LIST OF PORTRAITS CONTAINED IN VOLUME THE THIRD. LIONEL Cranfield, earl of Middlesex ... Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex... Edward Herbert, lord Herbert of Cherbury........ James Stanley, earl of Derby..... John Digby, earl of Bristol..... Henry Carey, second earl of Monmouth.... William Fiennes, viscount Say and Sele..... Edward Somerset, earl of Glamorgan and marquis of Worcester... 89 Margaret Lucas, duchess of Newcastle... Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon..... Page 136 151 Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset and Pembroke.... 165 William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle. ... George Digby, earl of Bristol ..... 175 191 Richard Sackville, fifth earl of Dorset. Dudley North, fourth lord North......... 201 203 Henry Booth, lord Delamer, and earl of Warrington 318 George Saville, marquis of Halifax... George Berkeley, earl of Berkeley ... 329 337 LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL of MIDDLESEX, From a fine Miniature by 0.Humphry Esq R.A. taken from the Original at Knowle. PubMay 20.1806 by J Scott 442. Strand. THE NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND. LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL OF MIDDLESEX, [SON of Thomas Cranfield, esq. a merchant of London, was bred in the custom-house, and became well versed in the theory and practice of trade 3. By the interest of the duke of Buckingham, his kinsman, he became successively master of the requests, of the king's wardrobe, and of the wards; and after being advanced to the office of lord-high-treasurer, was created baron Cranfield in 1621, and the following year earl of Middlesex. He murmured at the expense of the journey to Spain, which gave great offence to the duke; and he was, in several instances, less ob • Dugdale, Baronage, tom. iii. p. 446; but Fuller calls him Randal Cranfield. He may be said to have been his own tutor and his own university, says Fuller; and king James became highly affected with the clear, brief, strong, yea and profitable sense he spake. Worthies of London, p.211. |