Note 378 — Chapter IX · THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

This distinguished ambassador belonged to an honourable family, of whom by no means the least worthy member was Miss Elizabeth Rowe, who in 1785 married Henry Caslon, and subsequently—first with her mother-in-law, and afterwards by her own exertions—ably conducted the affairs of the Chiswell Street foundry. See post, chap. xi.