the field, was killed at the battle of Rowton Heath, near Chester, having first secured the retreat of the king, whose person was in great danger. Ob. 26 Sept. 1645.

HENRY SPENCER, first earl of Sunderland, Et. 23. Walker pinx. Bocquet sc.. 4to. private plate, engraved at the expense of the present Earl Spencer.

HENRY SPENCER, first earl of Sunderland, Et. 23. Walker pinx. R. Cooper sc. In Mr. Lodge's "Illustrious Heads;" 4to.

HENRY SPENCER, first earl of Sunderland. R. Cooper sc. J. Caulfield exc. 4to.

Henry, lord Spencer, eldest son of William, lord Spencer, of Wormleighton, by Penelope, eldest daughter of Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, was born at Althorp, and baptized on the 23d of November, 1620. Indebted to nature for a fervent inclination to learning, and having had the good fortune to be placed under an able tutor, the quickness of his apprehension, and the solidity of his judgment, led him soon to those generous exercises and useful recreations, which are at once the ornament and the solace of a noble mind. His education commenced at Magdalen College, Oxford, before he was sixteen years of age; and his proficiency afforded so remarkable pledge of his future attainments, that King Charles and his queen, honouring the university, with their presence at that time, it was his majesty's pleasure that the degree of master of arts should be conferred upon him; which was accordingly done in convocation, on the 31st of August, 1636.

On the 19th of December following, he succeeded his father as Lord Spencer, and had not attained his twentieth year, when the Earl of Southampton, his guardian, and the Lady Penelope, his mother, contracted with Robert, earl of Leicester, for his marriage

At Chester, they point out the spot in the walls of this town, from whence Charles I. saw the discomfiture of his army.-LORD HAILES.

with Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of that earl. She was a lady of uncommon beauty and accomplishments; and, under the name of Sacharissa, is highly celebrated by Waller, who, a widower at the age of twenty-five years, felt for her that tender passion which gave birth to verses that made her beauty triumph over time. The poet, however, not being so successful in his addresses to Sacharissa, as he had been in the elegant strains with which she had inspired him, her marriage with Lord Spencer was celebrated at Penshurst, on the 20th of July, 1639; and soon afterward he and his lady accompanied the Earl of Leicester, on his return to his embassy in France.

After his return from that country, in 1641, he took his seat in the House of Peers; and was courted by both parties, on account of his eminent abilities. But that ardent love for the liberties of his country, which he inherited from his ancestors, soon determined his choice; and, having united with those who had associated in order to detect the violators of the constitution, he was nominated by the popular interest to the office of lord-lieutenant of the county of Northampton. Yet his just sense of duty towards the crown, and his reverence for the government, both in church and state, induced him soon to abandon a party, which, by a want of discernment, too common in the minds of reformers and anarchists, was, in his opinion, subverting the bases of all social order, the obligations of conscience, and the laws of the land; and he courageously declared in parliament (the last words he uttered there), "that they might have been satisfied long before, if they had not asked things that deny themselves; and if some men had not shuffled demands into their propositions, on purpose that they might have no satisfaction."

The great national struggle becoming more and more serious, his lordship openly joined the royal party, and attended the king to York, and from thence to Nottingham, where the standard was erected on the 25th of August, 1642. At Shrewsbury, the vacillating and undecisive conduct of Charles was so particularly remarked, that it appears to have created considerable disgust in Lord Spencer, who, as he writes to his lady, on the 21st Sept. 1642, would not have continued an hour with the army, if an expedient could have been devised "to save the punctilio of honour." The memorable battle of Edge-hill was fought on the 23d of the following month; and Lord Spencer, with other noblemen as volunteers, charged in the king's guard of horse. His lordship

marched, after the battle, with the royal army to Oxford; and was about that time, at the taking of Bristol by the forces under Prince Rupert. On the 8th of June, 1643, he was advanced to the dignity of earl of Sunderland, by patent dated at Oxford; and it is worthy of mention, that, at the time of his creation, he was said to be allied to all the nobility then at court, except the Duke of Hamilton.

Like many, however, of the unfortunate king's affectionate adherents, he was destined not to survive the contest; and fell in the flower of his age, a glorious victim to his zeal and bravery in the defence of his royal master, at the battle of Newbury, on the 20th of September, 1643; being struck with a cannon-ball, before the party of horse, in which he had volunteered, could come to the charge. His remains were interred in the family vault, at Brington, in Northamptonshire.

By his wife, the Lady Dorothy Sidney (who afterward on the 8th of July, 1652, married Robert Smith, esq. of Sutton, in Kent, and was buried at Brington on the 25th of February, 1683-4), the Earl of Sunderland had issue an only son, Robert, second earl of Sunderland, and two daughters, Dorothy, who married George Saville, afterward marquis of Hallifax, and Penelope a posthumous daughter, who died an infant.

Henry, earl of Sunderland, was great grandfather of his Grace the late Duke of Marlborough and Earl of Sunderland; and of John, earl Spencer, father of George-John, now earl Spencer.

The Lord JOHN, and the Lord BERNARD STUART, the youngest sons of Esme, duke of Lenox. Vandyck p. R. Tompson exc. In the collection of the Earl (late Duke) of Kent; large h. sh. mezz.

The Lord JOHN, and the Lord BERNARD STUART. Vandyck p. J. Mc. Ardell f. From the same original, with the next above; sh. mezz. The picture is at Lord Hardwicke's.

The Lord John Stuart, fourth son to the Duke of Richmond, and elder brother to the Lord Lichfield, was remarkable for every

* He was, according to some accounts of the family, the fifth son.

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good and amiable quality, by which that nobleman was distinguished; nor was he inferior to him in courage: but rather seems to have been valiant to excess; as he, with great intrepidity, com manded a body of light-horse up a hill, at Cheriton Down, in order to attack Sir William Waller's army, where he fell into an ambuscade of the enemy. He had two horses killed under him,

and received six wounds before he fell. He died amidst several hundred of his men, with whose dead bodies his own was surrounded. He lies buried at Christ Church, in Oxford, with another brother, who was killed at Edge-hill. Ob. 29 Mar. 1644. The younger, is the same person with the Earl of Lichfield, before mentioned.

HENRY DANVERS, earl of Danby; mezz. A. v. Dyck; V. Green; whole length, from the Houghton collection.

This lord was son of Sir John Danvers, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Nevil, lord Latimer, son-in-law of Queen Catharine Parr, and was first distinguished by his behaviour in the Low Countries, where he served under Prince Maurice, and afterward in France under Henry IV. when he was knighted for his valour. In the Irish wars he was lieutenant-general of the horse, and sergeantmajor of the whole army, under Robert, earl of Essex, and Charles, lord Mountjoy. In the first of King James I. he was made baron of Dauntesey, and afterward lord-president of Munster and governor of Guernsey by King Charles I. He was created earl of Darby, made a privy-counsellor and knight of the Garter. He founded the Physic Garden at Oxford, and died aged 71, 1643, at Cornbury, and was buried at Dauntesey, in Wiltshire, where he built an almshouse and free-school.

HENRY WILMOT, earl of Rochester; an etching. (Claussin.) 8vo.

HENRY WILMOT, earl of Rochester. T. Rodd exc.

8vo.

Henry Wilmot, only son of Charles, viscount Wilmot, of Athlone, in Ireland, was for his many eminent services and zeal in the royal