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still the exercise of weapons; and though he doth 

 not ride himself so frequently as he hath done ; yet he 

 takes delight in seeing his horses of mannage rid by 

 his escuyers, whom he instructs in that art for his 

 own pleasure. But in the art of weapons (in which 

 he has a method beyond all that ever were famous in 

 it, found out by his own ingenuity and practice) he 

 never taught any body, but the now Duke of Bucking- 

 ham, whose guardian he hath been, and his own two 

 sons. 



The rest of his time he spends in musick, poetry, 

 architecture and the like. 



16. Of His Pedigree 



Having made promise in the beginning of the first 

 book, that I would join a more large description of 

 the pedigree of my noble Lord and husband, to the 

 end of the history of his life: I shall now discharge 

 my self ; and though I could derive it from a longer 

 time, and reckon up a great many of his ancestors, 

 even from the time of William the Conqueror, he 

 being descended from the most ancient family of 

 the Gernouns, as Cambden relates in his Britannia, 

 in the description of Derbyshire ; yet it being a work 

 fitter for heralds, I shall proceed no further then his 

 grandfather, and shew you onely those noble families 

 which My Lord is allied to by his birth. 



My Lord's grandfather by his father (as is formerly 

 mentioned) was Sir William Cavendish, privy-coun- 

 sellor and treasurer of the chamber to King Henry 

 the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary ; who 

 married two wives; by the first he had onely two 

 daughters; but by the second, Elizabeth, who was 

 My Lord's grandmother, he had three sons and four 



