The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ish, widow of Sir William Cavendish, and Countessof Shrewsbury. Her portrait is at Welbeck. This lady, who was muchcelebrated for her beauty and accomplishments, and still more for her extraordinary fortune in the world, was daughter of John Hardwicke, Esq., ofthe county of Derby. At the age of fourteen she was married to RobertBarley, Esq., who in about two years left her a very rich widow. The nexthusband was Sir William Cavendish, ancestor of the Dukes of Devonshireand Newcastle. The third was Sir William St. Lowe, captain of the guardto Queen Elizabeth;
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ish, widow of Sir William Cavendish, and Countessof Shrewsbury. Her portrait is at Welbeck. This lady, who was muchcelebrated for her beauty and accomplishments, and still more for her extraordinary fortune in the world, was daughter of John Hardwicke, Esq., ofthe county of Derby. At the age of fourteen she was married to RobertBarley, Esq., who in about two years left her a very rich widow. The nexthusband was Sir William Cavendish, ancestor of the Dukes of Devonshireand Newcastle. The third was Sir William St. Lowe, captain of the guardto Queen Elizabeth; and her fourth, George Talbot, Earl of built Chatsworth, Hardwicke, and Oldcotes, three magnificent seats inDerbyshire. Mary, Queen of Scots, was long under her care at took it into her head to be jealous of the unfortunate princess, an unluckycircumstance for the royal captive. She died Feb. 13, 1607. She was com-monly called by the name, Bess of Hardwicke. Y Y 2 348 WANDERINGS OK A PEN AND JEN< [J. The State Bed at Hardwicke. The state beds of this mansion are fine remembrances of an earlier are admirable portraits, in the gallery, of Queen Elizabeth, LadyJane Grey, Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Pole, Bishop Gardiner, Countessof Shrewsbury, Sir William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, ColonelCharles Cavendish, and the renowned Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,author of the Leviathan, and the Mend of Descartes, Galileo, Gassendi,and other learned men upon the Continent. He was formerly tutor in thisfamily; and being removed here from Chatsworth at the advanced age of 92,he soon expired. He died 1697. Thomas Hobbes was born at Shrewsbury in 1588. His birth was prema-ture, owing, as tradition relates, to the fear which his mother experienced,upon the news being circulated that the Spanish Armada was upon theEnglish seas. He was through life remarkable for a constitutional timidity,attributed to the foregoing derangement. In his youth he
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