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he has three children, viz. two sons and one daughter, whereof 

 the eldest son William is married to the second daughter of 

 James, now Duke of Ormond *. The second son Charles 

 is yet a youth. The daughter Anne married the Lord Rich, 

 the only son and child to Charles now Earl of Warwick ; but 

 he died without issue. 



The second son of William, Earl of Devonshire, and brother 

 to the now Earl of Devonshire, was unfortunately slain in 

 the late Civil Wars, as is before mentioned. 



The daughter of the said William, Earl of Devonshire, 

 sister to the now Earl of Devonshire, married Robert, Lord 

 Rich, eldest son to Robert, Earl of Warwick, by whom 

 she had but one son, who married, but died without issue. 



The third and youngest son of Sir William Cavendish, 

 Charles Cavendish (my Lord's father), had two wives. The 

 first was daughter and co-heir to Sir Thomas Kidson, who 

 died a year after her marriage without issue. The second 

 was the younger daughter of Cuthbert, Lord Ogle, and after 

 her elder and only sister Jane, wife to Edward, Earl of Shrews- 

 bury, who died without issue, became heir to her father's 

 estate and title ; by whom he had three sons, whereof the 

 eldest died in his infancy ; the second was William, my dear 

 Lord and husband ; the third Charles, who died a bachelor 

 about the age of sixty-three. 



My Lord hath had two wives ; the first was Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heir to William Basset of Blore, in the county 

 of Stafford, Esq. ; and widow to Henry Howard, younger 

 son to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk ; by whom he had ten 

 children, viz. six sons and four daughters ; whereof five, viz. 

 four sons and one daughter, died young ; the rest, viz. two 

 sons and three daughters, came to be married. 2 



1 Henry Cavendish died October 12, 1616 (Collins, p. 13). William Cavendish, first 

 Earl of Devonshire, died on March 3, 1625 ; he married (1) Anne, daughter of Henry 

 Kighley, of Kighley, Yorkshire ; (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Boughton of, 

 Causton, Warwickshire, and widow of Sir Richard (?) Wortley (Collins* Peerage, ed. 

 Brydges, i, 323). William Cavendish, second Earl, died on June 20, 1628. Pomfret's 

 Life of Christian, Countess of Devonshire, which is largely quoted by Collins and Ken- 

 net, well deserves perusal. Some account of the circumstances of her marriage is given 

 in Lodge's Illustrations of English History, vol. iii, p. 232. ' The wench is a pretty red- 

 headed wench, and her portion is £7,000 ' write the Earl and Countess of Arundel to 

 the Earl of Shrewsbury. 



William, third Earl of Devonshire, died in 1684 ; his son of the same name, who mar- 

 ried the Duke of Ormond's daughter, was the first Duke of Devonshire. Collins, ed. 

 Brydges, vol. i. 



2 The statement originally printed in the text'was ' five sons and five daughters, where- 

 of five, viz. three sons and two daughters, died young '. It was corrected by hand 

 before publication. 



