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 252 MARLBOROUGH. March 1628/9, aged 77, and was bur. at Westbury, Wilts.(*) M.I. Will pr. 1629. His widow left "young, beautiful, childless, and rich," m. in lo'i'!', William Asn- Bl'RKAM. Cofferer to Charles 1. aud II., who was bur, at Ashburnham. Sussex. 16 Dec. 167P. She was bur. there 28 March 1672. M.I. II. lu'29. ' 2. Hen-ry (Ley), Earl of Mablborot/gh, &c, s. and h., by first wife, b. before 1505 ; M.P. for Westbury. 1614; for Devizes, 1621-22 ; for Wilts. 162"', and for Devizes, Again, 1626-28 ; knighted at Vale Royal, Cheshire, 24 Aog. 1617 ; sum. to Pai l. v.]>. in his father's Barony, as Loan Lky. taking his seat, 2 March 16^5,6. a month after his father's elevation to an Earldom (" vhich Earldom, three years later, he sue., 11 March 1628 9. He m., 5 Nov. Itil6, at Hadh.im Parva, Herts (lie. London, he about 21 and she about IS), Mary, 1st da. of Sir .Arthur Capki.l, of Hadhaui afsd., by Margaret, da. of Lord John (IitKv. He d. 1 April 163S. Will pr. 163S. His widow, who was bap. -JO March 1596/7, at Hadham Parva, m.( b ) Thomas Wanklyn [son of " a Smith ") and d. 2 J una 1 670, being bur. in a garden privately but subsequently removed to Westbury, Wilts. III. 1638. 3, James (Ley), Earl of Marlborouoh, &c, only b. and h., b. 1618 ; styled Loud Ley, 1629-38 : sue. ta the peerage, 1 April 163S ; was distinguished as a mathematician and navigator : was Gen. of the Ordnance in the West (ex parte Regis) and Admiral in command at Dartmouth in 164.3 ; took out a Colony to Santa Cruz in the West Indies, obtaining a grant of the Caribbee Islands, 1615; was in command of a squadron to the East Indies in 1662 to receive Iionibay from the Portuguese, who, however, refused to deliver it up ; was made Gov. of Jamaica in 1661 but was slain when in command of the " old James," 3 June 1R65, in an action with the Dutch ott'Texel. He c/. unm. and was bur. the 14th iu Westm. Abbey. Will ilat. 26 March to 25 May, pr. 22 June 1665. IV. 1GG;5, 4- William (Ley), Eari. ok Mari.iiorougii LIG26], and to Baron Ley |1625], also a Baronet [1619], uncle and h. male, being 3d 1G79. and yet. s. of the 1st Karl hy his fust wife ; h. ahout 1599 ; sue. tn the peerage, 3 June 1665. He »i. Margaret, da. of Sir William Hewktt, of Beccles, Norfolk. He d. s.p. iu 1679 when all his honours became extinct. Admon. 9 June 1680, to Margaret, his widow. V. 1GS9. 1. John Churciiill, 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. of Sir T» V rlnm Winston CBUKGBSX, Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth, by Uukeaom. Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Diiake, 1st Bart., of Ashe, co. Devon, I. 1702. was there 24 and bap. 28 June 1650, at Axminster ; cd. at St. Paul's school, London ; entered the army (Foot Guards, 1667, serving at Tangiers iu 1671, and being, during the reign of Charles II. in the Household of James, Duke of York/") to whom he was Page of Honour in 1667 ; Gent, of the Bed- (") " Ley tho' a feeble statesman was an able, erudite, and impartial Judge." He is described by Milton as — " That Good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived, in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more iu himself content." But " on the other hand Sir James Whitelocke denounces him as an old dissembler who was wont to be called Vulponc, and says that he borrowed money of the Judges when Lord Chief Justice." [Nut. BiOffrA He was a good antiquary and author of several pamphlets on that subject, e.g., " The antiquity of arms in England," " The office of Chancellor," &c. ( h ) See " Anthony a Wood's life " for an account of this marriage, &c. ( c ) " The Duke of York's love for [Arabella Churchill], his sister (by whom he was the father of the Duke of Berwick and other children) first brought him to Court, and the beauty of his own person and his good address so gained on the Duchess of Cleveland (then Mistress to King Charles II.) that she effectually established him there." [Macky's " Characters," 1705.] He is, indeed, said to have intrigued with the said Duchess and to have received large sums of inouey from her. His tall, handsome, noble, and