xXViii INTRODUCTION. which was effected, thereby augmenting the value of it to 1001. a- year : and when the College offered him the nomination to the living, then void, he only so far availed himself of it, as to request theperson to be nominated should be first approved by his father's friend, Dr. Tuckney, the Master of St. John's College, and at that time Professor of Divinity in Cambridge. His letters to the Master and Appendix, page Fellows, and also to Dr. Tuckney, will be found in the Appendix, 237. together with a memorandum of the Master and Fellows relative to the business. The Appendix contains a letter of Sir William Gregory, which, bidding Sir Edward to the funeral of John, Lord Scudamore, records the friendship which existed between these two worthies of Hereford- shire, who had taken opposite parts in the Civil Wars. Truly, they were among the excellent of the earth. They loved and feared, God, and left substantial proof of their devotion to His cause, in the restoration to the Church of tithes, of which she had been despoiled. For the two or three last years of his life he wisely retired from public, and, as his father and grandfather before him, died in peace at Brampton Bryan, 8 Dec. 1700. So exemplary was his virtue, and love to his country, that he was called by discerning persons, "ulti- mus Anglorum." Collins. Sir Edward was twice married : firstly, 26 June, 1654, to Mary, daughter of Sir William Button, of Parkgate, in co. Devon, bywhom he had issue :- Appendix XI. p. 245. Auditor's notes. Letter in Appendix, p. 218. Brilliana, wife of William Popham, of Tewkesbury : Martha, wife of Samuel Hutchins, of London, merchant : And two Maries, who died young. Secondly, to Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel Stephens, of Essing- ton, in co. of Gloucester, (by whom his children were allied to Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Philip Sydney, and the Earl of Essex,) and by her had four sons and one daughter: viz.-
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