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BATH 21 1660). (^) Gov. of Plymouth 1661-96; P.C. 26 July 1663; Gov. of Pendennis 1680-96; Col. of the loth Foot 1685-88, and 1689-93; Gov. of the Scilly Islands 1689-1700; cr. M.A. of Oxford, 28 Sep. 1663; Lord Lieut, of Ireland (but never went to that Kingdom) Apr. to July 1665; Lord Lieut, of Cornwall 1660-96, and of Devon, 168 8/9-96. C*) He m., about Oct. 1652, Jane, da. of Sir Peter Wyche, of London, Merchant, Comptroller of the Royal Household, by Jane, da. of Sir William Mere- dith, Treasurer of Flushing. She d. 3 Feb. 16^1/2, and was i>ur. at St. Clement Danes. He d. in St. James's, 22 Aug., and was i>ur. 22 Sep. 1701, at Kilkhampton, aged almost 73-0 Will dat. 11 Oct. 1684 ^o 15 Aug. 1701, pr. 10 Sep. 1701, 16 Mar. 1708, i July 1712, and 26 Feb. 1719/20. VIII. 1701 (Aug.) 2. Charles (Granville), Earl of Bath, ^fc, s. and h., ^i7p. 31 Aug. 1 66 1 "at St. James," and reg. at Kilkhampton. He served in the army that defeated the Turks before Vienna in 1683, &'c., and for his signal services, was, by charter 27 Jan. 1684, at Linz, cr. by the Emperor Leopold a Count of the Roman Empire.(f) M.P. (Tory) for Launceston 1680-81, for Cornwall 1685-87; Ambassador to Madrid, 1685-89. On 16 July 1689 he was sum. to Pari., v.p., in his father's Barony as LORD GRANVILLE. (^ Joint Lord Lieut, of Corn- wall and Devon, 1691-93; Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1692-93. Hew., istly (mar. lie. at Vic. Gen. office, he styled Lord Lansdown, being about 17, and she about 14, spinster), 22 May 1678, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Martha, 5th da. of Thomas (Osborne), ist Duke of Leeds, by Bridget, da. of Montague (Bertie), Earl of Lindsey. She d. s.p. 1 1, and was bur. 26 Sep. 1689, as "the Lady Lansdown," at Westm. Abbey, in her 25th year. He »?., 2ndly, 10 Mar. 1 690/1, in London, Isabella, sister of Henr)', Earl of Grantham, da. of Henry (de Nassau), Lord of Averquerque, Count (*) "The famous trial between my Lord Bath and Lord Montague for an estate of ^^i 1,000 p. a. left by the D. of Albemarle wherein on several trials had been spent ;^20,ooo between them. The E. of Bath was cast on evident forgery." (Evelyn's Diary, 18 June 1696). The whole case turned on the question whether Ann Clarges' ist husband was not living at the time of her marriage with Gen. Monck. V.G. C") He was among "The nobility in arms with the Prince of Orange, 1688." For a list of these see Appendix H in this volume. (') By letters patent, 16 Aug. 1674, an annuity of ;^3,000 charged on the Duchy of Cornwall or on the hereditary excise, was granted to him and his heirs. In 1826 one moiety was bought up by the Treasury, and, in 1856, the other moiety was transferred to the Consolidated Fund. See Pari. Return, 9 Feb. 1 88 1, where the amount, ^^1,200, "now due " appears to be paid to trustees for the heirs of Capt. F. Garth. {^) In Carlisle's History of Foreign Orders it is stated that the first Royal Licence on record to enable a British subject to hold a foreign honour was granted in this case. There is, however, no notice of it in The London Gazette, nor in the College of Arms. (') For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. to Pari. v.p. in one of their father's peerages, see vol. i. Appendix G.