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224 HISTORY OF
leaps on his elbow, upon a sarcophagus of dark marble, with a truncheon in one
hand and a ducal coronet in the other.
" John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis and Earl of Clare, Baron
* Houghton, and Knight of the Garter. His body lies with his ancestors, the
" Veres, the Cavendishes, and Holles, in this place. In the reign of Queen Anne,
" he was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, Privy Counsellor, Lord Lieutenant of
" Middlesex and Nottingham, and of the east and north ridings in the county
" of York; Lord Chief Justice in Eyre north of Trent, and Governor of the
" town and fort of Kingston-upon-Hull. He was born the 9th of January, lC)0f,
" and died the 15th of July, 1711. He married the Lady Margaret, third
" daughter and heir to Henry Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, by whom he left
" issue only one child, the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley, who
" caused this monument to be erected in 1723."
(239). William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and Margaret his Duchess.
-The basement of this tomb is supported by suits of armour, and bears a pe-
destal, on which repose the effigies of these distinguished persons, beneath a circular
pediment, supported by Corinthian columns, with various armorial and sepulchral
enrichments.—He held many great offices, and was most faithfully attached to his
sovereign, Charles I. Among other military services in the North, he defended
the city of York against the Scots. When he could no longer serve his unfor-
tunate master, he left his great estates, and endured a long exile. He returned
home after the Restoration, and died December 27, 1676, aged eighty-lbur. His
second wife, who lies beside him, was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the
Lord Lucas of Colchester. She was an excellent and a learned lady, as the many
books which she wrote sufficiently testify; and was with her lord all the time of
his banishment; and when he came home, she never parted from him in that
solitary retirement to which he devoted the remainder of his life.
leaps on his elbow, upon a sarcophagus of dark marble, with a truncheon in one
hand and a ducal coronet in the other.
" John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis and Earl of Clare, Baron
* Houghton, and Knight of the Garter. His body lies with his ancestors, the
" Veres, the Cavendishes, and Holles, in this place. In the reign of Queen Anne,
" he was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, Privy Counsellor, Lord Lieutenant of
" Middlesex and Nottingham, and of the east and north ridings in the county
" of York; Lord Chief Justice in Eyre north of Trent, and Governor of the
" town and fort of Kingston-upon-Hull. He was born the 9th of January, lC)0f,
" and died the 15th of July, 1711. He married the Lady Margaret, third
" daughter and heir to Henry Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, by whom he left
" issue only one child, the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley, who
" caused this monument to be erected in 1723."
(239). William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and Margaret his Duchess.
-The basement of this tomb is supported by suits of armour, and bears a pe-
destal, on which repose the effigies of these distinguished persons, beneath a circular
pediment, supported by Corinthian columns, with various armorial and sepulchral
enrichments.—He held many great offices, and was most faithfully attached to his
sovereign, Charles I. Among other military services in the North, he defended
the city of York against the Scots. When he could no longer serve his unfor-
tunate master, he left his great estates, and endured a long exile. He returned
home after the Restoration, and died December 27, 1676, aged eighty-lbur. His
second wife, who lies beside him, was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the
Lord Lucas of Colchester. She was an excellent and a learned lady, as the many
books which she wrote sufficiently testify; and was with her lord all the time of
his banishment; and when he came home, she never parted from him in that
solitary retirement to which he devoted the remainder of his life.