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buried ii France. His second soti 
by this marriage was born in 1659, 
and the king standing for his god- 
father, was christened Charles. 
After the restoration he had. five 
other sons born in England; Ste. 
phen, who was buried in Westmin- 
ster Abbey ; William, who was bu- 
ried by him, aged 20; Edward, 
buried in the same place, aged 7 ; 
James, who died, aged 13; and 
John, who died aged one. He also 
by the same marriage, had three 
daughters, Elizabeth, married 27th 
of December, 1673, in Henry the 
Seventh’s Chapel, to the Honourable 
Charles Cornwallis; who succeeded 
to the peerage, 1676, and from 
which marriage the present marquis 
Cornwallis is descended; Jane, the 
youngest danghter of sir Stephen 
Fox, by his first wife, married 
George Compton, fourth earl of 
Northampton, from which marriage 
the present earl of Northampton is 
lineally descended; Margaret, the 
second daughter, was buried in 
Westminster Abbey, unmarried. 
Charles, the eldest surviving son of 
sir Stephen Fox, by his first mar- 
riage, held several offices and 
honourable employments to the end 
of his life. He was joint paymaster 
general of the forces, at the age of 
* twenty-three years, and his abilities, 
candour, integrity and honour, were 
so conspicuous, that he held the 
same office of pay-master general 
under the successive reigns of Charles 
II. James IJ. and queen Anne. He 
was vice-treasurer to king William, 
and treasurer to Catherine of Bra- 
ganza, the queen dowager. He 
married Miss Trollop, daughter of 
sir William Trollop, by whom he 
had no issue, and he died in his 54th 
year, A. D. 1713. A very fine por- 
trait of himis preserved at the family 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806, 
seat of Holland house at Kensings 
ton. 
Sir Stephen Fox mafried his | 
second wife, Miss Hope, daughter 
of the rev. Mr. Hope, in 1703, and 
the only surviving issue of the 
marriage, On the death of sir Ste- 
phen, there were two sons, Stephen © 
and Henry, and also one daughter, 
named Charlotte. The first son was 
created earl of Ilchester, the second 
lord Holland, and the daughter was 
married to the hon. Edward Digby, 
second son of lord Digby, and was 
grandfather to the presentear! Digby, 
Of this sir Stephen Fox, who 
appears to have been a man of great 
liberality, as well as high honour, 
Collins, in his peerage, vol 6. p. 
392. records, amongst others, the 
following acts of munificence :— 
‘¢ The just profits of his offices 
enabled him to provide for his family, 
and exercise those acts of generosity 
and charity, which in the course of 
his whole life he gave such extensive 
and uncommon instances of. His 
disposition to all who had any claim 
to his assistance, and that diffusive 
charity which was visible in him to 
the last of his life, begun with the 
increase of his fortune, at an age 
when most are inclined te pleasures, 
and at the time when the court was 
in the greatest gaiety. His first 
regard was to the place of his birth, 
for at Farley he built the church at 
his own charge; and in 1678 built 
and founded there an hospital for 
six old men, and six old women; @ 
neat building, with a chapel in it, 
and handsome lodgings for a chap. 
lain, who resides there, and hath the 
title of warden of the hospital. This 
he endowed with 1881. per aunnm; 
and there is likewise a charity 
school, wherein are taught six boys 
and six girls, all at his sole charge. 
He 
