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Another of his daughters, Dorothy, was married in 1639 to John Fanshawe, Esq., of Parsloes, Essex, although Burke's 'Landed Gentry' wrongly makes this lady Catherine, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmanton. Sir Richard of Malshanger, indeed, seeins to have been ignored by the genealogists, but he was a notable Hampshire worthy, and evidently in sympathy with the Parliament, as we find Surname Doctrinali Alani'-T. Dudley, 150. him marrying couples in 1656, as a justice. REPLIES:-Joseph Anstice, 150-La Belle Assemblée': Miss Cubitt Kniaz," 152-Nicholas Klimius-Ballad: After his marriage Sir Robert Howard resided Spanish Lady's Love for an Englishman-Forests set on on the farm of Fabyans, near Church Oakley, Fire by Lightning-Jack and Jill, 153-Letter of Emanuel of Portugal to Pope Julian II.-References Wanted probably rented from his father-in-law. The William Waynflete, 154-Wellington's Badge-Prerogative Church Oakley registers record the births of Court of Canterbury Will Registers American Place- the following children of Sir Robert and his names-Chevy Chase,' 155-Luther's Commentary on the Galatians England," "English": their Pronuncia- wife Ann (1) Robert Howard, bapt. Feb., tion-Mélisande : Ettarre-Basil Montagu's MSS.-Yacht- 1645/6; (2) William Howard, bapt. 4 April, ing, 156-Doherty. Winchester Commoner-Hemming= Stevens-Romanoff and Stuart Pedigree-Archiepiscopal 1647; (3) Dorothie Howard, bapt. 6 July, Cross and Becket'-Why has England no Noblesse? 157 1649, and buried 26 Dec., 1649; (4) Thomas -Southwold Church - Caldwell Family-Lord Chesterfield-"The Pilgrim of Eternity" Horace Walpole's Howard, bapt. 26 Feb., 1650/1; (5) Dorothy Letters- Don Quixote,' 1695-6-Authors Wanted, 158. Howard, bapt. 20 Jan., 1653/4; (6) Ellesabeth NOTES ON BOOKS: -Matthews's Cardiff Records' Robertson of Struan-"The Star and Garter"-Slipper, Notes. " SIR ROBERT HOWARD, THE DRAMATIST, AND HIS FAMILY. son's Works Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Cen- The fourth child, Thomas, was the one who Hakluytus Posthumus The Muses' Library Emer-Hooard (sic), bapt. and buried 17 Aug., 1656. tury Grimm's Popular Stories'-Lambs' Tales from eventually succeeded to his father's estates Shakespeare'-' Household of Sir Thomas More.' of Ashstead and Castle Rising. He is usually Booksellers' Catalogues. described as son of Sir Robert, by Lady Honour O'Brien. There was yet another daughter, Mary Howard, born (Gillow's 'Dict. of Eng. Catholics') 28 Dec., 1653, but whose birth is not entered at Church Oakley. She THE life and matrimonial relations of Sir fled from the amorous advances of Charles II., Robert Howard, K.B., wit, dramatist, soldier, says her biographer, Alban Butler, was disand politician (son of the first Earl of Berk- inherited by Sir Robert, entered the Order of shire, and brother-in-law of Dryden), have Poor Clares, and died abbess of the convent long puzzled the genealogists. The Dic- at Rouen, 21 March, 1735. I have not been tionary of National Biography' blunders able to find any record of the death of Ann, hopelessly in dealing with Sir Robert's four Lady Howard, née Kingsmill. She must have wives, and even such a careful writer as been Sir Robert's first wife, as he was only Paget, who had access to the private MSS. of nineteen when he married her. She was the Berkshire Howards, is entirely wrong dead, one supposes, before 1666, when we find when he represents Sir Robert as leaving Sir Robert remarried to the Lady Honour children by his second wife, Lady Honour O'Brien, fifth daughter and co-heir of Henry, O'Brien. Thanks to recent researches, the fifth Earl of Thomond. This lady was widow present writer is now able to unravel the of a Wiltshire baronet, Sir Francis Englefield, tangle for the first time, and place the wives who had died in May, 1665, leaving absolutely and children of "Sir Positive Atall" (as to his wife the valuable estate of Wootton Shadwell styled him) in their proper order, Bassett, with the adjacent manor-house of besides explaining many hitherto puzzling Vasherne (about which inquiry was made facts in the life of that remarkable man. recently in N. & Q.'). Sir Robert evidently Sir Robert was knighted for gallantry at married Lady Honour for her money alone, Newbury 19 January, 1645/6. Thirteen days and in October, 1666, we already find him later (1 February, 1645/6) he was married at paying attentions to the actress Mrs. Uphill Church Oakley, near Basingstoke, as the (vide Evelyn's Diary). In September, 1667 parish registers show, to "Mrs. Ann Kings-('State Papers, Dom., Chas. II.'), Lady Honour mill, second daughter of Sir Richard Kings- petitioned the king for "an Act of Parliament to provide for her out of her own estate, and confirm to her the house and goods she brought, and a yearly maintenance. In spite of proposals of mediation offered her by her husband, she dares not trust him; although she brought him 2,000l. a year, besides personalty, he first left her with a few goods, in a house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to support herself on 67. a week, and then took that away, to compel her to lie at his mercy; which she dares not do, her jointure being mortgaged, she cannot prosecute for relief in ordi nary courts.' These and subsequent proceedings (such as the disinheriting of all his children save the favourite, Thomas) shed an unenviable light on the character of Sir Robert. He was now a rich man, having received a number of important offices and fat sinecures after the Restoratiou. Among his other posts was that of Auditor of the Exchequer, which he continued to hold almost to his death. An episode, however, which occurred in August, 1661, tends to show that in the beginning, at least, he was not persona grata at Court, for he was then sent to the Tower, with his brothers James and Philip, and Sir Robert | Killigrew. Can any reader explain this imprisonmeut, which followed so soon after the Order of the Bath and a Privy Councillorship had been conferred upon Howard ? Sir Robert, after years of persistent neglect, finally succeeded in getting rid of his second wife's landed estates altogether. In the Verney MSS. ('Hist. MSS. Com. Seventh Report') is a letter, dated 26 April, 1676, from John Verney, in which it is stated that "Sir Robert Howard has sold Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire, to Mr. Lau. Hyde for 36,000l., of which his lady (who consents to the sale) is to have eight." Poor Lady Honour did not long survive. On 19 September, 1676. Lady Chaworth writes to Lord Roos (Rutland Correspondence,' vol. ii. p. 29) that "Lady Honour Howard is dead." The couple had no children. Howard now began to sue for the hand of his mistress, Mrs. Uphill, in legitimate marriage. A work (A Seasonable Argument......for a new Parliament') published in 1677, says of him, "Many other places and boons he had; but his whore, Uphill, spends all, and now refuses to marry him." Marry him she did, nevertheless, being his third wife. In 1680 Howard bought the estates of Ashstead, in Surrey, and Castle Rising, in Norfolk, from his cousin, the Duke of Norfolk, and these properties he made over during his lifetime to his third son, Thomas, to the exclusion of his other children. I have not been able to find any record of the death of Mrs. Uphill, who was the original of Shadwell's "Lady Vaine." She was dead, how ever, in 1695, when Sir Robert, now seventy, Willesden. |