SIR ALEXANDER TEMPLE. R. White sc. -Query if any such print?

I know no more of this gentleman, than that he was father of Lady Lister, mentioned in the reign of Charles I. There is a good portrait of him at Hagley, by Cornelius Jansen.

DARCY WENTWORTH, Et. 32, 1624. Wm. Pass sc.

DARCY WENTWORTH. W. Richardson.

We are informed by Collins, in his Peerage, that Michael, eldest son of John, lord Darcy, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, in the county of York, esq. by whom he had a son John, who, in 1587, became lord Darcy. This John, lord Darcy, dying in 1635, left issue his only son John, and two daughters. It appears from this account, that Darcy Wentworth was not a son of any of the noble persons above-mentioned, but was probably allied to this family.*

Watson in his Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, vol. ii. p. 141, informs us, that "Darcy Wentworth of Brodesworth, in Yorkshire, esq. was brother to Sir Thomas Wentworth, of North Elmsall, in that county, and was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Warren, of Poynton.-In the North chancel of South Kirkby church, in Yorkshire, the burial place of the Wentworths, of North Elmsall, is an ancient painted achievement, with the arms of Wentworth impaling Warren.

THOMAS HARLEY, esq. of Brampton Bryan (in Herefordshire); Et. 47, 1606. Vertue sc. h. sh.† Several prints of the Harley family, &c. were engraved by Vertue, for the "Historical Collections of the noble families of Cavendish, Holles, Vere, Harley, and Ogle;" compiled by Arthur Collins, esq. at the request of Lady Oxford, mother to the Dutchess Dowager of Portland.

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* Collins's "Peerage," vol. iii. p. 28, 29. edit. 1756.
+ His portrait is at Welbeck.

Thomas Harley, a gentleman eminent for his abilities, and affluence of fortune, was several times high-sheriff of the county of Hereford, in this, and the former reign. In the first of James, he had the royal grant for the honour and castle of Wigmore; and was afterward one of the council to William, lord Compton, president of Wales. He, with great frankness, told the king, that if he pursued the measures in which he was engaged, they would infallibly embroil him or his son in a civil war. This prophetic speech occasioned his retiring from court. Ob. Mar. 1631.

THOMAS SUTTON, esq. founder of the Charter House, An. 1611. Ab originali in ædibus Carthusianis. Faber f. 1754; whole length sh. mezz.

THOMAS SUTTON, &c. Faber f. large 4to. or small h. sh.

THOMAS SUTTON; in the " Heroologia;" Svo.

THOMAS SUTTON, &c. Elstracke sc. 4to.

THOMAS SUTTON, &c. Van Hove sc. Frontispiece to Herne's "Domus Carthusiana," 1677; 8vo.

THOMAS SUTTON, &c. Vertue sc. 1737; 8vo.

THOMAS SUTTON, with his autograph. Thane. Thomas Sutton, in the early part of his life, travelled to those countries as a gentleman, to which he afterward traded as a merchant. He was, for some time, in the army; in which he behaved himself so well, that he obtained a patent of Queen Elizabeth for the office of master-general of the ordnance for life. No man was better acquainted with the mysteries of trade, and few with the methods of saving. By a long course of frugality and industry, he acquired a fortune superior to that of any private gentleman of his time. This enabled him to build and endow the hospital called the Charter House, one of the noblest foundations in the world. He paid 13,000l. for the ground only; and the expense of the building and endowment was answerable. He died the 12th of December, 1611, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. Mr. John Aubrey tells

us, that Ben. Jonson has characterized him under the name of Volpone.*

THOMAS HABINGDON, esq. confined to Worcestershire on account of the gunpowder treason plot; the first collector of antiquities for that county; died Oct. 1647, aged 87; in Nash's "History of Worcestershire;" folio.

This gentleman was concerned in various plots, for the releasing Mary, queen of Scots, and setting up a papist to succeed her; and shortly after the coming in of James the First, entered into the scheme of blowing up the parliament house by gunpowder, in order to overturn the government, and introduce once more the papal power in England;-he contrived many hiding places in different parts of his house at Henlip, in Worcestershire, to conceal seminary priests, and other persons concerned in this desperate enterprise; the access to some was through chimneys; others through artificial walls, some had trap-doors, which communicated to back staircases: some of these places on the outside had the appearance of chimneys, the better to conceal the purpose for which they were constructed.

On the discovery of the plot, suspicion attaching to Mr. Habingdon, a warrant was directed to Sir Henry Bromley to search Henlip House, for the discovery of suspicious persons; which being put in force, Mr. Habingdon utterly denied the knowledge of knowing, or harbouring any such people; and offered to die at his own gate, if any such were to be found in his house, or in that shire; but this not proving a satisfactory answer, an immediate search took place, when, in the gallery over the gate, were discovered two cunning and very artificial conveyances in the main brick-wall, so ingeniously framed, and with such art, as it cost much labour ere they could

* In his "Anecdotes of several extraordinary Persons," a MS. in the Ashmolean Museum.

S. Herne, in his "Life of Sutton," says, it is probable, that Jonson never intended to characterize him under the name of Volpone ; "for, in that age, several other men were pointed at; and who was the true person, was then a matter of doubt. If the poet designed to injure the fame of Sutton, he was first of all an ungrateful wretch, to abuse those hands that afforded him bread; for he allowed him a constant pension: and secondly, he disowned his very handwriting, that he sent to our founder, in vindication of himself in this matter."

be found. Three other secret places, contrived by no less skill and industry, were found in and about the chimneys, in one whereof two of the traitors were close concealed; but not till after a strict search of four days' duration : one of these men, named Owen, afterward murdered himself in the Tower; the other, of the name of Chambers, denied the knowledge of any other persons than themselves. being there concealed: but on the eighth day of the search, a secret place in a chimney was discovered; from which most cunning concealment, was extracted Henry Garnet the Jesuit (much sought after), and another named Hall; marmalade and other sweetmeats were found lying by them; but their better maintenance had been by a quill or reed, through a little hole in the chimney, that backed another chimney into the gentlewoman's chamber, and by that passage, caudles, broths, and warm drinks had been conveyed to them. The whole service continued the space of eleven nights and twelve days; and no more persons being found, Habingdon himself, Garnet, Hall, Owen, and Chambers, were brought to London, in order to learn the king's pleasure as to their disposal. Habingdon was con demned to die, for concealing Garnet, and other dangerous persons; but was pardoned at the intercession of his wife, and her brother Lord Monteagle.

NICOLAUS WADHAM, armiger, Coll. Wadhamensis fund'. A°. Di. 1609. J. Faber f. large 4to. mezz. One of the set of Founders.

Nicholas Wadham, of Merifield, in Somersetshire, a man of a respectable character, was, together with Dorothy his wife, the munificent founder of the college in Oxford, called after his name. His generosity and hospitality* were proportionate to the affluence of his fortune. He and his wife, who were both of the Romish religion, had formed a design of founding a Catholic seminary at Venice; but the love of their country got the better of their religious prejudices.

THOMAS TESDALE (TISDALE), armiger, unus

Fuller says, "that he had great length in his extraction, breadth in his estate, and depth in his liberality. His hospital house was an inn at all times; a court at Christmas."- "Worthies, in Somerset," p. 30.

+ Of this various and contradictory accounts have been given. That which is most to be relied on, is in Wood's "Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.” ii. 324.