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Clarendon tells us something of the personality of Newcastle.[17] “He was a very fine gentleman, active, full of courage and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing and fencing, which accompany a good breeding, in which his delight was. Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time.”

[17] History, Book viii. p. 507.

Newcastle seems also to have been “amorous” in pictures, if we may judge from the following letter.[18]

[18] Hist. MSS. Comm., 13th Rep., Appendix, Part II, p. 131.