one of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council; and onstituted Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Lincolnshire. In November 1745, on the rebellion in Scotland, his Grace raised a regiment of foot for his Majesty's service; on March 19th, 1755, was constituted major-general of his Majesty's forces; on February 3d, 1759, promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and on May 25th, 1772, raised to the rank of general. On the accession of his present Majesty, October 25th, 1760, he was continued a privy counsellor, a lord of the bed-chamber, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Lincolnshire, and keeper of Waltham forest in that county; and at his coronation, September 22d, 1761, his Grace, as Lord Great Chamberlain of England, after the regalia were brought to Westminster-hall by the dean and prebendaries of Westminster, delivered them to the lords appointed to carry them, and took his place in the procession. On December 13th, 1766, his Grace was appointed master of the horse to his Majesty, having before executed the same office to her Majesty. He was also recorder of Boston, in Lincolnshire, and president of the Lock hospital, near Hyde Park corner, Westminster.

His Grace departed this life at his seat at Grimsthorpe, on August 12th, 1778; and on the 27th of the same month his remains were deposited in the family vault at Edenham, about a mile distant from Grimsthorpe, the road between those places being crowded with spectators; yet the whole was conducted in a decent and becoming manner, every way consistent with the solemnity of the occasion. The corpse being carried to the grave by eight of his Grace's labourers, amidst the tears and most pungent grief of his servants, tenants, and several others, who were well acquainted with, and had formerly experienced, his great humanity. In the chancel is this inscription:

"To the memory of the most noble Prince Peregrine Bertie, third Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby; Lord Great Chamberlain of England by inheritance, master of the horse to King George the Third, one of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Lincoln, recorder of Boston, and keeper of Waltham forest in the same county. His Grace first married on the 22d of May, 1735, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of William. Blundell, of Basingstoke in the county of Southampton, Esq. relict of Sir Charles Gunter Nichol, Knight of the Bath; who

having died without issue in December 1743, he married, November 27th, 1750, Mary, daughter of Thomas Panton, of New. market in the county of Cambridge, Esq. by whom he had issue, first, Lady Mary Catharine, who was born April 14th, 1754, and died at Bristol April 12th, 1767; second, Peregrine Thomas, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, who was born May 21st, 1755, and died December 12th, 1758; third, Lord Robert, afterwards Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, who was born October 17th, 1756, and succeeded his father August 12th, 1778; fourth, Lord...., who was born September 14th, 1759, and died the same day; fifth, Lady Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth, now Baroness Willoughby of Eresby, who was born February 14th, 1761, and married, Feb. 23d, 1779, to Peter Burrell, of Beckingham in the county of Kent, Esq. now Sir Peter Burrell, Knight, Deputy Great Chamberlain of England, by whom she hath issue the Honourable Peter Robert Burrell, born March 1782; sixth, Lady Georgina Charlotta, born August 7th, 1764. His Grace having raised a regiment of foot for his Majesty's service during the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, was promoted to the rank of a general in the army. This noble Duke ever shewed the most unequivocal and zealous attachment to the illustrious family now on the throne of these kingdoms, the most patriotic concern for the preservation of our happy constitution, and the most attentive regard to the particular interests of that county over which he presided, and in which, during the recess of parliament, he lived with hospitable magnificence and liberality. His Grace's death was occasioned by a lingering bilious disorder; and having for many days foreseen his approaching dissolution, he took leave of his disconsolate family and afflicted friends, by a most affectionate and solemn farewell. He quitted this world with philosophic tranquillity, and resigned his soul to God with the sure and stedfast hope of a most sincere Christian. He died at Grimsthorpe, August 12th, 1778, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and was succeeded in titles and estates by his only surviving son,"

ROBERT, THE FOURTH DUKE, who dying unmarried July 8th, 1779, the title of Baron Willoughby of Eresby, being a barony in fee, became in abeyance between his two sisters; and was next year confirmed to his eldest sister; and the other titles devolved upon his uncle. At Edenham he has this epitaph:

"To the memory of the most noble Prince, Robert Bertie, fourth Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresty, Lord Great

Chamberlain of England by inheritance, one of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Lincoln. Quickness and clearness of apprehension, aided by a memory most happily retentive, guided by such discernment as ordinary men derive from long repeated observation, and fired by an ambitious desire of real glory, secured and facilitated to this excellent young nobleman the acquisition of every accomplishment, either suited to that exalted station for which he was born, or conducive to his improvement in that most honourable profession in which he chose to follow the splendid example of his renowned ancestors. Indefatigable in this glorious pursuit, he visited foreign, but chiefly northern climes; and with a deep-rooted scorn for all the refinements of enervating luxury, he gloried in the character of a hardy Briton, and enriched it with the study and observation of the most celebrated military establishments. But soon the troubles arisen in the western hemisphere suggested opportunities of instruction better suited to the activity of his genius: nor were his loyalty and patriotism restrained by the anxious apprehensions of the tenderest parents, or the earnest intreaties of those noble relations, who saw in him their present boast, delight, and hope, their future comfort, protection, and glory. He went over as a volunteer to North America in the twenty-first year of his age, and eagerly embraced every opportunity of distinguishing himself by the most spirited and dauntless exertions, in the service of his King and country, by sea as well as by land. During his second campaign he received the melancholy tidings of his noble Father's decease. On his return he surpassed the most sanguine expectations of his friends, his family, and his country. In his person manly gracefulness was united to natural dignity; his manners were elegant without affectation, his affability was the genuine fruit of universal benevolence, and by the eminent goodness of his heart he shone with peculiar lustre in the several relations of son, brother, and friend. But it pleased God to give an awful demonstration of the instability of human bliss, and to snatch away this object of general admiration, by a malignant fever, of which he died, unmarried, in the twenty-third year of his age, on the 8th of July, 1779 only eleven months after he succeeded to the hereditary honours of his family." He was succeeded by his uncle,

BROWNLOW, THE FIFTH AND present DukE OF ANCASTER, who represented the county of Lincoln in several parliaments whilst a commoner, and is one of the vice presidents of the Lock

and British lying-in hospitals. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant for the county of Lincoln, January 21st, 1786. He first married, on November 6th, 1762, to Harriot, daughter and sole heiress of George Morton Pitt, of Twickenham in Middlesex, Esq. but she died in April 1763, and he married, secondly, at St. James's church, Westminster, January 2d, 1769, to Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late major Layard, and by her, who died January 13th, 1804, he had a daughter, born 24th July, 1771, who married on May 26th, 1793, Viscount Milsington, eldest son of the Earl of Portmore, and died February 10th, 1797.

Titles. Brownlow Bertie, Duke of Ancaster and of Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey.

Creations. Earl of Lindsey, in com. Lincoln, by letters patent dated November 22d, 1626, 2 Car. I. Marquis of Lindsey, December 21st, 1706, 5 Queen Anne; Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, in com. Lincoln, June 29th, 1715, 1 George I.

Arms. Argent, three battering rams, bar-ways, in pale, proper, armed and garnished, Azure.

Crest. On a wreath, the bust of a King (named Barbican) coupt at the breast, and full faced, proper, crowned ducally, Or;' being the crest of the Barons Willoughby. Their crest, as Bertie, is on a wreath a pine tree, proper.

Supporters. On the dexter side, a pilgrim, or fryar, vested in grey, with his staff and beads, argent; on the sinister, a savage wreathed about the temples and middle with ivy, all proper.

Motto. Loyaute m' oblige.

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Chief Seat. At Grimsthorpe in the county of Lincoln formerly part of the Willoughby estates, and one of the seats of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in right of his last wife.

HENRY BENTINCK, Heer Van Diepenham in Overyssel, where his family had flourished for many ages, had issue three sons; first, Henry, his heir; second, Joseph, a general officer in the service of the States General; and third, William, who was created Earl of Portland: he had also four daughters, Eleanor, married to the Baron of Nienuren Huishen in Overyssel; Anne, married to the Baron of Van Zandenburgh in Utrecht; Sophia, wife to the Baron of Van Engelenburgh; and Joanna Maria Van Bentinck, who died unmarried, in 1705.

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Which WILLIAM, EARL OF PORTLAND, in his youth, was page of honour to William, Prince of Orange, and from thence was advanced to the place of gentleman of his bedchamber. In 1670, he waited on him into England, and his Highness, in a visit to the University of Oxford, being complimented with the degree of doctor of the civil laws, December 20th, 1670, Mr. Bentinck had also the same degree then conferred on him. In 1675, on the Prince of Orange's having the small-pox, which had been very fatal in his family, Sir William Temple has made this observation (Memoirs, vol. i. p. 97, 98,) on Mr. Bentinck's care and assiduity: "I cannot forbear to give Monsieur Bentinck the character due to him, of the best servant I have known in Princes' or private families. He tended his master during the whole course of his disease both night and day; and the Prince told me, that whether he slept or no he could not tell; but in sixteen days and nights, he never called once that he was not answered by Monsieur Bentinck as if he had been awake. The first time the Prince was well enough to have his head opened and combed, Monsieur Bentinck, as soon as it was done, begged of his master