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58 ALBEMARLE. OF TORRINGTON, co. Devon, and DUKE OP ALBEMARLE. («) A pension of £7000 a year and the estate of New Hall, in Essex, was granted to him and his heirs for ever.() He hi., 23 Jan. 1652-3, at St. George's, Southwark, Surrey, Anne, late, or possibly actual, wife to Thomas Kadkiwd, or Redfokd, da. of John Clakcks, a farrier in the Savoy, Strand, by his wife, Anne LEAVER. ( c ) He </., 3 Jan. 1586-70, and was bur. with a state funeral, 29 April 1670. in Westm. Abbey. Will dot. S June 1665 ; proved 3 Jan. 1669-7' 1 , the day of his death. His widow survived him but three weeks. She (/. 29 Jan. 1669-70, and was bur. (nearly two months before him) 28 Feb., in Westm. Abbey, aged 54. Admon. 15 Dec 16S8 to her br., Sir Thomas Clauuks. ( a ) The explanation of these titles is by reason of the undermentioned descent; a descent however which carries with it no representation of the titles thus taken. Alice, da. and h. of Henry, Loud TEYES, M. Warine de 1,'isle. Their grandson, Warine, Lord L'isle, left a da. and h., Margaret, who m. Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and had a da. and h., Elizabeth, who hi. Richard (BEAUCHAMP), Earl of Warwick, and (for life) Earl of ALBEMARLE. Margaret, one of the three daughters of this Earl and his said wife, Hi. (as a second wife) John (Talbot), 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and had a son, John, cr. Viscount L'isle, 1452. His da., Elizabeth, in. Edward Grey, a: Barou and subsequently Viscount Lisle. Their da. and, eventually, representative m., for her second husband (the issue by her first husband, Edmund Dudley, carrying away her representation), Arthur PLANTAGENET (illegit. s. of Edw. IV), who was it. Viscount Lisle 1533. Frances, one of his three daughters and coheirs (having left issue by her tirst husband, John Basset, in whom her representation would vest), hi., for her second husband, Thomas Monck of POTHEHIDGE, the great grandfather of George Monck, CT. as in the text Baron Monck of Potheridge, Ilcauchmnp and Tci/cs and D-ike of Albemarle. The Baronies indicated a descent not only from the last possessor (a life tenant) of that title, but also (tho' but a bastard one) from the house of Plantagenet, by whom alone (with the exception of the abovenamed grant for life) this Semi-Royal Peerage had hitherto been born, after the extinction, in the 13th century, of the old (Norman) line of Karls. The surname is spelt both as Monck and as Monk in the patent, though, generally as the former, which is the spelling of ( b ) The following is Lord Clarendon's description of him :— " He was of an ancient family in Devonshire, always very loyally affected, and being a yr. br., he entered early into the life, and condition of a soldier. When the troubles began in Scotland, he betook himself to the service of the King, and was soon after sent into [reiaild, where he served with singular reputation of courage and conduct. He was taken prisoner at Natnptwich, and remained in the Tower to the end of the war. when Cromwell prevailed upon him to engage himself again in the war of Ireland ; and from that time he continned very him to Cromwell, who was liberal and bountiful to him, and took him into his entire confidence. After the death of Cromwell. Monk was looked upon as a man more inclined to the King than any other in great authority, if he might discover it without too much loss or hazard. He had no fumes of fanaticism to turn his head, nor any credit with, or dependence upon, any who were swayed by these trances." He is thus described by Lord Macaulay — With very slender pretensions to saintship [he] had raised himself to high commands by his courage and professional skill. His nature was cautious and somewhat sluggish, nor was he at all disposed to hazard sure and moderate advantages for the chance of obtaining even the most splendid success. He seems to have been impelled to attack the new Rulers of the Commonwealth less by the hope that if he overcame them he should become great) than by the fear that, if he submitted to them, he should not be secure. Whatever were his motives he declared himself the Champion of the oppressed civil power, refused to acknowledge the usurped authority of the provisional Government, and at the head of 7000 veterans marched [from Scotland] into England. This step was the signal for a general explosion, &c." ( c ) She m. her first husband 28 Eeb. 1632-3, at St. Laurence Poultaey, London. He is said to have been (as was her father) a farrier, and was not improbably a s. of that " Thomas Bedford, farrier, servant to Prince Charles," who was her. 20 Nov. 1624, at St. Martin 's-in-the-Fields. She proved her father's 'will 1 Jan. 1648-9, being then separated from her husband, but theie is no evidence of his death before her second marriage. See note under her burial in Col. Chester's " Registers of Westminster