in divers parliaments, and was misled to sit in that of forty, till he was secluded. After which he lived privately in the country, and, towards the latter end of his life, entertained himself with justice-business, books, and (as a very numerous issue required) economy. He put out a little tract of that subject, with a preface lightly touching the chief crises of his life. Afterwards he published a small piece entitled " Passages relating to the Long Parliament," with an apologetic, or rather, recantation preface.* He wrote also the history of the life of the Lord Edward North, the first baron of the family, from whose daughter the dukes of Beaufort are descended. He was a christian speculatively orthodox and good; regularly charitable and pious in his family, rigidly just in his dealing, and exquisitely virtuous and sober in his person. All which will appear in his writings, although the style is not so poignant as his father's was. But, to pursue the relation, his lady, by the mother's side, was descended of Sir George Whitmore, once lord mayor of London; which opens a large kindred towards Wales, of which it is said that above thirty came into coparcenary shares of the estate of Sir

* Printed in the Somers' Tracts, (vol. vi. p. 565. Scott's edit.) Horace Walpole has negligently ascribed this tract both to its true author and to the Lord Keeper Guilford. (See Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. pp. 36, 63.)

Charles Kemish.

Her father was the before

mentioned Sir Charles Mountagu, of five the youngest brother, of the Boughton family, now honoured with a dukedom. From the other brothers as many noble families are also derived, as Manchester, Sandwich, and Halifax. Sir Charles had two other daughters, one married the Lord Hatton, and had divers children, and, amongst the rest, the incomparable* Captain Charles Hatton. The other daughter married Sir Edward Bash, of Hertfordshire, who died without issue; then she married Mr. John Cary of the Falkland family, and master of the buck-hounds under King Charles II., and died also without issue.

This last Dudley Lord North and his lady had six sons and four daughters who lived to appear in the world, besides some who died in minority, viz. Frances, Edward, and Dorothy. The eldest son was Charles, who received the honour of knighthood, and married Catherine the daughter of William Lord Grey of Wark, and was, in his father's lifetime, called by writ to the house of peers, by the title of Charles Grey of Rolleston. They had two sons and two daughters who sur

* [The reason why the honourable author joins the epithet incomparable to this gentleman's name will be seen from a story which will be related in the life of Dr. John North.] Note in the first edition.

Her

vived. The eldest son, William, is the present Lord North and Grey, who is matched with Maria Margareta, one of the daughters of Mr. C. de jonge van Ellemete, late receiver of the United Netherlands. The second son, Charles, a major in the late wars in Flanders, died there of a calenture. The eldest sister, Catherine, died at sea, coming from Barbadoes: and the youngest, named Dudleya, having emaciated herself with study, whereby she had made familiar to her, not only the Greek and Latin, but the Oriental languages, under the infliction of a sedentary distemper, died also; and both without issue. library, consisting of a choice collection of Oriental books, by the present Lord North and Grey, her only surviving brother, was given to the parochial library of Rougham, in Norfolk, where it remains. The Lord North's second son, Francis, the third son, Dudley, and the fourth, John, are the subject of the three life treatises intended to follow, where will be remembered the state of their families. The fifth son was Mountagu, a Levant merchant, who died without issue. The youngest, Roger, married Mary, the daughter of Sir Robert Gayer, of Stoke Poges, near Windsor, and having had

* William Lord North and Grey died without issue, 31st Oct. 1734; and on his death, the title of Lord North descended to Francis Lord Guilford, the grandson of the lord keeper.

two sons, Roger and Mountagu, and five daughters, Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, Catherine, and Christian, lives (out of the way) at Rougham, in Norfolk.

Of the four daughters of Dudley Lord North, the eldest, Mary, was married to Sir William Spring, of Pakenham, by Bury, in Suffolk. She had issue a son, but lived not to have any more, and the son died in his infancy. The second daughter, Ann, married Mr. Robert Foley, a younger branch of the (now) Lord Foley's family; and their eldest son, North Foley, having married a daughter of Sir Charles Holt, of Warwickshire, lives now at Stourbridge in Worcestershire. The third daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Robert Wiseman, a younger son of the Rivenhall family, in Essex, dean of the arches, who dying without issue, she is since married to the Earl of Yarmouth. The fourth and youngest daughter, Christian, married Sir George Wenieve of Brettenham, in Suffolk. And they have left divers children; of whom the eldest, John, married a daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, and now resides in the place of his father at Brettenham.

This is the family relation of these three brothers, whose lives are upon the carpet before me. So much of particularity concerning them (although a just pedigree ought to have taken in much more) may perhaps be thought superfluous, as not

being of any general concern. Yet really the case is memorable for the happy circumstance of a flock, so numerous and diffused as this of the last Dudley Lord North's was, and no one scabby sheep in it, and considering what temptations and snares have lain in their way, is not of every day's notice. It was their good fortune to be surrounded with kindred of the greatest estimation and value, which are a sort of obligation to a good behaviour. It is very unfortunate for any one to stray from the paths of virtue, who hath such precautions, and sonorous mementoes, on all sides of him and it is almost enough to be educated in a family wherein was no instance of irreligion or immorality either practised or allowed: such virtue or efficacy hath an early example to affect the manners of good-natured youth. I would not have it thought that, beyond this advantage, I hold forth a family relation, as matter of merit, to any one in particular; but say only that, allowing no peculiar intrinsic worth, in a particular person, derivable from the honour of his family (because his own value, and not his ancestors' must set him off), although such a circumstance is not to be slighted, yet there is some good comes of it; which is, that the descendants must know that the world expects more from them than from common men : and such a perpetual monitor is an useful companion. And if there be any persons of such