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 . gh treason by that detestable bodywhich had named itself the high court of Justice, and his sen-tence referred to the House of Commons, where he was doomedto die by the casting vote of the Speaker, and, on the ninth ofMarch, 1649, was beheaded in Palace Yard. This unworthy nobleman, whose Lady has been already men-tioned, left issue by her four sons, and five dauglit
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 . gh treason by that detestable bodywhich had named itself the high court of Justice, and his sen-tence referred to the House of Commons, where he was doomedto die by the casting vote of the Speaker, and, on the ninth ofMarch, 1649, was beheaded in Palace Yard. This unworthy nobleman, whose Lady has been already men-tioned, left issue by her four sons, and five daugliters. Robert,who succeeded to his titles, and afterwards to those of his uncle,the Earl of Warwick ; Charles ; Henry; and Cope. His daugh-ters were Frances, married to ^^illiam, fifth Lord Paget; Isabel, 14 FIRST EARL OF HOLLAND. to Sir James Thynne, of Longleate, in Wilts ; Susanna, to JamesHoward, third Earl of Suffolk of his family ; Mary, to Sir JohnCampbell, afterwards created Earl of Breadalbin in Scotland;and Diana, who died The titles of E ii 1 of Warwickand Holland became extinct in this family by the death, in 1759,of Edward Rich, eighth Earl of Warwick, and fifth Earl ofHolland, without male issue. 15. ; ( M.\U(,)r I S ()!? 1 II \; 1-U<1M rllK OlilOlNAl. Oi VANI^VKKUN ITIK COLUlcrjOJ! OK IMS <.i! \(i. r?ri; diki. or iii;i-<!oij. ri/ It-f ^.:, (?) A-/7i/,)jv/,ir.(. GEORGE GORDON, SECOND MARQUIS OF HUNTLY. 1 HIS nobleman was one of the many exalted persons whom afirm and honest attachment to the established government of theircountry had drawn from a splendid privacy to serve Charles thefirst in the field. He appears to have taken no concern in thepolitical affairs of the time, nor to have possessed more than anordinary share of the royal confidence or affection. The earlierpart of his life had passed little distinguished from those of othersof his eminent rank, and the latter affords few circumstances
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