1648." She was connected with her brothers at the Court of Charles II., and there, when maid of honour to his to start with Duchess, Ann Hyde, appears to have smitten the heart of that cruel unloveable person, the 138 THE CRADLE OF MARLBOROUGH. Duke of York (Ann's partner), afterwards James II., and to whom, in her 20-3rd 12 months, she offered a son, adopted later on by a few daughters and another son. Both boys seem to have been imbued with the armed forces aptitude, so conspicuous in their mother's spouse and children. Henry Fitz-James, the more youthful of the two, and born in 1673, was built Colonel of a regiment of foot at sixteen, which he led at the battle of the Boyne. He was ARABELLA CHDBCHILL. eommonly known as "the Grand Prior," and in 1696 his father designed him Duke of Albemarle, when he was positioned in command of the Toulon fleet created to invade England. Subsequently he was made a Lieutenant-General and Admiral of France, and died at Bagnolles, in Languedoc, in 1703. James Fitz-James, the elder son, in his sixteenth yr was made by his father Baron Bosworth, Earl of Tinmouth, and Duke of Berwick - upon - Tweed . His occupation as a soldier was a remarkable 1, and just about rivalled for track record that of his celebrated uncle, the Duke of Marlborough. When King James' obstinacy and consequent misfortunes drove him from England, the Duke followed his father, but shortly crossed to Ireland, and was engaged in the battling there, currently being existing at the .■siege of Londonderry and the battle of the Boyne. THE CRADLE OF MARLBOROUGH. one 89 Returning to France, lie was utilized at when, and served with terrific distinction during the martial reign of Louis XIV., who built him Lieutenant-General of his armies, and subsequently gave him a Marshal's baton. At the summary of the disastrous fight of Landen, wherever our King William III. was on the getting rid of aspect, the Duke was taken prisoner, and, in accordance to Hutchins, by his very own uncle, General Charles Churchill, but was shortly soon after exchanged for the Duke of Ormonde. JAMES, DUKE OF BERWICK Engaged also in Spain, in 1707 he won the " superb " but sanguinary struggle of Almanza over the combined English and Portugese forces, which victory set Philip V. on the throne, and that monarch, in return, manufactured him a Grandee of the first course and established him Duke of Liria and Xerica. Subsequently he was once again employed by the French king as Generalissimo of his military, to oppose Prince Eugene of Savoy, the place, after a extensive sequence of good providers, Marshal Berwick observed a soldier's dying, getting shattered by a cannon ball at the siege of Philipsburg in 1734, a veteran in his sixty-3rd year. Ah ! re-make the hearth, host of ours, that we may perhaps get a contemporary and pleasanter incantation from its crackling flames and curling smoke, and a hundred and forty THE CRADLE OF MARLBOROUGH. reduce the lurid, smouldering vista we have heeu thinking about of the soldier's life - its clanking swords, booming cannon, rattling musketry, and miles of carnage the stark and ghastly lifeless, the heart-breaking agonised enchantment for aid from the maimed and dying the callous, cruel unconcern of the trampling host, some fleeing terror-stricken to help save their lives, some others eager in pursuit, in search of to slaughter, and shouting Victory ! The thread of our views that still left this roof with the young lives that 1st noticed the gentle beneath it, have hurriedly traversed the gory precincts of a hundred battle fields, strewn with myriads of the slain, and with a shudder we come to feel they have returned to us in this relaxed tranquil ingle corner, unfortunate, subdued and deeply blood stained - the direful glamour that surrounds the dreadful, sickening heritage of " gunpowder and glory." As the tangly gray smoke rises in profusion from the new-piled "hearth-dogs," it kinds a not inapt resemblance in texture and colour to a procession of entire-bottomed wigs mounting the chimney, and the glowing logs at the bottom resolve them selves into rubicund, homely faces they might have enveloped. And that word homely and the capacious head-gear remembers us back again once again to the waning times of the last Stuart King, and who they were that continued to reside on below in peace right after this daughter of the home experienced departed with her martial progeny. The then possessor of Ashe was Sir John Drake, the brother of Elizabeth Churchill. He was 1st knighted by Charles II. and just after- wards by that king designed a Baronet in 1660. He married two times, and had three youngsters by his to start with wife - John, Walter, and Elizabeth and 3 sons by the second - Bernard, George, and William. John succeeded his father and died a bachelor. "But though," suggests Prince, " he did not stay to create up his household, he did his residence " for Ashe House, getting turn out to be significantly dilapidated during the Civil War, this Baronet, "who was a serious, sober, and prudent man or woman, set about its rebuilding, enlarged and beautified it, produced a park all-around it, and included fish ponds and gardens, so that for attractiveness and delight it could now vye with most other seats in all those parts." But gentleman proposes and Clod disposes. Sir John "no sooner was appear to inhabit in this sweet and nice put, and started to are living, but he presently died." Sir John's personal brother, Walter, getting died in advance of him, the subsequent heir to the title was Sir Bernard, the eldest son by his father's next undertaking. But nevertheless Sir Bernard was heir to the Baronetcy, he was not to the estates these seem to be to have been the inheritance of the very first family members, and as Sir Bernard experienced offended his fifty percent-brother "by an indigestible extravagance," Sir John intended to have settled the estates on his other half-brother William, "a extremely hopeful youthful gentleman," but demise intervened ahead of the make any difference was done. Thereon his sister Elizabeth turned his sole heir, and " to her immortal honour be it in this article recorded, this sort of was her generosity," she reserved only a quite smaller portion of the estate to her individual use, and settled all the remainder on her half-brother William, as her deceased brother John experienced intended. THE CRADLE OF MARLBOROUGH. 141 How gracious and refreshing is all this sweet, self-denying, sisterly affection to contemplate, couched in the lap of love and duty to carry out her brother's wish, when compared with the ghastly pageant of the life of her soldier cousins, and the harlot fame of their sister. How considerably much more nohle a career animated by these kinds of deeds - though only an unseen angel's pen may chronicle them- and but, for the credit rating of human passion, not wholly remaining unrecorded upon earth, as the monument in Musbury church testifies, put there by Sir William jointly to her memory, her two brothers, and his personal wife, as the testimony "of an affectionate grateful brother, and a sincerely tender husband.' one '' This significant-hearted woman turned the spouse of Sir John Briscoe, of Boughton, in Northampton, Knight, the place she died in 1694, and was introduced to Musbury and buried Sir William adopted in 1715, leaving two sons - Sir John who deceased in 172-4 without the need of problem, after whom arrived his brother Sir William, who also died childless in 1738, when the Baronetcy became extinct.

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