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 DORCHESTER 409 1 6 10, at Windsor. Ambassador to the States of Venice i 6 10-15; at the Hague to the United Provinces 161 5/6 to 1625; Joint Ambassador to France, Dec. 1625 to Mar. following, and again 1626-28. P.C. 12 Dec. 1625; Vice Chamberlain of the Household 1625-28. On 22 May 1626, he was cr. "BARON CARLTON OF IMBERCOURT, co. Surrey." He was Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, July 1626, and to the Hague, Apr. 1 627, where he was first Commissioner to invest the Prince of Orange with the Order of the Garter.('') He was cr. M.A. of Cambridge, 3 Mar. 1627. On 25 July 1628, he was cr. VISCOUNT DORCHESTER, co. Oxford-C") Princ. Sec. of State, 18 Dec. 1628, till his death. He w?., istly, Nov. 1607, Anne, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Savile, by Margaret, widow of George Garrard, da. of George Dacres, of Cheshunt, Herts. She d. suddenly, i 8, and was bur. 1 1 Apr. 1627, in her 42nd year, in Westm. Abbey. M.I. He w., 2ndly, 14 June 1630, Anne, widow of Paul (Bayning), Viscount Bayning of Sudbury, da. of Sir Henry Glemham, of Glemham, Suffolk, by Anne, da. of Thomas (Sackville), ist Earl of Dorset. He d. s.p.s.(^) at his house in Westm., 15, and was bur. 19 Feb. 163 1/2, in Westm. Abbey, aged 57, when all his honours became exnnct.(^) Fun. certif in Coll. of Arms. Will dat. i 8 Aug. 1630 to 13 Feb. 163 1/2, pr. 4 Apr. 1632. Inq. p. m. 6 Oct. 8 Car. I, at Henley-on-Thames. His widow d. at Westm., 10, and was bur. 31 Jan. 1638/9, at Gosfield, Essex. Will dat. i to 3 Sep. 1638, pr. 15 Jan. 1638/9. BARONY. I. Guy Carleton, 3rd s. of Christopher C, of Newry, CO. Down, by Catherine, da. of Henry Ball, b. 3 Sep. I. 1786. 1724, at Strabane; entered the Army 1742, serving chiefly in the ist Foot Guards; Lieut. Col. 72nd Foot, 1758; was wounded at the siege of Quebec, 1759, as also at Belleisle, 1761; C) See for these Garter Missions, vol. ii, Appendix B. ('') See Creations, 1 483-1 646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records. {^) His widow gave birth to a posthumous da., Frances, hap. 27 June 1632, at St. Margaret's, Westm., who d. an infant, and was bur. 2 Jan. 1632/3, at St. Olave's, Hart Str., London. C^) Mr. Pory writes to Sir Thomas Puckering, 23 Feb. 1631/2, "My Lord Dorchester being now dead and on Sunday night, with no great pomp buried . . . has left behind him not above ;^700 a-year, yet left he a good name both of an able statesman, a sincere protestant, and of a true Englishman." Clarendon says of him, that he was " of good gentleman's family," "understood all that related to foreign em- ployment, but was utterly unacquainted with the government, laws, and customs of his own country," and that "the making him secretary of State and a peer of the realm, when his estate was scarce visible, was the last piece of workmanship the Duke of Buckingham lived to finish." At an early period of his career he was associated with the conspirators engaged in the Gunpowder Plot, but was able to establish his ignorance of their objects. He had a great love for, and knowledge of art, and while in Venice bought important pictures for his English friends, Buckingham and Somerset. When at the Hague he became intimate with Rubens, and presented a picture by him to Charles I. V.G. 52