* till now did produce, and that was Rachel's "tears, lamentation and weeping and great mourn "ing, a mother weeping for her children, and "would not be comforted, because they were taken from her. For the rebels, as you hear, having "carried the two Ladies prifoners to Shaftesbury, "thinking them not fafe enough, their intent is "to remove them to Bath, a place then much "infected both with the plague and the fmall6c pox. The old Lady was fick under a double "confinement, that of the Rebels and her own "indifpofition. All were unwilling to be ex"pofed to the danger of the infection, especially "the young Lady, having three children with "her; they were too dear, too rich a treasure "to be fnatched away to fuch probable lofs "without reluctancy; therefore they refolve not "to yield themselves prisoners unless they will "take the old Lady out of her bed, and the rest 66 by violence, and fo carry them away. But "the Rebels fearing left fo great inhumanity might incense the people against them, and "render them odious to the country, decline "this; and, fince they dare not carry all to "Bath, they refolve to carry fome to Dor chester, a place no lefs dangerous for the in"fection of schism and rebellion than Bath for "the plague and the small-pox. To this pur"pose they take the young Lady's two fons, (the FF 2 "(the eldest but nine, the younger but feven .. years of age,) and carried them captives to "Dorchefter. "In vain doth the mother with tears intreat "that these pretty pledges of her Lord's affec"tions may not be fnatched from her. In "vain do the children embrace and hang about "the neck of their mother, and implore help "from her, that neither knows how to keep "them, nor yet how to part with them but "the Rebels, having loft all bowels of compaf"fion, remain inexorable. The complaints of "the mother, the pitiful cry of the children, "prevail not with them: like ravenous wolves "they feize on the prey, and though they do "not crop, yet they tranfplant those olive "branches that flood about their parents' "table." Lady Arundell is buried with her Lord, near the altar of the very elegant chapel at Wardour Castle, built by the prefent Lord Arundell. The infcription on their monument is as follows: "To the Memory of the Right Honourable "Thomas Lord Arundell, fecond Baron of "Wardour, and Count of the facred Roman Empire; who died at Oxford of the wounds "he received at the battle of Lanfdown, in the " fervice "fervice of King Charles the First, for whom "he raised a regiment of horse at his own expence at the time of the Ufurpation. 66 "Obiit 19th Maii 1643. Etat. 59. "And of the Right Honourable Blanch Lady "Arundell, his wife, daughter of Edward So"merset, Earl of Worcester, Lord Keeper of "the Privy-feal, Mafter of Horse, and Knight "of the most noble order of the Garter, anceftor to the Duke of Beaufort, lineally descend"ed from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, "fon of King Edward the Third. This Lady, "as distinguished for her courage as for the "fplendor of her birth, in the absence of her "husband bravely defended the Castle of War"dour, with a courage above her fex, for nine days, with a few men, against Sir Edward "Hungerford and Edmund Ludlow and their army, and then delivered it up on honourable $ terms. Obiit 28th Octobr. 1649. Etat. 66, "Requiefcat in Pace, "Who fhall find a valiant woman! The price "of her is as things brought from afar off, and ❝ from the uttermoft coafts. The heart of her "husband trusteth in her. Prov. xxxi. "Our God was our refuge and strength; the "Lord of Armies was with us, the God of Jacob 66 was our Protector. Pfalm xlvi." By the kindness of the prefent LORD ARUN DELL, these Volumes are decorated with an ENGRAVING of this incomparable Woman, from the original Picture of her at Wardour Castle, Wilts, WILLIAMS, SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF LINCOLN, LORD KEEPER, AND IT is faid upon the monument of this learned Prelate, at an obscure village in Carnarvonshire, that he was linguarum plus decem fciens-that he understood more than ten languages." The Lord Keeper had found, in the course of his own life, the advantage of knowledge to himself, and was very anxious that other perfons should poffefs those benefits which he had turned to fo good an account. His Biographer tells us, that in all the various progreffions in the digni ties of the Church, whether as Canon, Dean, or Bishop, he always fuperintended the grammar. fchools that were appended to his Cathedral, and took care that they should be supplied with proper and able masters. Williams had been Chaplain to Lord Bacon, and fucceeded him in his office. When that great 1 |