GEORGE CALVERT, lord Baltimore. Thane exc. with autograph.

George Calvert, lord Baltimore, descended from the ancient house of Calvert in the earldom of Flanders, was born at Kepley, in Yorkshire, about 1580. He was secretary to Sir Robert Cecil, and appointed clerk of the council. In 1619, he was constituted one of the principal secretaries of state; which situation he resigned, conscientiously, in 1624, on having embraced the Roman Catholic religion. King James granted him a yearly pension of £1000 out of the customs, and created him baron of Baltimore, in the county of Longford, in Ireland. He also obtained a patent for him and his heirs, to possess the colony of Maryland, in North America. Ob. 1622, Æt. 53.

SIR WILLIAM POPE, of Roxton, bart. and knt. of the hon. order of the Bath, Etatis suæ 52. A. D. 1624. Cornelius Jansen pinx. Godefroy sc. From an original picture in the collection of the late Isaac Reed, esq. of Staple Inn, 1794.

Sir William Pope, born at Wroxton in 1573, became a student of Gray's-Inn; was made knight of the Bath at St. James's 1603, and a baronet in 1611, being then styled of Wilcote. In 1629, he was created baron of Bellteirot, and earl of Downe, in Ireland. He died 1631, and was buried in the church at Wroxton. See "Topographical Miscellanies," vol. i. 1792, 4to.

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EDWARD BRUCE, first lord Kinloss, Ob. 1610. from his monument in the Rolls' chapel. King sc. 8vo.

This eminent statesman was the second son of Sir Edward Bruce, of Blair-hall, and the progenitor of the Earls of Elgin and Aylesbury. He was bred to the law, and displayed abilities which gained him the confidence of James VI. who sent the Earls of Mar and Bruce, to congratulate Elizabeth on the suppression of the insurrection by Essex, in 1601. The subsequent correspondence, be

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Sir William Pope of Revlon Bar, and Kn", of the Stone Order of the Bath.

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