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the Earl of Warwick, by whom he had an only
son, who was born on the Ist of October, i678 ,
at the family seat at Battersea. This son was
Henry St. John, the future Viscount Bolingbroke,
whose birth and fortune were therefore
sufficient to qualify him to contest the highest
honors of the State." *
" Moule's English Counties," Wiltshire, vol. i.
p. 465, contains the following : "Lidiard Tregose.--The
church is an ancient edifice, consist-
ing of a nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower
in its western front. On folding-doors, on the
north side of the chancel, is painted a genealo-
gy of the St. John family, with their portraits
and heraldic devices. One is inscribed ' The
ten lineal descendants of the two families of
Saint John of Lidiard Tregose, and Saint John
of Bletshoe, brought down to the present year,
I684,' and the other is entitled, 'A genealogical
table, with the ducal line of the family of Saint
* The Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke (Henry St. John), by George
Wingrove Cooke, Esq, in two volumes, London, 1835 , present the
only impartial and unprejudiced life of this extraordinary man. While
he condemns his faults, he appreciates his greatness. Most of the
biographical notices of him deserve to be ranked as mere partisan
pamphlets.