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once his [the Duke of Lauderdale’s] creature, but follows all courts,
preached the sermon at Inveresk; the text was i Corinth. 15, v. 55,
‘O death wheir is thy sting: O grave wheir is thy victory.’ Any errors
he committed in the end of his days he ascribed to the 'vnYfirou, or under-
rowers,xwhom he trusted beneath him, meaning his Dutchesse and brother
Halton. If he had dyed some years sooner he had got more pomp and
elogies. At the buriall place in Hadington one of the beggers called Bell,
being drunk, stabbed another in distributing the money that was given
them by the friends. He was apprehended, and several stollen things
found on him, and he being made to touch the dead corps the wound bled
fresch: the toune of Hadington (who it seimes have a Shireff’s power),
judged him presently, and hanged him over the bridge the next day.”
(P- 93)-
There is a belief that when the Duke of Lauderdale was a prisoner
at Portland Castle he had among his possessions a volume of Arch-
bishop Ussher’s Sermons. The Duke wrote an inscription in the book,
and added mottoes in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The compiler of
this Family History has tried in vain to find the Duke’s book, but
it has disappeared. The volume was, however, seen by the late Miss
Charlotte Yonge about the year 1868, and she alludes to it in the
following passage: “A volume of Archbishop Usher which had been
the Duke of Lauderdale’s study after he was taken at Worcester. He
made a note in the fly-leaf, began this book at Windsor, and finished
it during my imprisonment here! Below are mottoes in Hebrew, Greek,
and Latin. The Greek is 0Ktteov xdi s%7ri(rreov, one must bear and hope.
The Latin is dur ate d [The Trial, chap, xxiii].
The Apartments at Whitehall Palace 'which were occupied by the Duke
and Duchess ofi Lauderdale.
The Duke of Lauderdale, in common with other great officers of
State in the reign of Charles II., was allowed to occupy a suite of apart-
ments in Whitehall Palace.
Cosmo IL, Duke of Tuscany, visited London in 1669, and describes
Whitehall Palace as being “ nothing more than an assemblage of several
houses, badly built at different times and for different purposes: all its
1 Assistants.
56
preached the sermon at Inveresk; the text was i Corinth. 15, v. 55,
‘O death wheir is thy sting: O grave wheir is thy victory.’ Any errors
he committed in the end of his days he ascribed to the 'vnYfirou, or under-
rowers,xwhom he trusted beneath him, meaning his Dutchesse and brother
Halton. If he had dyed some years sooner he had got more pomp and
elogies. At the buriall place in Hadington one of the beggers called Bell,
being drunk, stabbed another in distributing the money that was given
them by the friends. He was apprehended, and several stollen things
found on him, and he being made to touch the dead corps the wound bled
fresch: the toune of Hadington (who it seimes have a Shireff’s power),
judged him presently, and hanged him over the bridge the next day.”
(P- 93)-
There is a belief that when the Duke of Lauderdale was a prisoner
at Portland Castle he had among his possessions a volume of Arch-
bishop Ussher’s Sermons. The Duke wrote an inscription in the book,
and added mottoes in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The compiler of
this Family History has tried in vain to find the Duke’s book, but
it has disappeared. The volume was, however, seen by the late Miss
Charlotte Yonge about the year 1868, and she alludes to it in the
following passage: “A volume of Archbishop Usher which had been
the Duke of Lauderdale’s study after he was taken at Worcester. He
made a note in the fly-leaf, began this book at Windsor, and finished
it during my imprisonment here! Below are mottoes in Hebrew, Greek,
and Latin. The Greek is 0Ktteov xdi s%7ri(rreov, one must bear and hope.
The Latin is dur ate d [The Trial, chap, xxiii].
The Apartments at Whitehall Palace 'which were occupied by the Duke
and Duchess ofi Lauderdale.
The Duke of Lauderdale, in common with other great officers of
State in the reign of Charles II., was allowed to occupy a suite of apart-
ments in Whitehall Palace.
Cosmo IL, Duke of Tuscany, visited London in 1669, and describes
Whitehall Palace as being “ nothing more than an assemblage of several
houses, badly built at different times and for different purposes: all its
1 Assistants.
56