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his sons, Charles, Viscount Cranborne (1619 1660) was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Charles I., and married Diana Maxwell, daughter and co-heir of James Maxwell, Earl of Dirletoun, and younger sister of the Duchess of Hamilton. She received from her father a portion of 18,000, 4,000 in jewels, 800 a year in land in England, and half his Scottish land. " A great portion ! " exclaims a contemporary, " But I hate marriages made for money, and they have lost their reputation, both son and father, for this high avariciousness." l Lord Cranborne sat in the Long Parliament, as did two of his brothers, Robert and Algernon. Another brother, William, of Tewin, Hertfordshire, was Governor of the garrisons of Kilmore and London- derry, and Colonel of the Battleaxe Guard in the City of Dublin. Of their sisters, Anne, the eldest, married Algernon Percy, Earl of Northum- berland. 2 " Fortune," says Osborne, " did allot Lord Percy a wife out of the family of Salisbury, whose blood the father said would not mingle in a basin, so averse was he from it." Anne does not appear to have been very amiable, if we may judge from the wish expressed by Lord Con way, " that her child may have a face like hers, but all parts like his father's." 3 Con way was, how- ever, a devoted admirer of the second sister,

1 George Garrard to Lord Conway, March 28th, 1639 (Cal. S. P. Dom.).

2 Writing to Dorchester to announce the birth of their first child Salisbury remarks that "his daughter is a mother of a female animal and himself a grandfather," August i6th, 1630 (ibid.},

8 Garrard to Conway, September i8th, 1635 (ibid.).

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