■By O. Poulett Scrape, Esq., M.P. 03 



ruins wiehin the very extensive garden waUs, The goUant 

 Marqu,s survived tiU 1674 ; but met with no recompense after 

 the Eestoration from his ungrateful Sovereign, for the enor- 



rir™'" ^T"^ '^' ^""""' ™ "-• His epitaph 

 m Eagleiield Chureh, where he was buried, was written by 



soTara he!^; ™ ™""''' "^ '^ ^"""^ -'■ «"^» "y his 

 1674, Charles Pa'ulet, 6th Marquis and Earl of Wiltshire. This 

 nobleman was of so eccentric a character, that he was sty J 

 by Burnet, " The greatest riddle of the age." Granger,!'; 

 ever, represents him to have "assumed the character of a 

 madman, as the first Brutus did in the reign of Tarq 1," in 

 Older to avo,d compromising himself by taking that a tiv" 

 part m pubhe affairs which his rank and statiof wodd havl 

 rcqmred from him if capable of business, during the arbitar! 

 and cruel re,gn of James II. He however, under this mal 

 of mcapacity, covertly ezertcd himself in abetting and in orea 

 n-ng the Eevolution of 1G08. by which that Monarch wa 



lorleited , and for his eminent services on that occasion he 

 was created Duke of Bolton in 1689. He in the Ze" 

 raised a Eegiment for the support of WiUiam of Orange in Z 

 reduction of Ireland. The Duke resided chiefly at B^n M 



derived. He had become possessed cf this ancient inheritance 

 of the Scropcs, by marriage with Mary one of fl,. T , 

 daughters of Emanuel, eleventh and lastLord L pet ^o ^ 

 and rst Earl of Sunderland, who on his death rmOwt"' 

 ont leg, .mate issue, had entailed his vast estates on his na" 

 ^ral children, a son who died nnmarried, and four daughters 

 wh ultimately inherited the whole between them. Dy^g 

 m 1099 ho was succeeded in all his honours by ^^ 



W. Charles Scrope Paufct, 2nd DuJie of BolL 

 Marquis of Winchester and Earl of ^^L!^\:X 

 John of Basing. This nobleman assisted with 1 is fatherln 

 the groat work of the Revolution, and was one of th^^ 



