printed, under the title of ‘A Forest of Varieties.’ A copy, which belonged to the late C. A. North, bears a dedication to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia. After correction and expurgation it was published, in 1659, under the title of ‘A Forest promiscuous of various Seasons' Productions,’ with a dedication addressed to the university of Cambridge.
North died at Kirtling, aged 85, on 16 Jan. 1666. His wife outlived him till 1677, and was buried by his side at Kirtling. Three of Lord North's six children survived him: Sir Dudley, who succeeded his father in the barony, and is noticed separately; John, who married Sara, widow of Charles Drury of Rougham, Suffolk, and was afterwards twice married, to wives whose names are unrecorded; and Dorothy, who married in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, 4 Jan. 1625, Richard, lord Dacres of the South, and, secondly, Challoner Chute of the Vyne, Hampshire; ‘no great preferment,’ writes Chamberlain of the first match, ‘for so fine a gentlewoman to have a widower with two or three sons at the least.’ Three children died unmarried during their father's lifetime—namely, Charles, Robert, and Elizabeth. The latter caught ‘a spotted fever akin to the plague,’ which was raging in London in the summer of 1624; and, being sent with her mother to Tunbridge Wells, died there in August, almost immediately on her arrival, before she had tasted the waters.
There are two portraits of North, by Cornelius Janssen; one of these is at Waldershare, the other at Wroxton. In the latter he is represented in an elaborately embroidered suit of black and silver. A third portrait of him is in the collection at Kirtling. These pictures show him to have been tall and handsome, with abundant hair of a warm colour, inclining to red.
[A Forest of Varieties, by Dudley, third lord North; A Forest promiscuous of several Seasons' Productions, by Dudley, third lord North; Autobiography of the Hon. Roger North, ed. Jessopp, pp. 68–9; Cal. State Papers (addenda), vol. clxxi. No. 66, Dom. vol. cccclxv. No. 19; Camden's Annals; Gardiner's History of England; Hume's History of England, vi. 259; Letters of Dorothy Osborn, ed. Parry, p. 25; Letters of Sir John North, K.B. (unpublished); North's Life of the Lord-keeper Guilford; Lingard's History of England, ix. 361; Nichols's Progresses of King James I, ii. 324, 361, 497, 629, 729, iii. 964, iv. 594, 768; Sidney State Papers, ii. 223, 575; State Papers. Dom. Eliz. vol. cclxxxiv. Nos. 14, 37, James I, vol. lxviii. No. 83, vol. cxv. No. 33, Charles I, vol. ccccxiii. No. 3; Owen's Weekly Chronicle and Westminster Journal, 5–12 July 1766; Pepys's Diary (Braybrooke's edit.), p. 25; Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, p. 370; Will of Dudley, third lord North.]
NORTH, DUDLEY, fourth Baron North (1602–1677), eldest son of Dudley, third baron North [q. v.], by Frances, daughter of Sir John Brockett, was born in 1602, probably at the Charterhouse, and seems to have been in frequent attendance even from childhood at the court of James I. On the creation of Charles, prince of Wales, in November 1616, he was made knight of the Bath, being one of four youths, the eldest of whom was fifteen and the youngest in his tenth year. About 1619 he entered as a fellow commoner at St. John's College, Cambridge, but never proceeded to any degree. His university career was brought to a close by his joining the regiment of volunteers who embarked, under the command of Sir Horace Vere, on 22 July 1620 for the relief of the Palatinate, and he was probably with the remnants of the force that were allowed to march out of Mannheim with military honours when Vere was compelled to surrender the town on 28 Oct. 1622. During the next ten years he disappears from our notice. He travelled in Italy, France, and Spain, and for three years ‘served in Holland, commanding a foot company in our sovereign's pay.’ During this period he was but little in England.
On 24 April 1632 he married Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Charles Montagu of Cranbrook Hall in Essex, brother of Sir Henry Montagu, first earl of Manchester [q. v.], and with her received a considerable fortune. During the first few years of his married life he lived with his wife and family at Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, paying his father a handsome allowance for his board. In 1638 he bought an estate at Tostock in Suffolk, and here some of his children were born. He entered parliament as knight of the shire for the county of Cambridge in 1640, and ‘went along as the saints led him,’ says his son Roger, ‘till the army took off the mask and excluded him from the Parliament’ in 1653. After the Restoration he wrote a brief account of his experience in the House of Commons, under the title of ‘Passages relating to the Long Parliament,’ which is printed in the ‘Somers Tracts.’ In 1669 there appeared his ‘Observations and Advices Œconomical,’ London, 8vo, a treatise dealing with the management of household and family affairs. His remaining work, ‘Light in the Way to Paradise: with other Occasionals’ (London, 8vo, Brit. Mus.), appeared posthumously in 1682. It consists of essays on religious subjects, and to it are appended ‘A Sunday's Meditation upon Eternity,’ ‘Of Original Sin,’ ‘A Dis-
