| Sir Richard Blount, of Mapledurham, whose ancestors were also | | Lieutenants of the Tower. His third wife was Lucy, youngest | | daughter of Sir John St John, Knight of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, | | to whom he was married at St Anne’s, Blackfriars, on the 23rd | | December 1615, at which time he was of the age of forty-eight, | | whilst the lady was but sixteen. By this marriage he became | | brother-in-law of Sir Edward Villiers, Viscount Grandison, | | half-brother of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. His | | eldest son by this marriage, who also became Sir Allen Apsley, | | was a zealous Royalist, and was successively Governor of Exeter | | and Barnstaple Castles, and, after the Restoration, Falconer to | | King Charles II., and Treasurer of the Household to James, Duke | | of York, afterwards James II. His daughter Frances married Sir | | Benjamin Bathurst, Knight, Governor of the Royal African and East | | India Companies and Cofferer to Queen Anne, and ancestor of Lord | | Chancellor Bathurst. Sir Allen Apsley, the Lieutenant of the | | Tower, had also four other sons and two daughters; of the latter, | | Barbara married Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, and Lucy became | | the celebrated wife of his brother, Colonel John Hutchinson, | | Governor of Nottingham Castle, an earnest Parliamentarian. The | | life of the latter was written by his wife, who also left behind | | her her own autobiography, printed in 1808. | | | | [6] Mr Birch thinks this improbable, and that the depth and clay | | bottom of the river would have rendered such a work impossible. | | | | [7] Thomas of Woodstock, seventh son of Edward III., Duke of | | Gloucester and Aumarle, was born in 1355. He had held many | | important offices in the State. Froissart says he was “orguilleux | | et présomptueux de maniére.” At the time of his death he was | | fifty-two years of age. | | | | [8] | | “When he was brought again to the bar, to hear | | His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr’d | | With such an agony, he sweat extremely, | | And some thing spoke in choler, ill, and hasty: | | But he fell to himself again, and sweetly | | In all the rest show’d a most noble patience—” | | | | _Henry VIII._, Act i. scene 4. | | |