THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



" One year his Lordship (L. K. Guilford), con- 

 cluding at Bristol, made a visit at Badminton to 

 the Duke of Beaufort and staid about a week. For 

 the Duke was descended from a North of his Lord- 

 ship's family by one of Lord Edward North's 

 daughters,^ whom a lineal ancestor of his Grace 

 married. So, besides conformity of principle with 

 respect to the public, they were by this relation 

 qualified for mutual respect and honour. I mention 

 this entertainment as a handle of showing a princely 

 way of living, which that noble Duke used, above 

 any other, except crowned heads, that I have notice 

 of in Europe ; and in some respects greater than 

 most of them, to whom he might have been an 

 example. 



" He had above ;^2,ooo per annum in his hands, 

 which he managed by stewards, bailiffs, and ser- 

 vants, of that a great part of the country which 

 was his own lying round about him was part of 

 the frustum domi, and were of his family (house- 

 hold), and provided for in his large expanded 

 house. 



"He bred all his horses which came to the 

 husbandry. First colts, and from thence as they 

 were fit were taken into his equipage, and as by 

 age or accident they grew unfit for that service 

 they were returned to the place from whence they 



^ William, third Earl of Worcester, married Christian, third 

 daughter of Edward, first Lord North. From them was de- 

 scended Henry, first Duke of Beaufort. 



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