2 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



of Shrewsbury, Gilbert's wife, and sister to their father ; for 

 there interceded an entire and constant friendship between 

 the said Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, and my Lord's father, 

 Sir Charles Cavendish, caused not only by the marriage of 

 my Lord's aunt, his father's sister, to the aforesaid Gilbert, 

 Earl of Shrewsbury, and by the marriage of George, Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, Gilbert's father with my Lord's grandmother, 

 by his father's side ; but Sir Charles Cavendish, my Lord's 

 father, and Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, being brought up 

 and bred together in one family, and grown up as parts of one 

 body, after they came to be beyond children, and travelled 

 together into foreign countries, to observe the fashions, laws, 

 and customs of other nations, contracted such an entire 

 friendship which lasted to their death. Neither did they 

 outlive each other long, for my Lord's father, Sir Charles 

 Cavendish, lived but one year after Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury. 

 But both my Lord's parents, and his aunt and uncle-in-law, 

 showed always a great and fond love to my Lord, endeavouring, 

 when he was but a child, to please him with what he most 

 delighted in. When he was grown to the age of fifteen or 

 sixteen, he was made Knight of the Bath, an ancient and 

 honourable order, at the time when Henry, King James, of 

 blessed memory, his eldest son, was created Prince of Wales * : 

 and soon after he went to travel with Sir Henry Wotton 2 , 

 who was sent as ambassador extraordinary to the then Duke 

 of Savoy ; which Duke made very much of my Lord, and 



was born in 1592. Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, died May 8, 1616, and Sir Charles Caven- 

 dish died April 4, 1617. Ben Jonson wrote the following epitaph upon him : 



Charles Cavendish to his Posterity. 



Sons, seek me not amongst these polished stones, 

 These only hide part of my flesh and bones, 

 Which, did they ne'er so neat or proudly dwell, 

 Will all turn dust, and may not make me swell. 



Let such as justly have outlived all praise, 

 Trust in the tombs their careful friends do raise ; 

 I made my life my monument and yours, 

 To which there's no material that endures. 



Nor yet inscription like it. Write but that, 

 And teach your nephews it to emulate : 

 It will be matter loud enough to tell 

 Not when I died, but how I lived — farewell. 



Collins' Historical Collections, p. 22, and Cunningham's Jonson, iii, 459. 



1 Prince Henry was created Prince of Wales, June 4, 1610. William Cavendish 

 was made Knight of the Bath, June 3 — Birch, Life of Henry Prince of Wales, p. 192. 



2 In 1612. See Nichols, Progresses of King James I, ii, 438. 



