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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 . racter should haveprovoked much obloquy might fairly be expected, but that awriter so wise,so well informed, and so candid, as Lord Clarendon,should have so repeatedly and severely arraigned it, withoutadducing a single fact of sinister conduct whereon to ground hismultifarious censures, is altogether astonishing. The Duke married Mary, daughter of William Fielding,
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 . racter should haveprovoked much obloquy might fairly be expected, but that awriter so wise,so well informed, and so candid, as Lord Clarendon,should have so repeatedly and severely arraigned it, withoutadducing a single fact of sinister conduct whereon to ground hismultifarious censures, is altogether astonishing. The Duke married Mary, daughter of William Fielding, first 12 JAMES, FIRST DUKE OF HAMILTON. Earl of Denbigh, by whom he had three sons, Charles, James,and William, all of whom died children ; and three daughters,of whom Mary, the eldest, died also young. The second, Anne,inherited under a special intail, the title of Duchess of Hamilton,on the death of her uncle, mentioned here as Earl of Lanerick,who was her fathers immediate successor: she married WilliamDouglas, Earl of Selkirk, eldest son of William, Marquis ofDouglas, and obtained for him, soon after the Restoration, thetitle of Duke of Hamilton. The youngest, Susannah, marriedJohn Kennedy, seventh Earl of Cassilis. 13. Zimr wwj iK J. Tttrhr ] SOMKHSl-:!. ISAUONKSS Ol WARDOrU. FnoM THE COLLEt-TlliN F TiiK incur Anixi)i- tyh waudui k u// A(f ^^ .< !^vrJ fitsMtfJ t.,1! BLANCH SOMERSET, BARONESS ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR. 1 H E name of this lady stands foremost among the few examplesof feminine heroism recorded in the dismal history of the grandrebellion. She was the sixth of the seven daughters of Edward,fourth Earl of Worcester of the Somersets, by Elizabeth, thirdand youngest daughter of Francis Hastings, second Earl ofHuntingdon of his family, and was married at an early age toThomas, second Lord Arundell of Wardonr. This nobleman, theheir of a warlike and loyal sire, had from the commencement ofthe differences between the Ki
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