Ii8 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Mr. Bray, by whom 

 he had issue one son and one daughter. 1 The son, Robert, 

 married Anne, the daughter of Henry Murray. The daughter, 

 Frances, married William Paget, eldest son to William, Lord 

 Paget. 



The fourth son of the Earl of Kingston, Gervase, is unmarried. 



The fifth son, George Pierrepont, married the daughter 

 of Mr. Jonas, by whom he had two sons unmarried, Henry 

 and Samuel. 



The three daughters of the said Earl of Kingston are, Frances 

 the eldest who was married to Philip Rolleston ; the second, 

 Mary, died young ; the third, Elizabeth, is unmarried. 



The second daughter of Sir William Cavendish, Elizabeth, 

 married the Earl of Lennox, uncle to King James ; by whom 

 she had only one daughter, the Lady Arabella, who against 

 King James' commands (she being, after him and his children, 

 the next heir to the Crown) married William, the second son 

 to the Earl of Hertford ; for which she was put into the 

 Tower, where not long after she died. 2 



The youngest daughter, Mary Cavendish, married Gilbert 

 Talbot, second son to George, Earl of Shrewsbury ; who 

 after the decease of his father, and his elder brother Francis, 

 who died without issue, became Earl of Shrewsbury ; by 

 whom she had issue four sons and three daughters ; the 

 sons all died in their infancy, but the daughters were married 3 . 



The eldest, Mary Talbot, married William Herbert, Earl 

 of Pembroke, by whom (some eighteen years after her marriage) 

 she had one son, who died young 4 . 



The second daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Henry Gray, 

 after Earl of Kent (the fourth Earl of England) by whom she 

 had no issue 5 . 



1 For some account of Francis Pierrepont see the Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, 

 i, 194; ii, 177. His widow Alisamon married Sir John Read in 1662, and was badly 

 treated by him. See her petition in the Eighth Report of the Historical Manuscripts 

 Commission, p. 136. 



2 Margaret, sister of Henry VIII, married Matthew, Earl of Lennox, and became 

 the mother of Henry Stuart, Lord, and Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox. The latter 

 married Elizabeth Cavendish in 1574, against the commands of Queen Elizabeth. Ara- 

 bella Stuart, born in 1575, married William Seymour in 1610, and died in 1615. Cooper's 

 Life of Arabella Stuart. 



3 Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, died in 1616. 



4 This marriage took place in 1606. Clarendon in his character of the Earl (Rebel- 

 lion, i, 120) says ' He paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person 

 into the bargain '. 



15 The Earl of Kent died in 1639, the Countess on December 7, 165 1. After the Earl's 

 death, John Selden, according to Aubrey, married the Countess, but ' never owned the 



