"I doubt not but your eyes are fall of tears, and not the emptier for those they shed. God comfort you, and let us join in prayer to Him, that he will be pleased to give his grace to you, to your mother, and to myself, that all of us may resign and submit ourselves entirely and cheerfully to his pleasure. So nothing shall be able to make us unhappy in this life, nor hinder us from being happy in that which is eternal."[1]
At the time of Lord Sunderland's death, they had three children; Robert, whose letters to his uncle are now published, and two daughters, the eldest of whom was afterwards married to Lord Halifax. And for the wardship and care of her son, his widow thus feelingly pleads to Charles I., through the intercession of her father:
"My Lord,
"The affections of my spirit and the weakness of my body will scarce suffer me to write; but the consideration I have of my poor orphans makes me force myself to desire your Lordship that you will be pleased in my behalf to beseech his Majesty to
- ↑ Collins's Sidney State Papers. For the whole of this letter see Appendix A, end of vol. ii., where also is given, in an extract from a letter of Mr. Sudbury to the Earl of Leicester, a very interesting account of the effect of the fatal tidings on Lady Leicester and Lady Sunderland.
