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No. 30.

THE COUNTESS OF OXFORD.

''Blue and white dress. Holding a nosegay. A table beside her.''

Beatrix van Hemmend, a Dutch lady, a native of Friesland, married Robert de Vere, nineteenth Earl of Oxford. He died in 1632, at the siege of Maestricht, leaving an only surviving child, in whom the earldom became extinct.

No. 33.

PORTRAIT. UNKNOWN.

No. 36.

SIR KENELM DIGBY.

''Black dress. Hand on his breast. A globe by his side.''

BORN 1603, DIED 1665.

Son of Sir Everard Digby, born at Gothurst or Gayhurst, County Bucks, the property of his mother, daughter and sole heir of Sir William Mulsho. He was but a child when his father suffered death as one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot. The Crown laid claim to the estates and revenues of the family; but the widowed Lady Digby, a woman of great energy and determination, not only saved her own dower by her