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Charles’s attainder, he obtained a private Act of Parliament for 
that purpose in 1605, (3 James I.) In 1626 he was created by 
King Charles I. Earl of Danby. In 1630, upon the death of his 
mother who had remarried Sir Edmund Cary, he succeeded to her 
estates. Besides this he was Lord President of Munster, Governor 
of Guernsey, and a Knight of the Garter. “Full of honour, 
wounds, and days” (so says the inscription on the large monument 
under which he lies in the north aisle of Dauntesey church), he 
died at Cornbury, Co. Oxford, in 16438, zt. 71, leaving an estate of 
£11,000 a year to his favourite sister Lady Gargrave, and Henry 
his nephew, son of Sir John (the Regicide) his younger brother whom 
he passed over. Lord Danby was the founder of the Botanic Garden 
at Oxford, and built the entrance facing High Street, called the 
Danby Gateway. There is a portrait of him at Dauntesey Rectory. 
No. I. 
AccouNT OF THE EscaPE oF Srr CHARLES AND Str Henry 
Danvers. (Lansd. MSS., No. 827). 
“A lamentable discourse taken out of sundry examinations con- 
cerning the wilful escape of Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers, 
Knights, and their followers, after the murder committed in Wilte- 
shire, upon Henry Longe, Gentleman, as followeth. 
The said wilful murder executed upon Henry Longe, Gentleman, 
sitting at his dinner in the company of Sir Walter Longe, Knight, 
his brother; Anthony Mildmay, Thomas Snell, Henry Smyth, 
Esquires, Justices of her Majesty’s Peace for the said County of 
Wilts; and divers other Gents., at one Chamberlayne’s house in 
Corsham, within the same County, by Sir Charles and Sir Henry 
Danvers, Knights, and their followers to the number of seventeen 
or eighteen. persons, in most riotous manner appointed for that 
most foul fact, on Friday 4th October, 1594. 
After which wilful murder committed, the parties flying, Sir 
Charles and Sir Henry Danvers, with one John their servant or 
