SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557- 95 



Henry Cavendish was the eldest son of Sir William and Lady 

 Cavendish, now three and a half years old. 



Mary my istb Childe and the 7 by the same Woman, was borne on 

 Sundaie in the Morninge betwene 7 and 8, viz., the 22nd Daie of Aprill. 

 Annis Phil, et Mariae, Secundo et Tertio, the domynicall Letter then D. 



Memorandum, at the Cristeninge of the Childe my Wives Mother and 

 Miss Elizabeth Frechwell weare God Mothers, and Sir George Vernon, 

 God Father, and at Bishoppinge. 



Mary Cavendish was married to Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl 

 of Shrewsbury. She helped largely to build the Second Court 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge, where her statue appears 

 over the door into the butteries ; but she was unable to com- 

 plete it on account of the heavy fine — ^^^20,000; over ^100,000 

 in present value — for conniving at the flight of her niece, the 

 Lady Arabella Stuart, and supplying her with ;£i,40o for that 

 purpose. 



" My Wives Mother " was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 

 Leake, of Hasland, Esquire, a member of the family then 

 living at Sutton Scarsdale. The head of the family became 

 Baron Deincourt, of Sutton, in a.d. 1624, and Earl of Scarsdale 

 in A.D. 1645. The fourth Earl of Scarsdale died unmarried 

 in A.D. 1736, when the peerage became extinct. It was he who 

 erected the present Sutton Hall. 



" Miss Ehzabeth Frechwell " was of the Frechville family, of 

 Staveley. Their monuments are in the Frechville Chapel in 

 Staveley Parish Church. The representative of the family now 

 is Sir John Ramsden, Bart., of Byram Hall, co. York. 



" Sir George Vernon " was father of Dorothy Vernon, of 

 Haddon Hall, who married Sir John Manners, second son of 

 Thomas, first Earl of Rutland. 



Lucres my i6tli Childe, and the 8 by the same Woman was borne on 

 Shrove Tuesdaie in the Morninge between 2 and 3, viz., the second 

 Daie of Marche. Annis P. and M. 3° & 4° (1557). The domynicall 

 Letter then C. 



At the Cristeninge of the Childe, my Sister Knyveton and Frances 

 my Daughter w-eare God Mothers, and Mr. John Revell of Sherland, 

 God Father, and at Bishoppinge. 



Lucres Cavendish died when young. 



" My Sister Knyveton."' This was Lady Cavendish's eldest 



