474 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



member of the healing parliament, and was at the" 

 head of the committee appointed to wait upon Char- 

 les II. at the Hague, and invite him to resume his 

 kingly office. He readily made his peace and again 

 retired into the country ; where after much suffer- 

 ing from the gout and stone, which he endured 

 with great fortitude, he died in 1671, in the 60th 

 year of his age, and was buried in the parish 

 church of Bilbiough near York. He left issue an 

 only daughter an heiress, who married Villiers the 

 second duke of Buckingham, who thus acquired 

 not only repossession of his own forfeited estates 

 of Helmsley, &c. which had been given to the 

 Lord Fairfax, but also the large estate of that No- 

 bleman. 



Lord Fairfax was of manly aspect, gloomy but 

 gentle in his disposition, sincere, open, disinterest- 

 ed, more liberal in his sentiments than many of hi* 

 party ; a lover and patron of learning, but chiefly 

 distinguished for his military talents. Compiled 

 from Aikin" 1 s Biographical Diet. Hume and Ray- 

 mond's Hist, of England. 



SHORT ACCOUNT OF LELAND, THE AUTHOR 

 OF THE ITINERARY. 



John Leland, the eminent English antiquary, 

 was born in London, probably about the end of 

 Henry VII. reign. He was educated at St. Paul's 

 school, from whence he went to Christ's college 

 Cambridge ; and after a residence of some years 

 removed to All Souls, Oxford. For further im- 

 provement he travelled to Paris and the continent, 

 where he cultivated an acquaintance with some of 

 the greatest scholars of the age. Upon his return 

 he took orders ; and Henry VIII. appointed him 

 one of his chaplains, and the keeper of his library, 

 and conferred upon him the title of royal antiquary, 

 which no other person in this kingdom, before or 

 after possessed. This was not a mere title ; for in 

 1533, a commission was issued under the great 

 eal } empowering Leland to make search after all 



