CLARENDON 267 i66i/2.() He m., 2ndly, before 1674, Flower, widow of Sir William Backhouse, Bart, (who d. 22 Aug. 1 669), and before that of William Bishop, da. and h. of Sir John Backhouse, K.B., by Flower, da. of Benjamin Hen- SHAW, of London. She d. 17 July I700.() He d. of asthma, 31 Oct., and was bur. 4 Nov. 1709, in Vestm. Abbey, aged 71. Admon. 1 1 May 17 13 and 2 Mar. 1747/8. III. 1709. 3. Edward (Hyde), Earl OF Clarendon, £;fc., only s. and h. by ist wife, ^.28 Nov. 1661 ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 23 Jan. 1674/5 (being then styled Viscount Cornbury). P.C. 13 Dec. 171 1 till Sep. 17 14. Lieut. Col. of the Royal Regt. of Dragoons, 1683; Col. thereof, 1685-89; M.P. (Tory) for Wilts, 1685-87 and 1689-95; for Christchurch, 1695-1701; Master of the Horse to Prince George of Denmark, 1685-90; Page of Honour to James II at his Coronation, 23 Apr. 1685. From that King, however, for whom he was then in command, he, with as many troops as he could induce to follow him, was one of the earliest deserters in 1688. C^) Gov. of New York and New Jersey, 1701 to 1708. () Envoy extraordinary to Hanover, May to Aug. 1 7 1 4. He m., "clandestinely," 10 July 1688, at Totteridge, Herts (lie. Vic. Gen. Off.), Catherine, only surv. da. and h. of Henry O'Brien, styled l^o's.Xi O'Brien, by Catherine, sua jure. Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold. She, who was b. 29 Jan. 1673, and who, on her mother's death in Nov. 1702, became, suo jure, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, d. at New York, 1 1 Aug. 1706, in her 34th year, and was bur. in Trinity Church there.() He d. s.p.s., (^) For the strange story of " second sight " and the foretelling of the manner of her death, see her husband's letter to Pepys, 27 May 1701. V.G. (^) She was described by the Duchess of Marlborough as "one who looked like a madwoman and talked like a scholar." V.G. (') See note "a" on previous page. "He was a young man of slender abilities and violent temper." V.G. {^) Where he "earned a most unenviable reputation, which he appears to have fully deserved, and his character and conduct were equally abhorred in both hemispheres." See note by Col. Chester in his If^estm. Abbey Registers, p. 308. Luttrell mentions that he was a prisoner for debt in New York at the time of his father's death. G.E.C. On the flyleaf of a bible belonging to Lady Frances Hyde is the following entry: — "My dear nephew the Earl of Clarendon died the 31st March; it was Passion Sunday; by thy blessed passion sweet Jesu I beseech thee to look on the sincerity of his heart and his great charity. Lay not his follies to his charge, but have mercy on his poor soul." V.G. (^) The inscription on her coffin plate, found in 1839, when Trinity Church, New York, was re-built, is as follows: — "Catharine, Lady Viscountess Cornbury, Baroness of Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in the co. of Warwick, sole surv. da. and h. of Henry, Lord O'Brian and the Lady Catharine his wife, who was sole sister and h. to the Most Noble Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lenox; born the 29th day of Jan. in the year 1673; departed this life at the city of New York in America, the nth day of August 1706, in the 34th year of her age."
