ANTHONY BROWNE, VISCOUNT MONTAGUE, [GRANDSON and successor to Anthony, first lord viscount Montague, from whose good example, says Camden, he no ways degenerated 3. In 1591 he took to wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Sackville, lord Buckhurst and earl of Dorset; and the year after succeeded both his father and grandfather in their estates and honour, being then in the twentieth year of his age. His lordship died on the 23d of October 16294; leaving issue one son and six daughters. "A Book of Orders and Rules, established for the better Direction and Government of his Household and Family; together with the several Duties and Charges appertaining to his Officers and other Servants, 1595," by this peer, is said to be still extant in manuscript. Lord Orford appears to have seen it; for he represents it as "a collection of forms and ceremonies, and a ridiculous piece of mimicry of royal grandeur 5." His lordship, however, must have known that such salutary codes of domestic regulation were by no means unusual in the mansions of our nobility, and that they extended even to the dwellings of country gentlemen. Hence, in the Nugæ Antiquæ, we meet with "Orders for household Servantes," first devised by John Harrington, esq. in 1566, and renewed by his son in 1592, that son being then high sheriff of the county of Somerset.] 6 Vol. i. p. 105. |