David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ I am very much concerned that an apprehension as to the very cold climate of this country hinders you from resolving to come to pass your life near a great Queen, according to her intense and expressed desire. Having shewn your letter to the Queen, I am commanded to write to you, and to state that the cold is not so great as people say, and that her hope was, that if you would make up your mind to come, you would have no cause to repent your resolution. ”

“ The king, desirous to save his life, invited him to stay all night in the palace, but the Count replied that his wife expected him at home, and bade his Majesty adieu. When amid thick darkness the murderers burst into his chamber, the unsuspicious youth thought that they were a band of humorists whose errand was some practical joke, and that the king was their ringleader. The martyred count left a son by his first wife, who became the head of the family. ”

“ The first Earl, who was executed on Tower Hill, left a son, William Wentworth (born 8th June 1626) , who lived in obscurity until the restoration of Charles II. He was made a Privy Councillor, and Knight of the Garter, by King Charles, and restored to all his father’s honours; his first wife, Henrietta Maria, daughter of Edward, Earl of Derby, and widow of Richard Lord Molyneux, died childless, 27th December 1685. He married, secondly, Henrietta de Roye de la Rochfoucauld, and left her a widow in 1695, and childless also.
The refugee descendants of the Comte De Roye lived to a great age. ”