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Charles Stanhope (1595-1675)
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'''Charles Stanhope, 2nd Baron Stanhope''' (1595-1675), landowner, courtier, and writer of [[marginalia]].
Stanhope was the son of [[John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope|Sir John Stanhope]] of [[Harrington, Northamptonshire]]. He attended [[Queens' College, Cambridge]].
It was reported in June 1613 that, "My Lord Stanhope's son is lately fallen lunatic", but he seems to have made a recovery.<refThomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, ''Court and Times of James the First'', vol. 1 (1849), p. 254.</ref> In 1625 he was made Master of the Posts, an office that had belonged to his father.<ref>Norman Egbert McClure, ''Letters of John Chamberlain'', vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 621.</ref>
He married Dorothy or Doll Livingstone, a sister of [[James Livingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh|James Livingstone]], [[Earl of Newburgh]], and a daughter of the Scottish courtier Sir John Livingstone of Kinnaird and Jane Sproxton.
Stanhope is remembered for an anecdote about the fate of the wardrobe of [[Queen Elizabeth of England]] which he recorded in the margin of his copy of Creascre More, ''The Life and Death of Sir Thomas More'' (1642), the book is now in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. The marginalia asserts that [[George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar]], the new Scottish master of the wardrobe realised £60,000 from the sale of the late queen's clothes, and spent £20,0000 on the house he built at [[Berwick Castle]].<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 785-801, p. 794 noted only: Lawrence Stone, ''The Crisis of the Aristocracy'' (Oxford, 1965), p. 563 fn. 2</ref>
In his copy of Fulke Greville's ''Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes'' (1633), now in the Folger Library, he noted a rhyme about London pubs;
:They pass by the Devil they make it no matter,
:the [[Ye Olde Mitre|Mitre]], the Globe, the head in the platter,
:the Fountain, the [[Mermaid Tavern|Mermaid]] too, these they go by all,
:and how they will answer they balk at the Head Royal.<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), p. 791 modernised spelling here.</ref>
Three Catholic ladies were, "the College of Collapsed Ladies in Drury Lane, my Lady Garner, my Lady Markham, my Lady Easten".<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 795-6.</ref> Further marginalia in the ''Life of Death of Sir Thomas More'' criticise his wife; she "spends you in two years £4,000 clear upon herself in paint perfumes", "£320 a year for hereself is enough if not too much for my Lady Dollkin". He characterises her servants in misogynistic terms as witches and spies.<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948),</ref>
Stanhope died in 1675 and was buried at Nocton, Lincolnshire. He had no children.
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/31x7yyq G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 785-801].
* [https://ift.tt/2YXIQW7 Sarah Werner, 'Surprised by Stanhope', The Collation, Research and Exploration at the Folger]
[[Category:1595 births]]
[[Category:1675 deaths]]
[[Category:People of the Stuart period]]
Stanhope was the son of [[John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope|Sir John Stanhope]] of [[Harrington, Northamptonshire]]. He attended [[Queens' College, Cambridge]].
It was reported in June 1613 that, "My Lord Stanhope's son is lately fallen lunatic", but he seems to have made a recovery.<refThomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, ''Court and Times of James the First'', vol. 1 (1849), p. 254.</ref> In 1625 he was made Master of the Posts, an office that had belonged to his father.<ref>Norman Egbert McClure, ''Letters of John Chamberlain'', vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 621.</ref>
He married Dorothy or Doll Livingstone, a sister of [[James Livingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh|James Livingstone]], [[Earl of Newburgh]], and a daughter of the Scottish courtier Sir John Livingstone of Kinnaird and Jane Sproxton.
Stanhope is remembered for an anecdote about the fate of the wardrobe of [[Queen Elizabeth of England]] which he recorded in the margin of his copy of Creascre More, ''The Life and Death of Sir Thomas More'' (1642), the book is now in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. The marginalia asserts that [[George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar]], the new Scottish master of the wardrobe realised £60,000 from the sale of the late queen's clothes, and spent £20,0000 on the house he built at [[Berwick Castle]].<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 785-801, p. 794 noted only: Lawrence Stone, ''The Crisis of the Aristocracy'' (Oxford, 1965), p. 563 fn. 2</ref>
In his copy of Fulke Greville's ''Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes'' (1633), now in the Folger Library, he noted a rhyme about London pubs;
:They pass by the Devil they make it no matter,
:the [[Ye Olde Mitre|Mitre]], the Globe, the head in the platter,
:the Fountain, the [[Mermaid Tavern|Mermaid]] too, these they go by all,
:and how they will answer they balk at the Head Royal.<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), p. 791 modernised spelling here.</ref>
Three Catholic ladies were, "the College of Collapsed Ladies in Drury Lane, my Lady Garner, my Lady Markham, my Lady Easten".<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 795-6.</ref> Further marginalia in the ''Life of Death of Sir Thomas More'' criticise his wife; she "spends you in two years £4,000 clear upon herself in paint perfumes", "£320 a year for hereself is enough if not too much for my Lady Dollkin". He characterises her servants in misogynistic terms as witches and spies.<ref>G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948),</ref>
Stanhope died in 1675 and was buried at Nocton, Lincolnshire. He had no children.
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/31x7yyq G. P. V. Akrigg, 'The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope', in ''Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies'' (FSL, Washington, 1948), pp. 785-801].
* [https://ift.tt/2YXIQW7 Sarah Werner, 'Surprised by Stanhope', The Collation, Research and Exploration at the Folger]
[[Category:1595 births]]
[[Category:1675 deaths]]
[[Category:People of the Stuart period]]
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