‘ 74 
sweet mistress, if you conceive so you will mistake; for if such 
things as conduce to a man’s happiness can be entertained with 
satiety or loathing, then verily you may conclude with your 
practice. But I know you have a rational brain, and a constant 
kindness of disposition toward me, which will neither permit you 
to err nor forsake. In the assurance whereof, and with a longing 
and insatiate desire to hear weekly from thee, though but a word 
at a time, so that it be a loving one, I rest, 
Your most faithful, most obedient, and 
most affectionate servant, 
JAMES CHALONER.” 
Anthony Wood says of this marriage (but I say it with the usual 
caution with regard to any of his statements respecting those 
opposed to his own party,) that it turned out very unhappily. I 
know nothing directly, but it is certain that he owed his political 
advancement largely to the influence of the Fairfax family, his 
wife’s relations, for he was appointed by Lord Fairfax one of the 
Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Isle of Man, in 1652, 
and afterwards Governor of the Island from 1658 to 1660. He was 
one of the fathers of English Topography, and wrote ‘A Short 
Treatise on the Isle of Man,” which the Manx Society has deemed 
worthy of being reprinted. He made large Antiquarian collections 
towards the Histories of Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire. 
He was Member for Aldborough in the Long Parliament, from 
April roth, 1648, to its abrupt dismissal in 1653; and though his 
name is not, like his brother’s, attached to King Charles’s death 
warrant, he certainly sat during a part at least of the trial as one of 
the judges. He died, also, soon after the Restoration, under 
disgraceful circumstances, if we believe Anthony Wood, which I 
decline to do. 
