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as a breach of hospitality, than as an affront to his Majesty's 

 person. 



After enduring the brutality of her second husband for twenty 

 years, she was obliged to part from him entirely. He died in 

 1650. Her family consisted only of two daughters by her first 

 husband. The elder married the Earl of Thanet, the head of the 

 ancient family of Tufton of Kent ; and the younger daughter was 

 married to the Earl of Northampton. 



It is somewhat singular that a woman so high-minded, religious, 

 and discerning, should have made two such unhappy marriages. 

 Anne was indeed ill-fated in her male connections, in having had 

 a bad father and two bad husbands. But indeed good men were 

 not very plentiful at that period. She was second wife to both 

 husbands. It is pleasant to observe how she endeavours to make 

 the best of her bad bargains, and how she endeavours to say as 

 little against them as possible. Of her married life she thus 

 writes : — " I must confess with unexpressible thankfulness, that 

 though through the goodness of the Almighty God and the merrets 

 of my Saviour, Christ Jesus, Redeemer of the World, I was born 

 a happy creature in Mind, Body, and Fortune, and that these 

 two Lords of Mine to whom I was after-wards by God's Provi- 

 dence married, were in their several kinds worthy Noblemen as 

 any in this Kingdom, yet it was my misfortune to have contra- 

 dictions and crosses with them both : with my first Lord, about 

 the desire he had to make me sell my rights in the Lands of my 

 Auncient Inheritance for money, which I never did nor ever would 

 consent unto, insomuch as this matter was the cause of a Long 

 contention betwixt us, as also for his perfuseness in Consuming his 

 Estate, and some other extravagances of his. And with my second 

 Lord, because my youngest Daughter, the Lady Isabella Sackville, 

 would not be brought to marry one of his younger sons, and that 

 I would not be brought to relinquish my Interest that I had in 

 five thousand pounds, being part of her portion out of my lands in 

 Craven ; nor did I want divers Malicious ill-willers to blow and 

 foment to Coals of dissention betwixt us : so as in both their life- 

 times the marble Pillars of Knowle in Kent, and Wilton in Wilt- 



