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 APPENDIX G 621 also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. (^") Councillor of State 23 Feb. 16^9/60. At the Restoration he was at first excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 11 June 1660, but afterwards pardoned, though for- bidden " to accept or exercise any office, ecclesiastical, civil or military, or any other public employment." He w., before 1625, Elizabeth, C") da. of Ambrose Evans, of Lodington, Northants. She d. 19 Apr. 1661, and was bur. at Burford. He d. 3, and was bur. 5 Sep. 1662, in the north aisle of Burford Church. Will dat. 28 July 1662, sentence 27 May 1682, pr. 16 Apr. i694.('=) LISLE {Viscount) [14] Philip Sydnev,('*) s. and h. of Robert (Sydney), 2nd Earl of Leicester, by Dorothy,(°) istda. of Henry (Percy), 9th Earl of North- umberland. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "Phillip Lo. Vise'' Lisle," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658, and was a member of his Privy Council. For fuller particulars see "Leicester," Earldom, cr. 1618. (*) " He was a person very inconsistant and wavering in his principles, of a slavish temper, a taker of all oaths, whether covenant or engagement, or those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard, besides what he had before done to King James and King Charles L He minded mostly the heaping up of riches, and was so besotted in raising and settling a family, that he minded not the least good that might accrue to his prince." (Wood's Athenae^ vol. iii, p. 606). C") Wood informs us that Lenthall was induced " to get beneficial places . . . by the continual importunities of his covetous and snotty wife." {f A portrait of Lenthall, in his robes as Speaker, is in the National Portrait Gallery. i^) " Lord Viscount Lisle. . . was all along of the protector's council, and was never to seek; who, having learned so much by changing with every change, and keeping still, like his father-in-law the earl of Salisbury, on that side which hath proved trump, nothing need farther be said of his fitness, being such a man of principles [aik his late luife's sister, the Lady Sands), to be taken out of the parlia- ment, ... he being a lord of the old stamp already." [Second Narrative of the late Parliament). (*) This alliance is distinguished for the number of famous personages which it produced. Among the children of Robert Sydney and Dorothy Percy were: Philip, Lord Lisle, the gallant Puritan commander of the Civil War; Algernon Sydney, the great Republican, who died a martyr to his convictions in 1682; Col. Robert Sydney, the reputed lover of Lucy Waters; Henry Sydney, ist Earl of Romney, perhaps the handsomest, certainly one of the most clear-sighted statesmen of his day; Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland, who lives as " Sacharissa " in the verse of Waller; and the fair and witty Lady Lucy Pelham, ancestress of Thomas, Duke of New- castle, and Henry Pelham. (See The House of Percy, by Gerald Brenan, vol. ii, pp. 191, 288).