4 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



mother, Catharine, the second daughter of Cuthbert, Lord 

 Ogle, to her father's dignity, after the death of her only sister 

 Jane, Countess of Shrewsbury, publicly declaring, that it 

 was her right x ; which title, after the death of his mother, 

 descended also upon my Lord, and his heirs general, together 

 with a large inheritance of £3000 a year, in Northumberland. 



About the same time, after the decease of William, late 

 Earl of Devonshire, his noble cousin-german, my Lord was 

 by his said Majesty made Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire ; 

 which trust and honour, after he had enjoyed for several 

 years, and managed it, like as all other offices put to his trust, 

 with all possible care, faithfulness, and dexterity, during the 

 time of the said Earl's son, William, the now Earl of Devon- 

 shire, his minority, as soon as this same Earl was come to age, 

 and by law made capable of that trust, he willingly and freely 

 resigned it into his hands, he having hitherto kept it only for 

 him, that he and nobody else might succeed his father in that 

 dignity. 



In these, and all other both public and private employments, 

 my Lord hath ever been careful to keep up the King's rights 

 to the uttermost of his power, to strengthen those mentioned 



1 Lady Jane Ogle died in 1625. Her epitaph was written by Jonson, vide Jonson's 

 works, ed. Cunningham, p. 460. Lady Catharine was created Baroness Ogle, December 

 4, 1628 (Collins, p. 24). She died about April 1629 {Report on the Portland MSS. ii, 120) 

 Jonson's epitaph on this lady is as follows : 



She was the light (without reflex 



Upon herself) of all her sex, 



The best of women ! — Her whole life 



Was the example of a wife, 



Or of a parent, or a friend ! 



All circles had their spring and end 



In her, and what could perfect be 



And without angles, It was she. 



All that was solid in the name 

 Of virtue ; precious in the frame, 

 Or else magnetic in the force, 

 Or sweet, or various in the course ; 

 What was proportion, or could be 

 By warrant called just symmetry, 

 In number, measure, or degree 

 Of weight or fashion, // was she. 



Her soul possessed her flesh's state 

 In freehold, not as an inmate, 

 And when the flesh here shut up day, 

 Fame's heat upon the grave did stay, 

 And hourly brooding o'er the same, 

 Keeps warm the spice of her good name, 

 Until the ashes turned be 

 Into a Phoenix — Which is she. 



Tliis is followed by two other pieces of verse on the same subject. — Jonson, ed. Cunning- 

 ham, iii, 460. 



