Fitz-Charles had a grant of the royal arms
with a baton sinistre, vaire; and in 1675 his Majesty created him Earl
of Plymouth, Viscount Totness, and Baron Dartmouth. He was bred to the
sea, and having been educated abroad,--most probably in Spain,--was
known by the name of Don Carlos. In 1678 the Earl married the Lady
Bridget Osborne, third daughter of Thomas Earl of Danby, and died of a
flux at the siege of Tangier in 1680, without issue.
Katherine Pegge, the Earl's mother, after her _liaison_ with the King,
married Sir Edward Greene, Bart., of Samford in Essex, and died without
issue by him in ----. From this marriage the King is sometimes said to
have had a mistress named Greene.
There was long preserved in the family a half-length portrait of the
Earl, in a robe de chamber, laced cravat, and flowing hair (with a ship
in the back-ground of the picture), by Sir Peter Lely; and also two of
his mother, Lady Greene: one a half length, with her infant son standing
by her side, the other a three-quarters,--both by Sir Peter Lely, or by
one of his pupils.
Both mother and son are said to have been eminently beautiful.
G.M.
East Winch, Nov. 30.
N., who refers our Querist for particulars of this lady to the "Memoirs
of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge and his Family," in Nichols' _Literary
Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, vol. vi. pp. 224, 225, adds--"As
the lady had no issue by Sir Edward Greene, it perhaps does not matter
what his family was.
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