[228]. Memoirs and Letters of the Marquis of Clanricarde, p. xiv.
[229]. Hist. MSS. Comm.; MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, I., p. 223.
[230]. Constitutional History of England (ed. 1854) III., 389n.
[231]. Somerset House Wills, Nabbs, 117.
[232]. She was Catherine, daughter of Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford; her husband, Robert Greville, second Baron Brooke, distinguished himself as a general of the parliamentary forces in the Civil War, and was killed at Lichfield in 1643. Fulke Greville, who was not born until after his father’s death, eventually succeeded to the title, and died in 1710.
[233]. Close Roll, 1654 (3814).
[234]. Sir William Constable was afterwards possibly an occupant of the house, for on 24th May, 1647, he wrote to the old Lord Fairfax from “Queen Street.” (Hist. MSS. Comm.; Morrison MSS., Report IX., Part II., App. p. 439.) Constable had married in 1608, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas, first Lord Fairfax. He contrived with difficulty to raise a regiment of foot in the Civil War, and greatly distinguished himself in the field. He was afterwards one of the king’s judges and signed the warrant for his execution. He died in 1655.
[235]. C. R. Markham’s The Great Lord Fairfax, p. 191.
[236]. Ibid., p. 254.
[237]. Ibid., p. 274. The old lord had recently married again. He announced the fact to his brother in a letter dated “Queen Street, October 20th, 1646.”