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man, and excelled in all equestrian feats of this period. He 

 was created Viscount Somerset of Cashel, county Tipperary, 

 December 8, 1626. The preamble to the patent recites that 

 he had performed many acceptable services both to the king 

 himself, his father and mother, especially as a faithful coun- 

 sellor of his father, as Master of the Horse. His lordship 

 married Eleanor, daughter of David, Viscount Buttevant, and 

 had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who died unmarried. Lord 

 Somerset of Cashel died in 165 1, and with him the title 

 became extinct. 



'^^ Sir Thomas Howard was second son of the Earl of 

 Suffolk, and ancestor to the present Earl of Suffolk and 

 Berkshire. He was Master of the Horse to Prince Charles ; 

 created Lord Howard of Charlton, county Wilts, and Viscount 

 Andover in 162 1-2 ; Knight of the Garter in 1625 ; Earl of 

 Berkshire 1625-6 ; High Steward of Oxford University in 

 1634. Soon after the rebellion broke out in 1642, he was 

 taken prisoner, for no other reason, according to Lord 

 Clarendon, than wishing well to the king. On his release in 

 1643, he waited on Charles L at Oxford, when he succeeded 

 the Marquis of Hertford as governor to the Prince of Wales 

 (Charles H.). He attended his Royal Highness in the west 

 in 1645, and subsequently accompanied the prince to Scilly 

 and Jersey. There he parted from the prince, and lived retired 

 in England till the Restoration. He died in 1669, and was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey. Though near ninety, he was 

 so hearty that he might have lived several years had he not 

 met with an accidental fall, which occasioned his death, after 

 he had lingered some months. 



'9 Sir Edward Sackville, K.B., brother of the Earl of 

 Dorset, made himself notorious with his fatal quarrel with 

 Lord Bruce. He was M.P. for Sussex, and a leading member 

 of the House of Commons. He was one of the chief com- 

 manders of the forces sent in 1620 to assist the King of 

 Bohemia at the battle of Prague. In 1621 he was sent 

 ambassador to France, and on his return sworn of the Privy 



