22 The Duchess of Newcastle 



Earl of Shrewsbury their uncle in law, and their 

 aunt Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, Gilbert's wife, 

 and sister to their father, for there interceded an 

 intire and constant friendship between the said 

 Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, and My Lord's father, 

 Sir Charles Cavendish, caused not onely by the 

 marriage of My Lord's aunt, his father's sister, to the 

 aforesaid Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, and by the 

 marriage of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, Gilbert's 

 father, with My Lord's grandmother, by his father's 

 side; but Sir Charles Cavendish, My Lord's father, 

 and Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, being brought up 

 and bred together in one family, and grown up as 

 parts of one body, after they came to be beyond 

 children, and travelled together into foreign countries, 

 to observe the fashions, laws, and customs of other 

 nations, contracted such an intire friendship which 

 lasted to their death: neither did they out -live each 

 other long, for My Lord's father, Sir Charles Cavendish, 

 lived but one year after Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury. 



But both My Lord's parents, and his aunt and uncle 

 in law, shewed always a great and fond love to My 

 Lord, endeavouring, when he was but a child, to 

 please him with what he most delighted in. When 

 he was grown to the age of fifteen or sixteen, he was 

 made Knight of the Bath, an ancient and honourable 

 Order, at the time when Henr^^, King James, of 

 blessed memory, his eldest son, was created Prince of 

 Wales: and soon after he went to travel with Sir 

 Henry Wotton, who was sent as Ambassador Extra- 

 ordinary to the then Duke of Savoy; which Duke 

 made very much of My Lord, and when he would be 

 free in feasting, placed him next to himself. Before 

 My Lord did return with the Ambassador into 

 England, the said Duke profered My Lord, that if 



