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married Lucy, daughter of Henry, earl of Worces- 

 ter, and died 1577, leaving four daughters his co- 

 heiresses ; Elizabeth, the eldest, wife of Sir John 

 Danvers, Catherine, wife of Henry earl of North- 

 umberland. Dorothy, wife of Thomas Cecill eldest 

 son of lord Burleigh, lord high treasurer of Eng- 

 land, and afterwards earl of Exeter, and Lucy, 

 wife of sir William Cornwallis. 



To which of these four co-heiresses the estates at 

 Sinnington, passed, 1 have not been able precisely 

 to ascertain : but should conjecture that they be- 

 came the property of the eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 

 as it appears that sir John Danvers, her husband, 

 possessed the neighbouring estate of Danby in 

 right of his wife, and his son Henry was created 

 afterwards earl of Danby in right of his wife ; and 

 his son Henry was created afterwards Earl of Dan- 

 by, 1 of Charles I., 1625. Henry earl of Danby,* 



* Henry lord Danvers, and earl of Danby, was patron 

 of (he church at Kirkdale; which he gave to the univer- 

 sity of Oxford, about the year 1632. (Hinderwell's 

 Scarbro' p. 405.) About the same time he founded the 

 noble physic garden at that university, which is situate 

 without the east gate of Oxford, (anciently a cemetery 

 for the Jews in that city;) which he surrounded with a 

 strong wall of perfect ashler-stone, and ornamented 

 with a beautiful agate, the charge of which amounted in 

 that day to little less than ^5,000. An inscription over 

 the entrance records the name of the' noble founder, 

 and the date of its erection. 



He died at Cornbury-park, Oxfordshire, A. . 1643: 

 and was buried in the chancel of the parish church of 

 Dauntsey, under a noble monument of white marble, 

 with an epitaph wherein the rest of his memorable ac- 

 tions are noticed, and to which are appended the follow- 

 ing lines by G. Herbert. 



