1030.] LORD HOWARD OF ESC RICK. 179 



and Salisbury and Lord Howard, of Escrick, were declared 

 to be members of all committees of which they were before 

 the House of Lords was abolished. In June, 165 1, Lord 

 Howard of Escrick having been found guilty of bribery and 

 corruption was dismissed the House, and for ever disabled to 

 sit in any future Parliament ; disqualified to bear any office 

 or place of trust under the Commonwealth ; fined ^10,000, 

 and committed to the Tower during the pleasure of the 

 Commons. This severe sentence, however, was remitted on 

 the following year, and the prisoner passed the remainder of 

 his life in a state of unenvied obscurity. He died in 1675, 

 and was buried in the Savoy churchyard, London. Lord 

 Braybrooke (Hist. Audley End), Mr. Charles Howard of 

 Greystoke (Hist. Anecdotes of the House of Howard), 

 Banks (Dormant and Extinct Baronage), and Sir Bernard 

 Burke (ditto), attribute to this lord the betrayal of the cele- 

 brated patriots, Lord William Russel and Algernon Sidney 

 (see under head of Newmarket Spring Meeting, 1683), where- 

 as it was his second son, Lord William Howard of Escrick, 

 Avho earned for himself the reprobation of posterity through 

 the fatal evidence he gave in that causes celebre. 



163 Philip Sydney, VisCOUNT LiSLE, or LTsle, member of 

 the Council of State at this date, was eldest son of Sir Robert 

 Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, He succeeded to the family 

 honours and estates on the death of his father in 1677. This 

 nobleman was, in the lifetime of his father, a zealous Repub- 

 lican, and during the Commonwealth one of the Protector's 

 council, with a salary of ;^iooo a year. He had been from 

 his youth trained up as a diplomatist, attending on his father 

 to the States-General, and the courts of Denmark and France., 

 He died in March 1697-8, and was succeeded by his son, 

 Robert Sydney, the 4th Earl. 



16^ Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby, who was a member 

 of the Council of State at this date, was grandson and heir of 

 Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby, created Earl of Stam- 

 ford, county Lincoln, March 26, 1628. He. dying in 1673, 



