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'tis to the loss of the best of wives, which was foon followed by that of an only child, that I owe my prefent diforder. We were happy. She was the best of women." At these words Eraftus fixed his eyes upon Eliza. "May heaven continue our lives, faid he; may we never know the pang of feparation till age has filvered o'er our heads, and then it must be fhort."

The brother asked Eraftus what accident had brought him to that part of the world; and told him, that, upon the first appearance of his illness, he had wrote to England to enquire whether he was ftill living; and that he had already made a will in his favour, and left him whatever fortune he poffeffed.

"It was not long after his arrival, resumed Eraftus, that he died, and left me an eftate even beyond the ambition of my wishes. 'Twas his funeral you met; it was Erastus they were bearing to his grave, but not Eliza's Eraftus. He lives to be once more happy with the partner of his joys." At thefe words he preffed her to his bofom with a warmth expreffive of the most perfect love. 66 Upon my return from

the funeral, I was told by some one whom I met, the ftory of a woman's fainting, with fuch circumftances as made me think 'twas thee. I baftened to the houfe where the hofpitable ftranger had conducted thee, and found thee funk into the arms of thy maid. Shall I tell my Eliza, that even this circumftance at prefent affords me a degree of pleasure ? Indeed it does; it convinces me that I fill am bleft with thy tendereft love, without which, as Eliza once faid to me, no circumftances could make me happy."

Eraftus was now poffeffed of a fortune which might enable him to pafs his remaining days independent of the cares of bufinefs. He fold his estates to advantage, and returned to his native country, where he now lives in all the felicity of elegant eafe. The greatest part of their time they fpend in the country, and now and then a winter in the rational amufements of the town. Wealthy without arrogance, œconomifts without avarice, and liberal without profufion; univerfally beloved by thofe who have any connection with them, and admired by the few who are hap py in their intimacy.

Genealogical Account of WINDSOR-HICKMAN, Earl of PLYMOUTH,

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fcended the prefent earl of Plymouth. The empress Maud ratified to him all the grants which had been made to his father in as full and ample a manner as he enjoyed them from her father king Henry I. To him fucceeded

William his fon, who was lord of Stanwell in Middlefex, and father of Sir William, whofe wife was Agnes, by whom he had a daughter, Joan, and a fon,

William, who was third lord of Stanwell. He married Margaret fifter to Sir John Derekenford kut. and had

Sir Richard de Windfor, who married Julian, daughter to Sir Richard Stapleton of Hachilfay in Yorkshire, knt. by whom he had a fon, Rich. ard de Windfor, and William rector of the church of Stanwell. Richard the eldest fon, ferved in parliament for Middlefex in the 4th and 12th years of the reign of Edward III. and for Berkshire in the 14th year of the fame reign. By Julian, daughter and coheir of James Molyns of the county of Southampton, he had Sir James, his heir, and Sir William, who was twice appointed lordlieutenant of Ireland in the reign of Edward III. and was fummoned to parliament among the barons in that of Richard II. He married the famous Dame Alice Perrers, or Pierce, favourite of king Edward III. but left no iffue male.

Sir James Windfor, his elder brother, married Elizabeth, daughter to Sir John Strechy, knt. and by her had

Sir Miles de Windfor, who died in the 11th year of the reign of Richard II. leaving iffue by Alice his wife, daughter to Adam de Wymondham, or Wyndham, of Wyndham in Norfolk,

Brian de Windfor, who married Alice, daughter to Thomas Drew, Efq; and dying left two fons.

Miles the eldeft dying unmarried,

Richard his brother, fucceeded to the eftate. He married Chriftian, daughter to Richard Faulkner of the county of Southampton, Efq; and dying in the fixth year of the reign of Henry VI. left a fon,

Miles de Windfor, who died in Italy Sept. 30, in the 26th year of the reign of Henry VI. leaving iffue by Joan, daughter to Walter Green of Bridgenorth in Shropshire, Efq;

Thomas de Windfor, who died in 1485. He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir to John Andrews of Baylam, in the county of Suffolk, Efq; and by her had several children, of whom Margaret was the laft, priorefs of the monaftery of Sion.

Sir Andrews Wind for the eldest fon, was created knt. of the Bath at the coronation of king Henry VIII. and a knt. banneret for his valiant behaviour at the Battle of the Spurs. In the 21ft year of the reign of Henry VIII. he was fummoned by writ among the peers of the realm, to that remarkable parliament which gave the firft ftroke to the diffolution of monafteries; but he was afterwards obliged by that monarch to quit his loved feat at Stanwell (which his ancestors had enjoyed from the Conqueft) in lieu of Broadley-Abbey in Worcestershire. He married Elizabeth, fifter and coheir to Edward Blount lord Montjoy, by whom he had four fons, George, Sir William, Sir Edmund, and Thomas; and four daughters. George the eldeft married lady Urfula, fifter and heir of John Vere earl of Oxford, by whom he had no iffue; and dying before his father,

Sir William the fecond fon became heir. He was made one of the knts. of the Bath at the coronation of queen Anne Boleyn; and upon the death of king Edward VI. was one of the first that appeared for queen Mary. He was twice married. By his first wife Margaret, daughter and heir to Sir William Samburne of Southcot, knt. he had feven fons, and nine daughters. Sir William married fecondly, Elizabeth, fecond daughter and coheir to Peter Coundray of Harriard in Hampshire, Efq; by whom he had a fon named Philip, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who both died without iffue.

Sir Edward, the fifth but eldest furviving fon by Sir William's first lady, fucceeded his father, and was created lord Windfor of Bradenham. He married Catharine, daughter to John Vere earl of Oxford; and dying at Venice on the 24th of January, in the 17th year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, left four fons, Frederick, Henry, Edward, and Andrews, and two daughters.

Frederick fucceeded his father, and died the 24th of December, in the 28th year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, unmartied, and was fucceeded by

Henry his brother, who was one of the peers at the trials of the earls of Effex and Southampton, died the 6th of April 1605, and was buried at Tarbick in Worcestershire. He married Anne, daughter and coheir to Sir Thomas Rivet of Chipenhamn in Cambridgeshire, kut. by whom he had two fons, and five daughters; of which only one fon named Thomas, and two daughters, both named Elizabeth, furvived; the eldeft of whom married Dixie Hickman of Kew in Surrey, Efq.

Bath, fucceeded his father, and was the fixth lord Windfor. He was rear-admiral of the fleet which brought prince Charles out of Spain in 1623. He married Catharine, youngest daughter to Edward Somerfet, fourth earl of Worcester; but dying without iffue, put an end to this line; and the title of lord Windfor was at the difpofal of king Charles II, who, in 1665, conferred it on

Thomas Windfor-Hickman, fon of Dixie Hickman and Elizabeth his wife abovementioned. The fame monarch afterwards created him earl of Plymouth, and made him one of his privy-council.

Having given an account of the family of Windfor, it remains now to give that of Hickman, from whom the prefent earl is paternally defcended.

Robert Fitz Hickman, lord of the manors of Bloxham and Wickham in Oxfordshire, in the latter end of the reign of Henry III. had two fons, Sir John, who died without iffue, and

William who became heir. He had iffue Sir Roger, who died without iffe, and

John, who became heir; whofe fon
Henry left iffue

William, who was lord of the manor of Woodford-hall in Effex. He had two fons, William, who died without iffue, and

Walter, who fucceeded as heir. He had three fons; William the eldeft died without iffue, as did Henry the youngefl, who was prebendary of Landǝff; and

Walter the fecond fon was heir to his father.. He married Alice, daughter of Jephton of Froyle in Hampfire, and had feveral chil

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Sir Thomas, who was knt. of the dren, whereof

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