EXTRACTS FROM BOOK OF ACCOUNTS. 3 



Both these places, where the children were staying with their 

 grandmother, are mentioned in the Extracts. The Countess 

 was most generous to the Royalists during the Commonwealth. 

 After the Restoration, King Charles II. and Katharine of 

 Braganza, his Queen, frequently visited her at Roehampton. 

 It was this Countess — Christian Bruce — and the third Earl 

 who founded the " Devonshire Charity," in which so many 

 parishes in this county of Derby are interested. The third 

 Earl of Devonshire married the Lady Elizabeth Cecil, daughter 

 of the Earl of Salisbury; and this accounts for the portraits 

 of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, of Robert Cecil, first Earl of 

 Salisbury, and of William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, 

 greatgrandfather, grandfather, and father of the Countess, now 

 hanging in the Long, Gallery at Hardwick. There were three 

 children by this marriage : 



i. — Lord Cavendish, who became the fourth Earl in 1684 

 and first Duke of Devonshire in 1694. He was the builder of 

 Chatsworth in almost its present stateliness. He married, in 

 1662, the Lady Mary Butler, daughter of the great Duke of 

 Ormond — she sixteen years of age, he twenty-two. He was 

 the King Maker, largely contributing by his influence to bring 

 over the Prince of Orange to take the throne of his father-in- 

 law, the then reigning King James II. 



2. — The Lady Anne. When hardly out of the nursery, accord- 

 ing to the custom of the time, she was betrothed to Charles 

 Lord Rich, son of the Earl of Warwick. After his death she 

 was married into another branch of her mother's family — to 

 John Cecil, Lord Burleigh, who became fifth Earl of Exeter. 

 Her eldest son, Lord Burleigh, had a very handsome face, as 

 may be seen by his portrait hanging in the Long Gallery at 

 Hardwick (No. 70). Prior, the poet, paid a pretty compliment 

 to son, mother, and grandmother in his verse : 



" If in dear Burghley's gen'rous face we see 

 Obliging truth, and handsome honesty; 

 With all that world of charms, which soon will move 

 Rev'rance in man, and in the fair ones love : 

 His ev'ry grace, his fair descent assures 

 He has his mother's beauty — she has yours." 



