building was old, and much defaced under the usurpation, he resolved to do the honour to his ancestors of rebuilding their old seat after the modern way, which he performed in a most sumptuous and beautiful manner. And in memory of the unkind and ungenerous treatment of his father and grandfather, by King Charles II. he caused the following inscription to be cut in stone on the front of it: "James, Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and the Isles, grandson of James, Earl of Derby, by Charlotte, daughter of Claud, Duke of Tremouille, who was beheaded at Bolton, Oct. 15th, 1651, for strenuously adhering to King Charles II. who refused a bill unanimously passed by both houses of Parliament, for restoring to the family the estate which he had lost by his loyalty to him."

This lord married Mary, the only daughter and heiress of Sir William Morley, of Halnacar, in the county of Sussex, by whom he enjoyed a plentiful estate, and had issue by her one only son named James, who lived but about three months, and thereby left him childless at his decease, which happened at Knowsley, Feb. 1st, 1735. His body was conveyed to Ormskirk, and laid with his most eminent and noble ancestors in the common repository of his family, his lady being then alive. He was born July 3d, 1664.

And here let it be observed, that by the death of this noble lord without any issue, the honour of the earldom of Derby became extinct in the direct line, he being the tenth in succession from Thomas Lord Stanley, created Earl of Derby by King Henry VII. in the first year of his reign, for his signal and faithful services to him and his country in the year 1485, and on many other remarkable occasions,

The late noble lord we have been here treating of, was by patent made chamberlain of Chester for life, that high office having expired in his family by the death of his elder brother Earl William. It is now in the family of Cholmondley. When this lord was in full life, and at the highest

pinnacle of honour, he appears to me to have possessed more titles of dignity than any of his brave and renowned predecessors; and as the knowledge of these may be as agreeable to the readers, as the pleasure of collecting them hath been to me, I have thought it not amiss to relate them in their order: to wit

James Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley and Strange, Baron of Weeton, Viscount Kinton, Lord Mohun, Barnwell, Basset and Lacy, Lord Chancellor and Lord Lieutenant of the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, and Vice Admiral of the same; Lord Chamberlain of the City and County Palatine of Chester; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guards; one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; and Lord of Man and the Isles.

And here, though I have given the reader the lineal succession of the Earls of Derby for ten generations, with their marriages and issue, and the marriages and issue of their sons and daughters; yet perinit me, before I proceed further in the history, to insert a few articles come to my knowledge during my writing what hath already passed, which will tend to make the whole something more intelligible and uniform, although a little out of due place, which I flatter myself will be forgiven me, as it is intended for the reader's information.

And first, the most noble Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and widow to Edmund, Earl of Richmond, and afterwards wife to Thomas the first Earl of Derby, whom she out-lived, died in the year 1509, and was interred in Westminster abbey with her royal ancestors.

Secondly, William, Earl of Derby, great grandfather to the last Earl James, was by patent of the first of James I. made Chamberlain of Chester for life; and after this, in the year 1640, another patent passed, joining James Lord Strange with his father, for both their lives, and the survivor of them.

Thirdly, William, Earl of Derby, died in 1642, and was succeeded in the said office by James Lord Strange, his son, who continued therein till the lords of Parliament removed him, and put in their speaker, Edward, Earl of Manchester, who continued to the year 1647, when the Commons thought fit to remove him, and put in William Lenthel, their speaker, and Humphrey Mackworth, of Shrewsbury, the Vice Chamberlain.

After him, in the year 1654, John Glinn was made. Chamberlain, and appointed Philip Young, of Shropshire, his Vice Chamberlain. This John Glinn was afterwards, as I take it, Sir John Glinn, who had (upon the vote of both Houses above-mentioned,) made an offer of surrendering the inheritance of Harden castle, purchased by him from the agents of sequestration, to Charles, Earl of Derby, fór a lease of three lives, which not being immediately accepted by the said earl, and his majesty afterwards refusing his assent to the bill passed by both Houses in his favour, he was glad to compound with Sir John Glinn for the property of the said castle, and had the same granted to him and his heirs, who now enjoy the inheritance thereof.

And here the reader may with me observe and lament the hard fate of the late loyal and brave Earl of Derby's sufferings and persecutions, in every state of property, whether in office for life or inheritance, nay, even in his 'persón and family, his and their enemies being daily in hand to swallow them up; who, being exalted, and set on fire by unbounded power, their teeth became spears and arrows, and their tongues as sharp swords.

Sometime after this, Earl Charles obtained by patent 'the office of Chamberlain of Chester for the life of himself and William his son; upon the decease of whom it rested in the crown to the time the late Earl James was favoured therewith for his life.

Here followeth a List of the Deaths and Time of several of the Family hitherto omitted.

CHARLOTTE, Countess of Derby, died in the year

1664.

Edward Stanley her son, and brother to Charles, Earl of Derby, died in 1664.

Charles, Earl of Derby, her eldest son, died in 1672. Mary, daughter of Charles, Earl of Derby, died in

1674.

Catharine Lady Savage, daughter to Lord Colchester, died in 1687,

James Lord Strange, son of William, Earl of Derby, died in 1700,

William, Earl of Derby, his father, died in 1702.

Dorothy Helena Rupa, Countess Dowager, died in 1702. Charles Stanley, fourth son of Charles, Earl of Derby, died in 1715.

Charlotte Lady Colchester, her daughter, died in 1717. James, Earl of Derby, third son of Charles, Earl of Derby, died in 1735.

Having here brought down and gone through the leading line of the ancient house of Stanley, and also the first collateral branch, from whence sprung the Earls of Derby, with what remarks and observations I had to make thereon; give me leave to return to their natural brother, Sir Oskatel de Latham, on whom I have before said Sir Thomas, his father, had settled a competent estate, and given him the signet of his family, with the eagle in the crest, in token of his love and favour for him, and in memory of his supposed deliverance.

This foundling being possessed of the lands and manors above-mentioned, made choice of Earlham for his seat,

and became the ancestor of the Lathams, of Earlham; whose progeny continued in a direct line from him, without any interruption, until Cromwell's usurpation.

That Latham whose turn it was to be in possession of the paternal estate, followed the fate of that noble Earl of Derby who suffered martyrdom at Bolton; and though he escaped the hands of the executioner, yet was obliged to secret himself all the remaining part of his life from the fury of those times, when a great part of his estate within the power of the sequestrators, with many ancient deeds and records that particularly set forth the origin of the before-mentioned crest, and the history of it, were all rifled away, and eternally lost.

This unfortunate gentleman married a daughter of Egerton, of Riddley, in Lancashire, (own sister to the then Baronet of Bickerstaff's lady, ancestor to the present Earl of Derby,) by whom he had issue, one son and two daughters; the eldest of which daughters was never married, and died at Fulshaw, about the year 1730, after having lived in that family near forty years. She arrived to an extreme old age, and surprisingly retained a right use of all her senses till a few months before her death.

It was from this gentlewoman, says Mr. Finney, that I received the most authentic account of the family she sprung from, and indeed was even a living oracle to me, by a remarkable knowledge she had of sundry notable occurrences that happened in Cromwell's time when she was a young woman, as I have mentioned before. She was daughter to that Latham that was so severely treated in Oliver's days, and sister to the last male heir of that name, whose father dying before the restoration, she was left a minor under the guardianship of his mother and two uncles, of Bickerstaff and Riddley.

And although the estate had suffered so much in his father's time, yet he still retained the inheritance of a fair patrimony, though incumbered; but by the provident care