114 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



sons and four daughters, wherof one daughter died young. 

 She was daughter to John Hardwick,of Hardwick, in the count)' 

 of Derby, Esq. ; and had four husbands : the first was — Barlow, 

 Esq., who died before they were bedded together, they being 

 both very young ; the second was Sir William Cavendish, my 

 Lord's grandfather, who being somewhat in years, married her 

 chiefly for her beauty. She had so much power in his affection, 

 that she persuaded him to sell his estate which he had in the 

 southern parts of England (for he was very rich) and buy an 

 estate in the northern parts, viz. in Derbyshire, and there- 

 about, where her own friends and kindred lived, which he did ; 

 and having there settled himself, upon her further persuasion 

 built a manor-house in the same county, called Chatsworth, 

 which, as I have heard, cost first and last above /8o,ooo 

 sterling. But before this house was finished, he died, and 

 left six children, viz. three sons and three daughters, which 

 before they came to be marriageable, she married a third 

 husband, Sir William St. Loo, Captain of the Guard to Queen 

 Elizabeth, and Grand Butler of England * ; who dying without 

 issue, she married a fourth husband, George, Earl of Shrews- 

 bury, by whom she left no issue. 



The children which she had by her second husband, Sir 

 William Cavendish, being grown marriageable ; the eldest 

 son, Henry, married Grace, the youngest daughter of his 

 father-in-law, the said George, Earl of Shrewsbury, which 

 he had by his former wife Gertrude, daughter of Thomas 

 Manners, Earl of Rutland, but died without issue. 



The second son William, after Earl of Devonshire, had two 

 wives. The first was an heiress, by whom he had children, 

 but all died save one son, whose name was also William, 

 Earl of Devonshire. His second wife was widow to Sir Edward 

 Wortley, who had several children by her first husband, and 

 but one son by the said William Cavendish, after Earl of 

 Devonshire, who died young. 



His son by his first wife (William, Earl of Devonshire) 

 married Christian, daughter of Edward, Lord Bruce, a Scots- 

 man, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. The 

 eldest son William, now Earl of Devonshire, married Elizabeth, 

 the second daughter of William, Earl of Salisbury, by whom 



i A life of Sir William St. Loe, by Joseph Hunter, is printed in The Retrospective Re- 

 view, 2nd series, vol. ii, p. 314 



