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 CHESTERFIELD. 233 d. v.p 29 Nov. 1631 at St. Martin's-in-the -fields, and was bur. at Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Admon, 13 Feb. 1634/5. His widow, who attended Mary, Princess of Orange (to Whom she bad been Governess) into Holland, and who contributed freely to the relief of that Lady's brother, King Charles II (when in exile), was, at the restoration, cr. 29 May 1660, COUNTESS UF CHESTERFIELD, for Hfe.(») She m. secondly John Vanden KrUOKHOVBS, alias Poliandeh, Lord of Heenvliett, in Holland.( b ) She in. thirdly Daniel O'Neale, Col of the Horse Guards, and one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber. He d. 1661, and was bur. at Boughton Malherbe, Will dat. 4 Oct. and nr. 6 Nov. 1664. She d. 9 April 1667, and was bur. at Boughton Malherbe, when her life Fccratjc became extinct. Will pr. 12 April 1667.] III. IGoG. ;J. PniLir (Stanhope), Earl or Chesterfield, &c, grandson and h. of the 1st Earl, being 2nd but only surv. s. and b. of Henry Stanhope, styled Lord Stanhope, by Catherine, suo jure Countess of Chesterfield abovenamed, was 28 years old in 1662 ; Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Consort, 1662-65 ; Councillor, 1670 ; Col. of a Reg. of Foot, 1667 ; and Col. the 3rd Foot, 1682-85. Was cr. D.C.L., Oxford, 15 July 1669 ; Chief Justice in Eyre, South of Trent, 1679 ; P.C., 1681. ( c ) He m. firstly, Anne, 1st da. of Algernon (Percy), 10th Earl of Northumberland, by his 1st wife, Anne, da. of William (Cecil), 2nd Earl of Salishuuv. She d. s.p.s. 1654. He 7». secondly, before 1660, Elizabeth, da. of James (Butler), 1st Duke of Ormonde, by Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Dingwall [S.] She was b. 29 June 1640, at Kilkenny, and d. s.p.m.s. at Wellingborough, July 1665.( l1 ) He in. thirdly Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Charles (Dormer), 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, da. of Arthur (Cafell), 1st Baron Ca pelt, of Hadham. She d. 1679. He d. 28 Jany. 1713/4 at Iris house in Bloomsbury Square, Midx., in his SOth year, and was carried thence 8 Feb. and bur. 12th at Shelford afsd. Will dat. 17 Dec. 1713, pr. 21 Jany. 1714. IV. 1711. J. Philip (Stanhope), Earl op Chesterfield, &c, 3rd but 1st surv. s. and h., being 1st s. by 3rd wife, b. 3 and bap. 17 Feb. 1672/3, at St. Giles-iu-the-Iields, Midx., the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Ossory, and the Countess of Essex, being his Sponsors. He fit. (lie. from Fac. oil'. 24 Feb. 1091/2) Elizabeth, da. of George (Savile), 1st M.uujUKSS OF Halifax, by his 2nd wife, Gertrude, da. of the Hon. William Pierrepont. She d. about Sep. 1708. He was Imr. at Shelford, 15 Feb. 1725/6. Will pr. 5 Feby. 1725/6. ( a ) This patent is recited in a royal sign manual 1 June 1660, whereby the daughters of the said Countess are given the same precedence as if their father had survived his father, the creation of the Lady, as therein stated, giving her " in part the pre-eminence and precedency she lost by the death of her said husband," i.e. the rank of an Earldom of 1660 in lieu of one of 162S. See book marked I. 25 (p. 76) at the Coll. of Arms. ( b ) Their only child was cr., 31 Aug. 1650, Baron Wotton [E.], and subsequently, 1680, Earl of Bellomont (I.), but d. s.p. 5 Jany. 1682/3, leaving his estates to the Stanhope family. ( c ) He was among '' The Nobility in Arms with the Prince of Orange, 1688," but was one who refused to join the association for killing all the Papists in England. See ante, Vol. i, p. 28, note " b," and the note markedtou p. 29 thereof. Bishop Burnet's character of him, when above 60 (say in 1695), with Dean Swift's commentary thereon in italics is as follows : — " He is very subtle and cunning, never entered into the measures of King William, nor ever will, in any probability, make any great appearance in any other reign. // it be old Cltestcrjicld, I have heard that he was the greatest knave in Evijland." Mr. J. H. Jesse, in his " Court of the Stuarts " (vol. vi, p. 200) speaks of him, at the time of his second marriage, as " A young man of disa- greeable manners and immoral habits, who was principally remarkable for the jealousy of his disposition and the redundancy of his hair." P) Her husband, who was unreasonably jealous of her, is said to have had her poisoned in the wine administered for the sacrament. See some account of her flirtations in " OmmmoiU," as also in Jesse's " Court of the Stuarts."