Brief Lives, Vol. 1

Chapter 78: Willoughby Bertie, 3rd earl of Abingdon (1692-1760).

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A collection of concise biographical sketches compiled from the author's manuscript notes, offering anecdotal portraits of a wide range of literary, scientific, political, and social figures across several generations. Entries blend remembered quotations, learned citation, personal recollection, and occasional gossip, producing uneven but vivid character sketches. Material is presented alphabetically and supplemented by antiquarian notes, a short theatrical piece, and facsimiles of manuscript drawings and plans. An introduction outlines editorial principles and reproduces the manuscript spellings and citations where appropriate, preserving the informality and immediacy of the original notes.

Willoughby Bertie, 3rd earl of Abingdon (1692-1760).

[375]<Willoughby> Bertie, filius primus Jacobi Bertie, 2^ndi filii Jacobi, comitis de Abington, natus Westmonast. 28 die Novembris, 2^h. P.M. 1692.—The child is yet living, notwithstanding the 8^th house [376]: mend the figure, but the time is right.

[377]I know not how to retreive the fashion or shape of the old engine of the battering-ramme, but from the coate of the Bertyes, which is 'or, 3 battering rammes barrewise,' as in the margent, the timber is proper, the head azure, the hornes and ironworke gilded.

[378]Memorandum:—the battering ramme, the armes of Bertie, hung in equilibrio in an engine they call the triangles—from Mr. Nicolas Mercator: vide Bertie's coate in primo volumine [379]. See [380] the old glasse windowes in Aldersgate street—from Mr. <Edward> Bagshawe.