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1626, created him Earl of Manchester. He was an active 

 minister of the Crown, and was a frequent attendant upon 

 the court during the sojourns of royalty at Newmarket. He 

 did not Hve to witness the fatal termination of Charles I.'s 

 career, but died November 7, 1642, shortly after the com- 

 mencement of the hostilities between the royalists and the 

 Parliamentary forces. He had nearly attained his eightieth 

 year, and showed as much activity and sagacity in business 

 as at any former period of his life. His eldest son and 

 successor, Edward Montagu, a Cromwellian lord during the 

 Interregnum, became lord chamberlain to the household of 

 Charles H. He died May 5, 1671, and George I. gave his 

 grandson a dukedom in 17 19, which has been enjoyed by his 

 descendants ever since. 



^" Sir Henry Carey, only son and successor of Sir Edward 

 Carey, Knight, of Berkhampstead, and Catherine, daughter of 

 Sir Henry Knevett, and widow of Henry, Lord Paget ; born 

 at Aldenham, Herts ; educated at Exeter College, Oxford ; 

 knighted by the Earl of Essex in Ireland in 1599. He was 

 united with his father in the office of Master of the Jewel- 

 house ; and was one of the judges of the tilt on the king's 

 day, 1615, 1616, 1618, and 1622. He was M.P. for Hertford- 

 shire in the only four Parliaments held from 1602 to 1620, 

 and created a Scottish peer by the title of ViSCOUNT Falk- 

 land, at Newmarket, November 10, 1620, as above mentioned. 

 He was Lord-Deputy of Ireland from 1622 to 1629, and died 

 in September, 1633, in consequence of breaking a leg when 

 the stand in Theobalds Park collapsed. Lord Falkland is in 

 several authorities styled K.B., with much confusion between 

 the creations of Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales. It is 

 remarkable that on both these occasions a Sir Henry Carey 

 was so created, but at the former it was Lord Hunsdon's 

 eldest son, afterwards created Earl of Dover ; and at the 

 latter Sir Robert Carey's eldest son, who succeeded his father 

 as 2nd Earl of Monmouth. His lordship, who was a man of 

 letters, wrote a History of Edward II., and was remarkable for 

 an invention to prevent the counterfeit of his signature — that 



