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known Dr. Daniel Burgess, and also that the noted Dr. Henry 
Sacheverell, the leader at a later day of the dominant church 
faction, was a native of Marlborough, the son of the Rey. Joshua 
Sacheverell, minister of St. Peter’s Church in that town, and 
received his early education at the borough school. 
The third Lord Seymour, of Trowbridge, succeeded to the Duke- 
dom of Somerset in 1675, on the failure of issue by his cousin 
John, the fourth Duke. He was then a minor, and living at the 
castle of Marlborough with his mother. He died at the age of 
twenty-one, being killed in an unlucky squabble while travelling in 
Italy. And the title descended to his brother Charles then eighteen 
years of age, the sixth Duke of Somerset, who relinquished Marl- 
borough Castle asa residence to his eldest son Algernon. In the year 
1676 the bulk of the Wiltshire estates of the Duke of Somerset had 
been conveyed to the second Earl of Ailesbury by his marriage with 
Elizabeth, sister and heir of the third Duke. But the castle of 
Marlborough remained for some generations the property of the 
Dukes of Somerset, and became famous at a subsequent period as 
the residence of the talented Countess of Hertford, then wife of 
Algernon, who was afterwards the seventh and last Duke. 
At the epoch of the revolution of 1688, the borough of Marl- 
borough recovered its charter, which had been seized and suspended. 
by James, with that of so many other boroughs. The town was 
garrisoned at this time by a battalion of Dragoons, under Sir John 
Fenwick. And as the neighbouring town of Hungerford was the 
scene of the conference between William of Orange and the Com- 
missioners of James deputed to treat with him on the retreat of 
the King, Marlborough was, no doubt, also filled with Dutch 
troops. At the ensuing election there occurred a double return 
of members for the borough, giving rise to the case well-known 
in the books of Election-Law called the Marlborough case of 1689. 
In the early part of the eighteenth century, as has been already 
noticed, Marlborough acquired some celebrity as the residence of 
the Countess of Hertford, whose interesting correspondence with 
her intimate friend Lady Pomfret is chiefly dated from the castle. 
