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daughters, whereof one daughter died young. She 

 was daughter to John Hardwick of Hardwick, in the 

 county of Derby, Esq.; and had four husbands: 

 The first was — Barlow, Esq. ; who died before they 

 were bedded together, they being both very young. 

 The second was Sir WilHam Cavendish, My Lord's 

 grandfather, who being somewhat in years, married 

 her chiefly for her beauty; she had so much power 

 in his affection, that she perswaded him to sell his 

 estate which he had in the southern parts of England 

 (for he was very rich) and buy an estate in the 

 northern parts, viz. in Derbyshire, and thereabout, 

 where her own friends and kindred lived, which he 

 did; and having there setled himself, upon her 

 further perswasion, built a mannor-house in the same 

 county, called Chattesworth, which, as I have heard, 

 cost first and last above 80,000/. sterhng. But before 

 this house was finished, he died, and left six children, 

 viz. three sons and three daughters, which before 

 they came to be marriageable, she married a third 

 husband. Sir WiUiam St. Loo, captain of the guard to 

 Queen EHzabeth, and Grand Butler of England; 

 who dying without issue, she married a fourth 

 husband, George, Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom she 

 left no issue. 



The children which she had by her second husband> 

 Sir WiUiam Cavendish, being grown marriageable; 

 the eldest son Henry married Grace the youngest 

 daughter of his father-in-law, the said George Earl 

 of Shrewsbury, which he had by his former wife 

 Gertrude, daughter of Thomas Manners, Earl of 

 Rutland, but died without issue. 



The second son William, after Earl of Devonshire, 

 had two wives ; the first was an heiress by whom he 

 had children, but all died save one son, whose name 



