334 Broughton Gifford. 
haughty and handsome Anne Stanhope, by her misrepresentations 
that her predecessor Catherine Filiol was unfaithful to the Duke, 
and by interest, procured the transfer of the Protector’s lands and 
titles, from the rightful heirs by the first marriage, to her own issue ; 
with whose descendants they continued for nearly two centuries, 
before they reverted to the heirs by Catherine Filiol. The Edward 
mentioned in the patent was the eldest son of Anne Stanhope. 
His life had some curious incidents. He was thrice married ; first 
to Catherine Grey (sister of Lady Jane) without the Queen’s 
license. For this rash act of his youth he languished in the Tower 
eight or nine years, paid a fine of £15,000 to secure his titles, 
estates, and liberty, and was excluded from the court during a long 
and loyal life. His two other wives were both Howards, and by 
them he had no issue. As his mother lived to be ninety, so he to be 
eighty three, and, dying 1621, lies buried under a gorgeous monu- 
ment at the east end of the South Aisle in Salisbury Cathedral, 
after witnessing the deaths of three generations of his descendants, 
and the committal of his grandson William to the Tower for the 
same amiable imprudence as he himself had been guilty of, and for 
which he had been similarly punished. This Earl Hertford leased 
Monkton to Edward Long, 2nd July, 1600, for the lives of the 
lessee (who seems to have occupied it previously), and his two sons 
Edward and John. In 15th May, 1615, Earl Hertford and “ EKd- 
ward Seymour, Esq., commonly called Lord Beauchamp” conveyed 
the fee simple of Monkton to Edward Long and his heirs. This 
Edward Seymour, Esq., was the grandson, and at the time the heir 
apparent (which explains his joining in the conveyance), though, 
as after events proved, not the actual successor of the old Earl. 
The latter’s two eldest sons (both named Edward) died before him, 
the first unmarried, but the second left three sons, Edward, Wil- 
liam, and Francis. This Edward is the one mentioned in the 
conveyance. He too married and had a son, but both father and 
son died before the old Earl, who thus witnessed the deaths of his 
‘son, grandson, and great-grandson, and was succeeded by William 
the grandson of Catherine Grey, committed in early youth, for his 
marriage with Arabella Stuart, to the Tower by James I., but 
