ERBYSHIRE 1RCH/E0L0GICAL 



AND 



ATURAL tTlSTORY SOCIETY. 



Extracts from Booft of Accounts of ILatfg's 

 Matting asaomau for JftontPS tftafcuvseti 

 in ^loatfjcs, &c, ffor &\i? h Countess of 

 iBcbonsfjue antf ffamtlj?, ISegtnmng 1656. 

 <£utrwg 1662. 



By the Rev. F. Brodhurst. 



HE following Extracts are taken from a MS. in the 

 Muniment Room at Hardwick Hall, and published 

 by permission of His Grace the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. They refer to money laid out for children 

 of the third Earl of Devonshire, who inherited the title when 

 nine years of age, in the year 1628. Thomas Hobbes, of 

 Malmesbury, was his tutor, as he had been of his father, the 

 second Earl. The Earl was brought up under the care of his 

 mother, Christian Bruce, Countess of Devonshire, daughter of 

 Edward Bruce, Lord Kinloss, a very prudent woman. There 

 is still extant in the Shrewsbury Correspondence, preserved at 

 the College of Arms, a very interesting letter concerning her 

 marriage, from the Earl and Countess of Arundell to Gilbert 

 Talbot, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, father of the Countess 

 of Arundell. The " Lady Arbella " mentioned in the letter 

 was the unfortunate Lady Arbella or Arabella Stuart, who at 

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