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 340 DEVONSHIRE of Chatsworth, co. Derby, in that and other estates. On 7 Aug. i6i8,(") he was cr. EARL OF DEVONSHIRE or DEVON. Lord Lieut, co. Derby (jointly with his son) 1619-26. He m., istly (lie. Bp. of London, 21 Mar. 1 580/1), Anne, da. of Henry Keighley, of Keighley, co. York, and St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, London, by Mary, da. of Thomas Carus, one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench, 1566. He m., 2ndly, before 1619, Elizabeth, widow of Sir Richard Wortley, da. and h. of Edward BouGHTON, of Causton, co. Warwick, by Susan, da. of Sir John Brockett. He d. 3 Mar. 1625/6, at Hardwicke, in his 74th year, and was bur. at Edensor, co. Derby. Will pr. 1626. His widow d. probably in 1642. Will pr. Nov. 1642. III. 1626. 2. William (Cavendish), Earl OF Devonshire, yc, 2nd('') but 1st surv. s. and h. by ist wife, b. 1590; was ed. by the celebrated Thomas Hobbes; admitted Gray's Inn 14 May 1602; M.A., Camb., but incorporated at Oxford 8 July 1608; knighted 7 Mar. 1608/9 ^t Whitehall; styled Lord Cavendish, 1618-26; M.P. for Bishop's Castle 16 10- 11, and for co. Derby i6i4,('=) 1620-21, and 1624-26; joint Lord Lieut, thereof 1619-26, and sole Lord Lieut. 1626-28. His ex- travagant hospitality compelled him to sell several of his estates. He w., 10 Apr. 1608, at the Rolls Chapel, London (she aged twelve years and three months), Christian, C) sister of Thomas, ist Earl of Elgin [S.], and da. of Edward (Bruce), ist Lord Kinloss [S.], Master of the Rolls, by Magdalen, da. of Alexander Clerk. He d. (from "indulgence in good (*) "Ere long you are like to hear of a new creation; my Lord Rich, my Lord Compton, Lord Petre, and Candish or Chandos (I remember not whether) are to be made Earls, and to pay ;^ 10,000 apiece, which is allotted for the expense of the Progress; my Lord Spencer was likewise nominated, but diverted, as they say, by my Lord of Southampton (whose daughter his eldest son married) from accepting it." (Letter of Thomas Lorking, 23 June 1618). He attended James I on a circuit in the west and is said to have been first declared an Earl on 2 Aug. i6i8 in the Bishop's Palace at Salisbury. V.G. In the month of Aug. 161 8, four Earldoms were conferred, viz. Northampton on {Compton) Lord Compton; Leicester on [Sydney) Viscount L'Isle; Warwick on [Rich) Baron Rich; and Devonshire on (Cavendish) Baron Cavendish. Of these four grantees Chamberlayne writes (8 Aug. 1618) that "malicious poets and libellers" dub Leicester as Finosus; Northampton as Crazed; Warwick as Cornucopia; and Devonshire as a Lombard or Usurer . C") His elder brother, Gilbert Cavendish, is said to have been author of Hortf Suhsecivis. See vol. iii, p. 127, note "d," sub v Baron Chandos of Sudeley. V.G. (■=) He was also elected, but did not sit, for East Retford in 1614. V.G. {^) "A pretty red-headed wench; her portion is _^7,000; the youth at first refused her, but Lord Cavendish [his father] told him Kinloss was well favoured by the Queen, and if he refused it he would make him the worse by ^^100,000. The King made up her portion to j^io,ooo." (Lodge's Illustr., vol. iii, p. 351). She was a zealous royalist, and patroness of men of letters, being noted for her hospitality and good management of her son's affairs. Evelyn calls her " that excellent worthy person." Waller, the poet, dedicated his Epistles to her. There is a life of her written by Pomfrc-t. G.E.C. and V.G.