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 276 CLARENDON. at Dinton afsd. ; mntric. at Oxford (Mag. Hall), 31 Jany. 1622/3 ; B.A., 1625 ; Barrister (Mid. Temple), 22 Nov. 1633 ; Keeper of the writs of the Common Pleas, 1634 : M.P. for Wotton Basset, 1640, and for Saltash, 1640-49 ; Under Treasurer of the Exchequer (for life), 1642 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1643-60 ; Knighted ami made T.C., 22 Feb. 1643 ; Councillor to the Prince of Wales, 1644-49. By Charles II, when in exile, he was sent as Joint Ambassador (with Lord Cottington) to Spain, 1649-51 ; Sec. of State, 1653-»7 ; Loud High Chancellor (so declared at Bruges), Dec. 1657 to Aug. 1667 ; First Commissioner of the Treasury, June 1660, being, from 1660 to 1667, "in fact Prime Minister, without the title." On 3 Nov. 1660 he was er. BABON HYPE OF HINDON, co. Wilts, with a Royal gift of £20,000, and about 4 months afterwards was er. Earl of Clarendon and Viscount Cvrnbury as abovc.O The marriage (1659 and 1660) of his da. Anne, with James, Duke of York (afterwards King James II), the h. presump. to the Crown, was, shortly before this time, made publjc, and probably contributed to his unpopularity. First Commissioner for the sale of Dunkirk, 1662 ; Lord High Steward, 12 April 1666 for the trial of Lord Morlcy. He was also Ranger of Whichwood forest, 1661 ; Lord Lieut, of Oxon, 1663 ; of Wilts, 1667 ; and High Steward of Woodstock, 1667. The freedom with which he ad- ministered advice to the King, the hatred of the King's then favourite (the Duchess of Cleveland), of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Arlington, and of all the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian party, were the loading causes of his fall, which took place on 30 Aug. 1667, when, having refused to resign, the Great Seal teas taken from him. In the House of Commons, in the October following, a bill was passed to impeach him of high treason, but rejected by the Lords. ( :l ) To avoid persecution he quitted England finally, 29 Nov. 1667, and completed in France his well-known "History of the Rebellion." He m. firstly, in 1629, Anne, da. of Sir George Ayliffk. She d. childless some six months aftenvards. He m. secondly, 10 July 1634, at St. Margaret'B Westm. (mar. lie. from Dean and Ch. of Westra.), Frances, do. and eventually Bole h. of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bart, Master of the Requests, by Anue, er. Earl op Anolesea ; [5] Greenvill, er. Earl of Bath ; and [6] Howard, or. EaM, or Carlisle. The Barons were [1] Denzille Hollks ; [2] Cornwallis ; [31 Booth [er. Baron Delamerk ; 4] Townsend ; [5] CoorER [cr. Baron Ashley ; and 6] Crew, who were led up by several Peers, with Garter and officers of arms before them ; when, after obedience on their several approaches to the throne, their patents were presented by Garter King-at-Arms, which, being received by the Lord Chamberlain and delivered to His Majesty, and by him to the Sec. of State, were read, and then again delivered to his Majesty, and by him to the several Lords created. They were then robed, their coronets and collars put on by his Majesty, and they were placed in rank on both sides the state and throne ; but the Barons put off their caps and circles and held them in their hands, the Earls keeping on their coronets, as cousins to the King." In this same year there was also a number of the eldest sons of Earls sum. in their Father's Baronies, while in the previoua year (that of the Restoration, 1660) Lord Jermynhad been cr. Earl of St Albans; the loyal Marquess of Ormonde [I.], being cr. Earl of Brecknock ; Monck, Duke of Albemable ; Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, and Hyde, Baron Hydh of Hindon. 0 The estate of Cornbury had been presented to him by the lung. Ho was mortgagee of the Royal domain of Clarendon (from Charles I) and, not unreasonably, expected the grant of the equity of redemption thereof, which, however, ho never obtained. See ante, p. 275, note " c." ( a ) The site of " Clarendon House " on the north side of Piccadilly, exactly facing St. James' Street and Palace, was granted to him by the King, 13 June 1664. Pepyssays, 20 Feb. 1664/5, that the " common people have already cdled [it] Dunkirk? House from their opinion of his having a good bribe for the selling of that towns," and again, 14 June 1667, that there was " a gibbet either set up before or painted upon his gate, and these three words writ — ' Three sights to be seen, Dunkirke, Tangier, and a barren Queene.' " Soon after Iris death, his sons, 10 July 1675, sold the house " that (says Evelyn, 18 Sep. 1683) cost £50,000, for £25,000," to the second Duke of Albemarle, who again sold it to Sir Thomas Bond and others, with about 24 acres of land attached, for £35,000. It was then pulled down, " Bond Street," "Albemarle Street," &c, beiug built on its site.