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CARLISLE 33 Arms. Admon. 20 May 1637. His widow d. suddenly, of apoplexy, 5 Nov. 1660, J./>.,n at Little Cashiobury House, aged about 60, and was bur. at Petworth, with her father. Admon. (as of St. Martin's-in-the- Fields), 20 Dec. 1660. HI. 1636 2. James (Hay), Earl of Carlisle [1622], Viscount to DoNCASTER [1618], LoRD Denny (of Waltham) [1604], 1660. Lord Hay [1606] and Baron Hay of Sawley [16 15], 2nd, but only surv.() s. and h. by ist wife, b. about 1612. Knighted 17 May 1623. Had a grant in reversion of the office of Keeper of Epping Walk in the Forest of Waltham, to which he sue. on the death of his maternal grandfather. Col. of a regt. of Foot in Germany, 1624. K.B., 2 Feb. 1625/6. He sue. his maternal grandfather, the Earl of Norwich, as Lord Denny (of Waltham), 24 Oct. 1637. In 1639 he established his hereditary right to the island of Barbados, then called the Carlisle Islands. Cr. M.A., Cambridge, 5 Mar. 1642. Col. of a reo-t. of Horse in the Royal Army, 1642-46. He resided at Barbados during the Civil War, returning to England in 1652. He w., 21 Mar. 1631/2, at St. Benet's Fink, London, (being then styled '■'■Lord of Doncaster") Mar- garet, 3rd da. of Francis (Russell), 4th Earl of Bedford, by Catherine, da. and h. of Giles (Brydges), Baron Chandos. He d. s.p., 30 Oct., and was bur. 15 Nov. 1660, at Waltham Abbey, Essex, when all his honours became extinct. Will pr. 1661. His widow m. (mar. lie. at Vic. Gen. office), I Aug. 1667 (as his 5th wife), Edward (Montagu), 2nd Earl of Manchester, who d. 5 May 1671. She d. Nov., and was bur. i Dec. 1676, at Chenies, Bucks. Will pr. 1676. IV. 1 66 1. I. Charles Howard, 2nd s. of Sir William H., of Naworth, Cumberland, by Mary, da. of William (EvERs), Baron Evers [or Eure], which Sir William H. was s. and h. of man, and a most accomplished courtier; and after having spent, in a very jovial life, above ^^400,000 ... he left not a house nor acre of land to be remembered by . . . he died with as much tranquility of mind as used to attend a man of more severe exercise of virtue." He was one of those who, in the reign of James I, "lay sucking at the brests of the State." (Osborne's ^KCt-« £//z.) Carlyle calls him "Heliogobalus Hay." His letters show tact, courtesy, and amiability, but neither diplomatic power nor penetration. V.G. (") She, who was one of the beauties of her time, is said to have been the person who gave Pym notice of the King's coming to the House to seize the five members. She appears to have then been Pym's " mistress," having certainly previously been so to the famous Earl of Strafford. She is appropriately styled " the Erinnys of her time," her charms and foibles being celebrated by Waller, Suckling, ^'c. Sir E. Nicholas bitterly writes of her 16 Apr. 1654, "His [Northumberland's] dear and virtuous sister Carlisle, who hath been throughout the whole story of his late Majesty's mis- fortunes a very pernicious instrument." G.E.C. and V.G. 1^) His elder br., James Hay, was hap. I2 June 16 10, at Waltham, and was bur. there two days later. V.G. 5