344 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
were not long in exchanging civilities with him. As the war 
advanced he found it necessary to quit Wiltshire and retreat to his 
Chelsea home, and there he remained till his death in 1655, the 
second year of the Protectorate. He had married, too, in his 
seventy-seventh year, only a few days before the King’s execution, 
a third wife, Grace Hewes, by whom he had a son, John, But the 
most interesting event connected with this closing episode of his 
life was his alliance with Dr. Thomas Fuller, the Royalist divine 
and eminent ecclesiastic historian; just showing how much the 
sentiment of good neighbourhood and mutual esteem could in some 
instances survive the rival factions of the day. It may seem strange 
that the Doctor should close such a prominent literary and warlike 
career as he had led by accepting the position of domestic chaplain 
to a Regicide; but Fuller was eminently a philosopher of the class 
who adopt the French maxim, “ Fully to know all is to pardon all.” 
Here, at Chelsea, he might be heard from time to time delivering 
sermons commemorative of domestic events in his patron’s family ; 
and we can hardly doubt that it must have been a favourite enter- 
tainment for strollers of the Pepys stamp to paddle up the river on 
Sunday mornings to see how the Royalist Doctor would construct 
his phraseology on these occasions, and have a look at the old 
Regicide himself, enthroned in the manorial pew with his third 
youthful wife, This state of things lasted till the eve of the 
Restoration. Had Sir John Danvers survived that crisis he would 
no doubt have shared with his associates the tragic penalty of 
Tyburn. This he escaped, but his person was regarded as “ attaint,” 
and his possessions were to a great extent confiscated. 
Brief notice, in conclusion, must now be taken of the three children 
by his second wife. Of these, Elizabeth married the notorious 
Robert Wright, alias Villiers, alias Danvers, who levied a fine to 
be excused taking the title of Viscount Purbeck, and assumed the 
maiden name of his wife. After her husband’s death she used the 
title of Viscountess Purbeck, and her son attempted to substantiate 
his claim, but without success. The case is reported in Sir Harris 
Nicholas’ Adulterine Bastardy. Sir John’s other daughter, Anne, 
was in June, 1655, married at Lavington to Sir Henry Lee, of 
