250 CLARE entertained the King at Welbeck, Notts,(*) for 5 days in Oct. 1695, at a cost of ;^5,042. Lord Lieut, of Notts 1694, of the East Riding, co. York, Aug. 1699, and of the North Riding, 1705 till his death; Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital 1 695-1 71 1. Nom. K.G. 30 May, andinst. 7 July 1698; Keeper of Sherwood Forest, 1699-1711; High Steward of Dorchester Jan. 1700/1; P.C. 29 Mar. 1705; Lord Privy Seal, 29 Mar. 1705 till his death. C") Ch. Justice in Eyre, North of Trent, Sep. i7ioto July 171 1. He ;;;., i Mar. 1689/90, his ist cousin, Margaret, 3rd da. and coh. of Henry (Cavendish), 2nd Duk.e of Newcastle, by Frances, da. of the Hon. William Pierrepont abovenamed. He d. s.f.m. legit, (two days after a fall from his horse when stag-hunting), aged 49, at Welbeck, 15 July, and was bur. 9 Aug. 171 1, in Westm. Abbey, under a sumptuous monument, when all his honours became extinct.i^^ Will dat. 29 Aug. 1 707 (directing his burial to be near his great-grandfather, the Lord Vere of Tilbury), pr. 6 July I7i5.() His estates were valued at about
- ^40,ooo a year.("') His widow, who was b. 22 Oct. 1661, d. in London,
[l] Cumberland {Pririce G forge of Denmark); [2] Bolton [Powlett, Marquess 0} IFinchester); [3] Schombera; {Schomherg); [4] Gloucester [Prince JFilliam); [5] Shrewsbury [Talbot); [6] Leeds (Oiisrw,'); [?] Bedford [Russell); [8] Devonshire [Cavendisli); and [9] Newcastle [Holies). {f) He appears to have chiefly resided there, leaving his paternal mansion at Haughton to become ruinous. His nephew, and successor as to the Holies estates (Thomas, Duke of Newcastle), enlarged Clumber (which, previously, was " but a Lodge") and made it the family house. See an account of " Haughton " in The Topographer, 1789, vol. i, pp. 142-154. C") He was succeeded by Bishop Robinson of Bristol, a late instance of an ecclesiastic appointed to such an office. For this and other great offices of State, see vol. ii, Appendix D. V.G. [f) In 1706 he wrote to Harlcy, thanking him warmly for arranging that the Electoral Prince should be Duke of Cambridge, not of Clarence, which would trench on his earldom of Clare. He says his family had always insisted on this, and had prevented Monk being made Duke of Clarence, though they might have had a Marquessate for consenting. [Hist. MSS. Com., 13th Rep., part ii, p. 198). V.G. {^) To him, as " Lord Houghton," Dryden dedicated his Spanish Fryar or the Double Discovery. According to Luttrell's Diary, 18 Mar. 1 686/7, ^^ fought a duel with " the Lord Wharton's eldest son." He ci. " leaving behind him the character of a stingy, close man, and of a great Whig." (Hearne). In " Macky's and Burnet's characters," with Dean Swift's remarks thereon in italics, it is said of him that " he is a black, ruddy complexioned man, near 60 years old. He hath the best estate in England, and employs most of his time in improving it; is very covetous, yet makes a great figure in Yorkshire, is firm for the constitution of his country, and hath only one daughter, who will be the richest heiress in Europe, now Countess of Oxford, cheated by her Father.^' See, as to this, the note following. G.E.C. and V.G. [') The estates or the Cavendish family, with lands of about ;^5,ooo a year in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, he devised to his only da., Henrietta, who, as heir-at-law, had lands worth ^100,000, purchased since his will, besides
- ^20,000, her portion under his marriage settlement. She m. Edward (Harley), 2nd Earl
