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 66 WARWICK. shortly before July 1607.(*) Lord Rich (afterwards Earl of Warwick) m. secondly II Dec. 1616, at St. Barth. the Oreat, London, Frances, widow(^) of Sir Qeorge St. Paul, Bart, siator of Sir WillUm Wray, 1st Bart., and 2d da. of Sir Christopher Wbat, of Glentworth, co. Lincoln, L.-Ch.- Justice of the Queen's Bench, by Anne, da. of Nicholas Qirunoton. Ha d. within 7 months of his elevation to the Earldom, 24 March 1618/9, at his honse in St Bartholomew's afsd.(o) and was (tcr. (with his ancestors) at Felsteod, oo. Essex. His widow d. s.p. at Hackney, and was carried thence, 15 Aug. 1634, to be Imr. with him. Will pr. 1684. XXIIL 1619. B, RoBBRT (Rioh), Earl of Warwick, dro., Ist a. and h., by first wife, b. Hsy or June 1587 ; admitted 4 June 1608 toEman. Coll., Cambridge; X.B., 24 June 1608; H.P. for Maiden, 1610-11 and 1614-19 ; 9igUd Lord Rich from 1618, till he tue. to the peerojfe, as above, 24 March 1618/9. He, in 1614, had taken a prominent part in the colonisation of (" the Summer isles ") Bermuda, and was, in 1620, a Councillor fur the plantation of New England ; cr. M.A., of Cambridge, 1624, and of Oxford, 25 Aug. 1624 ; Capt in the Navy, 1627 ; Joint L. Lieut of Essex, 1626, and L. Lieut thereof, 1629 ; Vice- Admiral of Essex, 1688 ; CoL of tlie Essex trained bands ; Qot. of Harwich, 1686 ; served as a volunteer with the Dutch army, 1687. He allied himself with the Puritan party, and was one of the 16 " popular " noblemeD(^) named by the King, Sep. 1640, to treat with the Scots at Ripon, being Joint Commiasr. for a like purpose in London, 23 Nov. foll<»wiug ; P.O., 1641 ; a Cummiasr. of Regency, Aug. to Nov. 1641. He, on the nomination of Pari, was L. Lieut of Essex and Norfolk, Admiral in the Navy, Capt. Qen. in London, and the adjacent counties, all in 1642 ; also Speaker of the House of Lords, Nov. 1642, and again Feb. 1648 ; L. High Admiral of England, 1648-45, and again, 1648-49 ; Qov. of Quernsey, &c., 1645 ; ^ing voted a Dukedom by Parl.,(") 1 Dea 1645, for whom he was then Com. in Chief of the forces in the East. He was one of the nine (lawful) PeersO who were members of Cromwell's ** Upper House,"(s) and bore the sword of the Commonwealth at Cromwell's investiture of 27 June 1657, tho' he afterwards refused to sit in his Pari. He 01. firstly, 12 Feb. 1604/5. at Hackney, co. Midx., Frances (a great(^) heireaa), da. and heir of Sir William Hatton, /or Jiierty Niwport, by ElizabiBtli, da. and h. of Sir Francis Qawdt, L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, 1605-1606. She, by whom he (•) ** The Lady Rich fell sick, disclaimed her last marriage, sent to her first husband to ask foiigiveness and died penitently." [Thomas Coke to John Coke, dat Whitehall, 21 July 1607.] (^) *' The Lord Rich, after much wooing and several attempts in divers places hath at last lighted on the Lady Sainjioll, a ri<*h widow of Lincolnshire.*' [Chamberlain's letter, 21 Dec 1616, who adds in one of U Oct 1617 that] ''The Lord Rich is said to be * * * rather erased * * * to see himself so over reached by his wife, who hath so conveved her estate that he is little or nothing the better by her." (^) The Earl " died in his mansion at Bartholomew's, which had now taken the name of Warwick House," and of all the Rich estates, " Warwick House alone went [in 1678] with the Earldom." [Craik'a " Romance of the Peerage;' vol. i, p. 802 and 809]. This house passed (see p. 68, note *' f ") to William (Bdwardes), 1st Baron Kensington [I.], ss heir to the 7th Earl, and was in possession of that family when Malcolm, in /1802, wrote his " Londinium redivivum*' It was the famous monastery, founded by Rahere, which, 426 years after its completion, was pai-t of the ecclesiastical siwil that was granted, 19 May 1644, to Robert (Rich), Ist Baron Rich. Dugdale, however, i states that the Earl died " at Warwick House, in Ilolburne;* and it seems that a house in Holbom called *' Warwick House " belonged, as early as 1645, to these Earls : see p. 67, note '* c" Brooke House in Holborn, existing 1628 (said t«> have been sub- sequently called Warwick House) belonged to the Qreville &mily (owners of Warwick QaMtXe since 1604) and retained its name ss late as the time of Charles II., when '* The Brook House Committee " was appointed, while Pepys mentions " Warwick house in Holbom," 8 March 1659/60, these two houses being clearly distinct buildings. {^) See their names in vol. iii, p. 286, note '* b," tub ** Essex." (•) See vol. V, p. 207, note "g," fii6 " Manchester." (0 See their names in vol. i, p. 299, note " d," iub " Bedford." (s) See vol. U, p. 84, note "c," eub ''BurneU," for a list Cromwell's ** Other Houee.'* {^) She brought him *' the greatest estate any woman had done for many years to a ^mily." [Autobioffr, o/ Morjf, Oountcu of YfQxvn/ck,'