Lady Henrietta, born April 20th, 1782.

Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo, born September 11th, 1785. A captain in the navy.

His Lordship was succeeded by his eldest son George, EARL OF LEICESTER, who thus became SECOND MARQUIS TOWNSHEND. His Lordship on his mother's decease succeeded to the titles of LORD DE FERRARS (of Chartley,) LORD BOURCHIer, Lovaine, BASSET, AND COMPTON, being at that time seventeen years of age. Soon after his coming of age, having demanded his writ of summons to the house of peers, as BARON DE FERRARS, of Chartley, he took his seat in that house in April 1774, being placed on the Barons bench, according to the precedency of that ancient Barony, between the Lord Audley and the Lord Dacre.

On December 24th, 1777, his Lordship was married to Charlotte, second sister and coheir to Roger Mainwaring Ellerker, of Risby, in the East Riding of the county of York, Esq. and daughter of Eaton Mainwaring Ellerker, Esq. of the same place, which Eaton Ellerker, Esq. was paternally descended from a collateral line of the very ancient family of the Mainwarings, of Over Peover in the county Palatine of Chester, and assumed the name and arms of the ancient family of Ellerker of Risby, by act of parliament, pursuant to the will of his kinsman, Ellerker Bradshaw of Risby, Esq. by which lady his Lordship has had issue, three sons and several daughters.

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First, George Ferrars Townshend, styled Earl of Leicester, born in Wimpole-street, Mary-le-bone, Middlesex, December 13th, 1778, married, May 12th, 1807, Miss Gardner, daughter of W. D. Gardner, Esq.

Second, Thomas Compton Townshend, born in Wimpolestreet, aforesaid, March 29th, 1780, died January 7th, 1787.

Third, Lord Vere Charles, an ensign in the third regiment of foot-guards.

Fourth, Lady Charlotte Barbara, born at Pendley House, in the parish of Aldbury in Hertfordshire, June 26th, 1781; married, April 1805, captain Cecil Bishopp, of the first foot-guards, eldest son of Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bart, and died October 3d, 1807.

Fifth, Lady Harriet Ann, born in Upper Brook-street, Grosve nor-square, London, May 23d, 1782.

Sixth, Lady Elizabeth Margaret, born August 26th, 1784-
Seventh, Lady Arabella, born April 2d, 1787.

t Ex inform. Geo. Mar. Townshend

His Lordship on April 6th, 1782, was appointed captain of the honourable band of gentlemen pensioners to his Majesty, and on the 24th of the same month sworn a member of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council; but resigned his command of the band of gentlemen pensioners on April 6th, 1783, to which he was re-appointed on December 31st following, and which he held till December 1790; was elected president of the Society of Antiquaries on April 23d, 1784; and on May 18th, following, was advanced to the EARLDOM OF LEICESTER, in consideration of his being descended from the heirs female of both the Saxon and Norman Earls of that county, as will appear by the following account and subsequent genealogical table. In 1794 he was appointed joint post master general, which he held till 1798; and in 1799 was constituted lord steward of the household, which he retained till 1802.

Titles. George Townshend, Marquis Townshend, Earl of Leicester, Lord de Ferrars, also Lord Bourchier, Lovaine, Basset, and Compton.

Creations. Baron de Ferrars, of Chartley, in the county of Stafford, originally by writ of summons to parliament, 27 Edw. I. Baron Bourchier, by writ also 16 Edw. III. Baron Lovaine, by writ 22 Edw. I. Baron Basset, of Drayton Basset, in the county of Stafford, by writ 49 Hen. III. and lastly Baron Compton, (of Compton,) in the county of Warwick, by writ 14 Elizabeth, Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis, by letters patent April 20th, 1661, and Viscount Townshend of Rainham, December 2d, 1682; Baron of Lynne, by writ May 24th, 1723; Earl of Leicester, May 18th, 1784, and Marquis Townshend October 27th, 1787.

Arms. Quarterly, of six, 1st Azure, a chevron ermine, between three escallop shells, Argent, (Townshend,) 2d, France and England, quarterly, within a border, Argent; (Plantagenet of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester) 3d, Sable, a lion of England, between three helmets, proper, garnished, Or, (Compton) 4th, Paly of six, Or and Azure, a canton ermine, (Shirley) 5th, quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, a fess, Gules, three torteaux in chief, (Devereux) 2 and 3, Varre, Or and Gules, (Ferrars of Chartley) 6th, Gules, seven Mascles conjoined, 3, 3, and 1, (Ferrars of Groby and Tamworth.)

Crests. On a wreath, a buck tripping sable, a hind proper. Also out of a ducal coronet, Or, a swan rousant Argent, ducally collared and chained of the 1st, holding in its beak Sable, an ostrich feather of the 2d; (which crest was granted to his Lordship,

by sign manual of his present Majesty, in regard of his being the direct lineal heir to Thomas Plantagenet, sirnamed of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son to King Edw. III. whose cognizance was a swan, with an ostrich feather.) Also, on a wreath, an unicorn passant ermine, armed, hoofed, maned and tufted, Or, the crest of the family of Ferrars, of Tamworth; also on a wreath, a peacock's tail erect, proper; the crest of the ancient Lords de Ferrars, of Chartley.

Supporters. Dexter, a buck Sable, attired Argent. Sinister, a greyhound, Argent.

Motto. Hæc generi incrementa fides.

Chief Seats. At Tamworth Castle, in the county of Warwick, and Rainham in Norfolk.

A GENEALOGICAL TABLE of the Descent of the Family of DE FERRARS;
(To which the present MARQUIS TOWNSHEND is the lineal Heir.)

Agnes, sister and co-heir to Ranulph, last Earl Roger Quincey Earl of Winchester, died withof Chester, married William de Ferrars Earl of Ferrars and Derby

out male issue.

William Earl of Ferrars and Derby, Baron of Margaret, eldest daughter and co-heir of Roger Tutbury and Chartley.

Earl of Winchester.

William de Ferrars second son, 1st Baron of

Elizabeth Shirley, Baroness de Ferrars, &c married Jam Compton, E. of Northampton.

Charlotte Compton, Baroness de Ferrars, &c. married Geo. Townshend, Visc. Townshend.

Geo Townshend, Baron de Ferrars, &c. created Earl of Leicester, 24 Geo. III. 18 May 1784, now Marquis Townshend.

Or the famous secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, the life is so connected with our general histories, so full in all our books of biography, and so universally known, that, as it would take a volume to write it at length, so it would be tedious to give even an epitome here. I have perhaps sometimes collected with too a painful a minuteness the scattered notices of men, who though of some celebrity in their day, have but obscurely survived the course of time. This is not the case with Salisbury, for whose character no new lights are wanted.

Robert, the younger son of Lord Burleigh, by Mildred Cooke, was born about 1563, knighted 1591, sworn of the privy-council, made secretary of state, and afterwards master of the court of wards. But he in vain aspired to a peerage during this reign.

a Crooked as he was, he was, it seems. a man of some gallantry. In a letter, 18th Sept. 1592, in Lodge's Illustr. vol ii p. 146, from W. Browne to the Earl of Shrewsbury, is the following passage. "I send your Lordship here inclosed some verses compounded by Mr. Secretary, who got Hales to frame a ditty unto it. The occasic was, as I hear, that the young Lady Derby," (wife of Earl William, daughter of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford,) "wearing about her neck in her bosom a picture which was in a dainty tablet, the Queen espying it asked what fine jewel that was. The Lady Derby was curious to excuse the shewing of it; but the Queen would have it, and opening it and finding it to be Mr Secretary's, snatched it away, and tied it upon her shoe, and walked long with it there; then she took it thence, and pinned it on her elbow, and wore it some time there also, which Mr. Secretary being told of, made these verses, and had Hales to sing them in his chamber. It was told her Majesty, that Mr. Secretary had rare music and songs; she would needs hear them; and so this ditty was sung which you see first written. More verses there be likewise, whereof some or all were likewise sung I do