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to the king, for his benefit and advantage. His indefatigable 

 application to business having ruined his constitution, he died 

 at Marlborough on his return from Bath, May 24, 16 12, and 

 was buried at Hatfield. The Earl of Salisbury married 

 Elizabeth, sister to the unhappy Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, 

 by whom he had a daughter, Frances, married to Henry 

 Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, and an only son, William, 

 second Earl of Salisbury. His descendant, James, 7th 

 Earl of Salisbury, was advanced to the title of Marquis by 

 George HI., in 1789. 



Sir Anthony Weldon (and some other contemporary 

 writers have) asserted that the Earl of Salisbury " persuaded 

 the King to leave the State Affairs, and to betake himselfe 

 to some Country recreations, which they found him addicted 

 unto, for the City, and businesse, did not agree with him ; and, 

 to that end purchased, built, and repaired at New-market, and 

 Roystou, and this pleased the Kings humour well, rather that 

 he might enjoy his Favorite with more privacy, than that he 

 loved the sport," etc. ; but we have been unable to find any 

 confirmation of the allegation, so far as it relates to New- 

 market ; and there can be little, if any, doubt that our account 

 of the palace there is substantially correct. We have only to 

 add, in conclusion of this memoir, that this Earl of Salisbury 

 (who was addicted to falconry, and " stuck not to give gold " 

 for a good hawk) was a frequent visitor to Newmarket during 

 this period. He also imported, and bred from, Arab horses. 

 " Beagle " was the soubriquet by which the king usually 

 addressed the earl when his Majesty was hilarious. 



Salisbury was constantly surrounded with difficulties in the 

 administration of his duties as Lord High Treasurer. The 

 king had been taught to consider the treasure left by Elizabeth, 

 and the further resources of the kingdom, as an inexhaustible 

 mine. Lately arrived from a country where the use of money 

 was hardly known, he was really ignorant of its value, and 

 became immeasurably profuse, as exemplified by the following 

 anecdote. Carr, afterwards created Earl of Somerset, his first 

 favourite in England, having obtained from the king a 

 peremptory warrant to the treasurer for twenty thousand 



