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 SALISBURY. 41 the Great Seal and in Keb. 1649 a Councillor (if Statu. Though voted a Marqncssatci*) 1 Dec. 1645, bj the Pari, lie sat in Cromwell's "Lower House" as M.P. for King's Lynn, 1645, anil f"r Hertfordshire, 165-4 and 1656. Notwithstanding this conduct he (after the Restoration) was in 1663 made High Steward of St. Albans. He m. "very privately," 1 Dec. 160S,( b ) Catharine, da. of Thomas (Howard), 1st Kahl ok Sfi fOLK, by his second wife, Catharine, da. of Sir Henry Knevitt. He d. 3 and was bur. at Hatfield Reo. 1668, aged 78. («) Will pr. 23 Dee. 1668. His widow was bur. there 27 Jan. 1672/3. Will dat. 29 Sep. 1669, pr. 25 Jan. 1672/3. James Cecil, styled Viscount Cranbokne, 1st s. and h. ap., b. May and bap. 15 June 1616, at Hatfield, the King, whose name he received, being sponsor iu person. He d. Oct. following. Charles Cecil, styled Viscount Cranborne, 2 J but 1st surv. s. and h. ftp,; was K.B., 2 Keb. 1625/6, at the coronation of Charles L He m. 2 April 16:19, at St. Martin's in the fields (lie. London), Diana, 2d and yst. da.( d ) and coheir of James (Maxwell), Kahl ok DntLKTorN [8.1, bv Elizabeth de Bocssoyne, his wife. He rf. v.p. Dec. 1660. His widow d. about 1675. Will pr. June, 1675. XVI. 1GG8. S. -James (Cecil), Earl of Salisbury, <fcc, grandson and h., being s. anil h. of Charles Cecil, styled Viscount Cban- biiunb and Diana his wife, both aboveuamed. He was b. 1648 ; eil. at St. John's Coll., Cambridge : was styled VISCOUNT Cranbiiuse, 1660-68 ; was l'age of Honour at the coronation of Charles II., 23 April 1661 ; M.r. for Herts, 166S ; sue. to the peerage, as above, 3 Dec. 1668, taking his seat 25 Oct. 1069 ; P.C. 1676 and 1679 ; el. K.G. 31 Aug. and iust. 30 Sep. 1680 ; was a strenuous supporter of the exclusion of the Duke of York from the succession to the throne. He in. in 1665, Margaret, 1st da. of John (Manners), Sth Kahl ok Rutland, by Frances, da. of Edward (Montagu), 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton. She, who was 4. iu London, d. at Paris 30 Aug. 1682.C) He d. June 1683.(/) Will pr. 2 May 1685. XVII. 1683. Jf. James (Cecil), Karl of Salisbury, &c, s. and h., bup. 25 Sep. [or 27 Jan.] 1666 at Hatfield j sh,Ud Viscount Chanbornk from 166b till he sue. to the peerage, as above, in June 1683. Was High Steward of Hertford, Col. of a Keg. of Horse, and Gent, of the Bedchamber to James II, all in 16SS, in which year he had turned " Papist " and was impeached, 26 Oct. 16S9 accordingly, but, after two years imprisonment, discharged.(s) He m. (°) See vol. v, p. 207, note " g," sub " Manchester." ( b ) Iiy this marriage " the former eumity between the families was attempted to be reconciled." [Collins, vol. iii, p. 155, sub " Suffolk."] ( c ) Clarendon's very unflattering picture of him is as under, 11 No man so great a tyrant in his country or less swayed by any motives of justice or honour. He was a tuau of no words, except iu hunting and hawking, iu which alone he knew how to behave himself." After describing his desertion of the King he remarks that after sitting in Cromwell's House of Commons he became " despicable to all men." His portrait " after Vundyck " is engraved iu " Doyle " and given full length and coloured in Dnimmond'a " Noble Families." ( d ) Her elder sister, Elizabeth, was Duchess of Hamilton [S.] (") Luttrell's " Diary," where it is added " to the great grief of his Lordship." (') His portrait " after W. Wissing " is engraved in " Doyle," and there is a 3/4-leugth thereof (coloured) in Drummond's *' noble families." . 6 ) Henry (Mordaunt), Earl of Peterborough was similarly impeached and discharged. ''This Karl [of Salisbury] had the ill-luck to turn papist just 2 or three months before the Prince of Orange came in, and became a mighty fat unwieldy man bo that he could scarce stir with ease about, tho' he was not over 39 or 40 years old. . . When he heard that the prince was lauded he lamented sadly, and curst and damned all about him, crying, ' Oh God, oh God, I turu'd too soon, I turned too soon.' " [rrynne'a " lliary," p. 04, Surtees Society]. According to Macaulay, he "was foolish to a proverb. His figure was so bloated by sensual indulgence as to be almost incapable of moving, and this sluggish body was the abode of an equally sluggish