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Some sort of reconciliation took place soon after, as we hear of the Earl and Countess going to Theobalds in the following December, " 28 servants with them " ; but Oxford continued to lead a life of dissipation and to treat his wife with great cruelty, while his extravagance was a source of constant expense to Burghley until the death of his daughter in 1589. " No enemy I have," he wrote to Walsingham two years before, " can envy this match."

expended on his behalf. It may be mentioned that the children of this union were two sons, who died in the lifetime of their father, and three daughters, of whom Elizabeth married the sixth Earl of Derby : Bridget married the Earl of Berkshire (ancestor of the present Earl of Abing- don) : and Susan, the youngest, married the fourth Earl of Pembroke. Oxford's quarrel with Sir Philip Sidney is historic.

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