He married Isabella of Beerwaert, daughter of Louis of Nassau, by whom he had one daughter, Isabella, who married Henry, duke of Grafton, the natural son of Charles II. and Lady Castlemaine.
Authorities.—In addition to those mentioned above, see Biographia Britannica (Kippis), accurate and careful, but too partial, and written without complete knowledge of Arlington’s career; Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses (Bliss), ii. 274; Hist. of Great Britain by J. Macpherson (1776), i. 132-133; Lauderdale Papers (Camden Soc. N.S., vols. 34, 36, 38), and MSS. in Brit. Mus.; Original Letters of Sir R. Fanshaw (1724); Letters from the Secretaries of State to Francis Parry (1817); Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. indexes; Cat. of State Pap. Dom., and Hist. MSS. Comm.—MSS. of Marquis of Ormonde, and Duke of Buccleugh at Montagu House, ii. 49.
(P. C. Y.)
[1] See his portrait in the earl of Arlington’s Letters to Sir W. Temple, by Tho. Babington (1701).
[2] Clarendon’s Life and Continuation, 397.
[3] Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John Dalrymple (1790), i. 125.
[4] Ibid. 114 et seq.
[5] Arlington to Sir B. Gascoyn, in J.T. Brown’s Miscellanea Aulica (1702), 66.
[6] On the authority of Colbert, 20th November 1673; Dalrymple’s Memoirs, i. 131.