Poems on domestic circumstances ; containing 'Fare thee well', 'A sketch from private life', and ... other ... poems. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life of the author ... / by the Rev. J. Nightingale.

Lord Byron

Date:: 1816

Credit: Poems on domestic circumstances ; containing 'Fare thee well', 'A sketch from private life', and ... other ... poems. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life of the author ... / by the Rev. J. Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$12! were published in a quarto volume, in winch many curious parti¬ culars of the Byron family may be found. Sir Nicholas Byron, the eldest son of Sir John Byron, above- mentioned, greatly distinguished himself in the wars in the Low Countries; as also in defence of King Charles I. against the Par¬ liamentarians, at the battle of Edge-Hill, October 23d, 1642, when he was Colonel-General of Cheshire and Shropshire, and Governor of Chester; being, as Lord Clarendon writes,* “ a soldiei of very good command, who being a person of great affability and dexterity, as well as martial knowledge, gave great life to the designs of the well-affected there, and, with the encourage¬ ment of some Gentlemen of North-Wales, in a short time raised such a power of horse and foot, as made frequent skirmishes with the enemy; sometimes with notable advantage ; never with signal loss.” lift married Sophia, daughter of Charles Lambert, of Nimegu- en, Governor of Breda, and had two sons, Charles and William, who both died issueless. His brother, Sir John Byron, was created K night of the Bath at the coronation of King James I. He married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Molineux, Bart, ancestor to the present Earl of Sefton ; by her he had eleven sons and .a daughter. Ibis eldest son John was created the first LORD BYRON. ThS ma¬ jor partot their sons acquired celebrity on account of their courage and Iciyaltyin defence of their monarch Charles I. One of them, William, the fourth son, was drowned at sea, coming from Ire¬ land. The seventh, Sir Philip, was killed, at the head of his regi¬ ment, in that general storm, raised by the Parliament-army in \ ork, in 1644.f He never went out with bis regiment but he * History of the Rebellion, Svo. vol. HI. p. 155. + Lloyd’* Mein, of Loyal Persons, p. *89.$