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the mother returning to the castle, and the daughter to her 

 husband's house at Knowle in Kent." 



The mother died about a month after, on the 24th day of May, 

 1616. The spot where she parted from her venerated mother was 

 ever sacred to the loving daughter ; and forty years after she 

 consecrated it by erecting there the well-known "Countess Pillar," 

 near Brougham Castle, on the Appleby road side. 



Shortly after the mother's death. King James procured an order 

 from four judges against Anne ; her husband signed away his 

 claim on her'estates, and royal letters patent were issued completing 

 her disinheritance ; and immediately after the usurping lord (as 

 Anne always regarded him) entertained King James for three days 

 at Brougham Castle. 



Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, after thirteen years of 

 unhappy married life, found herself a widow. She had had three 

 sons, who died in their infancy, but two daughters remained. 



Six years after she married Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 

 and Montgomery ; and in this marriage she was even more 

 unfortunate than in the first. Her husband was son of the 

 talented and high-souled Mary Sydney, Countess of Pembroke, 

 sister of the accomplished writer and heroic soldier. Sir Philip 

 Sydney; but none of the rare graces of mother and uncle were 

 found in Anne's new husband. Walpole called him a memorable 

 simpleton ; in private life he was contemptible and vicious ; he was 

 grossly illiterate, but highly learned in matters pertaining to horses, 

 dogs, and hawks, beyond which his soul did not aspire. He was, 

 however, a great favourite with King James, who gave him ^18,000 

 a year for the benefit of his splendid talents in attending to his 

 stables and kennels. 



To show of what kind of stuff kings and courtiers were made at 

 that time, take this incident. William, Earl of Pembroke (elder 

 brother of Anne Clifford's husband) had an antipathy to a frog ; 

 King James, with his usual school-boy silliness, threw one into his 

 neck, in requital whereof the earl caused a pig, to which the king 

 had a disgust, to be placed in his bed-room. This happened at 

 Wilton, under the earl's own roof, and affected King James more 



