Viscount Brackley

To the Comus there is prefixed Henry Lawes's eulogistic Dedication of it, in the edition of 1637, to Viscount Brackley, and also Sir Henry Wotton's cordial letter to Milton, with its praise of the poem in that edition, when Milton was on the start for his continental tour in the spring of

The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

This two-fold relation arose from the fact that the Earl was the son of Viscount Brackley, the Countess's second husband, and had himself married Lady Frances Stanley, a daughter of the Countess by her first husband, the fifth Earl of Derby.

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

Earl of Bridgewater, and whose family she hath enriched with a hopeful issue, six sods, viz. John, Viscount Brackley, her eldest;

Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812

Whereupon, John, his brother, succeeded to the title of Viscount Brackley, &c. on the decease of his father tlie lord chancellor, as before mentioned.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

Elizabeth's lord keeper and James I. 's lord chancellor, who was created baron of Ellesmere in 1603, and in 1616 Viscount Brackley (_q. v.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

"Here lies interred John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Baron of Elles - mere, and one of the lords of the privy-council, and lieutenant of the counties of Bucks and Hertford, and custos rotulorum of both to King Charles IL and King James IL who desired no other memorial of him but only this:

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812