On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    pie ) to sto&sp the dtist from his grave . " Sir Henry then refers t 6 the piQus iis& otfiite will , and the struggles for his hfrhorirs arid offices , adding , " a few days will deieirtnine these ambitions . " tteUa . W&tton , 1 © S 5 , 4 th Ed .

    pp . 454—43 © . According to Lord Orfbrd , the Earl « dted at the palace he had built at Charing Crdss , now Northumberland House , supffosed to be raised with Spanish gold . " Hehad founded " three

    hospitals , " and was described by Lady Bacon , mother of the Chancellor , as " a dangerous intelligeneing man , and , no doubt , a subtle Papist inwardly , a very instrument of the Spanish Papists / ' jR- and N . Authors . Such was the various fortune and

    the Undecided character of Henry Howard , Earl of Northampton , concerning whom I have been tempted to exceed the reasonable bounds of an introductory letter , from perceiving that his life had been omitted in most , if not all of the General Biographies .

    The second letter has the signature of Henry Cbtnpton , Bishop of London , the youngest son of Spencer , Earl of NdrtJhatnpJton , on whose father , the title , extinct by the death of Lord Howard , had been bestowed by King James . This Prelate is sufficiently described in biographies and accounts of the devolution . He is here

    erapFoyed , with no great propriety , as a P ^ er , interfering , with a Peeress , respecting an election for the House of Commons . The letter is endorsed , " To the Right Hon . Her Grace the Dtotchess of Albemarie , at New Hall , in Essex" Bill . Sloan . 4052 .

    This Lady was the widow of the second Duke of Albemarle , whose rank arid r iches , his father , General Monk had earned by his successful political profligacy . This marHage of the son , the Biographer of Monh / Qr . Skinner , describes ** s " the last of ° the father ' s " human cares , " dying fbur days after ,

    careless , pTdbably of what uncourtly history rtri £ ht say of him , since he had " united Sre glories of the ancient hoiises of Newcastle and Dorchester * Cbtotndiih £ rfd Pferpotint , with his own ducal corotiet . " Of tfie Duchess atid her ecttetrirt ^ ffies , Mr . Granger has given ail etrfettftining account , in his Bid& ^ tt fcfl ftfettfry , ^ JML IV . pp . iftVifffB : Of W 6 w HaH , thete wre

    Untitled Article

    sonie notices in your second Vol . p * 536 . The letter , which is undated , ri&s most probably written in 1695 , tvhen ,

    as appears by a Parliamentary Register , Viscount Oheyne was chosen one of the members for Newport , Cornwall , which borough he had waved at the election in 1690 , and sat for Harwich .

    J > T . RUTT . The Earl of Northampton to the Earl of Somerset . [ Jnne 9 1614 . ] Hot * , and worth ^ y Lord , TF the plain dealing both of my

    physicians and surgeon did not assure me of the few days I have to live , I should yet have deferred the putting of these poor suits into your hands , since I " might be thought . still rather to value your greatness , than your goodness .

    But , noble Lord , let me be beholding at my last for ever , for such poor toys as do rather ease my mind than pinch any man . 1 humbly beseech your Lordship to

    stay , with all the power you can * thfe conferring the office of the Cinque-Ports , either upon Pembroke or Lisle * for as they hated me , so will they plague my people and those whom I loved .

    Sir Robert Brette , at his coming ft * the place of Lieutenant , waa content to depart with a platt of ground folr enlargement of my garden , Which could have been bought of him , setting aside his love for me , fbr no money . My very conscience is pressed in tllia

    point , and therefore canftot satisfy myself , till I have put ray earnest sOit into the hands of my dearest Lord , te take care that his Majesty admit nd warden before he have given his word to him , not to rentove this poor distressed gentleman out of hte

    Lieutenancy . If I die before Midsummer , th * farms of the Irish Customs are not to pay me , though it be but one day be& > re , which were a great woohd to my fortune . No man can help this

    inconvenience better than your Lordship , by obtaining a privy seat , that my executors may be paid , if it c 6 trie to that hard straight of a day or two . Assurance ( Yotn yoar JLof dahip that you WiH effect tftftte final t&itKtiti ,

    Untitled Article

    The Earrl of N&rihnftiptcfn to the Earl of Somerset . 51 $

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1817, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2468/page/7/