* The next Day, the Council made the following A. C. Address to his Lordship: May it pleafe your Excellency, 1.709. May. *March 4: P. 104, WE E efteem it our great Happiness that Her Majefty has plac'd a Perfon of fo much Temper The Coun • and Moderation over us; and make no Question your cil's AdExcellency will furmount every Difficulty with Ho- drefs to nour and Safety. Her Majefty's Reign will make a bim bright Leaf in Hiftory; and as 'tis the Advantage of the prefent, fo 'twill be the Admiration of future Ages; not more for Her Succeffes abroad than Her 105. Prudence at home: And tho' our Dittance has been, and may fometimes be difadvantagious to us, yet we experience the effect of her Princely care, in putting an End to the worst Adminiftration, New Jerfey ever knew, by fending your Excellency, whofe Adminiftration must always be eafie to Her Majesty's Subjects here, and fatisfactory to your felf, whilft you follow fo great and fo good an Example. We have no Animofities with one another, but • firmly agree to do our felves and Country Juftice; and perfwade our felves, none that deferves publick Cenfure will have fhare in your Excellency's Efteem; but that we fhall meet with an hearty concurrence from you in all those Measures that conduces to our Peace and Satisfaction. We shall contribute to the Support of Her Majefty's Government to the utmost of our Abilities, and moft willingly fo at a time when we are freed from Bondage and Arbitrary Encroachments, and are very much fatisfy'd that Vice and Immorality will meet with a different Treatment from what it did, and ← not receive that Publick Countenance and Approba<tion. We do affure your Excellency, all your reafonable Defires fhall be commanded to us; and that we will • study te make your Excellency's Administration as ́eafie as we can to your Excellency and our felves, ? 9 His Lordship fcarce liv'd to fee any effects of this The Lord Addrefs, for on the 6th of May he died at New-York. Lovelace Foln Lovelace, Lord Lovelace of Hurley, in the Coun- his Death, ty of Berks, inherited the Honour of the late Lord May 6. Lovelace; but having a very small Fortune, he had for fome time, the Poft of a Cornet in the Firft Troop of Her Majefty's Horfe-Guards, from whence he was advanc'd to the Government of New-York: The Unfortunate Lady, befides her Lord, buried two of her Son's Cc4 in A. C. in that Country; and Nevil Lovelace, a Third Son of the late Lord, inherited his Honour. 1709. May. The Countefs of Peterbo rough's The D. of Norfolk On the 13th of May at Night, the Countels of Feterborough, Wife to the Farl of Peterborough and Monmouth, a Lady of admirable Wit and Judgment, died of a Squinzy, very much lamented. She left his Lordship three Children, viz. the Lord Mordaunt, Captain Henry Mordaunt, and the Marchionels of Huntley. On the 26th, the Duke of Norfolk was Married to Sir Nicholas Sherburn's Daughter, a great Fortune. The E. of Sometime this Month died alfo Mon thrat.dies. The Earl af Ken noul dies. The Lord Hay, Earl of Kinnoul, a North British Peer, and was fücceeded in Honour and Estate by his Brother Thomas Hay, Lord Viscount Duplin. On the 22d of this Month, John Lord Haverfham Married Mrs. Graham, the Widow of Lieutenant Graham, who was taken Prifoner at the Battle of Almanfham mar. za, and died in the Spring of this Year. Haver ries. Mr. Gore Sir Ed- About the fame time Mr. Gore, Eldeft Son of Sir William Gore, Kt. fome time Lord Mayor and Alder. man of the City of London, Married the Lady Compton, Daughter to George, Earl of Northampon. The 29th died Sir Edmund King, a Doctor in Phyfick King dies. above Ɛo Years old. About the middle of June died William Cook Elq; June. Member of Parliament for the City of Gloucefter. On the 29th of the fame Month, the Countess of Mr. Cook Carnarvan died at Lindsey Houfe. his death. In the Month of July died alfo Mr. Edward Lluyd, The C. of Keeper of the Mufaum at Oxford. This Gentleman was Carnar- born in Wales, being the Sonof Charles Lluyd of Lanvor van's da, in the County of Salop Efq; by Death. Price, a Gentleman of the Family of Gogerthan, in the County July. of Cardigan, who have had the Honour of Baronets for many Dellents. Mr. LluHaving fpent his younger Years in Grammar and ye's death Claffick Learning, to qualifie him for the University; he was bred at Oxford under Dr. Plot, that Eminent Antiquary, and fucceeded him in the Place of Keeper of the molean Mufaum, about the Year 1693: He travell'd more than once through all Wales, into Ireland, the North of Scotland, Cornwall, and Bretagne in France, in order to furnish himself with Matter for going on with the great Defign he had formed in Antiquities, Natural Hiftory, &c. The first Specimen of his Abilities was, I think, his Addition to Cambden's Britannia, in reference to Wales only: He did fince, in the Year 1707, Publish his Archeologia Britannica, giving fome Account Additional to what has been hitherto Published of the Languages, Hiftories and Cuftoms, of the Original Inhabitants of Great Britain, from Collections and Oblervations in Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Baffe, Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. His Gloffography. A. C. 1709. July. This Work is divided into Ten Titles: 1. The Comparative Etimology. 2. The Comparative Vocabulary of the Original Languages of Britain and Ireland. 3. An Armorick Grammar, tranflated out of French by Mr. Wil liams, the Sublibrarian of the Mufaum. 4. An Armorick English Vocabulary. 5. Some Welsh Words omitted in Dr. David's Dictionary. 6. A Cornish Grammar. 7. M, S. S. Britannicorum Catalogus. 8. A British Etimologicon, by Mr. Parry, with an Appendix. 9. A brief Introduction to the Irish or Ancient Scotif Languages, 10. An Irish English Dictionary; and Laftly, a Catalogue of Irifb Manufcripts. The untimely Death Auguft. of this Excellent, and I may lay, the beft Antiquary in his Time, has prevented the compleating of many ad- The Chanmirable Designs. cellor's On the 4th of Auguft, the Lord Chancellour Cooper's Lady de Lady was delivered of a Son. liver'd of On the 11th of the fame Month, Thomas Hay, Lord a Son. Viscount Duplin, in North Britain, Married the Eldeit The Lord Daughter of Robert Harley Efq; fometime Speaker of Duplin the House of Commons, and afterwards Secretary of Marries. State. Dr. Man About this time Dr. Manningham Dean of Windfor, ningham was nominated to the Vacant Bishoprick of Chichester; made Bp. and Dr. Robinson made Dean of Windfor in his 100m. of Chi A Wager of 100 l having been laid, That a Dutch chefter, Man, near 63 Years of Age fhould walk 300 Miles in and Dr. fix Days, he performed the fame accordingly, from Robinfon Monday the 5th, to Saturday the 10th of September, ha- Dean of ving walked the faid 300 Miles, and one over, exactly Windfor by 6 in the Evening in Hile Park. Septemb. On the 12th of the fame Month, the Dutchefs of Beaufort was delivered of a Son; but her Grace falling 4 Man63 into Convulfions, fhe died the next Day. She was one fears old, of the Daughters and Co-heirs of the late Earl of walks 300 Gainsborough, and Sifter to the prefent Countess of Miles in 6 Portland. She has left the Duke of Beaufort two Sons, Days. his Grace having no Children by his first Lady, the The D. of late Earl of Dorfet's Daughter. Beaufort On the 26th of this Month died alfo Lieutenant Ge- dies. neral How, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, and Her LieuteMajetty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Hano- nant Gever. He was a younger Brother of Scroop Lord Viscount neral How How, died. A. C. 1709. Septemb. The Lady Falk land's death. J. Wych, Efq; appointed Envoy Extraord. Lord How, in the Kingdom of Ireland, and had Married a On the last Day of September died the Lady Falkland, About this time, John Wych Efq; was appointed Her Majefty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Courts of HəlBeen, and Mecklenburgh, and to the Hanfe-Towns. died alfo about the latter end of September at Belvois Sir John Levefon Gower, Baronet, and Lord Gower, Caftle, the Seat of John Duke of Rutland. This Gentleman, who was a Nephew, by the Mother fide, of John Granville, the first Earl of Bath of that Family, while as Commoner, was wont to serve as Member of Parliament for Newcastle Under Line in Staffordshire. Upon the Acceffion of her present Majesty Queen Anne to the Throne, he was in the Month of April 1702, together lor of with the Marquefs of Normanby, the Earl of Abington, Lancafter and John How Efq; fworn of her Majefty's moft Honourable Privy Council; and much about the fame time, the Seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster was delivered to him, he being appointed to fucceed the Earl of Stam ford as Chancellor of the fame. Gower's death. Chancel Made a Peer. Put out of being Chancel lor. was a Her Majefty as a further Inftance of her Royal Favour, was pleased about the beginning of March 1703, to promote him to the Dignity of a Peer of England, by the Title of Baron Gower of Tittenham in Yorkshire, at the fame time, that the Marquefs of Normanby was made Duke of Normanby, (tho the Title was afterwards alter'd into Buckinghamshire and Normanby) that John Granville Efq; was made Baron Granville of Po theridge in Devonshire; Heneage Finch Efq; Baron of Guernsey; Francis Seymour Conway Efq; Baron Conway of Ragley in Warwickshire; and John Harvey Elq; Baron Harvey of Ickworth in Suffolk: This Noble Lord, when the Occafional Conformity Bill came to be debated in the House of Peers, towards the end of 1702, ftrenuous Promoter of it; but the Court, which at first fet this Bill on foot, veering about, it could not be carried, after which, feveral Alterations happened in places of Truft, and the Lord Gower being difpoffeft of his Chancellorship, was in 1706 fucceeded in that Office, by the Earl ot Derby. My Lord Gower being at that time subject to Fits of the Gout, was overtaken with one at Belvoir Caftle aforefaid, which put a period to his Life. He was Married to the Eldeft Daughter of John Duke of Rutland, by whom he has left Children, and among others is tucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his Eldent Son fobn, now in the 16th Year of his Age: His Lordship's Corps was buried at Trentham inHartfordfire. On of the YEA R, 1709. 387. 1709. On the 2d of October died her Grace Mary Dutchel's A. C. of Queensbury and Dover, in the 39th year of her Age: She was the Second Daughter of Charles Lord Clifford, Eldeft Son of Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork, and the Lady Jane Seymour, younger Daughter of William Duke of Somerfet. October. Dutchefs of Queens Death. She was born on the 5th of December, in the year 1670, and on the 1st of December 1685, was Married bury's to James then Earl of Drumlangrig, afterwards by Succeffion Duke of Queensbury, and fince by Creation, Her Birth, Duke of Dover. By his Grace fhe had Iffue Four Sons Marriage, and Five Daughters, of whom fhe left, only Three and fue. Sons and Two Daughters. James Earl of Drumlamgrig, Charles, for the great Services of his Father, created Earl of Solaway, &c. now bearing the Title of Mar. quefs of Beverly; George, Jane and Anne. She was a Lady of very great and rare Qualities; Her ChaThe had Naturally an Understanding very uncommon to racer. her own, or indeed the other Sex; which being im proved by an Education fuitable to Her High Birth, gave her an occafion of diftinguishing her felf in every Part of Life fhe went through. Thofe who had the Honour of being acquainted with her, had an oppor tunity of difcerning fo much Sweetnefs and Complacency, mixt with an exact Prudence, and Great Spirit, that as one made all her Actions Noble and Juft, fo the other render'd her Conversation the most Agreeable: By the Strength and Conftancy of her Mind, the feem'd to be born for great and notable Difficulties; and perhaps no Woman ever had a more extraordinary occa fion of exerting thofe Mafculine Virtues than the had. It is but too well known what great ftruggles were inade particularly in Scotland, before the Union of the Two Kingdoms was Compleated, as likewife with what Firmness and Refolution the Duke of Queensbury got over all the obstacles which lay in the way to that great Work ; it was then this excellent Lady feem'd to have gain'd a Province fit for her Vertues to figna. lize themselves in, where her Prudence and Intrepidity could not but be of great ufe to him in the Profecution of those just Measures he had taken, and where the Re. folution of a Roman Matron was abfolutely requifite to restrain the Fears and Anxieties of a tender Wife. It is no wonder that a Perfon of fo fingular a Character, fhould be dear in the Memory of all that knew her, or that the fhould leave a more than ordinary Impreffion of Grief upon the Hearts of those who where the most nearly Related to her. On the Ninth of the fame Month, died a Lady of a different Character; I mean Barbara Villiers, Dutchefs of |