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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2010
page 1 note a S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. lxxx. 85.
page 1 note b Henry Grey, called 7th Earl of Kent. Richard, the third Earl, having greatly wasted his estate by gaming, died at an inn in Lombard Street. The right to the Earldom devolved upon his half-brother, Henry Grey, who abstained from assuming the title because he had not sufficient property to maintain its dignity. His only son, Henry Grey, for the same reason as his father, declined the title, but he left three sons who were successively Earls of Kent: viz., Reginald, who by the exercise of great frugality nearly recovered the paternal estate, and re-assumed the honours of the family. On his death s.p. in 1572, he was succeeded by the nobleman mentioned in the text, who also died s.p., aged 74 years, and was buried at Flitton, co. Bedford. He was succeeded by his brother Charles, who survived till 1623, notwithstanding he is at this time stated to be “to the knees in the grave.” The Lady Elizabeth Grey here alluded to was the second daughter and sole heir of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, and wife of Henry Grey de Ruthyn, son and successor of Charles the 8th Earl of Kent, whose protracted life at this time disappointed the ambition with which she looked forward to become Countess of Kent. Her husband succeeded his father in 1623, and died s.p. 1639.
page 1 note c Sir Moyle Finch, of Eastwell, co. Kent, created a Baronet in 1611, married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Heneage, of Copt Hall, Essex. Lady Finch survived her husband several years, and rejected all her suitors. In 1623 she was raised to the peerage as Viscountess Maidstone, and five years afterwards was advanced to the dignity of Countess of Winchelsea. She died in 1633. Chamberlain says that Sir Moyle Finch left his eldest son but 100l. a year more than he had before, during his mother's life.—(Birch's Court and Times of James I,, vol. i. 356.)
page 2 note a Edward Lord Beauohamp, son of the Earl of Hertford, did not live until 1618, as stated in all the printed books on the subject, and also in the pedigree recorded in the Heralds' College, but died in 1612, as proved by the following entry under that year in the Burial Register of Great Bedwyn, co. Wilts: “On tuesday the one and twentyeth of July ano predicto was heere entombed the body of the right hoble Edward Lord Beauchampe who deceased at Week.” The Lord Beauehamp mentioned in the text, therefore, was the grandson of the Earl of Hertford, and the child whose birth is chronicled was Edward, the old Earl's great-grandson. We can quite understand the “great comfort” it must have been to him to witness the birth of an heir in the fourth generation. His hopes, however, were soon blighted, for both this child and his father died before the Earl, who, in 1621, was succeeded in his honours by his grandson Sir William Seymour, in whom the Dukedom of Somerset was restored in 1660.
page 2 note b She was the daughter of Peter Osborne, Esq. and wife of Sir Thomas Cheke, grand. son of Sir John Cheke, tutor to King Edward VI. Chamberlain says, “She would needs be let blood for a little heat or itching in the arm, but by mistake the Queen's surgeon pricked her arm too deep, and cut an artery, which fell to rankle, and in a few days grew to a gangrene, whereof she died, and was buried at night with above thirty coaches and much torch-light attending her;” which, he adds, “is of late come much into fashion, as it would seem to avoid trouble and charge.”—Birch, vol. i. 296.
page 2 note c John Donne, the poet. Chamberlain says, “John Donne and one Cheke went out doctors at Cambridge, with much ado, after our coming away, by the King's express mandate; though the Vice-chancellor and some other of the heads called them openly filios noclis et lenebriones, that sought thus to coine in at the window when there was a fair gate open.”—Birch, vol. i. 306.
page 2 note d Claude de Châtre, eldest son of Claude de Châtre, by Anne Robertetz, his wife, was Seigneur and Baron of Maisonfort, Governor of Orleans, and Captain of the Tower of Bourges. Died 14 December, 1614, aged about 78 years.—Anselme.
page 2 note e Antoine Seigneur de Roquelaure, in Armagnac, of Gaudoux, 'Albret, Queen of Navarre. She engaged him in the service of her son the King of Navarre, and gave him the share which she had in the Seigneurie of Roquelaure. He was Master of the Wardrobe in 1589, Knight of the Orders in 1595. He was also Lieutenant of Haute Auvergne, and Captain of Fontainebleau, and was created Marshal of France 1615. Died 9 June, 1625.—Anselme, vii. 401, 406.
page 3 note a Pierre Brulart, son of Nicolas Brulart, Marquis of Sillery and Chancellor of France, and of Claudia Prudhomme, his wife. He was made Secretary of State on the resignation of Nicolas de Neufville, 4th March, 1606, and Councillor of State 1st January, 1607, taking the oath the 27th Nov. following. He was nominated Ambassador to the Court of Spain in 1612, and died 22 April, 1640, aged 57.—Anselme, vi. 527.
page 3 note b Louis XIII. with Anne of Austria, eldest daughter of Philip III.
page 3 note c Patrick Stuart, 2nd Earl, son of Robert Stuart, natural son of King James V. created Earl of Orkney 1581. Patrick Lord Grey, in 1609, writes to Lord Salisbury, that his brother the Earl of Orkney has been committed, through the malice of his own servants, for informalities in the government of his own state; begs that his oversight may be attributed rather to simplicity than malice.—S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xlvii. p. 14. Patrick, 7th Lord Grey, married the sister of the Earl alluded to in the text.
page 3 note e Sir Arthur Ingram, a wealthy citizen of London, knighted 1612. He purchased the manor of Temple Newsome, co. York, and was sheriff of that county 1619. From him descended Sir Henry Ingram, created in 1661 Baron Ingram of Irvine, and Viscount Irvine, of the county of Ayr.
page 3 note e Sir Marmaduke Darrell, of Fulmere, co. Bucks. He was also Surveyor-General of Victuals, for the Navy, in which office he was succeeded by his son Sir Sampson Darrell. —Add. MSS. 14,311. 286.
page 3 note f Margaret of Valois, descended from Philip VI. King of France, to whose grandfather the county of Valois had been given as an apanage in 1285, by Philip the Hardy. Margaret was the last descendant of this great house, which had given kings to France from 1328. She was born in 1552, married Henry of Navarre 1572, who became King of France on the death of her brother Henry III. in 1598. From him she was divorced in 1599.
page 4 note a Catherine de' Medici, daughter of Lorenzo Duke of Florence, and Queen of Henry II. She died 1589, aged 70.
page 4 note b The Lady Haddington was Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex, and wife of John Ramsey, Viscount Haddington. He had been instrumental in the escape of James from the Gowrie conspiracy. Great festivities took place at their marriage in 1608. The King himself gave away the bride, and afterwards there was a grand masque and a banquet, in the midst of which the King “drank a carouse in a cup of gold, which he sent to the bride, together with a bason and ewer, two livery pots, and three standing cups, all very fair and massive of silver and gilt, and withall a patent for a pension of 600l. a year to the longest liver of them; with this message, ‘that he wished them so much comfort all their lives as he received that day the bridegroom delivered him from the danger of Gowrie.’”—Birch, vol. i. 73. In 1620 the Viscount Haddington was created Baron of Kingston-upon-Thames and Earl of Holderness. He died 1625, s. p.
page 4 note c Susan, daughter of Edward Vere, sixteenth Earl of Oxford, married 4 Jan. 1604–5, to Philip Herbert, created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I., and Earl of Montgomery shortly afterwards. By his first wife, the lady mentioned in the text, he had seven sons and three daughters.
page 4 note d Frances, daughter of Sir Robert Southwell, of Woodrising, Norfolk, one of the Queen's maids of honour, was married on Shrove-sunday 1613–14 to Edward son and heir of Sir John Rodney, of Stoke Giffard, co. Somerset; and he was knighted at the Queen's palace of Somerset House on the 29th of May following. Lady Rodney was one of four ladies of the privy-chamber who, in the procession on the Queen's funeral, had, by “especial partialitie,” places assigned them above Baronets’ wives.—Nichols's Progresses of James I. ii. 755, iii. 541.
page 4 note e Donough O'Brien, fourth Earl, brought up in England, and much esteemed both by Queen Elizabeth and James I. He paid Lord Danvers a composition of 3,200i. for the office mentioned in the text, greatly to the prejudice of Sir Richard Morison, who had long before bought the reversion of it. Died 1624.
page 4 note f Sir Henry Danvers, created Baron Danvers of Dantsey 1603. He was afterwards Earl of Danby and KG. Died 1643, s. p., aged 71. He was the founder of the physic garden at Oxford.
page 4 note g Sir Robert Drury, of Hawsted, co. Suffolk, fourth in descent from Sir Robert Drury of the same place, ob. 1520. M.P. for that county 1603–14. Died 2nd April, 1615, aged 40. His three sisters were:—Frances, married first Sir Nicholas Clifford, Knight, and secondly Sir William Wray, of Glentworth, co. Lincoln, Knight, died s. p.; Elizabeth, married William Cecill, son and heir of William Earl of Exeter, died 1653, aged 80; Diana, married Sir Edward Cecill, Viscount Wimbledon.—(Addit. MSS. 19,127.) Chamberlain, speaking of the latter match in 1616, says that “since the death of her brother she had become a good marriage, worth 10,000?. or 12,000l.”—Birch, i. 444.
page 5 note a Sir Henry Drury, of Edgerly, co. Bucks, grandson of Sir Robert Drury of that place, second son of Sir Robert Drury the elder, of Hawsted, mentioned in the last note. Sir Henry, though heir male of the Knight now deceased, was eight degrees removed.
page 5 note b Clement Edmondes, son of Sir Thomas Edmondes. He received a grant of the office of Clerk of the Council for life 1609, was knighted 1617, and died 1622.
page 5 note c Maurice Abbot, son of a weaver at Guildford, an eminent London merchant, and Governor of the East India Company. He was the first person knighted by King Charles I., and was Lord Mayor 1638. Died 1640.
page 5 note d Probably Henry Middleton, to whom in 1604 a commission was granted, in conjunction with Christopher Colethurst, to be Governor and Lieut-General in a merchant voyage to the East Indies. In 1610 a similar commission was given to him to be General of the Merchants trading to the East Indies.—S.P.O. Dom. Cor.
page 6 note a George Berkeley succeeded his grandfather as Baron Berkeley in 1613; made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales. At the time of the marriage referred to he was thirteen and the lady nine years of age. Died August 1656.
page 6 note b Sir Michael Stanhope, of Sudbury, co. Suffolk, knighted 1603. His daughter Jane was married to Henry Ratcliffe, called Lord Fitzwalter, son and heir of Robert fifth Earl of Sussex, in February 1614.
page 6 note c Catherine, daughter of Sir William Dormer, of Elthorpe, and widow of John 2nd Lord St. John of Bletshoe. She was buried in St. Michael's Chapel, at Westminster-Anne, their daughter and heir, married William Howard, eldest son of Sir Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Baron Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England. Lord Effingham was summoned to Parliament, and died in the lifetime of his father.
page 6 note d Count Meinhardt de Schomberg was the principal person about Frederick Elector Palatine of the Rhine. He accompanied his master to the English Court, where Anne Dudley, daughter of Edward 9th Baron Dudley, held some office about the person of Queen Anne. Here she became intimately associated with the Lord Carew; hence, as a term of endearment, he calls her his wife. She attended the Eleciress to Germany as Chief Lady of Honour, and the court gossips said that she accepted this office because she was not insensible to the attentions of Count de Sehomberg. Her friends, however, for some time, opposed their union. Mr. Lorking, writing on the 18th June, 1614, says, “the news from Heidelberg is that Mrs. Anne Dudley is now made sure to M. Sehomberg.” —Birch, vol. i. p. 325. They were married, as stated in the text, and King James was not a little jealous of their combined influence over his daughter. Anne, however, died in her first confinement (p. 21), watched over and lamented by her kind-heiarted mistress, who took charge of her infant son, Frederick, who accompanied the Prince of Orange to England, and was created Baron Tayes, Earl of Brentford, Marquis of Harwich, and Duke of Sehomberg. He also held the office of Master of the Ordnance, but was killed at the battle of the Boyne. The titles became extinct in 1713.
page 7 note a Robert Bylot probably accompanied Henry Hudson's expedition in 1610, when the latter discovered the Bay which is called after his name; or that of Sir Thomas Button, in 1612. In the latter year Bylot himself discovered Fox Channel, between Cumberland Island and Southampton Island; and he, with Baffin, in 1614, penetrated through Davis's Straits to the most northern extremity, called Sir Thomas Smith's Sound (78° n. lat.)
page 7 note b Christian IV. brother-in-law of King James.
page 7 note e He was not recalled until 3 August (S.P.O.), having been absent about four months.
page 7 note d Ambrose Marquis of Spinola, the distinguished Spanish General, born at Genoa 1569. Died about 1630.
page 8 note a Philip III. succeeded his father at the age of 20, 1598.
page 8 note b Cosmo II. (de' Medici.)
page 8 note c Francesco Maria II. In 1626, being old and without issue male, he gave up his dominions to be incorporated into the Papal States.
page 8 note d Ranuccio I. (Farnese), 1592–1622.
page 8 note e Charles Emmanuel I., 1580–1630.
page 8 note f Mary de' Medici, the Queen Mother, widow of Henry IV.; died 1643.
page 8 note g Henry of Savoy, Duke of Nemours, born at Paris 1572. He waa brought up with his brother at the Court of the Duke of Savoy. Died 1632.
page 8 note h François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres, Peer, Constable, and Marshal of France, Knight of the Orders of the King, Governor of Dauphiny, created Marshal of France 1608. Died 1626, aged 83 years.
page 9 note a Paul V. Camillo Borghese, born 1552, elected 1605, upon the death of Leo XI. Died 1621.
page 9 note b Mathiaa, son of Maximilian II., succeeded his brother Bodolph 1612, Died at Venice 1619, aged 62 years.
page 9 note c George Yilliers, whose “rising fortune” carried him to a height of eminence in the favour of two successive sovereigns never attained by any other English subject.
page 10 note a S.P.O. Dora. Corr. vol. lxxxvi. 16.
page 10 note b Walter Raleigh, son of Sir Walter, who was still, as appears in the next sentence, a prisoner in the Tower. Young Raleigh was killed in the buccaneering attack on St. Thomas in January 1617.
page 10 note c Thomas Howard, Lord Howard de Walden, Earl of Suffolk.
page 10 note d Sir William Lower, son of Thomas Lower, of St. Winnow, co. Cornwall, by Jane, daughter and heir of William Roskimer, of Eoskimer, in that county. He was sheriff of Cornwall 1578, and was knighted 1603. He married Penelope, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Parrott, Knight, and died in Wales. His widow, in 1619, married Sir Robert Naunton.
page 10 note e William Knollys, created Baron Knollys 13 May, 1613. Died 1682, aged 88.
page 10 note f Sir Thomas Erskine, one of the King's Scotish friends, made Captain of the Guard, and granted the stewardship of the Honour of Ampthill for life, and also the manor of Walton, co. York, 1603, created Baron of Dirletpn in Scotland 1604, Groom of the Stole 1605, Viscount Fenton 1606, and granted the manors of Flamborough and Holme, co. York, 1616.
page 11 note a Sir Julius Caesar, eldest son of Csesar Dalmatio, a Venetian, and Physician to Queens Mary and Elizabeth. Born 1557. Was Master of Bequests, Judge of the Admiralty, and Master of St. Katharine's Hospital, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. On the accession of James I. he was knighted and made Treasurer of the Exchequer, sworn of the Privy Counoil, and created Master of the Bolls, which office he held until his death in 1636.
page 11 note b Anne and Mary; daughters of Sir Henry Wodehouse, of Wareham, co. Norfolk, by Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon. Anne married first Henry Hogan of East Bradenham, co. Norfolk, by whom she had one son, Bobert Hogan, who was an infant on the death of his father in 34th Elizabeth. Henry Hogan left all his lands in jointure to his wife. She obtained a grant of the wardship of her son, and, seeing that he was weakly and not likely to attain full age, on June 1st, 1613, he being still a minor and in extremity of sickness, she prevailed upon him by false representations to execute a conveyance in her favour, provided a fine of 10l. was not paid before the 1st September following. Robert died three weeks afterwards, but the transaction was concealed from the heirs until after the day was past on which the fine should have been paid, whereby the cousins and heirs of the deceased, Dame Anne Day and Thomas Downes, were disinherited. This gave rise to extensive legal proceedings, and to a petition to Parliament in 1621 for an Act to cancel the fine as illegal, and to give the heirs possession of the estates.—S.P.O. Dom. Corr. cxxi. 16–20. After the death of Henry Hogan his widow married William Hungate, of East Bradeoham, co. Norfolk, and subsequently Sir Julius Csesar, as in the text. Mary Wodehouse married Sir Bobert Killigrew, of Hanworth. She is called the young Lady Killigrew, to distinguish her from the old Lady Killigrew, who married, in December 1616, Dr. George Downham, Bishop of Derry. She died the following year. Chamberlain calls her the French Lady illigrew.—Birch, ii. pp. 41, 43. Another sister of these ladies married Mr. Hakewill, a lawyer.
page 11 note c See Appendix No. 1.
page 11 note d Frances Lady Chicheater, and Lucy Countess of Bedford, were the only daughters of John first Lord Harrington, and sisters and coheirs of John second Lord Harrington. The former married Sir Robert Chichester of Raleigh, co. Devon; the latter Edward third Earl of Bedford. The old lady mentioned was the widow of the first Lord Harrington, who still mourned the loss of her husband, who died in 1613, and of tier only son, who died in the following year. The loss of this daughter may well be said to have given her a “new wound.”
page 12 note a Sir Henry Bromley, of Holt Castle, co. Worcester.
page 12 note b The Lady Dorothy Devereux. After the death of Sir Henry Shirley, she married William Stafford, of Blatherwyke, co. Northampton, Esq., and died 1636.
page 12 note c In the S.P.O. is an Inventory, dated 14 July, 1615, “of the Brass and Cast Iron Ordnance of Dover Castle, ”—Vol. lxxxi. 16.
page 12 note d There were two gentlemen of this name, both of Devonshire. One was knighted by the King at Belvoir Castle in 1603, and the other, who was of Pollond, co. Devon, and Winstanton, Somerset, at Whitehall, on the 1st April, 1604.—Nichols's Progresses. It was the latter, we imagine, who was Gentleman Usher in 1607, (S.P.Office Grant Book,) and who was granted the Lieutenantcy of Dover Castle in September 1613. (Ibid. Ixxiv. fo. 36.) He died 1620.
page 12 note e Chamberlain, writing on the 16th December, 1614, says, “Dudley Norton had in a sort almost supplanted Sir Richard Cooke, and gotten a grant of both his places in Ireland, upon suggestion that he was grown weak and unserviceable. But Sir Richard says he hath gotten it reversed, yet with this composition, that he is to have a pension of 200l. a. year if he part with the secretaryship, but he will not leave his chancellorship of the Exchequer, because it is the only means to come by his pension.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 354.
page 12 note f Sir Humphrey May, knighted 1613. He built the large mansion at Rawmere, Co. Sussex, and became Master of the Rolls 1629. His wife was the daughter of Henry Uvedale, of Wiekham, co. Southampton, and sister of Sir William Uvedale, of More Crichill, co. Dorset, appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1618, and was Treasurer 1618–1622; sworn a Privy Councillor 1629.
page 13 note a James Hay was a private gentleman of small means, hut of great ability and many personal recommendations. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Hay of Sawley 1615, and in 1617 sworn of the Privy Council, and created Viscount Doncaster. In 1622 he was raised to the dignity of Earl of Carlisle, and in 1624 elected K. G. He enjoyed the offices of Master of the Great Wardrobe, Gentleman of the Robes, and First Gentleman of the Bedchamber, to Charles I. Died 1636.
page 13 note b Sir Robert Dormer, created Baron Dormer, of Wing, 30th June, 1615.
page 13 note c Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield, President of the Council of the North 1603, created Earl of Mulgrave 1626. Died 1646.
page 13 note d John Daccombe, Master of Requests 1614, Knighted and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1616. Died 1618.
page 13 note e Sir Thomas Parry, or ap Harry, alias Vaughan, of Hampstead Marshall, co. Berks, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1607, Master of the Court of Wards 1607; disgraced and suspended from the Chancellorship, and put out of parliament for trying to bring in Sir Walter Cope and Sir Henry Wallop for Stockbridge, they not having been chosen, 1614. (S.P.O. Dom. Corr.) Died 1616.
page 13 note f See note e, page 6.
page 13 note g Sir Charles Cornwallis, second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Controller of the Household to. Queen Mary, Ambassador to Spain 1604, 1608–10, Treasurer to Prince Henry 1611. In 1617 brought before the Star Chamber to answer for his conduct as Collector of Privy Seals in Norfolk and Suffolk in 1611, in detaining the money five years in his own hands, and not accounting for a portion of what was levied.
page 13 note h Lionel Sharp, D.D., who had been Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex, and afterwards to Prinoe Henry. He was Rector of Malpas, co. Chester, and Archdeacon of Berks. Died 1630.
page 14 note a John Hoskyns, of the Middle Temple, Member of Parliament for the city of Hereford, afterwards made a Serjeant and one of the Judges for Wales. Hoskyns had given offence to the King by his conduct in the House in the Session of 1614. Indeed so violent had been the proceedings, that upon the dissolution pursuivants were in attendance to warn divers members to appear at the Council Table on the following day. Mr. Hoskyns and others on the 8th June were sent to the Tower. A few days afterwards Dr. Sharp first, and Sir Charles Cornwallis afterwards, were also committed—the one for helping to compose Hoskyns' speech, and the other for animating him. Chamberlain says that “Hoskyns was embouched, abetted, and indeed plainly hired with money to do as he did.”—Birch, vol. i. 324, 346.
page 14 note b Sir Henry Neville, ancestor of the Nevilles of Billingham, co. Berks, Ambassador to France 1599. He published an edition of Chrysostom 1614, at a great cost.
page 14 note c Henry de la Tour, Duke of Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, Jametz, and Raucourt, Marshal of Prance, born 1555. Died 1623.—Anselme.
page 14 note d Edward Zouehe, 12th Baron Zouche. Upon his death in 1625 the Barony fell into abeyance between his two daughters, and so continued until the abeyance was terminated in 1815 by his Majesty Geo. III. in favour of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, the descendant of the eldest coheir of one moiety. Chamberlain says that Lord Zouche did not seek the office mentioned in the text.—Biroh, vol. t. p. 368.
page 14 note e Jane Sybilla, daughter of Sir Richard Morison, of Cashiobury, co. Herts, Knight, and widow of Arthur 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. She had been previously the wife of Edward Lord Russell, eldest son and heir apparent of Francis second Earl of Bedford, and uncle of the then Earl.
page 15 note a Sir Henry Portman, 2d Baronet, married Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, and died s.p. 1621.
page 15 note b Anne, daughter and coheir of Ferdinando Earl of Derby, wife of Grey Brydges, 5th Lord Chandos, who, notwithstanding her marriage with a Baron, obtained, in 1623, a special patent of precedency as an Earl's daughter. She had two daughters. The elder, Elizabeth, married the Earl of Castlehaven, and Anne, the younger, a gentleman of the name of Totteson.
page 15 note c Edmund Peaeham, Rector of Hinton St. George, co. Somerset. As early as 1603 he was accused of uttering in a sermon seditious and railing words against the King, and more particularly against his Councillors, the Bishops, and Judges. In 1614 he was again in trouble. Upon being asked what he would give to the Benevolence upon the Princess's marriage, he answered that he would say with St. Peter, gold and silver he had none, but that he had he would give, which was his prayers for the King. He was committed to the Tower, and upon his papers being searched a sermon of a seditious and treasonable character was discovered. He died in Taunton gaol in 1614, and Chamberlain says, “he left behind him a most wicked and desperate writing, worse than that he was convicted for.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 393.
page 15 note d Thomas Bilson, born 1574, Prebendary of Winchester 1576, Bishop of Worcester 1596, Bishop of Winchester 1597, died 1686. He took a very active part in the divorce of the Earl and Countess of Essex; hence his favour with Somerset.
page 15 note e Sir Barnabas O'Brien, 2d son of Donogh 4th Earl of Thomond. He took his seat in the House of Peers upon the death of his elder brother, as 6th Earl of Thomond, on 19 March, 1639. For his fidelity and services to King Charles I. during the Civil Wars, he was created Marquess of Billing, co. Northampton, but as, in consequence of the troubles of the time, his patent never passed under the great seal, his posterity did not enjoy the dignity. He married Mary widow of James Lord Sanquhar, daughter of Sir George Fermor.
page 16 note a Robert Lord Willoughby de Eresby.
page 16 note b Francis Lord Norris, of Bisham.
page 16 note c Arabella Stuart, daughter of Charles Earl of Lennox, cousin of the King.
page 16 note d Cicely, daughter of Sir John Baker, of Cissenhurst, co. Kent, married Thomas Sackville, afterwards Baron Buckhurst, and Earl of Dorset; Lord High Treasurer 1603–8.
page 16 note e Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl.
page 16 note f Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl, succeeded his father 1585. His only daughter, Elizabeth, was the wife of Sir Arthur Gorges.
page 16 note g Beaulieu.
page 16 note h Sir Ralph Winwood, made Secretary of State 1614, died 27th October, 1617.
page 16 note i Sir Thomas Overbury was descended from an ancient Gloucestershire family. After receiving his education at Queen's College, Oxford, he entered at the Middle Temple. Knighted 1609. He was a man of many and varied accomplishments.
page 16 note k Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, made Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Lord Treasurer of Scotland 1611, created Baron of Branspeth and Viscount Rochester, a Privy Councillor and K.G. 1612, Earl of Somerset 1613, married the Countess of Essex 1613, made Lord Chamberlain 1613. Died 1645.
page 17 note a Sir Gervais Elwes was of a Lincolnshire family, and a member of Lincoln's Inn. He was knighted at Theobalds 1603, (Nichols's Progresses, vol. i. p. 112,) and appointed Lieutenant of the Tower 1611.
page 17 note b Sir Thomas Monson, eldest son of Sir John Monson, of Charleton, co. Kent, and brother of Sir William the celebrated Admiral. He was knighted 1588, and created a Baronet 1611, in which year he was Keeper of the Armoury. In 1612 he was Keeper of Naval and other-warlike instruments and ammunition, and in 1618 Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster. (S.P.O. Dom. Corr.) Died in 1641, at an advanced age.
page 17 note c Frances, 2nd daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, the divorced wife of Robert 3rd Earl of Essex.
page 17 note d Her father's name was Norton. (Camden's Annals.) She is said to have been eminently beautiful, and to have been educated with the Countess of Somerset. Her brother was in the service of the prince.—Birch, vol. i. p. 377.
page 17 note e Sir John Hollis, of Houghton, eo. Northampton, was one of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under Queen Elizabeth and King James, and was Controller of the Household of the Prince of Wales. Created Baron Houghton 1616, and Earl of Clare 1624 Died 1637.
page 17 note f Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield, co. Essex, knighted 1603, created a Baronet 29th June, 1611. Died 1631, s. p.
page 17 note g Sir John Lidcott, of Ruscombe, co. Berks, knighted at Hampton Court 1600. He was Overbury's brother-in-law.
page 18 note a Mr. Edward Sackville, 3rd son of Robert 2d Earl of Dorset, and brother of Richard 3rd Earl, whom he succeeded in 1624.
page 18 note b Holies and Wentworth were, eaoh fined 1,000l. (Oamden,) and Lumsden 2,000l.
page 18 note c Sir William Smith, of Hill Hall, co. Essex, (nephew of Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State in the reign of Edward VI.) knighted 1603. The Countess was confided to his care on the 26th Oct., and was, at first, confined at the Cockpit, but on the following day, for better accommodation and security, was removed to the Lord d'Aubigny's house at Blackfriars. On the 17th Nov. Sir William Smith reported that the Countess threatened her own life; that she, laying her hand on her belly, sayd, “If I were ridd of this burden, it is my death that is looked for, and my death they shall have.” (S.P.O. Dom. Corr.) So well did Smith execute his office, that on the 16th May in the next year he was granted the office of Marshal of the King's Bench. (S.P.O. Grant Book.) He died 1620.
page 18 note d Lodovick Stuart, second Duke of Lennox. He was High Chamberlain and Admiral of Scotland, Ambassador to Franoe 1601, created E.G. 1603, Baron Setringham and Earl of Richmond 1613, and Duke of Richmond 1623. He filled the offices of Lord Steward and First Gentleman of the Bedchamber. Died 1624, s. p.
page 19 note a Sir George Moore, of Catteshall, co. Surrey, in right of which he claimed the office of Usher of the Chamber on the accession of James I. This claim,'like many others of a similar nature, was left unexamined. (S.P.O. Dom, Corr. vol. ii. No. 76.) He was Chancellor of the Order of the Garter 1610–28, (Nicolas, Hist, of the Orders of Knighthood, vol. ii. 440,) and he held jointly with Sir Robert Moore the office of Constable of Farnham Castle. He was also Receiver-General in the Household of the Prince of Wales. He was a man of great abilities, and a frequent speaker in the House of Commons.
page 19 note b Henry Howard, created Baron Howard of Marnhill, and Earl of Northampton, 1604, K.G. A man of very bad character. He died at his mansion at Charing Cross (now Northumberland House), June 15, 1614, s. p., just early enough to avoid an ignominious end.
page 19 note c Sir John Swinnerton's. He was Sheriff of London 1603, at which time he was knighted. Lord Mayor 1612.
page 19 note d Sir John Leeds of Surrey, knighted 7th January, 1611. He was qf the Sussex and Cambridge family of Leeds.
page 19 note c Sir Thomas Ghaloner, of Gisborough, co. York, and Steeple Claydon, co. Bucks. A man of eminent abilities, who.first introduced the manufacture of alum into this country.
page 19 note f Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Riveil, of Chippenham, co. Cambridge, esq., widow of Henry fifth Baron Windsor, of Stanwell.
page 20 note a Christian II., son of William, by Dorothy, daughter of Christian III., King of Denmark, succeeded his brother Ernest 1611, elected K.G. 1624. Died 1626.
page 20 note b Count Henry of Nassau. He accompanied the Elector Palatine to England in 1612, when he fell in love with the daughter of the Earl of Northumberland.—S.P.Office, Dom. Corr. vol. lxxij. 91.
page 20 note c Sir John Throckmorton, on the 20th December, 1615, says, “On Monday last Sir Thomas Monson was committed to the Tower for business of a higher nature than the death of Sir Thomas Overburie. The Lord Chief Justice said that God had discovered a practice for which the whole state was bound to give God thanks, which should be discovered [i.e. made public] in due time.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 384.
page 20 note d The Lady Anne Carr. She inherited her mother's beauty, and was married, in 1637, to William Lord Russell, who afUrwards became the first Duke of Bedford. She died 1684.
page 20 note e Sir Charles Wilmot was a distinguished soldier in Ireland, where he was knighted by the Earl of Essex in August 1599, He was Constable of Castlemain 1600–5, and President of Connaught from 1616 tohisdeath in 1644. In 1620 he was created Viscount Wilmot of Athlone, and Henry, his son and successor, for his zealous and eminent services in the Royal cause during the Civil Wars, was in 1643 created Baron Wilmot in the English Peerage, and in 1652 Earl of Rochester.
page 21 note a William Howard, son and heir apparent of Charles first Earl of Nottingham. He married Anne, daughter and heir of John Lord St.John of Bletsoe, and left an only daughter, who married John, first Earl of Peterborough.
page 21 note b William, third Earl. His mother was “Sydney's sister.” Elected K.G-. 1603, made Governor of Portsmouth 1609. Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1617. Lord Chamberlain 1615–1625. Died 1630.
page 21 note c Sir Robert Cotton, founder of the Cottonian Library in the British Museum, the collection of which he commenced in 1588. A Commission was issued on the 20th, October, 1615, to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, to seize his person and examine his papers, upon the ground of his having amassed together divers secrets of state, and communicated them to the Spanish Ambassador. (Birch, vol. i. p. 371.) Sir Robert Cotton was knighted 1603, and created a Baronet 1611. Died 1631, aged 60.
page 21 note d See note d, p. 6.
page 21 note e Wife of Archibald Campbell, seventh Earl of Argyle. According to Douglas he was twice married, first to Anne Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Morton, by whom he had one son, Archibald, who succeeded him, and four daughters; and secondly to Anne, daughter of Sir William Cornwallis, of Brome, by whom he had one' son, James, created in 1622 Lord Kintyre, and in 1642 Earl of Irvine. This double birth is not mentioned in Douglas's Peerage of Scotland.
page 21 note f Edward Somerset, fourth Earl, K.G. 1593. He was Master of the Horse 1602–15. Lord Privy Seal 1615–27. Died 1628.
page 22 note a Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, co. Middlesex, knighted 1603, being then Clerk of the Signet, made Privy Councillor 1614.
page 22 note b Sir Ralph Winwood, born 1565, at Aynhoe, co. Northampton, knighted 1607, and sent Ambassador to Holland. Made Secretary of State 1614, died 1617.
page 22 note c Penelope Spencer, eldest daughter of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and wife of Sir William Spencer, eldest son and successor (1627) of Robert first Lord Spencer of Wormleighton. She did not die at this time, but survived her husband, who expired 1636, thirty-one years, leaving a high character for all female virtues. She was buried at Brington 16th July, 1667, where a monument to her memory yet remains.
page 22 note d Sir Roger Dallison, of Laugh ton, co. Lincoln, was Sheriff of that county 1601, knighted 1603, made Surveyor of the Ordnance for life 1606, upon the surrender of which office he was made Lieutenant of the Ordnance for life in 1608. Created a Baronet 1611.
page 22 note e Sir Richard Moryson, of Tooley Park, co. Leicester. He first distinguished himself in the wars in the Low Countries, where, at 18 years of age, he was made the Captain of a company, which company he held until his death. He accompanied the Earl of Essex to Ireland, where he served with great credit, and was knighted in August 1599. He became successively Governor of Dundalk, Lecale, Waterford, and the town and county of Wexford. On the death of Sir Henry Brounker, in 1607, he was joined in a commission with the Earl of Thomond to execute the office of Lord President of Monster, which he held until the Lord Danvers was appointed, under whom he served as Vice-President. (Lamb. MSS. 619, 181.) He is said to have paid the Lord Danvers 3,000l. for the reversion of this office, (Birch, i. 167), and that he agreed to do so would seem to be confirmed by the MS. above quoted, which is a petition to the King to. allow the Lord Danvers to resign in his favour. The Earl of Thomond appears, however, to have been a better bidder, (see note e, p. 4,) and accordingly obtained the appointment. The reversion of the office was however in 1618 granted to Sir Richard; notwithstanding which he Beems never to have enjoyed it, for upon the Earl of Thomond's death, in 1624, it was granted to the Earl's son and others in commission. (Liber Munerum Hibernise, Part II. p. 184.) Sir Richard Moryson was Cessor of Composition Money for the Province of Munster 1616–25, and in 1616 was granted the office of Lieutenant of the Ordnance for life, and also for the life of Sir William Harrington, (Sir Richard Moryson's will, Clark, 104,) who received the profits for some time after Sir Richard's death. (Ord. MSS.) Sir Richard Moryson married the daughter of Sir Henry Harrington, and died 1625. Will proved 30th December. His eldest son was knighted at Whitehall 8 October, 1627, and his daughter, Letitia, became the wife of Lucius Carey, the great Viscount Falkland. She was a lady whose character, according to Clarendon, bore, in some degree, a parallel to that of her distinguished husband. (Nichols's Hist, of Leic.) Sir Richard Moryson's brother, Fynes Moryson, was the author of the Annals of Ireland, published in Holinshed's Collection.
page 23 note a Sir-Arthur Chichester, Lord Belfast.
page 23 note b Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, and Sir John Denham Lord Chief Justice.
page 23 note c Sir William Monson, of Kinnersley, co. Surrey, the celebrated Admiral, and compiler of the Tracts upon Naval Affairs published in 1703. Died 1642.
page 23 note d Francis Cottington, a younger son of Philip Cottington, of Grodmanston, co. Somerset. He was for many years attached to the embassy at the court of Spain, and was well acquainted with Spanish affairs. Knighted and created a Baronet 1623, made Master of Wards and Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer 1629, created Baron Cottington, of Hanworth, 1631. He zealously attached himself to the Royal Cause in the following reign, and having attended Charles II. in his exile, died at Valladolid, in 1653, aged 77.
page 23 note e Sir John Digby, third son of Sir George Digby, of Coleshill, co. Warwick. Sir John was knighted 1605, created Baron Digby, of Sherborne, 1618, and Eari of Bristol 1622. Walpole mentions him in his Catalogue of Noble Authors. Died 1652.
page 24 note a William Cecill, Lord Roos, eldest son of William, 2d Earl of Exeter, by Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Edward Manners, Earl of Rutland. In right of his mother, who died 1591, he acquired the Barony of Roos, and married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, as stated in the text. Died 1618, s.p.
page 24 note b Louis XIII.
page 24 note c Maria de' Medici.
page 24 note d Anne, daughter of Philip III.
page 24 note e Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Henry IV.
page 24 note f Henry II., born 1588. At the solicitation of Henry IV. he turned Romanist, but on the death of Louis XIII. he recovered favour at court, and was Minister of State under the Regent. Died 1646;
page 25 note a Charles de Loraine, fourth Duke of Guise, born 1571. Died 1640.
page 25 note b Henry II. of Orleans, born 1595. He was Duke of Longueville and of Estouteville, Sovereign Prince of Neufchatel and Wallengin in Switzerland, Count of Dunois, of Tancarvillc, and of St. Paul; Peer of France, Knight of the Orders of the King, Governor of Picardy and then of Normandy. Died 1663.—Anselme.
page 25 note c Antoine du Maine, known by the name of Du Bourg l'Espinasse, second son of Bertrand du Maine, Baron du Bourg. He was Baron de l'Espinasse and of la Garde de Bioulx, Viscount of Montirat, Seigneur de Changy, &c. (Marechal de Camp), Major-General of the Armies, and Governor of Antibes.—Anselme.
page 25 note d See note c, p. 14.
page 25 note e Henry de Rohan, first Duke of Rohan, Peer of France, born 1579, died 1638.—Anselme.
page 25 note f Maximilian de Bethune, Duke de Sully, born 1560. In 1603 he was sent Ambassador to England to congratulate James I. on his, accession. He was created Marshal of France 1634, and died 1641.
page 25 note g See note h, p. 8.
page 25 note h Benjamin de Rohan, Seigneur de Soubize, brother of Henry Duke of Rohan, mentioned above. He embraced the side of the Huguenots; surrendered the town of St. Jean d'Angely 23 June, 1621, after twenty-one days'siege. In 1625 he brought back to Rochelle 400 men out of 7,700, which he had commanded. Died in England 1640.—Anselme.
page 25 note i Jacques Nompar de Caumont, Duke de la Force, in Perigord, Peer and Marshal of France, Captain of the King's Body Guard, Governor of Beam, General of the King's Armies in Piedmont, Germany, and Flanders. Died 1652, aged 93.—Anselme.
page 25 note k Anne de Levis, Duke of Ventadour, Peer of France, Knight of the Orders of the King, Governor and Seneschal of the haute and bas Limosin, Lieutenant-General of Languedoc. Died about 1622.—Anselme.
page 25 note l Csesar, Duke of Vendome, Natural son of Henry IV, by Gabrielle d'Etrees Duchess conof Beaufort, born 1594, and legitimated in the following year. In 1865 he dispersed the fleet of the Spaniards near Barcelona. DiSd 1655, aged 71—Anselme.
page 26 note a Henry II. third Duke, Marshal of France. Being dissatisfied with Richelieu, he conspired and revolted in Languedoc, of which province he was Governor, in favour of the Duke of Orleans, for which he was condemned and executed in October 1632.
page 26 note b Charles de Cfonzague Cleves, Duke of Nivernois and Bethelois, Peer of France, Prince of Arche, Governor of Champagne and Brie, afterwards Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. Died 1637.—Anselme.
page 26 note c Louis of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, Archbishop Duke of RheiniB, Peer of France, He was not consecrated, but did not fail, nevertheless, to enjoy his archbishoprick and the honours of the peerage. Died 1621.—Anselme.
page 26 note d Charles de Lorraine, Duke d'Aumale. He left a daughter Anne, who in 1618 married Henry of Savoy, Duke of Nemours.—Anselme.
page 26 note e Jean Louis de Nogaret de la Valette, Duke of Epernon, Peer and Admiral of France, born May 1554. Died 1642.
page 26 note f See note f, p. 25.
page 26 note g Concino Concini; known by the name of Marshal D'Ancre was a native of the County of Penna in Tuscany, and came into France in 1600 with Maria de' Medicis.
Eleanor Dori, called Galiagi, his wife, was the cause of his promotion. He was Marquis of Ancre, Governor of Normandy and of the Citadel of Amiens, and was made Marshal of France in February 1614, He took a great part in the government during the minority of Louis XIII. He was killed on the drawbridge of the Louvre by the intrigues of de Luines, who made use of tha King's name, 24th April 1617. Moreri, Diet. Historique.
page 27 note a He murdered Henry IV. 1610.
page 27 note b Henry Uvedale of Wickham, co. Southampton.
page 27 note c S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xc. 24.
page 27 note d Adjmere.
page 28 note a Sir Francis Barkeley, of Askeyton, co. Limerick, knighted by the Earl of Essex June 3, 1599. He was appointed Constable of Limerick Castle 1597, and, having married Catherine, the daughter of the Lord Chancellor Loftus, his patent passed the Great Seal without payment of fee. He held this office up to 1610 and afterwards. (Liber Munerum Hiberniæ, part ii. 116.)
page 29 note a This is a mistake. The name was not Dampmartin, but Damprierre, as appears from the following extract from a despatch from Sir Thomas Edmondes, the Ambassador at Paris, to Winwood, dated 10 January 1615–16. “It fell out of late that an Almaine Count, called Count Damprierre, was taken by those of the Prince's armie as he returned from Bordeaux, who, at the instance of the Duke of Nevers, was set free without paying anieransome. The which courtesie he did so ill requite as during the time of his being in the Prince's armie, he practised with one of the Captaines of the Reyters, called Cratz, not only to have debauched the companie under hts charge, but also to have enterprised against the person of the Duke of Bouillon; promising him, in the name of the Queen, a reward of a hundred thousand crownes; the which proposition the captaine having imparted, to his lieutenant and others of his companie, to the end, as is said, to have drawn them to concurre with him in that action, the lieutenant discovered the practise j wherevppon the captaine has ben putt vnder garde and his companie disposed of to an other.” (S.P.O. French Corr.)
page 29 note b Sir Francis Verney, eldest son of Sir Edmund Verney, of Penley, co, Herts, by his second wife Audrey, daughter of William Gardner, of Fulmer, co. Bucks, and widow of Sir Peter Carew the younger. The career of Sir Francis Verney was an extraordinary one. Late in life his father married a third wife, by whom he had a son called Edmund. In 1598 he procured an Act of Parliament to enable him to cut off the entail of his estates and convey a portion to his youngest son. He died in 1600, when Francis sought the repeal of the Act for the settlement of his father's estates, but failed. The rejection of the bill excited him to desperation. He sold all his property, and is said to have proceeded to Algiers, and to have entered into the service of Muley Sidan, one of the sons and claimants of the throne of Muley Hamet, Emperor of Morocco. He afterwards became associated with the pirates, and finally died on 6th September, 1615, in the hospital of St. Mary of Pity in Messina, (not in the gallies, as stated in the text,) whither he had been brought from Tunis in his last illness for Christian advice and comfort. Verney Papers, Camden Society.
page 29 note c See note a, p. 24.
page 30 note a See note a, p. 25.
page 30 note b Edward Neville, of Latimer, seventh Baron Abergavenny, summoned to Parliament 1604, died 1622. Chamberlain, speaking of this melancholy occurrence, says, “They were lost by their own negligence and wilfulness, by tying the sail to the boat's side in stormy weather.” Birch, vol. i. p. 394.
page 30 note c Sir Robert Sydney Lord Lisle was greatly distinguished for his valour and conduct in the Low Countries, and was appointed Governor of Flushing 1603. Created Baron Sydney 1603, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen 1604, Viscount Lisle 1605, K.G. 1616, Earl of Leicester 1618. His eldest son, Sir Robert Sydney, was born 1595, created Knight of the Bath 1616, succeeded his father as Earl of Leicester 1626, Ambassador to France 1632–41. Died 1677.
page 30 note d Henry Percy, the ninth Earl, called the Wizard Earl, K.G. 1593. He had two daughters: Dorothy mentioned in the text, and Lucy, who married, “also without her father's consent, James Hay, Earl of Carlisle. Earl Henry died 1632, aged 68.
page 30 note e Sir Henry Fanshawe, of Ware Park, co. Herts, knighted 1603. He was Remembrancer of the Exchequer, in which office he was succeeded by his son, Thomas Fanshawe, created K.B. at the coronation of Charles I., and Viscount Fanshawe, of Donamore, 1661.
page 31 note a Jean, daughter of Patrick third Lord Drummond, second wife of Robert Ker, Lord Roxburgh, created Earl of Roxburgh 1616. This son is not mentioned by Douglas, who gives by this marringa only one son, Henry, who died before his father in 1643. Chamberlain mentions the death of another son of Lord Roxburgh in these words: “The Earl of Roxburgh has lost his only son in France, a gentleman as towardly, by all report, as any of his nation.” Birch, vol. i. p. 460. He will be mentioned also in a subsequent page of this volume.
page 31 note b His first wife Theodosia, daughter of Sir Andrew Noel, of Dalby, co Leicester. She was buried at Utrecht.
page 31 note c See note e, p. 20.
page 31 note d Henry O'Brien, son of Donough fourth Earl (see note e, p, 4.) He was summoned to Parliament in 1613, in his father's lifetime, by the title of Baron Ibraken, and was appointed Governor of Clare and Thomond, as stated in the text. In 1633 he was made a Privy Councillor to Charles I. Died 1639.
page 31 note e Sir Jerome Bowes, of Elford, co. Stafford. He held a patent for importing Venice glass, which he bequeathed to his nephews, John, son of his brother Sir Edward Bowes, and Sir Perceval Hart, son of his sister Elizabeth, who married Sir George Hart, of Lillingston Darrell, co. Kent.’ He was of the family of Bowes of Streatlam Castle, co. Durham. Will, Cope 38.
page 32 note a Sir Henry Wotton left on the 18 March, 1616.—Birch, vol. i. p. 394.
page 32 note b Sir Arthur Chichester, second son of Sir John Chichester, of Ralegh, co. Devon. Privy Councillor and Lord Deputy of Ireland 1604. Created Baron Chichester of Belford 1612. Upon his retirement from the office of Lord Deputy, he was appointed Lord High Treasurer. In 1622 he was sent Ambassador to the Palatinate. Died about 1624, s.p.
page 32 note e Sir Oliver St. John, second son of Nicholas St.John, of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wilts, created Viscount Grandison of the kingdom of Ireland, and Baron Tregoze in that of England 1626. Died 1629, s.p.
page 32 note d He appears to have been a native of Scotland. Chamberlain states that he was a groat friend and favourite of Sir George Villiers and a known courtier, and that he “was solemnly buried in the night at Westminster, with better than 200 torches, the Duke of Lennox, the Lord Penton, the Lord of Rothsay, and all the grand Scotish men accompanying him.”—Birch, vol. i. p, 399.
page 32 note e Francis, who died 1632.
page 32 note f It appears from Chamberlain that the Lords Roos and Hay vied with each other in the magnificence of their preparations for these embassies.
page 33 note a Thomas Grey, sixteenth and last Baron Grey of Wilton, attainted 1604 with Cobham, Raleigh, and others. His life was spared, but he languished and died in confinement in the Tower, in 1614. Chamberlain says that “upon the elevation of Sir George Villiers to the Garter it was doubted that he had not sufficient livelihood to maintain the dignity of the place according to the express articles of the order, but to take away that scruple the King hath bestowed upon him the Lord Grey's lands and means.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 400.
page 33 note b Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury of his name, Baron of Talbot, Purnival, and Strange, K.G. 1592. He married Mary, daughter of Sir William Cavendish, of Chatsworth co. Derby, but he left no surviving issue male. The Baronies fell into abeyance between his three daughters and coheirs, but the earldom devolved upon his brother and heir, who died 1618, s.p.
page 33 note c See Birch, i. 405.
page 33 note d Catherine, second daughter of Robert Sidney Lord Lisle and Earl of Leicester, and wife of Sir Lewis Manael. She died at Baynard's Castle on the 8th May, and was buried at Penshurst on the 13th May, 1616. Sydney Papers, vol. i. p. 120.
page 34 note a Sir John Roper of Eltham, co. Kent, knighted 1603, created Baron Teynham 1616. Died 1618, aged 81.
page 34 note b Margaret, “youngest daughter of Francis Earl of Bedford, and widow of George Clifford, seventeenth Baron Clifford, and third Earl of Cumberland. He died 1606, leaving an only daughter, Anne, sole heir to the Baronies of Clifford, Westmorland, and Vesoy, who became Countess of Dorset and Pembroke.
page 34 note c Younger brother of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, co. York. He was himself knighted 1603, and was Carver to Queen Anne.
page 34 note d Of Board's Hill, co. Sussex.
page 34 note e William Ceolll, second Earl, K.G. 1628, married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk, by whom he had, in addition to the son mentioned in the text, who was called James after his royal godfather, and died young, seven other sons and five daughters. The Earl died 1668.
page 34 note f Sir Horace Vere, third son of John fifteenth Earl of Oxford, created Baron Vere of Tilbury 1625. Master of the Ordnance 1629–85 upon the death of Lord Carew. Died 1635, leaving live daughters coheirs.
page 35 note a Sir Edward Conway was knighted by the Earl of Essex at Cadiz 1596. He was Lieut-Governor of the Brill; Ambassador to Prague 1623–25; Captain of the Isle of Wight 1624; Baron Conway 1625; President of the Council and Viscount Kilultagh, co. Antrim, 1626; Viscount Conway in the English peerage 1627. Died 1630.
page 35 note b Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, Earl of Murray, second wife of Charles Howard, first Earl of Nottingham. After the death of the Earl in 1624, she married, secondly, Sir William Manson, and after his decease the Viscount Castlemaine in Ireland.
page 35 note c See note d, p. 15.
page 35 note d James Montague, fifth son of Sir Edward Montague, of Boughton, co. Northampton. He was Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1598, Dean of Winchester 1604, Bishop of Bath »nd Wells 1608. Died 1618.
page 35 note e Dr. Arthur Lake, Warden of New College, Oxford, elected Bishop of Bath and Wells 1616. Died 1626.
page 36 note a See note e, p. 84.
page 36 note b Sir Thomaa Dale, of Surrey, knighted 1606, sent out as Marshal of the Colony of Virginia 1611.
page 36 note c The first settlement of Virginia was made as early as 1585, but it was more than once nearly extinguished between that date and 1611, when Sir Thomas Gates was appointed Governor, from which time it steadily advanced in prosperity. This was greatly promoted by the marriage of a young Englishman called John Rolfe with Pocahuntas, daughter of Powhatan, the principal chief of the country, which led to a comfirmed peace with her father, and through his influence with the other Indian tribes. Rolfe brought his wife to England with ten or twelve other natives, as stated in the text, where she was very favourably received, and presented to the King. Chamberlain says, “On 18 January, 1617, the Virginian woman Pocahuntas, with her father counseller, have been with the King, and graciously used, and both she and her assistant well placed at the masque. She is on her return, but sore against her will.” Birch, vol. i. p. 388. She never however left this country, but died at Gravesend in March 1618.—Birch, vol. ii. p. 3.
page 36 note d Seignior Goorge Barbarico. Died 27 May, 1615.
page 37 note a Sir Edward Coke.
page 37 note b Sir Thomas Ridgeway, of Tormohun, co. Devon, knighted 1600, Treasurer of Ireland 1608, created Baronet 1611, Baron Gallen-Ridgeway 1616, and Earl of Londonderry in Ireland 1622. Titles Ext. 1713.
page 37 note c Sir Arthur Savadge, of Rheban, co. Kildare, Knight, Governor of Connaught, (Cox, i. 428,) Vice-Treasurer and Receiver-General of Ireland 1616. Died before 1625.
page 37 note d Sir Henry Docwra, Knight. He placed a garrison at Loughfoile in 1600, and was Governor there in 1601, in which year he took Nevrtown. In 1602 he besieged Enislaghlin and brought the garrison prisoners to Newry. In 1604 he was appointed Constable of Loughfoile for life. Created Baron Docwra, of Culmere, eo. Deny, May 15,1621.
page 37 note e John Barclay, son of William Barclay, a native of Aberdeen, He was born at Ponta-Mousson 1582. He was a scholar and a man of considerable ability, and published several controversial works. He was employed by King James in revising his works, for which he received a pension of 150?. a-year, which, in January 1610, was increased to 200J. a-year. Dom. Corr. vol. Hi. 4. Barclay died at Rome 1621. He was not the author of the scandalous book referred to, as we shall see hereafter. Third son of Robert first Earl of Warwick; he was knighted 1610, was distinguished for his conduct in the tiltyard, and constituted Captain of the King's Guard 1617. Created Baron Kensington 1622, Earl of Holland 1624, K.G. 1625, Constable of Windsor Caatle and General of the Horse 1639. He was remarkable for his zeal and aotivity in the next reign, for which he was beheaded 9th March, 1649. Sir Gilbert Houghton, eldest aon of Sir Richard Hougbton, of Houghton Tower, co. Lancaster, created a Baronet 1611. Sir Gilbert was knighted 1604, succeeded to the Baronetcy 1630, and was greatly distinguished for his loyalty to King Charles I. Died ‘ 1647.
page 38 note c Sir Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, co. Suffolk, knighted 1603, Sheriff of Huntingdon 1607. His son Henry was created Lord Jermyn 1644, and Earl of St.Alban's 1660. Sir Thomas represented the borough of Bury St.Edmund's in Parliament from 1614 to 1640, and was Treasurer of the Household of King Charles I.
page 38 note d Sir David Murray was knighted in 1605. He belonged to the household of Prince Henry.
page 38 note e Sir George Goring, of Hurst Pierrepoint, co. Sussex, knighted 1608. He was a sort of minor favourite with the King. Created Baron Goring 1629, and Earl of Norwich 1645. Died 1662.
page 38 note f Sir Robert Douglas was knighted 1609. In 1610 he was Master of the Horse to Prince Henry.
page 38 note g Sir Thomas Badger was granted the office of Master of the King's Privy Harriers for life 1605.–S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xii. 43.
page 38 note h Thomas Howard, son and heir of Philip Earl of Arundel, was restored in blood and to such honours as his father enjoyed, also to the Earldom of Surrey, and to such baronies as his grandfather Thomas Duke of Norfolk lost by attainder 1603. Created K.G. 1611, Earl of Norfolk 1644. Died 1646.
page 39 note a Chamberlain says, “She did passionately deprecate and entreat the lieutenant that she might not be lodged in Sir Thomas Overbury's lodging, so that he was fain to remove himself out of his own chamber for two or three nights till Sir Walter Raleigh's lodging might be furnished and made fit for her.” Birch, vol. i. p. 396.
page 39 note b See note c, p. 4. Chamberlain, writing on the 3rd September 1616, says, that “the christening of the Earl of Montgomery's young son is deferred, waiting the coming of the King to Endville (Enfleld), where the lady lies in.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 428. The Earl at this time rented Elsinge Hall, or Enfleld House, of the Crown. The infant referred to was the Earl's eldeBt son. He was called James, after the King, his godfather, but he lived not to attain the honours to which he was heir. He died and was buried at Enfield in 1619.—Nichols's Progresses.
page 39 note c Henry Rowlands, consecrated 1598. Died 16 July, 1616, and was buried in his own cathedral.
page 39 note d Robert Bennet, consecrated 1603. Died 21 Oct. 1617, and was buried in his own cathedral.
page 39 note e George Lloyd, Bishop of Sodor 1599, translated to Chester 1604. Died 1st Aug. 1615, and was buried in bis own cathedral.
page 40 note a Sir Edward Brabazon, eldest son of Sir William Brabazon, Treasurer and Receiver-General of Ireland (died 1552). In 1571, on attaining full age, Sir Edward Brabazon had special livery of his lands. Created Baron Brabazon, of Ardee 1615, died 1625. His eldest son, in 1627, was created Earl of Meath.
page 40 note b This is a mistake. Sir Edward Moore was at this time dead. His second son, Gerald, who had greatly distinguished himself in the Irish wars, was the person raised to the Peerage. Knighted by the Earl of Essex 1599, appointed President of Munster 1615, created Baron Moore of Mellefont 20 July, 1616, and Viscount Moore of Droglieda 1621. Died 1627.
page 40 note c See note b p. 37.
page 40 note d Sir Roger Wilbraham, of Dorfleld, co. Chester, was the Keeper of the Records in the Tower, which office he surrendered 1603, in which year he was knighted, being then Master of Requests. Appointed Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries 1607. page 40 note e Hugh O'Neil.
page 40 note f Thomas Cecill, eldest son of Lord Burghley, elected K.CT. and created Earl of Exeter 1605. He married twice, 1st Dorothy, daughter and coheir of John Neville Lord Latimer, by whom he had several children; and, secondly, Frances, daughter of William Bridges, fourth Lord. Chandos, and widow of Sir Thomas Smith, Master of Requests, by whom he had an only daughter, Anne Sophia, whose birth is mentioned in the text; she died 1621. The old Earl died 1622.
page 40 note g Francis Lord Russell, of Thornhaugh, co. Northampton, created Baron Russell 1603. He married Katharine, daughter and coheir of Giles Bridges, third Lord Chandos, and succeeded to the title of Earl of Bedford upon the death of his cousin Edward, the third Earl, 1627. Died 1641. The son whose birth is chronicled in the text was called William, and lived not only to succeed his father as an Earl, but, in 1672, was elected K.G., and in 1694 created Marquis of Taviatock and Duke of Bedford. He married Anne, only daughter and heir of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. See note d, p. 20. Died 1700.
page 41 note a Gilbert seventh Earl. The ceremonials of the not less stately funerals of his father and grandfather are printed at length in Hunter's Hallamshire.
page 41 note b Sir Thomas Somerset, third son of Edward fourth Earl of Worcester, Master of the Horse to the Queen, K.G. 1605. Viscount Somerset of Cashel, co. Tipperary, 1626.
page 41 note c Elizabeth, second wife of Thomas second Earl of Ormond, and daughter of John second Lord Sheffield.
page 41 note d See note d, p. 6.
page 41 note e Sir Augustine Nichols, of Ecton, co. Northampton, was knighted and became one of the Judges of the Common Pleas 1612. He died on the 3rd August as he went the Northern circuit, and was buried in Kendall church, co. Westmerland.
page 41 note f See note c, p. 26.
page 41 note g Franéois de Lorraine, Prince de Joinville, eldest son of the Duke of Guise, born 1612, died unmarried 1639.
page 42 note a Katherine of Cleves, widow of Henry de la Lorraine, Duke of Guise, killed at Bloia.
page 42 note b Henrietta Catherine, Duchess of Joyeuse, Countess of Bouchage, —Moreri, p. 403.
page 42 note c Louisa Margarite of Lorraine, wife of Francis de Bourbon, Prince of Conty.
page 42 note d William de Vair received the seals in May and delivered them again to the King in November 1616. He was succeeded by Claude de Margot, who held them only until the death of D'Ancre in April 1617, when they were again returned to him, and he retained them until his death in 1621. In 1618 he was made Bishop and Count of Lisieux.
page 42 note e Andrew Fremiot, Abbot of Ferrara, appointed Archbishop of Bourges by Henry IV. in 1602. He resigned his archbishopric in favour of Roland Herbert 1621. Died 1641.
page 42 note f Henry de Gondi, Duke of Retz, born 1590. Died 1659.
page 42 note g Emanuel de Crassol, Duke d'Uyeez, Peer of France. Died 1657.
page 43 note a Charles Seigneur de Crequi, Prince of Poix, —Anselme.
page 43 note b Pons de Lauzieres de Themines de Curdaillac, Marquis of Themines, Knight of the Orders of the King, Seneschal and Governor of Quercy. He was a distinguished soldier, and rendered important services to Henry III. and Henry IV. in their wars. Died 1627, aged 74.—Anselme.
page 43 note c Francis de la Grange, Seigneur de Montigny and de Sery, Governor of Paris and Metz 1603, made Marshal of France 7th Sept., 1616. Died 1617.–Anselme.
page 43 note d It belonged to the Lord Grey of Wilton, and was lost by his attainder on account of his connexion with the Raleigh and Cobham Plot.
page 44 note a Sir Henry Poole, of Saperton, co. Gloucester, of which county he was Sheriff as early as the sixteenth of Queen Elizabeth. He was held in great credit and estimation. See Dom. Corr. vol. xxxij. 172.
page 44 note b The Lady Frances Egerton, second daughter and one of the coheirs of Ferdinando Earl of Derby, and wife of Sir John Egerton, K.B., only son of the Lord Chancellor, created 1617 Earl of Bridgewater. The son whose birth is here chronicled died in infancy.
page 44 note c George Touchet, eleventh Baron Audley, created Earl of Castlehaven 6th May 1616. Died 1617.
page 44 note d Sir Richard Boyle, created Baron Boyle of Youghal 16th September 1616, Viscount Dungarvon and Earl of Cork 1620. Known in history as the great Earl of Cork. Died 1643.
page 45 note a Sir Robert Ker, created Baron Roxburgh 1600. He was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal in Scotland 1637, in which office he was confirmed by Parliament in 1641, but by the same authority deprived in 1649, for his efforts in the cause of the King. Died 1650. See note”, p. 31.
page 45 note b Half-brother of the favourite, being the second son of Sir George Villiers by his first wife Audrey, daughter of William Sanders, Esq. Sir Edward was sent Ambassador to Bohemia 1620, and made President of Munster 1622. Died 1826.
page 45 note c He acquired considerable property under the will of the Earl of Northampton, and married a great heiress, Elizabeth, only danghter and heir of William Basset of Blore, co. Stafford. After his death she gave birth to a daughter, who married Sir John Harpur, of Swarkston, co. Derby.
page 45 note d Lewis Count of Soissons, born 1604, and slain in 1641. He never married.—Anderson.
page 45 note e Henrietta Maria, who afterwards became the Queen of Charles I.
page 45 note f Catherine Henrietta, born 1596. This projected marriage did not take effect, for in 1619 she was married to Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Elbceuf. She died 1663. Her mother was Gabrielis, the first of Henry IV's four mistresses, and wife of Nicholas Damaroal, Lord of Lianoour.—Anderson.
page 46 note a This marriage also did not take effect, for the Duke of Longueville in 1617 married Aloisa, daughter of Charles Count of Soissons. Anderson.
page 46 note b See note b, p. 25.
page 46 note c Lancelot Andrews, born 1555, Bishop of Chichester and Lord Almoner 1605, Bishop of Ely 1609, of Winchester and Dean of the King's Chapel 1618; which two last preferments he held until his death in 1626. He was a man of ardent zeal and great piety, and ranked with the best preacher and most complete scholars of the age in which he lived.
page 46 note d Tincentius, born 1594. Cardinal 1615, succeeded his brother Ferdinand as Duke of Mantua 1626. He married Isabel Gonzaga, daughter of Ferdinand Duke of Bozzolo, and died 1627.
page 46 note e See note g, p. 8.
page 47 note a Sir Thomas Egerton, created Baron Ellesmere 1603, and Viscount Brackley 1616.
page 47 note b Widow of William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, who died 1571. She was his third wife, and a Swede. Her name was Helen Suavenburgh.
page 46 note c Sir John Egerton succeeded his father as Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley 1617, and was immediately created Earl of Bridgwater. The child whose baptism is here noticed died in infancy. See note b, p. 44.
page 46 note d Sir Thomas Smith, of North Ash, co. Kent, knighted 1603, and sent Ambassador to Muscovy. For many years he was Governor of the Muscovy and East India Companies, He was an eminent and opulent merchant, and was often employed by the King on affairs of state connected with the commerce of the country. In 1619 his house at Deptford was burnt to the ground, but in the same year the Marquis Tremouille, Ambassador Extraordinary from France, with a train of 120 persons, was lodged in his house in London.
page 48 note a See Appendix No. 2.
page 48 note b Maximilian de Bethune, born 1588. He was made Grand Master of the Artillery in 1618 on the resignation of his father. Died v. p.
page 48 note c John Frederick, patriarch of the lines of Stuttgardt and Nexistadt, born 1588. Invested K.G. 1604. Died 1628.
page 49 note a He had another seat at Hemstead Hall, eo. Kent, where his father entertained Queen Elizabeth on her progress in 1573.
page 49 note b John Lewis, Count of Nassau-Hadamar, born 1590. He turned Roman Catholic, and was by the Emperor Frederick II. made Chamberlain of the empire. He was one of the Privy Council of Frederick III., and was sent Ambassador to the treaty of Westphalia 1648. Died 1653.
page 49 note c Ferdinand of Hapsburg, Archduke of Gratz, son of Charles of Austria, and brother of Maximilian II., born 1578, elected King of Bohemia 1617, of Hungary 1618, succeeded his cousin the Emperor Mathias as Emperor 1619. Died 1637.—Anderson.
page 49 note d Chamberlain says, “The King was his godfather in person, held him at the font all the while he was christening, gave him the reversion of all his father's places and offices, and yet all these favours could not prolong life”—Birch, vol. i. p. 436.
page 50 note a Sir Robert Dormer, created a Baronet 10th June 1615, Baron Dormer of Winge, co. Berks, SOth same month. He died within a month of his son, and was succeeded by his grandson Robert.
page 50 note b Henry Cavendish, eldest son of Sir William Cavendish by his third wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Hard wick, of Hardwick, co. Derty, and widow of Richard Barley, Esq., of the same county, whose large estates she inherited under settlement. Henry Cavendish was of Tutbury Priory, co. Stafford, and M.P. for co. Derby. His younger brother Sir William Cavendish was created Baron Cavendish of Hardwiek 1605, and Earl of Devonshire 1618. As stated in the text, he inherited the whole estate, and possessed three of the finest houses in England: Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Oldcotes, all erected by his celebrated mother.
page 50 note c Son of Sir John Hawkins the famous voyager, who accompanied Drake in an expedition to South America in 1595. Sir Richard was no less famous then his father. In 1593 he undertook a voyage to the South Seas, an account of which he published in fol. 1622.
page 51 note a Leigh, in Essex, about five miles above Southend.
page 51 note b Francois de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres, see note h, p. 8.
page 51 note c Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Sydney, immortalized by Ben Jonson as
“Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother.”
She died at a very advanced age at her house in Aldersgate Street, London, on 25th September, 1621.
page 51 note d He was a native of Macerata in the Papal States, and was born 1552. He was sent as a missionary to India, and, having finished his studies at Goa, went to China, where, on account of his skill in mathematics, he obtained great favour from the Emperor, and was allowed to build a Christian church at Pekin, where he died 1610.
page 53 note a See page 6.
page 54 note a Henry Frederick, son of William Prince of Orange, born Feb. 1584, and succeeded his brother Maurice as Prince of Orange 1625. Died 1647. He married, 1625, Amalia daughter of John Albert Count of Solms.—Anderson, 544.
page 54 note b Thomas Howard, created Earl Marshal at the time of the baptism of the son of Sir John Egerton, see n.
page 54 note c p. 47. Died 1646.
page 55 note a This ceremonial is described at length in Nichols's Progresses, &c. of James I. vol. iii. p. 212.
page 54 note b The Earl of Pembroke.
page 54 note c William Segar, appointed Somerset Herald 1589, Norroy 1593, Garter 1603; knighted November in this year. Died 1633.
page 54 note d Robert Ratcliffe, fifth Earl. Died 1629, s.p.
page 54 note e Henry Hastings, fifth Earl. Died 1643.
page 54 note f Francis Manners, sixth Earl. Died 1632.
page 54 note g William Stanley, sixth Earl. Died 1642.
page 54 note h Edward Talbot, eighth Earl. Died 1618.
page 54 note i Earl of Suffolk.
page 54 note k Lord Howard of Effingham.
page 54 note l Eldest son of Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston, co. Derby, knighted 1605, created Baron Stanhope of Shelford, co. Notts, 1616, and Earl of Chesterfield 1628. He greatly distinguished himself by his loyalty in the next reign, particularly in the defence of Liehfield in 1642–3, at the capture of which he was taken prisoner, and died in confinement 1656, aged 72.
page 56 note a Sir John Tindal, D.C.L., of Norfolk, was knighted 1603.
page 56 note b His wife was sister or half-sister to Sir Robert Chamberlain's father.—Birch, i. 443.
page 56 note c Grandson of Lord Chief Justice Montagu. He was an eminent lawyer, knighted and elected Recorder of London 1603, made Sergeant-at-Law and King's Sergeant 1610, Lord Chief Justice 1616, Lord High Treasurer of England, Baron Montague, and Viscount Mandeville 1620, Lord President of the Council 1621, Earl of Manchester, 1625, and Lord Keeper 1627. Died 1642.
page 56 note d Read chief-justiceship.
page 57 note a Rene de Bueil, Count de Maran, son of Jean VII. of that name, Count de Sancerre, by Anne, daughter of Guy de Daillon Count du Lude. In 1626 he married Frances de Montalais, and in 1638 succeeded his father as Count of Sancerre.—Moreri.
page 57 note b See page 43.
page 57 note c Jean de Thumery, Seigneur de Boissise, Ambassador to England 1591–1601.
page 57 note d Charles de Valois, natural son of Charles IX., by Mary, daughter of John Touchet, born 1572. He was first Grand Prior of France, then Count of Auvergne, and afterwards Duke d'Angouleme.
page 58 note a Antoine Alvarez de Toledo, grandson of Ferdinand, the celebrated Duke of Alva. He married Mencie de Mendoza, daughter of Inico, Duke of Infantado, and died 1640.
page 59 note a The Duke of Lerma waa the chief favourite of Philip III. So great was his influence with that monarch, that he got himself, his son the Duke of Uzeda, and his grandson the Duke of Cea all made grandees of Spain. Philip IV. upon his accession, chiefly through the jealousy and machinations of the Duke of Uzeda, dismissed all the Duke of Lerma's creatures about the Court, and he, apprehending that the storm against his dependants might fall also upon himself, took shelter under a cardinal's hat. He retired to Valladolid, where he took part in the services of the church, and passed his old age in devotion and exercises of piety.
page 59 note a Thomas Coventry, son of Thomas Coventry, Judge of the Common Pleas. His appointment to the Kecordership gave great offence to the King. He seems, however, soon to have made his way at Court, for in March 1617 he was made Solicitor-General, and knighted, Attorney-General 1620, Lord Keeper 1625, and created Baron Coventry 1628. Died 1640.
page 59 note b Afterwards Lord Treasurer and the celebrated Earl of Middlesex. Disgraced 1624. Died 1645.
page 59 note c Knighted 1615, Secretary of State 1618, and afterwards Masterof the Court of Wards. Died 1635.
page 59 note d Blank in the original.
page 59 note e Chamberlain gives a somewhat different account of this affair. Speaking of the King's intended journey to Scotland he says, “But all the difficulty will be for money to bear the journey, which how to compass all projects must be employed, and every man fears where it will light, being not a little terrified with a precedent of dangerous consequence, of one Robarts of Cornwall or Devonshire, whose father, an obscure fellow, dying exceeding rich, they say, by long use of interest, there was a privy seal sent unto him for 20,000l. with intimation that, whereas by law the King could seize upon all gotten by these usurious courses, he was of his clemency content to borrow this sum without interest. In conclusion the man was brought to lend 12,000l. to be repayed by l,200l. a year.”—Birch, i. 446. Whichever of these stories be true, Mr. Robartes was knighted on the 11th November in this year; created a Baronet 1621, and Baron Robartes 1625; and he doubtlessly, as was the practice of the age, paid handsomely for each of these honours. His father was John Robartes, a merchant of Truro.
page 63 note a It is presumed that Lake Dzaisang (Lat. 46, N., Long, 84, E.), the source of the Irtisch, the chief western branch of the Obi, is here meant.
page 63 note b In Prussia.
page 64 note a William Coekaine, an eminent London merchant, Sheriff 1609, and soon afterwards elected an Alderman. He was the Chief of the New Company of Merchant Adventurers, which gave the King a great banquet at Alderman Coekaine's house on 22nd June in this year, on which occasion the alderman was knighted with the city sword. He was Lord Mayor 1619, and died 1626. Dr. Donne preached his funeral sermon
page 64 note b He was of the Suffolk family of Colbys, and was knighted on 23rd November. He died abroad, and letters of administration were granted to his sister Mary Copuldick, on 19th May, 1618. Prerog. Court, Acts of Administration, 170.
page 64 note c Fifth son of Sir Richard Knightley, of Fawsley, co Northampton. He was a Captain of Foot in Holland, and was living in 1645, but died unmarried.
page 64 note d The Earl of Salisbury.
page 64 note e Mary, daughter of R. Hill, Esq. and widow of Sir John Cheke, Tutor of King Edward VI. After the death of Sir John Cheke, she married Henry Mac-Williams, of Ireland. She died on 30th November, 1616, and was buried at St. MartinVin-the-Pields.
page 64 note f Arthur Lake, (not Leake,) Dean of Woreester.
page 64 note g Dr. Lewis Bayley was a native of Carmarthen. Died 1632. He was the author of “The Practice of Piety.”
page 64 note h Anne, daughter and sole heir of John Keilway, Esq. Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and widow of John first Lord Harrington. Lord and Lady Harrington were highly esteemed by King James I., and were entrusted with the care of the Princess Elizabeth. (Granger.) They accompanied her to Germany in 1613 on her marriage, and Lord Harrington died at Worms on the 24th August in that year. Lord Carew's fears were not altogether groundless. Lady Harrington was seized with a dangerous sickness in France on her return from the court of Heidelburg in May 1619, (Birch,, ii. 167,) but nevertheless reached London on the 29th of that month, when, we are told, crowds assembled in Bishopsgate to witness her arrival. (S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. eix. 59.) On the 8th June she was very ill, (ibid. 62,) after which we trace no further notice of her. (See note d, p. 11.)
page 65 note a Arthur Wingfield was a younger son of Sir Edward Wingfield, of Kimbolton, co. Huntingdon, by Mary, fifth daughter of Sir James Harrington, of Exton, co. Rutland. He was therefore the Countess of Bedford's first cousin. He was also a kinsman of the Lord Carew, by common descent from Bridget, daughter and heir of Sir John Wiltshire, and wife, successively, of Sir Richard Wingfield, of Kimbolton, K.G., and Sir Nicholas Harvey. He was killed in a duel 1st December, 1617. See under that date.
page 65 note b Robert, third Lord Rich, created Earl of Warwick 1618. Died 1618.
page 65 note c Frances, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice, and widow of Sir George St.Paul, of Snarford, co. Lincoln, knighted 1607, created a Baronet in 1611. Died s.p.
page 66 note a He was Alderman and Sheriff of London at the King's accession, and was knighted with the other aldermen at Whitehall 26th July, 1603. In 1612 he was Lord Mayor, and entertained the King at a grand banquet in Merchant Taylors’ Hall. Chamberlain say, that “he was not altogether so great and rich a man as he was held and made shew of.”—Birch, i. p. 448.
page 66 note b Dr. Henry Parry was of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and Greek Reader there; made Dean of Chester 1605, Bishop of Gloucester 1607, translated to Worcester 1610.
page 66 note c Mark Antony de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, in Dalmatia, quarrelled with the Pope and renounced Popery. He received many marks of the King's favour, but soon retracted all he had said and written, and returned to Rome. Gregory XV. received him courteously, but his successor, Urban VIII., threw him into the Inquisition.
page 66 note a Son of Thomas Edmondes, of Plymouth. He was employed on many embassies, which he executed with great wisdom and fidelity. Knighted 1603. Chamberlain, writing to Carleton on i January, 1617, says: ”Sir Thomas Edmondes was made Controller, and had the white staffe delivered him the first howre he saw the King, and dotbe execute the place with courage and authoritie enough, but they say he doth somewhat too much flourish and fence with his staves, whereof he hath broken two alredy, (not at tilt), but stickling at the playes this Christmas. I wish him all honour and good successe, and specially a fayre young rich widow lately fallen, Sir Fraunces Anderson's lady, yf he have a mind to her, and, which is more reins sic slantibus, niece to the Lord Villiers by his sister Sir John Butler's lady.” (S.P.O. Dom.Corr. xc. 8.) He succeeded Lord Wotton as Treasurer 1618. Died 1639.
page 66 note e William Knollys Baron Knollys, created Viscount Wallingford 14th November 1616 (see p. 55), and Earl of Banbury 1626, K.G. Died 1632.
page 67 note a Edward Wotton, oreated Baron Wotton 1603.
page 67 note b Knighted 1615. Chamberlain says, “Old Garraway, the chief of the Customers, was knighted on Sunday at Theobalds, as well for other good services as for givjng security to the aldermen for the coal money, without which they made much difficulty to be brought lo it.”
page 67 note c Sir Oliver St.John.
page 68 note a A similar prophecy, slightly varying in respect to some of the years, is recorded, under the date 1621, in Yonge's Diary, p. 38.—Camd. Soc.
page 69 note a John de Ligne, Prince of Barban¸on and Count of Aremberg, Ambassador in England from the Archduke of Austria 1603.
page 69 note b To wowe, to woo. (See Halliwell.)
page 69 note c Claudia, daughter of Ferdinand I. Grand Duke of Florence, and sister of Cosmo II., born 1604; married Frederick Ubaldus, Prince of Urbino (1621,) who dying in 1623, she married Leopold, Archduke of Austria. Died 1632. Moreri.
page 69 note d Cosmo II., Duke of Florence 1608–21. He was a very sickly prince, and died 28 February 1621. His Duchess was Mary Magdalen, daughter of Charles Archduke of Austria, whom he married 19th October, 1608. She died 1631.—Anderson.
page 69 note e Sir Francis Annesley, son of Robert Annesley, one of the undertakers of Munster, knighted 1616. Previously to this date he had held several important offices in Ireland. (Liber Munerum Hibernise.) In 1620 he was created a Baronet in that country, and was afterwards raised to the peerage as Baron Mountnorris and Viscount Valentia. Died 1660. His sister was Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen.
page 69 note f Dr. John Burgess. In 1604 he gave great offence to the King, and was imprisoned, for certain remarks made in a sermon on the graciousness of princes and the impartiality of their favours; which he admitted were made because the people murmured at the want of these qualities in the King. He also made some unpalatable observations on religion, shewing a puritan tendency. (S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. viij. 85.) In 1617 he was permitted to preach at Paul's Cross. (Ibid. vol. xcij. 88.)
page 70 note a Chamberlain, writing to Carleton on 4th January, 1617, says, “The Earle of Arundell receaved the Communion on Christmas day in the Kinges Chappell, where there were two excellent sermons made that day by the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Ely, and a third that afternoone in Powles by the Bishop of London, and I heard the Bishop of Rochester as much commended at his parish of St. Giles without Creplegate. Yesterday there fell a great mischaunce to the Earle of Arundell by the burning of his house (built and left him by the Earle of Northampton) at Greenwich, where he likewise lost a great deale of houshold stuffe and riche furniture, the fury of the fire being such that nothing could be saved. No doubt the Papists will ascribe and publish yt as a punishment for his dissembling or falling from them.” (S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xc. 8.) Sir Horace Vere, writing to Carleton on the 8th January, says, “My Lord of Arundell hath receaved the sacrament with the Kinge this Christmas, and, as I hear, in his discourses with his Majestie is sharp agaynst the Papists, which is a good argument of his synceritie.”—Ib. 11.
page 71 note a Archduke of Gratz, see note c p. 49.
page 71 note * In the margin. This promise I cannot perform untill Sir W. R. be nearer his departure. In my next I will not forgett itt.
page 72 note a The gests or stages of the progress.
page 72 note b Ralph Brook, a man of such infamous character that he was several times upon the point of being dismissed from his office. Died 1625.
page 73 note * To geve him some satisfaction the Queene bathe made his sonne the oapten of her gvard, and with fayre words hathe so bewitched the old man as thatt he did nott abandon the Court.
page 74 note a St. Monehnte, see p. 80.
page 75 note a See note «, p. 70.
page 75 note b Chamberlain writing to Carleton on 4th January says, “After so long and vehement debating, the Old Companie of Marchant Adventurers is to be set up again, and this day theyre charter to be restored to them, but with what conditions and limitations I have not yet learned.” S. P. O. Dom. Corr. vol. xcii. 85.
page 76 note a Charles, son of Philip III., born 1607, died 30 July, 1632.
page 76 note b Christina, daughter of Henry IV., born 1606, married Amadeus Duke of Savoy 1619, died 1663.
page 77 note a Mr. John Pory was educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree.of M.A. in 1610. He was a man of extensive travel, and of greattalent and general information as to what was going on in the political world both at home and abroad. Notwithstanding his habits of intemperance, he seems to have been on intimate terms with many of the most eminent of his contemporaries, to whom he often performed the office of secretary. Died 1635.
page 77 note * The consull at Aleppo sent your pacquett to the Ambassador att Constantinople, who sent them by Mr. Porye for England.
page 78 note a Jask, in the Sea of Oman.
page 80 note a S. P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xcv. 22.
page 80 note b Page 74.
page 81 note a Frederick Ulric, Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel. He restored Grubenhagen to the family of Lunebnrg, 1617.
page 81 note b Christian, second son of William Duke of Brunswick Luneburg. William left seven sons. The brothers resolved not to divide the dukedom, and cast lots who should marry for the purpose of perpetuating the line. The lot fell to George, the sixth brother. They also agreed to reign in succession, one after another, according to seniority. Christian, in accordance with this arrangement, succeeded his brother Ernest 1611. He was made Bishop of Minden 1599, and of Halberstadt 1616, which see he resigned to a son of the King of Denmark 1623. Died 1633.—Anderson.
page 82 note * Ut dicitur.
page 82 note a Xaintonge.
page 82 note b Second son of Philip III. died 1632; see note a, p. 76. c See note a, p. 31.
page 82 note d Don Francois Gomez de Sandoval and Roxas, Duke of Lerma. Died 1625. See note a, p. 59.
page 82 note e Don Inigo Lopez, fifth Duke of Infantado, died 1601, without issue male. His daughter Anne married her uncle Don Roderic de Mendoza. Their daughter Louisa married Don Diego Gomez de Sandoval, and from this marriage came Don Roderic Dias de Vivar de Hurtado de Mendoza Sandoval de la Vega et Luna, seventh Duke of Infantado, died in 1657 without issue.—Imhoff, Hist. Ital. et Hispan. Genealog.
page 83 note * The Duke of Salinas is sayed to go shortly to be Viceroy of Portugal. (Writer's note.)
page 83 note a Don Christoff de Sandoval, Duke of Uzeda, son of the Duke of Lerma; see note “, p. 59. Died 1624.—Imhoff.
page 83 note b Don Roderic Sarmiento de Silva, Earl of Salinas and Ribadeo, of the celebrated house of Silva, and twentieth Margrave Allenquer. He engaged in a conspiracy against Philip IV., and died a prisoner in the castle of Leon.—Zedler's Universal Lexicon.
page 83 note c de Camara.
page 83 note d Don Antoine de Moscoso Ossorio Mendoza and Rojas, seventeenth Comte d'Altamire, created grandee of Spain. Died 1622.—Imhoff.
page 83 note e Don Francois Gomez de Sandoval et Roxas succeeded his grandfather as second Duke of Lerma 1624. Died 1635 s. p. m.—Imhoff. See note », p. 59.
page 83 note f A letter from Lord Roos to the Earl of Arundel is given in Lodge's Illustrations, vol. iii. p. 286, wherein his lordship gives an interesting account of his journey to Madrid and reception at Court.
page 84 note * The lease which she had of the Lord Lvmlye's lands in the Northe she hathe geven vnto Sir Richard Lvmlye, e his landes in Sussex vnto her brother the Lord Darcy, which will fall to the Savadges’ share.
page 84 note a Sir Thomas Savage of Rocksavage, Bart., married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Lord Darcy of Chiche, created Viscount Colchester, and afterwards Earl Rivers, with remainder to his son-in-law. Sir Thomas died before the Earl in 1635, but his- son succeeded his maternal grandfather in the title in 1639.
page 84 note b The object of his embassy was to pray James's aid in suppressing the insurrection of the French Princes. Yonge's Diary (Camd. Soc.) p. 32. He was accompanied by a suite of twenty attendants.—S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xc. 39.
page 84 note c Francois Annibal d'Estrees, Marquis Coeuvres, Peer and Marshal of France, Governor of the Isle of France, and of Soissons, Laon, and the Laonois, created Duke of Coeuvres 1648, died 1670. He was brother of Gabrielle d'Estrees mistress of Henry IV. and mother of the Duke of Vend6me. See note ‘, p. 25.
page 84 note d Sigismmid III., son of John King of Sweden, by Catherine daughter of Sigismund II. King of Poland. He succeeded to the crown of Sweden on the death of his father in 1592; but he and his heirs were excluded upon religious grounds in 1600, the crown of Sweden being conferred on his uncle Charles, who was succeeded in that kingdom by Gustavus Adolphus in 1611.
page 84 note e Sir Richard Lumley, great-grandson of Richard, fourth Lord Lumley, and second cousin of John the sixth and last Lord, who selected him for his heir. Created Viscount Lumley in Ireland 1628. He supported the King in the troubles of the next reign, and held a command in the Royal Army in the West under Prince Rupert.
page 85 note a Charles Robert de la Marck, Count of Maulevrier and Lumain, second son of Robert fourth Duke of Bouillon of that house. He assumed the title of Duke of Bouillon after the death, without issue, in 1594, of Charlotte, only daughter of Henry Robert his brother, fifth duke. Charlotte had married Henry de la Tour, Viscount and Marshal Turenne, and carried the dukedom of Bouillon to that family; and, notwithstanding she died without issue, neither the Count de Lumain, nor his posterity, nor Spinola, if he purchased the right, could ever recover the title from the powerful house of Turenne.
page 85 note b Christopher’ Villiers, third and youngest son of Sir George Villiers by his second wife, Mary, afterwards Countess of Buckingham. Created Baron Villiers and Earl of Anglesey 1623. Died 1630.
page 85 note c William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.
page 86 note a Sir George Cary, of Cockington, co. Devon. He was the grandson of Jane, daughter of Sir Nicholas, Baron Carew, of whom the Lord Carew was the direct lineal representative. Sir George Cary was twice married, but left no surviving issue. His widow was Lucy, daughter of Robert Lord Rich and Earl of Warwick.
page 87 note a Victor Amadeus, eldest surviving son of Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy, whom he succeeded as Duke of Savoy, and King of Cyprus, 1630. He was a great lover of peace, but, being in 1635 drawn into a war between France and Spain, and overwhelmed with new cares, he was seized with a fever, of which in a few days he died, on 7th October, 1637. He was born 1587, and in 1619 married Christina, daughter of Henry IV. King of France.—Anderson.
page 87 note b Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignan, sixth son of Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy, born 1596. He spent most of his life in the camp, and became an able though unfortunate general. He served both Spain and France alternately, and, being wounded at the siege of Papua, he died at Turin, 22 January, 1656. —Anderson.
page 88 note a Francis Gomar, born at Bruges, 1568. He was educated in England, and in 1594 became Professor of Divinity at Leyden. He was a zealous supporter of Calvinistic doctrines, and when Arminius was chosen his colleague in 1603, a difference arose between them on the subject of grace and predestination. Gomar conducted himself in the controversy with great violence, which led to the religious dissensions which prevailed in Holland for many years. He died 1641.
page 88 note b Dr. John Thornborough, of Magdalene College, Oxford, Prebendary and Dean of York 1589, Bishop of Limerick 1593, Bristol 1603, Worcester 1616. Died 1641. “Doctor Thornborough is made Bishop of Worcester to make roome for Dr. Goodwin to be Deane of Yorke (though I heare he refuse yt), and Dr. Maxie to be Bishop of Bristow, that so your Archbishop of Spalato may (with a coadjutor) be Dean of Windsor. He is well esteemed and respected every where, specially at Court. On New Year's Day the King sent him a fayre basen and eure, with a paire of liverie pots, worth 140li., whereof he is not a little prowde. Dr. Montague is Dean of Hereford, and Dr. Lowde of Worcester, as I take yt. One Beaumont, an obscure prebend of Windsor, kinsman to my Lord Villiers, was in a fair way to be Bishop of Worcester, but the conferring of Carlisle and Bangor vpon Snowdon and Baylie, so vnworthie men, was so generally distasted that he could not prevaile.”—Chamberlain to Carleton, 4 January, 1617. S. P. O. Dom. Corr. vol. xc. 8.
page 88 note c Dr. Nicholas Fenton, one of the King's chaplains, attended Elwes at his execution. Prebendary of St. Paul's, Bishop of Bristol 1617, Ely 1619. Died 1628.
page 89 note a John George, 11th Duke of Saxony, 1611–56. He claimed the dukedom by virtue of the purchase by his ancestor of the reversion of William III. Duke of Juliers, in 1483, but upon the death of William his heiress carried all his possessions to the House of Cleve and Marck, by her marriage with John III. Duke of Cleve.—Anderson.
page 89 note b Herman de Lynden, imperial free Baron of Rechem and of Rieholt, Governor and Captain-General of the district of Cologne, Souverain and Grand Major of Liege.— Anselme.
page 89 note c Jean Jacques de Bronchorst, “Count of Anholt, Baron of Battembourg de Milendonck, Master-General of the camp of the armies of the Emperor, Knight of the Golden Fleece and of Mary Cleophas of Hollenzollern. Died 1630.—Anselme; Moreri.
page 89 note d See note », p. 81.
page 90 note a Adolph Frederic I. Patriarch of the line of Schwerin, or the Lutheran line, born 1588, succeeded 1592; but, for siding with Christian IV. of Denmark, he, with his brother, were proscribed, and his duchy given to Albert Wallensteine, Duke of Friedland, 1628, but he was again restored to it by Gustavus Adolphus, 1631. Died 1658.
page 90 note b Ferdinand, Elector 1612–50, born 1577. Bishop of Liege, Munster, and Hildesheim 1612, and of Paderborn 1619. Died 1650.—Anderson.
page 90 note c Christopher Lewis, Count of Loewenstein, the Patriarch of the Virneburg or Lutheran line, born 1568. Died 1618.—Anderson.
page 91 note a See note «, p. 4.
page 91 note b Sir Edward Hoby, of Bisham Abbey, co. Berks, knighted 1582. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth, and Governor of Queenborough Castle.
page 91 note c Sir Allen Apsley. His wife, a daughter of Sir John St.John, of Lydiard Tregoze, was a sister of Sir Edward Villiers’ lady. Sir Allen paid Sir George Moore a composition of £2,500 for the place.—Birch, i. 462. He was the father of Luey Hutchinson, wife of the celebrated Colonel Hutchinson, in whose life some interesting particulars of Sir Allen may be found.
page 91 note d Ralph third Lord Eure, made President of Wales 1607. He died in April of this year; see p. 99. page 91 note e Gilbert second Lord Gerard.
page 91 note f Chamberlain says that this feast stood the Lord Hay “in more than £2,200, being rather a profusion and spoil than reasonable or honourable provision, as you may guess at the rest by this scantling—of seven score pheasants, twelve partridges in a dish throughout, twelve whole salmons, and whatsoever else that cost or curiosity could procure in like superfluity, besides the workmanship and invention of thirty cooks fortwelve days.” “But,” he continues, “the ill luck was, that the chief and most desired guest was away; for the young Lady Sidney, with her sister, the Lady Lucy Percy, going, some two or three days before the feast, to visit their father in the Tower, after some few caresses he dismissed his daughter Sidney to go to her husband, and to send her sister's maids to attend her, for that he meant not to part with her, but she should keep him company; adding withal, that he was a Percy, and could not endure that his daughter should dance any Scottish jig.”—Birch, i. 462. The old Earl's caution was however of no avail. She was married to the Lord Hay in November following against her father's will.
page 92 note a Don Tomaso; see note b, p. 87.
page 93 note a Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Viscount Braokley.
page 93 note b Sir Henry Yelverton, son of Sir Christopher Yelverton, Judge of the King's Bench. Knighted in 1613, on his appointment as Solicitor-General. Died 1630.
page 93 note c Sir Antony Benn, of Norbeton Hall, near Kingston-upon-Thames, of which place he had been Recorder. Knighted 1617. Died 1618. His daughter Annabella married Henry Earl of Kent, and from her benevolent disposition was called the “good countess.”
page 93 note d See note b, page 83.
page 93 note e Bernard de Sandoval de Roxas, Grand Inquisitor, and Archbishop of Toledo, created Cardinal 1598. Died 1618, and was succeeded by Frpntjois Roxas Sandoval, who died 1625.
page 94 note a John d'Olden Barneveldt, executed 1619.
page 94 note b Ferdinand, born 1587, created Cardinal 1605, succeeded his brother as Duke of Mantua and Montferrat 1612. Died 1626. He first married Camilla Eetecina, from whom he was divorced 1616, when he married, as stated in the text, Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand Grand Duke of Florence.
page 94 note * Suspend your judgement.
page 95 note a Henry Bertie, third son of Peregrine Bertie, first Baron Wllloughby d'Eresby of his name. Died 1655.
page 95 note b George TUordon, first Marquis of Huntly.
page 95 note c Francis Hay, eighth Earl of Errol.
page 96 note a Esme Stuart, Lord d'Aubigny, created Earl of March 1619. Succeeded his brother as third Duke of Lennox 1624, and died the same year.
page 96 note b Theophilus Howard, eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk, called to the Upper House as Lord Howard of Walden (1603) in his father's lifetime. Earl of Suffolk 1626. Died 1640.
page 96 note c John fifth Lord Mordaunt, created Earl of Peterborough 1628. Died 1642.
page 96 note d William Compton, second Baron Compton, created Earl of Northampton on the 2nd of August in this year, K.G. Died 1630.
page 96 note e Dr. James Mountague.
page 96 note f DP. Andrewes.
page 96 note g Dr. George Mountaine.
page 97 note a Sir Edward Noel, created Lord Noel of Ridlington, co. Rutland.
page 97 note b See note c, p. 44.
page 88 note a Sir John Bennet, of Dawley, co. Middlesex, D.C.L., a man of great learning and ability, knighted 1603. He was frequently employed in important matters of state. The object of the present mission was to demand from the Archduke an explanation concerning a libel published, as was supposed, by Eryoius Puteanus, which the Archduke took no care to suppress or to punish the author. Sir John was the ancestor of the Tankerville family. Died 1627.
page 88 note b Peter Giron, second Duke of Ossuna, born 1579. Died 1624.
page 89 note a See p. 37.
page 89 note b Ralph, third Lord Eure. Nicolas states that he was alive in 1623, but he died on the 1st April, 1617.—Pedigree in Coll. Arm. Norfolk ix.
page 89 note c John Cary, third Lord.
page 89 note d Sir Charles Cavendish, of Bothal Castle, near Morpeth, younger brother of the first Earl oi Devonshire, knighted 1603.
page 90 note * AH this preparation proved no other than a voyage the King made to the northerly parts of Norway.
page 90 note a Henry de la Tremouille, Duke of Thouars, Peer of France, Prince of Tarentum and of Talmond, Comte de Laval. He abjured the doctrines of Calvin 1628. Died 1674.
page 90 note b See p. 90.
page 91 note a Nicholas de l'Hopital, Marquis of Vitry and Are, Captain of the King's Body Guard, created Marshal of France 24 April 1617 (see p. 103), Knight of the Orders of the King 1619, Governor of Provence 1632, made Duke and Peer of Prance 1644, and died the same year. He was the son of Louis de l'H'Ancre just before this time, says, “It were not to be desired that he should be ruined, for his birth is equal to any that in our memory hath been created not only Marshal but Duke and Peer of Prance, and his wit and education and many other qualities make him to be thought worthy of this favour, and to be naturalized to perpetuate his family among us, which would be a great honour to our nation.” He says, on the other hand, that it was without a precedent that a man should be honoured with the dignity of Marshal of Prance who had never served in an army; or be at once entrusted with the seals and the purse of the King: that is to say, with his whole authority; and that such power, vested in a single person, was dangerous to the state and monarchy.—Memoirs of the Duke of Rohan.
page 102 note b See note d, p. 42.
page 102 note c Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu, afterwards the celebrated Cardinal Richelieu. He was consecrated Bishop of Luqon 1608, created Cardinal 1622, and resigned his bishopric on being made the King's chief minister 1624. Died 1642.
page 103 note a Sec note d p. 42.
page 103 note b Nicholas de Neufville, Seigneur of Villeroy, died 12 Nov. 1617.
page 103 note c Nicholas Brulart, Marquis of Sillery and Seigneur of Puisseaux. Died at an advanced age 1624. It was this nobleman who was sent into Spain in 1615, as recorded in page 3, and not his son, as erroneously stated in the note to that passage. The latter, during his father's life, appears to have been called Monsieur de Puisseaux. He died in 1640.—Anselme.
page 103 note d Francois de l'Hopital, Comte de Rosnay, Seigneur du Hallier, and of Beine, Governor of Paris, created Marshal of Prance 1643. Died 1660.—Anselme.
page 103 note e Henry de Vandetar, Baron of Persan, married Louise de l'Hopital, daughter of Louis de l'Hopital, Marquis of Vitry.—Anselme.
page 103 note f Charles d'Albert, born 1578, Seigneur de Luynes, Grand Falconer, created Duke of Luynes 1619, and in 1621 Constable of France. He married 1617, Marie, eldest daughter of Hercules de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon.—Anselme. Died of grief at the failure before Montauban 1621.—Yonge's Diary, p. 48.
page 104 note a Succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Hertford 1621. Created Duke of Somerset 1660. Died the same year. He married Frances, eldest daughter of Robert second Earl of Essex, and sister and coheir of Robert third Earl. She died 1674.
page 105 note a The Duke of Rohan says: “Every one returns to Court, where all strive who should soonest and most impudently renounce that which but four-andtwenty hours before they adored.”—Memoirs of the Duke of Rohan, p. 42. (Lond. 1660.)
page 106 note * Since that tyme the King of France hathe sent 100,000 crownes to pay them.
page 106 note a Sir Maurice Berkeley married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William and sister of Sir Robert Killigrew of Hanworth, and resided there. He was the father of Sir John Berkeley, so much distinguished for his loyalty and services in the next reign, for which, in 1658, he was created Baron Berkeley of Stratton.
page 106 note b Her mother was Bacon's sister, and her sister Sir Julius Csesar'a wife; see note b, p. 11.
page 106 note c Aloisa, daughter of Charles Count de Soissons and sister of Lewis. She was born 1604, and died 1637. See note », p. 46.
page 107 note a Sir Richard Hutton, second son of Anthony Hutton of Penrith, co. Cumberland. He was Recorder of York, where he was knighted by the King on 13th April in this year. His son, Sir Richard, supported the royal cause in the next reign, and was killed at the battle of Sherburne, in Yorkshire, of which he was then Sheriff.—Clarendon, ii. 717–718.
page 107 note b Made Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland 1617, returned to England as a puisne justice in 1621. See several notices of him in the Liber Faraelicus of Sir James Whitelocke.
page 107 note c Lancelot Lowther was Queen's Solicitor 1603, and made Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland Oct. 3, 1617, on the recommendation of Sir Francis Bacon. He died Jan. 10, 1637, and was buried at Skryne. co. Meath.
page 107 note d Dr. William James, son of John James of Little Ore, co. Stafford, Dean of Durham 1596, Bishop 1606. Died 12 May, 1617.
page 108 note a Dr. Richard Neile, Clerk of the Closet to the King, Dean of Westminster 1605, Bishop of Rochester 1608, Lichfield and Coventry 1610, Lincoln 1614, Durham 1617, Winchester 1627, and Archbishop of York 1631. Died 1640.
page 108 note b Sir Roger Owen, of Essex, knighted 1604. He was member for Shrewsbury, and took an active part in the violent proceedings of the House of Commons in the session of 1614. George Gterrard, writing to Carleton on 4th June, 1617, says he was seized with frenzy on hearing Lord Chief Justice Hobart argue the case of Commendams, and died in a week.—S.P.O. Dom. Corr. vol. xcii. 62.
page 108 note c For the cause of the enmity which existed between the Kings of Sweden and Poland see note b, page 84. The following circumstances will explain the ground of jealousy with Russia. Upon the deposition of the Emperor Basilius in 1610, in order to avoid the pretensions of the impostor Demetrius, the Russians conferred the crown upon Uladislaus, son of Sigismond III., King of Poland. This, however, was only to gain time. In 1613 the Russians revolted, drove out Uladislaus, and elected Michael Foederowitz Emperor. Two years afterwards Uladislaus made an attempt to recover the sovereignty, and a truce was entered into for 14 years, leaving the Duchies of Serevia, Czernichoro, and Novogrod; which the Poles had taken during the war, in their hands, and the permanent possession of these territories was confirmed by treaty in 1634.
page 109 note * He ia nott yett crowned.
page 109 note a Cornelia, daughter and coheir of Sir William Cornwallis, by Lucy, third daughter and coheir of John Neville last Lord Latimer; and wife of Sir Richard Fermor of Tusmore, co. Oxon. (Baker's Hist, of Northamptonsh. i. 599.) Chamberlain describes Mr. Onlay, “as a young dancing reveller of the Temple,” who resorted much to Lady Fermor.
page 109 note b James, eldest son of James first Earl of Abercorn, who had large estates in Ireland; and this honour was conferred upon his son, being then only 13 years of age, to encourage his residence in that country. Upon the death of the Earl of Abercorn, in March 1618, Lord Strabane succeeded to the Earldom, and resigned the Barony to his brother Claude, Imt it subsequently merged again into the Earldom.—Nichols's Progresses of James I. vol. iii. pp. 382, 1102.
page 110 note * This report of 17 chestes of the Mareschall d'Ancre's, ia false.
page 112 note * For the sinkinge and takinge of these galleons and gallies, bonfires were made in Venice, but there was no suche victorie, or any incountre by sea.
page 112 note † This newes is vncertayne, but it is sure that the Turke is well inclined to assist the Venetians.
page 113 note a He was second, or under, Secretary of State in 1603.
page 115 note a Wolfgang William, Elector of Newburg, son of Philip Lewis, who claimed Juliers, Berg, and Ravenstein, in right of his mother, one of the daughters and coheirs of William Duke of Julich, Cleve, and Berg. The dukedom had passed by the marriage of her elder sister and coheir to the Brandenburg family. Wolfgang William embraced the Romish doctrine in 1614, and seems to have exhibited all the zeal of a convert. He died 1653.
page 117 note * I meane the Archduke Ferdinand.
page 117 note a Isabel, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Wray, Speaker of the House of Commons, married first Godfrey Foljambe, Esq., secondly Sir William Bowes, Knight; and thirdly John Lord Darcy. Her sister Frances was twice married, first to Sir George St. Paul, of Snarford, and secondly to Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. Chamberlain, writing on 11th October, 1617, says, “The Lord Rich is said to be in great perplexity, or rather crazed in brain, to see himself overreached by his wife, who hath so conveyed her estate that he is little or nothing the better for her, and, if she outlive him, likely to carry away a great part of his. Her sister, the Lady Bowes, hathe dealt clean contrary, being lately married to the Lord Darcy of the-North, and being a great estate, whole and entire, and refusing any jointure or other advantage, saying it is sufficient for her to have the honour without any hindrance to the bouse.”—Birch, ii. 37.
page 117 note b The cause of his quitting the country so suddenly was the disgraceful conduct of his wife, and her mother Lady Lake, in respect to the charges brought against the Countess of Exeter. He proceeded to Rome, where in January 1618 he was living in great privacy, (S.P.O. vol. xcv. 5,) having embraced the Roman Catholic doctrines. In the following March he was at Tivoli, and afterwards he proceeded to Naples, where he is said to have died on the 27th of June, 1618. We find, however, that there was a brief in a cause between the Attorney General and him relative to some lands at Walthamstow in November of that year (S.P.O. vol. ccij. 20), and there was a rumour that he was alive as late aa March 1623 (S.P.O. vol. cxxxix. 64.)
page 118 note a Lady Elizabeth Grey de Ruthyn.
page 118 note b Frederick, second Duke of Courland, 15.87–1641. His mother waa Anne, daughter of Albert VI. Duke of Mecklenburg, whose other daughter, Sophia, was wife of Frederick II. King of Denmark, and mother of Queen Anne of England.
page 118 note c Catherine of Lorraine, daughter of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Maine, married to Charles de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers, 1599. Their eldest son was Francois de Paule de Gonzague-Cleves, called Duke of Rethelois. He was Governor of Champagne and Brie, and died before his father in 1622. The Duchess died 8th March, 1618, aged 33.—Anselme.
page 121 note a Otto, son of Maurice Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, born 1594. Died 7 August, 1617. He was twice married, but left no issue.
page 122 note a See note c, p. 40.
page 123 note b Chamberlain says that, “he died no rich man for all that he had three good offices.”—Birch, ii. 35.
page 124 note a See pp. 52, 63.
page 124 note b William Willougliby third Lord.
page 125 note a Elizabeth, the youngest of the two daughters and heirs of Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos, and widow of Sir John Kennedy. She was born 1577. She is supposed to be “fair Mrs. Bridges” with whom the unfortunate Earl of Essex fell in love, (Sidney Papers, vol. ii. 90,) which probably caused Queen Elizabeth “to use her with words and blows of anger,” and to banish her the court for three days. Chamberlain says “she died very poor, her maintenance being little or nothing but as it were the judicious alms of her friends.”—Birch, ii. 41.
page 125 note b Dr. George Mountaigne, one of the King's Chaplains, Dean of Westminster, 1610–17. Bishop of Lincoln 1617–21, London 1621–28, Durham 1628, Archbishop of York 1628. Died soon afterwards.
page 126 note a Thomas first Lord Gerard. See n. e, p. 91. Chamberlain says that he enjoyed that place but a little, nor his fair young lady.—Birch, vol. ii. p. 35.
page 126 note b It was given to Lord Compton.
page 128 note * This is false, but Skorie is dead.
page 128 note a William second Lord, created Earl of Northampton 1618.
page 128 note b Sylvanus Scory in 1615 proposed a scheme for enlarging the privileges of Baronets, suggesting that they should be relieved from wardship, be justices of the peace at 21 years of age, deputy-lieutenants, their bodies to be free from arrest, with several other immunities— to be granted upon a payment of 3,000l.
page 129 note a Sir John Parker was granted the office of Keeper of Falmouth (Pendennis) Castle for life, March, 1607. (S. P. O. Index Warrant Book, p. 56.)
page 129 note b Sir Anthony and Sir Robert Sherley were sons of Sir Thomas Sherley of Wiston, co. Sussex. For an account of their adventurous lives see Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. pp. 722–727, and The Sherley brothers, an Historical Memoir of the Lives of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Sir Robert Sherley, edited (chiefly from documents in the State-Paper Office) by Evelyn Philip Shirley, esq., and presented by him in 1848 to the Roxburghe Club. Sir Robert was long resident in Persia, where he married Teresia, daughter of Ismael Khan, a Circassian Christian of noble birth. His wife accompanied him to England, where she gave birth to a son in 1611, at whose baptism Prince Henry and the Queen were sponsors. On Sir Robert's return to Persia in 1613 he bequeathed the child to the favour and care of her Majesty.
page 131 note * I thanke God this report is proved fallse, for he is safelye arryved in Spayne.
page 131 note a See note a, p. 38.
page 131 note b Dr. Francis Godwin, son of Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1561. He was author of De Prsesulibus Angliae Commentarius, 's marriage articles (S. P. O. Dom. Corr. Chas. I. vol. xiii. 78.) In 1628 he was connected with a proposition for the defence of the Isles of Scilly (Ibid. vol. xci. 105) in which year he died.
page 132 note a 1 Jac. I. cap. 11.
page 132 note b See note, a p. 136.
page 132 note c See note a, p. 65.
page 133 note a Sir Richard Martin was goldsmith to Quoen Elizabeth and Warden of the Mint in her reign. In 1604 he was Master of the Mint, and so continued until his death.
page 133 note b River Oyapok.
page 134 note a Dr. Nicholas Felton, President of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He was translated to Ely 1619. Died 1626, aged 63, and was buried in the church of St. Antholin, London, of which he had been formerly Rector.
page 134 note b See note b, p. 15.
page 134 note c George Snigge, Serjeant at Law 1603, Baron of the Exchequer 1604. He was granted the office of Judge of the Circuit for the counties of Glamorgan, Brecon, and Radnor, May 13, 1608, being then a knight.—S. P. O. Docquet.
page 135 note a Frederick V. Elector Palatine.
page 135 note b John Sigismund, born 1572, Elector 1608. He made a public profession of the Reformed religion 1614. Died 1619.
page 135 note c Jacques Davi du Perron, Bishop of Evreux and Archbishop of Sens, Grand Almoner of France, made Cardinal 1604. Died 1618.
page 136 note a Prince Charles Lewis, born 22 Deo. 1617. In consequence of the death of his elder brother Prince Henry, who was drowned in 1629, he became, upon the death of Ins father in.1632, the representative of his family, but did not succeed to the Electorate until 1650. Died 1680.
page 136 note b Crervase Clifton, first Baron Clifton.
page 137 note a Jorin George Count of Hohen- zollern. He was made a Prince of the Empire by the Emperor Ferdinand II. 1623, but died immediately afterwards.
page a 138 Mrs. Middlemore was Maid of Honour 1003.
