| thePeerage.com - Exhibit (2345 words) |
 | Bennet, Henry, Earl of Arlington 1618-1685, member of the Cabal ministry, was the second son of Sir John Bennet, doctor of laws (Evelyn, Diary, 10 Sept. 1678), and Dorothy Crofts, and grandson of Sir John Bennet, the ecclesiastic and civilian [qv.]. |
| He encouraged Danby's enemies in the House of Commons, and the quarrel caused such inconvenience that Charles, unwilling to dismiss one who, after Ormond, was his oldest servant, asked Temple to mediate. |
| Danby expressed his willingness for reconciliation, but Arlington sulkily retired to his country seat at Euston, in Suffolk, where he had indulged his one expensive vice of building to the limit of his fortune (Evelyn, 9 and 10 Sept. 1678; Echard, p. |
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