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PORTRAITS 
 
 OF 
 
 YORKSHIRE WORTHIES 
 
 SELECTED FROM THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION 
 OF WORKS OF ART AT LEEDS, 
 
 1868. 
 
 mttl) T6iog:rapf)ical iI3atice0. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 EDWARD HAILSTONE, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 IN TWO VOLUMES. 
 VOL. 1. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 CUNDALL AND FLEMING, 168 NEW BOND STREET. 
 
 1869. 
 
LONDON : 
 Strangevvays and Walden, Printers, 
 28 Castle Street, Leicester Square. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The value of historical portraits is now so universally 
 acknowledged that it is needless to do more than point 
 out the interest excited by the Exhibitions in 1866, 1867, 
 and 1868 at South Kensington. 
 
 Having for years devoted much time to the collection of 
 books and engravings illustrative of the history of this county, 
 the idea often occurred to me that an exhibition of portraits 
 of distinguished Yorkshiremen would be most interesting 
 to the historian and artist, but there never seemed any 
 chance of this hope being realized : when consulted on the 
 scheme of the National Exhibition of Works of Arts at 
 Leeds, before the same was brought prominently before the 
 public, I saw that my plan could be carried out, and pri- 
 vately suggested to the promoters that a gallery of portraits 
 of Yorkshire worthies would form a valuable portion of the 
 Exhibition, excite the interests of the inhabitants of the 
 county, and be acceptable to the public generally. 
 
 The promoters acceding to my proposal, many months 
 were devoted to this labour of love; and, thanks co the 
 
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 Introduction, 
 
 generosity of the owners, 283 portraits in oil^ added to which 
 were 110 engravings from my own portfolios, were exhibited 
 in the corridors of the new Infirmary; and thus to the eyes of 
 the present generation were presented the portraits of those 
 persons who, when Hving, exercised influence in Church 
 and State, whether Prelate or Puritan, Cavalier or Round- 
 head, and of those who were in any way celebrated in Naval 
 and Military Affairs, Arts, Science, and Literature, or by birth, 
 possessions, or circumstances intimately connected with the 
 county. 
 
 Few Yorkshiremen will fail to agree with Dr. George 
 Hickes, who, in his sermon preached at the Yorkshire Feast 
 in Bow Church, London, on the nth June, 1682, said: — 
 
 ^Our county, as the curious observe, is the epitome of England: 
 whatsoever is excellent in the whole land being to be found in 
 proportion thereto.' 
 
 ' Besides, God hath been pleased to make it the birth-place 
 and nursery of many great men.' 
 
 My application to have the portraits photographed met 
 with a ready response from the owners, and a selection of 
 200 portraits in oil having been made, the skill of 
 Messrs. Cundall and Fleming was called in, who, under 
 the difficulties in dealing with old paintings, have success- 
 fully accomplished their work. 
 
 The Notices will show how varied the sources were from 
 
Introduction, 
 
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 whence the portraits were obtained, and how many difficulties 
 had to be overcome. 
 
 A large number of historical portraits of those born in or 
 connected with the county, still remain within its limits. 
 Many are comparatively unknown, some have disappeared 
 from their former abiding places, others have perished by 
 decay; but, happily, many owners^ looking with pride on the 
 portraits of their ancestors and the part they took in the 
 annals of their county, preserve their precious heir-looms with 
 the utmost care. 
 
 In conclusion, let me offer my best thanks for the great 
 courtesy shown to me by the owners of these valuable 
 paintings while engaged in the formation of the gallery, and 
 their ready acquiescence in my wishes to form a record of 
 Yorkshire Worthies, which becomes the only permanent 
 illustration of the various treasures collected at Leeds. 
 
 Especially am I indebted to Mr. Ralph N. James, the 
 able Compiler and Editor of the Catalogue of the Leeds 
 Exhibition, for the labour and valuable assistance rendered to 
 me in the preparation of the Biographical Notices given in 
 these volumes. 
 
 EDWARD HAILSTONE. 
 
 HoRToN Hall, May, 1869. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 VOLUME I. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 WiCLiF, John 
 
 2 Alcock, Bishop of Ely 
 
 3 TuNSTALL, Bishop of Durham 
 
 4 HoLGATE, Archbishop of York 
 
 5 Wentworth, Thomas, First Lord 
 
 6 Wentworth, Thomas, Second Lord 
 
 7 Northumberland, Thomas Percy, Seventh Earl of 
 
 8 Norton, Richard 
 
 9 Norton, Thomas 
 
 ID Norton, Christopher 
 
 11 Chaloner, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 12 Sandys, Archbishop of York. 
 
 13 Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury 
 
 14 ScROPE, Henry, Ninth Lord 
 
 15 Shrewsbury, George, Sixth Earl of 
 
 16 Lyster, Sir Richard, Kt. 
 
 17 Lyster, Lady 
 
 18 Montagu, Sir Edward, Kt. 
 
 19 Wray, Sir Christopher, Kt. 
 
 20 Hutton, Archbishop of York 
 
 21 Lumley, John, Lord 
 
vlii Contents. 
 
 No. 
 
 2 2 Savile, Sir John, Kt. 
 
 23 Savile, Sir Henry, Kt. 
 
 24 Calverley, Lady Anne 
 
 25 Calverley, William 
 
 26 Calverley, Henry 
 
 27 Nottingham, Charles, Earl of. (Second Lord Howard of Effingham) 
 
 28 Frobisher, Sir Martin, Kt. 
 
 29 Cumberland, George Clifford, Third Earl of 
 
 30 Cumberland, Francis Clifford, Fourth Earl of 
 
 31 Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery; Anne Clifford, Countess of 
 
 32 Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery; Anne Clifford, Countess of 
 
 33 Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Fifth Earl of 
 
 34 Clifford, Lord Charles 
 
 35 Richmond, Lodovick Stuart, Duke of 
 
 36 Matthew, Archbishop of York. 
 
 37 Scrope, Emmanuel, Lord 
 
 38 Gee, William 
 
 39 Harrison, William 
 
 40 Robinson, William 
 
 41 Baltimore, G. Calvert, First Lord 
 
 42 Williams, Lord-keeper, Archbishop of York 
 
 43 FiTZWiLLiAM of Lifford, Lord 
 
 44 TiLSON, Henry, Bishop of Elphin 
 
 45 TiLSON, Henry 
 
 46 Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of 
 
 47 Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of 
 
 48 Castlecomer, Christopher Wandesford, Viscount 
 
 49 Bramhall, John, Archbishop of Armagh 
 
 50 Ingleby, Sir William, Kt. 
 
 51 Ingleby, Sampson 
 
 52 Slingsby, Sir Henry, Kt. 
 
Contents, 
 
 ix 
 
 No. 
 
 53 Slingsby, Sir Henry, Bart. 
 
 54 Slingsby, Sir William, Kt. of Kippax 
 
 55 Slingsby, Henry 
 
 56 Beaumont, Sir Richard, Kt. 
 
 57 Beaumont, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 58 Rawdon, Sir Marmaduke, Kt. 
 
 59 Newcastle, William Cavendish, First Duke of 
 
 60 Newcastle, William Cavendish, First Duke of 
 
 61 Herbert, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 62 Monckton, Sir Philip, Kt. 
 
 63 Ramsden, Sir John, Kt. 
 
 64 Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, First Lord 
 
 65 Tancred, Sir Richard, Kt. 
 
 66 Savile, Sir WilHam, Bart. 
 
 67 Savile, Lady Anne 
 
 68 Mallory, Sir John, Kt. 
 
 69 Dolben, Archbishop of York. 
 
 70 Ingram, Sir Arthur, Kt. 
 
 71 Fairfax, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 72 Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas, First Baron 
 
 73 Fairfax, Ferdinando, Second Baron 
 
 74 Fairfax, Sir Thomas, Third Baron 
 
 75 Fairfax, Anne Vere, Lady 
 
 76 Buckingham, Mary Fairfax, Duchess of 
 
 77 Fairfax, Sir William, Kt. of Steeton 
 
 78 Fairfax, Thomas, Fifth Lord 
 
 79 Fairfax, Admiral Robert 
 
 80 Danby, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 81 Lambert, Josias 
 
 82 Lambert, Major-Gen. John 
 
 83 Lambert, Major-Gen. John 
 
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 Contents, 
 
 No. 
 
 84 Lister, Sir Martin, Kt. 
 
 85 Lister, Thomas 
 
 86 Lister, - John 
 
 87 Lawson, Sir John, Kt. 
 
 88 FouNTAYNE, John, Serjeant-at-Law 
 
 89 Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh 
 
 90 Bowles, Rev. E. 
 
 91 Frankland, Rev. R. 
 
 92 Simon, Abraham 
 
 93 Turner, John, Serjeant-at-Law 
 
 94 Baynes, Adam 
 
 95 RoKEBY, Sir Thomas, Kt. 
 
 96 Marvell, Andrew 
 
 97 Sharp, Rev. Thomas 
 
 98 Sharp, Abraham 
 
 99 Howard, WilHam, Lord (of Escrick) 
 ICQ D'Arcy, Sir Conyers D'Arcy, First Lord 
 
 The number in brackets at the foot of the label refers to the Catalogue of the Leeds 
 Exhibition <7/'i868. 
 
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JOHN WICLIF. 
 
 jT is probable that this early reformer was born at Wycliffe 
 near Richmond, in Yorkshire, in 1324. He studied at Queen's, 
 and afterwards at Merton College, Oxford, and there dis- 
 tinguished himself in scholastic philosophy and divinity. 
 
 In 1360-61 he was Master of Baliol Hall, and about the same time 
 became the advocate of the university against the Mendicant Friars, 
 who were then very troublesome in Oxford. This gradually led to his 
 opposing the encroachments of the Papal Court, and his great merit 
 consisted in the ability with which he advocated what may be termed 
 the popular cause at a time when it was asserted that the nation paid 
 five times as much to the Pope as to the King. It was this which 
 rendered him more obnoxious to the Papal Court than his translation 
 of the Holy Scriptures into English or his theological opinions. Many 
 persons are under the impression that Wiclif was a martyr, but 
 in reality he suffered very little from what is termed persecution, as 
 throughout his whole career he was protected by the powerful party of 
 the Duke of Lancaster and the parliament; and at last, died in 1384 
 of the palsy, with which he was attacked in his own church at Lutterworth, 
 in Leicestershire ; to the rectory of which place he had been appointed 
 about 1375. 
 
 It was not until forty-four years after his death that an order of the 
 Council of Constance was enforced, and his bones dug up, burnt, and 
 the ashes thrown into the River Swift. His translation of the New 
 Testament was republished by Baber, London, in 1 8 10. The manuscript 
 in Wiclif's handwriting of his Four Evangelists, formerly in the Library 
 of the Earl of Oxford, was sold lately for 215/. to the British Museum. 
 
 Portrait on panel, probably a copy of some older picture, 27 by 19 
 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Earl of Denbigh. 
 
II. 
 
 ALCOCK, BISHOP OF ELY. 
 
 HIS distinguished prelate was born at Beverley in Yorkshire, 
 at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He was educated 
 at Cambridge, where he took the degree of D.D. In 1461 
 he was collated to St. Margaret's in London, and made 
 
 Dean of St. Stephen's College, Westminster, the same year. Appointed 
 Master of the Rolls in 1462, six years later, he obtained two prebends, 
 one of Sarum and the other of St. Paul's in London. Having been 
 made a Privy Councillor in 1470, he was sent Ambassador to the King 
 of Castile, and the following year was a Commissioner to treat with 
 those of the King of Scotland. Edward the Fourth made him of the 
 Privy Council of his son. In 147 1 he was Bishop of Rochester, and in 
 1472 Lord High Chancellor of England. Translated to the see of 
 Worcester in 1476, he was next appointed Lord President of Wales. 
 Richard the Third removed him from his office of preceptor to the 
 young Prince Edward, but soon after the accession of Henry the 
 Seventh he had again for a short time the custody of the Great Seal. 
 In i486 he was Bishop of Ely. 
 
 As a prelate Bishop Alcock was remarkable for his learning and 
 piety : as an author he wrote several excellent works on religious sub- 
 jects. He added to his other accomplishments that of being an excellent 
 architect, and was Comptroller of the royal works and buildings under 
 Henry the Seventh. At Kingston-upon-HuU he founded a school and 
 a chapel on the south side of the church, in which his parents were 
 buried. Bishop Alcock also built the beautiful hall belonging to the 
 episcopal palace at Ely, and improved greatly his other palaces. He, 
 moreover, founded Jesus College, Cambridge. 
 
 He died October ist, 1500, at his Castle of Wisbech, and was buried 
 in a sumptuous chapel which he had built for himself in Ely Cathedral. 
 
 Portrait figure, kneeling, on panel 35 by 28 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Jesus College, Cambridge. 
 
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III. 
 
 CUTHBERT TONSTALL, OR TUNSTALL. 
 
 [N eminent prelate, born at Hatchford or Hackforth, in York- 
 shire, about 1474. He was the natural son of Thomas 
 Tunstall of Tunstall, and brother to Bryan Tunstall, who was 
 
 I slain at Flodden Field. His mother is said to have been 
 
 of the Conyers family. He was sent to Baliol College, Oxford, whence 
 he removed to Cambridge, where he was chosen Fellow of King's Hall, 
 now Trinity College. He next proceeded to Padua, where he took the 
 degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1508 Archbishop Warham appointed him 
 his Vicar-General. After his return to England, he was in 15 16 made 
 Master of the Rolls, and in the same year was sent as ambassador with 
 Sir Thomas More to Charles the Fifth at Brussels, and lived some time 
 with Erasmus. In 1522 he was made Bishop of London, and the next 
 year Keeper of the Privy Seal. Tonstall was sent in 1524 as ambassador 
 with Sir Richard Wingfield to Spain. He was also one of the ambassadors 
 to France, with Wolsey in 1527, who negotiated the Treaty of Cambray, 
 and on his return through Antwerp employed a person to buy up all 
 the copies of Tyndale's Bible, intending to have them burnt ; which, it 
 appears, helped the sale of the book very considerably. In 1530, when 
 Bishop of Durham, he concurred in most of the proceedings of Henry the 
 Eighth for the reformation of the Church. Deprived of his bishoprick 
 under Edward the Sixth, he remained a prisoner until the accession of 
 Mary, when he was restored to the see of Durham. He however steadily 
 refused to become a persecutor of those who differed from him. To his 
 honour be it remembered, that when urged to proceed to extremities 
 against a Protestant in his diocese, he replied, ' Hitherto we have had 
 a good report among our neighbours, I pray you bring not this man's 
 blood upon my head.' 
 
Cuthbert Tonstall, or Tunstall. 
 
 On the accession of Elizabeth, he nevertheless resolutely refused to 
 take the Oath of Supremacy. He was consequently again deprived, and it 
 is said committed to the custody of Archbishop Parker, who treated him 
 with great respect ; but this is doubtful, as Parker was only consecrated in 
 1559, and Tonstall died November 1559. 
 
 Tonstall was the intimate friend of Erasmus, who speaks of him in the 
 highest terms in a letter he addressed to Sir Thomas More. 
 
 It has been justly observed of Tonstall, that he must have been one 
 of the most perfect characters of his age, as the zealous reformers could not 
 find any fault in him but his religion. 
 
 The character of the man is well impressed upon the portrait, although 
 it is coarsely painted, and probably a copy. Bishop Tonstall was author of 
 numerous works. 
 
 Bust portrait, canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches. 
 
 In the possession of J. T. Darcy Hutton, Esq. 
 
IV. 
 
 ROBERT HOLGATE. 
 
 OBERT HOLGATE was born either at Hemsworth or in its 
 immediate neighbourhood. The exact time of his birth is 
 not known, but it was probably about 1480. 
 
 He was of the family of Holgates of Stapleton in the 
 parish of Darrington. 
 
 According to Anthony a Wood, Robert Holgate was educated at 
 Oxford. 
 
 Subsequently, Holgate was a Gilbertine monk at Semperingham in 
 Lincolnshire, and a priest in that neighbourhood. 
 
 While there, having a quarrel with Sir Francis Ascough, Holgate 
 was obliged to quit that part of the country, and went to London. 
 There he soon became one of the King's chaplains, and from that period 
 his rise was rapid. 
 
 In 1537 he was made Bishop of Llandaff, in 1544 translated to the 
 Archiepiscopal See of York, and made Lord President of the North. 
 
 Edward the Sixth died in 1553. During his Protestant reign, Hol- 
 gate had married, it is said in 1549, Barbara Wentworth, one of the 
 Elmsal branch of the Wentworth family. For this he was deprived of 
 his Archbishopric and sent to the Tower on the accession of Mary, but 
 was at length released at the suggestion of King Philip. 
 
 Holgate, nevertheless, did not regain any ecclesiastical dignity, but 
 lived in retirement until his death, probably at Hemsworth, and it is 
 said, died there in 1556. 
 
 The Grammar-school at Hemsworth he had already established in 
 1546, but the Hospital was only founded a short time before his death. 
 
 Small bust portrait on panel, 20 by 16 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Governors of Hemsworth Hospital. 
 
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V. 
 
 THOMAS WENTWORTH, FIRST LORD 
 WENTWORTH. 
 
 HE ancient family of Wentworth was seated at Wentworth 
 Woodhouse in Yorkshire before the Conquest. There were 
 several branches of it besides that of Woodhouse ; as the 
 Wentworths, of Woolley, of north and South Elmsal, of 
 
 Bretton, of Nettlestead, &c. 
 
 This Thomas Wentworth, Esquire, was the son of Sir Richard 
 Wentworth, Knight of Nettlestead, county Suffolk. He was made a 
 Knight, and in 1529 created Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead. Summoned 
 to Parliament in 1536, he sat in all the succeeding Parliaments which 
 met in his lifetime. 
 
 He served in France in the expedition of Henry the Eighth in 1523, 
 was then knighted, and attended Henry to Boulogne in 1532. 
 
 Lord Wentworth was a Privy Councillor and Lord Chamberlain to 
 Edward the Sixth. 
 
 He married Mary, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, K.B., and had 
 by her eight sons, and nine daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest 
 son Thomas, the second Baron. 
 
 Lord Wentworth died in 155 1, and was buried at Westminster. 
 
 Portrait on pahel, 39 by 29 inches, with arms and motto, * P^NSES 
 A BEEN.' 
 
 Inscribed Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Lord Chamberlain to Edward 
 the Sixth, 1547. 
 
 In the possession of W. Vernon Wentworth, Esq. 
 
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THOMAS, SECOND LORD WENTWORTH. 
 
 HOMAS WENTWORTH was the eldest son of the first 
 Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead, in the county of Suffolk. 
 He was born in 1524, and was summoned to Parliament 
 from 1552 to 1589. 
 Lord Wentworth was one of the first among the nobility to take an 
 active part in securing the crown to Queen Mary, after the death of 
 Edward the Sixth. He was consequently in high favour during her 
 reign, sworn of the Privy Council, and appointed Deputy of Calais; 
 which post he had held in the reign of Edward the Sixth, but had been 
 removed from on the ground of his youth and inexperience. He held 
 that important trust until compelled to surrender the place in 1558 to 
 the Duke of Guise. 
 
 The English had then had possession of Calais for more than two 
 centuries, and Lord Wentworth was tried for cowardice and treachery. 
 He was, however, honourably acquitted by his peers. 
 
 In the reign of Elizabeth Lord Wentworth enjoyed no less the con- 
 fidence of his sovereign than he had done in the preceding reign. 
 
 He was one of those noblemen who sat in judgment upon the Duke 
 of Norfolk, and Mary, Queen of Scots. 
 
 This Lord Wentworth married Anne, daughter of Sir John Went- 
 worth, Knight, of Gosfield, county of Essex. 
 
 Their eldest son Thomas, married the daughter of Cecil, Lord 
 Burghley, but died without issue during his father's lifetime. 
 
 Their second son Henry, was the father of the fourth Baron Thomas 
 Wentworth, created Earl of Cleveland, one of the most zealous supporters 
 of the cause of Charles the First ; which led to his imprisonment in the 
 Tower. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 39 by 27 inches. 
 Inscribed A.D. 1568, JE.S. 44. 
 
 In the possession of T. W. Vernon Wentworth, Esq. 
 
VII. 
 
 THOMAS PERCY, SEVENTH EARL OF 
 NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 HE lineage of the Percys may be traced to Geoffrey (son of 
 Manifred, a Danish Chieftain) who assisted RoUo in 912 in 
 subjugating Normandy, and the family takes its name from 
 the village of Percy, near Villedieu, in that province. 
 
 William de Percy came to England at the time of the Conquest with 
 WiUiam the Conqueror, who bestowed upon him vast possessions in the 
 North, to which were added those of his wife, Emma de Port, a Saxon 
 heiress. 
 
 Thomas Percy, their descendant, was born in 1508. His uncle, the 
 sixth Earl, and his father. Sir Thomas Percy, had both died by the 
 hands of the executioner in the reign of Henry the Eighth, but Queen 
 Mary created the son of the latter a Baron and Earl in 1557. His 
 father, Sir Thomas Percy, had perished for the part he took in * The 
 Pilgrimage of Grace,' which took place in 1536 ; and in 1569, when the 
 strong measures adopted for the control of the Roman Catholic party 
 in the North by Elizabeth led to the rebellion known as ' The Rising 
 of the North,' the first meetings of the chief insurgents were held at 
 Topcliffe, the seat of Northumberland. It appears doubtful, however, 
 whether the Earl intended to rebel openly against the Queen ; but the 
 Nortons and their confederates inspired him with fears for his own safety, 
 and thus induced him to join at once the Earl of Westmorland at 
 Brancepeth, where it was decided to begin the insurrection without 
 further delay. The failure of the rebellion was followed by the execu- 
 tion of the principal insurgents. The Earl of Northumberland escaped 
 into Scotland, but was given up by Earl Morton, Viceroy of Scotland, 
 and beheaded at York on the 22nd of August, 1572. 
 
 Portrait on panel of kneeling figure, inscribed with motto ' Esperance 
 en Dieu may comphorte' and ' ^tatis suae, 58, A.D. 1566, et Die Dec. iv.' 
 
 In the possession of Sir C. Slingsby, Bart. 
 
VIII. 
 
 RICHARD NORTON. 
 
 HE family of Norton, a very ancient one, was connected with 
 that of Conyers. 
 
 Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers, who was born in 
 1497, and generally called 'Old Norton' and 'The Patriarch 
 
 of the Rebellion' of 1569, was one of the most active agents in the rising 
 which was so fatal to the Roman Catholic party in the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 In 1555 Richard Norton was governor of Norham Castle, and con- 
 tinued to be so in 1557. He was one of the council of the north, and 
 High Sheriff for the County of York in 1556. 
 
 Among the rebels of 1569, Norton was one of the most eager for 
 immediate action. Several of his sons and relations were also engaged 
 in the plots of the Roman Catholic party. His son, Francis Norton, was 
 concerned in Leonard Dacres's attempt to free Mary, Queen of Scots, 
 and acted as agent between Mary and the Earl of Northumberland, to 
 whom he brought a ring from Mary. 
 
 Old Richard Norton was at Topcliffe when the Earl of Northumber- 
 land, acting under fear of immediate arrest, with which he had been 
 inspired by some one near him, left that place and joined the Earl of 
 Westmoreland at Brancepeth. 
 
 Yet the Earl of Northumberland stated that he found Old Norton at 
 Brancepeth, and Old Norton may, after having induced the Earl of 
 Northumberland to act, have been himself the bearer to that place of 
 the intelligence that he had done so. 
 
 It is evident, at all events, from contemporary documents, that the 
 earl thought the time inopportune for an insurrection, and that the fiery 
 eagerness of Old Norton and his sons to begin the struggle so fatal to 
 
Richard Norton. 
 
 themselves, urged on the two earls who were nominally their leaders. 
 After the failure of the rebellion, Old Richard Norton fled into Scotland, 
 and was with the Earl of Northumberland at Branxham. Sir Robert 
 Sadler employed an agent to induce the Scotch to deliver them up, and 
 Contable also went to Cavers, where he saw Old Norton, and tried to 
 persuade him to accept his treacherous offer of hospitality. Old Norton 
 rejected it, and fled to Flanders with his two sons, Francis and Sampson. 
 There they were allowed monthly pensions by the Duke of Alva. That of 
 Old Norton was 56 florins. 
 
 The property of Old Norton was confiscated, and the value of his lands 
 is stated in September 1570 to be 31 1/. per annum. 
 
 The time at which Old Richard Norton died has not been ascertained, 
 but it is not probable that he survived the rebellion many years. 
 
 In the interesting picture now in the possession of Lord Grantley, the 
 descendant of the Nortons, from which the photograph is taken, the 
 countenance of Old Norton is florid, the hair gray, the slight beard of a 
 sandy colour, and the eyes small, gray, and intelligent. His arms on the 
 picture are azure, a maunch ermine, debraised with a bend gules, and it is 
 inscribed 'anno 1566, suae 68.' 
 
 Portrait on panel, 39 by 29 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Grantley. 
 
IX. 
 
 THOMAS NORTON. 
 
 HOMAS was the younger brother of old Richard Norton, 
 and lost his life for the part he took in the rebellion of 
 1569. Queen Elizabeth considered the capture of Thomas 
 Norton and the two sons of old Norton of so much conse- 
 quence, that she ordered that they *all might be safely sent upp to our 
 court, with several conductors, so as they should not conferre together, 
 nor yet with any other.' 
 
 On their arrival in London they were imprisoned in the Tower, and 
 on their trial, the 6th April, 1570, having admitted that they had taken 
 part in the rebellion, Thomas and Christopher were ordered for execu- 
 tion. On the 27th of May, Thomas and his nephew Christopher were 
 placed on a hurdle and drawn from the Tower to Tyburn. When Thomas 
 was asked to confess the justice of his sentence, he replied, 'that the 
 law being against him, he had come there to suffer death, and that he 
 asked God forgiveness for his offences.' When requested to say the 
 Lord's Prayer in English, he refused, but consented to recite it in Latin, 
 so that it might not be heard. Being pressed to repeat his prayers in 
 English, Thomas at last consented to do so. Yet, as 'he desired, not 
 only the audience, but also all the saints in heaven to pray for him, both 
 then and at all times, as well after his death as then, he being alive,' 
 it was probably not thought advisable to urge him further, and Sanders 
 says ' that neither Thomas nor Christopher could be removed from their 
 faith, nor brought to confess Elizabeth to be lawful Queen.' 
 
 It is stated also of Thomas that, ' he hung a certain space, and then 
 was taken down and quartered, in the presence of his nephew, Christopher 
 Norton, who then presently must drink of the same cup.' 
 Bust on panel, 22 by 17 inches. 
 In the possession of Lord Grantley. 
 
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X. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER NORTON. 
 
 HRISTOPHER NORTON, the seventh son of old Richard 
 Norton, was arraigned for participation in the rebellion on 
 
 ' the 6th of April, 1570, and pleaded guilty. In a letter to 
 the Earl of Leicester and Sir William Cecill Christopher 
 
 Norton endeavours to show that his father yielded unwillingly to the 
 persuasion of the Earl of Northumberland in joining the rebellion. This 
 arose probably from a desire to lessen the resentment of Elizabeth 
 against his father ; certainly not from a desire to deny his own share in 
 the rebellion, which he freely confessed. After his uncle Thomas had 
 been executed, it is asserted that Christopher * seemed very penitent,' 
 but as this is in direct contradiction to what Sanders says, perhaps no 
 great weight ought to be attached to it. It is stated also that, 'being 
 hanged a little while, and then cut down, the butcher opened him, and, 
 as he took out his bowels, he cried and said, " Oh, Lord, Lord have 
 mercy upon me ! " and so yielded up the ghost' Marmaduke, the eighth 
 son of Old Norton, also pleaded guilty, but was not executed, and still 
 a prisoner in the Tower in 1572. He was probably afterwards pardoned 
 on composition. Francis Norton, the eldest son and heir of Richard 
 Norton in vain endeavoured to obtain pardon, and it is believed that he 
 remained abroad, as in June 15/3, his wife, 'Aubrey,' was allowed one 
 hundred marks per annum out of his lands, as long as they remained 
 in the Queen's hands. John Norton, the second son of Old Norton 
 appears not to have been so deeply implicated in the rebellion as his 
 brothers, for he was at Ripon in 1574. 
 
 Sir Fletcher Norton, created in 1782 Lord Grantley, was a lineal 
 descendant in the sixth generation of Edmund Norton, who was the 
 third son of Francis, the eldest son of old Richard Norton, 
 
 Bust in hand, 22 by 17 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Grantley. 
 
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XL 
 
 SIR THOMAS CHALONER, KNIGHT. 
 
 ILTHOUGH not born in Yorkshire, Sir Thomas Chaloner, as 
 the owner of Guisborough, and the father of a man who con- 
 ferred a great benefit on the county, deserves a place among 
 
 I her worthies. 
 
 He was of a good Welsh family ; the son of Roger Chaloner, citizen 
 and mercer of London, and born in 152 1. 
 
 From his earliest childhood he showed a passionate desire for know- 
 ledge, and his favourite maxim was, * Frugality is the left hand of fortune, 
 diligence the right.' He studied at both the universities of Oxford and 
 Cambridge ; but principally at the latter, and it is thought at St. John's 
 College. 
 
 He accompanied Sir Henry Knevet, the British ambassador to Charles 
 the Fifth, who was in attendance on that monarch during his expedition 
 into Africa in 1 541, where Thomas Chaloner narrowly escaped drowning. 
 The Duke of Somerset knighted him for his bravery at the Battle of 
 Musselburgh, and he was several times commissioner for the settlement of 
 disputes with the Scotch. He was also clerk of the privy council. In 
 1549 he was one of the witnesses against Bishop Bonner, and also against 
 Bishop Gardiner in 155 1. Yet although reputed to be a Protestant, and 
 recalled from France when with Sir William Pickering, ambassador in 
 1552, Mary in 1557 granted him the manor of Steeple Clayton, in Buck- 
 inghamshire, and he was employed at Dunkirk under the Earl of Pembroke 
 in 1557-8. 
 
 He married the widow of Sir Thomas Legh, to whom Guisborough 
 had belonged, and purchased property there in 1550. Philip and Mary 
 also by letters patent, dated i6th July, 1558, granted him the manor of 
 
Sir Thomas Chaloner, Knight, 
 
 Guisborough and various lands which had belonged to the dissolved 
 priory. 
 
 During the reign of Elizabeth he was much employed, and was the 
 intimate friend of Cecil Lord Burghley ; who caused some of his works 
 to be printed after his death. In 1558 he was appointed ambassador to 
 the Emperor Ferdinand, and subsequently to Philip the Second of Spain ; 
 in which country he remained four years. There he wrote his work, On 
 tJie Right Orderiiig of the Coimnonwealth of England. Published shortly 
 after his return to England. He was also author of other works. 
 
 Sir Thomas Chaloner had built a large house near the Priory of 
 Clerkenwell, in London, and died there in 1565. 
 
 His second wife was Etheldreda, daughter of Edward Frodsham, Esq., 
 of Eton, Cheshire; Sir Thomas Chaloner, his son, was tutor to Prince 
 Henry, and discovered alum at Guisborough. 
 
 The sons of the last-named Sir Thomas Chaloner, Thomas and James, 
 joined the parliamentary army, and were among the judges of Charles 
 the First. At the restoration the former fled to Holland, where he died in 
 1 66 1, and the latter poisoned himself. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 30 by 22 inches. Holds in right hand a pair of 
 scales, one containing the Bible surrounded by a glory which outweighs 
 a winged orb, and strings of pearls, and jewels (emblematical of earthly 
 riches). 
 
 Inscribed * Tho. Chaloneris Equestris ordinis veri effigies, anno 1559,* 
 and a long inscription in Latin partly obliterated. 
 In the possession of Mrs. M. G. Edgar. 
 
XII. 
 
 EDWIN SANDYS. 
 
 DWIN SANDYS was born of an ancient family near Hawks- 
 head, Lancashire, in 15 19, and was the fourth son of 
 I William Sandys, Esq. and Margaret, daughter and heiress 
 I of William Rawlinson of the county of York. He was 
 
 educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he embraced the doc- 
 trines of the Reformation. In 1549 was elected Master of Catherine 
 Hall, and in 1553 served the office of Vice-Chancellor. 
 
 Having preached a sermon in favour of Lady Jane Grey, at the 
 instigation of the Duke of Northumberland, he was committed to the 
 Tower, but released. Sandys was, nevertheless, no sooner at liberty than 
 Gardiner, being informed of his zeal for the reformed doctrines, sought 
 to have him arrested again ; but he reached Antwerp in May, I554> in 
 safety, and remained there until the accession of Elizabeth, when he 
 returned, and in 1559 was consecrated Bishop of Worcester. He suc- 
 ceeded Bishop Grindal in 1570, in the see of London, and in 1576, the 
 same Prelate as Archbishop of York. 
 
 The abilities of Archbishop Sandys were of a high order, but he was 
 accused of a desire to amass wealth for his family ; and frequent disputes 
 with both Protestants and Roman Catholics, and even with his own clergy 
 and neighbours, rendered him unpopular. There is a letter of his extant 
 to Lord Burghley, in which he advises, ' Furthwith to cutte of the 
 Scottish Queue's heade;' meaning Mary, Queen of Scots. 
 
 He was one of the translators of the Bible of 1565, and a volume 
 of his sermons, first published after his death, was reprinted in 18 12, with 
 a biographical Memoir of Dr. Whitaker. 
 
 Archbishop Sandys died in 1588. 
 
 Sir Edward Sandys, born in Worcestershire, about 1561, died 1629, 
 author of Europcs Speculum, was the second son of the Archbishop. 
 
 George Sandys, the traveller in the Holy Land, and translator of 
 Ovid, born at Bishopsthorpe in 1577, died at Boxley Abbey, near 
 Maidstone, in 1643, was the youngest son of the Archbishop. 
 
 Dated 1565, on canvas, 29 by 24 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Bishop of London. 
 
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XIII. 
 
 JOHN WHITGIFT. 
 
 HE family of Whitgift, of Whitgift in Yorkshire, was an 
 ancient one when John Whitgift the grandfather of the 
 future Archbishop of Canterbury was born. Among his 
 other children the elder John Whitgift had a son Henry, a 
 merchant, at Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire. The latter married Ann 
 Dynewell of that town, by whom he had six sons : the eldest, John, after- 
 wards Archbishop, being born at Grimsby in 1530. He was educated 
 under his uncle, Robert Whitgift, who was abbot of the Monastery of 
 Wellow, and himself much influenced by the doctrines of the Reformers. 
 John Whitgift was removed from his care to St. Anthony's School, in 
 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, but was sent to his parents at Grimsby 
 for refusing to attend mass. By his uncle's recommendation he went to 
 Cambridge, at first to Queen's College, whence he removed to Pembroke 
 Hall ; of which Ridley, afterwards Bishop of London, was the master. 
 
 In 1555, Whitgift was chosen a fellow of Peterhouse, the Master of 
 which appears to have thought it advisable to recommend him to avoid 
 controversy during the reign of Queen Mary. 
 
 Whitgift entered holy orders in 1560, and from that time his talents 
 as a preacher were so remarkable that he was sent for to preach before 
 Queen Elizabeth. This occurred when he was Master of Pembroke Hall, 
 and shortly afterwards, in 1567, the Queen made him Master of Trinity 
 Hall and her Chaplain, 
 
 After being Dean of Lincoln, Whitgift was consecrated Bishop of 
 Worcester in 1577, and, on the death of Archbishop Grindal, was translated 
 to the Archbishopric of Canterbury in 1583 ; a dignity which Whitgift 
 had previously refused when Grindal was willing to resign it on ac- 
 count of his age and infirmities. 
 
John Whitgift. 
 
 Whitgift, when the Spanish Armada threatened England, mustered 
 the clergy of his whole Province in defence of his country. 
 
 Archbishop Whitgift died in 1604, and was buried at Croydon, in 
 Surrey. 
 
 Hooker says of him, that * he always governed with that moderation 
 which useth by patience to suppress boldness, and to make them conquer 
 that suffer ; acting thus in accordance with his motto " Vincit qui patitur."* 
 
 Bust on panel, 16 by 12 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Hon. and Rev. William Howard. 
 
XIV. 
 
 HENRY LE SCROPE, LORD SCROPE. 
 
 [HERE were several branches of the great baronial family of 
 Scrope, seated in the north of Yorkshire shortly after, if 
 not before, the Conquest. 
 I Sir William le Scrope, Knight, possessed lands at Bolton, 
 in the county of York, in 1296. 
 
 His grandson. Sir Richard le Scrope, born in 1327, was the first 
 Baron Scrope of Bolton, and built Bolton Castle, near Middleham. 
 
 Richard le Scrope died in 1403, and his descendant by direct male 
 descent was Henry le Scrope, ninth Baron Scrope of Bolton, born in 
 1536, the subject of this notice. 
 
 He was the son of John le Scrope and Catherine, eldest daughter 
 of Henry, Earl of Cumberland. 
 
 John, the father of Henry le Scrope, was involved in the conspiracy 
 called *The Pilgrimage of Grace,' but this does not appear to have 
 prevented the advancement of his son Henry, who was summoned 
 to Parliament from 1555 to 1589. As early as 1555 we find that he 
 wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury excusing some apparent negligence on 
 his part in serving Queen Mary, and he certainly enjoyed the favour of 
 Elizabeth from the beginning of her reign, as he was one of the tilters 
 at her Coronation. In the fifth of EHzabeth he was made Governor of 
 the Castle of Carlisle and Warden of the West Marches of Scotland. 
 He was also Marshall of the Army at the siege of Leith in 1568, and 
 served in the following year against the insurgents under the Earls of 
 Northumberland and Westmorland. 
 
 Henry le Scrope had likewise the care of Mary Queen of Scots at 
 Bolton Castle, from July 1568 to January 1569, when he delivered her 
 into the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. 
 
Henry le Scrope, Lord Scrope, 
 
 The ninth Baron Scrope was twice married, and died in 1591. 
 
 His only daughter, Mary, by his first wife, married William, the 
 eldest son of Sir George Bowes, who took so active a part in suppressing 
 the rebellion of 1569. 
 
 By his second wife. Lady Margaret Howard, sister of the Duke of 
 Norfolk, he had a son, Thomas, tenth Baron, who was the father of 
 Emanuel le Scrope, eleventh Baron. 
 
 Portrait on panel, inscribed with name, and dated A.D. 1558. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Bolton. 
 
XV. 
 
 GEORGE, SIXTH EARL OF SHREWSBURY. 
 
 lEORGE TALBOT, sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, in the second 
 year of the reign of EHzabeth succeeded to the vast estates 
 
 I of the family, and served in his youth in the border wars 
 with Scotland. He was of the Privy Council, and made K.G. 
 
 In 1565, he was named Lieutenant-General of the counties of York, 
 Nottingham, and Derby, Chief Justice in Eyre, and (after the execution of 
 Thomas, Duke of Northumberland) Earl Marshal of England. 
 
 He married Gertrude Manners, daughter of Thomas, first Earl of 
 Rutland. His second wife was Elizabeth, the celebrated daughter of John 
 Hardwick, known as ' Building Bess of Hardwick.' The Earl of Shrews- 
 bury was her fourth husband, and his son, George Talbot, at the same 
 time married her youngest daughter. 
 
 On the escape of Mary, Queen of Scots, to England in 1568, she was 
 placed in custody of George, Lord Scrope, at Bolton. In 1569, she was 
 transferred to that of the Earl of Shrewsbury, at Sheffield Manor, and 
 arrived at Tutbury on the 2nd of February, 1569. Leonard Dacres, who 
 made an attempt to rescue Mary, was a near relative of the Earl of 
 Shrewsbury, and for many years the perilous trust placed in him must 
 have been a burden to the Earl, notwithstanding his desire to please 
 Queen Elizabeth, as his Countess either thought, or pretended to think, 
 that he was not insensible to the charms of Mary. The payments of 
 the allowance for her maintenance appear also to have been very irregu- 
 larly made. 
 
 When relieved from this charge, in 1584, he visited the Court; and, 
 after his return to Sheffield, in 1585, lived principally at Hansworth. He 
 died at Sheffield Manor, in November 1590, possessed of immense pro- 
 perty, but constant family disputes appear to have embittered the latter 
 years of his life. 
 
 He had already built for himself a sumptuous monument in the Church 
 at Sheffield ; for which Fox, the martyrologist, wrote the epitaph. 
 On canvas, 90 by 58 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Henry Savile, Esq. of Ruffiord Abbey. 
 
XVI. 
 
 SIR RICHARD LYSTER, KNIGHT. 
 
 IR FREDERICK MADDEN, in his 'Remarks on the 
 Monument of Sir Richard Lyster in St. Michael's Church, 
 Southampton,' describes both the Judge's grandfather Thomas, 
 and his father John, as of Wakefield, in Yorkshire ; and his 
 
 mother was a daughter of Beaumont of Whitley, in the same county. The 
 Lysters also at a very early period held property in Craven, Yorkshire, pro- 
 bably from the time when in 13 12 John Lyster, of Derby, married Isabel, 
 daughter and heir of John de Bolton, Bowbearer of Holland, as his grand- 
 son was buried at Salley Abbey, in Craven. 
 
 Sir Richard Lyster was born in 1498, and studied law in the Middle 
 Temple. He was Reader in Lent, 15 16 and 1522 ; Treasurer to the Society 
 in 1523 ; Solicitor-General in 1521 ; and elevated to the Bench as Chief 
 Baron of Exchequer in 1529, when he was also knighted ; he was a Com- 
 missioner on the trials of Fisher and More, but took no prominent part in 
 either. 
 
 In 1545 he was made Chief Justice of King's Bench. On the 12th of 
 January, 1547, he attested the submission and confession of Thomas, Duke 
 of Norfolk, only a fortnight before the death of Henry the Eighth. 
 
 Sir Richard Lyster was reappointed on the accession of Edward the 
 Sixth, but resigned his office of Chief Justice in 1552. The remainder of 
 his life was spent at his mansion in Southampton (a place to which it was 
 then proposed to divert the trade of Antwerp), and which Leland describes 
 as ' very fair.' 
 
 Sir Richard Lyster died on the 14th March, 1554, and was buried in 
 St. Michael's Church, Southampton, where his monument still exists. He 
 left considerable property, as, by an inquisition taken after his death, at 
 Andover, he was found to have been possessed of eleven manors in Hants 
 and Surrey, with various other lands and tenements. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 21 by 16 inches, inscribed ' JEt suae 55 — 1553-* 
 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
XVII. 
 
 LADY ELIZABETH LYSTER. 
 
 SV.. Jl^^^ ELIZABETH LYSTER, whose maiden name was 
 W M^^S Stoke, was the second wife of Sir Richard Lyster, Knight, 
 H ^^^^H Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reigns of Henry the 
 MwiMtfg^ Eighth and Edward the Sixth. His first wife was Jane, 
 daughter of Ralph Shirley, of Wisneston, Sussex, and widow of Sir John 
 Dawtrey, of Moorhouse, Sussex. There are prints of her by Bartolozzi 
 after Holbein. After his death. Lady Elizabeth Lyster erected the 
 splendid monument to the memory of her husband, which still exists in 
 St. Michael's Church, Southampton. It represents him in his scarlet robes, 
 with a collar of S.S., a judge's cap on his head, and a book in his hand. 
 Part of the remaining inscription records its execution by his widow, Lady 
 Elizabeth Lyster. She was his second wife. By Sir Richard Lyster she 
 had a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Blount. 
 
 Also a son Michael, Knight of the Bath, who died during his father's 
 lifetime, leaving a son Richard, who married Mary, second daughter of 
 Lord Chancellor Wriothesley and widow of William Shelley of Michel 
 Grove. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 21 by i6 inches, inscribed * An 1553, -^ta 38.' 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
vwv; XVIII. 
 
 SIR EDWARD MONTAGU, KNIGHT. 
 
 DWARD MONTAGU was the son of Thomas Montagu, 
 of Remington, Northamptonshire, by Agnes, daughter of 
 William Dudley, of the same county. 
 
 He was a descendant of the Montagues, Earls of Salis- 
 bury, and himself the ancestor of several Yorkshire families. 
 
 Born at Brigstock towards the close of the fifteenth century, he was 
 educated for the law. In 1524 and 1531 was Autumn Reader, and 
 Sergeant in the latter year. Made King's Sergeant in 1537; in 1539 
 he was Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and was knighted. 
 
 Sir Edward Montagu was removed to the Court of Common Pleas 
 in 1545, a change which was agreeable to him, as he observed, *I am 
 now an old man, and love the kitchen before the hall, the warmest 
 place best suiting with my age,' — the Common Pleas being the more 
 profitable. Montagu was one of the sixteen executors of Henry the 
 Eighth's will, who had the management of the Kingdom during the 
 minority of Edward the Sixth. He sided at first with the Duke of 
 Somerset, but subsequently joined the party of Dudley, afterwards Duke 
 of Northumberland. When the latter formed the project of settling the 
 crown on Lady Jane Grey, the concurrence of Montagu in that measure 
 was thought desirable, and he was summoned to Court, with Sir John 
 BuUer, Justice Bromley, and the Attorney and Solicitor General. They 
 were informed of King Edward's wishes, but pointed out the illegality of 
 the settlement, and urged that it would be high treason. The Duke, 
 on hearing this, burst into the Council Chamber, and at last frightened 
 Montagu into consenting to it, on receiving a commission under the 
 Great Seal and a general pardon for obeying. On Mary being proclaimed 
 
Sir Edward Montagtt, Knight. 
 
 Montagu was committed to the Tower, and placed on the list for 
 trial, but he proved that he had been compelled to do what he had 
 done, and never afterwards attended the Council. The result was that 
 Montagu's pardon was granted on payment of a fine of looo/. and the 
 surrender of an estate worth 50/. per annum. 
 
 Sir Edward Montagu died in 1557, having passed the remainder of 
 his life in retirement. He was buried at Kettering, and left a vast amount 
 of property ; part of which he bequeathed to charitable uses. 
 
 Sir Edward Montagu was married three times, and left a numerous 
 family. Among his descendants were the Earls of Manchester and 
 Halifax. 
 
 Portrait on panel by Holbein, 39 by 28 inches, inscribed with name and 
 date, 1539. 
 
 In the possession of A. Montagu, Esq. 
 
XIX. 
 
 SIR CHRISTOPHER WRAY, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE older authorities differ as to the pedigree of the Wrays ; 
 we shall therefore probably do right in adopting that of 
 Burke, who says, ' William Wray, son of Robert Wray, 
 whose ancestors were anciently seated in the Bishoprick of 
 
 Durham, and afterwards possessed estates in Richmond, in Yorkshire, 
 married the daughter and heir of Jackson of Snydall, and had issue ' an 
 eldest son, Christopher Wray, who was born at Bedale, in Yorkshire, in 
 1523-4. Nothing is known respecting his early education, but he was of 
 Magdalen College, Cambridge, and removed thence to Lincolns' Inn in 
 1545, and called to the Bar in 1550. He was reader in 1562 and 
 1567 (at which time he lived at Glentworth, Lincolnshire), and Sergeant 
 in the same year. 
 
 Sir Christopher was member for Boroughbridge, in all the parliaments 
 in Mary's reign, and up to the 13th of Elizabeth, when he was chosen 
 Speaker of the Parliament of 157 1. That parliament only sat two months, 
 and Wray had no seat afterwards. He was promoted to be a Justice of 
 the Queen's Bench in 1572, and on the Special Commission for the trial of 
 Hall and Rolston for high treason, for conspiring to deprive Queen Eliza- 
 beth and raise Mary Queen of Scots to the throne. In 1574 Sir 
 Christopher was made Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench and knighted. He 
 presided there for sixteen years, and Sir Edward Coke calls him * a most 
 revered judge, of profound and judicial knowledge, accompanied with a 
 ready and singular capacity, grave and sensible elocution, and continual 
 and admirable patience.* 
 
 He was present during the proceedings against the Scottish queen, but 
 does not appear to have taken part in them. 
 
Sir Christopher Wray, Knight, 
 
 Nevertheless, Sir Christopher Wray performed his duties so much to 
 the satisfaction of Queen Elizabeth, that she gave him the profits of the 
 coinage * till he had built his noble house at Glentworth,' and he retained 
 her favour until his death in 1592. 
 
 He was buried in Glentworth Church, under a magnificent monument, 
 on which he is represented in his robes. 
 
 Sir Christopher Wray married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girlington, 
 Esq. of Normanby, in Yorkshire. They had issue one son and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 21 by 17 inches. 
 
 In the possession of J. Dalton, Esq. 
 
XX. 
 
 MATTHEW HUTTON. 
 
 ATTHEW HUTTON was the son of Matthew Hutton, the 
 head of an old but poor family, resident at Priest Hutton, in 
 the parish of Warton, county of Lancaster, where the future 
 Archbishop was born in 1529. 
 Of his early education we have no account, but he soon showed a 
 promise of becoming an excellent scholar, and was sent, in 1546, to 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. He took the degree of Batchelor in 155 1, 
 and Master of Arts in 1556. In the following year he was elected a Fel- 
 low of his College. It is believed that he was educated in Protestant prin- 
 ciples. He was Margaret Professor in 1561, Batchelor of Divinity in 1562, 
 and Master of Pembroke Hall in the same year, in the room of Bishop 
 Grindal, to whom he was chaplain. Hutton is said also to have been related 
 to the Bishop, who in the following year collated him to the Prebend of 
 Bloomsbury, in St Paul's Cathedral : Hutton was then Regius Professor of 
 Divinity at Cambridge. In 1563 he was a Prebend of Ely, and instituted 
 to the living of Broxworth in Cambridgeshire, by his relation John Hutton, 
 one of the Knights of that county in three Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth. 
 In 1564, when Elizabeth visited Cambridge, Hutton kept the Divinity Act 
 before her Majesty, and gained the highest reputation by the manner in 
 which he acquitted himself of his duties. He was Doctor of Divinity in 
 1565, and Queen Elizabeth granted him a prebend in Westminster Abbey, 
 a preferment which he owed to the Earl of Leicester. 
 
 In 1567, Dr. Hutton was installed Dean of York, in which position he 
 remained for twenty-one years, and was, in 1589, made Bishop of Durham- 
 In 1594, Hutton laid the foundation of a Free School at Warton, his native 
 place, and endowed it. 
 
Matthew Hutton. 
 
 Matthew Hutton was raised to the Archbishoprick of York in 1595, 
 and in the following year made President of the Council of the North, 
 against his own wishes. 
 
 Owing to the infirmities from which he was then suffering, both Eliza- 
 beth and James dispensed with his attendance in Parliament, and he died 
 at Bishopthorpe in 1605-6. 
 
 Archbishop Hutton was a man of great learning and an excellent 
 preacher, and Tobias Matthew speaks strongly in his praise. Many of 
 his letters have been published. 
 
 He was married three times and left several children. 
 
 In the possession of the Archbishop of York. 
 
XXI. 
 
 JOHN, LORD LUMLEY. 
 
 HIS * noble-minded and ancient baron/ as he is styled by- 
 Bishop Hacket, was the only son of George Lumley, Esq., of 
 Thwing ; and grandson of John, Lord Lumley. He was born 
 about 1534. In 1537 his father was executed for high treason. 
 On the death of his grandfather in 1544 he inherited the family estate, 
 and in 1546 the title was restored to him. He was educated at Queen's 
 College, Cambridge, and at the Court of Edward the Sixth, and present 
 at the coronation of Mary. In 1553 he was created a K.B. ; and about 
 the same time was one of the peers who sat in judgment on the Duke of 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Lord Lumley married Jane, daughter of the Earl of Arundel ; and, 
 upon that nobleman being insulted by one of the Foscari, he employed 
 Roger Ascham to write a letter in Latin to the Doge and Senate of 
 Venice, stating that the affront must be resented, as it was a dishonour to 
 the whole nobility of England. 
 
 Being suspected in the reign of Elizabeth of intriguing for the marriage 
 of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, to the Queen of Scots, and the 
 re-establishment of the Roman Catholic religion, Lord Lumley was sent 
 to the Tower, but afterwards permitted to retire to the Earl of Arundel's 
 house. Nonsuch. In 1571 he was again sent to the Tower, and not 
 released until 1573. 
 
 His first wife died in 1576-7, yet, on the death of her father, the Earl 
 of Arundel, in 1579-80, he inherited a great part of his property. By his 
 first wife, Lord Lumley had three children. His second wife was a 
 daughter of Lord Darcy, of Chiche. Lord Lumley died in 1609, and was 
 buried in the church at Cheam, in Surrey, in the Lumley Aisle. Other 
 
John, Lord Lumley, 
 
 portraits of Lord Lumley exist at Lumley and Arundel Castles, and he 
 patronised a Dutch artist, Richard Stevens, who painted his portrait. 
 
 Lord Lumley translated a treatise by Erasmus, and some of his letters 
 have been printed. He was one of the old Society of Antiquaries. 
 His library, which was the most valuable of those formed up to his 
 time in England, was purchased by James the First, and presented by 
 George the Second to the nation. Lord Lumley made donations of books 
 to the library of Cambridge University, and the Bodleian, Oxford ; and 
 founded a lecture on surgery at the College of Physicians, which he 
 endowed with 40/. per annum. 
 
 Portrait inscribed with name and dated '1584, setatis 54.' On canvas, 
 79 by 45 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Earl of Scarborough. 
 
XXII. 
 
 SIR JOHN SAVILE, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE ancient family of Savile has been long settled in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire. It was represented in the time of 
 Edward the Third by two brothers, John and Henry. John 
 was ancestor of the Thornhill branch which received the 
 
 Baronetcy in 1611. The fourth Baronet was created Lord Savile of 
 Eland, and Viscount, Earl, and Marquis of Halifax, successively ; which 
 title became extinct in 1700. The Baronetcy also in 1784. Henry, 
 brother of the above John, had several sons. John, the eldest, was an- 
 cestor of Sir John Savile of Copley, created Baronet in 1662, but died 
 without issue. From Nicholas, the youngest son of Henry, descended 
 Henry Savile of Bradley Hall, near Halifax, who, by his wife Elizabeth 
 Ramsden, had three sons, John, Henry, and Thomas. John, the subject 
 of this memoir, was born at Over Bradley in 1545. He was a commoner 
 at Brazenose College, Oxford, in 1561, but did not take a degree. 
 Having entered the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the law, 
 and was Autumn Reader in 1586, Steward of the Lordship of Wakefield, 
 Serjeant-at-Law in 1594, Baron of the Exchequer in 1598, on the re- 
 commendation of Lord Burleigh. 
 
 Sir John Savile sat in that court until his death ; James the First 
 having renewed his patent in 1603, and conferred upon him the honour of 
 knighthood. He was named in 1599, Commissioner * De Schismate 
 Supprimendo.' In 1606, joined his colleagues in giving judgment for the 
 Crown in the great case of impositions. Sir John Savile died on the 
 2nd of February, 1606. His body was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the- 
 West, in London, but his heart at Methley, where a magnificent monu- 
 
Sir John Savile, Knight. 
 
 ment was erected to him. He left large sums to charities in various 
 parts of Yorkshire. 
 
 In addition to his profound knowledge of law, he was fond of his- 
 torical studies ; was one of the first members of the Society of Antiquaries, 
 and intimate with Camden, some of the errors in whose Britannia he 
 pointed out. Sir John Savile married four wives. From his son John 
 by the second, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth of Elmshall, 
 and widow of Richard Tempest of Bowling, is descended the present 
 Earl of Mexborough. 
 
 On canvas, 50 by 40 inches. 
 
 In possession of the Earl of Mexborough. 
 
XXIII. 
 
 SIR HENRY SAVILE, KNIGHT. 
 
 IR HENRY SAVILE was the second son of Henry Savile, 
 and brother of the Sir John Savile whose portrait is in this 
 collection. 
 
 He was born at Over Bradley in 1549, and sent in 1561 
 to the University of Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Merton College: 
 at which three Henry Saviles matriculated about the same time. 
 
 In 1578 he travelled on the Continent to increase his knowledge of 
 literature, and, on his return, was appointed tutor in Greek and Mathe- 
 matics to Queen Elizabeth, who esteemed highly his abilities. Somewhat 
 later he was elected Warden of Merton, which of¥ice he held about thirty- 
 six years, and the Provostship of Eton from 1596. 
 
 On the accession of James the First he refused offers of several 
 dignified offices, but accepted the honour of knighthood in 1604. 
 
 The loss of his only son Henry in that year, when eight years of age, 
 appears to have rendered him indifferent to promotion of any kind, and 
 he devoted himself and his fortune solely to the advancement of learning, 
 assigning for so doing one curious reason, — ^that geometry was almost 
 totally unknown and abandoned in England.' Accordingly, in 16 19, he 
 founded two professorships in geometry and astronomy, and gave many 
 valuable books, which still form part of the Bodleian Library. 
 
 As tutor to Queen Elizabeth, and from the position he held at Oxford 
 and Eton, during his long life he exercised a considerable influence 
 on the minds of the leading men in the reign of James the First, and 
 the early part of that of his son Charles. 
 
 His death occurred at Eton, in 162 1-2, and he lies buried in the 
 chapel of the College. 
 
Sir Henry Savile, Knight. 
 
 The most valuable of his works is the edition of the writings of 
 Saint Chrysostom, in which he was assisted by Montague and others, 
 and on which no less than 8000/. was spent. 
 
 Sir Henry Savile had two brothers, John and Thomas, and the son 
 of the former, who also bore the name of Henry, is sometimes confounded 
 with his celebrated uncle. Aubrey informs us that Sir Henry Savile was 
 * an extraordinary handsome man, no lady had a finer complexion,* We 
 are told also that his wife, Margaret Dacres, complained of his devotion to 
 study, and said to him, * Sir Henry, I would I were a book too, and then 
 you would a little more respect me.' Upon which some person who was 
 present remarked, ' Madam, you must then be an almanack, that he might 
 change on every day.' Whereat she was not a little displeased. Their 
 daughter and heir Elizabeth, married Sir John Sedley of Aylesford, in Kent. 
 
 Full-length portrait, dated 162 1, aged 72. On canvas, size 82 by 49 
 inches. At Eton College. 
 
XXIV. 
 
 LADY ANNE CALVERLEY. 
 
 IHE original name of this family was Scott, and the first 
 member of it, John Scott, came into England from Scotland 
 in the time of Henry the First, who married the Scotch 
 ' Princess Maud. 
 
 This John Scott married Larderina, second daughter of Alphonsus 
 Gospatrick, Lord of Calverley, in the County of York. John Scott, his 
 son, was steward of the house to the Empress Maud. The arms he bore 
 were sometimes a lion rampant counterchanged, and sometimes a lion 
 rampant droit in au Octagon. 
 
 From Walter Scott, living in 1273, descended the Calverleys of Hayton^ 
 Clareborough, Lound, &c., in Nottinghamshire. Sir Hugh de Calverley, 
 of Lee, in Cheshire, was at the Battle of Auray in 1364, and his monument 
 is still in Bunbury Church. 
 
 William Scott, living in 1325, was the last of the family who bore the 
 name of Scott ; his eldest son and heir being styled John de Calverley. 
 The son of John de Calverley made a gift of the manor of Hedingley to 
 the Abbot of Kirkstall Abbey, which was built upon his land. He bore for 
 arms six or eight owls. His daughter Isabel was prioress of Esholt. In the 
 time of his descendant. Sir Walter de Calverley, who lived in the reign of 
 Richard the Second, Calverley Church was rebuilt, and his arms, six owls, 
 cut or plated in the wood-work there. From Thomas, second son of 
 Walter Calverley, living in 1429, descended the Calverleys of Mosley and 
 those of Cumberland. 
 
 The Lady Anne Calverley, who was born in 1 5 34, was the daughter of 
 Sir Christopher Danby, Knight, of Farnley, who was high sheriff of York- 
 shire in 1546; and she married Sir Walter Calverley, Knight, of Calverley, 
 the grandfather of the Sir Walter Calverley who was executed. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 37 by 30 inches. Arms inscribed ' Anno Do 1571, 
 AETA 37.' 
 
 In the possession of Sir W. Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. 
 
XXV. 
 
 WILLIAM CALVERLEY. 
 
 HIS William Calverley was the son of Sir Walter and Lady 
 Anne Calverley, daughter of Sir Christopher Danby, and 
 born in 1557. 
 
 He married Katherine, daughter and heiress of John 
 Thorneholme, of Haythorpe, Esq. 
 
 The portrait from which the photograph is taken was painted in his 
 fourteenth year, but he lived to be the father of the Walter Calverley 
 who stabbed his children. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 37 by 30 inches ; inscribed, ' Guilielmus Calverley, 
 Anos natus 14 Duos menses et dies undeviginti Decembris Decimo-quinto, 
 A.D. 1571.' 
 
 In the possession of Sir W. Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. 
 
XXVL 
 
 HENRY CALVERLEY. 
 
 ENRY CALVERLEY was the youngest of the three children 
 of Walter Calverley, by Philippa, daughter of Sir John 
 Brooke, Lord Cobham. There were three children, of which 
 the eldest was baptized in 1603. They were consequently 
 all infants when he committed the crime which has rendered his name 
 so well known. The principal facts of the story are told thus : Walter 
 Calverley, who had always borne a very good character, was affianced 
 to a young lady in Yorkshire, but going to London, deserted her 
 and married the daughter of Lord Cobham. It is probable that 
 he was nevertheless really attached to the former, and, finding that she 
 did not resent his desertion, became still more so; at all events he was 
 estranged from his wife, and abandoned himself to a reckless course of 
 life, which led him to encumber his property. His wife appears to have 
 devoted herself to him, and her guardians offered to save her property, 
 which he urged her to sell, by assisting him to pay his debts. He, 
 notwithstanding this, illtreated her, and became at the same time jealous 
 of her without cause. At length Calverley quarrelled wth a gentleman 
 in the country, who ventured to remonstrate on his behaviour to his wife. 
 They fought, and Calverley, who was wounded, appears to have deter- 
 mined on revenging himself on his wife. 
 
 Having borrowed a thousand pounds through his brother's assistance, 
 the latter was imprisoned for the debt, and when a friend visited 
 Walter Calverley, and urged him to liberate his brother, he appears 
 to have waited outside the house for a reply. Furious with rage and 
 despair, Walter Calverley entered the house, and his eldest boy, who 
 was not three years old, coming towards him, Calverley seized him by 
 
Henry Calverley. 
 
 the neck, stabbed him, and carried the child into an adjoining room, 
 where its mother was asleep, and a nurse employed dressing the 
 youngest of their three children. Calverley seized the nurse, and threw 
 her down stairs. His wife, awakened by the noise, endeavoured to 
 protect the infant, but Calverley stabbed them both, and also wounded 
 a servant who tried to disarm him. Walter Calverley then left the 
 house, and going to the stable mounted his horse, intending to destroy 
 his second boy, Henry, who was at nurse about twelve miles from 
 home. Meeting his brother's friend in the garden, Calverley told him 
 that he had settled his brother's business, and rode off. Becoming aware 
 immediately afterwards of what had been done, Walter Calverley was 
 pursued and, his horse falling when he had nearly reached the house 
 where his child was, he was arrested and taken before Sir John Savile. 
 Walter Calverley, however, at his examination, said that the person who 
 called to see him was the husband of the woman who had his son Henry 
 at nurse. 
 
 From Wakefield, where he was at first confined, he was committed 
 to York, and there tried. On his trial he refused to speak, and was 
 consequently condemned to * La peine forte et dure^, which was to be 
 pressed to death; and suffered that terrible punishment in 1605. His 
 object in refusing to plead was probably to save his personal property, 
 which would otherwise have been forfeited to the crown. 
 
 It was a tradition in the neighbourhood of Calverley that his remains 
 were interred there with the greatest secresy at night. This story was the 
 foundation of *The Yorkshire Tragedy,' so long attributed to Shake- 
 speare, and this Henry was * the brat at nurse.' He died in 1661. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 30 by 25 inches; inscribed with name, and dated 
 ' 1638. & s. 34.' 
 
 In the possession of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. 
 
XXVII. 
 
 CHARLES HOWARD, EARL OF NOTTINGHAM. 
 
 In 1559 he was sent on an embassy to France. Subsequent to this 
 he acted as General against the rebel Earls of Northumberland and 
 Westmorland. 
 
 He succeeded in 1573 to his father's title, to the office of Lord 
 Chamberlain, and was made a Knight of the Garter. 
 
 In 1586 he was one of the Commissioners for the trial of Mary 
 Queen of Scots. 
 
 The principal occasion in which he signalized himself was in the 
 defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when he was Commander-in- 
 Chief of the English fleet. 
 
 In 1596 he commanded the naval force sent against Cadiz with the 
 expedition, under the Earl of Essex. 
 
 The following year he was created Earl of Nottingham, and made 
 Chief Justice in Eyre south of the Trent. 
 
 His latest public service in the reign of Elizabeth was the suppression 
 of the rebellion under the Earl of Essex, whom he took into custody; 
 and it was Catherine, his countess, who retained the ring sent by Essex 
 to Queen Elizabeth, it is said, at her husband's suggestion. James the 
 First confirmed him in his employments, and sent him as Ambassador 
 to Spain. 
 
 He died in 1624, in his 88th year, and was buried at Reigate, in 
 Surrey. 
 
 On the picture is an anchor, and the date 1588, the latter the year 
 in which he was appointed Admiral of the fleet and destroyed the 
 Spanish Armada. The other figures are the date of his death. 
 
 On canvas, 31 by 21 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Hon, and Rev. Wm. Howard, 
 
 jHARLES HOWARD was the son of William, Lord Howard, 
 ! of Effingham, and grandson of the second Duke of Norfolk. 
 ' Born in 1536, while still a youth he served in several ex- 
 ' peditions under his father, who was Lord High Admiral. 
 
XXVI 11. 
 
 SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, KNIGHT. 
 
 I HIS able navigator and brave man was born in 1536, at 
 the little village of Altofts, in the parish of Normanton, near 
 Wakefield. He was of a good family, and went while still 
 very young to sea. The earHest paper in the State Office 
 which has yet been discovered, in which he is mentioned, is dated nth 
 June, 1566, when Martin Frobisher of Normanton, county of York, was 
 examined on suspicion of his having fitted out a vessel to go to sea as a 
 pirate. And he was, in all probability, engaged on a voyage to Guinea 
 about that time. Having acquired great skill and experience in naviga- 
 tion, the discovery of a North-west passage to the Indies became the 
 object of his ambition. After many fruitless attempts to induce merchants 
 to facilitate the undertaking, he was enabled, by the assistance of some 
 of the courtiers of Queen Elizabeth, to sail on the 15th June, 1576, with 
 two small barks of twenty-four tons burden each, and a pinnace often 
 tons. In the course of the voyage to the north-west he entered the Strait 
 since then known by his name, and brought to England some black ore, 
 which being supposed to contain gold, induced Queen Elizabeth to lend 
 a sloop of two hundred tons to be fitted out for a second expedition, and 
 notwithstanding it was unsuccessful, he undertook a third voyage with the 
 same object. In 1585, Frobisher accompanied Sir Francis Drake to the 
 West Indies. At the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, he had 
 command of one of the largest ships in the English fleet and was knighted 
 for his services. In the years 1590 and 1592, he commanded squadrons 
 against the Spaniards, and took many of their vessels. 
 
 He was sent with four ships to the assistance of Henry the Fourth of 
 France against the League and the Spaniards, and in an attack on Fort 
 
Sir Martin Frobisher, Knight, 
 
 Croyzon, near Brest, received a wound of which he died on his return 
 to England in 1594. During the operations against Croyzon, Queen 
 Elizabeth addressed a characteristic letter to Frobisher praising his 
 services, but he can only have received it when dying at Plymouth. In 
 a report sent to the Admiral fourteen days before his death, speaking of 
 the assault on Croyzon, * I was shoott in with a bullett at the battrie 
 alongst the huckell bone. So as I was driven to have an incision made to 
 take out the bullett, so as I am neither able to goo nor ride.* 
 
 On the frame of the portrait from which the photograph is taken is 
 inscribed Martin Frobisher, Miles. Ex done Gualteri Charlton, M.D. 
 On the picture, Anno D. 1577. ^TA. 39. C. K. F. 
 
 On canvas, 83 by 38 inches by Cornelius Ketel. 
 
 In the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
 
XXIX. 
 
 GEORGE CLIFFORD, THIRD EARL OF 
 CUMBERLAND. 
 
 HE Cliffords are descendants of Rollo, ancestor of William the 
 Conqueror. His relative Fonts settled in England at the 
 conquest. Simon, his son, founded Clifford Priory, in Here- 
 fordshire, and another of them was known as Walter de 
 
 Clifford, who obtained possession of Clifford Castle as the marriage 
 portion of his wife. After him the old family name of Fonts appears to 
 have been no longer used. In 1269 Isabel, heiress of Robert de Vipont, 
 married Roger de Clifford, by which her vast estates in Westmoreland 
 came into his possession. Their descendants fixed their residence at 
 Appleby, Brougham, Skipton, or other castles in the north of England ; 
 but Skipton Castle became the principal seat of the Clifford family for 
 more than 300 years. 
 
 George Clifford, third Earl of Cumberland, was born in 1558, and 
 educated at Cambridge under Archbishop Whitgift. He was one of the 
 most remarkable persons in the reign of Elizabeth, and is thus spoken of 
 in the books which are described in the notice of his daughter Anne. 
 
 * He had a general knowledge and insight into all the arts, and espe- 
 cially the mathematicks, wherein he took great delight, and was so well 
 versed in the same that it was to be one of the principal causes of his 
 applying himself afterwards to the sea and to navigation, especially 
 towards the West Indies and their new found lands, wherein he became 
 the most knowing and eminent man of a lord.' 
 
 * He was endued with many perfections of nature befitting so noble a 
 personage, as an excellent quickness of wit and apprehension, an active 
 and a strong body, and an affable disposition and behaviour.' 
 
 ' But as good natures through human frailty are oftentimes misled, so 
 he fell to love a lady of quality, which by degrees did alienate his love and 
 affection from his so vertuous and well-deserving wife, it being the cause of 
 many discontents between 'em for many years together.' 
 
 ' He sold at Rotherham and at Malton to the Earle of Shrewsbury and 
 
George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland. 
 
 others, so that he consumed more of his estate than ever his ancestors did 
 by much.' 
 
 * To which his continual building of shipps and his many sea voyages, 
 gave great occasion to this vast expense of his, that which did contribute 
 the more to the wasting of his estate was the extream love to horse-races, 
 tilting, bowling-matches and shooting, and all such expensive sports.' 
 
 * He was much-beloved generally in the whole kingdom, so as he went 
 to sea voyages he had persons of great quality, and many of the gentry 
 that came voluntarily to tender their services to him and to attend him in 
 those voyages.' 
 
 * He was highly honoured by the queen, for she made him Knight of 
 the most noble Order of the Garter, and made him Champion at all 
 Tiltings from the 35th year of her reign till his death, for in those exer- 
 cises of tilting, turning and course of the field he did excell all the nobility 
 of his time.* 
 
 * He undertook eleven or twelve sea-voyages in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, most of them in his own person. The first voyage was in 
 1587 to the town of Sluice in the Low Countries, to help Sir Roger 
 Williams against the Duke of Parma, but the town was surrendered to the 
 duke. His second voyage was in 1588, when the Spanish Armada came 
 to invade England, when the Earl did most gallant and brave services, 
 fighting there against that fleet in a great ship at his own cost voluntarily.' 
 
 ' His third going to sea was that memorable voyage to the Isle of 
 Tercena or Azores, where he took the town of Fyall, and was himself 
 dangerously wounded, but returned through most dangerous tempests and 
 storms on the sea safe with his navy into the north part of Ireland, about 
 the last day of November, where he landed his souldiers untill the 20th 
 day of December following, in the year 1589.' 
 
 ' His fourth voyage was to the Coast of Spain, his other voyages being 
 many are not mentioned.' 
 
 ' But his last voyage was to St. John de Porto Rico, where he won the 
 town and gained great honour, and returned safe to England about the 
 beginning of October, 1598.' 
 
 The glove represented in the Earl's hat was given him by Queen 
 Elizabeth. He had it set with diamonds, and wore it on public occasions. 
 George Clifford died in 1605. His monument is at Skipton. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 30 by 24 inches, inscribed '^Etatis suae 60, A.D. 1672.' 
 
 In the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
 
XXX. 
 
 FRANCIS CLIFFORD, FOURTH EARL OF 
 CUMBERLAND. 
 
 IR FRANCIS CLIFFORD who, upon the death of his 
 brother, George Chfford, became fourth Earl of Cumberland, 
 was the father of Margaret Clifford, his eldest daughter, 
 who married the celebrated Earl of Strafford, then Sir 
 
 Thomas Wentworth. Francis Clifford was born at Skipton in 1559. 
 
 His brother George, by deed and his will, had settled his estates 
 upon him and his heirs male, and it was to set this disposition of the 
 family property aside that Margaret Russel, the widow of George Clifford, 
 entered upon the long contest which was only terminated in the lifetime 
 of her daughter Anne, by the death of Henry, Francis Clifford's only 
 son, and the last Earl of Cumberland. Francis Clifford was in the 
 Commission with the Lord President of the North against border robbers. 
 
 This Earl of Cumberland married Grisseld, daughter of Thomas 
 Hughes, of Uxbridge, Esq., and widow of Edward, Lord Abergavenny. 
 By her he had one son, Henry, and two daughters. 
 
 He died at Skipton in 1640, and was buried in the chancel of the 
 church of that place, where was also buried another Francis Clifford, 
 who died young, and was the eldest son of George, the third Earl. 
 
 The portrait on panel, 40 by 36 inches, represents Francis Clifford, 
 when a child. The painted frame is of the same date as the picture. 
 A fine full-length portrait of this Earl is at Wentworth Woodhouse. 
 
 In the possession of Sir R. Tufton, Bart. 
 
XXXI. AND XXXII. 
 
 ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, 
 DORSET, AND MONTGOMERY. 
 
 HE * Fair Rosamond,' mistress of Henry the Second, was the 
 eldest daughter of the Walter de Clifford mentioned in the 
 notice of George Clifford, and Anne the only daughter of 
 the latter, with a fairer fame, inherited the beauty and 
 talents of her celebrated relative. 
 
 Anne Clifford, sole heiress of George, third Earl of Cumberland, and 
 his wife Margaret Russell, daughter of the second Earl of Bedford, was 
 their only surviving child, and born at Skipton 31st January, 1589-90. 
 Her mother's life had been devoted to her education and the protection 
 of her property. The celebrated Samuel Daniel was her tutor. In 
 1609-10, she married Lord Buckhurst, soon afterwards Earl of Dorset, 
 who died in 1624; and in 1630, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and 
 Montgomery, who died 1650. In 1643, the long struggle with Francis, 
 her uncle, for part of the family property, which had commenced imme- 
 diately after her father's death and been maintained with so much 
 resolution by her mother and herself, was ended by the death of that 
 nobleman's son, Henry, who was the last Earl of Cumberland. She then 
 became possessed of a vast inheritance, and passed the remainder of her 
 life on her northern estates. They came into her hands nearly ruined 
 by the civil war, yet she repaired the castles, churches, and chapels, built 
 almshouses, and scattered her benevolence on all sides during the last 
 twenty-five years of her life. Whitaker describes her house as ' a school 
 for the young, a retreat for the aged, an asylum for the persecuted, a 
 college for the learned, and a pattern for all.' She caused to be com- 
 piled between 1649 and 1652, it is said, with the assistance of Sir 
 
Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, mid Montgomery, 
 
 Matthew Hale, the great books of family records, copies of which were 
 preserved at Skipton, Appleby, and Hothfield, and from which the 
 extract given in the notice of George Clifford was made. 
 
 A summary of these records made by Anne Clifford herself was in 
 the Harleian collection. 
 
 This celebrated woman died on the 22nd of March, 1675, in her 87th 
 year, and was buried at Appleby. The character of Lady Anne Clifford 
 was remarkable for independence and firmness. She resisted with resolu- 
 tion the arbitrary measures of James, Cromwell, and Charles the Second. 
 Her learning was varied ; she had read much, and Dr. Donne said of 
 her * that she could talk on any subject from predestination to slea- 
 silk.' She patronised literary merit, employed Roger Dodsworth, and 
 erected a monument to Spenser the poet in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 In her youth she was handsome in person, but was much disfigured 
 by the small pox about 1625. 
 
 Through the marriage of her only surviving child Margaret, with 
 John Tufton, Earl of Thanet, most of her vast estates descended to their 
 present possessors. 
 
 Portraits on canvas, 30 by 25, and 30 by 24 inches. 
 
 The first picture is in the possession of Sir R. Tufton, Bart, the other 
 in that of the Duke of Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey. 
 
XXXIIL 
 
 HENRY CLIFFORD, LAST EARL OF 
 CUMBERLAND. 
 
 ENRY CLIFFORD, bom at Londesborough in 1592, was the 
 only son of Francis, fourth Earl of Cumberland, and brother- 
 in-law to Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford. 
 Henry Clifford, then Earl of Cumberland, was an active 
 royalist during the Civil War, and when Charles advanced from York to 
 Nottingham in 1642, he was left in York to govern the county as Lord 
 Lieutenant He was, however, unable to make head against Sir John 
 Hotham, when the latter advanced from Hull, and had shortly afterwards 
 to resign the chief command in the North to the Earl of Newcastle. He 
 died in York in 1643. 
 
 He was buried at Skipton, and thus ended the male line of this ancient 
 and noble family, and the dignity of Earl of Cumberland became extinct. 
 
 He left issue an only daughter, his heir, who married in 1635 Richard 
 Boyle, Viscount Dungarvon, son and heir to Richard, Earl of Cork, who 
 by King Charles the First was created Lord Clifford of Londesborough, 
 and afterwards by Charles the Second, Earl of Burlington. 
 Portrait on canvas. 
 
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 In the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey. ' - -^j 
 
XXXIV. 
 
 LORD CHARLES CLIFFORD. 
 
 ERY little certain information can be afforded as to the person 
 whose portrait is given, the name of Charles occurs so 
 frequently in the Clifford pedigree ; but from the date on 
 the picture and the subject, it may safely be assumed that it 
 
 was intended to represent one of the family of the Cliffords connected 
 with Bolton Abbey. The boy is painted to represent the Boy of Egre- 
 mont, with hounds held in a leash, a rocky landscape in the background, 
 in remembrance of the tragic story of the death of young Romille, who 
 was drowned in crossing the Strid in the river Wharfe. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 51 by 33 inches. Inscribed-n/Eta^ sct3f™5th Jtrl}^^^ 
 
 In the possession of the Duke (rf Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey. 
 
XXXV. 
 
 LODOVICK STUART, DUKE OF RICHMOND. 
 
 ODOVICK STUART, second Duke of Lennox, in Scot- 
 land, was the son of Esme, the first Duke, and bom in 
 1574- 
 
 Prior to the accession of James the First to the throne of 
 England, Lodovick Stuart held the office of Great Chamberlain of Scot- 
 land and High Admiral, and was sent Ambassador from James to Henry 
 the Fourth of France. He came to England with James, had a grant of 
 the Manors of Settrington, Temple Newsame, &c., and was made Baron 
 Settrington Co. York. He was also Master of the Household, First Gen- 
 tleman of the Bed Chamber, invested with the Garter, and appointed a 
 Commissioner to the Parliament in 1607. 
 
 In 1623 he was advanced to the dignities of Earl of Newcastle and 
 Duke of Richmond. He died in 1624, and Esme his brother, and successor 
 to his Scotch honours, in the same year. 
 
 James Stuart, who was killed at the Battle of Edgehill, and Lodovick 
 Stuart the Cardinal, were the sons of the latter Esme. Lodovick, Duke of 
 Richmond, was married three times. First to Sophia, a daughter of the 
 Earl of Gowrie, secondly to Jean, daughter of Sir Matthew Campbell, 
 of London, and thirdly, to Frances, daughter of Thomas Howard, Viscount 
 Birdon and widow of Edward, Earl of Hertford ; but died without legiti- 
 mate issue, and his English honours became extinct. 
 Portrait on canvas, about 90 by 60 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City 
 of York. rr ] . . 
 
XXXVI. 
 
 TOBIAS MATTHEW. 
 
 OBIAS MATTHEW was the son of John Matthew, a mer- 
 chant at Bristol, and born in that place in 1546. He was 
 educated at Wells, and at the age of thirteen became a 
 student at Christ Church, Oxford, and took the degree of 
 
 Bachelor of Arts in 1563. He was Master of Arts in 1566; about which 
 time he entered holy orders. In 1569 he was unanimously elected public 
 orator to the University, and became successively Archdeacon of Wells, 
 President of St. John's College, Canon of Christ Church, Dean of Durham ; 
 and was translated to the Archbishopric of York in 1606. 
 
 Camden, Fuller, and Sir John Harrington, all speak strongly in praise 
 of Archbishop Matthew, and even the Jesuit Campion mentions his 
 learning and virtues. 
 
 As regards his wit, which seems to have been superior to the favourite 
 punning of the age in which he lived. Fuller says, * That none could con- 
 demn him for his cheerful spirit, though often he would condemn himself 
 for the levity of it, yet he was so habited therein, that he could as well 
 not be as not be merry.' He said of his three sons that he had great reason 
 for sorrow with respect to them, for one had wit but no grace, the second 
 grace but no wit, and the third neither grace nor wit. 
 
 This prelate was in great favour with Elizabeth and James the First. 
 He was not only a most noble preacher, but an indefatigable one. For 
 it appears that he preached 721 sermons while Dean of Durham, 550 
 while Bishop of Durham, and 721 while Archbishop of York. In all, 
 1992 sermons, some of them extempore. One thing alone he is reproached 
 with — having, while Archbishop, alienated from the See, to please the 
 Duke of Buckingham, York Place, in the Strand, in London ; yet as he 
 received lands in Yorkshire in exchange for it, perhaps the bargain was 
 not a bad one for the See. Archbishop Matthew was of an amiable 
 disposition, very bountiful and learned, and most conscientious in the 
 execution of his duties. 
 
 He died in 1628, and was buried at York. 
 
 In the possession of the Dean and Chapter of York. 
 
XXXVII. 
 
 EMMANUEL LE SCROPE, LORD SCROPE. 
 
 MMANUEL LE SCROPE, eleventh Baron Scrope of Bolton, 
 ' was the son of Thomas, the tenth Baron, and Philadelphia, 
 daughter of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. 
 
 He was summoned to Parliament from 1614 to 1625. 
 In the reign of James the First, was President of the King's Council in 
 the north, and created, in 1627, by Charles the First, Earl of Sunder- 
 land. He was also a Knight of the Garter. His wife was Lady Elizabeth 
 Manners, daughter of John, Earl of Rutland, by whom he had no issue. 
 
 He died in 1630, and was buried at Langar. The Earldom of 
 Sunderland then became extinct, and the Barony of Scrope of Bolton 
 devolved on the representative of Mary, the only daughter of the ninth 
 Baron, Charles Jones, Esq., who never urged his claims to the barony. 
 But Emmanuel le Scrope, Earl of Sunderland, having left three illegitimate 
 daughters by Martha Jeanes, these children were afterwards legitimatized 
 — given precedence as legitimate, and among them the estates of the 
 Scropes were divided. 
 
 Mary, the eldest of these children married first, the Hon. Henry Carey, 
 second son of Henry, Earl of Monmouth, and, secondly, Charles, Marquis 
 of Winchester, who acquired the estate at Bolton, and was afterwards 
 created Duke of Bolton. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 30 by 26 inches. 
 In the possession of Lord Bolton. 
 
XXXVIII. 
 
 WILLIAM GEE. 
 
 ILLIAM GEE, of Hull, was born in 1523. He was a mer- 
 chant and alderman of that town. Like John Harrison of 
 Leeds, William Gee made a noble use of the wealth he had 
 acquired by trade. While living, we are told that his hand was 
 
 always open to the distressed and indigent ; and when drawing up his 
 singular will, which he wrote himself, he exercised a wonderful ingenuity 
 in multiplying the recipients of his bounty. It appears, however, that 
 William Gee had a very strong prejudice against the gentlemen of the law, 
 as the beginning of his will, in his own handwriting, and dated 1600, is 
 worded in the following curious terms : 
 
 * Whereas in the Scriptures the great God of Heaven and Earth has 
 called the prophet to say to Hezekie the King to make his will, and put 
 things in order for that he must die so I doe now pray and humblie 
 beseech that great and mygtie God to confound and destroy all those men 
 lawyers and others whosoever to the devills to dwell in the pit of hell 
 which doth councell or take upon them to alter this my Will. Amen 
 Lord in the name of God the maker of Heaven and Earth the seas and all 
 that therein is Amen. I William Gee, of Kingston-upon-Hull, Merchant, 
 
 Space will not permit us to give a list of the various charitable uses to 
 which Gee directed that his property should be applied in his singular will, 
 for he seems to have been determined to make it as widely beneficial as 
 possible, not only to his own relations and the destitute inhabitants of 
 Hull, but also to the poor in certain parishes of Leicestershire, with which 
 he was connected. 
 
 William Gee was Sheriff of Hull in 1 560, and Mayor of that place in 
 
 &c. &c.' 
 
William Gee. 
 
 1562, 1573, and 1582. He founded Gee's Hospital in Chapel Lane, Hull, 
 near St. Mary's Church; and in 1578 subscribed 80/. and 20,000 bricks 
 towards rebuilding the Grammar School at Hull, originally founded by 
 Alcock, Bishop of Ely, in i486. 
 
 The new school was finished in 1583, and on its walls may still be seen 
 the merchant's mark of William Gee, and the initials of his name. 
 
 William Gee died at Hull in January 1602-3. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 45 by 30 inches. Arms over left shoulder, inscribed 
 A.D. 1568. IE, s. 45. 
 
 In the custody of the Mayor and Corporation of Hull. 
 
XXXIX. 
 
 JOHN HARRISON. 
 
 |OHN HARRISON of Leeds, is the title by which the great 
 benefactor of that town is commonly known. He was born 
 there in 1579; and his natural intelligence must have been 
 cultivated by a good education. 
 He began life as a clothier about 1600, and adhered to that trade 
 for nearly forty years. In him industry and charity appear to have been 
 combined with loyalty and sound sense. The first enabled him to carry 
 out the meritorious works which his natural kindness of heart suggested ; 
 and, having purchased lands near Leeds from the Rockleys and Falking- 
 hams, in 163 1 he commenced building on it. The chapel, which he 
 endowed, was consecrated and dedicated to St. John in 1634. There 
 Harrison also built a school and hospital, and he is said to have ex- 
 pended 6000/. in these benevolent works — a large sum at the time in 
 which he lived. 
 
 Although the following instance of Harrison's loyalty has been often 
 cited, yet we will venture to repeat it here. 
 
 When Charles the First (then in the hands of the Scotch) was brought 
 to Leeds, access to his person was not easily obtained. Harrison, taking 
 a tankard of ale in his hand, presented himself before the King's guards, 
 and asked permission to offer his Majesty a draught. As the guards, who 
 probably loved ale themselves, saw no treachery in this. Harrison 
 was admitted, and the King soon found that the tankard contained, be- 
 sides the ale, many broad pieces of gold, which he contrived to secrete 
 about his person unperceived. 
 
 His attachment to the Church of England, and his loyalty, did not 
 fail to bring Harrison into trouble during the Commonwealth; and it 
 
yohn Harriso7t. 
 
 appears that he had even offended some of the more ardent Royalists, 
 to whom he had advanced money on their estates. It is, therefore, not 
 wonderful that he was exposed to the fury of the sequestrators, and ex- 
 perienced, before he died of bodily weakness, anguish of heart and loss 
 of fortune. Yet his name will always be revered in Leeds as the great 
 benefactor of his native place. 
 
 John Harrison died in 1652. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 90 by 55 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Mayor and Corporation of Leeds. 
 
XL. 
 
 WILLIAM ROBINSON, OF NEWBY. 
 
 ILLIAM ROBINSON, of Newby, was an eminent Hamburgh 
 merchant of the city of York. He was born in 1522, and, 
 after residing several years in the Hans Towns, settled, in 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, at York, of which place he 
 was Lord Mayor in 1581 and 1594, and which he twice represented in 
 Parliament. 
 
 ^ The Merchants' Company ' of York was established at a very early 
 period. There was also a separate and very ancient company called ' The 
 Company of Hans Merchants,' the members of which were free in the 
 five Hans Towns, and enjoyed valuable privileges. 
 
 William Robinson left to the City of York, in 1 61 6, eighty pounds 
 and a silver mazer-bowl doubly gilt. The picture from which the ac- 
 companying photograph is taken is inscribed with the date, 1622, and 
 the words, * William Robinson, Merchant, late of the Cittie of York, 
 Alderman, deceased, did give forty pounds to the Companie of Merchants 
 Adventurers, to be lent to fower young men of the Companie for five 
 years, and then to others accordinglie for ever.' 
 
 This William Robinson married, first, a daughter of John Redman, of 
 Fulworth, in Yorkshire, by whom he had a son, William. He married, 
 secondly, a daughter of Thomas Harrison, of York, and by her had an- 
 other son, Thomas. He divided his property between these two sons, 
 and died in 1616. 
 
 His son William was also three times Lord Mayor of York. 
 
 William Robinson, of Newby, is the ancestor of the Earl de Grey 
 and Ripon. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 25 inches by 22. 
 
 In the possession of the Merchants' Company, York. 
 
XLI. 
 
 GEORGE CALVERT, LORD BALTIMORE. 
 
 EORGE CALVERT, first Baron of Baltimore in the Irish 
 Peerage, was one of a family long settled at Kiplin, in the 
 North Riding, where he was born in 1578. He was the son 
 of Leonard Calvert and Alice Crosland. Having studied at 
 Trinity College, Oxford, he travelled on the Continent, and afterwards 
 entered, as Secretary, the service of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. He 
 was knighted by James the First in 161 7 ; made Clerk of the Privy 
 Council ; and in 1619 succeeded Sir Thomas Lake as principal Secretary 
 of State ; which appointment, it appears, he owed entirely to his merit. 
 In 1624 he resigned that office, having become a Roman Catholic ; yet, 
 nevertheless. King James continued to have great confidence in him, and 
 raised him in 1625, by the name of Sir George Calvert, of Danby wiske, in 
 Yorkshire, to the dignity of Baron Baltimore in the Irish Peerage. He 
 continued also to be of the Privy Council during the whole of the reign 
 of James. 
 
 Notwithstanding his services to his country, the grant of Newfound- 
 land, made to him by James, and that of Maryland by Charles the First, 
 have rendered the name of Lord Baltimore more widely known. 
 
 It was during the time he was Secretary of State that James accorded 
 him a patent of ' Absolutus dominus et proprietarius ' of the province of 
 Avalon, in Newfoundland ; * a place so named by him,' says Fuller, ' in 
 imitation of Old Avalon, in Somersetshire, wherein Glastonbury stands : 
 the first-fruits of Christianity in Britain, as the other was in America.' 
 
 After founding a settlement in Newfoundland, Lord Baltimore visited 
 it several times in the reign of James, and knew how to defend it. For, 
 when the French, under Monsieur de LArade, with three ships, sent by 
 
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, 
 
 the King of France, harassed the English fishermen, Lord Baltimore 
 manned two ships at his own expense and drove them away, taking 
 sixty of the French prisoners. 
 
 Lord Baltimore having visited Virginia, obtained subsequently from 
 Charles the First a grant of that part of America known as Maryland 5 
 which was so named in honour of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of 
 Charles the First; and, although George Calvert died before the Patent 
 was signed, the grant was confirmed to his son Cecil Calvert, the second 
 Lord Baltimore. 
 
 George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, died in London on the 15th of 
 April, 1632, in the 53rd year of his age, according to Fuller. 
 
 Lord Baltimore's political tracts, speeches in Parliament, and letters 
 of State, have been published. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 29 inches by 23 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey. 
 
XLII. 
 
 LORD KEEPER WILLIAMS. 
 
 |OHN WILLIAMS, Lord Keeper, was the son of Edmund 
 Williams and Anne Wynne, both of ancient Welsh families. 
 He was born at Aberconway, in Carnarvonshire, in 1582, edu- 
 cated at the grammar-school at Ruthin, and is said to have 
 
 early attained to great proficiency in the Latin and Greek languages. 
 
 In 1597 he went to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied 
 four years before he took his Bachelor's degree, and was soon afterwards 
 elected a Fellow of St. John's. Having taken orders, he accepted small 
 livings in Norfolk and Northamptonshire. 
 
 Lord Chancellor EUesmere, who had noticed his talents, made him 
 one of his domestic chaplains ; and Williams availed himself of that posi- 
 tion to acquire a slight knowledge of the law, but was by no means un- 
 mindful of his own preferment in the Church. He obtained the living of 
 Waldegrave, in Northamptonshire, and that of Grafton, with stalls at Lin- 
 coln, Peterborough, Hereford, and St. David's. 
 
 His preaching appears to have been equally agreeable to James the 
 First and Prince Henry. When Lord Chancellor EUesmere was dying, 
 Williams asked his advice 'how to live in the world,' if he survived him ; 
 and certainly profited by his instructions, as he refused Lord Bacon's offer 
 to make him his chaplain, and retired to Northamptonshire. Yet he 
 occasionally visited the Court when called upon to ofiiciate as one of the 
 royal chaplains ; and perceived at last a favourable opportunity of rising 
 higher, by assisting the Duke of Buckingham in his marriage with Lady 
 Catherine Manners. He soon afterwards was made Dean of Westmin- 
 ster. Williams was in this position when Lord Bacon was deprived of 
 the Great Seal, and Buckingham induced James to make Williams Lord 
 
Lord Keeper Williams. 
 
 Keeper, an appointment which appears to have surprised everybody, even 
 the recipient of it. Still, if his knowledge of the law was slight, by dint of 
 hard work and clever management he got through a vast amount of 
 business ; and not content with the duties he had already to perform, 
 intrigued to become Archbishop of Canterbury. But during the absence 
 of Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid, Williams made the fatal 
 mistake of intriguing also against the Duke of Buckingham ; and the 
 result was, that in the reign of Charles the First Buckingham recalled 
 Williams's own words, that ' the Great Seal ought never to be held by 
 the same person for more than three years ; ' and it was taken from 
 him. Williams was then in his forty-seventh year. 
 
 As Bishop of Lincoln, he was next engaged in a long struggle with 
 Archbishop Laud, whom he had formerly been active in promoting, 
 which ended in being fined 8000/., and imprisoned during the King's 
 pleasure. Yet he rose again into power, and was made Archbishop of 
 York ; when, owing to Laud's impeachment, he became virtually the head 
 of the Church of England. In the troubles which ensued, Williams ap- 
 pears to have been sincerely desirous to maintain the authority of the 
 Crown and the Church of England. He is said to have fainted when he 
 heard of the King's death, and survived Charles barely a year, dying in 
 1650, in his sixty-eighth year. In person Lord Keeper Williams was a 
 singularly handsome man, and in intellect and perseverance inferior to no 
 man of his time. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 29 by 23 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Archbishop of York. 
 
XLIII. 
 
 LORD FITZWILLIAM OF LIFFORD. 
 
 H E Fitzwilliams of Lifford are the descendants of Sir William 
 Fitz-Godric, cousin to King Edward the Confessor, and of 
 the old family in Yorkshire. 
 
 Among them, in the reign of James the First, of England, 
 was William Fitzwilliam, Esq., of Wilton and Gaines Park Hall, who was 
 made in 1620 Lord Fitzwilliam of Lifford, county Donegal, in the peerage 
 of Ireland. He was the eldest son of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Knight, 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer and Under-Treasurer of England. He mar- 
 ried Catherine, daughter of William Hyde, Esq. of South Denchworth, 
 county Berks. 
 
 William Fitzwilliam, first Lord Fitzwilliam of Lifford, died 1643-4. 
 
 The fine portrait, by Cornelius Jansen, from which the accompanying 
 photograph is taken, has been long in the possession of the Broke 
 family : but nothing is known of its history, except that it bears on the 
 back, in old writing, the name of Lord Fitzwilliam. 
 
 The dress is scarlet and gold, slashed with white. 
 
 Portrait by Cornelius Jansen, on panel 30 by 25 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Sir G. N. Broke Middleton, Bart. 
 
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XLIV. 
 
 HENRY TILSON, BISHOP OF ELPHIN. 
 
 IT is believed that the name Tilson is an abbreviation of Til- 
 I lotson, and that the family to which the bishop belonged 
 came originally from Tilston, in Cheshire. 
 
 Henry was, it is said, born in the parish of Halifax. He 
 
 became a student in Balliol College, Oxford, in 1593, B.A. in 1596; soon 
 after which he obtained a fellowship in University College, and there took 
 his degree of M.A. 
 
 In 1 61 5 he was vicar of Rochdale, in Lancashire, where he resided 
 some years. He then went, as his chaplain, with Thomas Wentworth, 
 Earl of Strafford, to Ireland, and was by him advanced to be Dean of 
 Christ Church, in Dublin, Pro-vice Chancellor of the University of Dublin, 
 and consecrated Bishop of Elphin in 1639. 
 
 At the Rebellion, his son. Captain Henry Tilson, who was governor 
 of Elphin, joined the Parliamentary party; and in 1645 Bishop Tilson 
 was compelled to deliver the Castle of Elphin into the hands of the Lord 
 President of Connaught. His library and goods were pillaged, and he 
 himself fled to England for safety, where he lived for three years at Soot- 
 hill Hall, Dewsbury. 
 
 In this position he was compelled to consecrate a room in the Hall, 
 called the Bishop's Parlour, in which he privately ordained ; and being 
 assisted by his neighbours, did weekly duty, until Sir William Wentworth, 
 of Bretton, employed him to preach at Cumberworth, and allowed him a 
 salary for the support of his family. 
 
 Bishop Tilson died in 1655, and was buried at Dewsbury. 
 
 Portrait on oval canvas, 23 by 20 inches. 
 
 In the possession of T. Shaen Carter, Esq. 
 
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XLV. 
 
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 HENRY TILSON. 
 
 ENRY TILSON, the artist, was the son of Nathaniel Tilson, 
 and grandson of Henry Tilson, Bishop of Elphin. He studied 
 under Sir Peter Lely, and after his death went with Dahl to 
 Italy, where they must have been, in Rome, in 1686-7. 
 Tilson stayed in Italy seven years, and employed his time in copying, 
 with great diligence, the works of the best masters. 
 
 He succeeded well in portraits, both in oil and crayons ; but became 
 insane, it is said, from disappointment in love, and shot himself at the 
 age of thirty-six. 
 
 He painted his own portrait, and many of other persons ; among 
 others, that of the Rev. John Kettlewell, a distinguished Nonjuror, born at 
 Northallerton. 
 
 He also painted a large family picture of his father, Nathaniel Tilson, 
 his mother, younger brother, his sister, and himself; and there is an 
 engraving, made from a portrait of Henry Wharton, M.A., by Henry 
 Tilson. 
 
 Dahl and Tilson were intimate friends, and the former gave his own 
 portrait to Tilson, inscribed ^ Memoria per mio caro amico Enrico Tilson, 
 fatto Roma, 1686.' 
 
 Portrait by Henry Tilson, of himself, on canvas, 28 by 22 inches. 
 
 In the possession of T. Shaen Carter, Esq. 
 
XLVI. 
 
 JAMES HAY, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G. 
 
 lAMES HAY was the second son of Sir Peter Hay of Mel- 
 guich, and came into England with James the First, with 
 whom he was in great favour, being a most accompHshed 
 
 courtier and a Gentleman of his Bedchamber. 
 
 Esteemed by the English nation no less, he was created Baron Hay of 
 Sawley, Lord Bewlie, Viscount Doncaster, Earl of Carlisle, and made a 
 Knight of the Garter. 
 
 James added to these favours that of furthering his marriage with the 
 sole daughter and heir of Lord Denny, with whom he received a good 
 fortune. His second wife was the Lady Lucy Percy, celebrated by Waller 
 and others. 
 
 As Clarendon's character of this Earl of Carlisle is one of those most 
 happily drawn in his celebrated ' History of the Civil Wars,' it is here 
 transcribed. He says, * He maintained rather a fair intelligence than 
 any friendship with the other favourites, having credit enough with the 
 king to secure his own interest, and he took no care of that of other 
 men. He made no scruple of running in debt, and borrowing all he 
 could for the support of his lustre ; for he was a man of prodigious 
 expense in his own person, both in clothes and diet, being indeed an 
 original of those inventions, which others did no more than copy. He 
 died with the reputation of a fine gentleman ; and after having merrily 
 spent above five hundred thousand pounds, which, by computation, he 
 had obtained from the Crown, he died, to all appearance in as much 
 tranquillity of mind as a man of a more severe life and virtue ; nor left 
 a house or acre of land behind him to be remembered by.' 
 
 This is contradicted by Mr. Whitaker, who shows that his grand- 
 daughter received the rents of his property at Sallay in 1662. Yet 
 perhaps this may have occurred, because, fortunately for his son, the 
 
James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, K. G, 
 
 latter inherited the property of his mother, the daughter of Lord Denny, 
 and was himself the Earl of Carlisle, who was sent by Charles the Second, 
 in 1663, on embassies to Russia, Sweden, and Denmark ; of which such an 
 entertaining account was published after his return to England. In these 
 embassies Andrew Marvell acted as secretary. 
 
 James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, died in 1636. 
 
 Full-length, by A. Vandyck, on canvas, about 80 inches by 45. 
 
 In possession of the Lord Lyttleton. 
 
 
XLVIL 
 
 THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD. 
 
 iHOMAS WENTWORTH, first Earl of Strafford, was the 
 son of Sir Philip Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, and 
 born in 1593, in Chancery Lane, London. 
 I Having completed his education at St. John's College, 
 Cambridge, he spent some time on the Continent, and first entered Par- 
 liament as member for the county of York in 1621. His dislike to the 
 Duke of Buckingham led him to oppose the measures of the favourite 
 of James the First ; and he, who afterwards suffered for his attachment 
 to his sovereign, commenced his political career as an eloquent and active 
 member of the Parliamentary party. He was member for Yorkshire 
 in 1625. 
 
 Nevertheless, early in the reign of Charles the First he was appointed 
 President of the Council of the North. In 163 1 he was named Lord- 
 Deputy of Ireland. There his able administration failed to obtain for 
 him the earldom he sought so eagerly, but which Charles, fearing the 
 many enemies that Wentworth's hasty temper had made, was afraid to 
 bestow upon him. Yet, in 1640 the long-desired title was conferred, and 
 he was made Earl of Strafford. 
 
 In the same year the Long Parliament met, and, encouraged by the 
 solemn promise of Charles, * that not a hair of his head should be touched 
 by the Parliament,' Strafford entered upon that struggle with the popular 
 party, which led ultimately to his impeachment and execution in 1641. 
 
 Whatever faults he may have had, there can be no doubt that his 
 talents were of a very high order; or that men, whose opinions differed 
 widely, jealous of his supremacy, united to obtain from Charles his death- 
 warrant, and gratify in this manner their private hatred. Charles's own 
 words states the case as follows, — ' Nothing can be more evident than 
 that Strafford's innocent blood hath been one of the great causes of 
 
Thomas Wentworthy Earl of Strafford. 
 
 God's judgment upon this nation, by a furious civil war, both sides being 
 hitherto equally punished as being, in a manner, equally guilty.' At the 
 same time, we must remember that Clarendon says, speaking of the Earl, 
 ' He was a man of too severe a deportment, too little ceremonious, to 
 have many friends at Court, and therefore could not fail of enemies 
 enow.' Clarendon adds, as a proof of this, that 'when he was Earl 
 of Strafford he would in that patent be created Baron of Raby, a house 
 of Sir Harry Vane's, and an honour he thought should be his own 
 right ; which was an act of the most needless provocation I have known, 
 and, I believe, chiefly contributed to the loss of his head.' 
 
 Lord Strafford was married three times, and left a son and heir. 
 
 On canvas, 50 by 40 inches. 
 
 In the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
 
XLVIII. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER WANDESFORD, VISCOUNT 
 CASTLECOMER. 
 
 HRISTOPHER WANDESFORD was born and baptized 
 at Bishop Burton, near Beverley, in 1592. He was the son 
 and heir of Sir George Wandesford, of Kirklington, by his 
 first wife Catherine, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir 
 
 Robert Hunby, of Bishop Burton. 
 
 Christopher Wandesford was heir to a large but encumbered estate. 
 To his mother he was indebted for an excellent education. He was sent 
 at first to the free school of Well, and at the early age of 15, in 1607, 
 to Clare Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 Wandesford and Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, 
 were nearly of the same age, and contemporaries at Cambridge, where 
 Wandesford narrowly escaped drowning, but was saved by his tutor, 
 Dr. Milner, to whom he afterwards proved his gratitude. 
 
 Sir George Wandesford, his father, died in 16 12, and the care of the 
 family property obliged Christopher Wandesford to renounce his intention 
 of taking holy orders. About this time he married Alicia, sole daughter 
 of Sir Hewet Osborne, Baronet of Kiveton, in the West Riding of York- 
 shire. Wandesford and his wife then went to inhabit Kirklington, where 
 he devoted much of his time to the improvement of the family estate. 
 
 It was Wandesford who first discovered the merits of John Bramhall, 
 then (about 1620) an obscure schoolmaster at Kilburn, near Thirsk, for 
 whom he procured the rectory of Elvington, and at last advanced to the 
 see of Derry. Nearly at the same time Wandesford's public career com- 
 menced. His friend, Sir Thomas Wentworth (Strafford), became member 
 for the county of York, and Wandesford, through his interest, represented 
 Appleby. They united in opposing the Duke of Buckingham. 
 
 After the death of James the First, in the ensuing Parliament, Wan- 
 
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 Christopher Wandesfordy Viscotmt Castlecomer. 
 
 desford was one of the eight managers of the impeachment of the Duke 
 of Buckingham. In politics Wandesford appears to have followed the 
 same course as Wentworth ; as, when the latter was sent to Ireland as 
 Lord-Deputy, he requested that Wandesford might attend him as Master 
 of the Rolls. They arrived in Dublin in 1635 ; and Wandesford seems 
 to have soon adopted the idea of transferring some of his property to 
 Ireland, and ultimately bought the estate of Castlecomer, from which he 
 subsequently took his title. He also erected an office for the Rolls at 
 his own expense. 
 
 During Strafford's absence Wandesford was one of the Chief Justices, 
 took an active part in the management of the country, and on Strafford's 
 quitting Ireland, Wandesford succeeded him as Lord-Deputy. But the 
 career of each was now nearly ended. The arrest of Strafford appears 
 to have been a deathblow to Wandesford, who was already unwell. In 
 his last sickness he was surrounded by his family and his friend. Bishop 
 Bramhall ; but he died in 1640, the year in which he had been created 
 Baron Moubray and Viscount Castlecomer. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 25 by 22 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Rev. H. S. W. Comber. 
 
XLIX. 
 
 JOHN BRAMHALL, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH. 
 
 degrees he quitted the University. Although he had taken holy orders, 
 his income must have been small, as, about 1620, he was a schoolmaster 
 at Kilburn, near Thirsk, when Christopher Wandesford, afterwards Lord- 
 Deputy of Ireland, obtained for him the rectory of Elvington. He is 
 said to have married at this time a clergyman's widow of the Halley 
 family. In 1623 he disputed publicly with a Jesuit on matters of reli- 
 gion ; and his success in this discussion gained him so much reputation, 
 that Tobie Matthews, Archbishop of York, made him his chaplain, after- 
 wards a prebendary of York, and then of Ripon ; at which place he 
 resided after 1628, and managed most of the affairs of the Church. 
 
 In 1630 Bramhall took a Doctor of Divinity's degree at Cambridge, 
 and soon after, at the suggestion of his old patron, Wandesford, who was 
 then named Master of the Rolls in Ireland, he accompanied Lord Straf- 
 ford to that country, in which they all arrived in 1633. Having resigned 
 all his preferments in England, Bramhall was made Archdeacon of Meath ; 
 and having exerted himself actively to reform ecclesiastical abuses, he 
 was made Bishop of Derry in 1634. 
 
 After the death of his friend Wandesford, and the execution of Straf- 
 ford, articles of high treason were exhibited in 1641 against him ; yet, 
 through the influence of Archbishop Usher, the proceedings were stopped. 
 Nevertheless, as his life was in danger in Ireland, Bramhall quitted it, 
 took an active part in the king's affairs in England, and it was only 
 when, in 1644, he could be no longer of service to Charles, that Bishop 
 Bramhall passed over to Hamburgh, and on to Brussels, where he did duty 
 
 HIS distinguished prelate was of the ancient family of the 
 Bramhalls of Cheshire. He was born in 1593, at Pontefract, 
 and educated in his native place. He removed in 1608 to 
 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and after taking his 
 
John Bramhall, A rchbishop of A rmagk. 
 
 till 1648. In that year he had the courage to return to Ireland, and nar- 
 rowly escaped from Cromwell, who wished much to arrest him. On his 
 return to the Continent, the zeal with which he supported the Church of 
 England brought him again into peril. 
 
 At length, after the Restoration, Bishop Bramhall returned to England, 
 and was translated to the see of Armagh in 1 660-1. 
 
 In this position he endeavoured energetically to restore order in the 
 Church until his decease, which occurred in 1663. His death was as 
 singular as his life, as he was attacked with paralysis in a court of justice, 
 where a cause was being tried in which he was concerned, and died soon 
 after. The cause was decided in his favour. 
 
 Bishop Bramhall was one of the most learned, able, and active pre- 
 lates of the time in which he lived. He left an only son, Sir Thomas 
 Bramhall, who died without issue. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 31 by 28 inches. 
 
 In Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 
 
L. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM INGLEBY, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE first member of the family of Ingleby of whom there is 
 any authentic information is Sir Thomas de Ingilby, a Jus- 
 tice of Common Pleas, about 1530. He married Edeline de 
 Ripley, heiress of Bernard de Ripley, whose family held that 
 
 property in 1350. A John Ingleby, in the time of Henry the Fourth, 
 founded the Monastery of Mount Grace. 
 
 A very close connexion existed from an early period between the 
 Inglebys and the Percys, Earls of Northumberland, who were their supe- 
 rior lords, and under whom the Inglebys no doubt served in the Scottish 
 wars. 
 
 Thus, in 1485, when Henry the Seventh, after defeating Lambert 
 Simnel and the partizans of the house of York at Stoke, marched towards 
 York, we find that Sir William Ingleby was one of the knights who rode 
 under the command of the Earl of Northumberland to meet the King 
 at Barnsleydale. 
 
 The eldest son of the above Sir William, who bore the same name, 
 is the subject of this notice. He was Treasurer of Berwick, and died in 
 1578. His wife was the daughter of Sir William Mallory of Studley. 
 He built the old part of Ripley Castle in 1555. 
 
 His younger brother, John Ingleby of Lawkland, was the ancestor of 
 Sir Charles Ingleby, who was tried at York in 1680, and who was a 
 Baron of the Exchequer in the time of James the Second. 
 
 Their sister Francis married James Pulleine, Esq., the ancestor of 
 the Pulleines of Carlton and Crakehall. In fact, from an early date we 
 find the Inglebys connected by marriage with most of the great families 
 in the north. 
 
 On canvas, 45 by 36 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Rev. Sir H. Ingilby, Bart. 
 
LI. 
 
 SAMPSON INGLEBY, ESQ. 
 
 [AS the fifth son of Sir William Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, 
 by Anne, daughter of Sir William Mallory, of Studley. He 
 was born in 1569, was steward to Henry Percy, ninth Earl of 
 
 ' Northumberland, and resided at Spofforth Manor. 
 
 Francis Ingleby, or Ingilby, the elder brother of Sampson, was hanged 
 at York on the 3rd of June, 1586, it is said for no other crime than being 
 a Roman Catholic priest, but probably a political necessity caused his 
 execution. 
 
 Nor was he the only member of that family who suffered for his reli- 
 gious opinions, for Charles Ingilby was tried at York for treason, along 
 with Thwing, a Popish priest, in 1680. Thwing was executed, but Ingleby 
 acquitted. 
 
 This curious portrait represents a gentleman standing at the foot of 
 a tree, dressed in black, and resting his left hand on a black-hilted sword, 
 the right hand on a bank. To the right of the head is a purse, from 
 which gold coins are falling, held by a hand ; on the other side a hand 
 holds a book. 
 
 On the portrait is inscribed ' Imparatus Paratus 1599 Ot, 25.' 
 On panel, 45 by 36 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Rev. Sir H, Ingleby, Bart 
 
LII. 
 
 SIR HENRY SLINGSBY, KNIGHT. 
 
 IKE most of the oldest families in England, that of Slingsby 
 takes its name from the place at which it was settled when 
 ] it first rose to eminence. Slingsby is a parish in the Rydall 
 i division of the North Riding of Yorkshire. 
 
 The first of the family on record is William Slingsby, of Slingsby, 
 whose son John lived in the time of King John, and acquiring by mar- 
 riage the estate of Studley, settled there. His son William, in 1333, 
 married the heiress of the Scrivens, one of whom was Royal Fowler in the 
 time of Henry the First ; and the family name of Scriven became merged 
 in that of Slingsby. Richard, their second son and heir, was Capital Forester 
 of the forests and parks of Knaresborough, in right of his brother: an 
 office which thus became hereditary in the Slingsby family, and to which 
 they are still entitled. 
 
 Space will not permit allusion to the other marriages or purchases 
 by which the Slingsbys acquired the properties at Scriven, Redhouse, 
 Brereton, Thorp, &c., or the many distinguished members of the family 
 who lived before the Sir Henry Slingsby who is the subject of this 
 notice. 
 
 He was the fourth but eldest surviving son of Francis Slingsby, who 
 died in 1600, and Mary Percy, daughter of the Sir Thomas Percy who 
 was executed at Tyburn in 1537, for taking part in 'The Pilgrimage of 
 Grace,' and was born in 1560. 
 
 Sir Henry held offices in the Duchy of Lancaster, of which he was 
 deprived, and imprisoned two years in the Fleet. Yet he was knighted 
 by Queen Elizabeth in 1602, was one of the Council of the North, several 
 times its Vice-president, and, in 1611-12, High-Sheriff" of Yorkshire. He 
 married Frances, daughter of William Vavasour, of Weston. 
 
 Sir Henry died at Nun-Monkton in 1634, and was buried in the 
 Slingsby Chapel at Knaresborough ; where his tomb is. 
 
 He was father of the Sir Henry Slingsby, Baronet, who was beheaded. 
 
 On canvas, 80 by 45 inches, by Vandyke. 
 
 In the possession of Sir C. Slingsby, Bart, 
 
LIII. 
 
 SIR HENRY SLINGSBY, BART. 
 
 NE of the staunchest of the royalists, was the second son of 
 Sir Henry Slingsby, Knight, and Frances Vavasour, and born 
 in 1601. Sir Henry was educated by a clergyman named 
 Otby at Fewston; and, in 161 8, entered as Fellow-commoner 
 
 of Queen's College, Cambridge, where he resided until 162 1. 
 
 He then travelled on the Continent, and afterwards spent his time 
 between Yorkshire and London, where, in 163 1, he married Barbara, 
 daughter of Viscount Falconberg. She died in 1641. 
 
 In 1638 Henry Slingsby was created a baronet of Nova Scotia. Sir 
 Henry SHngsby sat for Knaresborough in both Parliaments summoned 
 in 1640, and was one of the fifty-nine members who voted against the 
 attainder of Strafford. 
 
 Although a Roman Catholic, Sir Henry Slingsby was named in 1641 
 one of the persons * for the speedy disarming of popish recusants, and 
 other dangerous persons ;' yet in 1642 he had ceased to sit in the Long 
 Parliament. His diary, which has been published, gives us the history 
 of Sir Henry's life from 1638 to 1648. 
 
 Like many other country gentlemen living at that period, he took an 
 active part in the king's army. His estates were sequestered and sold, 
 but bought in for him by friends, and he probably passed some time 
 in privacy. 
 
 In 1644-5 Sir Henry Shngsby was one of the loyal gentlemen con- 
 cerned in the rising in the North, and was imprisoned at Hull. After 
 the expedition of the Duke of Ormonde to England in 1657-8, Cromwell 
 appears to have resolved to make an example of some of the leading 
 loyalists then in his power; and Sir Henry Slingsby having been 
 
Sir Henry Slingsby, Bart. 
 
 induced, while in confinement, to join in a plot against Cromwell, was 
 tried, condemned, and executed on Tower Hill, in June 1658, meeting 
 his death with the greatest firmness. Lord Falconberg, his nephew, who 
 had married Cromwell's daughter Mary, in vain endeavoured to save 
 him ; and the execution of Sir Henry was one of the causes which pro- 
 duced dissension in Cromwell's family. 
 
 While in the Tower Sir Henry Slingsby wrote A Father's Legacy to 
 his Sons, which was printed shortly after his death. It is full of excellent 
 advice, clothed in language that is very touching, when we recall the 
 circumstances under which it was used, and gives a high opinion of Sir 
 Henry's heart and sound common sense. 
 
 Bust on canvas, 30 by 25 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Sir C. Slingsby, Bart. 
 
LIV. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM SLINGSBY, OF KIPPAX. 
 
 I HIS Sir William Slingsby, Knight, was the third surviving 
 son of Francis Slingsby and Mary Percy, and the younger 
 I brother of Sir Henry Slingsby, Knight. 
 
 I He was born in 1562, and was probably educated for the 
 law, as he was of Gray's Inn. While at Como, in Italy, in 1594, he was 
 imprisoned by the Spaniards, but returned to England before 1596, when 
 he was made a commissary for the fleet equipped against Spain. He 
 served with distinction under Lord Howard of Effingham against the 
 Spaniards, and must have been much at Court in the reign of James the 
 First, as he was honorary carver to Anne of Denmark, and made one of 
 the deputy-lieutenants of the county of Middlesex in 161 7. 
 
 He purchased Kippax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, of Francis 
 Bailden, Esq., and discovered the virtues of the celebrated Sweet Spa, 
 at Harrogate, having tested those at Spa in Germany, and been struck 
 with their resemblance. The name of English Spaw had nevertheless 
 been already given to the sulphurous springs at Harrogate in 1583-89, 
 by Dr. Timothy Bright. 
 
 Sir William Slingsby married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Stephen 
 Board, Knight, of Board Hill, county Sussex, by whom he had a son 
 Henry, who was Master of the Mint in the reign of Charles the Second. 
 
 He died in August, 1624, and was buried in the Slingsby Chapel in 
 Knaresborough Church, where a beautiful monument was raised to him. 
 
 The family pedigree was drawn up under his inspection, and forms the 
 fruits of his researches. 
 
 Bust, inscribed with name and dated 1592. 
 On canvas, 14 by 12 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Sir Reginald H. Graham, Bart. 
 
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LV. 
 
 HENRY SLINGSBY. 
 
 ENRY SLINGSBY was the second son of Sir William 
 Slingsby, of Kippax, and Elizabeth Board, his wife, and was 
 born in 1620. He was Master-worker of the Mint, in 167 1, 
 to King Charles the Second. As such, he is said to be the 
 author of that notable motto on our coins, * Decus et Tutamen.' He 
 was also a member of the Royal Society. 
 
 Henry Slingsby married a daughter of Sir Cage, Knight, and had 
 
 issue two sons; Henry, who died in 1695, and Anthony, who died in 1697. 
 As neither of them left children, the male issue of Sir William became 
 extinct. Their sister, Elizabeth, married Mr. Adlard Cage, of Thavies 
 Inn. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 30 by 25 inches. 
 
 Arms, and inscribed ' Henry Slyngsbye, Esq., of Slyngsbye House in 
 the Strand, and Kippax, Master of the Mint to King Charles Second, 
 1670, only son of Sir William.' 
 
 In the possession of Sir Charles Slingsby, Bart. 
 
LVI. 
 
 SIR RICHARD BEAUMONT, OF WHITLEY, KT. 
 
 HE name of Beaumont is derived from Bellemont, or Beau- 
 mont, in France, and there are various branches of this family 
 both in France and England. That of Whitley- Beaumont 
 has been seated at Whitley, in Yorkshire, from the time of 
 Henry the Third. Parts of the Old Hall are supposed to be of the time 
 of Sir Richard Beaumont. 
 
 He was born at Whitley in 1574, and was the son of Edward Beau- 
 mont, of Whitley, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Ramsden. James the 
 First knighted him in 1609. In 161 3 he had a commission to command 
 two hundred of the train-bands soldiers ; and in the fifteenth year of James 
 he was a Justice of the Peace and treasurer for lame soldiers, in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire. Sir Richard was returned member of Parliament 
 for Pontefract in 161 5, and three years later he was created a baronet. 
 
 As he died unmarried in 163 1, he devised his estates of Whitley Beau- 
 mont to his cousin, Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Rexburgh, who then became 
 of Whitley-Beaumont. 
 
 Sir Richard Beaumont, Baronet, was buried in the north aisle of the 
 choir, the property of the Beaumonts of Whitley, in the parish church of 
 Kirk Heaton, where his tomb is. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 24 inches by 19 ; with arms and crest, and inscribed 
 ' Sir Richard Beaumont, of Whitley Hall, in the county of York, Knight 
 and Baronet' 
 
 Born 2nd August, 1574; died 20th October, 1631, unmarried. 
 In the possession of H. B. Beaumont, Esq. 
 
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LVII. 
 
 SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, KNIGHT. 
 
 IR THOMAS BEAUMONT was the cousin of Sir Richard 
 Beaumont, who devised to him, among other property, that 
 of Whitley Beaumont. Thomas was baptized at Mirfield, 
 January, 1605. One part of the Beaumont family had been 
 established in the neighbourhood of that place as early as the time of 
 Richard the Third. 
 
 The father of Thomas bought the Castle Hall, known as the Manor 
 of Mirfield, from the Gascoignes, with whom the Beaumonts were con- 
 nected, and built the old house at Mirfield about 1522. After succeeding 
 to Sir Richard's property, Sir Thomas Beaumont was known as of Whitley 
 Beaumont. 
 
 He studied the law in the Middle Temple, but took an active part 
 in the Civil War. In 1642 he was appointed sergeant-major of Sir William 
 Savile's regiment, and was probably a captain in it when Sir William 
 Savile left him a legacy by his will. The following year Thomas Beaumont 
 was made deputy, and afterwards governor of Sheffield Castle. He was 
 also later lieutenant -colonel of the Yorkshire Militia, and in 1660 
 knighted by Charles the Second. 
 
 Sir Thomas Beaumont died in 1668. His correspondence with Sir 
 William Savile was deposited by Richard Henry Beaumont, Esq. of 
 Whitley Beaumont, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 30 by 29 inches. 
 
 Inscribed with name and date. 
 
 In the possession of W. B. Wrightson, Esq. 
 
LVIIL 
 
 SIR MARMADUKE RAWDON, KNIGHT. 
 
 HIS great merchant of London, and gallant royalist com- 
 mander, was one of the younger sons of Ralph Rawdon, of 
 Rawdon, near Leeds, of which Francis Rawdon was lord of 
 the manor in 1668, and lived at Stearsby, near Kepwick, in 
 
 Yorkshire. Marmaduke Rawdon, whose mother was Jane, daughter of 
 John Brice, of Stillington, in this county, gentleman, was baptized at 
 Brandsby, in 1582. 
 
 Sir Marmaduke Rawdon is commonly styled of London and Hod- 
 desdon, county Herts, as he married Elizabeth, sole daughter and heir 
 of Thomas Thorowgood, Esq. of Hoddesdon, and rebuilt the house there: 
 which had probably been the residence of the father of his wife, who was 
 a relative of Dr. Cooke, bishop of Hereford. 
 
 By his wife he had ten sons and six daughters ; and was married and 
 settled at Hoddesdon in 1626. In 1628 he was member of Parliament 
 for Aldborough, in Suffolk. 
 
 He resided in London, and was engaged in a large foreign trade in 
 1638; but evidently lived in great state at Hoddesdon, and not averse to 
 fine clothes; as, upon his nephew giving an order to a tailor for every- 
 thing of the best, he said, * I commend you, nephew ; win gold and wear 
 
 Sir Marmaduke was in high favour with Charles the First and 
 Queen Henrietta, and took an active part in the Civil War, in which he 
 adhered to the royal cause. In 1643 he joined the king at Oxford, and 
 was made colonel of a regiment raised at his own cost. He was governor 
 of Basing House in 1643 ; knighted for his services in 1645 ; and made 
 governor of Faringdon, in Berkshire, which he held with great bravery 
 
 gold.' 
 
Sir Marmaduke Rawdon^ Knight, 
 
 for the king. He died there of sickness and fatigue, and was buried 
 at that place. When dying, he charged the soldiers to defend the town 
 to the last extremity. 
 
 His nephew and son, who both bore the name of Marmaduke, not- 
 withstanding the civil war, carried on a large trade with the Canary 
 Islands, in which they had the monopoly of the sale of tobacco. But, in 
 1655, owing to the war between England and Spain, the Spanish govern- 
 ment seized their vessels and estates, and they were compelled to give 
 up their factory and return to England. 
 
 Sir Marmaduke Rawdon had also plantations in the Island of Bar- 
 badoes ; and his eldest son. Colonel Thomas Rawdon, who was in both 
 the fights of Newbury, went to that island to escape from the persecution 
 of Cromwell, and remained there some time. He died in 1666. 
 
 In 1668, Lady Rawdon and her son Marmaduke were living at Hod- 
 desdon. The family appears to have preserved their property during the 
 civil war, and to have been on good terms with Lord Fairfax and other 
 persons of the Parliamentary party. 
 
 Portrait on canvass, about 46 by 30 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Sir Andrew Fairbairn, Knight. 
 
LIX. AND LX. 
 
 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 
 
 ILLIAM CAVENDISH was the only son of Sir Charles 
 Cavendish, Knight, of Welbeck Abbey, Notts ; brother to 
 the first Earl of Devonshire; and his second wife Catherine, 
 daughter of Cuthbert, seventh Baron Ogle. He was born in 
 1599, at Handsworth, near Sheffield. 
 
 Showing early great capacity, his father had him most carefully 
 educated, and he soon became distinguished at the Court of James the 
 First. In 1610 he was made a Knight of the Bath, and elevated to the 
 peerage as Viscount Mansfield in 1620. He was created Earl of New- 
 castle in 1628, and governor to the prince, afterwards Charles the Second, 
 in 1638. 
 
 When, in 1639, the troubles in Scotland induced Charles the First to 
 form an army for their suppression, Newcastle contributed 1,000/. towards 
 its support, and formed a troop of 200 gentlemen, who were called the 
 Prince's Troop. 
 
 His acts being called in question by the Parliamentary party, which 
 was then becoming strong, Newcastle resigned his office in 1640, and 
 retired into the country. As the troubles increased, he offered to secure 
 Hull for Charles ; but the latter requested him to follow the order of the 
 Parliament. Upon the king's going to York in 1642, Newcastle was sent 
 for, and received orders to hold the town of Newcastle, and the counties 
 of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham, for the 
 king, and subsequently much more extensive powers were given to him. 
 In less than three months Newcastle had raised 8000 men. With them he 
 marched into Yorkshire, and took possession of York. He next defeated 
 the Parliamentary forces at Tadcaster. On the landing of Queen Henrietta, 
 
William Cavendish, Dtike of Newcastle. 
 
 he had her conveyed in safety to the king at Oxford, and sent large 
 supplies of men and money there. 
 
 Newcastle was victorious in many actions which took place with the 
 Parliamentary forces, and particularly at Adwalton Heath, where he de- 
 feated Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, and took, successively, Bradford, Gains- 
 borough, Lincoln, and other places. He was then made Marquis of 
 Newcastle. In 1644 he was obliged to hurry to York, which he reached 
 in time to occupy in April, and held until July, when the imprudence of 
 Prince Rupert brought on the fatal battle of Marston Moor, fought 
 against the consent of the Marquis of Newcastle. Seeing how com- 
 pletely this had ruined the king's affairs, Newcastle went to Scarborough, 
 and embarked for Hamburgh, with a few of his principal officers. 
 He went from that place to Amsterdam and Paris, and afterwards to 
 Antwerp : and so great were his sufferings, at the very moment when 
 the Parliament were levying vast sums on his estates, that he and his 
 young wife could with difficulty procure a dinner. 
 
 It is computed that Newcastle lost about 700,000/. by the civil war, 
 yet he never despaired of the ultimate success of the royal cause, and 
 endeavoured to encourage Charles the Second with hopes of regaining the 
 throne. 
 
 After eighteen years' exile and suffering, the fidelity of Newcastle was 
 rewarded. He was made a Knight of the Garter, and at the Restoration, 
 Duke of Newcastle. After that event he spent the greater part of his 
 life in retirement, although he was Chief-Justice of Eyre, north of the 
 Trent. 
 
 The Duke was twice married. First, to Elizabeth Basset, of Blore, 
 county Stafford ; second, Margaret, widow of Lord Lucas. He died in 
 1676, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He was the author of 
 several works on horsemanship during his exile, and some poetry. 
 
 First Portrait. Full-length, by Vandyck. 
 
 In possession of Earl Spencer. 
 
 Second, 31 by 25 inches, by Dobson. 
 
 In possession of Colonel Tempest. 
 
LXI. 
 
 SIR THOMAS HERBERT. 
 
 HOMAS HERBERT, Esq. of Tinterne, in the county of 
 Monmouth, was related to the Earls of Pembroke. He is 
 said to have been born in 1610, at York, where his grand- 
 father was an alderman. He was admitted to Jesus College, 
 
 Oxford; but before taking a degree, removed to Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge. After a short stay there, through the assistance of his kinsman, 
 William, Earl of Pembroke, he was enabled to travel abroad, and spent 
 four years in Asia and Africa. 
 
 About 1633 he married, and devoted much of his time to literary 
 employments. In 1634 he published, in folio, 'A Relation of some Years' 
 Travels into Africa and the Great Asia, especially the Territories of the 
 Persian Monarchy and some parts of the Oriental Indies and Isles adja- 
 cent;' to which, in the fourth edition of 1677, he made several additions. 
 
 Thomas Herbert was accepted by Charles as one of his Grooms of the 
 Bedchamber. In this honourable office he remained when all the other 
 servants of Charles were removed, even when the king was on the scaffold. 
 Although attached to the Presbyterian party, his devotion to Charles 
 was highly honourable to him ; and during the two years of his service 
 he did everything in his power to alleviate the difficulties, dangers, and 
 distresses with which his royal master had to struggle. 
 
 At the Restoration, Charles the Second made Sir Thomas Herbert a 
 baronet. 
 
 He was twice married : first, to Lucy, daughter of Sir Walter 
 Alexander, Knight ; and secondly, to Elizabeth Cutler, widow of Henry 
 Edmonds, Esq. of Yorkshire. His son. Sir Henry Herbert, succeeded 
 him, and fixed his residence in Yorkshire : where he died, and was buried 
 at Badsworth in 1732. It is believed the baronetcy then became extinct. 
 
 In addition to his Travels, Sir Thomas Herbert wrote, in 1678, the 
 Thenodia Carolina, containing an account of the two last years of the 
 life of King Charles the First, and assisted Dugdale in his Monasticon 
 A nglicanum. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 21 by 20 inches, inscribed ' J^t. 35, A.D. 1642.' 
 In the possession of Robert Williamson, Esq. 
 
LXII. 
 
 SIR PHILIP MONCKTON, KNIGHT. 
 
 IMON MONCKTON had the lordship of Monckton, near 
 Boroughbridge, in the county of York. In 1454 Robert 
 Monckton became possessed of Cavil by marriage, and a long 
 line of distinguished men leads to the Sir Philip Monckton 
 
 of Cavil and Hodroyd, son of Sir Francis Monckton and Margaret Savile. 
 He was knighted by Charles the First at York in 1641. 
 
 Born at Heck, near Howden, in Yorkshire, he entered young in the 
 Civil War, and distinguished himself highly by his loyalty, as, indeed, 
 did all his family, for they were banished or imprisoned ; and at one time 
 his grandfather, father, and himself, were all sequestered by Cromwell. 
 He was present at the battle of Adwalton, knighted at Corbridge, and 
 fought at Hessey and Marston Moors. At Naseby he had three horses 
 killed under him. In the engagement at Rowton Heath, near Chester, he 
 commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale's brigade. There he was wounded 
 in his right arm, and endeavoured to manage his horse with his teeth 
 while he fought with his left, until he was again wounded and taken 
 prisoner. He was also actively employed in raising the siege of Pontefract- 
 
 In 1648, in conjunction with Byron and Portington, he once more 
 fought for the royal cause with Colonel Rossiter at Willoughby, and was 
 taken prisoner. Yet, after being imprisoned at Belvoir, he was, through 
 the intervention of Sir Thomas Fairfax, permitted to go abroad. 
 
 On his return to England, in 165 1, Sir Philip Monckton still took an 
 active share in the intrigues of the royalists under the Commonwealth, 
 and had matured a plan for an insurrection in London ; but Cromwell and 
 Thurlow were too vigilant ; and when Sir Philip was arrested and brought 
 into the Protector's presence, he was surprised to hear his conversation with 
 
Sir Philip Monckton, Knight. 
 
 intimate friends repeated to him. From that time Sir Philip Monckton 
 was kept in close confinement until Cromwell's death, which saved him 
 from being sent to Jamaica. 
 
 In consideration of these services, Charles the Second had, in 1653, 
 written a letter to Sir Philip, promising that if ever he was restored to 
 the throne, the Moncktons should be rewarded. Yet, it is said, that when 
 the Earl of Albemarle reminded Lord Clarendon of their claims, they 
 were treated with indifference. Nevertheless, in 1669 Sir Philip Monckton 
 was high-sheriff of Yorkshire, and received the thanks of the mayor and 
 aldermen of York, for hazarding his life in leading and encouraging the 
 citizens in 1659 against the Parliamentary commanders, Colonel Lilburne 
 and Lord Fairfax. 
 
 Sir Philip Monckton married in 1658 Anne Eyre, and had by her two 
 sons, both of whom distinguished themselves. The youngest, William, 
 was killed before Barcelona in 1706. 
 
 Sir Philip Monckton died in 1678. 
 I Portrait on canvas, 86 by 58 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Viscount Galway. 
 
LXIIL 
 
 SIR JOHN RAMSDEN, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE Ramsdens had been settled at Longley Hall, in the 
 West Riding of the County, for generations before the time 
 when this brave cavalier succeeded to the family property in 
 1622. He was the eldest surviving son and heir of William 
 Ramsden, of Longley Hall, and Rosamond, daughter of Thomas Pilkington, 
 of Bradley, and was baptised at Almondbury the 13th of October, 1594. 
 
 He was knighted at Nottingham in 1619, and in 1628 was M.P. for 
 Pontefract, and one of the Royal Commissioners for compounding with 
 recusants, whose forfeitures were to go to the support of the navy. As 
 Justice of the Peace in 1632, he reported to the Privy Council as to the 
 employment of certain persons in the sale of tobacco in the West Riding ; 
 at which time, it appears, one was considered sufficient for Huddersfield, 
 'because there is so little tobacco used in our town.' In 1635-6, in con- 
 junction with Sir Philip Monckton and Matthew Kay, he reported to Sir 
 Thomas Wentworth (Strafford) on the damage done by the overflowing of 
 the rivers Ayr and Dun. 
 
 Among the state papers there is also a receipt for 11,800/. received in 
 1636-7 from Sir J. Ramsden, then High Sheriff of Yorkshire, for so much 
 of the 12,000/. ship-money charged upon the county. 
 
 During the civil wars. Sir John Ramsden was one of the most 
 active officers in the king's army, and a colonel of one of the royal 
 regiments, to raise which he sold large estates at Saddleworth. He was 
 one of those persons who signed the two petitions of the County of 
 Yorkshire to the King in 1640; also the proclamation calling all persons 
 between the ages of sixteen and sixty to arms 'for the defense of his 
 majesty's person, the mainetaineing of the Established Protestant religion 
 
Sir John Ramsden, Knight, 
 
 and knowne Lawes of the Kingdom, and secureing of theire owne selves 
 and estates from anye plunder, rapine violences ; for the resisting of the 
 Scotts and principally for the procuring a happy peace.' 
 
 After many gallant services, Sir John Ramsden had the misfortune to 
 be made prisoner at Selby in 1644, when it was taken after two hours' hard 
 fighting. Colonel John Bellasis, Governor of York, fell into the hands of 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax at the same time, and, being members of parliament, 
 the two prisoners were called to appear at the bar of the house ; when the 
 speaker harangued them, and finished his address by these words : * That 
 for these grievous crimes of high treason, they were, by the judgement of 
 that House committed as Traitors to the Tower, there to remain during 
 pleasure.' Which sentence, it appears, stood as a precedent for every 
 member of the house taken. 
 
 In August of the same year. Sir John Ramsden, on the application of 
 Fairfax, was exchanged for Colonel Ashenhurst and his son, who were 
 prisoners with the royalists ; and the harangue of the Speaker does not 
 seem to have produced any very profound impression upon his mind, for at 
 the first siege of Pontefract, which began in December of the same year, 
 he was one of the * Collonells ' who defended it. He appears to have held 
 the same position during the second siege in 1645 ; and when the castle was 
 no longer tenable, was one of the commissioners to treat, on the part of 
 the garrison, for its surrender. It was then agreed that the garrison 
 was to march to Newark ; and, it is probable. Sir John Ramsden formed 
 part of it, as he died at Newark Castle in March, 1646. 
 
 He married first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Peter Frescheville, of 
 Staveley, Derbyshire; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Lawrence Overton, 
 of London. 
 
 Portrait, by Mireveldt, on panel, 15 by 13 inches. 
 In the possession of Sir J. W. Ramsden, Bart. 
 
LXIV, 
 
 SIR MARMADUKE LANGDALE, KNIGHT. 
 
 ORD LANGDALE, of Holme, in Spaldingmore, better known 
 as Sir Marmaduke Langdale, was descended from the Lang- 
 dales of Langdale, in the hundred of Pickering, in Yorkshire, 
 of which they were lords prior to the time of King John. 
 The father of Marmaduke was Peter Langdale, of Pighill, who mar- 
 ried Anne, daughter of Michael Wharton, of Beverley Park. 
 
 Marmaduke was born about 1600, and appears to have been a good 
 scholar, and of a singularly grave and sincere character. In 1627 he was 
 knighted by Charles the First at Whitehall. During the Civil War he 
 became one of the most distinguished of the Cavalier generals. Putting 
 himself at the head of three companies of foot and seventy horse, raised 
 by himself, he defeated the Scots of Corbridge. Having the chief com- 
 mand in Lincolnshire, he next beat Colonel Rossiter ; and then, marching 
 against Lord Fairfax, ousted his forces, and relieved Pontefract. Be- 
 sieging Berwick-on-Tweed subsequently, he took it and the strong Castle 
 of Carlisle. Being involved in the defeat of the Duke of Hamilton at 
 Preston, Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken prisoner, but fortunate 
 enough, notwithstanding, to escape; and retiring abroad, became one of 
 the attendants of Charles the Second in exile, and was created Baron 
 Langdale in 1658. 
 
 His attachment to Charles was of the greatest service to the latter, 
 as Sir Marmaduke's integrity, generosity, and wise conduct, contributed 
 much to the ultimate success of the royal cause. 
 
 He served with distinction also in several armies on the Continent, 
 and Lloyd says of him, * He was a very lean and much mortified man. 
 
Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Knight. 
 
 so that the enemy called him ghost ; and deservedly, they were so haunted 
 by him.' This gallant soldier and worthy man returned to England in 
 1660; and after appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale, of Holme, 
 returned to his estates in Yorkshire. He is said to have lost 160,000/., 
 an immense sum in those days, irl the service of his sovereigns. 
 
 Sir Marmaduke Langdale married a daughter of Sir John B. Rodes, 
 and died at Holme in 1661. He was succeeded by his eldest son, who 
 bore the same name. 
 
 On canvas, 46 by 37 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Honourable Mrs. Stourton. 
 
LXV. 
 
 SIR RICHARD TANCRED, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE family of Tancred, or Tanckred, had been long settled in 
 the north of Yorkshire before the time of William Tancred, 
 who, in the reign of Henry the Third, possessed vast estates 
 in various parts of the County, and was steward of the manor 
 and forest of Knaresborough. 
 
 Another William Tancred was Judge of Assize for the county of 
 Southampton in the reign of Edward the Third. 
 
 A third William Tancred founded the Chantry of St. James, at 
 Pannall, in Yorkshire, and the Tancreds were to nominate the priests. 
 
 In the time of James the First the Tancreds were seated at Brampton, 
 in Yorkshire, when Charles, the fifth son of Thomas Tancred, of Brampton, 
 purchased Whixley. His son and heir was this Sir Richard Tancred, of 
 Whixley, who, in 1642, met Charles the First at York, and gave him 
 200/. He paid the sequestrators 346/., besides 40/. yearly settled on 
 the Ministry. He must have survived the Restoration, as he was Colonel 
 of a regiment of foot in 1666, and Justice of the Peace. His son Charles 
 had also paid 220/. to the sequestrators, and was Sheriff of Yorkshire 
 in 1694. 
 
 Christopher Tancred, the son of Charles, was Sheriff of Yorkshire 
 in 1684 and 1685, and member for Yorkshire in 1690-95. He was also 
 Master of the Light Hounds to Willia.m the Third. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 48 by 36 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Governors of Whixley Hospital. 
 
LXVI. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM SAVILE, BARONET. 
 
 ILLIAM SAVILE was the third baronet and second son of 
 Sir George Savile, of Thornhill, and Ann, daughter of Sir 
 William Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, and sister 
 to the celebrated Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford ; who 
 alludes in one of his letters written shortly after her death, in 1633, to 
 the care bestowed by her on the education of the subject of the present 
 memoir. On the death of his brother George, in 1626, he succeeded to 
 the baronetcy. 
 
 He took an active part in the Civil Wars, and commanded the 
 besieged Royalists at Leeds till it was taken on the 23rd of January, 
 1642-3. On the 9th of May, 1643, he was appointed Governor and 
 Commander-in-Chief of the town and castle of Sheffield. His letters 
 written at that time are said to 'breathe much of the high-toned and 
 heroic spirit which animated the supporters of the Royal cause.' The last 
 of these letters is dated from York on the 19th of January, 1643-4. He 
 died there on the 24th of that month, and was buried at Thornhill. Sir 
 William Savile married at Thornhill, in 1629, Anne, daughter of Thomas, 
 Lord Coventry, Lord keeper; by whom he had nine children. His 
 eldest son. Sir George Savile, of Rufford, born in 1633, became the 
 Marquess of Halifax. The old hall at Thornhill was burnt down in 
 1644 by order of the family, to prevent its being a garrison for the 
 forces of the Parliament, and the family removed to Rufford Abbey in 
 Nottinghamshire, an inheritance from George, Earl of Shrewsbury. It 
 appears from the letters of his uncle. Lord Strafford, that he considered 
 Sir William Savile acted too much on his own opinion of what was best 
 for the King's Service; yet Charles must have had confidence in him, 
 as in a letter to Major Beaumont Sir William Savile says, ' Your com- 
 mission is as mine, which is to do what you have a mind to for the service.' 
 
 Bust on canvas, 28 by 22 inches. Inscribed '1635, ^TA : 30.' Arms. 
 
 In the possession of Henry Savile, Esq. 
 
LXVII. 
 
 LADY ANNE SAVILE. 
 
 ADY ANNE SAVILE was the daughter of Thomas, Lord 
 Coventry, Lord Keeper, and married, at Thornhill, the 29th 
 December, 1629, Sir William Savile, of that place. She 
 appears to have been, in every respect, worthy of her father 
 and her brave husband, and has been justly named one of the heroines 
 of the Civil War. 
 
 At the time of the death of her husband she was, with her children, 
 at Sheffield Castle, which held out against the Parliamentary forces until 
 the nth of August, 1644, when it was surrendered by Major Beaumont, 
 the governor. In the articles it was stipulated, ' That the Lady Savile 
 and her children and family, with her own proper goods, shall and may 
 pass, with coaches, horses, and waggons, to Thornhill or elsewhere, with a 
 sufficient guard befitting her quality, and without injury to any of these 
 persons, or plundering of any of their goods ; or otherwise she, they, or any 
 of them, to go or stay at their own pleasure, until she or they be in a 
 condition to remove themselves.' 
 
 Sir William Savile, her husband, was then dead ; and it appears that 
 the latter part of the agreement was by no means unnecessary, as Lady 
 Savile gave birth to a son on the night after the castle was surrendered.' 
 ' Thus,' as Hunter justly remarks, ' the distress of these sad times visited 
 even the tender sex.' 
 
 Although Lady Savile married afterwards Sir Thomas Chicheley, she 
 devoted the greatest care to the education of her numerous family by 
 her first husband ; and George, their eldest son, was the Marquess of 
 Halifax. 
 
 Bust on canvas, 28 by 22 inches; inscribed ' ^T A 22, 1629.' Arms. 
 In the possession of Henry Savile, Esq. 
 
LXVIII. 
 
 SIR JOHN MALLORY, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE family of Mallory is supposed to have been originally 
 seated in the southern counties, but, in 145 1, William Mallory 
 was the owner of Hutton Conyers ; and, by his marriage with 
 Dyonisia Tempest, became possessed of Studley and other 
 
 property. Leland in his Itinerary says, ' Malory hath another place, 
 cauU'd High Studly, a little from Fontains.' The authorship of the 
 work called Morte A rthur, or Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King 
 Arthur, of his noble knights is ascribed to a member of this family. In 
 the reign of Henry the Seventh, a Sir John Mallory assisted in repelling 
 the invasion of England by James the Fourth of Scotland. 
 
 The brave Royalist, the subject of this notice, was the second son of 
 William Mallory, Esq., of Studley and Hutton, and his wife, Alice, 
 daughter of Sir James Bellingham, of Levens, in Westmoreland, Knight, 
 Sir John was born in 161 1, and succeeded his father, who had sat in six 
 parliaments for that place, as member for Ripon in 1640. 
 
 He became also Colonel of a regiment of dragoons, and of the train 
 band foot regiments in the Wapentakes, of Stainclifife and Ewecross, in 
 the West Riding, which offices his father had held. Sir John Mallory 
 took an active part in the Civil W^r, and, as Governor of Skipton Castle, 
 held that fortress for the King for three years, during which period with 
 a troop of horse he drove Sir Thomas Mauleverer and his forces out of 
 the town of Ripon, of which they had taken possession ; and to the 
 inhabitants of which they had offered many indignities, besides defacing 
 and destroying many memorials of the dead in the Collegiate Church. 
 
 Sir John Mallory only surrendered Skipton in 1645, and, in the mean- 
 
Sir John Mallory, Knight. 
 
 time, his own house at Hutton had been destroyed by the parliamentary 
 forces. The articles of surrender show how carefully the property of 
 Anne Clifford, the Countess of Pembroke, its noble owner, was protected. 
 
 By Mary, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of John Mosely, Esq., of 
 York, Sir John Mallory had a son, William, who died without issue in 
 1666, and Studley Royal then passed to his sister Mary, who married 
 Mr. John Aislabie of York. Lady Mallory survived her husband, Sir John, 
 who died in 1655, forty-six years; and placed a handsome monument to 
 his memory in Ripon Minster. 
 
 On canvas, 86 by 86 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Earl de Grey and Ripon. 
 
LXIX. 
 
 JOHN DOLBEN, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. 
 
 'OHN DOLBEN was the fifth descendant of William Dolben, 
 of Denbighshire, of an ancient family of that name settled 
 in that county. His father (another William Dolben) was 
 made rector of Stanwick in Northamptonshire, and Prebendary 
 
 of Lincoln, through the interest of Lord-Keeper Williams : whose niece, 
 Elizabeth Williams, he had married. 
 
 Their son John was born at Stanwick, in 1625, and educated at 
 Westminster School; was King's scholar in 1636, and, in 1640, elected to 
 Christchurch, Oxford, where, the same year, he was a student on Queen 
 Elizabeth's foundation. Since his time, Westminster School has rarely 
 been without a Dolben among its scholars. 
 
 When the civil wars broke out John Dolben took arms for the royal 
 cause as an ensign, and was wounded in the shoulder at Marston Moor 
 by a musket ball. 
 
 In the defence of York he shortly afterwards received another severe 
 wound by a ball, which broke his thigh and confined him to his bed for 
 a year. He was made captain and major in the course of the war ; 
 but when, in 1646, there appeared no longer any hope of serving the 
 king's cause by arms, Dolben retired again to Oxford, and renewed 
 his studies. In 1647 he took his degree of Master of Arts, and before 
 1656 had taken holy orders. At the Restoration, John Dolben's services 
 were not forgotten by Charles the Second. In 1660, having taken his 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity, he was appointed a canon of Christchurch, 
 Oxford, and presented to the rectory of Newington-cum-Britwell, in Oxford- 
 shire. His preferment was then rapid. In 1661 he was a prebendary of 
 St Paul's, and one of those who signed the revised Liturgy ; in 1662, 
 
yohn Dolben, Archbishop of York. 
 
 Archdeacon of London, and presented to the vicarage of St. Giles, Crip- 
 plegate ; then Dean of Westminster ; and also Clerk of the Closet to the 
 king. In 1666 he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, and made Lord 
 High Almoner in 1675, and in 1683 was translated to the Archbishopric 
 of York. 
 
 His death was occasioned by sleeping at an inn on the North Road, 
 where he caught the smallpox. And after an illness of only four days he 
 died in 1686, at Bishopthorpe. He was buried in York Cathedral. 
 
 By his wife Catherine, daughter of Ralph, elder brother of Archbishop 
 Sheldon, he left two sons and one daughter. 
 
 Anthony a Wood says of Archbishop Dolben, that 'he was a man 
 of a free, generous, and noble disposition, and of a natural bold and 
 happy eloquence.' 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 93 by 50 inches. 
 
 In Baliol College, Oxford, 
 
LXX. 
 
 SIR ARTHUR INGRAM, KNIGHT. 
 
 |RTHUR INGRAM was the son of Hugh Ingram, of Thorpe- 
 on-the-Hill, the youngest brother of Sir William Ingram, 
 Knight and Secretary to the Council of the North, who died 
 in 1623. Arthur made very extensive purchases of land in 
 the County of York, including the Manor of Temple Newsam, formerly 
 belonging to the Knights Templars, and which he bought about 1623-4, of 
 Esme, heir to Lodowick Stuart, Duke of Richmond; who died in 1624. 
 
 From James the First Sir Arthur Ingram had a lease of the Park of 
 Sheriff Hutton granted to him at a rent of £8, and he there built the 
 Hall; Charles the First granted both to Sir Thomas Ingram, his heirs 
 and assigns for ever. 
 
 Sir Arthur Ingram had been comptroller of the customs in London. 
 In 16 1 2 he was appointed for life secretary and keeper of the signet, in 
 the North of England. In 161 5 being made cofferer of the King's house- 
 hold, he had many contests with the courtiers, who profited by various 
 peculations and monopolies granted by the crown. He was sent into 
 Yorkshire as manager of the King's alum mines, which had been wrested 
 from Sir Thomas Chaloner, but were afterwards restored to his children 
 by the Long Parliament. 
 
 Sir Arthur represented the city of York in the last Parliament of 
 James the First, and the two first of Charles the First. 
 
 In York, he built himself a large house, and the King was his guest 
 when he visited that city in 1642. Sir Arthur also pulled down the old 
 mansion at Temple Newsam, in which Darnley was born, and entirely re- 
 built and finished the present one before 1635. 
 
Sir Arthur Ingram, K^iight. 
 
 Round the roof of the mansion runs the curious battlement forming 
 these words : — 
 
 * All glory and praise to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost on high ; 
 peace and goodwill towards men; honour and true allegiance to our Gracious 
 King; loving affections amongst his subjects ; health and plenty within this house.' 
 
 After the Restoration, Charles the Second created the second son of 
 Sir Arthur Ingram Viscount Irvine, for his adherence to the royal cause ; 
 this title became extinct in 1778. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 73 by 58 inches. 
 
 In the possession of H. C. Meynell Ingram, Esq. 
 
LXXI. 
 
 SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX, KNIGHT. 
 
 I HE Saxon family of Fairfax was seated in Northumberland 
 before the Conquest. At an early period this family moved 
 first into Lincolnshire, and afterwards into Yorkshire, where 
 I they finally settled at the end of the twelfth or beginning 
 of the thirteenth century. Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, which he 
 inherited in right of his mother, was the eldest surviving son of Sir 
 William Fairfax, of Steeton, who was High Sheriff of the County of 
 York in the time of Henry the Eighth, and Isabel, daughter and heir 
 of John Thwaites, Esq., of Denton, Yorkshire, from whom he acquired 
 that property. 
 
 It is said that Sir Thomas Fairfax was with the Duke of Bourbon 
 at the sacking of Rome, and that his father being highly offended 
 therewith, settled Steeton, the family property, on his sons Gabriel and 
 Henry, with remainder to the former. This nevertheless appears impro- 
 bable, as the sack of Rome took place in 1527, and his father had not 
 disinherited him by a will which he made in 1548, but only did so by 
 one of a later date. 
 
 In 1 571 Sir Thomas Fairfax served as Sheriff for the County of York. 
 It was not until 1576 that he received from Queen Elizabeth the honour of 
 knighthood. 
 
 By his wife Dorothy, daughter of George Gale, Esq., of Asham 
 Grange, he had, besides two daughters, three sons. 
 
 First, Thomas, his successor, afterwards Lord Fairfax, of Cameron, 
 second, Edward Fairfax, of Newhall, the poet and translator of Tasso's 
 Jerusalem Delivered into English verse, and also author of a Treatise on 
 Demonology, who died in 1633. And Sir Charles Fairfax, colonel in the 
 army, killed at the Siege of Ostend, of which place he was Governor. 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax died in 1599. 
 
 Bust on panel, 17 by 23 inches. ^ ^ 
 
 In the possession of C. Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P. -"rAj CkiMj 
 
LXXII. 
 
 THOMAS, FIRST BARON FAIRFAX, OF CAMERON. 
 
 IR THOMAS FAIRFAX, Knight, afterwards Lord Fairfax, 
 of Cameron, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of 
 Denton, and born in 1560. 
 
 He distinguished himself, both as a diplomatist and soldier. 
 In the former capacity he was sent no less than five times, in the reign 
 of Queen Elizabeth, to negotiate with or assist King James, who offered 
 him a title, which he refused. When serving in France, under the Earl of 
 Essex, in the army sent to the assistance of Henry the Fourth, he was, 
 however, knighted for his brave conduct. He served also in the Low 
 Countries and Germany with distinction ; and of his numerous family lost 
 no less than four sons in the wars there. 
 
 The intimacy which existed between him and Lord Sheffield, Lord 
 President of the North, led to Sir Thomas being appointed Vice-President 
 of Her Majesty's Council in the North. At this period he resided prin- 
 cipally at Denton ; and when Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of 
 Strafford, contested with Sir John Savile the representation of Yorkshire, 
 the former sought the support of Sir Thomas Fairfax, and ultimately 
 Fairfax stood with Wentworth in 1625, but was defeated. This cir- 
 cumstance, nevertheless, produced a close friendship between them. Sir 
 Thomas Fairfax consoled himself by the honour of a peerage ; and, 
 in a curious document, too long for insertion here, he recounts his 
 services. These alone did not, however, obtain for him the well-earned 
 title of Baron Fairfax of Cameron, for he was obliged to pay ;^i5oo. 
 
 Lord Fairfax died in 1640, and was succeeded by his eldest son, 
 Ferdinando, the Second Baron. By his wife, Ellen Ask, he had twelve 
 
Thomas, First Baron Fairfax of Cameron. 
 
 children ; of whom Dorothy married Sir William Constable, and Anne Sir 
 George Wentworth of Woolley. 
 
 Lord Fairfax was buried with his wife, who died in 1620, at Otley. 
 He was author of a pamphlet against the encroachments of Spain, and 
 others on horsemanship and various subjects. He built the mansion at 
 Denton. He is highly praised in the life of Monsieur De Plessis for his 
 hospitality and independent spirit. 
 
 Bust on canvas, 30 by 24 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Thomas Fairfax, Esq. 
 
LXXIII. 
 
 FERDINANDO, SECOND LORD FAIRFAX. 
 
 ERDINANDO FAIRFAX was the eldest son of Thomas, 
 the first baron, and his wife, Ellen Ask. The date of 
 his birth is doubtful, but he married, before 1610, Mary, 
 daughter of Lord Sheffield. He appears to have been thought, 
 during his father's lifetime, a man who had good, plain sense, and honest 
 intentions, but not possessed of those shining qualities which rendered 
 the other members of his family so remarkable. His father said of him, 
 ' He makes a tolerable country justice, but he is a coward at fighting.' 
 Sir Ferdinando was appointed colonel of the Yorkshire Train Bands in 
 1638, and in 1641 already sided with the popular party. In 1642, on 
 being informed that he was to be sent prisoner to York, he openly joined 
 the Parliamentary side, and was appointed General of the forces in the 
 north. 
 
 Lord Ferdinando Fairfax soon became the distinguished Parliamentary 
 General, and after defeating the Earl of Newcastle in 1642, Lord Byron 
 in 1643, and Colonel Bellasis in 1644. had the chief command at the 
 battle of Marston Moor on the 2nd of July of that year. There having 
 gained, with the assistance of his son, the celebrated Sir Thomas Fairfax, 
 the great victory which contributed so much to the ruin of the royal 
 army, under Prince Rupert, he took possession of the city of York as 
 its governor. 
 
 Lord Ferdinando, by his wife, the Lady Mary Sheffield, daughter of 
 Edmund, first Earl of Mulgrave, had three sons and six daughters. His 
 second wife was Rhoda, daughter of Thomas Chapman, of London, widow 
 of Mr. Hussey of Lincolnshire. He died in 1647, and was succeeded by 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax, his companion in arms. c / . ^ T'c 
 
 Portrait on canvas, by Bower, dated 1646, 42 by 54 inches. J 0 
 
 In possession of Thomas Fairfax, Esq. \ i-* 'j»oww 
 
LXXIV. 
 
 SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX, THIRD BARON FAIRFAX. 
 
 of his intention to bring his grandson with him to London, and there 
 decide where he was to be educated ; and, about this time, the young 
 Thomas Fairfax was sent to Cambridge, and matriculated there at St. 
 John's College. His stay at Cambridge must, however, have been brief, as 
 within three years afterwards he was serving in the army with Sir Horace 
 Vere before Busse ; from which place he wrote to his grandfather on the 
 1 2th of May, 1629. He had returned to England on the 22nd of 
 February, 1632, being he said, * anxious to see the army in Sweden.* 
 It appears his grandfather disapproved of this step ; which he very 
 probably thought was not in accordance with the advice he had given 
 him in these words, * Tom ! Tom ! mind thou the battle ; thy father is a 
 good man, but a mere coward ; all the good I expect is from thee ! ' 
 and which the grandson justifies by saying, ' Whilst I lived in France, 
 I only learned the language, and knew war only by an uncertain relation.' 
 Lords Fauconberge and Mulgrave, who in their letters both speak in 
 high terms of his grandson, endeavoured to appease the old lord, and 
 apparently with success. The service of Sir Thomas Fairfax, under Lord 
 Vere, led to a more close connexion with that nobleman's family. The 
 negotiations for Sir Thomas's marriage with Anne, daughter of Horatio 
 Vere, Baron of Tilbury, commenced in 1635, but the ceremony did not 
 take place until early in June, 1837. This alliance was no doubt very 
 agreeable to his grandfather, who, in one of his letters, expresses a strong 
 
 HIS celebrated son of Lord Ferdinando was his eldest child 
 by Lady Mary Sheffield, and born at Denton on Friday, 
 the 17th of January, 161 1. His grandfather, in one of his 
 letters to his son Ferdinando, written in March 1626, speaks 
 
Sir Tho7nas Fairfax, Third Baron Fairfax. 
 
 desire to see the newly-married couple, and that Tom's name should 
 replace his own in the Commission of the Peace. 
 
 Thomas Fairfax early took an active part in politics, and when Charles 
 made his first attempt to raise a guard for his person at York, young 
 Fairfax followed the King to Heworth Moor, and presented a petition 
 imploring Charles to abandon his design, and listen to the wishes of the 
 Parliament In 1639, Thomas Fairfax had the command of a troop of 
 horse in the King's army, and his family were at that time firmly attached 
 to the Royal party. Yet so much had his feelings altered in January, 
 1642, that he then fought the first action with the Royal troops at 
 Bradford and took Leeds. He also commanded the right wing of the 
 army at Marston Moor. At this period, Dodsworth was enabled through 
 his protection to preserve many documents relating to the history of 
 Yorkshire. On the death of Dodsworth, in 1654, these documents came 
 into the possession of Lord Fairfax, who bequeathed them to the Bodleian 
 Library, and in 1674 Anthony a Wood was employed in drying and 
 arranging them. He also preserved the Saxon * Horn of Ulphus,' which 
 ^ Henry Fairfax had remounted, and returned it to the Cathedral of York, 
 
 in 1675, where it now is. In 1645, Sir Tliomas Fairfax was appointed 
 ^ General-in-Chief of the Parliamentary armies. His services in that 
 
 Lyi itJju capacity are well known ; yet he refused to be present at the trial of 
 IwJ'a' ri'*^' Charles the First, and, in 1650, resigned the command of the army 
 c Ax^t ' Cromwell. Nine years later he assisted Monk in restoring the 
 
 /h\^ h** e6t • ^^^^^^^y- ^Yom that time until his death, except by representing the 
 ^'jt County of York, he took a less active part in public affairs, and died at 
 
 „ . Nun Appleton in 167 1, when the barony devolved upon his cousin 
 Henry, who died in 1688. Thomas Lord Fairfax had but one child, 
 ^ ''' % ' Mary, who married the second Duke of Buckingham. 
 
 There was another Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, who was his 
 contemporary. 
 
 « . Wv*V-Ai' Portrait on canvas, 50 by 40 inches, by Walker. 
 ^^hPiJLs^ ^ possession of Thomas Fairfax, Esq, 
 
LXXV. 
 
 ANNE VERE, BARONESS FAIRFAX. 
 
 ( Although this Portrait was not exhibited at Leeds, the interest con7tected with the 
 Fairfax family has caused its insertion i7t this work.) 
 
 INNE VERE was the fourth of the five daughters of Lord 
 Horatio Vere, who died in 1635, and his wife Mary, daughter 
 of Sir John Tracy. Shortly after her father's death, nego- 
 I ciations for her marriage with Thomas Fairfax, son of Ferdi- 
 nand© Fairfax, were commenced, and carried on until 1637, when it was 
 solemnized. 
 
 Her mother was a woman of exemplary manners, and Anne Vere was 
 brought up as a zealous Presbyterian. 
 
 It appears that at first she encouraged her husband in his opposition 
 to the arbitrary measures of Charles the First. She was taken prisoner 
 by the Duke of Newcastle at Bradford ; who, nevertheless, sent her home 
 in his own coach, well attended : a piece of gallantry which Fairfax 
 afterwards repaid by protecting the daughters of Newcastle after he 
 retired to France. 
 
 Disgusted with the consequences of the rebellion. Lady Fairfax 
 endeavoured to prevent her husband from taking part with those who 
 brought Charles to trial. On the memorable day when the names of 
 those who were to be the King's judges were called over. Lord Fairfax 
 was absent from the Court, but Lady Anne was present ; and when his 
 name was called, exclaimed, ' He had more wit than to be there.' Shortly 
 afterwards the impeachment was read ; and when the expression, ' All the 
 good people of England' was used. Lady Fairfax again, in a still louder 
 tone, exclaimed, ' No ; nor the hundredth part of them.' Upon this 
 Colonel Axtel, who was afterwards tried as a regicide, ordered the soldiers 
 to fire into the box in which the remark had been made. Fortunately, 
 it was discovered that the bold author of the interruption was the General's 
 wife, and she was persuaded to leave the Court. 
 
 Portrait on canvas by Mary Beale, 29 by 24 inches. 
 
 In the possession of E. Wood, Esq. 
 
LXXVI 
 
 MARY FAIRFAX, DUCHESS OF BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 ARY FAIRFAX was the only child of Thomas, third Lord 
 Fairfax, and Anne Vere. She was born in 1638, and had, 
 among other instructors, Andrew Marvell as tutor. She 
 married, on the 19th November, in 1657, George Villiers, 
 second Duke of Buckingham : after her father had resigned the command 
 of the army to Cromwell. It is said Cromwell thought the Duke would 
 be an eligible husband for one of his own daughters, and that the marriage 
 ought not to take place without special leave from the Court. This 
 opposition did not, however, prevent it; and, at his death. Lord Fairfax 
 left her his estates at Nun Appleton and Bolton. Few marriages have, 
 however, been more unfortunate, for the profligate career of her husband, 
 in the Court of Charles the Second, probably rendered her life unhappy ; 
 although he is said to have treated her with the greatest civility, and one 
 of her father's letters to him, in 1663, shows that he and Buckingham were 
 on friendly terms. The Duke also wrote a long laudatory poem on Lord 
 Fairfax after his death. 
 
 And as her father alludes in his letters to her having gone to Calais 
 in 1670, it is probable that she accompanied her husband on his embassy 
 to France. The end of her life appears to have been embittered by dis- 
 putes with the other members of the Fairfax family, who doubtless wished 
 to prevent the estates being sacrificed to pay her husband's debts after his 
 death. 
 
 Lady Mary Fairfax, Duchess of Buckingham, died in London, in 1704. 
 Bust on canvas, 31 by 26 inches, dated 1662. 
 In possession of C. Wykeham Martin, Esq. 
 
LXXVII. \> iLiO . i iiyq-Lf 
 
 SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX OF STEETON, KNIGHT. 
 
 |HE division of the family property by Sir William Fairfax 
 led to the establishment of the Fairfaxes at Steeton, and 
 those of Denton. It was to heal the disputes arising from 
 I this state of things that the double marriages of Sir Philip 
 Fairfax of Steeton, grandson of Gabriel, and of Ferdinando, the eldest 
 son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton, with the two daughters of Lord 
 Sheffield, afterwards Earl of Mulgrave, were effected. That of Sir 
 Philip Fairfax, with the Lady Frances Sheffield, appears to have been 
 peculiarly unfortunate, owing to his imprudence. Sir Philip Fairfax died 
 in his twenty-eighth year, and his wife survived him only two years. 
 They were buried at Bolton, and left three children, of whom the second, 
 William, succeeded to the title. Contemporary with whom, was another 
 William Fairfax, the second son of Lord Fairfax of Denton. 
 
 It appears from a letter of the former Sir William, dated Steeton, 
 25th July, 1 64 1, that, previous to that time, he had not settled in York- 
 shire, as in it he asks Lord Ferdinando Fairfax to get him put in 
 commission for the West Riding, and accepts a company in one of the 
 regiments which afterwards formed part of the Parliamentary Army. 
 
 He was married at this time to a daughter of Sir Thomas Chaloner, 
 of Guisborough, as he also speaks of the birth of his daughter. 
 
 In January, 1642, Sir William Fairfax of Steeton commanded the 
 troops at Leeds, by order of Lord Ferdinando, where his son. Sir Thomas, 
 expected to raise ;^4000. 
 
 Sir William was killed in a skirmish at Montgomery, on the 27th 
 November, 1644. 
 
 By his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaloner, he had two 
 sons and two daughters. ■■, . 
 
 Full length on canvas, 82 by 52 inches. ^Vn^r^ . llM^J 
 
 In the possession of Thomas Fairfax, Esq. 
 
LXXVIIL 
 
 THOMAS FAIRFAX, FIFTH BARON FAIRFAX. 
 
 In 1688 the latter was elected member for Yorkshire, and took an 
 active part in the Revolution. The following year he was lieutenant-colonel 
 of the 3rd Regiment of Horse Guards, and in 1670 commanded the King's 
 own Regiment of Dragoons. In 1701 he was brigadier-general. He lost 
 his seat in Parliament for the county of York in 1707, but was made a 
 peer of Scotland. 
 
 By his marriage with Catherine, daughter of Lord Colepeper, of 
 Thoresway, he obtained Leeds Castle, in Kent, and lands in America. 
 He died in 17 10, leaving to his son Thomas an immense property, in- 
 cluding Denton and other estates in Yorkshire, others in Kent and the 
 IsleTof Wight, and nearly six millions of acres in the United States. 
 
 His son was induced, when very young, in order to clear Lord Cole- 
 peper's estate, to cut off the entail of Denton Hall and the Yorkshire 
 estates, which had been in possession of the Fairfax family for nearly six 
 centuries. 
 
 He subsequently went to reside on his estates in America, where he 
 died in 1782. The barony then passed to his brother Robert, to whom 
 Leeds Castle had been assigned. The latter bequeathed that property to 
 the Rev. Denny Martin, who took the name of Fairfax, and from whom it 
 passed into the hands of the present owner. 
 
 The old mansion at Denton, near Otley, for several generations the 
 principal seat of the Fairfax family, was accidentally burnt in the begin- 
 ning of the eighteenth century, and not a trace of it remains. 
 
 Bust on canvas, 31 by 26 inches. 
 
 In the possession of C. Wykeham Martin, Esq. 
 
 ORD THOMAS FAIRFAX, the third baron, not having any 
 male heir, the title went to his cousin Henry, who, dying in 
 1688, was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, the fifth 
 Baron Fairfax. 
 
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LXXIX. 
 
 ADMIRAL ROBERT FAIRFAX. 
 
 |HE distinguished Officer, whose portrait is here given, was a 
 member of that branch of the Fairfax family now known as 
 of Newton Kyme, in the county of York. 
 I His father was William Fairfax, Esq., of Steeton ; his 
 mother, Catherine, third daughter of Robert Stapleton, Esq., of Wighill. 
 
 Robert Fairfax was their second son, and entered the Navy, in which 
 he became Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and fought a gallant action, in 1694, 
 taking a French man-of-war, called the Entreprenant. 
 
 He was Member of Parliament for the city of York in 18 15, and at 
 the same time its Lord Mayor. 
 
 On the death of his elder brother William, in 1694, he had succeeded 
 to the family estates at Steeton, and elsewhere. 
 
 He married Hester, daughter of Robert Bushell, Esq., of Ruswarpe, 
 county of York, and died in 1725. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 50 by 40 inches. ( \^SrS^0- bv>^^ ^d^T^^ /c^Uy 
 In the possession of Thos. Fairfax, Esq. 
 
LXXX. 
 
 SIR THOMAS DANBY, KNIGHT. 
 
 RMETRUDE DE DANBY, sole heiress of John Danby, 
 Lord of Great and Little Danby, was given in marriage, by 
 I William the Conqueror, to Edmond Stringent or Strograve, a 
 I soldier of fortune, who accompanied him to England. Their 
 
 son called himself of Danby, which from that time became the family 
 name. From him, through a long line of descendants, we arrive at Sir 
 Robert Danby, Knight, the ancestor of the Danbys of Swinton. 
 
 Sir Robert Danby was the son of William Danby, of Knaresborough, 
 and was born about 1400. He was brought up to the profession of the 
 Law, and made Chief Justice in 1461, immediately after the accession of 
 Edward the Fourth. 
 
 Sir Robert was a decided partizan of the House of York, as was his son 
 and successor. Sir James Danby. 
 
 From him descended Sir Thomas Danby, Knight, whose portrait is 
 here given. He was the son of Christopher Danby, and born in 1610. At 
 the time of his father's death, in 1624, he was a minor, and became the 
 ward of Sir Christopher Wandesford, Knight, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 
 whose daughter, Catherine, he married in 1630. 
 
 Sir Thomas Danby was a Justice of the Peace, Deputy- Lieutenant in 
 1635, and in 1638 High Sheriff for the county of York. Although one of 
 the most active agents in enforcing the payment of the ship-money, he was 
 one of those persons who signed the address to Charles the First in 1639. 
 
 He was also Colonel of a regiment in the King's service. 
 
 For his attachment to his relative, Lord Strafford, his name was posted 
 up as an adherent to that nobleman in 1641, and in 1642 he was deprived 
 of his seat in Parliament for Richmond, and committed to the Tower ; 
 from which he only obtained his release by the payment of 5,600/. 
 
 After the Restoration, Sir Thomas Danby was one of the persons 
 designed to be invested with the Order of the Royal Oak. 
 
 He died in London in 1660, and was buried in York Minster. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 34 by 29 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Mrs. Danby Harcourt. 
 
LXXXI. 
 
 JOSIAS LAMBERT. 
 
 HE first member of the Lambert family from whom the 
 ancestry of Josias Lambert can be traced with any certainty 
 is John Lambert, of Preston, in the time of Edward the 
 Fourth. From him was descended John Lambert, Vice-Chan- 
 cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, steward of the courts of the Prior of 
 Bolton. This John Lambert inherited a small estate at Skipton, and was 
 a lawyer, much in favour with the Commissioners for the Dissolution of the 
 Religious Houses in the time of Henry the Eighth. He appears to have 
 availed himself of that event to obtain extensive lands in the parish 
 of Calton in Craven, and some of the beautiful country about Malham, 
 which, it is thought, he had held previously as tenant under the monks 
 of Bolton. 
 
 Josias Lambert, of Calton, Esq., was the grandson of the Vice-Chan- 
 cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was born in 1554, and married 
 Amy, daughter of Mr. Pigott. She was the third wife, and by her he 
 had an only son, John Lambert, who afterwards became the ParHamentary 
 general. 
 
 Josias Lambert, of Calton, Esq., died in 1632, and was buried in Kirkby 
 Malghdale. 
 
 The second wife of Josias Lambert was Anne Heber, of an ancient 
 family in Craven. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 31 by 25 inches. 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
LXXXII. AND LXXXIII. 
 
 MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN LAMBERT. 
 
 HE family of the Lamberts had been settled for generations 
 at Calton, in Craven, before the year 1619, in which the noted 
 Parliamentary General John Lambert was born ; and his early 
 life was passed in one of the wildest and most beautiful parts 
 
 of that remarkable district. 
 
 He was the son of Josias Lambert, of Calton, Esq., and his third wife. 
 Amy. On his father's side at least, therefore, he was well born. He 
 signed his name Lambart, and possessed a good fortune. That he was 
 well educated is certain, and as he was a man of refined taste, like the 
 Fairfaxes, under whom he served, it is not probable that he was in reality 
 much influenced by fanaticism in the part he took in the Civil Wars. At 
 the early age of twenty he manied Mary, the daughter of Sir William 
 Lister, of Thornton, and at five-and-twenty was one of the most active 
 ofiicers serving under Sir Thomas Fairfax. He was also one of Crom- 
 well's peers, and his widow, who was always styled Lady Lambert, 
 founded a Presbyterian chapel at Winterburn. The most remarkable part 
 of General Lambert's career was nevertheless the position in which he 
 stood at the moment when Monk brought about the restoration. Lam- 
 bert's army at Newcastle almost barred the communication between Monk 
 and Fairfax ; and Sir Philip Monckton, in one of his letters, speaks of him 
 as that ' sour fellow ' Lambert, and evidently considers that nothing could 
 be done with a man of his impracticable character. Like all men who 
 take the losing side in a political struggle, Lambert appears to have been 
 wanting in sagacity and decision ; yet it is probable that the truth is Lord 
 Fairfax had the advantage of being nearer to York ; and a single day 
 gave a different turn to affairs from that which Lambert thought they 
 
Major-General John Lambert. 
 
 would take. Moreover, the nation was weary of the Commonwealth, and 
 the result was that General Lambert was tried in 1661, after the Restora- 
 tion, and only saved his life by the moderation he showed on his trial, and 
 probably the sympathy of his old friends the Fairfaxes. He was, how- 
 ever, sentenced to perpetual exile in Guernsey, remaining there until 
 1667, amusing himself in gardening and painting ; for which latter art he 
 had a taste. From Guernsey he was moved to Nicholas Island, Plymouth 
 Sound, and died there in 1683. 
 
 In the Parish Register of Thornton, in Craven, General Lambert's 
 marriage is thus entered : — * Nupt. Johannes Lambert et Frances Lister, 
 Sept. 10, 1639.* 
 
 After sequestration, the family estates had been purchased by Lord 
 Fauconberg, who restored them to the family, and his son, John Lambert, 
 became master of Calton ; was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1699, died in 1701-2, 
 and was buried in Kirkby Malghdale. His son, also named John, died 
 in 1675-6, and was the last male heir of the family. 
 
 First portrait on canvas by Walker, 50 by 40 inches. 
 
 In the possession of M. Wilson, Esq. 
 
 Second, on canvas, 25 by 22 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
LXXXIV. 
 
 SIR MARTIN LISTER, KNIGHT. 
 
 HERE is some difficulty in deciding whose portrait this is, 
 but it appears to be that of Sir Martin Lister, Knight, who 
 was the fifth son of Sir WiUiam Lister, of Thornton, and 
 nephew of Sir Matthew Lister, of Burwell, in the county of 
 Lincoln, who was physician to James the First and Charles the First. 
 
 The Listers of Burwell are descended from the same ancestor as the 
 Listers of Gisburn, but are called of Burwell, after the time of Sir Matthew 
 Lister, Knight. 
 
 If we are correct in assuming that this portrait is that of the Sir 
 Martin Lister, Knight, the son of Sir William, he married Catherine, 
 daughter of Sir William Fairfax of Steeton. There is also a print of 
 Sir Martin Lister, Knight, 1626, which bears some resemblance to this 
 picture. He was the father of Sir Martin Lister, the physician and 
 naturalist, who was born at RadcHffe, in Buckinghamshire, about 1638; and 
 who, after residing in York in 1670, became physician in ordinary to 
 Queen Anne, and died in 1711-12. 
 
 Portrait on panel, 48 by 40 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
LXXXV. 
 
 THOMAS LISTER. 
 
 HERE were two Thomas Listers, of either of whom this may- 
 be the portrait. It is, nevertheless, most probably (judging 
 from the age John Lister must have been when the portrait 
 of him, in this collection, which is dated 1696, was painted) 
 that of his elder brother, Thomas Lister, of Arnoldsbiggin, Esq., baptized 
 at Gisburn, in 1665, and buried there in 1706. He was the head of the 
 family of the Listers of Arnoldsbiggin ; for it was only from the time of 
 his eldest son — also named Thomas — that the property became known 
 as Gisburn Park, on the removal of the family to what was previously called 
 the Lower Hall. 
 
 Thomas Lister married Elizabeth, daughter of John Parker, Esq., of 
 Entwistle, county Lancaster, by whom he had a large family. 
 
 As we have stated elsewhere, the Listers of Gisburn are the descend- 
 ants of John Lister, of Derby, living in 13 12, who married Isabel, daughter 
 and heir of John Bolton, Bowbearer of BoUand, of whom the present Lord 
 Ribblesdale is the descendant. 
 
 Portrait by John Lambert, on canvas, 30 by 25 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
LXXXVI. 
 
 JOHN LISTER. 
 
 HERE can be no doubt that this John Lister was the youngest 
 brother of the Thomas Lister, whose portrait is in this 
 collection, as, although it is dated 1696, and Whitaker in his 
 History of Craven states that he died in 1695, there was 
 
 no other John Lister at that time except a child. John Lister was 
 baptized at Gisburn in 1666, and buried there, according to Whitaker, 
 in 1695. 
 
 These two fine portraits of the brothers Lister are by John Lambert, 
 the son of the Parliamentary General Lambert, and give a high opinion 
 of his talents as an artist. 
 
 Portrait-painting is said to have been for many years his principal 
 amusement, and there are probably still in existence many other works 
 by him. This portrait of John Lister was painted in 1696, only five 
 or six years before his own death in 170 1 -2, at about the age of sixty. 
 John Lambert married Mary, the daughter of William Lodge, of 
 Leeds, who was the father of William Lodge, the engraver ; and the 
 latter assisted Doctor Lister, afterwards Sir Martin Lister, of York, in 
 drawing various subjects of natural history, which were inserted in the 
 Transactions of the Royal Society. 
 
 A taste for painting and the fine arts was therefore very general 
 among the Lambert, Lister, and Lodge families, and they formed with 
 Sir Ralph Cole, Place the engraver, the elder Thoresby, and a few other 
 friends, a Society of Virtuosi at York. 
 
 Portrait on canvas by John Lambert. Arms, and signed TL ft. 1696.' 
 
 In the possession of Lord Ribblesdale. 
 
LXXXVII. 
 
 SIR JOHN LAWSON, KNIGHT. 
 
 HE name of Lawson is common in the northern counties, and 
 as early as the time of Henry the Third John Lawson was 
 Lord of Fowlesgrove, or Palsgrave, near Scarborough, in 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 From that locality came another John Lawson who, in the seventeenth 
 century, rendered the name illustrious. 
 
 This John Lawson is said to have been born at Hull, and it is certain 
 that he entered the navy as a common sailor. When serving under Blake 
 he was actively employed against the Dutch, and rewarded with a gold 
 chain in 1653. 
 
 He rose to be a vice-admiral by his bravery and talents, and succeeded 
 Earl Sandwich in the command of the fleet ; yet was afterwards dismissed 
 by the Parliament. 
 
 In 1659 Fleetwood was very anxious to secure Lawson's adhesion to 
 his party, but the latter preferred assisting Monck to restore Charles the 
 Second, and commanded the London in the squadron which conveyed that 
 monarch to England. 
 
 As Sir John Lawson he distinguished himself against the Algerines, 
 and concluded a treaty with the Barbary States in 1662. 
 
 He served, moreover, under the Duke of York, and died in 1665, at 
 Greenwich, of a wound received in action with his old antagonists the 
 
 Dutch. 
 
 Sir John Lawson was buried at St. Dunstan's, London. 
 Portrait by Sir Peter Lely, on canvas, 48 by 40 inches. 
 In Greenwich Hospital. 
 
LXXXVIII. 
 
 JOHN FOUNTAINE, OR FOUNTAYNE, 
 SERJEANT-AT-LAW. 
 
 OHN FOUNTAINE, commonly known as 'Turn-coat Foun- 
 taine/ was alternately a Royalist and Parliamentarian during 
 the civil wars. He was the eldest son of Arthur Fountaine 
 of Drilling, in Norfolk, one of the sons of another Arthur 
 Fountaine. His mother was Anne, daughter and heiress of John 
 Stanhowe. 
 
 John Fountaine was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1622, and called 
 to the bar in 1629. On the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1642, he 
 refused^to contribute to the subscription required by the Parliament, and 
 was imprisoned. 
 
 Whitelocke mentions him as having assisted both sides, as he saw the 
 wind to blow. He was probably discharged in 1645, but compelled to 
 leave London. 
 
 While the royal cause prospered he adhered to it ; but when it became 
 almost hopeless he left Oxford and went to the Parliamentary army, from 
 which, however, he was sent to Bristol, where he was kept prisoner. 
 
 After his release he appears to have remained unmolested for six years, 
 and was, in 1652, appointed by the ParHament one of the committee of 
 persons, not members, to report on inconveniences in the law and suggest 
 remedies. His name was, however, only adopted after some opposition. 
 In fact, he seems not to have been fully trusted until 1653 to have 
 compounded for his estate at 480/. 
 
 He was made serjeant-at-law in 1658, during the time that Richard 
 Cromwell was Protector. On the restoration of the Long Parliament he was 
 selected, in 1659 one of the three Commissioners of the Great Seal, with 
 
yohn Foimtaine. 
 
 John Bradshaw and Thomas Tyrell his brother-in-law. Within five 
 months, however, they were superseded, and the seal entrusted to 
 Whitelocke. Yet Fountaine was replaced in 1660, and continued a com- 
 missioner until the Restoration, when he resumed his old political opinions. 
 
 He survived the Restoration eleven years, and died, in 167 1, at the age of 
 seventy, and was buried at Salle with his ancestors. His descendants, 
 among whom was Dr. John Fountaine, Dean of York, resided at Melton, 
 in Yorkshire. 
 
 The celebrated Antiquary, Sir Andrew Fountaine, was of the family of 
 Fountaines of Salle. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 47 by^38 inches, inscribed 'John Fountaine, obit 1670.' 
 In the possession of A. Montagu, Esq. 
 
LXXXIX. 
 
 JAMES MARGETSON, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH. 
 
 ITTLE is known of the early life of James Margetson, save that 
 he was born at Drighlington, in the West Riding, educated at 
 Peter House, Cambridge, and became, in 1641, Dean of Christ 
 Church. In 1647 he must have been in Ireland, as he signed 
 a declaration, published by the clergy, protesting against the substitution 
 of the Directory for the Book of Common Prayer, and he afterwards fled 
 into England, where, amongst other sufferings, he was taken prisoner by the 
 Parliamentary party and confined in prison until exchanged for some 
 military officers. After the Restoration he was installed Archbishop 
 of Dublin when that see had laid void for ten years. Jeremy Taylor, who 
 was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor at the same time, preached 
 the consecration sermon, which was published. On the 25th June, 1663, 
 the celebrated Archbishop Bramhall, Primate of all Ireland, died ; and a 
 short time before his death, recommended Archbishop Margetson to the 
 Duke of Ormonde ' as the worthiest person for his successor.' 
 
 This suggestion was acted upon, and Archbishop Margetson became 
 Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland on the 29th of August, 
 1663. 
 
 In that position he acquired the respect and esteem of his clergy and 
 the laity of Ireland by his efforts to sustain the dignity of the Church, his 
 eloquence and conciliatory manners. 
 
 His death occurred in 1678. 
 
 Portrait on oval canvas, 30 by 25 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Lord Primate of all Ireland. 
 
xc. 
 
 THE REVEREND EDWARD BOWLES. 
 
 HIS celebrated Nonconformist was the son of Oliver Bowles, 
 of Sutton, in Bedfordshire, and was born in February, 1613. 
 He was chaplain to the Earl of Manchester; and, after the 
 reduction of York in 1644, was one of the four ministers 
 maintained by the State in that city. 
 
 About the same time his father died whilst he was at Sion College in 
 London, from whence he wrote to Lord Ferdinando Fairfax mention- 
 ing his son. Sir Thomas, in terms that show an intimate acquaintance 
 with the Fairfax family. Subsequently he became chaplain to Sir 
 Thomas Fairfax. His influence in York was very great ; and it was 
 commonly said of him that he was the spring that moved all the wheels 
 in that city. When Monk passed through Yorkshire prior to the Restora- 
 tion, Lord Fairfax sent for Bowles, who had a long conference with 
 General Monk, and Bowles exerted his influence with Lord Fairfax to 
 induce him to declare for Charles the Second. 
 
 Bowles accompanied Lord Fairfax to Breda, when the latter went as 
 one of the commissioners from the Parliament to invite Charles the Second 
 to England. Had he chosen to conform after the Restoration, his great 
 talents and the very general esteem felt for him would have insured 
 a rapid promotion in the Church. But firmly devoted to the principles 
 he had upheld with so much ability at the time of the Commonwealth, 
 although Tillotson and Stillingfleet were more desirous to bring him into 
 the Established Church than any one man in the kingdom, still he steadily 
 declined to conform. 
 
 When Bowles found that the corruption of the Court of Charles the 
 Second destroyed the hopes he had formed of the advantages to be derived 
 
The Reverend Edward Bowles, M.A. 
 
 by the nation from the Restoration he left London, and his last visit was 
 one paid to Monk, then Duke of Albemarle, whom he reproached 
 bitterly for having missed opportunities 'to make the King happy and 
 the people easy.' And added, speaking of himself, ' My Lord, I have 
 buried the good old cause and am now going to bury myself Bowles 
 shortly afterwards returned to York, where he died in 1662, in his 49th 
 year. 
 
 His person was tall and handsome ; with a clear head and a warm 
 heart ; he was an excellent scholar ; and his preaching was admired 
 by all. 
 
 In 1662 he was elected to the vicarage of Leeds, but Dr. John Locke 
 was presented through the influence of the King and Council. 
 Bust portrait on canvas, 30 by 25 inches. 
 In the possession of Leonard L. Hartley, Esq. 
 
XCI. 
 
 REV. RICHARD FRANKLAND. 
 
 ICHARD FRANKLAND was born at Rathmel, near Gig- 
 gleswick, in 1630, and educated at Christ Church College, 
 Cambridge. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 
 1653, and presented to the living of Bishop Auckland by Sir 
 A. Haselrigg. 
 
 When Cromwell erected a university at Durham, Frankland was 
 appointed one of its professors. 
 
 After the Restoration of Charles the Second he lost that appointment. 
 
 Even before the Act of Uniformity was passed Frankland felt the first 
 effects of the persecution which followed it, and lost his living of Bishop 
 Auckland. 
 
 Nevertheless, such was his reputation for piety and learning, and good 
 sense, that Cosins, Bishop of Durham, exerted all his influence to induce 
 Frankland to conform, and, after offering him preferment, even asked him 
 if he would accept ordination at his hands, provided it were administered 
 privately. 
 
 The firmness of Frankland, notwithstanding this offer, remained un- 
 shaken, and he preferred retiring to Rathmel, where he commenced a 
 private academy for the education of young Dissenters. 
 
 After the indulgence of 1672, Frankland became acknowledged by the 
 Northern Nonconformists as one of their leaders, but he was still harassed 
 by their enemies and compelled to move frequently from place to place, 
 until, under James the Second, the position of the Dissenters became still 
 more intolerable, and, owing to the annoyance by which he was then sub- 
 ject, in 1686 Frankland removed his academy to Atterclifife. He did not, 
 nevertheless, remain long in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, but returned to 
 his paternal estate at Rathmel, and died there in 1698. 
 
 In many respects, particularly as an instructor of youth, Frankland 
 was one of the most distinguished of the Nonconformist Clergy of his 
 time. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 19 by 16 inches. 
 In Dr. Williams's library. 
 
XCII. 
 
 ABRAHAM SIMON. --pr-djoy ' 
 
 IS a tradition assures us that Thomas Simon, the celebrated en- ^^-^ 
 graver, was probably born at Leeds, we may perhaps assume >....f-|^^., n.> 
 that Abraham, his brother, was born there likewise. pi, . 
 
 At the back of the fine portrait, from which the present 
 photograph is taken, is the following information about Abraham Simon ; 
 but we do not know any authority for it. 
 
 'Abraham Simon, the celebrated medallist, was trained to scholarship and 
 intended for ecclesiastical preferment. He went to Sweden, was ingenious in 
 modelling in wax the portraits of noted persons, and became attached to the Queen 
 Christiana, and so ingratiated himself that her Majesty presented him with a golden 
 chain and medal, which he commonly wore. He was a man of small stature, of a 
 Primitive philosophic aspect, always wearing his hair and beard according to the 
 mode of his ancestors.' 
 
 When the Restoration of King Charles the Second took place, he 
 returned to England, and being well known for his talents, he got recom- 
 mended to the Court, and was employed to make medals, and model the 
 faces of eminent persons, and received about lOO/. for a royal model. In 
 a pet, thinking he was not paid enough for a wax model of the Duke 
 of York, he destroyed the same, giving great offence, he got out 
 of royal favour, and, unfortunately, then wasted his days in obscurity. 
 Thomas Simon, his brother, was born in Yorkshire ; he was an engraver 
 and medallist, and instructed his brother Abraham. Mr. Haggard had two 
 chasings, representing the brothers Thomas and Abraham Simon, which 
 were supposed to be the work of the latter. Thomas Simon died in 1665, 
 and one of the Simons is said to have died at Kippax, in Yorkshire : 
 perhaps it was Abraham. 
 
 Portrait on oval canvas, 22 by 18 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Henry Musgrave, Esq. 
 
XCIIL 
 
 JOHN TURNER, SERJEANT-AT-LAW. 
 
 'OHN TURNER, the son of John Turner, of Norton, in the 
 county of Hereford, who settled at Guisborough, in Yorkshire, 
 and bought, besides other lands, in 1623, the manor of Kirk- 
 leatham, of Sir William Bellasis, to whom it had been granted 
 
 by Queen Elizabeth. The grandson of the first Turner who owned Kirk- 
 leatham was the John Turner whose portrait is here given. He was brought 
 up to the law ; and, having become counsellor, was advanced to the rank of 
 serjeant-at-law in 1669. In 1661 he was Recorder of York ; and in the 
 following year purchased the manor of Kildale, in the North Riding. 
 
 He was living in 1672, and when he died some years afterwards left a 
 bequest to Kirkleatham Hospital, in the chapel of which institution is his 
 likeness in stained glass. His younger brother. Sir William Turner, Lord 
 Mayor of London, founded Kirkleatham Hospital in 1676. 
 
 John Turner married Jane, daughter of John Pepys, of Cleake, Norfolk. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 50 by 40 inches. 
 
 In the possession of H. Van Straubenzee, Esq. 
 
XCIV. 
 
 ADAM BAYNES, 
 
 HORESBY states that the family of Baynes had lived at 
 Knowstrop for ten generations, and that Bishop Baynes, 
 Hebrew Professor in Paris, was of that family. 
 
 It is said also that the bezant in the arms of the Baynes 
 family was given to one of them, who was standard-bearer to the King at 
 the taking of Boulogne. 
 
 Among others, Robert Baynes was buried in 1575 ; whose descendant, 
 Adam Baynes, was born at Knostrop in 1620. He became an active officer 
 in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War. 
 
 Adam Baynes was Member of Parliament for Leeds in 1654 and 1656, 
 also for Appleby in 1658-9; and on referring to Bur tori! s Diary it will 
 be seen that he took an active part in the debates. 
 
 He married Martha, daughter of Richard Dawson, of Hepworth, by 
 whom he had sixteen children. 
 Adam Baynes died in 1670. 
 
 His diary and other manuscripts are now in the British Museum. 
 Portrait by Sir Peter Lely, on canvas, 50 by 30 inches. 
 In the possession of E. R. Baynes, Esq. 
 
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xcv. 
 
 SIR THOMAS ROKEBY, KNIGHT. 
 
 HOMAS ROKEBY was of the old family of Rokebys, of 
 Northam, and born in 163 1 or 1632. 
 
 He was educated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, after 
 admission in 1646. In 1649-50 he become B.A., and made 
 a fellow of his college in 165 1. 
 
 His father died some time before that date, and, bequeathing to him 
 some property, young Rokeby chose the law for his profession, in which 
 several of his ancestors had risen to eminence. In 1652 or 1653 he became 
 student at Gray's Inn. When term was over his country residence was at 
 York, where his mother lived. The religious principles of young Rokeby 
 inclined to Puritanism, and this led, probably, to his success in life, as he 
 became the confidential adviser of the Nonconformists in the North of 
 England. His father had fallen at Dunbar fighting for the Parliament, 
 and his mother was a strict Presbyterian. This brought him naturally into 
 connexion with the Howards, Whartons, and Fairfaxes, who consulted him 
 in legal matters, and by industry he acquired a considerable fortune. 
 Later, the active part which Thomas Rokeby took in York in favour of 
 King William, no doubt caused him to be chosen in April, 1689, one of the 
 judges of the Common Pleas, and he went immediately to London, where, 
 after becoming a Serjeant on the 4th of May, on the loth of that month he 
 sat in court for the first time. He was knighted in October of the same 
 year. 
 
 In 1695 Sir Thomas Rokeby was removed to the King's Bench, and 
 was a judge in that court until his death, which occurred in 1699. He 
 was buried at Sandal, near Doncaster. 
 
 Sir Thomas Rokeby was eminent as a judge by his honesty of purpose 
 and legal knowledge, and as a man he was influenced by strong religious 
 feelings and great goodness of heart. 
 
 He married Ursula, daughter of James Danby, of Newbuildings, near 
 Thirsk ; but died without issue. 
 
 Portrait by Schalcken, on canvas, 50 by 40 inches. 
 
 In the possession of the Rev, S. Buxton Smyth, 
 
XCVI. 
 
 ANDREW MARVELL. 
 
 HE father of this witty satirical writer, and zealous patriot 
 was master of the grammar-school, and lecturer at Trinity 
 Church, Kingston-upon-HuU, with the same Christian name 
 as his son. 
 
 The latter was born at Hull in 1620, and first educated by his father. 
 At the age of fifteen he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge. Shortly 
 afterwards a Jesuit induced Marvell to accompany him to London ; but 
 being allowed to return to college, his studies were pursued there until 
 his father's death in 1641. By that event Marvell inherited property, 
 and about 1642 went abroad. In the course of his travels he lived on 
 intimate terms with Milton the poet, at Rome. It has been said that 
 he acted as secretary at Constantinople to the English embassy, but this 
 is doubtful, and Milton does not mention it ; although, in one of his letters, 
 he states that Marvell passed four years in Holland, France, Italy, and 
 Spain, where he acquired the languages of those countries. Marvell must 
 have returned to England before 1652, in which year Milton recommended 
 him to Bradshaw, and speaks of Marvell as having been lately tutor to 
 the daughter of Lord Fairfax. In the following year he was made tutor 
 to Mr. Button, Cromwell's nephew. He was next appointed by Crom- 
 well, in 1657, to assist Milton as Latin Secretary. 
 
 In 1660 Andrew Marvell was chosen member of Parliament for Hull, 
 and represented that place until his death. In 1661 he was in Holland, 
 returning to England in 1663, and in July of the latter year again left 
 England, as secretary to Lord Carlisle, on his embassies to Russia, Sweden, 
 and Denmark. 
 
 The Parliament being at Oxford in 1665, Andrew Marvell there took 
 
A ndrew Marvell. 
 
 his seat in it, and from that time was almost constantly in opposition to 
 the Court party. He is believed to have been one of the last members 
 of Parliament who received pay from their constituents. With a small 
 income, and at a time when corruption was general, he was not less re- 
 markable for his integrity than for his diligence and ability. Charles the 
 Second appreciated Marvell's wit and talents, and efforts were made to 
 induce him to join the party of the Court ; yet he appears to have re- 
 mained as unmoved by the solicitations of his friends and the bribes 
 offered him, as by the threats of his enemies. 
 
 His death, which took place on the i6th of August, 1678, is said to 
 have been caused by poison; and he was buried at St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields, in London, the rector of which parish refused to allow the 
 erection of the monument by which Marvell's constituents were desirous 
 to honour his memory. 
 
 Marvell's works prove him to have excelled in humour and ridicule ; 
 which were almost always employed to advance civil and religious liberty ; 
 many of his early poems display genius and much ingenuity. 
 
 John Aubrey, who personally knew Marvell, says, ' He was of a middle 
 stature, pretty strong-set, roundish face, cherry-cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown- 
 haired.' Commodore Thompson, who published a very complete edition 
 of Marvell's works in 1776, states that Marvell was of a dark complexion, 
 with long flowing black hair, black bright eyes, strong-featured, his nose 
 not small ; altogether a handsome man, with an expressive countenance, 
 and about 5 feet 7 inches in height. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, by Hannemann, signed and dated, about 40 by 
 30 inches. 
 
 In the possession of John Rhodes, Esq. 
 
XCVII. 
 
 REVEREND THOMAS SHARP. 
 
 IN Hopkinson's MSS. mention is made of James Sharp, as 
 I living in a house at Horton, lately belonging to Kirkshall 
 Abbey, and which was probably the hall still standing. He 
 I died in 1590, leaving four sons, of whom John of Horton 
 
 the second, was the father of Thomas, and his younger brother Abraham, 
 both of Horton. Their mother was Mary Clarkson. 
 
 Thomas Sharp was born in 1633. He was admitted of Clare Hall, 
 Cambridge, in 1649. In 1660 he was ordained Deacon by Thomas, Bishop 
 of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and presented in 1677 to the rectory of Adel ; 
 but on the passing of the Act of Uniformity he declined subscription, and 
 having resigned his living, retired to Horton Hall, rebuilt the house from 
 his own design still existing, and at which place his initials, T. S., are to 
 be seen carved on a window-sill. 
 
 He possessed a considerable estate, and his personal property alone 
 at Horton was upwards of 400/. per annum. Calamy says of him that 
 he was *A universal scholar, a solid logician, a good linguist, a fluent 
 orator, a profound philosopher, and a very skilful mathematician.' 
 
 The many memorandum-books which he left at his death show his 
 constant activity. 
 
 The Sharps were great friends and supporters of the Presbyterian cause, 
 and previous to the time when in 17 19 the Presbyterian Chapel was built 
 in Bradford, the Nonconformists ' assembled to worship at Little Horton,' 
 probably in what is now the library at Horton Hall. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Sharp was twice married, and died in 1693. 
 
Thomas Sharp. 
 
 He was the great friend of Thoresby, the Antiquary : two entries in 
 whose diary give a lively idea of Thomas Sharp's benevolence, and the 
 effect of his preaching. They are — 
 
 ^ 2()th January^ 1682. — Till ten collecting for Mr. Sharp, who would not be 
 prevented by the uncomfortableness of the season nor danger of the floods, but 
 came to do good.' 
 
 ' 23^-^ July (same year).— Went to Hunslet to hear Mr. Sharp, at Mr. Thomas 
 Fenton's, but was so crowded with the multitude that almost sick and fainted. The 
 excessive crowd and intolerable disorder of the common people constraining them 
 to begin an hour before the time.' 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 50 by 42 inches. 
 In the possession of Mrs. Haines. 
 
XCVIII. 
 
 ABRAHAM SHARP. 
 
 ^^^^^PHIS mathematician and astronomer was the younger brother 
 jf the Rev. Thomas Sharp, and born at Horton Hall in 
 165 1. After education at Bradford Grammar School, he was 
 ^^-^ articled to a merchant at Manchester, and a memorandum- 
 book still exists in which 20/. are stated to have been paid for his 
 apprenticeship. He removed to Liverpool, and then to London, where he 
 was in 1670. From a note in the memorandum-book in his own 
 handwriting, he was employed by a Mr. Graham at Portsmouth, and 
 evidently in 1 69 1-3 was already engaged in constructing mathematical 
 and astronomical instruments. He appears also to have taught mathe- 
 matics and navigation, as several entries of agreements with persons at 
 4s. 6d. per week are to be found in his books. In 1691 his receipts were 
 96/. 12s. 6d., and his expenses 39/. os. yd. 
 
 The connexion between Abraham Sharp and the astronomer Flam- 
 steed arose from the former becoming acquainted, when in Liverpool, 
 with a merchant from London, in whose house Flamsteed lodged. Sharp 
 then devoted much of his time to the study of mathematics, and became 
 book-keeper to this merchant in London. By these means he was 
 introduced to Flamsteed, who obtained for him the employment at 
 Portsmouth, to which we have already alluded, and afterwards took him 
 as his assistant in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. 
 
 Upon the death of his elder brother Thomas, which occurred in 1693, 
 Abraham Sharp returned to Horton Hall in 1694. 
 
 There he led the life of a recluse, continuing his favourite studies. So 
 fearful was he of interruption, that his meals were placed at the door 
 of the room. And so much absorbed was he in his calculations, 
 
Abraham Sharp. 
 
 that frequently the food remained untouched when the servant took 
 the next meal to the door. Part of his time was, nevertheless, passed 
 in the construction of astronomical instruments ; and Thoresby had a 
 large telescope, the tube and glasses of which were turned and ground 
 by Sharp. He assisted Flamsteed for many years, and after his death, 
 which occurred at Horton Hall, in 1742, in his 91st year, his Mathematical 
 Tables were published. 
 
 Abraham Sharp was never married. He had four or five rooms in 
 his house, kept for different purposes, and into which no servant was 
 allowed to enter. He admitted no visitors, except a physician and a 
 brother mathematician, residing at Bradford, and they gave the sign of 
 their approach by rubbing a stone against a part of the house where 
 he could hear them, but even they were frequently not permitted to 
 enter. 
 
 He was a strict Presbyterian, and on Sundays attended a chapel in 
 Bradford. Although so singular a character, Abraham Sharp was very 
 charitable, and on his road to the chapel as he walked along held his 
 hand behind him filled with halfpence, that he might not see who took 
 them. In person he was of middle height, very thin, and always appeared 
 very sickly. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 50 by 42 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Mrs. Haines. 
 
XCIX. 
 
 LORD WILLIAM HOWARD, OF ESCRICK. 
 
 ENNANT, who wrote in 1804, mentions, among the pictures 
 at that time in the house at Norton Conyers : — 
 
 'Lord Howard of Escrick. In the hall is a head of that 
 infamous peer, Lord Howard, of Escrick, in a cravat, long wig, 
 with a thin, mean countenance, expressive of the timid soul that encouraged the 
 conspiracy, yet, on the first appearance of danger, betrayed the life of his generous 
 friend, the noble Russell.' 
 
 As the portrait from which the accompanying photograph was taken 
 has long hung in the hall at Norton Conyers, it is generally believed to 
 be that of Sir Edward Howard, created first Baron Howard of Escrick, 
 in 1628 ; seventh son of Lord Thomas Howard, created Earl of Suffolk in 
 1603, and who derived the Lordship of Escrick from his mother Catherine, 
 co-heiress of Sir H. Knevit. 
 
 He died in 1675. Upon the death of the fourth Baron, in 1715, the 
 title became extinct. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 26 by 20 inches. 
 
 In the possession of Sir Reginald H. Graham, Bart. 
 
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c. 
 
 LORD D'ARCY, FIRST BARON D'ARCY. 
 
 HE family of Conyers was a very ancient one in the North of 
 Yorkshire, and, by the patronage of the Scropes of Bolton, 
 became possessed of Hornby Castle about the time of 
 Richard the Second. 
 In the time of Richard the Third, Sir John Conyers was one of 
 the Commissioners who signed an agreement with the King of Scotland ; 
 and in 1497, William, Lord Conyers, and Thomas, Lord D'Arcy, assisted 
 in repelling an invasion of England by James the Fourth of Scotland. 
 In the sixteenth century Elizabeth, second daughter of the then Lord 
 Conyers, married Thomas D'Arcy, second son of Sir Arthur D'Arcy. 
 He was Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1605, in which year he 
 died. 
 
 His son. Sir Conyers D'Arcy, being the then head of this ancient 
 and noble family, upon petition to Charles the First was in 1641 restored 
 and confirmed in the titles of Baron D'Arcy ; which had been forfeited 
 in the time of Henry the Eighth. , 
 
 Lord D'Arcy was then in possession of Hornby Castle, and married 
 Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Bellasyse, Bart, He died in 1653. 
 
 Portrait on canvas, 51 by 41 inches. 
 
 In the possession of J. PuHeine, Esq. 
 
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