BY
MARY L. BOYLE.
1876.
LONDON:
PRINTED AT THE VICTORIA PRESS, PRAED STREET, W.
(OFFICE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.)
TO
JOHN WILLIAM,
SEVENTH EARL OF SANDWICH,
THESE SKETCHES ARE INSCRIBED BY HIS FAITHFUL KINSWOMAN,
MARY LOUISA BOYLE.
MDCCCLXXVI.
In the notices of the more celebrated characters inthis Catalogue, it will be understood that historicaland well-known events (which will befound in the annals of England), have been madepurposely, to give way to details of a more domesticnature.
By FELIZIANO.
Three-quarter Length.
(In a long black doublet, with the Star of the Garter, andthe Jewel given him by the King of Sweden, over along white waistcoat with innumerable buttons andgold embroidery; deep ruffles; holds his hat in onehand, the other rests on his hip. Painted duringhis Embassy in Spain.)
Lord Sandwich is here much altered in appearance fromhis former portraits, but Pepys tells us he wore hisbeard in the Spanish fashion on his return from hisEmbassy; and a French correspondent about this timesays: “Le Comte de Sandwich étoit bien fort, l’airdoux, assez d’embonpoint, qui ne commençoit de l’incommoderqu’après son retour de l’Espagne.”
Born, 1623. Died, 1672.—The second son ofSir Sidney Montagu, by Paulina, daughter ofJohn Pepys, of Cottenham, near Cambridge.Sidney was the seventh son of Sir EdwardMontagu, and brother to the first Lord Montagu[10]of Boughton, was Groom of the Bedchamberto James I., and Master of Requests in thesucceeding reign; sat for Huntingdon, and in1640 was expelled the House for declining tosubscribe to an oath framed by the Commons,“that they would live and die with theirGeneral, the Earl of Essex.” Montagu said hewould not swear to live with Essex, as being anold man he would probably die before him,neither would he swear to die with him, as theEarl was in arms against the King, which he(Sidney) did not know how to separate fromtreason. For this boldness he was expelled theHouse by a majority of three, and sent prisonerto the Tower, where he remained a fortnight.Thus did he prove his loyalty, though he hadnobly withstood on the other hand thosemeasures which he considered detrimentalto the liberties of the subject. He had twosons, and a daughter, married to Sir GilbertPuckering of Tichmarch, in the County ofHunts. His eldest son Henry was drownedthrough the carelessness of a nurse, when onlythree years of age: his second son Edwardbecame his heir; who married before