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 50 SANDWICH. kc. : Gov. of Henley, 1645, but took no part in tbe Beconrl civil war of 1648, nor in the King's trial ; was M.P. for Huntingdonshire, 164-1-17, 1653, 1654 and 1656, and for Dover; 1600 ; Councillor of State, July 1653 ; one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, 1654-50 ; Joint Gen. (with Blake) at sea, receiving the thanks of Pari., Nov. 1656, for the capture of the West India Treasure Fleet, oil Cadiz, in which, however, he had taken no part; was present ' with a drawn sword " at the second installation of the Protector, 26 June 1657, being in I)ec. nominated one oi Cromwell's " Hot'SK ok L.mus," of which his cousin the Karl of Manchester was also a member. (■') He supported the Government of Richard Cromwell, on whose fall, however, he favoured the Royalists, and as Joint Uen. (with Monkl of the Fleet, brought it over to Charles II., and was, m consequence, el. K.G., 26 and inv. 27 Mav 1660, on his ship in the Downs, (>>) being inst. 15 April 1661. He was Master at the Wardrobe and B.C., 1660. and was cr. 12 July 1660, BARON MONTAGU OF SAINT NEOTS and VISCOUNT HINCHINBUUKK. both in co. Huntingdon and and EA11L OF SANDVICH,(«) co. Kent; Vice Admiral pi England, 1C61 j Beam of St. Edward's staff at the coronation of Charles II., 23 April 1661, for whose espousals he was proxy in April 1622. arranging the surrender of Tangier by the Portuguese as the bride's dower. He was in command at the defeat of the Dutch fleet, off Lowestoft, in June 1665, and shortly afterwards captured 8 men of war audi vast prize from the Dutch East Indian Fleet. He, as Ambassador to Madrid and and Lisbon, 1666-68, arranged a highly successful treaty between those countries; was President of the Board of Tiade, 1670. As Admiral of Blue, he was in command in the action against the Dutch, in Southwold bay, in which he was killed, 28 May 1672, aired 46, by the blowing up of his ship, " the Royal James. 'V' 1 He was hm. p. July in Weston. Abbey Will dat. 21 Nov. 1669, pr. 7 Sep. 1672.C) He had m. 7 Nov. 1642, at St. Margaret's, Westtn., Jemima, 1st da. of John (Chew), 1st Baroj CltKW OV Ste.ne, by Jemima, da. and coheir of Edward W.UDEGHAVE. She, who was 17 July 1625, d. at the house of her da., Lady Anne Edgcumbe, at Cothele, co. Devon, about 1674, and was bur. at Carstock, co. Cornwall. ( r ) Will pr. 1671. II. 1672. 2. Edwahd (Montagu), Earl of SANDwicn, ike, 2d but 1st surv. s. and h.,(6) b. before 1018 ; styled Viscount HiNCiiiNnmiKi, 1G00-72 ; M.P. for Dover 1070-72 ; sue. to the peerage as above, 28 May 1672; (») See vol. ii, p. 8-1, note " c," for a list of the members of Cromwell's " Other House." ( b ) He was at that date but a Commoner, the only one who had been admitted to the order of the Garter since the reign of Elizabeth. See vol. vi, p. 129, note "g," sub "Orford," which Peer, when Sir Robert Walpole, was, in 1726, the next instance. (c) The title of the Earldom in the warrant (29 June) was " Portsmouth," whicl was changed (for some unknown reason) to Sandwich. ('•) " My Lord Sandwich's body was found last Tuesday at sea, at least 40 mile! from the place of battle, floating upon the water, and was known by the George and star on him." [Sir C. Lyttleton to Viscount Hatton, 4 June 1672.] (°) " The accidents of fortune and the sensational manner of his death have perhaps given Sandwich a greater reputation than he deserved. His birth, his marriage, and the friendship of Cromwell had raised him, without any proof of remarkable ability, to the command of the fleet under the Commonwealth. On the resignation of Richard Cromwell ... he was easily persuaded that patriotism agreed with interest ... he then raised himself to a position of honour and authority . . . Except ol Bergen he never commanded in chief, and, tho' the decisive movement off Lowestoft, on 3 June 1665, was made by him, and the credit of snatching the victory from De Ruyter at. Solebay was his, they speak rather to tenacious courage than to any L particular brilliance of conception." [Nat. liiogr.] Evelyn speaks of him as "ofi Bweete and obliging temper ... a true nobleman, an ornament to the Court." Bishop Parker Bays of him, " capable of any business ; of high birth, full of wisdom, a great commander on sea and land ; learned, eloquent, affable, liberal, magnificent," while a contemporary French letter describes him as " bien fort, Pair assez clout assez d'embonpoiut." His portrait "after Sir P. Lely" is engraved in " Doyle," one such belongs to the now (1895) Earl of Sandwich, another is at Greenwich Hospital, and another at Hampton Court. (f) This Lady Sandwich is called by Pepys, 9 Oct. 1667, " the same most excellent, good, discreet lady that she ever was." (e) The eldest sou, Henry, was drowned at the age of 3 years. Some sort »i