this most virtuous lady "lent ear to his notes, and comfort unto him."

Her ladyship is introduced here, from the supposition of having made the following epitaph on an ancestor of the Cavendish family, who took his master's degree at Cambridge in 1572, having studied twentyeight years (as says the grace) there and at Oxford 4.

"An Epitaph upon the Death of the worshipfull and rarely accomplished Master Richard Candish of Suffolk, Esq. Promised and made by Margaret

Countess of Comberland, 1601.

"Candish, deriv'd from noble parentage,
Adorn'd with vertuous and heroicke partes,
Most learned, bountifull, devout, and sage,
Grac'd with the graces, muses, and the artes:
Deer to his prince, in English court admir'd,
Belov'd of great and honourable peeres,
Of all esteem'd, embraced, and desir'd,

Till Death cut off his well-employed yeares.
Within this earth his earth entombed lyes,
Whose heavenly part surmounted hath the skies."

This epitaph was placed on a small obelisk against the wall of the south aisle in Hornsey church, Middlesex; and has been printed by Mr. Lysons 5, who says, that Richard Candish was chosen one of the burgesses for Denbigh, anno 1572, in opposition to the inclination and even the threats of queen Elizabeth's great favourite, the earl of Leicester.]

+ Cole MS. ut sup.

Environs of London, vol. iii. p. 54.

LORD CHANCELLOR ELLESMERE,

VISCOUNT BRACKLEY,

THE founder of the house of Egerton, published nothing during his life but a

"Speech in the Exchequer Chamber, touch

ing the Postnati","

printed at London in 4to. in 16093. After his death there appeared in his name, "Certain Observations concerning the Office of Lord Chancellor."

London, 1651, 8vo.

"The Conference held February 25th, 1606, betwene the Lords Committees and the Commons, touching the naturalizinge of the Scots," &c. 4.

2

[In Robert Calvine's cause, son and heir-apparent of James lord Calvine, of Colcross, in the realm of Scotland. Har grave's State Trials, vol. v. p. 75.]

3

[This Speech had been promulged in diverse unperfect reports, and several patches and pieces, and dispersed into many hands, and some offered to the presse; but the king having knowledge thereof, misliked it, and thereupon commanded the chancellor to deliver to him in writing the whole discourse which he delivered in the case of R. C. or postnati, as it was commonly called. It was afterwards published in obedience to his sovereign's direction. Preface to the loving Readers.]

• Printed in Somers's Tracts, 4th coll. vol. i. p. 371, fron the Cotton library.