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[SUCCEEDED to the title on the death of his father in 1605, and was made a knight of the bath at the creation of Henry, prince of Wales, in 1610. He was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet sent to bring prince Charles from Spain, and sumptuously entertained the grandees of that court on ship-board; his expenses in that employment being not less than £15,000; which he cheerfully defrayed at his sole charge: being a person of a most free and generous spirit, much accomplished in learning, especially in antiquities, and an observing traveller through France, Italy, and other foreign states. At the funeral of king James he was one of the attendant mourners. He died in 1642a.

His lordship is now first introduced to a seat among his auctorial peers, for having prefixed the following sonnet to an extremely rare tract, in prose and verse, by Robert Fletcher 3. It was intended as a compliment to prince Henry Frederick.

* See Dugdale and Rushworth, and Lodge's Irish Peerage. Entitled, The Nine English Worthies; or famous and worthy Princes of England, being all of one Name: beginning with King Henrie the first, and concluding with Prince Henry, eldest Sonne to our Soveraigne Lord the King, 1606, 4to. in the valuable and well-chosen library of T. Hill, esq.

"THOMAS, LORD WINDSOR,

HIS HUMBLE CONGRATU

LATION OF THE NINTH WORTHY.

"Who-ever shall a vertuous mind imbrace,
Present renowne, and glory, shall him grace
Long after life; as in these worthies nine
It doth appeare: for they long since are dead!
Their vertues live, in chronicles they shine,
Their corps consum'd to dust; yea, even the lead
That clos'd their earthly bodies in the grave
Can not be seene; no signe thereof we have.

Their names, nor fames; their deeds will never die,
Their acts, their monuments, their worthy praise,
These registred, doe live perpetually :

There is no end or period of their dayes.

Live so, Great Britaines prince! as they have donne ;
Ninth worthy! hopeful Henry! great king's sonne!"

Another slight effusion "by the lord Windsor," occurs in Stella Meridiana Caroli Secundi Regis, &c. being verses upon the 29th of May 1630, the birthday of Charles the second.

It has been pointed out to me, by my esteemed friend, Thomas Hill, esq. that Ben Jonson's translation of Horace's Art of Poetry, in 1640, was dedicated by I. B. (John Benson, the publisher) to this lord Windsor, who is said to have "rightly known the worth and true esteeme both of the author and his learning, being more perspicuous in the candid judgement of his lordship and other sublime spirits who rightly knew him," than the dedicator could pretend to describe. His lordship indeed seems to have been regarded as one of the poetical patrons of

his day; for to him Freeman dedicated his two books of Epigrams in 16144; and to him Robert Anton of Magdalen college, Cambridge, inscribed the seventh satire, in his book entitled The Philosophers Satyrs, 1616, and thus speaks of lord Windsor's propensity for rural retirement :

"My noble lord,

"I much applaude your contemplative election in retiring your selfe with many worthy examples, as Cato to Picen, and Scipio to a farme, to a contented countrie life. You see the poyson of populous places, and the Babel-fall of popularitie: the vicissitude of times are full of pestilent perils. Let your noble vertues make you happie in knowing your selfe, and canonicall in making use of the greatest ruines of higher fortunes: my love and ancient duty contend both to gratifie your honour 5."]

4 Vide Athenæ, vol. i. fol. 398.

• Dr. Lort pointed out a book published by Juncker at Leipsic, in 1692, called Schediasma Historiorum de Ephemeridibus ac Diariis Eruditorum; in which there is also an account of learned women, &c. Among others is mentioned a LADY WINDSOR, niece to sir T. Mayerne, who is said to have died not long before at Geneva.

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ROBERT GREVILE,

LORD BROOKE,

MADE a figure at the beginning of the civil war, and probably was a man of great virtue; for the royalist writers condescend to say, that if he had lived a little longer, he would probably have seen through the designs of his party, and deserted them. This silly sort of apology has been made for other patriots, and by higher writers than mere genealogists, as if nothing but the probability of a conversion could excuse those heroes who withstood the arbitrary proceedings of Charles and his ministers, and to whose spirit we owe so much of our liberty. Our antiquaries weep over the destruction of convents, and our historians sigh for Charles and Laud! But there is not the least reason to suppose that this lord Brooke would have abandoned his principles. Lord Clarendon represents him as one of the most determined of the party; and it is not probable that a man who was on the point of seeking Liberty in the forests of America, would have deserted her banners when victorious in her own Britain. He and the lord Say and Sele had actually pitched upon a spot in

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