ee 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.

BRACKLEY, a market town and municipal borough in the southern
parliamentary division of Northamptonshire, England, 59 m. N.W. by W.
from London by the Great Central railway; served also by a branch of the
London & North-Western railway