Southwarke,
July 21, 1687.
Mr.[915] Rushworth tells me he is superannuated. He hath forgott to
putt downe the name of the place where borne: as also that he was
secretary to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, when Lord Keeper of the great
seale, which was a considerable place.
[916]Yesterday I saw Mr. Rushworth: which was a great mortification. He
hath quite lost his memory with drinking brandy. Remembred nothing of
you, etc. His landlady wiped his nose like a child.
[917]John Rushworth, of Lincoln's Inne, esq., historian, died in the
Rules Court Alley in Southwarke, at the widow Bayley's house, a good
woman and who was very carefull and tendfull of him, on Monday the
twelfth day of May 1690[918]; and was buried the Wednesday following
behind the pulpit in St. George's church in Southwarke. He was about
83, onwards to 84. He had no son, but 3 or 4 daughters, virtuous
woemen: one is maried to Sir Francis Vane of ... in the north. He had
forgot his children before he died.
=Richard Sackville=, third earl of Dorset (1589-1624).
[919]Richard, earle of Dorset (eldest son[920] and heire to the Lord
Treasurer): he lived in the greatest grandeur of any nobleman of his
time in England. He had 30 gentlemen, and gave to each 50 _li._ per
annum, besides keeping his horse. George Villiers (after, duke of
Bucks) was a pe<ti>tioner to have had a gentleman's place under him,
and miss't it, and within a 12 moneth was a greater man himselfe; but
the duke ever after bore a grudge to the earl of Dorset.--from the
countesse of Thanet[921].
=Richard Sackville=, fifth earl of Dorset (1622-1677).
[922]Richard Sackville[BB], earle of Dorset[923], father of this earle
(Richard)--'twas he that translated[BC] _the Cid_, a French comoedie,
into English, about 1640.
Obiit anno Domini 167<7>; sepult. with his ancestors at Knoll in Kent.
He was a fellow of the Royall Societie. He maried <Frances> Cranfield,
daughter of the earle of Middlesex, by whome he had severall sonnes and
daughters.
His eldest sonne is Richard, earl of Dorset and Middlesex, a most noble
lord and my most kind friend.
Obiit 16<77>.
_Notes._