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322 BRISTOL Chenies, Bucks, aged 64. Will dat. 5 Oct. 1675, P^"- ^° ^P*"- ^^ll-i') His widow d. 26 Jan. and was bur. i Feb. 1696/7, at Chenies afsd. Will dat. 10 Apr. 1696, pr. 3 Feb. 1696/7. III. 1677 3. John (Digby), Earl OF Bristol [1622] and Baron to Digby of Sherborne [16 18], ist and only surv. s. and h., 1698. ^. about 1635. M.P. (Tory) for Dorset, 1675-77. Lord Lieut, of Dorset 1679 till his death; Vice Admiral of Poole. He tn., istly, 26 Mar. 1656, at Bobbingworth, Essex, Alice, da. and h. of Robert Bourne, of Blake Hall, in that parish. She d. s.p., and was bur. 28 May 1658, at Bobbingworth. He ;«., 2ndly (lie. Fac. 13 July, he 27, she 18), Aug. 1663, Rachael, 2nd and yst. da. and coh. of Sir Hugh Wyndham, of Stilton, Dorset, Justice of the Common Pleas, by his ist wife, Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Bart. [161 1]. He d. s.p., 18 Sep. 1698, aged about 63, when all his honours became extinct. He was bur. at Sherborne; his monument there is said to have cost ;^ 1,500. His widow d. 16 Feb. 1708/9. Will pr. June 1709. IV. 1714. I- John Hervey, 2nd,() but ist surv. s. and h. of Sir Thomas Hervey,(') of Ickworth, Suffolk, by Isabella, da. of Sir Humphrey May, Vice Chamberlain to Charles I, was b. 27 Aug. and bap. 29 Sep. 1665, at Bury St. Edmunds; matric. at Cambridge (Clare (^) According to Clarendon he was "a man of very extraordinary parts by nature and art, a graceful and beautiful person, equal to a very good part in the greatest affairs, but the unfittest man alive to conduct them, having an ambition and vanity superior to all his other parts, and a confidence in himself which sometimes intoxicated, transported, and exposed him." Horace Walpole says of him: " He was a singular person whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against Popery and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the Court and a sacrifice for it; was con- scientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most ««conscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts he always hurt himself and his friends; with romantic bravery he was always an unsuccessful com- mander." G.E.C '"First for his head,' says Sir George Carteret, 'I know a calf's head would have done better by half, for his heart and his sword I have nothing to say to them.' In fine he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to a great height of preferment but never able to hold it." {Pepys, 2 July, 1663). It was by his bad advice, backed by the Queen, that Charles I committed that "act of senseless recklessness" the im- peachment of Lord Kimbolton and the 5 members of the House of Commons, followed by the attempt to arrest them. See a full account of him in The Ancator, no. xi, Oct. 1904. V.G. (^) His elder brother, William, d. v.p. and unm. 14 June 1663. V.G. (■=) This Sir Thomas was s. and h. of Sir William H., of Ickworth, by his ist wife, Susan, da. of Sir Robert Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, which William was s. and h. of lohn H., of Ickworth, by Frances, da. and coh. of Edmund Bocking, of Bocking, Essex. For the Hervey family see Gage's Thingoe Hundred, pp. 286-322, and J.J. Howard's edition of the Fisitation of Suffolk, vol. ii, pp. 133-205. V.G.