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eldest baronet, deserveth great respect and admiration for his skill and practice 

 in painting, and not inferior to our most skilful masters. Peachum Gent. 106. 

 See, for a further account of Nathaniel, Walpole s Anecdotes of Painting, 316. 

 Sir Nathaniel Bacon, knight of the Bath, younger son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 

 Wheeler. Picture, Gorhambury, by himself. Walp. Paint, i. 177. Sir Na 

 thaniel Bacon, knight, brother of Viscount St. Albans. Print in Musgrave s 

 Collection, ii. 



Grimstone s History of Gorhambury, page 69. Sir Nathaniel, the second son 

 of Sir Nicholas Bacon, married the daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham, and 

 by her had three daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, and Winifred. Sir Nathaniel 

 died in the lifetime of Lord St. Albans, at his seat at Culford, in the county of 

 Suffolk, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Culford, where a monu 

 ment was erected to his memory ; and another at Stiffkey, in Norfolk, where he 

 had also an estate and mansion. Anne, his eldest daughter, married first Sir 

 Thomas Meautys, who died without issue, and now lies by his friend in St. 

 Michael s church, at St. Albans. I, in 1830, traced his epitaph. It is partly 

 covered by one of the pews. The inscription is as follows : 



TH THE BODY OF S R 



Pew. 



M r 4 w T Y S v * 



Upon removing the pew, which now is upon part of the stone, there would no 

 doubt appear on the first line HERE LI E 



and in the second line, THOMAS so that the inscription will be 



plain : &quot; Here lieth the body of Sir Thomas Meawtys K l .&quot; 



Grimstone s History of Gorhambury, page 62. Lord St. Albans had in his 

 lifetime conveyed his estate and manor of Gorhambury to Sir John Constable 

 and Sir Thomas Crewe, as trustees, by whom it was after his death conveyed to 

 Sir Frances Leigli and others, in trust for the sole use of Sir Thomas Meautys, 

 his relation and friend, who had married Anne, the only surviving daughter of 

 Sir Nathaniel Bacon. Sir H. Grimstone bought Gorhambury of Sir Thomas 

 Meautys. After the death of Sir Thomas Meautys, Anne married Sir Harbottle 

 Grimstone, he having, as it seems, previously bought Gorhambury of Sir Thomas 

 Meautys. 



Account of Sir Harbottle Grimstone and his wives : his second wife having 

 been Anne, the daughter of Nathaniel, the second son of the lord keeper, and 

 widow of Sir Thomas Meautys. 



Burnet, in his History of his Own Times, says, &quot; And I applied myself to 

 my studies, and my function being then settled preacher at the Rolls, and soon 

 after lecturer of St. Clements. I lived many years under the protection of Sir 

 Harbottle Grimstone, Master of the Rolls, who continued steady in his favour 

 to me, though the King sent Secretary Williamson to desire him to dismiss me. 

 He said he was an old man, fitting himself for another world, and he found my 

 ministry useful to him, so he prayed he might be excused in that. This broke 

 me quite with the court, and in that respect proved a great blessing to me : it 

 brought me out of many temptations ; the greatest of all being the kindness 

 that was growing toward me from the Duke, which might have involved me in 

 great difficulties, as it did expose me to much censure ; all which went off upon 

 this. He was a long and very kind patron to me. I continued ten years in 

 that post, free from all necessities : and I thank God that was all I desired : 

 but, since I was so long happy in so quiet a retreat, it seems but a just piece of 

 gratitude, that I should give some account of that venerable old man. He was 

 descended from a long-lived family ; for his great grandfather lived till he was 

 ninety-eight, his grandfather to eighty-six, and his father to seventy-eight, and 

 himself to eighty-two. He had to the last a great soundness of health, of 

 memory, and of judgment. He was bred to the study of the law, being a 

 younger brother. Upon the elder brother s death he threw it up ; but falling in 

 love with Judge Croke s daughter, the father would not bestow her on him 



