400 BUCKINGHAM Will dat. 9 Aug. 1716 to 30 Dec. 1717, pr. 28 Mar. 1720/1. His widow d. 13 Mar. 1742/3, and was ^«r. 8 Apr. 1743,3! Westm. Abbey, aged 6 1 . "Will dat. 15 Feb., pr. 15 Mar. 1 742/3.0 [John Sheffield, nyled Marquess of NormanbYjC^) ist s. and h. ap. by 3rd wife, b. 26 Sep., and bap. 3 Oct. 17 10, d. an infant 16, and was bur. 18 Dec. 1 7 10, at St. Margaret's, Westm. Removed to Westm. Abbey at the interment of his father.] [Robert Sheffield, j/y/fia'MARQUESsoF NoRMANBY,()2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap. by 3rd wife, b. ^ and bap. 16 Dec. 17 11, at St. Margaret's, Westm. He d. an infant, i Feb. i-jij^j^, and was apparently bur. there, but removed therefrom (with his br.) to Westm. Abbey. {)] VII. 1721 2. Edmund (Sheffield), Duke of Buckingham and to Normanby [1703], Marquess of Normanby [1694], 1735. Earl of Mulgrave [1626], and Baron Sheffield of Butterwicke [1547], 3rd but only surv. s. and h. by 3rd wife, was b. 3, and bap. 29 Jan. 17 15/6, at St. Margaret's, Westm. of the then Earl of Mulgrave to extract a Marquessate from the unfortunate James II, who had just returned to London after his first ineffectual attempt to leave the country. The "dark preamble and beating the bush" of the peer, who finally produces a warrant ready drawn for signature; and the irritation of the King, "Good God, what a time you take to ask a thing of that nature!" are graphically conveyed. It appears from Macky that, though he obtained a Marquessate from William III, he had opposed the Revolution and all the measures of that King; but as to his Dukedom that was not unnaturally granted to him by Queen Anne; to whom, when a girl, "his presumption [had] made him make love." He composed for himself the following M.I., which was regarded as too unorthodox to be erected: "Pro rege saepe, pro republica semper; improbus vixi, Incertus non perturbatus morior, Xtum veneror, in Deo confido aeterno ac omnipotente. Ens entium miserere mei." G.E.C. and V.G. (f) She was known as the haughty Duchess of Buckingham. Horace Walpole describes her as "more mad with pride than any Mercer's wife in Bedlam." After hearing Whitefield preach, she wrote thus to Lady Huntingdon, " I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preachers. Their doctrines are most repulsive, and strongly tinctured with impertinence, and disrespect towards their superiors. It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl the earth. I cannot but wonder that your ladyship should relish any sentiments so much at variance with high rank and good breeding." V.G. C") "The Rt. Hon. Jno. Sheffield, Ld. Marq. of Normanby, only son of His Grace isfc." Par. Reg. of Burials at St. Margaret's. (■=) "Robert, Ld. Marquiss of Normanby, son to His Grace ^c, born this day." Par, Reg. of Baptisms at St. Margaret's. {^) See Col. Chester's note to his Westm. Abbey Registers, p. 302, and Dart's Antiquities of Westm. Abbey.
