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 DEVONSHIRE 343 as his eldest son. He «/., 26 Oct. 1662, at Kilkenny Castle, co. Tipperary, Mary,(^) 2nd da. of James (Butler), ist Duke of Ormonde, by Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Dingwall [S.]. He d. of the stone, in Devonshire House, Piccadilly, Midx., 18 Aug., and was bur. i Sep. 1707, in All Saints', Derby, in his 67th year. M.I.('') Will pr. 23 Oct. 1707. His widow, who was b. 1646, d. 31 July, and was bur. 6 Aug. 17 10 (with her parents), in Westm. Abbey.('') Wright, the Lord Keeper; (7) from 28 June to 5 Nov. 1701, they were but seven in number, viz. the Archbishop, the Lord Keeper (Wright), the Earl of Pembroke, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Earl of Jersey, as above, omitting Lonsdale, Bridg- water, Marlborough, and Halifax, and substituting the Duke of Somerset and (for the 3rd time, he having served in 1695 and 1696) Lord Godoi.phin. It will thus be seen that but three of these, viz. Archbishop Tenison, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Earl of Pembroke, were honoured by being appointed every time. (*) "Yesterday there was a kind of contract betwixt my Lord of Ormond's second daughter and my Lord Ca'endish, the King joining their hands, and the friends and parents of each party present; they are not to marry this year and half, she being but young and little." (Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 5 Mar. 1660/1)! V.G. (*>) " Bonorum Principum fidelis subditus, inimicus et invisus Tyrannis, fife." This inscription which he ordered to be put on his monument shews his opinion of himself, and of his merits in regard to the Revolution of 1688. He was an ardent supporter of the Exclusion Bill, and was largely responsible for the defeat of the bill against occasional conformity in the Lords. He has the credit of having reminded William of Orange that he had come to England to defend the Protestants, not to persecute the Papists. In April 1687 he was fined ^30,000 for striking in Whitehall with his cane Colonel Colepeper, a Tory, but managed to avoid payment till the Revolution, when the fine was of course remitted. His character as given by Bishop Burnet about 1700, when the Duke was past sixty years old, is as under. "Has been the finest and handsomest gentleman of his time; loves the ladies and plays; keeps a noble house and equipage; is tall, well made, and of a princely behaviour; of nice honour in everything but the paying of his tradesmen," to which Dean Swift adds "a very poor understanding,'' the same remark he makes of his son and successor. Evelyn mentions having seen him lose ;^i,6oo in gambling at New- market, in 1 69 1. Horace Walpole says of him that he was "a Patriot among the men, a Corydon among the ladies." He was also great as a duellist, was something of an author, and built the vast mansion at Chatsworth, begun in 1687. "Famous for debauchery, lewdness, ^c," is the account given by the Tory, Tom Hearne. There is a great deal to be read about him in Court and Society, vol. ii, by the Duke of Manchester (1864), and he is therein stated to have been "a well bred honorable patriotic man endowed with fine tastes, influenced by what used to be called, 'just notions and impressions of religion.' " Immediately after this eulogium comes a story of his '■'■tendre for a pretty vocalist Miss Campion ... a mere child only 18," who died in 1706, and whom his Grace had buried in his own family vault at Latimers with an adulatory M.I. His illegitimate daughter, Henrietta Cavendish, otherwise Hesige, married Lord Huntingtower, and was mother of Lionel, Earl of D3'sart. The hazard of a deathbed repentance was a pamphlet published after his death, in which his character is mercilessly assailed. G.E.C. and V.G. (*^) An engraving of her, from a picture at Hardwicke, is in Mrs. Jameson's Court Beauties of Charles II.