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 312 BRIDGWATER ford, and Monmouth, and of North and South Wales, all 1631-42. He w., about 1 60 1, and before 24 Mar. 1602/3, Frances (da. of his step mother, being), 2nd of the 3 daughters and coheirs of Ferdinando (Stanley), Earl OF Derby, by Alice, da. of Sir John Spencer, afterwards 3rd wife of Thomas, Viscount Brackley abovenamed. She, who was b. May 1583, d. II Mar. 1635/6, aged 52, and was bur. at Little Gaddesden, Herts.(') M.I. He d. 4 Dec. 1649, aged 70, and was bur. there. M.I.(^) Admon. 30 Apr. 1650. [James EGERTON,j/>7i?a' Viscount Brackley, ists. andh. ap.,^. 21 Sep., and bap. 2 Oct. 1616, the King, James I, being godfather. He d. an infant, and v.p., at the Barbican, and was bur. 31 Dec. 1620, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, aged 4.] [Charles Egerton, styled Yncovtir Brackley, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h.ap.,^'. an infant, and v.p.^ at the Barbican, and was bur. 19 Apr. 1623, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate.] III. 1649. 2* John (Egerton), Earl of Bridgwater, ^c, 3rd, but 1st surv. s. and h.; ^. June 1623; Lord Lieut, of Bucks 1660 till his death; High Steward of the Univ. of Oxford 1663-86; cr. M.A. 24 May 1663; P.C. 13 Feb. 1666/7; Lord Lieut, of cos. Chester and Lancaster 1670-76, and of Herts 1681 till his death. He was a Whig. He w., 22 July 1641, at St. James's, Clerkenwell, in his 19th year (lie. from Bp. of London, 21 July 1641), Elizabeth, 2nd da. of William (Cavendish), ist Duke of Newcastle, by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Bassett, of Blore, co. Stafford. She d. 14 June 1663, in her 37th year, in childbed, at Black Rod's house, Westm. (where she had gone to visit her husband, then in custody there), and was bur. at Little Gaddesden. M.I. Admon. 27 Apr. 1677. Fun. certif at Coll. of Arms. He d. at his house in the Barbican, Midx., 26 Oct., and was bur. 4 Nov. 1686, at Little Gaddesden, aged 63 years, 4 months and 28 days. M.I. Fun. certif at Coll. of Arms, viz., Egerton with 24 quarterings, impaling Cavendish, with 15 quarterings. Will pr. May i687.('=) (^) The old college of the Bon/wmmes (Augustine Monks), at Ashridge in Little Gaddesden, Herts (afterwards the chief residence of the family), was purchased, in 1604, by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere. It was pulled down in 1800 by the Duke of Bridgwater, the present mansion being erected by the Earl, his successor. (*") Whereon it is stated that " his deportment was graceful." ('^) Chauncy, in his History of Herts, S2iyshe was "of a sweet and pleasant counte- nance and comely presence," which corresponds with Milton's description of his and his family's looks: — "Their port was more than human as they stood, &c." See Collins, vol. iii, p. 197.