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Penelope, married to Lord Spencer, of Wormleighton ; 

 Anne, and Elizabeth. 



^ Sir Philip Mainwaring — fourth son of Sir Randle 

 Mainwaring, Knight, of Over Peover, Cheshire (where his 

 family has been seated since the Norman Conquest), and 

 Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawesworth, 

 Cheshire, sometime Treasurer of Ireland, temp. Elizabeth — 

 was, as he himself tells us, a constant visitor at Newmarket at 

 this period. In the ensuing reign he was Secretary of Ire- 

 land, under the Lieutenancy of the Earl of Strafford, and 

 died unmarried, in London, August 2, 1661. 



*^' Sir George Goring, sometimes styled " Master of the 

 Game," of Hurst Pierrepoint, county Sussex, representative of 

 a junior line of the ancient family of Goring, which still main- 

 tains its importance at Highden in that count}^ was bred in 

 the Court, under the care of his father, one of Queen Eliza- 

 beth's Gentlemen Pensioners. He was knighted May 29, 

 1608 ; in 16 10 he was one of the Gentlemen of the Bed- 

 chamber to Prince Henry; and in 1617 he accompanied the 

 king to Scotland as Lieutenant of his Gentlemen Pensioners. 

 He was recommended to James I. equally by his sagacity 

 and by a popular jocularity of humour, and became the 

 king's familiar companion and a sort of minor favourite. In 

 1629, through the interest of the Duke of Buckingham, he 

 was created Baron Goring, and in 1645 was advanced to the 

 Earldom of Norwich, which had in 1630 become extinct on 

 the death of his maternal uncle, Edward Denny, the first and 

 last of his name by whom it was borne. Sir George Goring, 

 Earl of Norwich, died in 1662, leaving the titles to his son, 

 who, like his father, was eminent as a courtier, a wit, a warrior, 

 and a loyalist. Owing to a similarity of name, disposition, 

 and title, their identity has been confused and mixed by 

 many writers. 



^^ Edward (or George) Yardley was knighted at New- 

 market about this date, with several other persons (see the list 



