mind, and newly
married to a young and beautiful lady of a very loyal spirit and
notable vivacity of wit and humour, who concurred with him in all
honourable dedications of himself."

When her husband was arrested and brought to trial in 1658, as a partizan
of Charles II., by her contrivance one of the principal witnesses against
him was kept out of the way, and his judges, being divided in their
opinion of his guilt, he was acquitted only by the casting vote of the
President, the notorious John Lisle, who had sat upon the trial of
Charles I., by whom he was addressed in the following remarkable
strain:--

"And I have now to speak to you Mr. Mordaunt: God hath appeared in
justice, and God doth appear in mercy, as the Lord is just to them,
so the Lord is exceeding merciful to you, and I may say to you that
God appears to you at this time, as he speaks to sinners in Jesus
Christ, for Sir, he doth clear sinners in Christ Jesus even when they
are guilty, and so God cleareth you. I will not say you are guilty,
but ask your own conscience whether you are or no. Sir, bless God as
long as you live, and bless my Lord Protector, by whose authority you
are cleared. Sir, I speak no more, but I beseech you to speak to
God."

The very active part which Lord Mordaunt had taken in effecting the
restoration of Charles II., in which service, according to his epitaph,
he "encountered a thousand dangers, provoking and also defeating the rage
of Cromwell," was not rewarded by any extraordinary marks of distinction
or favour, and he seems after that event to have quietly resided on his
estate at Parson's Green, where he died in the forty-eighth year of his
age, on the 5th June, 1675, and was buried in Fulham Church. The son of
Lord Mordaunt, who afterwards received the title of Earl of Peterborough,
married first, Carey, daughter to Sir Alexander Fraser, of Dover. His
second wife was the accomplished singer Anastasia Robinson, who survived
him. The earl was visited at Peterborough House by all the wits and
literati of his time. Bowack, in 1706, describes the gardens of
Peterborough House, as containing twenty acres of ground, and mentions a
tulip-tree seventy-six feet in height, and five feet nine inches in
girth. Swift, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Peterborough's
gardens as the finest he had ever seen about London.

On the same side of the Green as Peterborough House,