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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved From THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES : PORTRAITS 3fllu0trtoujS iPersonages GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS, BY EDMUND LODGE, ESQ. F. S. A. VOL. VIL LONDON PRINTED FOR HARDING AND LEPARD. 1835. v.r CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. 1. WILLIAM, SECOND DUKE OF HAMILTON, Mytens. 1651 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton Palace, 2. JAMES STANLEY, EARL OF DERBY, Vandyke. 1651 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley. 3. FRANCIS LORD COTTINGTON, - Van Someii. 1652 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove. 4. RALPH, LORD HOPTON, - - - Vandyke. 1652 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 5. EDWARD SACKVILLE, FOURTH EARL OF DORSET, Vandyke, 1652 From the Collection of His Grace the Dulie of Dorset, at Knole. 6. JOHN SELDEN, .... Mytens. 1654 From the Bodleian Collection, Oxford. 7. JAMES STUART, DUKE OF RICHMOND, Vandyke. 1655 From the Collection of Sir John Shelley Sidney, Bart, at Penshurst. 8. ROBERT RICH, EARL OF WARWICK, Vandyke. 1658 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke, at Wimpole. 9. OLIVER CROMWELL, - - - Walker. 1658 From the Collection ofthe Right Honourable the EarlSpencer, at Althorp. 10. DOROTHY PERCY, COUNTESS OF LEICESTER, Vandyke. 1659 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 970353 CONTENTS. 11. WILLIAM SEYMOUR, MARQUIS OF HERTFORD, Vandyke. 16G0 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove. \2. LUCY PERCY, COUNTESS OF CARLISLE, Vandyke. 1660 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 13. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, MARQUIS OF ARGYLL, 1661 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Argyll, at Interary Castle. 1 1. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF BOHEMIA, DAUGHTER OF KING JAMES THE FIRST, - Honthorst. 1662 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Craven, at Combe Abbey. 15. CHARLOTTE DE LA TREMOUILLE, COUNTESS OF DERBY, - . - . Vandyke. 1663 Froju the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, at Knoivsley. 16. SIR KENELM DIGBY, - - Vandyke. 1665 From the Original in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. 17. MONTAGUE BERTIE, EARL OF LINDSEY, Vandyke. 1666 From the Collection of the Right Honourable Baroness Willoughby of Eresby, at Grimsthorpe Castle. 18. EDWARD SOMERSET, SECOND MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, - - - Vandyke. 1667 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton. 1!). THOMAS W^RIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, Lely. 1667 From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. 20. ALGERNON PERCY, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Vandyke. 1668 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Essc.v, at Cdshiobury. W I 1.1.1 AM. DIKl. ol II. Will. TON. JlKI-. (IJ- M.\.\l II. ; WILLIAM, SECOND DUKE OF HAMILTON, WA s the second of the two sons of James, second Marquis of Hamilton, by Anne, daughter of James Conyngham, seventh Earl of Glencairn, and was brother to James, the first Duke, a sketch of whose life may be found in this work. He was born on the fourteenth of December, 1616, ten years after that nobleman, and, having made some stay in the University of Glasgow, completed in a long residence on the continent an education in which we arc told that erudition was less considered than that observation of men, and manners, and systems, so necessary to all whose views are directed to the higher orders of public employment. It is evident that he was so designed by his family, and his success could have been scarcely doubtful, for he was of the royal blood and, while he was yet a child, his brother had gained the entire affection of Charles the first; in the mean time he was distin- guished by the most promising talents. He returned from his travels in his twenty-first year, and with such confidence of immediate promotion, that on being shortly after refused the appointment of Master of the Horse to the Queen, because it had been promised to another, he prepared, with all the anger of a man who had been really ill used, to retire to France, and was dissuaded solely by an unsolicited promise from the King of instant preferment. Accordingly on the thirty-first of March, 1 639, he was created Baron Polmont, and Macanshire, and Earl of Lanerick, (Lanark) and in the following year was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland. These circumstances sufficiently prove not only the high degree of favour which he suddenly acquired, but the resolute and ardent temper which is said to have been the ruling feature in his character. — WILLIAINI, SECOND DUKE OF IIAMILTON. It is scarcely necessary to say that he was nearly unacquainted with the affairs of that country, then peculiarly critical. To his brotlier therefore, a man not only well experienced in them, but of considerable ability, and so many years older than himself, he naturally looked for direction. Among the various misfortunes which at that period combined to undermine tiie regal power in Scotland perhaps the most evident was Charles's partiality to the House of Hamilton. The mother of these noblemen, a woman of powerful understanding, and of masculine spirit and activity, whose father was one of the fathers of the covenant, had implanted in the mind of her heir, even from his earliest infancy, an enthu- siastic attachment to the new fanaticism, and he communicated the infection to his brother. They conceived between them the utterly impracticable project of uniting to a Monarchy of high pretensions a Calvinistic church. The Duke remained stedfast in his error to the last moment of his life, but Lanerick at length retracted; not however till he had considerably injured the royal cause, to which notwithstanding he was most loyally devoted. Thus for more than two years after his entrance into his office he was alternately occupied in beseeching the King to bend to the humiliating demands of the covenanters, and in endeavouring to dissuade them from actual rebellion, and failed in both. At length, in the spring of 1G43, the Scottish Privy Council determined on calling, without the King's necessary warrant, a Parliament, under the denomination of a Convention of the Estates. A large correspondence on this subject between Charles, the Duke of Hamilton, and Lanerick, is extant, and closes with a letter from the King to the Secretary, concluding with this clear direction " If, notwithstanding our refusal, and the endeavours of our well- affected subjects and servants to hinder it, there shall be a convention of the Estates, then we wish that all those who are right-affected to us should be present at it: but to do nothing there, but only protest against their meeting and actions." On the twenty-second of June, this convention, which in the end q WILLIAM, SECOND DUKE OF HAMILTON. overthrew the i-oyal authority in Scotland, assembled. Lanerick, at their first sitting, presented a letter from the King, excusing them for meeting without his concurrence, and limiting their deliberations to certain subjects ; and Hamilton, in a speech of studied ambiguity, instead of simply protesting, as the King had requested, obscurely threatened it. The assembly however, con- fident in its strength, and pre-determined on its course, insisted on his making an explicit declaration, when Lanerick stood up, and said for his brother, as Lord Clarendon reports, that " he hoped that noble Lord's affections to his country were better known than that any man could imagine he would protest against the Parliament of the kingdom." They contented themselves with making a verbal declaration that it was not in their opinion a free Convention, the King's sanction being wanting. Those who had pledged themselves to support in it the royal cause became discouraged, and many of them retired to their respective countries ; Lanerick and Hamilton continued to sit in silence occasionally in the Convention ; and when that body, shortly after, following the example of their brethren of the English Parliament, resolved to make war on the King with an army raised by them in his name, Lanerick actually put the royal signet, which in right of his office was in his custody, to the proclamation for the general levy. The loyal nobility of Scotland were highly incensed by this conduct, and Montrose, whose devotion to the royal cause was equalled only by the courage with which he always defended it, set out privately to accuse the brothers to the King; but they soon discovered his intention, followed him to Oxford, where Charles then was, apparently in the hope of averting the storm which threatened them ; and were immediately made prisoners. Lanerick, by the aid of a Mr. Cunningham, a gentleman of the privy chamber, presently found means to escape, and went to London, and soon after into Scotland, where he again applied himself, still, however, under the influence of that temporising 3 WILLIAM, SECOND DliKE OF HAMILTON. and suspicious policy, which he had imbibed from the lessons and the example of his brother, to the King's service. Of the conduct of a partisan so circumstanced it is natural that little should have transpired. The only fact of which we are clearly informed is that he was in 1645 actively engaged with the covenanters in endeavouring to resist the progress of Montrose's victorious arms ; and it may be reasonably inferred that he had Charles's secret consent to this, since that Prince almost immediately after received him again into the office of Secretary, from which he had been dismissed on his arrest at Oxford, and indeed into the fullest confidence.
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