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 298 CLIFFORD. VI. by 1753. 6. Charlotte Elizabeth [styled Marchioness of Hartington), suo jure Baroness Clifford, only Burv. "31 Barony Writ.  3 -* is VIII. 181 1, to 1858. - 6 6'. 'William Spenckr (Cavendish), Duke op Devonshire, Marquess op Hahtington, Earl of Devon- shire, Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, and Lord Clifford, s. and h., b. 21 May 1700 j d. num. 18 Jany. 1858, when, his other honours descending to his cousin and heir male, the ' t£H£~ Barony of Clifford (1628) /eU into abeyance, between his two sisters.( :l ) J 5 CLIFFOKD OF LANESBOROUGH. i.e. " Cllfford of Lanesborouqh, co. York," Barony (Boyle), er. 1644 ; ex. 1753. See under (previous article), " Clifford," Barony, er. 1628. CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIG1I.(") Barony. 1. Thomas Cupkord, s. of CoL Hugh C. ol Ugbrook, in I 107° Chudleigh, co. Devon, by Mary, da. of Sir George ChuDLEIgii, Dart., of Ashton, in that co., was b. 1 and hup. 12 Aug. lo'.'JO, at Ugbruok ; matric. at Oxford (Ex. Coll), 21 May 1647 ; B.A., 1650 : Barrister of the Middle Temple ; M.P. for Totness in the convention Pari. 1660, and in that of May 1661 ; distinguished himself in several naval actions, and was Knighted ; was Comptroller of the Household, Nov. 1666 ; one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1667 to 1672 ; B.C. and Treasurer of the Household, 1668. When the Dutch war was ended in 1669, he, as a zealous promoter of the French interest, intrigued against the treaty, becoming one of the 5 Counsellors who formed the " Vaba!."( c ) The treaty of Dover, in June 1670, was mainly his work, and he lent himself to a dis- creditable shuffle, whereby he hid from his colleagues the object (i.e. the declaration of the Roman Catholic faith) for which certain sums were to be paid by the French King to Charles II. In 1672 he was made Princ. Secretary of State, when he advised the King to supply himself with money by stopping for a year all payments out of the Exchequer, in reward, doubtless, for which (pernicious) suggestion he was, on 22 April 1672, cr. BARON CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGH, co. Devon. Lord High Treasurer from Nov. 1672 to June 1673, when (having already declared himself a Roman Catholic) the test act having passed (against which he had made a most violent and injudicious speech), he felt bound to resign, not, however, without having ( a ) These were (1) Qeorgiana Dorothy, Dow. Couutess of Carlisle, who d. 8 Aug. 1858, aged 75, leaving issue ; and (2) Henrietta Elizabeth, Dow. Countess Granville, who d. 25 Nov. 1862, aged 77, leaving issue. ( b ) " At Ugbrooke House is a splendid pedigree of the Clifford family, certified 12 May 1673, by Sir Edward Walker, Garter, Edward Bysshe, Clarcncicux, and William Dugdale, Norroy, Kings of Arms." See MS. note in Pulinau's Collections ("J. P." 21S, p. 519) at the Coll. of Arms. ( c ) See Vol. i, p. 131, note "c." Hume says of him (Vol. vi, p. 9, edit. 1818) that " his daring impetuous spirit gave him weight in the King's Councils," but of the five members of the Cabal, lie probably was the least important. Evelyn calls Lini " a valiant, uncorrupt gentleman, ambitious, not covetous, generous, passionate, a most sincere frieud."