exceed above four thousand pounds by the year; yet he had four very good houses, and three parks, the value whereof was not reckoned into that

computation.

He

He was of an excellent humour, and very easy to live with; and under a grave countenance, covered the most of mirth, and caused more, than any man of the most pleasant disposition. never used any body ill, but used many very well for whom he had no regard: his greatest fault was, that he could dissemble, and make men believe that he loved them very well, when he cared not for them. He had not very tender affections, nor bowels apt to yearn at all objects which deserved compassion. He was heartily weary of the world, and no man was more willing to die; which is an argument that he had peace of conscience. He left behind him a greater esteem of his parts, than love to his person. I. 151. III. 382.

JAMES, MARQUIS OF HAMILTON; CR. DUKEBEHEADED MDCXLVIII.

IF he had been weighed in the scales of the people's hatred, he was at that time (1640) thought to be in greater danger than any one of the other; for he had more enemies, and fewer friends, in court or country. His interest in the king's affection was at least equal, and thought to be superior, to any man's; and he had received as invidious instances, and marks of those affections. He had more out-faced the law, in bold projects and pressures upon the people, than any other man durst have presumed to do, especially in the projects of wine and iron; about the last of which, and the most gross, he had a sharp contest with the lord Coventry (who was a good wrestler too), and at last compelled him to let it pass the seal: the entire profit of which, always reverted to himself, and to such as were his pensioners.

When he ascended the scaffold (at his execution), he complained much of " the injustice that was done him; and that he was put to death for obeying the laws of his country, "which if he had

not done, he must have been put to death there.*" He acknowledged the obligations he had to the king, and seemed not sorry for the gratitude he had expressed, how dear soever it cost him. His natural darkness and reservation in his discourse, made him to be thought a wise man, and his having been in command under the king of Sweden, and his continual discourses of battles and fortifications, made him be thought a great soldier. And both these mistakes, were the cause that made him be looked upon as a worse, and more dangerous man, than in truth he deserved to be. I. 152. III. 271.

JOHN GLANVILLE, SERJEANT AT LAW †

MDCLXI.

DIED

HE was very well acquainted with the proceedings in parliament, of a quick conception, and of

In Scotland. State Trials, II: 1.

+ Chosen speaker H. C. April 13, 1640.-At this time, the parliamentary hours were from eight to twelve at noon.

I. 132.

a ready and voluble expression, dexterous in disposing the house, and very acceptable to them. When the house was in a committee, on the king's demand in lieu of ship-money, he rose up, and in a most pathetical speech, in which he excelled, he endeavoured to persuade the house "to comply with the king's desire, for the good of the nation, and to reconcile him to parliaments for ever, which this seasonable testimony of their affections would infallibly do;" and in the warmth of his discourse, which he plainly discerned made a wonderful impression upon the house, he let fall some sharp expressions against the imposition of shipmoney, and the judgment in the point, which he said plainly" was against law, if he understood what law was," (who was known to be very learned) which expression, how necessary and artificial soever, to reconcile the affections of the house to the matter in question, very much irreconciled him at court,, and to those upon whom he had the greatest dependence.* I. 137.

* Besides several of his speeches, there were published in 1775, "Cases of controverted elections in the house of commons, in 1623 and 1624, from the MSS. of Mr. Glanville, the chairman;" to which is prefixed, an historical account of

EDWARD, SECOND VISCOUNT CONWAY; GENERAL OF HORSE-DIED MDCLV.

HE had been born a soldier in his father's garrison of the Brill, when he was governor there; and bred up, in several commands, under the particular care of the lord Vere, whose nephew he was; and though he was married young, when his father was secretary of state, there was no action of the English, either at sea or land, in which he had not a considerable command; and always preserved a more than ordinary reputation. He was of a very pleasant and inoffensive conversation, which made him generally very acceptable: so that the court being at that time full of faction, very few loving one another, or those who resorted to any who were not loved by them; he alone, was even domestic with all, and not suspected by either the lords or the ladies factions. I. 141.

the ancient right of determining cases upon controverted elections, by John Topham, Esq. of Gray's Inn, barrister at law, F. S. A. These cases are held in high estimation by parliamentary lawyers, and election committees.