consequently his fortune suffered considerably by these great expenses." He was the commander of the Elizabeth Bonaventure, in the fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada of 1588. In Elizabeth's Court he held a high rank, and was one of her chief heroes: with a due sense of his chivalrous merits, she appointed him her champion" at all tilts and tournaments, where his gallant demeanour, skill, and courage made him the object of universal admiration. Once, at an audience of the Queen, after his return from one of his voyages, his royal and coquettish mistress dropped her glove, which he presenting on his knees, she graciously desired him to keep for her sake he immediately caused it to be encrusted with jewels, and ever after wore it, at all public ceremonies, in his hat. This was quite an action to secure her favour, which he seemed to have gained by his gallantry on all occasions. He appeared always in splendid armour to do honour to his royal mistress, who delighted in gorgeous shows, and loved to see her servants bravely accoutred: the fine suit in which he so often blazed at those entertainments, where the "Queen of all hearts" presided, is said to be still preserved in Appleby Castle, in Cumberland, of which, with many others, he was lord. This castle, one of the finest in the North, is a magnificent remain of antique grandeur. It stands on a bold projection of rock crowning the steep, whose rugged sides form a precipice which, at its base, is washed by the River Eden, its natural moat. The Earl of Cumberland, apparently mortified that he had no son to whom he could leave his name and estates, was anxious that his brother should succeed him; and, by an act of manifest injustice, occasioned his daughter to be long involved in law-suits with her uncle and his heirs. Anne was but ten years of age when he died, and her education was superintended at first by her mother, an excellent woman, and afterwards by her aunt, the Countess of Warwick. The character of the Earl of Cumberland has been thus drawn :- "He was a great, but an unamiable man; his story admirably illustrates the difference between greatness and contentment, between fame and virtue. If we trace him in the public history of the times, we see nothing but the accomplished courtier, the skilful navigator, the intrepid commander, the disinterested patriot. If we follow him into his family, we are instantly struck with the indifferent and unfaithful husband, the negligent and thoughtless parent. If we enter his muniment room, we are surrounded by memorials of prodigality and debts, mortgages and sales, inquietude and approaching want. By the grant of the Norton's estates, he set out with a larger property than any : of his ancestors in little more than twenty years he made it one of the least. Fortunately for his family, a constitution originally vigorous gave way, at forty-seven, to hardships, anxiety, wounds, and, probably, dissipation. His separation from his virtuous lady was occasioned by a court intrigue, and his conduct in general was such as to disgust and alienate her affections. She was herself a woman of extraordinary merit; but, perhaps, too high-spirited for such a husband." Spenser, captivated with his popular qualities, thus cites him in one of his sonnets: "Redoubted lord! in whose courageous mind The flower of chivalry, now blooming fair, Which of their praises have left you the heir." His ill-treated wife was Margaret, the youngest daughter of Francis, second Earl of Bedford, by his first lady, Margaret, the daughter of Sir John St. John of Bletsoe, who died while she was an infant. She was contracted to George Clifford at five years of age, and married to him a few years afterwards, in 1577. Her daughter's affection for her knew no bounds; and her admiration and veneration for the memory of "that blessed saint," as she calls her, was never diminished. These sentiments it does not appear were felt by the father of Anne; who, though gallant, and charming, and amiable, and chivalrous to all besides, strangely neglected |