"* Memorandum, to insert
his titles inscribed under his printed picture. As I remember he was
Lord High Steward of his Majesties Household, Justice in Eire of all
his Majesties Forrests, &c. on this side Trent, Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, one of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Knight
of the Garter. He was a most noble person, and the glory of the court
in the reignes of King James and King Charles. He was handsome, and of
an admirable presence-
* [This inscription is not mentioned in the account of Wilton Church
in Hoare's Modern, Wiltshire, but the author notices a tablet
recording the birth and baptism of the Earl "over the south entrance."
He states that the side aisles were added to the church "within the
last two centuries " - J. B.]
"Gratior et pulchro veniens a corpore virtus."
He was the greatest Mec?nas to learned men of any peer of his time or
since. He was very generous and open handed. He gave a noble
collection of choice bookes and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library at
Oxford, which remain there as an honourable monument of his
munificence. 'Twas thought, had he not been suddenly snatch't away by
death, to the grief of all learned and good men, that he would have
been a great benefactor to Pembroke Colledge in Oxford, whereas there
remains only from him a great piece of plate that he gave there. His
lordship was learned, and a poet; there are yet remaining some of his
lordship's poetry in a little book of poems writt by his Lordship and
Sir Benjamin Ruddyer in 12o.
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