road,
written on vellum, and bound in gold, said to have been given by Anne
Boleyn on the scaffold to her Maid of Honour, Mistress Wyatt.

Bindley's portraits, prints, drawings, and medals were sold by Leigh and
Sotheby in 1819, and realised seven thousand six hundred and ninety-two
pounds.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 83: _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxxviii. part ii. p. 631.]

WILLIAM PETTY FITZMAURICE, FIRST MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, 1737-1805

William Petty Fitzmaurice, third Earl of Shelburne and first Marquis of
Lansdowne, was born in Dublin on the 2nd of May 1737. He was first
privately educated, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, which he
left early to take a commission in the Guards. He served with the
British troops under Prince Ferdinand in Germany, and was present at the
battles of Kampen and Minden, where he distinguished himself by his
personal valour. He became a Major-General in 1765. In May 1760, and
again in April 1761, he was elected member for Wycombe, but he sat for a
short time only in the House of Commons, as the death of his father on
the 10th of May 1761 called him to the House of Lords. In April 1763 he
was placed at the head of the Board of Trade and Plantations, a post
which he held only till September in the same year; but in 1766, when
Pitt, Earl of Chatham, formed his second administration, he included
Lord Shelburne in it as Secretary of State for the Southern Department,
to which, at that time, the Colonial business was attached. From this
post, however, he was dismissed in October 1768 by the Duke of Grafton,
whose influence in the Cabinet became paramount when the Earl of
Chatham's illness prevented him taking an active share in the
government. Lord Shelburne remained out of office until March 1782, when
on the formation of the Rockingham administration he became Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs. This ministry was dissolved on the death of
Lord Rockingham on the 1st of July in the same year, and the King
entrusted Lord Shelburne with the construction of a new one, which
lasted but little over seven months, as it was defeated in February 1783
by the vote of the Fox and North coalition. Shortly after his
retirement he was created Earl Wycombe and Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord
Lansdowne did not again accept office, but devoted himself to the
augmentation of his fine library, the formation of which had occupied
his attention for many years. It was especially rich in historical