252 The Dcrdh of the First Earl of Salishury at Marlhorotigh. 



Mr. Chamberlain adds : — 



" He died on Sunday last, the 24th of this present, at Marlborough in the 

 Parsonage house, between one and two in the afternoon . . . The corps 

 is carried the next way to Hatfield, where it shall be buried without any 

 great pomp by his special appointment; for he hath allotted out but ^200 

 for his funerals, and as much to the poor. His debts are said to be toward 

 i'50,000, for which there will be good order taken, and leave the young lord 

 about £6000 land." {Ibid, ii., 444—6; from Birch's MS., Brit. Mus., 4178.) 



Lord Cranborne posted down in time to be " at the closing of the 

 eyes of his most happy father " (ii. 448). 



Mr. Finett (I suppose this was Sir John, the famous Master of 

 the Ceremonies,) wrote to Mr. Trumbull, the President at Brussels, 

 from Hatfield on May 28th that he and some thirty or forty retainers 

 had brought the body thither from Marlborough. He gives a very 

 similar account of the last month of the earl's life to that which 

 Mr. Bowles, his chaplain, gave. To his account, however, we are 

 indebted for the names of Cecil's hosts at Newbury and Marlborough 

 on his way to Bath. " Our night's baytes . . . [30th April] 

 Newbury, Mr. Doleman's ; [1st May] Marlborough, Mr. Daniel's.^ 



Chamberlain states that Kobert Cecil died on Sunday, May 24th, 

 " at Marlborough in the parsonage house." 



Nichols tells us that " Mr. Doleman's " was Shaw Place, 

 Newbury, built by that opulent clothier, T. Doleman, who en- 

 tertained King James in September, 1603.- He adds that " Mr. 

 Daniel's" was "probably the clergyman's where the earl died (see 

 p. 244.") [The reference should be " see p. 446."] 



We know that this last was a bad guess ; for the parsons at 

 Marlborough were Arthur Heme, Piector of St. Peter's, 1611 — 30 : 

 previously master of the Grammar School, 1602 — 11 : and Thomas 

 Clerke, Vicar of St. Mary's, 1608 — 43. But as I never could see 

 the need for supposing that our authorities are wrong, if we can 

 otherwise reconcile them, I am content to believe that the earl 

 stayed at Mr. Daniel's on his way from Newbury to Lacock and 

 Bath, on May 1st, and died at the parsonage, i.e., St. Peter's 

 Eectory, on May 24th. The only objection to that supposition is, 



' Nichols, ii., 446. - lb., i., 266 ; ii., 446. 



