To the Right Hmourable William the IV. Marquis of Hartington) This Higie of his truly noble and Illustrious (prandfather

is humbly Insoribes og

inscribed by his Lordship

Devoted Jerut

1

Grove

Richmond es.of Oct.1763.

moft Obedient & Devoted Jernet

THE

LI V E S

OF ALL THE
EARLS and DUKES

. OF
DEVONSHIRE,

Descended from the Renowned
Sir WILLIAM CAVENDISH,
One of the PRIVY COUNSELLORS

to King HENRY VIII.

ILLUSTRATED
With REFLECTIONS and Oe's ERVATIONS on the

! most striking Passages in each Life:

INTERSPERSED
With fome Particulars of the Lives, CHARACTERS,

and GENEALOGIES of several Great and Eminent
Men, their Contemporaries ;'

To which is added,
A thort Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State

of the High Court of CHANCERY.

By Mr. GROVE, 'of Richmond.

VO

LONDON,

Y Printed for the AUTHOR:
And fold by J. NOURSE, Bookseller to his Majesty, in the

Strand ; W. SANDBY in Fleet-ftreet; and J. Coote, in
Pater- nofter Row. MDCCLXIV.