Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Iady Cecily’s family. Names of the children. ture that was had at dynner to those that be in her presence. After supper she disposeth herself to be famyliare with her gentlewomen to the seasoning of honest myrthc, and one hower before her going to bed she taketh a cup of wine, and after that goeth to her pry vie closette, and taketh her leave of God for all nighte, mak- inge end of her prayers for that daye, and by eighte of the clocke is in bedde. The going to bed at eight o'clock was in keeping with the other arrangements of the day, for we find by a record of the rules and orders of the duchess’s household that the dinner-hour was eleven, and the supper was at four. This lady, Eichard’s mother, during her married life, had no less than twelve children. Their names were Anne, Henry, Edward, Edmund, Elizabeth, Margaret, William, John, George, Thomas, Eichard, and Ursula. Thus Eichard, the subject of this volume, was the eleventh, that is, the last but one. A great many of these, Eichard’s brothers and sisters, died while they were children. All the boys died thus except four, namely, Edward, Edmund, George, and Eichard. Of course, it is only with those four that we have any thing to do in the present narrative. The boys’ situation and mode of life. Their letters. Several of the other children, however, besides these three, lived for some time. They resided generally with their mother while they were young, but as they grew up they were often separated both from her and from their father?the duke, their father, being often called away from home, in the course of the various wars in which he was engaged, and his wife frequently accompanied him. On such occasions the boys were left at some castle or other, under the care of persons employed to take charge of their ed…