[308]. Historical MSS. Commission, House of Lords Calendar, Appendix to VI. Report, p. 109b.
[309]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage. The Dictionary of National Biography states that he was born in 1628, and was the son of John Savage, a colonel in the royal army.
[310]. Historical MSS. Commission, Frere MSS., Appendix to 7th Report, p. 531a.
[311]. Elizabeth Scroope, married to the Earl in 1647.
[312]. “Lord Rivers denies entrance to survey and payment,” and “Earle Rivers refuseth to pay.”
[313]. Historical MSS. Commission, Frere MSS., Appendix to 7th Report, p. 531a.
[314]. At first a Roman Catholic, the Earl subsequently joined the English Communion.
[315]. Mary, the second wife of the second Earl, at this time Countess Dowager Rivers, by her will, proved 25th January, 1657–8 (in which she is described as “of St. Giles”) left £400 to Sir Francis Petre (Somerset House Wills, Wootton, 5).
[316]. Covent Garden.
[317]. Was this the third Earl’s sister of that name, youngest daughter but one of the second Earl by his first wife?