Page 215. "Mr. Henry Howard, grandchild to the Earl of Arundel." Second son of the preceding. He succeeded his elder brother, Thomas, who had been restored to the dukedom of Norfolk, as sixth duke, though he had previously been created Baron Howard and Earl of Norwich. Also created Earl Marshal of England, and died January 11, 1683-4. Evelyn often mentions this family.

Page 219.

"Lord Arundel's grandson Philip, turning Dominican friar, since Cardinal of Norfolk."

Philip was the third son of Henry Frederick Baron Mowbray. He entered the Church of Rome, as stated by Evelyn, and afterwards rose to the dignity of Cardinal and became Lord Almoner to Catherine, consort of Charles II. He died in 1694.

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Ferrarius, a Doctor of the Ambrosian College." Francisco Bernardino Ferrari, born in 1577, and for his extensive knowledge of books selected by Frederick Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, as a proper person to travel and collect books and manuscripts for a noble library he was desirous of founding in that city. He collected a great number of works in all classes of literature, which, with later additions, has since been known as the Ambrosian Library. He died in 1669.

Page 239. Charles, third Baron Dormer, succeeded, in September, 1643, as second Earl of Carnarvon; his father having been killed at Newbury, where he was in arms for the King as a General of Horse. He died on the 29th of September, 1709.

"His little pupil, the Earl of Carnarvon."

Page 245. "Dr. Earle."

John Earle was born at York in 1601, and finished his education at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was appointed sub-tutor to Prince Charles, son of Charles I., whom he afterwards attended when abroad, as chaplain. Returning to England at the Restoration, he was successively made Dean of Westminster, Clerk of the Closet, Bishop of Worcester, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was the author of a Latin translation of the " Eikon Basilike,” of "Microsmography, or a piece of the World discovered in Essays and Characters," and of "An Elegy on Mr. Francis Beaumont." He died at Oxford in 1665.

Page 246. "Sir William Ducy [Ducie], afterwards Lord Downe." The son of Sir Robert Ducie, the wealthy Lord Mayor, created a baronet by Charles; his only return for about 80,000l. which Charles had borrowed from him: Sir William was made one of the Knights of the Bath, and created Viscount Downe at the coronation of Charles II. Dying without issue, his estates descended to the only daughter of his younger brother, whose son was Lord Ducie in 1720, and from him descended the present Earl of Ducie.

Page 248. "La Neve."

Probably the artist mentioned by Walpole as Cornelius Neve, who drew a portrait of Ashmole.

Page 251.

"Sir Arthur Hopton, brother to Sir Ralph Lord Hopton, that noble hero."

Sir Arthur Hopton was uncle, not brother, to Lord Hopton (so well known for his services to Charles in the course of the Civil War); and would have

succeeded his Lordship in the title, as the latter died childless, but that Sir Arthur had himself died two years before him, without issue, in the year 1650. The title became extinct.

Page 251. "My worthy friend, Sir John Owen."

A Royalist officer, whose life had been forfeited for the part he took against the Parliament, but was saved by the timely interposition of Colonel Hutchinson. The latter humanely spoke for him in the House, though Sir John was a perfect stranger to him, because he perceived, while the great noblemen, his companions, found earnest intercessors, no one seemed to know anything of the Knight, or would offer a word in favour of him. Sir John Owen afterwards proved himself ungrateful.

Page 251. "Lady Hatton."

Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Montague, and niece of Henry Earl of Manchester. She married Sir Christopher Hatton-made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I., who, on the 20th of July, 1643, created him Baron Hatton, of Kirby, for his devotion to the royal cause. After the Restoration, he was sworn of the Privy Council, and appointed governor of Guernsey. He died in 1670.

Page 252.

"Old Alexander Rosse."

Immortalised in Butler's couplet :

"There was an ancient sage Philosopher;

Who had read Alexander Ross over."

He was a Scotchman, born in 1591; and after receiving an education for the church, took orders, became master of a free school at Southampton, and preached, wrote, and taught with a diligence that ought to have obtained him other reputation than Butler's ludicrous lines have bestowed upon him. He died in 1654.

Page 252. "Lady Catherine Scott, Daughter of the Earl of Norwich." His youngest daughter; married to James Scott, Esq., of Scott's Hall, Kent, supposed to have been a son of Prince Rupert.

Page 252. "Sir George Cartaret, Governor of Jersey."

George was son and heir to Helier Cartaret, Esq., Deputy-governor of Jersey, and grandson of Sir Philip Cartaret, who in the reign of Elizabeth planted a colony in the island (in which his ancestors, from the time of Edward I., had held lands) to secure it from the French, who had frequently sought to obtain possession of it. The son of the Deputy-governor entered the navy at an early age; greatly distinguished himself in the service; and attracting the attention of the Duke of Buckingham, received the appointment from Charles I., of Joint-governor of Jersey, and Comptroller of the Navy. Having served the King during the civil wars, at the Restoration he was returned to Parliament for Portsmouth, and filled the office of Treasurer of the Navy. He died January 13th, 1674. Several members of his family distinguished themselves in the wars of the seventeenth century, and one of his descendants became a celebrated statesman under the first and second Georges.

Page 253. "My Lord Wilmot."

Henry, only son of Charles Viscount Wilmot, of Athlone, raised to the English Peerage by Charles I., in June 29, 1643, as Baron Wilmot, of Adderbury. He held a command in the King's cavalry, in which he served

with distinction at the battle of Roundway Doune; subsequently assisting Charles II. to escape from the field of Worcester; though, according to the King's statement to Pepys, it was rather in the way of hiding from, than in combating with, his enemies. Nevertheless he was created Earl of Rochester, December 13, 1652, at Paris, where Charles for a short time assumed the privilege of sovereignty. He died at Dunkirk in 1659, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, afterwards the notorious Rochester.

Page 253. "Mrs. Barlow, the King's mistress, and mother to the Duke of Monmouth."

The lady here referred to was Lucy, daughter of Richard Walters, Esq., of Haverfordwest. (See Evelyn's striking mention of her in a later passage, vol. ii., p. 229.) She had two children by the King; James, subsequently so celebrated as the Duke of Monmouth, and Mary, whose lot was obscure in comparison with that of her brother, but of course infinitely happier. She married a Mr. William Sarsfield, of Ireland, and after his death, William Fanshawe, Esq.

Page 253.

"Mr. William Coventry, afterwards Sir William."

A member of the Privy Council of Charles II., and Commissioner of the Treasury, but dismissed the Court for sending a challenge to the Duke of Buckingham. "He was a man," says Burnet, "of great notions and eminent virtues; the best speaker in the House of Commons, and capable of bearing the chief ministry, as it was once thought he was very near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." Evelyn, in a subsequent mention in his journal, characterises him as "a wise and witty gentleman."

Page 256.

"My Lord of Ossory, and Richard, sons to the Marquis

of Ormonde."

James Butler, Marquis of Ormonde, and Earl of Ossory in the Irish Peerage, first brought himself into notice when Ireland had for her LordDeputy the Earl of Strafford. A Parliament had been summoned to meet at Dublin Castle with strict injunctions that the members were to come unarmed, and the young Marquis not having attended to this when he presented himself at the door, the Usher of the Black Rod demanded his sword; whereupon the other fiercely replied, that if he had his sword at all, he should have it "in his guts." The Lord-Deputy summoned the Marquis of Ormonde before him in the evening to account for this conduct; when his Lordship produced the King's writ summoning him to Parliament "cinctus cum gladio." Upon this Strafford fancied so resolute a man would be better as a friend than as an enemy, resolved to attach him to the King's service and to his own, and appointed him a member of the Council. The Marquis was afterwards a staunch friend of Strafford, even in his adversity, and an equally earnest partizan of the King, who bestowed upon him the Order of the Garter, and appointed him Lord-Deputy of Ireland, and Lord Steward of the Household. In the Civil Wars he exerted himself zealously in the cause of his master, till obliged to seek safety with his family in exile. He returned at the Restoration, and Charles II., on the 20th of July, 1660, raised him to the English Peerage by the titles of Baron Butler and Earl of Brecknock, advanced him in the Irish Peerage to the Dukedom of Ormonde, and again appointed him to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. He died in 1688. Bishop Burnet has left a sort of negative character of the Duke, for he describes him as "a man of great expense, but decent even in his vices, for he always kept up the forms of religion." He seems to have made himself more acceptable to Grammont, who neither alludes to his vices nor to his religion

but, discovering a resemblance in the turn of his wit and the nobility of his manners to his own relative, the Marshal de Grammont, thinks that he is bound to estimate the Duke at the highest possible appreciation. Of the sons mentioned by Evelyn, the first was the Duke's second son, Thomas, Earl of Ossory, who proved himself an efficient commander both by sea and land, an able statesman, and an accomplished man of letters. According to Anthony Wood, his heroism in the sea fight with the Dutch, in 1673, was "beyond the fiction of romance ;" and Evelyn's correspondence contains earnest tributes to his character. On the 24th of September, 1666, he was summoned to Parliament as Lord Butler, of Moor Park; and was afterwards employed as General of the Horse, as member of the Privy Council, and as deputy for his father in his Irish government. He died July 30, 1680. Richard, the younger brother of Thomas, also referred to by Evelyn, was created an Irish Peer in 1662, by the titles of Baron Butler, Viscount Tullogh, and Earl of Arran; and became an English Peer in 1673, by the title of Baron Butler, of Weston. He also was deputy for his father, and distinguished himself both by sea and land, particularly in the naval engagement with the Dutch in 1673, and against the mutinous garrison of Carrickfergus. He died in 1685. Evelyn highly esteemed this family, and makes frequent allusion to them.

Sir Philip Stanhope, created November 7, 1616, Baron Stanhope of Shelford; and on the 4th August, 1628, Earl of Chesterfield. At the breaking out of hostilities with the Parliament, his lordship became a determined partisan for the King, and garrisoned his house at Shelford, where his son Philip lost his life, and the place was stormed and burned to the ground. Lord Chesterfield at last found safety in flight, and retired to France. He died September 12, 1756.

Charles, second Baron Stanhope, of Harrington. He died in 1677. Henry, son of Philip, first Earl of Chesterfield, and his son Philip (subsequently second Earl), also in succession bore the title of Lord Stanhope.

Page 258. "The famous sculptor Nanteuil.”

Robert Nanteuil, who drew cleverly in crayons, and was an admirable engraver. Born at Rheims, in 1630, and died at Paris in 1678.

Page 262. "Sir Thomas Osborne, afterwards Lord Treasurer." The only son of Sir Edward Osborne, Vice-President of the Council for the north of England, and Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces. Sir Edward had devoted himself to the cause of Charles I., and his son followed his example. He shared the same fortune as other exiles during the Protectorate, but at the Restoration was amply rewarded, dignities and titles being showered upon him with excessive liberality. Lord High Treasurer, and Knight of the Garter, he was successively created Baron Osborne, of Kiveton, and Viscount Latimer, of Danby; Earl of Danby, Marquis of Carmarthen, and Duke of Leeds, in the English Peerage; and Viscount Dumblane, in the Peerage of Scotland. He died July 26, 1712. The vicissitudes of his official career are well known.

Page 266. "Mr. Thomas White, a learned Priest, and famous philosopher." A native of Essex, who was born in 1582, educated abroad, and, his family being Catholic, became a priest of that church, and sub-rector of the college

at Douay. He advocated the Cartesian philosophy, and this brought him into an extensive correspondence with Hobbes and Descartes, in the course of which he Latinised his name into Thomas Albius, or De Albis. He died in 1676.

Page 266. "Lord Strafford."

This was William, the eldest son of the Earl who was executed; but he was not restored to his father's titles till the Restoration. He died in 1695. The "Lord Wentworth" adverted to by Evelyn in a preceding page (253), was the son of the Earl of Cleveland.

Page 267. "The Lord Gerrard."

Charles, son of Sir Charles Gerard, having served for some time in the Netherlands, returned to England in time to join King Charles, when his dispute with the Parliament was referred to the sword. He was made a general officer, and eminently distinguished himself on several occasions, for which the King appointed him lieutenant-general of his horse, and created him Baron Gerard, of Brandon, on the 8th of November, 1645. By Charles II. he was raised to the dignity of Viscount Brandon, and Earl of Macclesfield, on the 23d of July, 1679; but by James II. he was sent to the Tower, in company with the Lords Stamford and Delamere, and condemned to death, though afterwards pardoned. He lived five years beyond the Revolution.

Page 273. "Mrs. Lane."

Sister of Colonel Lane, an English officer in the army of Charles II. dispersed at the battle of Worcester. She assisted the King in effecting his escape after that battle, his Majesty travelling with her disguised as her serving-man, William Jackson.

Page 278. "My Lord Devonshire."

William, third Earl. He died in 1684. "My young lord," with whom Evelyn desired that his nephew George might be "brought up," was his only son, William, created on the 12th of May 1694 Marquis of Harlington and Duke of Devonshire. He was also Knight of the Garter and Lord Steward of the Household.

Page 278. "Sir Adam Newton."

Tutor and afterwards secretary to Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I., who, in April, 1620, created him a baronet. An admirable scholar. After the death of Prince Henry, Sir Adam Newton was appointed treasurer to Prince Charles, and in 1628 succeeded Lord Brooke as secretary to the Marches of Wales. He died in 1629-30, leaving one son -Evelyn's "noble friend"-Sir Henry Newton, who, on the decease of the last surviving daughter of his uncle, Sir Thomas Pickering, succeeded to his estate and assumed his name.

Page 283. "Dr. Scarborough."

Sir Charles Scarborough was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Fellowship. He afterwards studied medicine; but making himself too conspicuous as a Royalist during the troubles, was deprived of his Fellowship, and found it necessary to retire to Oxford. Subsequently he practised in London as a physician, and at the Restoration received the honour of knighthood, and was named one of the King's physicians. He succeeded Harvey at Surgeons' Hall as lecturer.