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Ditchley, Oxon., Bart., before William Yorke, Esq., one of the 

 justices of peace for Wilts. This was in accordance with the 

 marriage law just then in force, but the parties deemed it prudent 

 to renew the contract in the orthodox form on reaching" their Ox- 

 fordshire home. To this lady her brother Henry, who died just 

 before his father, had just bequeathed the great estate which he 

 derived from his uncle, Earl Danby. What he thus left to his sister 

 Anne would not legitimately be affected by that father's attainder, 

 seeing it had come direct to himself from his uncle. Apprehensions, 

 nevertheless, as to the possible fate of sundry of the estates issued 

 in the application in 1661 for a Crown grant conveying them to 

 Henry Hyde, Lord Oornbury, and others, who thus became trustees 

 to carry out young Henry's intentions. This applied to sundry 

 manors in Wilts, already recited, besides property in Northampton- 

 shire and at Chelsea. Some of these eventually were divided between 

 Lady Lee's two sons-in-law, James, first Earl of Abingdon, and 

 Thomas, fifth Lord Wharton. Sir John Danvers's West Lavington 

 estate, which he obtained with his second wife, Elizabeth Dauntesey, 

 aforesaid, appears also to have escaped confiscation, and to have 

 been shared between his two daughters, Viscountess Purbeck and 

 Lady Lee. But the Dauntsey estate was entirely lost, being granted 

 in 1662 to James Duke of York, afterwards James II. 



There are three Dan vers portraits at Witham Abbey in Berks, 

 the seat of the Earl of Abingdon, naturally attractive by the names 

 they bear, but requiring a word or two of caution. The first to be 

 noticed is that of Sir John Danvers the regicide. This, certainly, 

 is a misnomer. Neither features, dress, nor apparent age, permit 

 us for a moment to accept it as his likeness. Neither can it be the 

 portrait of his son, John Danvers, Esq., if that son bore the 

 slightest resemblance to his father. The engraved print repre- 

 senting Sir John Danvers in youth, though it hardly sustains the 

 reputation for manly beauty with which his friend, John Aubrey, 

 credits him, has not a line in common with the Witham portrait. 

 This latter is the effigy of a middle-aged man of vulgar type, 

 crowned with a heavy peruke, and dressed in the costume of Charles 

 the Second's time — belonging, in fact, to a period when Sir John 



