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mss., bequeathed to his chaplain, bishop williams, viz. _the prerogative royal, privileges of parliament, proceedings in chancery_ and _the power of the star chamber; notes and observations on magna charta, &c._, sept. 1615 (harl. 4265, f. 35), and _an abridgment of lord coke's reports_ (see ms. note by f. hargrave in his copy of _certain observations concerning the office of lord chancellor_, brit. mus. 510 a 5, also _life of egerton_, p. 80, note t, catalogue of harleian collection, and walpole's _royal and noble authors_, 1806, ii. 170). he was thrice married. by his first wife, elizabeth, daughter of thomas ravenscroft of bretton, flintshire, he had two sons and a daughter. the elder son, thomas, predeceased him, leaving three daughters. the younger, john, succeeded his father as 2nd viscount brackley, was created earl of bridgewater, and, marrying lady frances stanley (daughter of his father's third wife, widow of the 5th earl of derby), was the ancestor of the earls and dukes of bridgewater (q.v.), whose male line became extinct in 1829. in 1846 the titles of ellesmere and brackley were revived in the person of the 1st earl of ellesmere (q.v.), descended from lady louisa egerton, daughter and co-heir of the 1st duke of bridgewater. no adequate life of lord chancellor ellesmere has been written, for which, however, materials exist in the bridgewater mss., very scantily calendared in _hist. mss. comm._ 11th rep. p. 24, and app. pt. vii. p. 126. a small selection, with the omission, however, of personal and family matters intended for a separate projected _life_ which was never published, was edited by j.p. collier for the camden society in 1840. footnotes: [1] _athenae oxon._ (bliss), ii. 197. [2] d'ewes's _parliaments of elizabeth_, 441, 442. [3] _cal. of st. pap., dom._, 1601-1603, p. 191. [4] birch's _mem. of queen elizabeth_, i. 479. [5] _hist. mss. comm._ 11th rep. p. 24. [6] t. birch's _mem. of queen elizabeth_, ii. 384. [7] _cal. of st. pap., dom._, 1598-1601, pp. 554, 583. [8] _state trials_, ii. 909. [9] _cal. st. pap., dom._, 1611-1618, p. 381. [10] _cal. st. pap., dom._, 1611-1618, p. 407. [11] _lansdowne ms._ 91, f. 41. [12] _hist. mss. comm._ app. pt. vii. p. 156. [13] _life of donne_, by e. gosse, i. 43. [14] judgment on the post nati. [15] speech to the parliament, 24th of october 1597. [16] _harleian ms._ 2310, f. i.; gardiner's _hist. of england_, ix. 56.