RICHARD SACKVILLE,

FIFTH EARL OF DORSET,

[THE eldest son of Edward, earl of Dorset, succeeded to the title and honours of his father, in May 1652; and on the meeting of the house of lords in 1660 (after being laid aside by Cromwell) was admitted with other noble peers, who having succeeded to their paternal honours had never sate in the upper house of parliament. He took a considerable share in the restoration of monarchy and episcopacy, and concurred with general Monk in procuring peace for this distracted nation. He was chairman of the committee for considering the privileges of peers; for the king's reception; for settling the militia; and for several others. He held no public situation however in the court of Charles the second; though he was constituted joint lord lieutenant of Middlesex and Westminster, and was put into commission with other lords for the trials of the regicides of Charles the first. He had to wife Frances, daughter of Lionel first earl of Middlesex, and deceased August 27, 1677; being esteemed in his private capacity for an indulgent husband, a tender father, and a generous friend 2.

The following elegiac tribute by this nobleman, was not noticed by lord Orford, though he had cited the

• Collins's Peerage, vol. ii. p. 337, 4th edit.

publication whence it is extracted, in his account of Lucius, lord Falkland.

"TO THE MEMORY OF BENJAMIN JOHNSON.

"If Romulus did promise in the fight

To Jove the Stator, if he held from flight

His men, a temple; and perform'd his vow ;—
Why should not we, learn'd Johnson, thee allow
An altar at the least? since, by thy aid,
Learning, that would have left us, has been stay'd.
The actions were different: that thing
Requir'd some mark to keep 't from perishing;
But letters must be quite defac'd, before
Thy memory, whose care did them restore.

"BUCKHURST'."]

Jonsonus Virbius, 1638.

SECOND DUDLEY LORD NORTH,

from the Original Picture in the Collection of the EARL of GUILDFORD.