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Excerpt from London, Vol. 6: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, From an Actual Perambulation
Of this nobleman, we are informed, that he was grandson to Henry lord Hunsdon, cousin-german to queen Elizabeth. He was in his tender age, educated with the duke of York, afterwards Charles the First. Before he entered upon his travels, he received this admonition from Charles: Be always doing something while you are abroad.' It appears that he acted in conformity to that prince's advice, as he returned home a complete master of the languages of those countries through he travelled. He was agreat sufferer by the Civil War, particularly by the death of his son, a young gentleman of great hopes, who was killed at Marston Moor. But while some of the nobility were actually embroiled in this war, and others were miserable from the effects of it, the earl of Monmouth enjoyed the calm pleasures of a studious retirement. He composed nothing of his own but translated from Malvezzi, Bentivoglio, Paruta, Biondi, 8rc. No less than seven folios, two octavos, and a duode cimo. His tomb formerly stood against the south wall of the chancel; but being thought to disfigure the place, it was removed, and the bean tiful slab of marble that covered it, is now appropriated as the altar table.' A second slab of black marble, that was affixed on the north side of the tomb, was let into the south wall, on which a long inscription has been cut, descriptive of his lordship's family and alliances - Granger, Vol. III.
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