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 328 JErtMYN. 1645, who he accompanied to France, presiding over her household many veirs.( a ) He was cr. by letters patent dat. at Breda 27 April 1660, E.VRL OF SAINT ALBANS; P.C., 1660 ; Ambassador to Paris, 1660, 1667, and 1669 ; Lord Chamber- lain of the Household, 1671-71: K.G., 20 May 1672. He d. unm., 2 Jan. 1683/4 when the Earldom of Saint Albtns became extinct. Will pr. March 1634. II. 1684. Tiiomas (Jermyx), Baron .Terjiyn of St. Edmusds- BCur. nephew and h., being s. and h. of Thomas Jermyn, of Rash- broke, by Rebecca, da. of ( — ) UoDWAY, which Thomas was elder br. of the late Lord. He sue. to the peerage 2 Jan. 1683/4, according ti> the spec. rem. in the creation of thnt dignity ; Gov. of Jersey, &C, He m.( D ) Mary, da. of Henry MBRRT, of 60. Derby. He d. s.p.m.s.f/ 1 ) 1 A'pril 1703, in his house in Old Spring Gardens, Westni. Will pr. April 1703. His widow d. in Loudon May 1713 and was bur. at Rushbroke. Her will pr. July 1713. III. 1703, U. Henry ( J urm y x ), Baron Jermyn of St, Eumun'dsbi'hy to [1643], and B.vuon Dover [1685], but more generally known as " Karl 1708. 0F DOVBB," br. and h. male. He was b. about 1636 ; was in religion a Roman Catholic; Master of the Horse to the fluke of York, 1 660- 75; was cr., 13 May 1635, BARON DOVER of Dover, co. Kent; Col. of the 4th Horse Guards, 1686-88, and Lietlt.-Gen, of the Royal body Guard ; P.C., 1686 ; Lord Lieut, of Cambridgeshire, 16Sii-8S; one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1687-8?, and Gent, of the Bedchamber to James II. whom he accompanied to France and Ireland and by whom (when in exile) he was cr., 9 July 16S9,( l1 ) LORD JERMYN OF ROY8T0N AND BARON OF IPSWICH, VISCOUNT CHEVELEY, co. Suffolk, and EARL OF DOVKR,(«) which titles were, of course, not recognised by the English Government to which after the battle of the Boyne (1690) he submitted. lie sue. to the Iiaro»y of Jermijn, 1 April 1703. He im. Judith, da. of Sir Edmond PoLEY, of Badley, co. Suffolk, by Hester, da. of Sir Henry Crofts, of Little Saxham. He d. s.p. 6 April 1708,( f ) at his house at Cheveley, co. Cambridge, when all kis lwwnrs became extinct. He was bur. 4 at his own request) in the church of the Carmelites at Bruges in Flanders.(B) M.I. Will pr. June 1708, His widow d. about 1726. Her will dat. 17 Sep. 1725, pr. Nov. 1726. f*) It has indeed been asserted that he was privately married to that Queen (Henrietta Maria) and this was considered to be a fact by Hallam, the Historian, Miss Strickland, however, remarks that " the only proof offered in support of this assertion is that the Queen often looked pale ami seemed alarmed when he entered the room where he was" (Sir John Reresby's memoirs) and adds that she has " been fiivoured by a communication from the noble family [i.c, that of Hervey, Marquess of Bristol], who are the collateral representatives of Lord Jermyn. They possess some of his letters but not one which gives the least countenance to this report." ( h ) He is sometimes said to have first m. (— ),da. of Sir Thomas Hervey, of Bury, which lady d. S.p. ( c ) Thomas Jermyn, his only son, d. num., being killed by a mast of a ship falling on him in 1692, and was bur. at Rushbroke. Mary, the eldest of his five daughters and coheirs, m. Sir Robert Davers. 2d Hart., of Rougham, co. Suffolk, whose grandaughter Elizabeth, sister and heir of Sir Charles Davers, 5th and last Bart., m. Frederick (Hervey), Earl of Bristol, and conveyed the Jermyn estates to the Hervey family. (i) See vol. i, p. 59, note »b, M sub "Albemarle," for a list of these " Jacobito peerages." («) By a Royal warrant, 9 July 1689, the titles of " E.uti, ok Dover, Viscount op Chikfli [i.e., Cheveley] Lord Germain [i.e., "Jermyn] ok Raystowne [i.e., Royston], and Baron ok I PS WICK " [i.e., Ipswich] were conferred on him. He had previously (on the 1st inst.) been appointed Commissioner of the Treasury [I.] ( f ) There are plenty of notices of him in Grammont's " Memoirs," as " the little Jermyn," the favoured of Venus, and the desperate duellist." (S) See " Top. and Ocn.," vol. iii, p. 492, for a copy of the inscription on this monument and a description thoreof. The motto (under the arms) is " Nec ab oriente nec ab occidente." The church was sold and pulled down in 1800.