1675.] VISCOUNT MONTAGUE. 327 



witli the Duke of Buckingham, a challenge passed between 

 them ; upon which he was forbid the court, and retired to 

 Minster-Lovel, near Whitney, in Oxfordshire, where he gave 

 himself up to a private course of life, without accepting any 

 employment, though he was afterwards offered more than one 

 of the best posts in the court. He died June 23, 1686, un- 

 married, at Somerhill, near Tunbridge-Wells (where he went 

 for the benefit of the waters, being afflicted with gout in his 

 stomach), and was buried at Penhurst. 



^9^ Sir Joseph Sheldon, of London, was knighted by 

 Charles II. in 1663. 



^95 Francis Browne, 3rd ViSCOUNT MONTACUTE (or Mon- 

 tague), eldest son and successor of Anthony-Mary Browne, 

 the 2nd Viscount, and Jane, daughter of Thomas Sackville 

 Earl of Dorset, Lord High Treasurer of England, succeeded 

 his father, October 23, 1629. This nobleman suffered con- 

 siderably in the royal cause during the civil wars, but lived 

 to hail the restoration of the monarchy and the Turf. His 

 lordship married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Henry 

 Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, by whom he had Francis 

 and Henry, successively Viscounts Montacute, and Elizabeth, 

 married to Christopher Roper, 5th Lord Teynham. He died 

 November 2, 1682. In the first edition of "The General 

 Stud Book" of James Weatherby (London, 1803, 8vo), page 

 358, the compiler incidentally remarks that "Lord Montagu 

 of Cowdry in the time of Charles lid. was famous for his stud 

 of horses." 



^'■^^ Sir George Etherege was a courtier of the first rank 

 in the gay court of Charles II., and author of several plays. 

 He followed James II. to France, and is said to have been 

 killed at Raisbon by a fall downstairs after he had been 

 drinking freely. 



^^'^ Sir John Eaton was a noted writer of songs. 



198 Frampton was third son of William Frampton, by his 



