fleet, to aflift in quieting the minds of the people, who expreffed their affection and efteem for him, by crying out publicly, as he paffed through the ruined ftreets, That, if his grace had been there, the city had not been burnt.

The earl of Southampton dying on the fixteenth of May, 1667, his majesty, after the peace, put the Treafury in commiffion, at the head of which was again placed his grace the duke of Albermarle. This was the laft tefti mony of the royal favour his grace received; for being now in the fixtieth year of his age, the many hardships and fatigues he had undergone in a military life, began to shake his conftitution, hitherto remarkable healthy, he being about this time attacked with a dropfy, the firft fymptoms of which were too much neglected.

In this declining condition he withdrew from public bufinefs, as much as his poft and the ftate of affairs would permit, and retired to his feat at Newhall in the county of Effex; where he was prevailed upon, by the importunity of his friends, to try a pill then in vogue, being a preparation of one Dr. Sermon, of Bristol, who had formerly ferved under his grace as a common foldier; from which he at firft received fuch confiderable relief, that, towards the latter end of the year, he returned to town but foon after falling into a relapse, with the addition of an asthmatic complaint, he fet about finishing the laft great temporal

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affair, the marriage of his only fon with the lady Elizabeth, eldest daughter to Henry, earl of Ogle, only fon to Charles, the then duke of Newcastle; which being fettled, the nup-. tial ceremony was performed in his own chamber, on the thirtieth of December, 1669; and on the third of January, four days after, he died, fitting in his chair, without a fingle groan.

Thus, in the entrance of the fixty-second year of his life, died this noble and valiant commander, (for, whatever difputes there have been about his civil capacity, his military skill or courage were never called in queftion) beloved by moft, admired by many, and envied but by few.

Tringham Sculp

Hyde Earl of Clarendon

THE LIFE OF

EDWARD HYDE.

HE antient and genteel family of the

T Hydes was originally er of

Chefhire; a branch of which fettling at Guffage St. Michael, in the county of Dorset, Mr. Lawrence Hyde, of that place, being the father of feveral children, his third fon was Henry Hyde, of Pyrton, in the county of Wilts, the father (by Mary, his wife, the daughter and heir of Mr. Edward Langford, of Tunbridge, in the fame county) of our Mr. Edward Hyde, who was born at Dinton, near Hindon, in Wiltshire, on the fixteenth of February, or thereabouts, in the year 1608.

He was very carefully educated in grammar learning in his youth; foon discovered the pregnancy of his parts and elevated genius, and in Lent term, 1622, became a ftudent of Magdalen, hall, in the university of Oxford; where having applied himself to indefatigable ftudy, and highly improved his natural endowments with accademical learning ; he removed from thence after he had taken the degree of batchelor of arts to the MiddleTemple; where he studied the law for feveral

years,