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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 LADY WARWICK.
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 MARY COUNTESS OF WARWICK 
 
 EDITED, 
 WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BV 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 ALTHOUGH the biography of Mary, the pious 
 Countess of Warwick, is well known, her auto- 
 biography is now first printed from a manuscript 
 copy in Lord Brooke's possession, which the 
 editor believes to have been transcribed from the 
 original, in her ladyship's autograph ; as the 
 title of " Some specialities in the life of M. 
 Warwicke" has been preserved with the following 
 note : " It appears from Lady Warwick's manu- 
 script diary, that most of the 8th, 9th, and 10th 
 February, 1671, were spent in recording the spe- 
 cialities of her life." "21st December. Read 
 some before-noted specialities of my fore-past 
 life." The entries made by Lady Warwick, in 
 1673 and 1674, bring down this memoir to the 
 latter year; and she died on the 1 2th April, 1678. 
 Doctor Walker tells us, that " An hundred 
 mouths, and a thousand tongues, though they all 
 flowed with nectar, would be too few to praise her. 
 Oh," he exclaimed, in the funeral sermon, preached 
 by him at Felsted, in Essex, on the following 30th;
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 " for a Chrysostom's mouth, for an angel's tongue, 
 to describe this terrestrial seraphine ; or a ray of 
 light condensed into a pencil, and made tactile, to 
 give you this glorious child of light in viva effigie" 
 
 It was then stated by Doctor Walker, that 
 "she, very many years since, began to keep a 
 diary," and a manuscript note on a copy of the 
 first edition of his E"YPHKA, ETYPIIKA, in the 
 editor's possession, enables him to add, that Lady 
 Warwick commenced her diary on the 25th July, 
 1666. " She also," says the doctor, "kept a book 
 of such wise, pithy sayings, much valuing words 
 which contained great use and worth in little com- 
 pass." Of this he has preserved a specimen, as 
 well as a few extracts from her diary, and some 
 of her ladyship's occasional meditations and pious 
 reflections. 
 
 The bulk of Lady Warwick's manuscripts must 
 have been very considerable; and the Religious 
 Tract Society have recently issued a selection 
 from, or abridgment of, her diary, made by the 
 Rev. Thomas Woodrooffe probably soon after 
 her death, respecting which the editor has been 
 favoured with the following particulars, from the 
 Rev. Nathaniel George Woodrooffe, the Vicar of 
 Somerford Keynes, Wilts. 
 
 "The diary (that is Mr. Woodroojfe's abridge- 
 ment of it) was given to me by the Rev. William
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 Herringham, Rector of Borley, near Sudbury, 
 who married my cousin, Anne Woodrooffe, the 
 daughter of the Rev. John Woodrooffe, Rector of 
 Cranham, Essex. 
 
 " Mr. Herringham and the Rev. Thomas Wood- 
 rooffe, Rector of Oakley, Surry, the only son of 
 the Rev. John Woodroffe, were joint executors to 
 my great aunt, Mrs. Gurdon, widow of the Rev. 
 Mr. Gurdon, Vicar of Asington, Suifolk, and 
 also to George Andrewes, Esq., Solicitor, of 
 Felsted, Bury, whose mother was the daughter of 
 the Chaplain of the Earl of Warwick, through 
 whom the papers of Lady Warwick were conveyed. 
 I trouble you with this detail to account for the 
 fact, that Mr. Herringham, after giving me the 
 diary I now possess (that is Mr. Woodrooffe^ 
 abridgement), retained all the other papers of the 
 Warwick MSS., and especially the missing diary 
 from 1672 to 1678. He sold the whole of these 
 MSS. to a bookseller of the name of Lorking, of 
 Long Melford, Suffolk, who parted with them to 
 another bookseller, whose name we cannot dis- 
 cover. He went to France and there became a 
 bankrupt. We have been endeavouring, but in 
 vain, for several years to recover this lost diary. 
 It seems to be in your possession, and I am re- 
 joiced to find it is now printing by the Percy 
 Society."
 
 PRKFACE. 
 
 What has been stated, will shew that in this 
 wish Mr. Woodrooffe is mistaken, and that the 
 autograph diary of Lady Warwick remains to be 
 recovered* The editor, however, can add, that 
 about the year 1835 he saw her ladyship's 
 original Manuscript in the possession of Messrs. 
 T. and W. Boone, of New Bond Street ; that it 
 was written in thirty or forty small quarto books, 
 or " diary papers," which were unbound, and that 
 the passages extracted by Mr. Woodrooffe had 
 been marked for transcript. There can be little 
 doubt, therefore, that this mass of manuscript still 
 exists, notwithstanding the Messrs. Boone have 
 been unable to trace it ; and references to it, and 
 recent notes made from it by various hands for 
 several and different purposes, convince the editor 
 that wherever Lady Warwick's original diary may 
 at the present moment repose, it is preserved, 
 and with sincerity he echoes the wish of Mr. 
 Barham (the editor of the Religious Tract Soci- 
 ety's publication), in saying, ' f lt is hoped that 
 this notice may be the means of bringing it 
 (Lady Warwick's original Diary, which Mr. Bar- 
 ham could only trace to the close of the last cen- 
 tury) to light." 
 
 To the extracts which have been published from 
 the countess's diary, the editor refers for illustra- 
 tions of many passages in her autobiography
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 such, for instance, as those at pages 22 and 32, 
 respecting the former, see note 21. 9th October, 
 1667. " My lord was passionate with me without 
 any occasion, and shot out his arrows, even bitter 
 words, at which I was much troubled, and could 
 not forbear, when alone, from weeping much ; yet 
 I prayed to God to give me patience." And the 
 alteration in the mode of life at Lees, proposed by 
 her brotheri-n-law, should he become Earl of 
 Warwick 15th March, 1667. "My brother 
 Hatton dined with us that day, and swore dread- 
 fully, and talked so very ill, that I thought nothing 
 out of hell could have done." 
 
 Lady Warwick's original diary is a manuscript 
 of great historical value ; she faithfully recorded 
 daily, or nearly so, for twelve years the domestic 
 occurrences of the period, soon after the restoration 
 of Charles II, and was in familiar intercourse with 
 the most active characters of his time, " pro and 
 con" 
 
 23rd April, 1667 she notes " In the morning 
 as soon as dressed, in a short prayer I committed 
 my soul to God. Then went to Whitehall and 
 dined at my Lord Chamberlain's; then went to 
 see the celebration of St. George's feast, which 
 was a very glorious sight. Whilst I was in the 
 banqueting-house, hearing the trumpets sounding, 
 in the midst of all that great show, God was
 
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 pleased to put very mortifying thoughts into my 
 mind, and to make me consider, what if the trump 
 of God should now sound? which thought did 
 strike me with some seriousness, and made me 
 consider in what glory I had in that very place 
 seen the late king, and yet out of that very place 
 he was brought to have his head cut off." 
 
 Regarded even as a veritable catalogue of the 
 persons with whom Lady Warwick came in contact, 
 and under what circumstances, her honest diary is 
 a curious document, by which the truth of other 
 narratives and statements may be tested. And, 
 although, perhaps as a whole, not worth publication, 
 the MSS. of the Countess well merit preservation 
 in the British Museum, for reference to by 
 historical students. 
 
 The Countess of Warwick's portrait has been 
 engraved more than once from the same picture. 
 One is prefixed to Doctor Walker's " E"YPHKA, 
 KYPHKA" (1678). " R. White, Sculp" The other 
 to a memoir, of Lady Warwick, &c., published 
 by the Religious Tract Society, in 1847, without 
 the engraver's name, and which has been probably 
 copied after White's print. 
 
 T. C. C. 
 
 3, GLOUCESTER ROAD, OLD BROMPTON, 
 
 April 26th, 1848.
 
 SOME SPECIALITIES 
 
 LIFE OF M. WARWICKE. 
 
 I WAS born November the 8th, 1625, 1 at Yohall, in 
 Ireland ; my father was Richard Boyle Earl of Corke, 
 my mother was Katheren Fentone. My father was 
 second son to Mr. Roger Boyle, my mother was only 
 daughter to Sir Jefrey Fentone. 
 
 My father, from being a younger brother of a younger 
 brother, who was only a private gentleman of Here- 
 fordshire, was by his mother's care, after his father's 
 death, bred by her at Cambridge, and afterwards at 
 the inns of court, and from thence, by the good provi- 
 dence of God, brought into Ireland, where when he 
 landed he was master of but twenty-seven pounds and 
 three shillings in the world, and afterwards God so 
 prospered him there that he had in that country about 
 twenty thousand pound a-year coming in, and was 
 made Lord Treasurer of Ireland, and one of the two 
 Lords Justices of the government of that kingdom. 2 
 
 My wise, and as I have been informed pious, mother 
 
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 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 died when I was about three years old; 3 and some 
 time after, by the tender care of my indulgent father, 
 that I might be carefully and piously educated, I was 
 sent by him to a prudent and vertuous lady, my Lady 
 Claytone, who never having had any child of her own, 
 grew to make so much of me as if she had been an own 
 mother to me, and took great care to have me soberly 
 educated. Under her government I remained at 
 Mallow, a town in Munster, till I was, I think, about 
 eleven years' old, and then my father called me from 
 thence (much to my dissatisfaction), for I was very fond 
 of that, to me, kind mother. Soon after my father 
 removed, with his family, into England, and dwelt in 
 Dorsetshire, at a house he had purchased there ; which 
 was called Stalbridge; 4 and there, when I was about 
 thirteen or fourteen years of age, came down to me 
 one Mr. Hambletone, son to my Loi'd Clandeboyes, 
 who was afterwards Earl of Clanbrasell, 5 and would 
 fain have had me for his wife. My father and his 
 had, some years before, concluded a match between us, 
 if we liked when we saw one another, and that I was 
 of years of consent ; and now he being returned out of 
 France, was by his father's command to come to my 
 father's, where he received from him a very kind and 
 obliging welcome, looking upon him as his son-in-law, 
 and designing suddenly that we should be married, 
 and gave him leave to make his address, with a com- 
 mand to me to receive him as one designed to be my 
 husband. Mr. Hambletone (possibly to obey his 
 father) did design gaining me by a very handsome
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 3 
 
 address, which he made to me, and if he did not to a 
 very high degree dissemble, I was not displeasing to 
 him, for he professed a great passion for me. The 
 professions he made me of his kindness were very 
 unacceptable to me, and though I had by him very 
 highly advantageous offers made me, for point of for 
 tune (for his estate, that was settled upon him, was 
 counted seven or eight thousand pound a-year), yet 
 by all his kindness to me nor that I could be brought 
 to endure to think of having him, though my father 
 pressed me extremely to it ; my aversion for him was 
 extraordinary, though I could give my father no 
 satisfactory account why it was so. 
 
 This continued between us for a long time, my 
 father shewing a very high displeasure at me for it, 
 but though I was in much trouble about it, yet I could 
 never be brought either by fair or foul means to it ; 
 so as my father was at last forced to break it off, to 
 my father's unspeakable trouble, and to my unspeak- 
 able satisfaction, for hardly in any of the troubles of 
 my life did I feel a more sensible uneasiness than 
 when that business was transacting. Afterwards I 
 apparently saw a good providence of God in not letting 
 me close with it, for within a year after my absolute 
 refusing him, he was, by the rebellion of Ireland, im- 
 poverished so that he lost for a great while his whole 
 estate, the rebels being in possession of it ; which I 
 should have liked very ill, for if I had married him it 
 must have been for his estate's sake, not his own, his 
 person being highly disagreeable to me. 
 
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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 After this match was off, my father removed to 
 London, and lived at a house of Sir Thomas Staford's. 6 
 When we were once settled there, my father, living 
 extraordinarily high, drew a very great resort thither, 
 and the report that he would give me a very great 
 fortune made him have for me many very great and 
 considerable offers, both of persons of great birth and 
 fortune ; but I still continued to have an aversion to 
 marriage, living so much at my ease that I was unwill- 
 ing to change my condition, and never could bring 
 myself to close with any offered match, but still begged 
 my father to refuse all the most advantageous prefers, 
 though I was by him much pressed to settle myself. 
 
 About this time my fourth brother, Mr. Francis 
 Boyle then (afterwards Lord Shannon), was by my 
 father married to Mrs. Elizabeth Kilegrew, daughter 
 to my Lady Staford ; 7 and my brother being then 
 judged to be too young to live with his wife, was a 
 day or two after the celebrating the marriage (which 
 was done before the King and Queen) at Whitehall 
 (she being then a maid of honour to the Queen) sent 
 into France to travel, and his wife then brought home 
 to our house, where she and I became chamber-fellows, 
 and constant bed-fellows ; and there then grew so 
 great a kindness between us, that she soon had a great 
 and ruling power with me ; and by her having so 
 brought me to be very vain and foolish, inticing me to 
 spend (as she did) her time in seeing and reading plays 
 and romances, and in exquisite and curious dressing. 
 
 When she was well settled in our family (but much
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. O 
 
 more so in my heart) she had many of the young 
 gallants that she was acquainted with at Court that 
 came to visit her at the Savoy (where we lived); 
 amongst others there came one Mr. Charles Rich, 
 second son to Robert Earl of Warwicke, who was a 
 very cheerful, and handsome, well-bred, and fashioned 
 person, and being good company was very acceptable 
 to us all, and so became very intimate in our house, 
 visiting us almost every day. He was then in love 
 with a maid of honour to the Queen, one Mrs. Hareson, 8 
 that had been chamber-fellow to my sister-in-law 
 whilst she lived at Court, and that brought on the 
 acquaintance between him and my sister. He con- 
 tinued to be much with us, for about five or six 
 months, till my brother Broguil then (afterwards Earl of 
 Orrery), grew also to be passionately in love with the 
 same Mrs. Hareson. My brother then having a quarrel 
 with Mr. Thomas Howarde, second son to the Earl of 
 Berkshire, about Mrs. Hareson (with whom he also was 
 in love), Mr. Rich brought my brother a challenge from 
 Mr. Howard, and was second to him against my bro- 
 ther when they fought, which they did without any 
 great hurt of any side, being parted. 9 This action made 
 Mr. Rich judge it not civil to come to our house, and 
 so for some time forbore doing it, but at last my bro- 
 ther's match with Mrs. Hareson being unhandsomely 
 (on her side) broken off, when they were so near being 
 married as the wedding clothes were to be made, and 
 she after married Mr. Thomas Howard (to my father's 
 very great satisfaction), who always was averse to it,
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 though to comply with my brother's passion he con- 
 sented to it. 
 
 My brother being thus happily disengaged from 
 that amour, brought again Mr. Rich to our family, and 
 soon after he grew again as great among us, as if he 
 had never done that disobliging action to us. By this 
 time, upon what account I know not, he began to 
 withdraw his visits to Mrs. Hareson (for that name 
 she continued to have, not being married to Mr. 
 Howard in a good considerable time after), and his 
 heart too ; and in being encouraged in his resolution 
 by my sister Boyle, began to think of making an 
 address to me, she promising him all the assistance 
 her power with me could give him to gain my affection, 
 though she knew by attempting it she should lose 
 my father's and all my family, that she believed would 
 never be brought -to consent to my having any younger 
 brother; my father's kindness to me making him, as 
 she well knew, resolved to match me to a great for- 
 tune. At last, one day she began to acquaint me 
 with Mr. Eich's, as she said, great passion for me ; at 
 which I was at the first much surprised, both at his 
 having it for me, and at her telling it to me, knowing 
 how much she hazarded by it, if I should acquaint my 
 father with it. I confess I did not find his declaration 
 of his kindness disagreeable to me, but the considera- 
 tion of his being but a younger brother made me sadly 
 apprehend my father's displeasure if I should embrace 
 any such offer, and so resolved, at that time, to give 
 her no answer, but seemed to disbelieve his loving
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 7 
 
 me at the rate she informed me he did, though I had 
 for some time taken notice of his loving me, though I 
 never thought he designed trying to gain me. 
 
 After this first declaration of his esteem for me by 
 my sister, he became a most diligent gallant to me, 
 seeking by a most humble and respectful address to 
 gain my heart, applying himself, when there was no 
 other beholders in the room but my sister, to me ; but 
 if any other person came in he took no more than ordi- 
 nary notice of me ; but to disguise his design addressed 
 himself much to her ; and though his doing so was not 
 well liked in our family, yet there was nothing said to 
 him about their dislike of it ; and by this way his 
 design became unsuspected, and thus we lived for 
 some months, in which time, by his more than ordi- 
 nary humble behaviour to me, he did insensibly steal 
 away my heart, and got a greater possession of it 
 than I knew he had. My sister, when he was forced 
 to be absent for fear of observing eyes, would so plead 
 for him, that it worked, too, very much upon me. 
 When I began to find, myself, that my kindness for 
 him grew and increased so much, that though I had 
 in the time of his private address to me, many great 
 and advantageous offers made me by my father, and 
 that I could not with any patience endure to hear of 
 any of them, I began with some seriousness to consider 
 what I was engaging myself in by my kindness for Mr. 
 Rich, for my father, I knew, would never indure me, 
 and besides I considered my mind was too high, and I 
 too expensively brought up to bring myself to live
 
 8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 contentedly with Mr. Rich's fortune, who would never 
 have, when his father was dead, above thirteen or 
 fourteen (at the most) hundred pounds a-year. Upon 
 these considerations I was convinced that it was time 
 for me to give him a flat and final denial ; and with 
 this, as I thought, fixed resolution, I have laid me 
 down in my bed to beg my sister never to name him 
 to me more for a husband, and to tell him, from me, 
 that I desired him never more to think of me, for I 
 was resolved not to anger my father : but when I was 
 upon a readiness to open my mouth to utter these 
 words, my great kindness for him stopped it, and 
 made me rise always without doing it, though I fre- 
 quently resolved it ; which convinced to me the great 
 and full possession he had of my heart, which made 
 me begin to give him more hopes of gaining me than 
 before I had done, by any thing but my inducing him 
 to come to me after he had declared to me his design 
 in doing so, which he well knew I would never endure 
 from any other person that had offered themselves to 
 me. 
 
 Thus we lived for some considei'able time, my duty 
 and my reason having frequent combats within me 
 with my passion, which at last was always victorious, 
 though my fear of my father's displeasure frighted me 
 from directly owning it to Mr. Eich ; till my sister 
 Boyle's taking sick of the measles (and by my lying 
 with when she had them, though I thought at first it 
 might be the small-pox, I got them of her), my kind- 
 ness being then so great for her, that though of all
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 
 
 diseases the small-pox was that I most apprehended, 
 yet from her I did not any thing, and would have con- 
 tinued with her all her illness, had I not by my father's 
 absolute command been separated into another room 
 from her ; but it was too late, for I had got from her 
 the infection, and presently fell most dangerously ill 
 of the measles too, and before they came out I was 
 removed into another house, because my sister Dun- 
 garvan, 10 in whose house I was, in Long Acre, was 
 expecting daily to be delivered, and was apprehensive 
 of that distemper. Mr. Eich then was much con- 
 cerned for me, and his being so made him make 
 frequent visits to me, though my sister Boyle was 
 absent from me, and he was most obligingly careful 
 of me ; which as it did to a great degree heighten my 
 passion for him, so it did also begin to make my family, 
 and before suspecting friends, to see that they were 
 by a false disguise of his kindness to my sister abused, 
 and that he had for me, and I for him a respect which 
 they feared was too far gone. 
 
 This made my old Lady Staford, mother to my 
 sister Boyle (who was a cunning old woman, and who 
 had been herself too much and too long versed in 
 amours), begin to conclude the truth, and absolutely 
 to believe that her daughter was the great actor in 
 this business, and that her being confidant with us, 
 would ruin her with my father ; and therefore having 
 some power with him, to prevent the inconveniences 
 that would come to her daughter, resolved to acquaint 
 my father with Mr. Rich's visiting me when I had
 
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 the measles, and of his continuing to do so at the 
 Savoy, whither I was, after my recovery, by my 
 father's order, removed, and where by reason of my 
 being newly recovered of an infectious disease, I was 
 free from any visits. After she had with great rage 
 chid her daughter, and threatened her that she would 
 acquaint my father with it (to keep me, as she said, from 
 ruining myself), she accordingly, in a great beat and 
 passion, did that very night do it. My sister presently 
 acquainted both Mr.Rich and me with her mother's reso- 
 lution, and when she had Mr. Eich alone, told him if 
 he did not that very night prevail with me to declare 
 my kindness for him, and to give him some assurance 
 of my resolution to have him, I would certainly the 
 next day by my father be secured from his ever speak- 
 ing to me, and so he would quite lose me. This dis- 
 course did make him resolve to do what she counselled 
 him to ; and that very night, when I was ill and laid 
 upon my bed, she giving him an opportunity of being 
 alone with me, and by her care keeping any body from 
 disturbing us ; he had with me about two hours dis- 
 course, upon his knees, by my bed-side, wherein he 
 did so handsomely express his passion (he was pleased 
 to say he had for me), and his fear of being by my 
 father's command separated from me, that together 
 with as many promises as any person in the world 
 could make, of his endeavouring to make up to me the 
 smallness of his fortune by the kindness he would have 
 still to me, if I consented to be his wife ; that though 
 I can truly say, that when he kneeled down by me I
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 1 1 
 
 was far from having resolved to own I would have 
 him, yet his discourse so far prevailed that I consented 
 to give him, as he desired, leave to let his father 
 mention it to mine ; and promised him that, let him 
 make his father say what he pleased, I would own it. 
 Thus we parted, this evening, after I had given away 
 myself to him, and if I had not done so that night, I 
 had been, by my father's separating us, kept from 
 doing it, at least for a long time ; for in the morning 
 my father, upon what the night before had been told 
 him by my Lady Staford, came early to me, and with a 
 very frowning and displeasing look, bid me go (as I 
 had before asked to do) into the country to air myself, 
 at a little house near Hampton Court, which Mrs. 
 Katheren Kilegrew, sister to my sister Boyle, then 
 had; and told me that he was informed that I had 
 young men who visited me, and commanded me if 
 any did so, where I was now going, I should not see 
 them. This he said in general, but named not Mr. 
 Rich in particular, which I was glad of; and so after 
 my father had dismissed me, with this unkind look (and 
 I thought severe command), I was presently, by my 
 brother Broghil, in his coach, conveyed to a very little 
 house at Hampton, which was at that time though 
 much more agreeable to me than the greatest and 
 most stately one could be, because it did remove me 
 from my father some distance, which I thought best 
 for me, till his fury was in some measure over, which 
 I much apprehended. That very day I removed into 
 the country, my Lord Goreing, afterwards Earl of Nor-
 
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 wicb, was by my Lord of Warwick and my Lord of 
 Hollandes appointment chose to be the first person 
 that should motion the match to my father, and 
 acquaint him with my esteem for Mr. Rich ; he was 
 chose by them, and approved of by me to do it, be- 
 cause his son having married one of my sisters, there 
 was a great friendship between them, and he had a 
 more than ordinary power with my father with what 
 he was designed to do : but though he did it very well, 
 my father was so troubled at it that he wept, and 
 would by no means suffer him to go on. 
 
 The next day, as I remember, my Lord of Warwick 
 and my Lord of Holland visited him, and mentioned it 
 with great kindness to him ; he used them with much 
 respect, but told them he hoped his daughter would be 
 advised by him, and he could not but still hope she would 
 not give herself away without his consent, and there- 
 fore he was resolved to send to me to know what I said 
 the next morning, which accordingly he did ; and the 
 persons he fixed upon to do it by were two of my bro- 
 thers, my eldest brother, Dungarvan, and my then 
 third brother, Broghil, who came early down to me 
 (but I was before informed by Mr Rich of their coming), 
 yet for all that I was disordered at their sight, knowing 
 about what they came; but the extraordinary great kind- 
 ness I had for Mr. Rich made me resolve to endure any 
 thing for his sake, and therefore when I had by my 
 brothers been informed that they were, by my father's 
 command, sent to examine me, what was between Mr. 
 Rich and I, and threatened, in my father's name, if I
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 13 
 
 did not renounce ever having any thing more to do 
 with him, I made this resolute, but ill and horribly 
 disobedient answer, that I did acknowledge a very 
 great and particular kindness for Mr. Rich, and desired 
 them, with my humble duty to my father, to assure 
 him that I would not marry him without his consent, 
 but that I was resolved not to marry any other person 
 in the world ; and that I hoped my father would be 
 pleased to consent to my having Mr. Rich, to whom, 
 I was sure, he could have no other objection, but that 
 he was a younger brother ; for he was descended from 
 a very great and honourable family, and was in the 
 opinion of all (as well as mine) a very deserving per- 
 son, and I desired my father would be pleased to con- 
 sider, I only should suffer by the sraallness of his 
 fortune, which I very contentedly chose to do, and 
 should judge myself to be much more happy with his 
 small one, than with the greatest without him. 
 
 After my two brothers saw I was unmoveable in 
 my resolution, say what they could to me, they returned 
 highly unsatisfied from me to my father ; who, when 
 he had it once owned from my own mouth, that I 
 would have him, or no body, he was extraordinarily 
 displeased with me, and forbid my daring to appear 
 before him. But after some time he was persuaded, 
 by the great esteem he had for my Lord of Warwick 
 and my Lord of Holland, to yield to treat with them, 
 and was at last brought, though not to give me my 
 before designed portion, yet to give me seven thousand 
 pounds, and was brought to see and be civil to Mr.
 
 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 Rich, who was a constant visitor of me at Hampton, 
 almost daily; but he was the only person I saw, for my 
 own family came not at me: and thus T continued there 
 for about ten weeks, when I was at last, by my Lord 
 of Warwick and my Lord Goreing led into my father's 
 chamber, and there, upon my knees, humbly begged 
 his pardon, which after he had, with great justice, 
 severely chid me, he bid me rise, and was by my Lord 
 of Warwick's and my Lord Goreing's intercession 
 reconciled to me, and told me I should suddenly be 
 married. But though he designed I should be so at 
 London, with Mr. Rich and my friends at it, yet being 
 a great enemy always to a public marriage, I was, by 
 that fear, and Mr. Rich's earnest solicitation, prevailed 
 with, without my father's knowledge, to be privately 
 married at a little village near Hampton Court, on the 
 21st July 1641, called Shepertone ; u which when my 
 father knew he was again something displeased at me 
 for it, but after I had begged his pardon, and assured 
 him I did it only to avoid a public wedding, which 
 he knew I had always declared against, his great in- 
 dulgence to me made him forgive me that fault also, 
 and within few days after I was carried down to Lees, 
 my Lord of Warwick's house in the country, 12 but none 
 of our friends accompanied me, but my dear sister 
 Ranelagh, 13 whose great goodness made her forgive me, 
 and stay with me some time at Lees, where I received 
 as kind a welcome as was possible from that family, 
 but particularly from my good father-in-law. 
 
 Here let me admire at the goodness of God, that by
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 15 
 
 His good providence to me, when I by my marriage 
 thought of nothing but having a person for whom I 
 had a great passion, and never sought God in it, but 
 by marrying my husband flatly disobeyed His command, 
 which was given me in His sacred oracles, of obeying 
 my father ; yet was pleased by His unmerited good- 
 ness to me to bring me, by my marriage, into a noble 
 and, which is much more, a religious family ; where 
 religion was both practised and encouraged; and 
 where there were daily many eminent and excellent 
 divines, who preached in the chapel most edifyingly 
 and awakeningly to us. Besides a famous household 
 chaplain, my father-in-law had Doctor Gawden there, 
 afterwards Lord Bishop of Worcester. 14 I could not, as 
 young as I was when I came to the family, being but 
 fifteen years old, and as much as between the 8th of 
 November and 21st July, but admire at the excellent 
 order there was in the family, and the great care that 
 was had that God should be most solemnly worshipped 
 and owned in that great family, both by the lord and 
 lady of it. My mother-in-law was not my husband's 
 own mother, she (Hatton) being dead, after she had 
 brought her husband many fine children, and the 
 greatest estate any woman had done for many years 
 to a family. And my lord after her decease was 
 married again to a rich woman, one Alderman Holi- 
 dayes widow, of the City, who because she was a 
 citizen was not so much respected in the family as in 
 my opinion she deserved to be ; for she was one that 
 assuredly feared God ; but she was at my first coming
 
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 to Lees removed to her daughter Hungerford's, near 
 the Bath, where she was resolved to stay till she was 
 by some person she credited, informed whether my 
 humour were such as would make her to live comfortably 
 with me ; for by reason of some former disputes with 
 my first Lady Rich (a daughter of Earl Devonshire), 
 that had been between them, she was almost come to 
 a resolution of never more living with any daughter- 
 in-law. But my Lady Robertes, 15 that was my lord's 
 sister, and a very pious woman, was pleased to assure 
 her would be dutiful to her, and at last did prevail with 
 her to come down to Lees, where I then was, and I 
 was so foi'tunate as I gained so much of her kindness, 
 that for about five years that I lived constantly with 
 her I did never displease her, or ever had any unkind- 
 ness from her, but found her as obliging to me as if 
 she had been my own mother, and she would always 
 profess she loved me at that rate, and I did when God 
 called her away mourn much for my losing her. 
 
 After her death my Lord of Warwick married again, 
 to the Countess of Sussex (widow of Thomas Savil, 
 Earl of Sussex), 16 with whom I had, too, the great 
 happiness of living as lovingly as it was possible for an 
 own mother and daughter to live, for about eleven 
 years, in some of which time I went on in a vain 
 kind of life, only studying to please my husband and 
 the family I was matched into; but, alas, too much 
 neglected the studying to please God, and to save my 
 immortal soul ; yet in this time of my vanity conscience 
 would often speak tome, but yet I went on, regardless,
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 17 
 
 though I was allured by God with many mercies, and 
 had afflictions too. 
 
 In the first year I was married, God was pleased to 
 give me a safe delivery of a girl, which I lay in with 
 at Warwick House. And soon after the second year, 
 I was brought a bed of a boy, in September 28th, 1643. 
 The girl was named Elizabeth, and the boy Charles. 
 The girl God was pleased to take from me by death, 
 when she was not a year and a quarter old. For 
 which I was much afflicted; but my husband as passion- 
 ately so as ever I saw him ; he being most extraordi- 
 narily fond of her. When I lay in with my son, the 
 ill news of my father's death was brought to my hus- 
 band ; 17 but by his care of me, it was concealed from 
 me till I was up again ; and then it was told me first 
 by my mother-in-law. 17 I was much afflicted, and 
 grieved at the loss of one of the best and kindest of 
 fathers in the world ; but I being young and incon- 
 siderate, grief did not stick long with me. 
 
 About the twenty-first year of my age [1646], 
 God was pleased, by the powerful means I had con- 
 stantly in that good family I was in, to awaken me to 
 consider how necessary it was seriously to consider for 
 a future state ; and I did then begin to think of being in 
 earnest for my salvation, and made some promises to 
 God of a new life. But these good resolutions I kept 
 no longer than I had no temptation to break them. 
 For when the family removed to Warwick House, and 
 I had got again to my old companions, I neglected 
 taking after the service of God ; yet my conscience 
 
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 would often call me to better things than I practised ; 
 and though I did endeavour diverting myself as for- 
 merly, yet God was so merciful to me, as never to 
 suffer me to find my former satisfaction, but still dis- 
 appointed my expectations in every thing wherein I 
 sought for comfort. And though I could not but 
 observe this, yet still I went on, though I had some 
 inward persuasion that God would, some way or other, 
 punish me for my doing so. And, at last, it pleased 
 God to send a sudden sickness upon my only son, 
 which I then doated on with great fondness. I was 
 beyond expression struck at it; not only because of 
 my kindness for him, but because my conscience told 
 me it was for my back-sliding. Upon this conviction 
 I presently retired to God ; and by earnest prayer 
 begged of Him to restore my child; and did then 
 solemnly promise to God, if He would hear my prayer, 
 I would become a new creature. This prayer of mine 
 God was so gracious as to grant ; and of a sudden 
 began to restore my child; which made the doctor 
 himself wonder at the sudden amendment he saw in 
 him, and filled me then with grateful thoughts. After 
 my child's full recovery, I began to find in myself a 
 great desire to go into the country; which I never 
 remember before to have had, thinking it always the 
 saddest thing that could be when we were to remove. 
 
 My Lady Warwick being very ill of an ague, was 
 unfit as well as unwilling to remove, and my Lord 
 was going to sea; 18 but at last it was by my Lord, 
 upon my shewing a willingness to do it, resolved that
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 19 
 
 I should with his family remove to Lees. As I was 
 doing so, upon the road near London I unexpectedly 
 met with my husband returning out of Essex, having 
 been sent thither by the Parliament to prevent a rising 
 they feared there ; and when I went from Warwick 
 House I concluded I should come time enough to 
 see my husband before his return to London. When 
 I was met by him he told me he feared it might 
 not be safe for me to go on ; and some other 
 Parliament-men that were in the coach with him, 
 absolutely advised me to return and not to hazard 
 myself. Though I found in myself a loathness to 
 deny going with my husband (having never before 
 left him hardly, when I could conveniently be 
 with him), yet my desire to go to be quiet at Lees 
 prevailed so much with me, as I desired my hus- 
 band to leave me to myself, which he did, and I 
 then told him I would go on, for I was very confident 
 there was no danger for me, and so parted from him, 
 not without wondering much at myself when I had 
 done so ; but afterwards I saw a good providence of 
 Grod to me in it, which I must always with great 
 thankfulness acknowledge, for I had never, to my re- 
 membrance, before been in so much quiet as by my 
 now going down I enjoyed, having in my father's 
 house, before my marriage, been almost in constant 
 crowds of company, and afterwards so too at Warwick 
 House. 
 
 And now when I came to Lees, what was believed 
 of the rising in Essex proved true, and being headed 
 
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 by my Lord Goreing and Sir Charles Lucas, 19 they 
 came to Lees for arms that were there, and brought 
 thousands with them ; but my Lord Goreing being one 
 of my best friends, I was upon that account used so well 
 that, bating some arms they took, there was not any- 
 thing touched, and they stayed but only a dinnering time 
 with me, and so marched on to Colchester. 
 
 My being there was well for the house, for possibly 
 if there had been none but servants, the house would 
 not have been secured as by my being there it was. 
 But by these troubles that was in the country I was 
 kept from having almost any of the neighbourhood to 
 visit, and from London nobody came neither : and as 
 well as I loved my husband's company, yet the appre- 
 hension I had that if he came down he would engage, 
 made me rather at that time desire he should forbear 
 coming (for I always was much averse to his engaging 
 in the wars), so that for about two months together I 
 had a retiring time ; but, my God, how graciously 
 did thy gracious providence provide for me a good 
 companion, who, by thy goodness to me, proved a kind 
 of a spiritual father to me. My Lord of Warwick had 
 then for his household chaplain one Mr. Walker, 20 who 
 being a very good-natured, civil, and ingenuous person, 
 I took much delight in conversing with ; and it pleased 
 God by his ministry in the time of my retirement to 
 work exceedingly upon me, he preaching very awak- 
 ingly and warmly the two texts that were, by God's 
 mercy, set home to me : " The wicked shall be turned 
 into hell, and all the nations that forget God"; and
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 21 
 
 the other was : " Acquaint now thyself with Him, and 
 be at peace." By the first I was much terrified, but 
 by the last I was much allured to come unto God and 
 to taste of the sweetness of religion, which he told me 
 was very sweet, and which I afterwards experienced 
 to be true. This good and pious friend of mine per- 
 ceiving in me some inclination to be good, did much 
 assist and encourage me to a holy life, and by frequent 
 discoursing with me, did shew me the expediency and 
 necessity of it, which made me begin to have more 
 serious thoughts than ever in my life before I had; for I 
 desire to acknowledge it to God's glory in changing 
 me, and my own shame, that I was, when I was married 
 into my husband's family, as vain, as idle, and as incon- 
 siderate a person as was possible, minding nothing but 
 curious dressing and fine and rich clothes, and spending 
 my precious time in nothing else but reading romances, 
 and in reading and seeing plays, and in going to court 
 and Hide Park and Spring Garden ; and I was so fond 
 of the court, that I had taken a secret resolution that 
 if my father died, and I was mistress of myself, I would 
 become a courtier ; and though I was at this time of 
 my vanity by God's restraining grace kept from any 
 gross or scandalous sin, yet I had, only to please my 
 father, a form of godliness; but for the inward and 
 spiritual part of it, I was not only ignorant of it, but 
 resolved against it, being stedfastly set against being a 
 Puritan. 
 
 But, O my good God, what shall I now render 
 unto thee for thy converting grace, who didst by
 
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 first shewing me the creature's inconsistency, and 
 not letting me find my happiness in any worldly thing, 
 but still embittering the stream that I might come to 
 the fountain, and so by a sanctified affliction 21 didst 
 first in some measure loosen me from the world, and 
 then by my worthy spiritual friend, Dr. Walker's 
 ministry, didst persuade me to come in and try what 
 peace, happiness, and comfort there is in thy most 
 holy ways, in which I did then find such contentment, 
 as all my forepast life, in which I designed pleasing 
 myself, never yielded me ; for God was pleased, at my 
 first turning to Him, to let me find inexpressible com- 
 fort in His ordinances whenever I approached to Him, 
 which did make me to hate and to disrelish all my 
 former vain and idle pleasures, and I then studied the 
 God-breathed oracles, and spent much time in reading 
 in the Word, laying by my idle books, and by my 
 Lord Primate of Ireland's 22 preaching against plays, 
 I was many years before resolved to leave seeing 
 them, for, as I remember, I saw not above two after 
 my being married. I was much encouraged in my 
 new course of life by my dear sister Raneleigh, who 
 did constantly before call upon me to turn to God, 
 and by constant good counsel endeavoured to reclaim 
 me from a vain and idle life ; that excellent sister of 
 mine being from my youth constantly to me the most 
 useful and the best friend, for soul and body, that ever 
 any person I think had ; and for her, as she well de- 
 served it of me, 1 had, and still retain, a particular 
 love and esteem. 23
 
 OF LAD? WARWICK. 23 
 
 When I had, by God's great goodness to me, had 
 this two months of quiet, I found myself so happy in 
 the enjoyment of it, that if I had had the satisfaction 
 of my husband's company, I could have been contented 
 for a time to have wanted all other, for my time was 
 then almost quite taken up in reading, meditation, 
 and prayer, being then very solicitous to redeem my 
 former mispent time; so that when I heard of the 
 return of the rest of the family that were absent with 
 my Lady Warwick, and with her returned, as did 
 too my sister Rich, and many more branches of that 
 truly great and numerous family, I was sorry for it, 
 being fearful that I should by them be drawn to vanity. 
 But when they returned I was very fearful and watch- 
 ful of myself, and my good spiritual friend, Dr. Walker, 
 was so too of me, and would often be my monitor not 
 to be drawn by company to mispend my time and to 
 neglect the service of God. But after they had been 
 some time with me, and could not but observe my con- 
 stant (at such hours) stealing from them for secret 
 retirement to my devotion, they began to take notice 
 of the change which they said was to them very appa- 
 rent in all my manner of life; for the thoughts of a 
 future state having seized me then in earnest, had 
 made me in all my way of life much more serious, and 
 had taken away from me that lightness and vanity of 
 mind, in some measure, which I formerly had, and 
 which was noted by them; for the thoughts of eternity 
 were so much upon my mind, that I delighted in 
 nothing so much as being alone in the wilderness, that
 
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 I might there meditate of things of everlasting con- 
 cernment, and therefore never was with the company 
 but when I could not fairly avoid being so : and indeed 
 it was no wonder to me that I appeared so altered to 
 them, for I was so much changed to myself that I 
 hardly knew myself, and could say with that converted 
 person, " I am not I." All my before vain compa- 
 nions which were so pleasant to me, .were burthens to 
 me, and I began to be acquainted with holy and strict 
 divines, who much frequented the house, but were 
 before by me not much regarded. I did often converse 
 with them alone, and found their company so much 
 more advantageously pleasant to me than my idle, 
 sensual companions had been, that for all I was some- 
 times much laughed at and reproached for leaving 
 great company for them, yet I could never be drawn 
 from those holy and excellent companions, choosing 
 much, rather good than great company. 
 
 After God had thus, as I hope, savingly wrought 
 upon me, I went on constantly comfortable in my 
 Christian course, though I had many doubts and fears 
 to conflict with, and did truly obey that precept of 
 working out my own salvation with fear and trembling, 
 yet God was pleased to carry me still onward ; and 
 though I too often broke my good resolutions, yet I 
 never renounced them ; and though I too often trifle 
 in my journey to heaven, yet I never forsake my pur- 
 pose of going thither. 
 
 God was pleased in the year 1648 to make me fall 
 dangerously ill of the small-pox. My distemper at the
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 25 
 
 first made Dr. Wright, my physician, 24 believe I would 
 die, but it pleased God, by his means, to save my life ; 
 yet when I was, as he thought, almost past danger, 
 that barbarous and unheard of wicked action of be- 
 heading King Charles the First was of a sudden told 
 me, which did again endanger me, for I had a great 
 abhorrence of that bloody act, and was much disordered 
 at it. 
 
 In that sickness (which I had at Warwick House) 
 I was, because of my Lady Warwick's fear, shut up 
 from anybody coming to me ; but my constant dear 
 friend, my sister Raneleigh, came now and then to see 
 me, though I was against her doing it, because she 
 had never had them; yet I saw much of God's good- 
 ness to me in the time of my being kept from all other 
 company, for God was pleased then to come in with 
 much support and comfort to me, and though I had 
 for some time before my illness much troubled myself 
 with the great apprehensions I had of death, yet when 
 I knew I was in some danger of it, I found that fear 
 much to go off, and was able to say "It is the Lord, 
 let Him do what seems good in His eyes," and was in 
 some measure resigned to God's will for life or death. 
 
 Some years afterwards I was again, at Lees, infected 
 with a very long and dangerous sickness, in which, by 
 reason of great fumes I had, my head was highly disor- 
 dered, to a degree that sometimes I knew nobody, and 
 would talk idly and extravagantly; in which sickness 
 too, my dear sister Raneleigh came down to see me ; 
 afterwards, when I was able, though very weak, to be
 
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 put into a coach, I was by Dr. Wright's order removed 
 to my own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to be near 
 my doctor, where I lay a great while in a very weak 
 and ill condition ; but in that sickness had much satis- 
 faction to see the great, tender, and obliging care my 
 husband and father-in-law had of me, and my mother- 
 in-law too was much concerned for me. It pleased 
 my good and merciful God after a long time to cure 
 me perfectly, by His blessing upon Dr. Wright's means, 
 who told me, that in all his great and long practice, he 
 had never known but one that had been as I had been. 
 
 My illness was, as he told me, occasioned by fumes 
 of the spleen, which had such strange effects upon me 
 as to make my head shake as if I had had the palsy, 
 and made me too many times to speak so that I could 
 hardly be understood by anybody. In this distemper 
 I would laugh too and cry for nothing ; and though I 
 did recover, yet for a long time after my head by fits 
 would be much disturbed, but at last, by God's mercy, 
 I attained to perfect health again. 
 
 In the year 1657, Mr. Robert Rich, only son to my 
 Lord Rich, who was my husband's eldest brother, died, 
 being aged twenty-three years. 25 He died at London, 
 in February the 16th, to his good grandfather's un- 
 speakable trouble. I was heartily troubled for him, 
 but his good grandfather never was so well or merry 
 after his death as before, and outlived him but a little 
 while, for he died at Warwick House of the cholic, 
 keeping his chamber but a day or two, in April 19, 
 1658, to my unspeakable grief, then the most smarting
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 27 
 
 and most sensible trouble I ever had felt ; for though I 
 had before lost my own dear and deserving father, yet 
 my being then young and gay, made an affliction not 
 take so deep an impression as this did: and indeed 
 this worthy father-in-law of mine merited as much 
 from me as was possible, for in the almost seventeen 
 years I constantly lived with him, from the time I 
 came into his family until his death, he was to me the 
 most civil, kind, and obliging father that ever any 
 person had, and never had from him any thing but 
 constant kindness. He was one of the most best- 
 natured and cheerfullest persons I have in my time met 
 with, and it was some time before I could forbear ex- 
 ceeding much to mourn for him. 
 
 In the year 1659, in May 30th, died at London, my 
 Lord's eldest brother, then Earl of Warwick, and left 
 no son, only three daughters, which, upon his death- 
 bed, I promised to have while I lived as great a care of 
 as if they had been my own, and that promise I can 
 truly say I have performed, for I have from the time 
 of their father's death, that I took them home to me, 
 with the same care bred those three ladies, who were 
 all left to my care young, as I could have done if they 
 had been my own children, studying and endeavouring 
 to bring them up religiously, that they might be good, 
 and do good afterwards in their generation ; and I am 
 sure I have the affection of a mother for those three 
 sweet, hopeful young ladies, which I beseech God to 
 bless, of whom the name of the eldest was my Lady 
 Ann, 26 the name of the second my Lady Mary," and 
 the name of the youngest my Lady Essex. 28
 
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 By the death of all these three above-named en- 
 deared relatives of my husband's, he, in about a year 
 and four months, came to be Earl of Warwick, and I 
 had this satisfaction when he came to that honour and 
 noble estate, that I never had so much as a wish for 
 it ; but on the contrary, hourly prayed for the recovery 
 of them, and mourned for their deaths ; for when I 
 married my husband, I had nothing of that honour nor 
 fortune in my thoughts ; it was his person I married 
 and cared for, not an estate. 
 
 After my Lord's brother's death, I can truly assert 
 that I entered upon that unexpected change of my 
 condition with much disturbance and fear, lest by 
 having a more plentiful estate, I ought to be drawn to 
 love the glory of the world too well. I was very 
 jealous of myself, and did (if ever I prayed earnestly 
 to God) beg of Him, the day after my Lord of Warwick 
 died, to keep me close to Him in this change of my 
 condition. 
 
 After the funeral of my Lord's brother, we removed 
 from Lincoln's Inn Fields (where we then lived) to 
 Lees, where I came with a design to glorify God what 
 I could, and to do what good I could to alt my neigh- 
 bours. 1661, July the 23d. I was going from Lees 
 to Easton to visit my Lady Maynard, 29 and had in my 
 coach with me my Lady Anne and my Lady Essex 
 Rich ; and when I was just out of Dunmow town, the 
 horses ran with us, and flung out the coachman, and 
 overthrew us in the coach, in which fall the Lady 
 Essex escaped being hurt ; but I was much so, having
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 29 
 
 a great blow on my head and a great and dangerous 
 cut in one of my knees. I was, by the great blow in 
 my head, so disordered that for a long time I knew not 
 anything; and by the great cut I had in my knee I 
 was a long time so very lame that I could not go out 
 at all, and had like to have been always so if God had 
 not mercifully, by His blessing on the use of means, 
 restored me to my legs again. 
 
 1662. September the second, my son Rich was, at 
 Rohampton Chapel, married to my Lord of Devon- 
 shire's daughter, my Lady Ann Candish f and they 
 being too young to live together, he went to travel 
 into France September the fifth, and I brought my 
 daughter Rich home with me to Lees the eighth. My 
 son stayed not so long as he was designed to do in 
 France; but returned back to his wife, and they lived 
 together with me till May 1664; and then, the eighth 
 day of that month, my dear and only son fell ill, and 
 it proved to be the small-pox, in which distemper of 
 his, after I had removed his wife out of the house from 
 him to her father's (for fear of her being infected), and 
 had sent away my three young ladies to Lees, and got 
 my Lord to remove to my sister Raneleigh's, I shut up 
 myself with him, doing all I could both for his soul and 
 body; and though he was judged by his doctors to be 
 in a hopeful way of recovery, yet it pleased God to 
 take him away by death the 16th of May, to my 
 inexpressible sorrow. He wanted about four months 
 of being of age. ' * " 
 
 It was so sad an affliction that it would certainly
 
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 have sunk me had not ray good and gracious God as- 
 sisted me to bear it, and given me this comfortable 
 cordial of seeing him die so penitently that I had many 
 comfortable hopes of his everlasting happiness; he 
 making so good and sober an end. And here, my 
 good God, let me bless Thee for enabling me to bear 
 that great trial of my life without ever having a repin- 
 ing thought at Thee for that sad but just chastisement of 
 me; and for enabling me to confess with my mouth to 
 others, and really and steadily believe in my heart, 
 that Thou wert just in what Thou hadst brought upon 
 me, far less than mine iniquities do deserve. I was, 
 under this sharp trial, so enabled from above with 
 some degree of patience, that I did endeavour to com- 
 fort my sad and afflicted husband, who, at the news of 
 his death, when it was told him (by my good friend, 
 the Earl of Manchester) 31 that he cried out so terribly 
 that his cry was heard a great way; and he was the 
 saddest afflicted person could possibly be. I confess I 
 loved him at a rate, that if my heart do not deceive 
 me), I could, with all the willingness in the world, have 
 died either for him or with him, if God had only seen 
 it fit; yet I was dumb and held my peace, because God 
 did it, and was constantly fixed in the belief that this 
 affliction came from a merciful Father, and therefore 
 would do me good. 
 
 After my son's death, I was, by my dear sister 
 Raneleigh's care and kindness to me, instantly fetched 
 away from my own house at Lincoln's-inn-fields, where 
 my dear child died, to her house (and never more did
 
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 I enter that house; but prevailed with my Lord to sell 
 it) : my dear sister took such care of me in my sadly 
 afflicted condition that I was much supported by it ; 
 and I was much, too, assisted and comforted by my 
 good spiritual friend Doctor "Walker's advice, who was 
 much with me. 
 
 Afterwards I was advised to go and drink the waters 
 of Epsom and Tonbridge, to remove that great pain I 
 had got constantly at my heart after my son's death; 
 and by the blessing of God I found a great deal of good 
 in them. Then we returned back to our own house at 
 Lees, where we had a match preferred us for my Lady 
 Ann Rich. It was Sir John Barrington's son; and he 
 being a very civil gentleman and of a very good family, 
 and having a good estate, it was accepted by my Lord 
 and the young lady; and she was married to Mr. 
 Thomas Barrington, in Lees Chapel, in November the 
 8th, 1664. And after they had continued to live with 
 me for nearly two years, she went from me to her 
 father-in-law's to Hatfield, in Essex, 32 distant from Lees 
 but ten miles : the nearness of the neighbourhood was 
 a great motive to us to accept that match. 
 
 After that by my dear and only child's death, my 
 Lord's family grew so thin, that the name was like to 
 sink; there being but one brother of my Lord's left, 
 and he, being a very extraordinary wild man, was not 
 like to be a very good head to it. I was (as well as 
 my Lord), very desirous (if God saw it fit) to have 
 more children, and sought to God for some to keep up 
 the honour of that noble house; but I can with truth
 
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 say, I desired a son more upon the account of the 
 hopes I had that He might be honoured and owned in 
 it, than upon any other : for that family had for se- 
 veral generations been justly honoured in the county 
 of Essex for the owning and countenancing good 
 people, and for the encouraging of them; and it was 
 a very great aggravation of my loss of my son, to 
 think who would come in his room, if my Lord died, 
 and what a sad change would be made if my brother 
 Hatton should come to Lees, who would, as himself 
 said, alter the way of that house for the entertaining 
 there those good and holy persons that came, who he 
 was resolved to banish thence; but though he was very 
 confident, as himself often told many of his compa- 
 nions, that he should be Earl of Warwick, yet God 
 was pleased to disappoint his expectation by taking 
 him away by death at London, in February the 28th, 
 1670. 
 
 I can truly say I was sorry for him, though, because 
 of his not fearing God, I could not at all delight in 
 his company. At my son's death, I was not much 
 more than thirty-eight years old and therefore many, 
 as well as my Lord and myself, entertained some 
 hopes of my having more children; but it pleased God 
 to deny that great and desired blessing to us, and I 
 cannot but acknowledge a just hand of God in not 
 granting us our petition ; for when I was first married, 
 and had my two children so fast, I feared much having 
 so many, and was troubled when I found myself to be 
 with child so soon ; out of a proud conceit I had, that if
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 33 
 
 1 childed so thick it would spoil what my great vanity 
 then made me to fancy was tolerable (at least in my 
 person); and out of a proud opinion too that I had, 
 that if I had many to provide for they must be poor, 
 because of my Lord's small estate ; which my vanity 
 made me not endure well to think of: and my husband 
 too was, in some measure, guilty of the same fault; for 
 though he was at as great a rate fond of his children 
 he had, as any father would be, yet when he had had 
 two he would often say he feared he should have so 
 many as would undo a younger brother; and there- 
 fore cannot but take notice of God's withholding that 
 mercy from us when we so much needed it, being we 
 were unthankful for them we had, and durst not trust 
 to His good providence for more, if He saw it fit to give 
 them to us. But, O Lord, though thou hast with jus- 
 tice denied us an heir, and hast made our wound, in 
 this case incurable, by letting our coal be quite put 
 out, yet be pleased to give us in thy house a name 
 better than that of sons and daughters. 
 
 In the year 1673 it pleased God by death to take 
 from me my dear Lord, who died at his house at Lees, 
 upon Bartholomew day, for whose loss I was more 
 afflicted than ever before for anything in my fore-past 
 life; for though my son's death had almost sunk me, and 
 my grief for him was so great that I thought it almost 
 impossible to be more sensibly afflicted, yet I found I 
 now was so; and though God had given me many years 
 to provide for our separation by seeing my poor hus- 
 band almost daily dying (for God had been pleased for
 
 34 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 above twenty years to afflict him with the gout more 
 constantly and painfully than almost any person the 
 doctors said they had ever seen), yet I still flattered 
 myself with hopes of his life, though he had for many 
 years quite lost the use of his limbs, and never put 
 his feet to the ground, nor was able to feed himself, 
 nor turn in his bed but by the help of his servants; 
 and by those constant pains he was so weakened and 
 wasted that he was like a mere skeleton, and at last 
 fell into most dangerous convulsion fits and died of the 
 fourth. The seeing him in them was so very terrible 
 to me, that after his death I fell into very ill fits; but by 
 God's blessing I at last lost them again. I had this com- 
 fort that nothing I could think was good for either his 
 soul or body was neglected; and I had much inward 
 peace, to consider that I had been a constant nurse to 
 him, and had never neglected night or day my attend- 
 ance upon him when he needed it, which he was so 
 kind as to reward in his will, giving me his whole 
 estate for my life and a year after, and making me 
 his sole executrix. This greatest trial of my life did 
 for a long time disorder my frail house of clay, and 
 made me have thoughts that my dissolution was near; 
 which thoughts were not at all terrible or aflrighting 
 to me, but very pleasant and delightful. 
 
 About four months after my Lord's death, my Lady 
 Mary Rich, my Lord's niece, who I had constantly 
 bred from the time of her father's death, was married 
 at Lees chapel by Dr. Walker, the llth December, 
 1673. The match was agreed on before my Lord's
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 35 
 
 death, but finished by me, much to my satisfaction, 
 because it was a very orderly and religious family, and 
 there was a very good estate, and the young gentleman 
 she married, Mr. Henry St. John, was very good- 
 natured and viceless, and his good father and mother, 
 Sir Walter St. John and my Lady St. John, were very 
 eminent for owning and practising religion. And 
 here, O my good God, let me return thee my praises 
 for hearing the reiterated prayers I put up to thy 
 Divine Majesty, for her being by marriage settled in 
 a family where thy sacred name was had in veneration. 
 After her marriage was over, my Lady Essex Rich 
 having, after my Lord's death, broke off a match, which 
 was treated of before my Lord died, between Mr. 
 Thomas Vane and her, I had several offers made me of 
 matches for her, but they were disliked by me, because 
 the young men were not viceless ; and I had taken a 
 resolution that no fortune, though the greatest in the 
 kingdom should be offered me, should be accepted, where 
 the young man was not sober, which made me instantly 
 give flat denials to all the above-named proposals. But 
 afterwards I had from my Lord Keeper Finch, a match 
 proposed for his son, Mr. Daniel Finch, about which, 
 when I had consulted with her own relations, and 
 found they approved of it, as I also did, upon the 
 assurance I had from all the persons that knew him, 
 that he was an extraordinary both ingenuous and civil 
 person (which upon my own knowledge of him, I after- 
 wards found to be true), 1 did recommend this match 
 to the young lady, giving her, when I had laid the 
 
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 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 conveniencies I believed was in it before her, her free 
 choice to choose or not, to do as she liked or disliked ; 
 but after some time that he had made his address to her, 
 she consented to have him, and was by Mr. Wodrofe 33 
 married to him in Lees chapel, June the 16th, 1674, 
 his father, my Lord Keeper, then being by the King 
 made Baron of Dantery, being present, with a great 
 many more of his and her relations. And here, O Lord 
 my God and gracious God, be pleased to receive my 
 solemn acknowledgments of thy great goodness to me 
 thy most unworthy servant, for letting me have the 
 long-desired satisfaction of seeing the three young 
 ladies (which by thy providence being made orphans, 
 were left to my care to educate) married to three young 
 persons who are free from the reigning vices of these 
 loose and profane times ; and, O Lord, I do humbly 
 implore that thou wouldst be pleased to 'make these 
 three young couple not only to be civil, but inwardly 
 to be renewed in the spirit of their minds, that they 
 may be heirs together of the grace of life, and may, as 
 good Zakanias and Elizabeth did, walk in all the ordi- 
 nances and commandments of thee their God blameless. 
 O make them not only to be good, but to do good, that 
 so thy poor and unworthy servant may with comfort 
 see some fruits of her sincere endeavours to bring 
 them in the nurture and admonition of thee, my Lord, 
 and that the families they are matched into may have 
 cause to bless thee, that ever thy good hand of provi- 
 dence brought them amongst them. O make them to 
 be amiable in their lives, and in their deaths let them
 
 OF LADY WARWICK. 37 
 
 not be denied. And if it be thy most blessed will, let 
 them be like fruitful vines, that they may increase 
 the families which by thy good providence they are 
 matched into. 
 
 After I had seen the greatest worldly business I 
 had to do thus happily dispatched, of these three young 
 ladies being disposed of, I met in the trust my dear 
 Lord had imposed upon me as his executrix, in the 
 sale of lands for raising portions and payment of debts, 
 by reason of Mr. Jesop's death, who was one of the 
 trustees, with a great many stops and troubles in my 
 business, which, having not been formerly versed in 
 things of law, I found very uneasy and troublesome to 
 me ; but yet the great desire I had to see my Lord's 
 will fufilled, made me go through my disturbing busi- 
 ness with some patience and diligence ; and God was 
 so merciful unto me, as He did, beyond my expecta- 
 tion, raise me some faithful, knowing, and affectionate 
 friends, who did assist me with their counsel, so as at 
 last God was pleased to let me see my dear Lord's will 
 fulfilled ; and though there was a great many several 
 persons I had to deal with, yet I satisfied them all so 
 well, as I never had anything between them and me 
 passed that was determined by going to law, but all 
 that was in dispute between us, was always agreed on 
 between ourselves in a kind and friendly way ; for 
 which, O Lord, I bless thee. 
 
 O Lord, be pleased to write a law of love and thank- 
 fulness in my heart for putting an end to my worldly 
 business, by which I find myself too much diverted
 
 38 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC. 
 
 from thy service, and too much distracted in it. And, 
 O Lord, be pleased to grant that the remaining part of 
 my days I may be a widow indeed, living a creature 
 wholly devoted unto thee, remembering I am not my 
 own, but bought with a price, and therefore let me 
 glorify thee with my body and with my soul, which 
 are thine. 

 
 NOTES. 
 
 (1.) In Lord Cork's " True Remembrances," it is stated, 
 that his daughter Mary was born the llth of November, 
 1624. That she, however, considered her birth-day to be 
 the 8th November in the following year, is established by 
 the statement at page 15, and this passage in her diary 
 "8th November, 1671 In the morning, as soon as up, I 
 retired into the Wilderness to meditate ; and it being my 
 birth-day, it pleased God to make me call to my remembrance 
 many of the special mercies with which my life was filled. 
 And whilst I was doing so, I considered that God had for 
 forty-six years so mercifully provided for me, that I had not 
 ever out of necessity wanted a meal's meat, nor ever broke 
 a bone, nor in twenty years' time been necessitated to keep 
 my bed one day by reason of sickness ; this did exceedingly 
 draw out my heart to love God." 
 
 The discrepancy in the day of the month has been pointed 
 out in a note on the Preface to the Memoir of Lady Warwick, 
 published in 1847, by the Religious Tract Society ; but the 
 discrepancy in the year is unnoticed.
 
 40 NOTES. 
 
 (2.) Lady Warwick, in this passage, follows her father's 
 autobiography, entitled, " True Remembrances," which he 
 drew up in 1632, and of which many copies exist in 
 manuscript. It was first printed entire by Birch, in his 
 life of the Hon. Robert Boyle, 1734. The editor publicly 
 examined the correctness of these true Remembrances in the 
 historical section of the first Meeting of the British Archae- 
 ological Association at Canterbury, (13th September, 1844) 
 and, he thinks, succeeded in shewing that Lord Cork's 
 biography was a complete work of fiction. 
 
 (3.) " My dear wife, the crown of all my happiness, and 
 mother of all my children, Catherine, Countess of Corke, 
 was translated at Dublin from this life into a better, the 
 16th February, 1629-30, and was the 17th privately 
 buried in the night in the upper end of the choir of St. 
 Patrick's church in Dublin, in the grave or vault, wherein 
 Dr. Weston, her grandfather, and good Lord Chancellor of 
 Ireland, and Sir Geoffry Fenton, his Majesty's principal 
 Secretary of State for this realm, were entombed. Her 
 funerals were honourably solemnized in publick, the llth of 
 March, anno Domini 1629. In the perpetual memory of 
 which my virtuous and religious deceased wife, and of her 
 predecessors and posterity, I have caused a very fair tomb 
 to be erected, with a cave or cellar of hewn stone under- 
 neath it." Lord Cork's " True Remembrances." 
 
 (4.) [From Sir William EethamUs Collections of Boyle MSS., 
 in the autograph of Mr. Lodge."] 
 
 (Now first printed.) 
 
 A form for the government of the Earl of Cork's family 
 at Stalbridge. 
 1. Firste. All the servants, excepte such as are officers or
 
 NOTES. 41 
 
 are otherwise imployed, shall meete everye morninge 
 before dynner, and everye night after supper at prayers. 
 
 2. That there be lodgeings fittinge for all the Earle of Cork's 
 servants to lye in the house. 
 
 3. That it shall be lawfull for the steward to examine any 
 subordinate servant of the whole family concerninge any 
 complainte or misdemeanor committed, and to dismisse 
 and put awaye any inferior servant that shall live dis- 
 solutelie and disordelie either in the house or abrode, 
 without the espetial commaund of the Earle of Cork to 
 the contrarie. 
 
 4. That there be a certen number of the gentlemen ap- 
 poynted to sitt at the steward's table, the like at the 
 wayter's table, and the reste to sitt in the hall att the 
 longe table. 
 
 5. That there be a clarke of the kytchin to take care of such 
 provicion as is brought into the howse, and to have an 
 espetial eie to the severall tables that are kepte either 
 above staires or in the kytchin and other places. 
 
 6. That all the women servants, under the degree of chamber- 
 maydes, be certenlie knowne by theire names to the 
 steward, and not altered and changed uppon everye 
 occation without the consent of the steward, and no 
 schorers to be admitted in the house. 
 
 7. That the officers everye Frydaye night bringe in their 
 bills unto the steward, whereby he maye collecte what 
 bathe bene spent and what remaynes weeklie in the 
 howse. 
 
 8. (Sic oriff.) 
 
 Indorsed, Thomas Cross his orders for the keeping of 
 the howse. The writing is the Earless hand. 
 
 (5.) James Hamilton, the grandson of Sir John Perrot, 
 Lord deputy of Ireland, second Viscount Claneboye, and the
 
 42 NOTES. 
 
 first Earl of Clanbrassil, who, according to Lodge's Irish 
 Peerage, in. 5, was married in November, 1635, [articles 
 dated 12 and 13 November] to Anne, eldest daughter of 
 Sir Henry Gary, the second Earl of Monmouth, appears to 
 be the person alluded to by Lady Warwick. 
 
 How are the dates to be reconciled without the charge of 
 double dealing ? Anne Gary, the Countess of Clanbrassil, 
 having survived her lord and re-married with Sir Robert 
 Maxwell. 
 
 Admitting that Lady Warwick takes a year off her 
 father's " true Remembrance" of her age, and further ad- 
 mitting that she was about eleven years of age when Lord 
 Cork called her into England, this would bring the date of 
 Mr. Hamilton's marriage with Anne Gary, and the Hon. 
 Mary Boyle's arrival in England, to be precisely in the same 
 month and year. 
 
 But Lady Warwick goes on to say, that for four years 
 after November 1635, Mr. Hamilton continued to be her 
 suitor, and this statement she supports with the fact that 
 within a year after her " absolute refusing him," (say 1639) 
 she saw " a good providence of God " in the matter, as " he 
 was, by the rebellion of Ireland, (1641) impoverished, so that 
 he lost for a great while his whole estate." It may further be 
 observed, that a passage in Lord Cork's letter to Mr. 
 Marcombe, dated 1 8th January, 1 639-40, subsequently quoted, 
 expresses his Lordship's hope that his daughter Mary will 
 be nobly married in the Spring, and bears out Lady 
 Warwick's statement. 
 
 (6.) Or rather, his apartments in the Savoy Palace, see 
 the following note : 
 
 (7.) In the autobiography of the Hon. Robert Boyle, pub- 
 lished by Birch ; the former, under the name of Philaretus,
 
 NOTES. 43 
 
 tells us, that " towards the end of this summer, [1638] the 
 kingdom having now attained a seeming settlement by the 
 king's pacification with the Scots, there arrived atStalbridge,* 
 Sir Thomas Stafford, gentleman usher to the Queen, with 
 his lady, to visit their old friend, the Earl of Cork, with 
 whom, ere they departed, they concluded a match betwitxt 
 his fourth son, Mr. F. B. and E. K. [Kittegrew] daughter to 
 
 my lady S., by Sir [Robert] K., and then a maid of 
 
 honour, both young and handsome. To make his addresses to 
 this lady, Mr. F. was sent, (and PhUaretus in his company) 
 before up to London, whither within few weeks they were 
 followed by the Earl and his family, of which a great part 
 lived at (the Lady Stafford's house) the Savoy ; the rest (for 
 his family was much increased by the accession of his 
 daughters, the Countess of Barrimore and the Lady Ranelagh, 
 with their Lords and children) were lodging in the adjacent 
 houses, but took their meals in the Savoy, where the old 
 
 Earl kept so plentiful a house, that in months, his 
 
 accompts for bare housekeeping exceeded pounds. 
 
 " Not long after his arrival, Philaretufs brother having 
 been successful in his addresses to his mistress, was, in the 
 presence of the king and queen, publickly married at court, 
 with all that solemnity that usually attends matches with 
 maids of honour. But to render this joy as short as it was 
 great, Philaretus and his brother were within four days after 
 commanded away for France, and after having kissed their 
 majesty's hands, they took a differing farewel of all their 
 friends; the bridegroom extremely afflicted to be so soon 
 deprived of a joy, which he had tasted but just enough of to 
 encrease his regrets by the knowledge of what he was forced 
 from ; but Philaretus as much satisfied to see himself in a 
 
 * See page 2.
 
 44 NOTES. 
 
 condition to content a curiosity, to which his inclinations 
 did passionately addict him. With these different resent- 
 ments of their father's commands, accompanied by their 
 governor, two French servants and a lacquey of the same 
 country, upon the end of October, 1638, they took post for 
 Bye, in Sussex, where the next day hiring a ship, though 
 the sea were not very smooth, a prosperous puff of wind did 
 safely by the next morning blow them into France." 
 
 (8.) Francis, daughter of Sir Richard Harrison, of Hurst, 
 in Berkshire. She married the Hon. Thomas Howard, who, 
 in 1679, succeeded as third Earl of Berkshire. 
 
 (9.) Lord Cork writes on the 18th January, 1639-40, to 
 Mr. Marcombe, his son's tutor. " Your friend Broghil is in 
 a fair way of being married to Mrs. Harison, one of the 
 queen's maids of honour, about whom yesterday a difference 
 happened between Mr. Thomas Howard, the Earl of 
 Berkshire's son and heir, and him, which drew them into 
 the field ; but thanks be to God, Broghil came home with- 
 out any hurt, and the other gentleman not much harmed, 
 and now they have clashed their swords together they are 
 grown good friends. I think in my next I shall advise you 
 that my daughter Mary is nobly married, and that in the 
 Spring I shall send her husband to keep company with my 
 sons at Geneva." 
 
 (10.) Richard Lord Dungarvan, afterwards the second 
 Earl of Cork in the Peerage of Ireland, and Lord Clifford 
 and Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of England, married 
 5th July, 1635, Lady Elizabeth Clifford, the daughter and 
 heir to Henry, Earl of Cumberland. 
 
 (11.) When the editor applied to the clergyman of Shep-
 
 NOTES. 45 
 
 perton for information on this subject, he was not aware 
 that the wished for extract, from the parish register, had 
 been printed in Lyson's " Historical account of those 
 parishes in the county of Middlesex which are not described 
 in the environs of London," p. 225. His want of knowledge, 
 however, affords him an opportunity of conveying to the 
 Rector of Shepperton this acknowledgement for the kind 
 and prompt manner in which the request was met, and the 
 following document forwarded for his information. 
 
 Extract from the register of marriages solemnized in the 
 Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Shepperton, Middlesex. 
 
 " Mr. Charles Rich, second son to the Right Hon. Robert 
 Earle of Warwick, and the Lady Mary Boyle, daughter to 
 the Right Hon. the Earle of Cork in Ireland, were married 
 the 21st of July, 1641." Extracted by WILLIAM RUSSELL, 
 Rector. January 24, 1848. 
 
 (12.) Also written Leeze, and Leighs near Braintree, 
 Essex, " where the Earl of Warwick resided, was one of 
 the finest seats in the kingdom. Mr. Knightly, a gentle- 
 man of Northamptonshire, told the Earl ' he had good 
 reason to make sure of heaven ; as he would be a great loser 
 in changing so charming a place for hell.' See Calamy's 
 ' Sermon at his funeral,' p. 31." Granger. 
 
 (13.) Lady Catherine Boyle, the fifth daughter of the 
 Earl of Cork, married Arthur Jones, Viscount Ranelagh, and 
 was about ten years Lady Warwick's senior. See 23. 
 
 (14.) John Gauden, successively Bishop of Exeter and 
 Worcester, died 20th September, 1662. A man of con- 
 siderable learning, and the reputed author of the " Eikon 
 Basilike." 
 
 (15.) Lady Lucy Rich, daughter of Robert Earl of
 
 46 NOTES. 
 
 Warwick, married John second Baron Robartes, created 
 Earl of Radnor in 1679. 
 
 (16.) Lady Anne Villiers, daughter of Christopher Earl 
 of Anglesey, married Thomas first Earl of Sussex, who was 
 Comptroller of the household to Charles I, and remained 
 faithfully attached to the king during the Civil Wars. 
 
 (17.) The editor has not been able to ascertain the day on 
 which Lord Cork died, in September, 1643, at Youghall. 
 The numerous authorities which he has consulted, enable 
 him to state that it must certainly have been after the 15th; 
 and probably after the 18th. The only curious point in the 
 question, is that of time in the transmission of intelligence 
 from Ireland to England, by which Lord Cork's own state- 
 ment respecting his journey from Kinsale to the bed-side 
 Queen of Elizabeth, might be tested as to its accuracy. 
 
 (18.) Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, was appointed 
 " Admiral and commander-in-chief of the ships which are 
 now, or hereafter shall be, set forth to sea by the long Par- 
 liament." His instructions from the Lords and Commons in 
 Parliament are dated 5th April, 1643. 
 
 Granger observes, that the Earl of Warwick " was a great 
 friend and patron of Puritan divines, and one of their con- 
 stant hearers ; and he was not content with hearing long 
 sermons in their congregation only, but he would have them 
 repeated in his own house." Yet in his morals Lord War- 
 wick is said to have been licentious. 
 
 (19.) "The king's party, in Colchester, expecting to be 
 included in the peace, which was treating between him and 
 the Parliament, held out to the utmost ; but being in ex-
 
 NOTES. 47 
 
 treme want of provisions, and destitute of all hopes of relief, 
 since the defeat of the Scots ; they were forced to surrender 
 on the 28th of August, 1648, upon articles, whereby some 
 of the principal of them being prisoners at discretion, the 
 court-martial assembled, and condemned Sir Charles Lucas, 
 Sir George Lisle, and Sir Bernard Gascoin to die ; the last 
 of whom, being a foreigner, was pardoned, and the other 
 two were shot to death, according to the sentence. The 
 Lord Goring, and the Lord Capel, were sent prisoners to 
 London, and committed to the Tower, by an order of the 
 Parliament." Ludlow's Memoirs. 
 
 Lord Goring was created, by Charles I, Earl of Norwich. 
 His character has been handed down to us, as brave, gay, and 
 unprincipled. He died in 1662-3. Sir Charles Lucas as that 
 of a gentleman and a soldier, who deserved a better fate. 
 
 (20.) Anthony Walker, D.D., rector of Fyfield, in Essex, 
 who wrote and published several sermons, among others a 
 funeral sermon, on the death of Lady Warwick's son, Lord 
 Rich, 1664; on her husband's death, 1673; and on her 
 own, 1678; under the title " E'YPHKA ffYPHKA. The 
 Virtuous Woman found, her loss bewailed, and character 
 exemplified, <fcc.," of which a second edition appeared in 
 1687. Dr. Walker is also stated to be the author of " A 
 true account of the author of a book entitled E/KWV Ba<nAuc7) ; 
 with an answer to all the objections made by Dr. Holling- 
 worth and others, in defence of the said book, 1692." 
 
 (21.) As Lady Warwick's son did not die until many 
 years after the period referred to by her, the "sanctified 
 affliction" alluded to, was not improbably her lord's pas- 
 sionate carriage towards her. 
 
 (22 ) Archbishop Usher.
 
 48 NOTES. 
 
 (23.) Dr. Walker dedicates his " Ef'YPHKA E'TPHKA," to 
 the Right Honourable Katherine, Viscountess Raneleigh, 
 and the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., executors of the 
 last will of the Right Honourable Mary Countess Dowager 
 of Warwick. Lady Raneleigh died on the 23rd, and her 
 brother on the 30th December, 1691. They were both 
 buried at the upper end of the south side of the chancel of 
 St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. 
 
 (24.) It would be curious to ascertain what was the real 
 character of this Dr. Wright. Several Jesuits, under that 
 name, successfully practised medicine, astrology, gambling, 
 and other occult sciences in England about this period ; 
 and had procured free admission into families of the utmost 
 consideration throughout the kingdom. 
 
 (25.) He had married Oliver Cromwell's youngest 
 daughter, Francis, but left no issue. 
 
 (26.) Lady Ann Rich, married Thomas, son of Sir John 
 Barrington, 8th November, 1664, (see page 31.) Granger 
 mentions a scarce print by Gascar, in the Strawberry Hill 
 collection, of Lady Anne Barrington and Lady Mui-y St. 
 John, but adds, " I know nothing of the personal history of 
 the ladies." In the Strawberry Hill sale, this print sold to 
 Mr. Graves for II. 14s. ; another impression was recently sold 
 by Messrs. Smith, of Lisle Street, to Wm. Staunton, Esq., of 
 Longbridge, Warwick, for six guineas. 
 
 (27.) Lady Mary, married, llth December, 1673, (see 
 page 34,) Mr. Henry St. John, respecting whom Lady 
 Warwick's opinion is recorded in the following page. As 
 Viscount St. John, he was tried and convicted of the murder 
 of Sir William Estcourt, Bart., in 1684, and by the Viscount
 
 NOTES. 49 
 
 she was the mother of the famous Viscount Bolingbroke, 
 who was baptized 10th October, 1678. 
 
 (28.) Lady Essex Rich married the Hon. Daniel Finch, 
 afterwards Earl of Nottingham, 16th June, 1674, (see page 
 36.) Granger is evidently wrong in calling her the second, 
 instead of the third daughter of the Earl of Warwick. 
 There is a print of the Countess of Nottingham, by Browne, 
 after Sir Peter Lely's picture. 
 
 (29.) A print, executed upwards of a century ago, of 
 Easton Lodge, the seat of Charles, Lord Maynard, may be 
 found in Morant's History and Antiquities of the County of 
 Essex. Vol. ii. p. 431. 
 
 (30.) On the 26th May, 1632, a chapel was consecrated, 
 by Laud, Bishop of London, in the house of the Earl of 
 Portland, at Roehampton, Surry. It was pulled down in 
 1777, by Thomas Parker, Esq., who, at the same time, built 
 a new chapel about 100 yards from the house. The house 
 was sold, in 1640, by the Earl of Portland, to Sir Thomas 
 Dawes, by whom it was let, and afterwards sold to Chris- 
 tian, Countess of Devonshire, whose daughter, Lady Anne 
 Cavendish, married Lady Warwick's son. The Countess 
 of Devonshire is said to have been instrumental in bring- 
 ing about the restoration of Charles II, and was the grand- 
 mother of the first Duke; she died 16th January, 1674-5. 
 The editor believes that Granger was mistaken in his state- 
 ment, that Lady Rich was the daughter of Elizabeth, 
 Countess of Devonshire, the mother of the first duke. 
 
 (31.) Edward, Earl of Manchester, trimmed with the 
 times, and originated the saying, of " a Manchester shift." 
 He was a leader of the presbyterian party in Charles's 
 
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 50 NOTES. 
 
 reign ; and after having served on the Commonwealth side, 
 even to the drawn sword, was made Lord Chamberlain 
 by Charles II. He died 5th May, 1671, and Anne his 
 daughter became the second wife of Robert Earl of War- 
 wick and Holland, who succeeded to the former title on 
 the death of the writer's husband in 1673. 
 
 (32.) In the fourth volume of "a New and Complete 
 History of Essex," 8vo, 1769, page 113, there is a view of 
 Barrington Hall, at Watfield, Broad Oak, the seat of John 
 Barrington Esq. J. Chapman, del. <fcc. The editor having 
 no knowledge of the locality can add nothing more. 
 
 (33.) The editor is indebted to Nathaniel George Wood- 
 rooffe, A.M., Vicar of Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire, 
 the great, great-grandson of the Mr. Wodrofe mentioned by 
 Lady Warwick, for a communication particularly noticed in 
 the preface. 
 
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