144 The Duchess of Newcastle 



was also William, Earl of Devonshire: his second 

 wife was widdow to Sir Edward Wortly, who had 

 several children by her first husband, and but one 

 son by the said Will. Cavendish, after Earl of Devon- 

 shire, who dyed young. 



His son by his first wife (William Earl of Devon- 

 shire) married Christian, daughter of Edward Lord 

 Bruce, a Scotsman, by whom he had two sons, and 

 one daughter; the eldest son William, now Earl of 

 Devonshire, married Elizabeth, the second daughter 

 of William Earl of Salisbury, by whom he has three 

 children, viz. two sons and one daughter, whereof 

 the eldest son William is married to the second 

 daughter of James now Duke of Ormond ; the second 

 son Charles is yet a youth: the daughter Anne 

 married the Lord Rich, the onely son and child to 

 Charles now Earl of Warwick; but he dyed without 

 issue. 



The second son of William Earl of Devonshire, 

 and brother to the now Earl of Devonshire, was 

 unfortunately slain in the late civil warrs, as is before 

 mentioned. 



The daughter of the said William Earl of Devon- 

 shire, sister to the now Earl of Devonshire, married 

 Robert Lord Rich, eldest son to Robert Earl of 

 Warwick, by whom she had but one son, who married, 

 but dyed without issue. 



The third and youngest son of Sir William Caven- 

 dish, Charles Cavendish (My Lord's father) had two 

 wives; the first was daughter and coheir to Sir 

 Thomas Kidson, who dyed a year after her marriage, 

 without issue : the second was the younger daughter 

 of Cuthbert Lord Ogle, and after her elder and onely 

 sister Jane, wife to Edward Earl of Shrewsbury, who 

 dyed without issue, became heir to her father's estate 



