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his Lady survived till 1630. They had ten children, of whom 
three were sons, Sir Charles, the eldest; Sir Henry, the second ; 
and Sir John, (afterwards the Regicide), the youngest. Sir Charles 
and Sir Henry (the murderers of Mr. Long) were never married. 
Sir John was thrice married: his first wife being Magdalen, widow 
of Richard Herbert and mother of the celebrated George Herbert 
of Bemerton. 
Upon the death of his father (Dec. 1593), Sir Charles succeeded 
as head of the family, to the patrimonial estates. Those which his 
mother as coheiress of Lord Latimer had brought in marriage, 
appear to have continued in her own possession for life. The 
murder took place about one year after the father’s death; at 
which time Sir Charles was about 23 years of age. 
Sir Henry the principal actor was then in his 22nd year, having 
been born 28th June, 1573. He had entered active life at a very 
early period, and was probably present at one of the interesting scenes 
of English History, the death of Sir Philip Sidney. Sir Philip, 
as will be remembered, was brother of Mary, Countess of Pembroke 
(3rd wife of Henry the 2nd Earl): and whilst visiting his sister 
at Wilton and Ivychurch had written his Pastorals, and all that he 
did write of the Arcadia. Henry Danvers became his page, and 
in that capacity attended him into the Low Countries upon the 
expedition sent by Queen Elizabeth to the assistance of the Dutch 
Protestants against Philip II. of Spain. 
Sir Philip Sidney being killed at Zutphen in Sept. 1586, Henry 
Danvers must have been then in his 14th year. He continued to serve 
in the Low Countries in defence of the Reformed religion, under 
Maurice Prince of Nassau, afterwards Prince of Orange. In 1590 
he joined one of the expeditions (probably that commanded by the 
Earl of Essex) sent by the Queen to the succour of Henry IV. of 
France, soon after his accession to the throne. Public affairs in 
that country becoming more pacific upon Henry’s abjuration of 
Protestantism and his coronation in 1594, it is most likely that 
Sir Henry Danvers took that opportunity of returning to England. 
For it was in the October of that year that he appears in this 
Wiltshire tragedy. 
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