162 Wulfhali and the Seymours. 
may add this to our list of little ‘‘ fragments recovered from the 
shipwreck of time.” 
After her first committal, Lady Arabella was, for a time, removed 
to private custody, but, on being sent back to the Tower, her mind 
began to give way, and in a few years she died there of grief in 1615. 
There are two fine portraits of her at Longleat, and twenty-eight of 
her letters addressed to Lord Robert Cecil, and her uncle and aunt, 
the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury.! 
William Seymour was allowed to remain abroad. A letter written 
to him by his grandfather, the Earl of Hertford, which appears to 
be new, will be found in the Appendix (No. xxii). 
I have only a few more words to say. After Lady Arabella’s 
death, William, Marquis of Hertford, married Lady Frances 
Devereux, sister and co-heir of the Earl of Essex. He was restored 
to the Dukedom of Somerset, and died in 1660. The Duchess (of 
whom there is a fine marble bust in Great Bedwyn Church) survived 
her husband, and continued to live at Tottenham Park till her death 
in 1674. 
Robert Lord Beauchamp, then her eldest surviving son, died in 
France, but his body was brought over and interred at Great Bedwyn, 
January, 1646. The warrant for his corpse to pass was signed by 
King Charles I. (Appendix, No. xxiii.) 
1These letters (with many others of the period, now bound in two quarto 
volumes) appear to have been a portion of the celebrated ‘‘ Talbot Papers,” 
which were dispersed on the dismantling of Sheffield Castle (the Earl of Shrews- 
bury’s): the history of which affair, so far as then known, is given in a note to 
Hunter’s Hallamshire, p. 49, Edit. 1819. They came into the possession of the 
first Lord Weymouth, who died in 1714. They were seen at Longleat, and 
copied by Dr. Birch, of the British Museum, about 1754, and his copies are 
now preserved there in ‘‘ Sloane MS., 4164.” After that time they were probably 
put away (as often happens) in some very safe place, to be again accidentally 
brought to light by an inquisitive posterity, for in the ‘‘ Curiosities of Literature,” 
(Mr. I. Disraeli, 2nd Ser., i., 268, 8vo., 1824,) it is mentioned in a note that 
the existence at Longleat of certain papers relating to Lady Arabella was on 
record: and Miss Costello (Lives of Eminent Englishwomen, I., 322) says, that 
though she visited the house and was allowed to search, she could not find or 
hear of them. They are, however, perfectly safe and in excellent preservation ; 
and were in 1866 printed in Miss E. Cooper’s Life of Lady Arabella; not how- 
ever from the originals, but from Dr. Birch’s not quite accurate copies. 
