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 WIMBLEDON. 167 of 4,000 English at the ri«ge of Juliers, and in 1618 wm Treasurer to the Princess Elisabeth and her husband, the Elector Palatine during their Journey to Qermany. In 1625, by fa?our of the Duke of Buckingham (the " Generalissimo "), he was appointed (as his deputy) Lieut. Qen. of the Fleet and Army, and Admiral to the Admiral of England for the costly eipedition to Cadis against Spain, and, as such, set sail 8 Oct 1625, but " incapable of anv resolution, tlio' Oidis was without defence,*' it was ** to the gross incapacity which he displayed under circumstances of no peculiar difficulty " that " the Spaniards owed it that every ship in the harbour was not taken or burnt, that Cadiz was not sacked and that the treasure-ships were not captnred."(*) He was, however, cr, 9 Nov. 1625(^) BABON CECIL OP PUTNEY and VISCOUNT WIMBLEDON of Wimbledon,(«) co. Surrey, his elevaUon to the peerage having been aunounced before the fleet set sail from England. In 1626 he was member to the permanent Council of SVar and joint L. -Lieut, of Surrey; in 1627 was in command at the siege of Oroll, and in 1629 was at Bois-le-Duc, being, in all, some 85 years in the wars in the Netherlands ; Qov. of Portsmouth, 1630-88* He m., firstly, Theodosia, sister of Edward, 2d ViscouHT Campdbn, da. of Sir Andrew Noil, of Dalby, co. Leicester, by Isabel, da. of Sir James Harinoton, of Elton, oo. Rutland. She d s.p.m. in March (shortly before the 24th) 1616/6 at Utrecht in Holland, and was bur, in the Cathedral there. He m. secondly, 27 Feb. 1616/7, Diana, aister and coheir (1615) to Sir Robert Drurt,(<>) 8d and yst da. of Sir William Drurt, of Hawsted, co. Suffolk, by Elizabeth, da, of Sir William Stafford, of Blatherwycke, co. Northampton. She d. s.p.s. April, and was bur, 15 May 1631(*) at Wimbledon. Admon. as of St. Mary Savoy, co. Midx., 12 May 1681. He m. thirdlv,(0 Nov. 1632, Sophia, da. of Sir Edward Zouciii, of Woking, co. Surrey, by Dorothy, da. of ( — ). He d, s p.m.s.(s) 16 Nov. 1638, aged 56,(*i) at his house at Wimbledon, and was 5iir. in that parish, when the titU became extinct. Funeral certificate, at the College of Arms and the Public Record office. Will dat. Nov., and pr. 21 De& 1688. Hia widow m. aa his second wife. Sir Robert Kino, of Boyle, co. Roscommon, Muster-master-general [I.], who if. at Cecil House in the Strand, between 18 April and 18 June 1657. She d,, 16, and was bur, 19 Nov. 1691, at Ketton, 00. Suffolk, the seat of her son-in-law, Sur Thomas Barvardiston, Bart. Will pr. Dee. 1691. (■) Nat. Biogr. (<>) '* Crtationt, 1488—1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. records. The titles were conferred together, the statement in the Nat Biogr, that the Barony was on 9 Nor. 1625 and the Viscountcy not tiU 25 July 1626 being erroneous. (e) He writes thus to Su* John Coke, 8 Nov. 1625, as to the proposed title, "I am to make an humble suit to your Honour that, in regard his Maiesty by my Lord Duke's means was pleased to give me the choice of what place I desued my Viscount- ship, which at first I did choose of Wimbledon, that now I may have it to be Lord Cecyll, Viscount Latymer, because it was the ancient title of my grandfather by my mother's side.'* (<>) Chamberlain writes of her in 1616, that ** since the death of her brother she had become a good marriage, worth £10,000 or £12,000." (•) Pory writes to Sir J. Puckering, 12 May 1681, that "on Thursday last the Ladg Vitcounteu WimHedon*i corpse was carried over the bridge of fjondon with a train of twenty oaroches drawn with six horses apiece, and many more with four, and with torches tant nosi^re." (0 Of this marriage John Finet writes, 16 Oct. 1685, *' Mv Lord of Wimbledon (of whose Tslor, I think, no man ever doubted in his youth) hsth now in his sge also shewed himself no less valiant and venturous, having lately marryed the young daughter (of 17 years old) of Sir Edward Zouche, deceased.'* (S) Of his children, Algernon, his only son (by the 8d wife), d. young, as also did a da., Anne, by the second wife. His 4 surviving daughters and coheirs, all by the first wife, were (1) Dorothy, living uum. Nov. 1688 ; (2) Albinia, m., before Nov. 1688, Sir Christopher Wray,of Ash by, co. Lincoln, and was ^icr.as his widow, 80 Jan. 1650/60 at Oiles in the fields '"* «••-»-»- - «-• *- /tiT:ii....-Kw-% n %%«!._ .^.^. . Pnrham. being the Diary ; [see p. 155, i 4th Viscount Saye and Sele. (^) His iK>rtnut " afUr S. de Passe, 1618," is engraved in " Z>o^2e.'> 1