INTRODUCTION. %iii influence in Herefordshire, including the Vaughans, Cornwalls, Scudamores and Rudhalls; and it will explain other relationships alluded to in the letters, if we state that Sir Horace Vere, Lord Vere of Tilbury, had married Mary, sister to Lady Conway, and by Collins, Life of her had issue : Vere, p. 342. 1. Elizabeth, married to John Holles, Earl of Clare : 2. Mary, married to Roger Townshend, of East Raynham in Norfolk; and secondly to Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmoreland : 3. Catharine, married to Oliver St. John, of Lidiard Tregose ; and secondly to John, Lord Paulet : 4. Anne, married to Thomas, Lord General Fairfax : 5. Dorothy, married to John Wolstenholme, of Nostel, in the county of York : and further, that Sir Thomas Wentworth, the un- fortunate Earl of Strafford, had married Arabella Holles, sister to Collins, Life of Holies, Duke of the Earl of Clare. Newcastle, p. Brilliana Conway was born whilst her father was Lieut.-Governor 94' of the Brill, and it is presumed at that place about 1600, as she was married 22nd July, 1623, then in her twenty-third year. An Act was passed in April, 1606,a for the naturalisation of the children of a Journ. H. Sir Edward Conwaie, Knight, probably soon after their coming 1605564 March, into this country. Nothing is known of her until her marriage, but Jorn. H. Co- the contents of the letters evince that her education had been con-1606, 3 Ap. ducted with care and regard to the duties of a practical and 1606. religious life; but it may, in truth, be said of her, what Lord Claren- don said of her cousin Lady Fairfax, " having been bred in Holland, she had not that reverence for the Church of England, as she ought to have had, and so unhappily concurred in her husband entering into rebellion-never imagining what misery it would bring upon the kingdom." Though there are no quotations in French or Latin, it is evident, she was acquainted with these languages, and her mind well stored with the knowledge of Holy Scripture and divinity, as well as of ancient and modern history, and fully intent upon the
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