Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . d with his heirs till 1720, and was in that year sold byauction, at his house, called Tart Hall, just without BuckinghamGate, which was then pulled down. Some curious relics of thecollection fell into the hands of the Hon. Charles Howard, ances-tor to the present Duke of Norfolk, as residuary legatee to hisgrandmother, the Dowager Countess Alathea, and were by himcar
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . d with his heirs till 1720, and was in that year sold byauction, at his house, called Tart Hall, just without BuckinghamGate, which was then pulled down. Some curious relics of thecollection fell into the hands of the Hon. Charles Howard, ances-tor to the present Duke of Norfolk, as residuary legatee to hisgrandmother, the Dowager Countess Alathea, and were by himcarried to his mansion of Greystock Castle, where they still Earl of Arundel married, as has been before saidAlathea, one of the coheirs of George Talbot, Earl of had issue by that lady six sons ; James, Lord Mowbray andMaltravers, who died a minor, and unmarried, at Ghent, inFlanders, while abroad with his mother; Henry Frederic, whosucceeded to the Earldom, and was progenitor of all the noblepersons who have since his time enjoyed the Dukedom of Norfolk ;William, from whom descended the extinct Earls of Stafford:Thomas, Gilbert, and Charles, who died unmarried in the lift-time of their father. L3. Engnrwd b^ ThofVfrig^t. I^ DEVEKErX, EAKI. Ol ESSEX OH. FROM THK ORIC-IXAI- OF IN iJIF. COU-EOTION OF riiK -NoHLi; riir. oi- . limJ^ntJ\tbbufh^. jltuttLftLlSSP, bvStirtUrut Mtd Leptu-d,TaU iLiB-Ea^. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX. 1 H A T admirable, imprudent, and ill-fated nobleman of thesame names, almost the onl} royal favourite on whose memorythat appellation shews no discredit, left, by his Countess, Frances,daughter and heir to Sir Francis Walsingham, and widow of SirPhilip Sidney, an only son, the subject of this memoir, and thethird and last Earl of Essex of his ancient Norman house. He was born in 1592, and was restored in the twelftli year ofhis age by James the first to the dignities, as he was aft
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