chols's 'Literary Illustrations,' vol. v. There are mezzotint engravings of Gulston and of his wife by James Watson and Richard Earlom after paintings by Hamilton.
[Nichols's Lit. Illustrations, v. 1–60; Gent. Mag. 1786, ii. 622.]
GULSTON, THEODORE (1572–1632), physician. [See Goulston.]
GUMBLE, THOMAS, D.D. (d. 1676), biographer, for some time vicar of Chipping Wycombe, Bucks (cf. Lamb MSS. Aug. 972, p. 79; Price, the King's Restauration, p. 35) was appointed chaplain to Monck, then in Scotland, at the end of 1655 (Gumble, Life of Monck, p. 92 ). Monck, finding him an excellent man of business, entrusted him with many delicate commissions. On 4 Jan. 1659–60 he was despatched from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to London with Monck's letters to the parliament and city (ib. pp. 202–3; Price, Life of Monck, p. 77). On his arrival (12 Jan.) parliament ordered 100l. to be given him (Whitelocke, Memorials, p. 693), and recommended him (26 Jan.) for the first vacant fellowship at Eton (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1659–60). In 1661 he was made D.D. of Cambridge by royal mandate, and on 6 July of the same year was collated to the twelfth prebendal stall in Winchester Cathedral (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, iii. 43). On 21 May 1663 he received the rectory of East Lavant, Sussex (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1663–4, pp. 57, 146). Much to his regret, ill-health prevented him from performing his duty as chaplain of the Royal Charles during the conflict with the Dutch in February 1666 (ib. 1665–6, p. 262). He died in 1676, apparently unmarried, for his estate was administered to on 10 March 1676–7 by his brothers Stephen and John Gumble (Administration Act Book, P. C. C., 1677, f. 41). He is represented as an amiable and kindly man(cf. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1667, p. 266). His only published work was a valuable 'Life of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, &c., with Remarks upon his Actions,'8vo,London, 1671. A French translation (by Guy Miege) was issued at London in 1672. Some copies of the translation have a second additional title-page, printed at Cologne in 1712, when the work was sold to advance the cause of the Pretender.
[Cal. State Papers (Dom.), 1659–60, pp. 308, 324, 400, 592, 595, 1663–5, p. 554.]
GUNDLEUS, St. (6th cent.), Welsh saint. [See Gwynllyw.]
GUNDRADA de Warenne (d. 1085), wife of William de Warenne, first earl of Surrey, was long supposed to have been a daughter either of William the Conqueror and his queen Matilda of Flanders, or of Matilda by an earlier marriage with Gerbod, advocate St. Bertin. There is, however, no contemporary evidence for either of these hypotheses, while there is a good deal that tells strongly though indirectly, against both(Engl. Hist. Rev. No. xii. 680–701). All that is really known about Gundrada's parentage is that she was sister to Gerbod the Fleming, earl of Chester 1070–71 (Ord. Vit. ed. Duchesne, 522 A, C; Liber de Hyda, p. 296), and therefore probably daughter of another Gerbod who was advocate of St. Bertin, 1026–67 (Archæological Journal, iii. 16, 17). The date of her marriage with William de Warenne is not ascertained, but their second son-was old enough to command troops in 1090 (Ord. Vit. 690 A); and that they were married before 1077 is also shown by the appointment in that year of the first prior of St. Pancras at Lewes (Ann. Bermondsey, s.a. 1077),the earliest Cluniac house in England, of which they were joint founders. It is said that they had started on a pilgrimage to Rome, but owing to the war between the pope and the emperor they were obliged to content themselves with visiting divers monasteries in France and Burgundy; they made a long stay at Cluny, and the outcome of their gratitude for the hospitality which they experienced there was the foundation of Lewes priory (Monast. Angl. v. 12; Duckett, Charters of Cluni, i. 47, 48). The story comes from a fifteenth-century copy of a charter which purports to have been granted by William de Warenne himself, but which in its present form has almost certainly received interpolations; there seems, however, no reason to doubt the genuineness of this part of it. Gundrada had two sons, William, afterwards second earl of Warenne and Surrey (Ord. Vit. 680 D), and Rainald (ib. 690 A and 815 A),and a daughter, Edith, wife, first of Gerald de Gournay, and secondly of Drogo of Moncey (Cont. Will. of Jumièges, l. viii. c. 8). Dugdale (Baronage, i. 74) gives her another daughter, married to Erneis's de Colungis or Coluncis, but the Roger, Erneis's son, who was 'nepos Guillelmi de Garenna,' was clearly something more than a boy when he entered the monastery of St. Evroul before 1089 (Ord. Vit. 574 C, 600 B), and must therefore have been not Gundrada's grandson, but her husband's nephew. She died in child-birth, 27 May 1085, at Castle Acre, and was buried in the chapter-house at Lewes (Dugdale Baronage, i. 74, from register of Lewes). Her tombstone was found in Ifield Church (whither it had apparently been removed at the dissolution) at the end of the last century, and placed in St. John's Church Southover (Lewes),where it now is; it is of black marble
