A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



were prominent members of Bunyan's congregation. Such were the prepara- 

 tions made by King James for a Parliament which was never to assemble. 

 Negotiations had already been opened with William of Orange. One of the 

 earliest to approach him was Charles Mordaunt, the nephew and eventual 

 successor of the Earl of Peterborough,*" while another sailor, Edward, better 

 known as Admiral Russell, who had bitterly resented the death of his cousin 

 William, was now more active than any other in accomphshing the Great 

 Revolution.*^' 



By the beginning of the i8th century the Earls of Peterborough*'' and 

 Ailesbury had passed out of the county history, and though the St. Johns 

 remained, the earldom of Bolingbroke had gone to a distant branch uncon- 

 nected with this shire. The Gostwicks of Willington came to an end early 

 in the century,*'" while the Chernocks lasted a few decades longer.**^ The 

 Dyves sold Bromham to Chief Justice Sir John Trevor in 1704.**'' He was 

 one of the peers created in 171 1 *'' to secure a majority in the House of Lords, 

 and was succeeded by three sons in turn. The third of these, a descendant 

 of one of the daughters of John Hampden, was created Viscount Hampden 

 in 1776,*'* and the last Lord Hampden of that creation died in 1824.*^^ But 

 the Trevors never took any prominent part in local affairs ; the first Viscount 

 Hampden was indeed the only one of them who made Bromham Hall his 

 home. Haynes Park passed from the Lukes, through the Winches, to Sir 

 George Carteret at the end of the 17th century.**' His grandson was made 

 Lord Carteret of Haynes,*^' and in his son John, the second lord, Bedfordshire 

 may claim ' the most eloquent and accomplished of all the members of the 

 cabinet.'*'' Though he was not long Secretary of State, Lord Carteret, 

 known as Earl Granville after his mother's death, remained the confidential 

 adviser of George II, and retained the Presidency of the Council till his death 

 in 1763.*" 'Since Granville was turned out,' says Captain C. to Matt 

 Bramble at the Duke of Newcastle's levee in Lincoln's Inn Fields, ' there has 

 been no minister in this nation worth the meal that whitened his periwig.' **° 

 Warden Abbey was in the possession of Samuel Ongley,**^ whose daughter 

 married a wealthy Londoner named Henley. He assumed the name of 

 Ongley and obtained an Irish peerage before 1785.**' Southill was bought 

 about 1693 by Sir George Byng, a distinguished naval ojSicer who became 



"'He had pressed William to undertake the enterprise as early as 1686; Burnet, Hist, of Own Time 

 (1823), iii, 263. 



*''" Ibid. 295 ; Macaulay, op. cit. i, 526. 



"* The Earl of Peterborough's estates at Turcey were sold to John Higgins, esq., in 1786 ; see Beds. Co. 

 Rec. 241. 



"" Sir William Gostwick, bart., sat as M.P. for Beds, in every Parliament from 1698-1713 ; Ret. ofMemb. 

 of Pari. 



"' Sir Boteler Chernock, bart., was M.P. for the borough of Bedford 1 741-7 ; ibid. 



"' Poematia Vicecom. de Hampden (1792), 224 Trevor was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas • see 

 Foss, Judges. ' 



"' Lord Bathurst of Battlesden was created at the same time, but he only held his Beds, property for a 

 few years ; see Collins, Peerage. 



"' Poematia Vicecom. de Hampden, 228. *" Nicolas, Synopsis of Peerage. 



"' Lysons, Mag Brit, i, 92-3. For the Winches see Foss, Judges, sub Sir Humphrey Winch, and notices 

 in Evelyn's Diary. 



"' Collins, Peerage. "s Macaulay, Ess. Earl of Chatham (1851), 289. 



Diet. Nat. Btog. His mother had been created Countess Granville ; Collins, op. cit. iv 214.-1 c 



"" Smollett, Humphrey Clinker (ed. Cooke), i, 146. ' i- V 



"' M.P. for the borough of Bedford 1734-47 ; Ret. ofMemb. of Pari. 



"' He was M.P. for the borough of Bedford 1758-61, and for the county 1761-80 and 1784-5 ; ibid. 



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