94 The Duchess of Newcastle 



tell what he had from his grandmother, but she was 

 very rich ; for her third husband Sir Will. Saint Loo, 

 gave her a good estate in the west, which afterwards 

 descended upon My Lord, My Lord's mother being 

 the younger daughter of the Lord Ogle, and sole heir, 

 after the death of her eldest sister Jane, Countess of 

 Shrewsbury, whom King Charles the First restored 

 to her father's dignity, viz. Baroness of Ogle: this 

 title descended upon My Lord and his heirs general, 

 together with 3000/. a year in Northumberland ; and 

 besides the estate left to My Lord, she gave him 

 20,000/. in money, and kept him and his family at her 

 own charge for several years. 



My Lord's first wife, who was daughter and heir 

 to Wilham Basset of Blore, Esq; widow to Henry 

 Howard, younger son to Thomas Earl of Suffolk, 

 brought My Lord 2400/. a year inheritance, between 

 six and seven thousand pounds in money, and a 

 jointure for her Hfe of 800/. a year. Besides My Lord 

 increased his own estate before the wars, to the value 

 of 100,000/. and had increased it more, had not the 

 unhappy wars prevented him; for though he had 

 some disadvantages in his estate, even before the 

 wars, yet they are not considerable to those he 

 suffered afterwards for the service of his king and 

 country: for example, his father Sir Charles Caven- 

 dish had lent his brother in law Gilbert Earl of 

 Shrewsbury 16,000/. for which, although afterward 

 before his death he setled 2000/. a year upon him; 

 yet he having injoyed the said money for many years 

 without paying any use for it, it might have been 

 improved to My Lord's better advantage, had it 

 been in his father's own hands, he being a person of 

 great prudence in managing his estate; and though 

 the said Earl of Shrewsbury made My Lord his 



