force, the desire of revenge got the better of his loyalty, and he was
persuaded by the General to assist him in the attack on Conway, still
under the command of his successor. The assault succeeded, and Williams
was once more for a short period installed in Conway Castle. Soon after
this he retired to the house of his kinswoman, Lady Mostyn, where he
remained till his death. He was horrified when he heard the King had
left Oxford. ‘What!’ he said, ‘take the advice of a stranger, and trust
the Scots! then all is lost.’ On being told of Charles’s execution, he
fainted away, and said he would never take comfort more. He survived
about a year, but spent most of his time in bed, rising at midnight to
pray, ‘as that was the hour at which Christ would come to judge the
quick and dead.’ He died on his sixty-eighth birthday, his last words
being ‘Lord Jesus, come quickly,’ for he had long wished for death. His
temper was fiery, owing, said his Secretary, to his Welsh blood. He was
hospitable and charitable, had a great taste for building, and restored
Westminster at his own expense, besides many munificent grants to both
Universities. He gave much offence to the Puritans by his love of
dramatic performances. One Sunday, the very day of an Episcopal
ordination, he caused the ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to be represented,
(on a stage erected in Buckden Palace,) for the edification of the young
priests.
In person he was handsome; his countenance comely, his complexion fair,
his gait stately. He was merry, and even facetious, until the time of
the King’s death, after which he seldom opened his lips, except to call
down vengeance on Cromwell and the Regicides.
He repurchased his family estate, and bequeathed it to his heir. He left
several theological writings. Lord Keeper Williams, Archbishop of York,
lies buried in a small church near Penrhyn, in Wales.
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No. 159.
SIR THEODORE MAYERNE.
PAINTER UNKNOWN.
BORN 1572-3, DIED 1656-7.
_Seated in an arm-chair. Dressed in a black gown. White collar and
cuffs. Black skull-cap. Grey beard and whiskers. His hand resting on
a bust of Hippocrates. A large clasped book on the table, inscribed
‘Hermes.’ The painting is on wood._
THEODORE TURQUET, Sieur de Mayerne, Baron D’Aumont, born at Geneva. His
father was an author of no very great repute. Theodore was
Physician-in-Ordinary to Henry IV. of France, and after his death, came
to England, and occupied the same post at the courts of James I.,
Charles I. and his Queen, and Charles II. His name is specially
remembered in connection with that of Henry, Prince of Wales, whose last
illness was so sudden, but it was not for some days after the attack
that Mayerne was called in to consult with Henry’s own medical adviser.
There were rumours afloat that the hope of the nation, the darling of
his father’s people, was the victim of poison, administered by Lord
Rochester, the King’s favourite, through jealousy of the Prince’s
supposed admiration for the beautiful but abandoned Countess of Essex,
but Mayerne refuted the accusation, in an elaborate account of Henry’s
illness, (which he published in English, French, and Latin,) proving
that the Prince’s death was occasioned by natural causes.
He disagreed with the other physicians as to the treatment of the
patient, and the King gave him a certificate, and the Lords in Council
and the gentlemen of the Prince’s household expressed their entire
satisfaction with the manner in which this able man had conducted the
case.
Theodore Mayerne, Baron D’Aumont, received the honour of Knighthood from
the hands of Charles I. His death was caused by drinking (though
moderately) of bad wine when dining with a few friends at a tavern in
the Strand. Bad wine is usually a slow poison, but in Sir Theodore’s
case, advanced age, and consequent weakness, quickened the result. He
foretold to his companions the exact hour at which death would ensue,
and the prediction proved but too true. Mayerne had the credit of
inventing many valuable medicines, and left behind him many receipts
that were much esteemed. He was an excellent Latin scholar, and wrote
several medical works in that language. He was moreover an admirable
chemist, and Walpole tells us that the celebrated miniature painter
Petitot owed the perfection of his colouring in enamel to some chemical
secret imparted to him by the Court physician.
Sir Theodore was buried in the old church of St. Martin’s in the Fields.
He had an only daughter, married to the Marquis de Cugnac, who died when
only twenty. She was buried at Chelsea.
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No. 160.
SIR THOMAS CHICHELEY.
_Black dress._
WE have not been able to gain much information respecting him, but the
fact that Lady Savile married him as her second husband will
sufficiently account for his portrait being here. We believe him to have
been a staunch Royalist, which may have recommended him in the lady’s
eyes, though it is curious that her biographer, Dr. Barwick, makes no
mention of this marriage, or, if at all, only in a scanty note. We find
in Collins’s _Baronetage_, that Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole, county
Cambridge, was recommended as qualified to be made a Knight of the Royal
Oak, in 1660, and that Sir Thomas Chicheley was Master of the Ordnance
to King Charles II. He sold the estate of Wimpole, in 1686, to Sir John
Cutler.
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_The first page mentioned indicates the notice of the Life._
ALBEMARLE, GEORGE MONCK, DUKE OF, 231
... ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF, 137
ARLINGTON, HENRY BENNET, EARL OF, 234
ARUNDEL, HENRY FITZALAN, EARL OF, 167
BATH, FIRST MARQUIS OF, 70
... FIRST MARCHIONESS OF, 76, 336
... SECOND MARQUIS OF, 57, 249
... SECOND MARCHIONESS OF, 134
... FOURTH MARQUIS OF, 79, 133
... FOURTH MARCHIONESS OF, 58
BEAUCHAMP, LORD, 327
BEDFORD, JOHN RUSSELL, SIXTH DUKE OF, 250
BOHEMIA, KING OF, 281, 325
... QUEEN OF, 268
BUCKINGHAM, EDWARD STAFFORD, DUKE OF, 226
... GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF, 145
CARNARVON, EARL AND COUNTESS OF, 130
CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, 160
CAVENDISH, ADMIRAL, THE CIRCUMNAVIGATOR, 315
CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, 225
... THE FIRST, KING OF ENGLAND, 218, 303
... THE SECOND, 160
CHARTRES, VIDÂME DE, 122
CHICHELEY, SIR THOMAS, 360
CHILDREN OF CHARLES THE FIRST, 219
... OF SIR JOHN THYNNE THE BUILDER, 199
COLE, MR., 336
COLIGNY, ADMIRAL DE, 96
CONDÉ, PRINCE DE, 120
CONINGSBY, MR., 335
COVENTRY, THE HONOURABLE HENRY, 72
... SIR JOHN, 64
... THE LORD KEEPER, 79, 30
... SIR WILLIAM, 82
COVERT, SIR WALTER, 94
... LADY, 95
DEVEREUX, THE LADIES, 115
DIGBY, SIR KENELM, 250
DORSET, EDWARD SACKVILLE, FOURTH EARL OF, 31
DUNDEE, JOHN GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT, 319
ELEANOR OF AUSTRIA, 200, 202
ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF, 102
FALKLAND, LUCIUS CAREY, SECOND VISCOUNT, 27
FERDINAND, DON, CARDINAL, INFANT OF SPAIN, 328
FINCH, THE HONOURABLE LEOPOLD, 327
FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, 166
GEORGE THE FIRST, KING OF ENGLAND, 134
GRANVILLE, GRACE CARTERET, COUNTESS, 116
GRESHAM, SIR RICHARD, 171
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, KING OF SWEDEN, 108
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, SECOND DUKE OF, 220
HARLEY, LADY MARGARET, 318
HENRIETTA MARIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, 219
HENRY THE EIGHTH, KING OF ENGLAND, 36
HENRY THE FOURTH, KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE, 225
HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, 307
HERTFORD, EARL OF, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF SOMERSET, 111
HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, EARL OF, 34
INNOCENT THE ELEVENTH, POPE, 139
JERSEY, EDWARD VILLIERS, FIRST EARL OF, 117
JUXON, ARCHBISHOP, 257
KELIFET, MR., 326
KEN, BISHOP, 5
LANSDOWNE, GEORGE LORD, 45
... LADY[4], 110, 78
LAUD, WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 261
LEICESTER, ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF, 191
... DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF, 340
LONSDALE, JOHN LOWTHER, VISCOUNT, 302
... VISCOUNTESS, 303
LUTHER, MARTIN, 224
LYNCH, SIR WILLIAM, 256
MACCLESFIELD, CHARLES GERARD, EARL OF, 286
MARY, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, 129
MAXIMILIAN, EMPEROR OF GERMANY, 203
MAYERNE, SIR THEODORE, 358
NEWCASTLE, WILLIAM CAVENDISH, FIRST DUKE OF, AND HIS DUCHESS, 239
NORTHUMBERLAND, ALGERNON PERCY, EARL OF, 286
NOTT, LADY, 190
NOTTINGHAM, HENEAGE FINCH, EARL OF, 227
... CATHERINE CAREY, COUNTESS OF, 150
... ESSEX RICH, COUNTESS OF, 325
OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS, 244
OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, EARL OF, 330
PEMBROKE, PHILIP HERBERT, EARL OF, 265
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, 155
RICHELIEU, CARDINAL, 343
RICHMOND AND LENNOX, FRANCES HOWARD, DUCHESS OF, 53
ROSAMOND, FAIR, 129
RUBENS, PETER PAUL, WIFE AND CHILD, 167
RUSSELL, LORD JOHN, AFTERWARDS EARL RUSSELL, K.G., 333
SAVILE, THE HONOURABLE LADY, 118, 328
SEYMOUR, ELIZABETH, AFTERWARDS COUNTESS OF AILESBURY, 302
SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, FIRST EARL OF, 11
SHREWSBURY, ELIZABETH BRUDENELL, COUNTESS OF, 337
SIDNEY, SIR HENRY, 153
SOMERSET, DUKE OF, PROTECTOR, 21
... WILLIAM, DUKE OF,—A BOY, 304
SOUTHAMPTON, THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF, 42
STRAFFORD, THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF, 209
ST. ALBANS, FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT, 276
STUART, LADY ARABELLA, 172, 116
SUDELEY, THOMAS LORD SEYMOUR OF, 36
SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF, 347
THURLOW, EDWARD, FIRST LORD, 47
_THE THYNNE FAMILY_—
THYNNE, SIR EGREMONT, 68
... SIR HENRY FREDERICK, 45, 77
... HIS WIFE, 94, 315
... THE HONOURABLE HENRY, 238
... THE HONOURABLE JAMES, 195
... JAMES, ESQ., 98
... SIR JAMES, 121, 73
... LADY ISABELLA, HIS WIFE, 89, 78
... SIR JOHN, THE BUILDER OF LONGLEAT, 66
... THE SECOND SIR JOHN, 115
... HIS WIFE, 114
... SIR THOMAS, OF RICHMOND, 71
THYNNE, SIR THOMAS, OF LONGLEAT, 122
... HIS FIRST WIFE, 87
... HIS SECOND WIFE, 88
... THOMAS, FATHER OF SECOND VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH, 83, 335
... TOM O’ TEN THOUSAND, 73, 95
TINTORETTO, GIACOMO ROBUSTI, 133
TÖCKOLI, HELENA, COUNTESS, 290
... COUNT EMERIC, 296
TORRINGTON, GEORGE, FOURTH VISCOUNT, 77
... VISCOUNTESS, 109
WEYMOUTH, FIRST VISCOUNT, 63, 5, 326
... HIS WIFE, 61
... SECOND VISCOUNT, 62, 110
... HIS FIRST WIFE, 61
... HIS SECOND WIFE, 70, 110
WILLIAMS, LORD KEEPER, 352
YORK, JAMES DUKE OF, 190
Footnote 4:
By inadvertence, Lady Lansdowne has been called ‘Viscountess’ in the
text of the book.
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_ERRATA_.
Page 290 and 296, _for_ (Emperor of) Austria _read_ Germany.
Page 331, _insert_ Langallerie _after_ Marquis de Guiscard.
Page 344, _for_ Palais Royal _read_ Bibliothèque du Roi.
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