72 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



the seat at Nottingham, yet he hath stocked and paled a little 

 park belonging to it *. 



Nor is it possible for him to repair all the ruins of the estate 

 that is left him, in so short a time, they being so great, and 

 his losses so considerable, that I cannot without grief and 

 trouble remember them ; for before the wars my Lord had 

 as great an estate as any subject in the kingdom, descended 

 upon him most by women, viz. by his grandmother of his 

 father's side, his own mother, and his first wife. 



What estate his grandfather left to his father Sir Charles 

 Cavendish, I know not ; nor can I exactly tell what he had 

 from his grandmother, but she was very rich ; for her third 

 husband, Sir William Saint Loo, gave her a good estate in the 

 west, which afterwards descended upon my Lord, my Lord's 

 mother being the younger daughter of the Lord Ogle, and sole 

 heir, after the death of her eldest sister Jane, Countess of 

 Shrewsbury, whom King Charles the First restored to her 

 father's dignity, viz. Baroness of Ogle. This title descended 

 upon my Lord and his heirs general, together with ^3000 a 

 year in Northumberland ; and besides the estate left to my 

 Lord, she gave him ^20,000 in money, and kept him and his 

 family at her own charge for several years. 



My Lord's first wife, who was daughter and heir to William 

 Basset, of Blore, Esq. ; widow to Henry Howard, younger 

 son to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, brought my Lord ^2400 a 

 year inheritance, between six and seven thousand pounds in 

 money, and a jointure for her life of /800 a year. Besides, 

 my Lord increased his own estate, before the wars, to the 

 value of £ 1 00,000, and had increased it more, had not the 

 unhappy wars prevented him ; for though he had some disad- 

 vantages in his estate, even before the wars, yet they are not 

 considerable to those he suffered afterwards for the service of 

 his King and country. For example, his father Sir Charles 

 Cavendish had lent his brother-in-law Gilbert, Earl of Shrews- 

 bury, £ 1 6,000, for which, although afterward before his death 

 he settled /2000 a year upon him, yet he having enjoyed the 



1 Not yet, i.e. in 1667. Bailey, in the passage previously quoted from his History 

 of Nottinghamshire, is evidently wrong in saying that the castle was not acquired by 

 the Duke till 1674. It was in that year that the Duke commenced rebuilding, as stated 

 in the ' inscription on an oblong square white marble tablet in the wall over the back 

 door ' : ' This house was begun by William, Duke of Newcastle, in the year 1674 (who 

 died in the year 1676), and according to his appointment by his last will, and by the 

 model he left, was finished in the year 1679.' — Bailey, Annals of Nottinghamshire, p. 971. 



