The gallant young Sidney had a brother named William, who was colonel of a regiment for Charles I., and who died in 1636, aged twenty-four; and another brother, Francis, who was knighted at the Coronation of Charles II., in recognition, no doubt, of the 'many acceptable remittances' which Le Neve tells us he had made to the King when in exile, as well as of the loyal spirit which his family had always shown. His loyalty even displayed itself whilst he was yet a student at Exeter College, Oxford; as is evinced by the following copy of verses which I find in the same volume as the above: 'Nullum adeò ingenium sterile est, vel barbara Musa, Cui non materiem gaudia tanta darent. Hesperiam, _Princeps_, alienumq; æthera, tardo, Ast fortunato, CAROLVS exit equo. Et postquam mores multorum vidit, & vrbes, Spe maior, famâ clarior, en redijt. Quiq; comes fecum fidissimus exijt, & dux, Maximus, ae moritò. Dux redit ille Comes. Hæc inter tantam cecinit mea Musa catervam, Quâ doctæ magis, haud lætior vna, canunt. 'FRA. GODOLPHIN, _Equit. Aur. fil. nat. max. è Coll. Exon._' Sir Francis (to whom Hobbes dedicated his 'Leviathan') was Member for the little Cornish Borough of St. Ives in 1640. He married Dorothy Berkeley, and had seven children, most of whom (and _their_ children likewise) were buried in Westminster Abbey. Three only of Sir Francis's offspring are, however, known to fame--Sir William, created by Charles II. 552nd baronet of England, who died unmarried in 1710, leaving £5,000 a year to his more illustrious younger brother, the celebrated SIDNEY; and Henry, who became Dean of St. Paul's and Provost of Eton, dying at Windsor in 1733. We shall get glimpses of the three brothers in the pages of Evelyn and of Pepys. The Dean and Sidney each married a Margaret. Dr. Henry's spouse was his cousin, the only daughter of the first Sidney Godolphin who fell at Chagford; while the great Minister of State was blessed with the hand of that sweet Margaret Blagge whose saintly fame has been perpetuated in the pious Evelyn's 'Life of Margaret Godolphin.'