SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557- 93 



" Henry Grey," the Marquis of Dorset, afterwards Duke of 

 Suffolk, and John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, afterwards Duke 

 of Northumberland, were spoken of by the German Reformers 

 as the two most shining lights of the Church of England. They 

 married their daughter and son — the Lady Jane Grey and Lord 

 Guilford Dudley ; and they persuaded Edward VI. on his 

 death-bed to make a will in favour of Lady Jane Grey. It was 

 witnessed by many of the principal men of the kingdom — 

 amongst them being Sir William Cavendish. On the death of 

 Edw^ard, the Duke of Northumberland raised an army against 

 Mary, who claimed the throne. His army deserted the duke ; 

 he was taken prisoner and was sent to the Tower. At his trial 

 he said, " For the last seventeen years I have been playing the 

 hypocrite; I have been a Catholic at heart; I did it to obtain 

 power." He received Mass, and went out to his execution. 

 The Duke of Suffolk was pardoned by Mary; but when he 

 afterwards joined in the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt he too 

 suffered execution ; and through him Lady Jane Grey and 

 Lord Guilford Dudley both lost their lives. 



William my 12 Childe and the 4th by the said Woman, was borne on 

 Sunday in the Morninge betweene the Howers of 2 and 3, viz., the 

 27th Daie of December. Anno Quinto R.E. 6 (1551). The Domynicall 

 Letter then D. 



Memorandum. At the Cristnynge of the Childe, my I.ady Marques 

 of Northampton was God Mother, the Marquis of Winchester, and the 

 Earl of Pembrooke, God Fathers, and at the Bishoppinge. 



" My Lady Marques of Northampton " was Elizabeth Brook, 

 daughter of Lord Cobham. Her husband. Sir William Parr, 

 Lord Parr of Kendal and Marquis of Northampton, was brother 

 to Lady Katharine Parr, last Queen of Henry VIII. 



Sir William Paulet, the Marquis of Winchester, was Lord 

 Treasurer. His portrait hangs in the drawing-room at 

 Hardwick. 



Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, married the sister 

 of the Marquis of Northampton and Lady Katharine Parr. He 

 received the rich estates belonging to the dissolved abbey of 

 Wilton. In the reign of Mary he consented to the restoration 



