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Footnotes 1. Calendar, edited by Mr. Bruce, for 1628, 1629, p. 270. 2. Brodie’s Constitutional History, vol. i., p. 337. 3. Sully’s Memoirs, vol. i., p. 309. 4. History of the Rebellion. 5. Bishop Hacket’s Life of the Lord Keeper Williams, p. 39. 6. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. Life of Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, p. 208. 7. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 8. Quoted in Nichols’s History of Leicestershire, vol. iii., p. 189. 9. Nichol’s History of Leicestershire. 10. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 208. 11. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire. 12. Sanderson’s Lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Son, p. 467. 13. An officer appointed to serve up a feast. 14. It is situated nine miles from Leicester, and six from Melton Mowbray. 15. Nichols’s History of Leicestershire, vol. iii., p. 189. 16. In 1591. Nichols’s History of Leicestershire. 17. Collins’s Peerage. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. Art., Jersey. 18. Roger Coke’s Detection of the Court of James I., vol. i., p. 81. See, also, note in the Secret History of the Court of King James I., vol. i., p. 444, edited by Sir Walter Scott. 19. Sir Anthony Weldon, speaking of the Duke of Buckingham, observes, that his “father was of an ancient family, his mother of a mean, and a waiting gentlewoman, with whom the old man (Sir George Villiers) fell in love.” Secret History, vol. i., p. 442, edited by Sir Walter Scott. 20. Secret History, vol. i., edited by Sir Walter Scott. 21. Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iv., p. 688. 22. Fuller styles him the second son of his mother, and the fourth of his father.—Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire. 23. Nichols’s Hist. of Leicestershire, p. 189. 24. This title, the 109th baronetcy, ceased in 1711, when the elder branch of the Villiers family became extinct by the death of the third Baronet, Sir William, without issue. 25. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 26. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 27. Disparity between Robert Davereux, Earl of Essex, and the Duke of Buckingham, by Lord Clarendon. 28. Ibid. 29. Coke’s Detection, p. 81. 30. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 31. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire. 32. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, 171. 33. Henry IV. was stabbed by Ravaillac on the 14th of May, 1610. 34. The women, in some instances, refused to take food, by way of shewing their grief for the murder of Henry, and even the men gave way to despondency. “Plusieurs des meilleurs citoyens de la ville,” says Lacretelle; “se sont sentis frappÉs du coup de la mort, en apprenant cette nouvelle; d’autres, qui expirent plus lentement, se plaignent de survivre trop long 35. “Howell’s Familiar Letters,” p. 39. 36. It is as well to remind the reader that before the year 1752, the civil or legal year began on the 25th of March (Lady Day), while the historical year began on the 1st of January, for civilians called each day within that period one year earlier than historians. The alteration in the calendar took place by Act of Parliament, on the 2nd day of September, 1752, when it was enacted that the day following should be the 14th instead of the 3rd of September.—“Nicolas’s Notitia Historica.” 37. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 209. 38. Sir Henry Wotton.—“ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ,” p. 208. 39. Quotation from Birch’s work on the Colonies. See Brydges’ Peers of England in the Time of James I., p. 171. 40. Clarendon’s History of England, vol. i., p. 55. 41. Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iii., page 19, note. 42. Court of James I., by Dr. Godfrey Goodman, edited by the Rev. T. S. Brewer, vol. i., p. 16. 43. Carte’s History of England, vol. ii., p. 42. 44. Bishop Goodman, 1, p. 18. 45. Carte, vol. ii., p. 43. 46. Life of Sir Symonds D’Ewes, edited by Halliwell, vol. i., p. 86. 47. Life of Sir Symonds D’Ewes. 48. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 210; and Nichols’s Progresses Sir Thomas Lake is said to have ushered of James I., vol. iii, p. 19. 49. Kennet’s History of England, p. 706. 50. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire. 51. Fuller’s Worthies of Hants. There is a curious account of the mysterious affair of the Lakes, in Bishop Goodman’s Court and Times of King James, vol. i., pp. 193-197; also some letters of Lady Lake’s, in the second volume of that work. The State Paper Office contains more upon the same subject, as yet, inedited. 52. Grainger’s Biography. 53. He addresses her in one of these in the following terms:— “Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are Life of the Muses’ day, their Morning Star; If works [not authors] their own grace should look, Whose poems would not wish to be your books?” 55. Clarendon, vol. i., p. 85; also, Lodge’s Portraits. 56. Clarendon, vol. i., p. 85; also, Lodge’s Portraits. 57. Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, xiv., p. 541; Grainger’s Biographical History of England, Art. Pembroke. 58. The death of this nobleman was remarkable. It had been foretold by his tutor and Lady Davis that he should not outlive his fiftieth birthday. The fatal day arrived; it found his Lordship very “pleasant and healthful,” and he supped that evening at the Countess of Bedford’s; he was then heard to remark that he should never trust a lady prophetess again. He went to bed in the same good spirits; but was carried off by a fit of apoplexy in the night. Before his interment it was resolved to embalm his body; when one of the surgeons plunged his knife into it, the Earl is said by a tradition in the family to have lifted up one of his hands. The Lady Davis, who had foretold the death of this nobleman, was imprisoned for some time. The Earl died in 1630. 59. Inedited letter in the State Paper Office, from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carlton, September 22nd, 1619. 60. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carlton, November, 1614, given in Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iii., p. 26. 61. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 210. 62. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire. 63. 1613. To the sagacity of the Earl of Suffolk, and not to that of James I., was the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot ascribed. See Winwood’s Memorials, vol. ii., p. 186. 64. Winwood’s Memorials, vol. ii., p. 48. 65. It was checked by the death of the Duke of Buckingham, whose project had been to erect a Library between the Regent’s Walk and Caius College. See Nichols’s Progresses, p. 40, note. 66. Nichols’s Progresses, p. 45. 67. Wilson’s Reign of James I., p. 63. 68. Lord Audley is said to have given this College the name of Magdalen, or rather Maudleyn, in allusion to his own name, adding one letter at the beginning and at the end. M AUDLEY N. See Nichols’s Progresses, p. 45, note. 69. Brydge’s Peers of England, p. 260. 70. Coke’s Detention, p. 82. 71. Nichols’s Progress of James I., vol. iii., p. 70. 72. Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel College, being at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, she said to him:—“Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation.” “No, madam,” he replied; “far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, and when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.”—Fuller’s History of Cambridge, p. 147. 73. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 67. 74. A list of the dramatis personÆ in the play of “Ignoramus” is preserved in Emmanuel College; it was once in the possession of Archbishop Sancroft; and an elaborate edition of the play, with valuable notes, has been printed by T.S. Hawkins. 75. Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol iii., p. 50. 76. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 59. 77. Nichols’s Progresses. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Mr. D. Carleton, State Papers, Domestic, James I. 78. Ibid. 79. See the Character of Buckingham in Disraeli’s Commentaries on Charles I., vol. ii., p, 163. 80. Biographia Britannica. 81. Sanderson’s Life of James I., pp. 45 and 457. 82. Rushworth’s Collections, vol. i., pp. 460 and 461. 83. 1615. 84. State Paper, Domestic, 1616. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. 85. See Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 80. By a page in that work, it appears that Villiers’ appointment to the Royal Chambers, and his being knighted, took place on successive days, the ceremony of knighthood being performed at Somerset House. 86. Life of Bishop Goodman, vol. i., p. 223. 87. Extract from a letter quoted in Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol ii., p. 160. This epistle is endorsed “To my very loving son, Sir George Villiers, Knight,” and dated Lambeth, December 10th, 1615. 88. Rushworth’s Collections, vol. i., p. 460. 89. See the Character of Buckingham, Disraeli’s Charles I., ii., p. 167. 90. State Papers, Domestic, cxxii., No. 28. 91. State Papers, Ibid, No. 61. 92. Ibid, No. 97, vol. ii., 112. 93. Ibid, vol. cxxiii. 94. Ibid, cxxiii. No. 1000. 95. Lord Campbell’s Life of Coke, p. 314. 96. Probably by Mons. St. Antoine, the equerry to M. Henry. He was engaged as a riding-master, as we find by 97. Nichols’s Progresses, 7, 1, iii., 131. 98. Gifford. Ben Jonson’s Works. 99. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 210. 100. Birch’s MS., British Museum, 4176. 101. Of the mode of this discovery, differing accounts are given. According to Carte, Winwood derived the information of Somerset’s guilt, from Archbishop Abbot, who detected it in some papers found in a trunk, which was brought to the Archbishop by a servant of Overbury’s. See Carte’s Hist. Eng. vol. ii. p. 43. Sir Symonds D’Ewes declares that the foul deed was disclosed by Sir Thomas Elwis, Lieutenant of the Tower, to Secretary Winwood, acknowledging and excusing his own connivance in the affair, and laying the instigation of it to the account of Somerset and his wretched wife.— 102. Published in Somers’s Tracts, vol. ii. 103. Somerset was even accused of having poisoned Prince Henry; but Coppinger, a former servant of his, who accused him of that crime, was said to be “cracked in his wits.” State Papers, vol. cxxxvii., p. 27. 104. Amos’s Great Oyer of Poisoning, vol i., pp. 31 and 33. 105. Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p. 183. 106. I have passed over the dreadful story of Overbury’s murder, and its concomitant circumstances, because Villiers had no participation in public affairs until shortly before the arraignment of the two culprits. A letter written by Lord Bacon immediately previous to that event is evidently in reply to one addressed to his Lordship by Villiers, by order of the King. This fixes the date of his acting as private secretary to James. See Lord Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p. 173. 107. Carte. 108. Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol i., p. 225. 109. Carte, vol. ii., p. 43, from Weldon’s Court and Character of King James I. 110. Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol. i., p. 226. 111. Parallel between the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Essex. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 163. 112. Ibid. 113. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 166. 114. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir O. Carleton; March 6, 1616. State Papers. Also given in the “Grand Oyer of Poisoning,” by Andrew Amos, Esq. 115. See State Paper Office. Domestic, 1616. This letter is printed in Nichols’s Progresses. 116. Ibid; printed in Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 169. 117. Biographia Britannica, Art. Villiers. 118. The celebrated letter written by Lady Compton on this occasion, is inserted in the Life of Bishop Goodman, vol. ii., p. 127, and affords a fair specimen of the expectations of ladies of rank and fortune in those days. 119. Nichols, iii., p. 175. His arms were, after a long dispute, removed higher, in the same manner as when new arms and banners were introduced. According to Camden, “the King ordered that felony should not be reckoned amongst the disgraces of those who were to be excluded from the Order of St. 120. Byfleet, in Surrey. 121. According to Carte, Villiers was obliged to pay 11,000l. to Sir Rowland Egerton, who had married Lord Grey’s sister, and also to procure Sir Rowland the patent of Baronetcy. But this is discredited by Sir Egerton Brydges. See Men of Fame, vol. i., p. 79. 122. Bacon’s letters, vol. ii., p. 35. 123. Bacon’s Letters. 124. Bacon’s Letters, vol. ii., p. 85. 125. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 187. 126. Disparity, p. 194. 127. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 191. 128. Great Oyer of Poisoning, p. 29, by Andrew Amos, Esq. 129. Birch’s MSS. 4176. This anecdote, so creditable to Buckingham, is confirmed by a grant in the State Paper Office. S. P. O. vol. cv., No. 20, see Calendar, 1616-17, March 12, the grant to the Earl of Buckingham, fee-simple of the manors of Beaumont, Oldhall and Newhall de Beaumont, Mose, Okeley Magna, Okeley Parva, Sligghawe, Okeley Park, Mose Park, Essex, together with all timbers and advowsons belonging to them, which the Lord Darcie of Chiche holdeth for terme of his life. Manor of Fleete, marshes of Trewdales, Fleetehouse Hall Hills, in Lincolne, in lieu of the manor of Teynton Magna, Gloucester, part of value for Sherborne, escheated to the Crown by Somerset’s attainder. Inedited MSS. Domestic, 1616-17. 130. Hutchins’s History of Dorsetshire, vol. iv., p. 83. 131. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 132. Kennet’s Hist. England, p. 1. 133. Sir Robert Carey’s Memoirs, p. 201. 134. Kennet’s Hist. England. 135. Goodman’s Life, vol. i., p. 7. 136. Carey’s Memoirs, p. 200. 137. Carey’s Memoirs. 138. Inedited MS. in the State Paper Office. Domestic, Nov. 1616. 139. Miss Aikins’ Life of Charles I., vol. i., p. 55, 56., from Sir Philip Warwick’s; also Lilly’s Observations, p. 60. 140. Inedited MS. in the State Paper Office. Domestic, Nov. 1616. 141. The Lord Seymour, who had married the Lady Arabella Stuart, was among a set of newly-created Knights of the Bath; and Tom Carew and Phil Lytton, third son of Sir Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth, Herts., “were squires of high degree, for cast and 142. Inedited State Papers. Domestic, 1616, 1617. 143. Inedited letter in the State Paper Office, March 8, 1616, addressed to Sir Dudley Carleton. 144. Oldmixon’s History of England, p. 31. 145. Roger Coke’s Delection. 146. Oldmixon. 147. Wilson’s History of the Reign of James I. 148. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 194. 149. From an autograph MS.—Camden, quoted by Nichols, vol. iii., p. 233. 150. It was suggested that Villiers might have been entered at the Middle Temple, but of that circumstance there is no evidence. “Not knowing the sacred antiquitie of anie of their houses, the chronicler set downe their names in the same order as that in which they were presented to his Majestie.” See Nichols, iii. 213, from Howe’s Chronicle. It is well known that in former times only men of gentle birth were entitled to be entered as students of law in the Temple—a relic of the statutes maintained in strict force by the Knights’ Templars. 151. Nichols, 244. 152. Brydges’s Peers of James I. 153. State Papers, vol. cix., 26. See Calendars of State Papers, edited by Mrs. Everett Green. 154. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, 195. 155. Nichols, iii., p. 245. 156. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 243. 157. In 1645, he was advanced to the Earldom of Norwich. He died in 1662, leaving his title to George Goring, the celebrated loyalist, of whom so masterly a portrait has been drawn by Clarendon. 158. Nichols, ii. p. 38, note; apud Sir Anthony Weldon. 159. Kennet’s England, vol. ii. p. 708. 160. Nichols, iii., p. 258. 161. Hume’s Hist. of England, iii., 83. 162. Osborne’s Tradit., Memorials of King James, p. 422. 163. Somers’s Tracts, 83 164. The subjects were these:—First, That sheriffs and other inferior magistrates should not be hereditary. With this, James was so well pleased that he turned to the Marquis of Hamilton, Hereditary Sheriff of Clydesdale, and said, “James, you see your cause is lost.” Secondly, On the rate of locomotion. The respondent in this disputation quoting Aristotle, the King remarked, “These men know the mind of Aristotle as well as he did himself when alive.” Thirdly, On the origin of fountains or springs. 165. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., 367. 166. State Paper Office, Domestic, 1616-1617. 167. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. Domestic, June 21, 1621. State Paper Office. 168. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, August 27, 1617, dated, Ware Park. No mention is made of this attempt in any of the biographies of Buckingham. State Paper Office, Domestic. 169. Letter from George Garrard to Sir Dudley Carleton, London, August 18th, 1617, from inedited State Papers. See also Brydges’s Peers of James I., p. 160. 170. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 392, from Whitaker’s Hist. of Craven. 171. Nichols, iii., p. 434. In the harangue addressed to the king on his entrance into Warwick, there is this passage:—“This castle, alsoe moste desirous to receive you, the greatest guest that ever she entertained, would speake in noe lower key, but that her late disgrace abateth her courage. After shee became the jaylor’s lodge, interchanging the goulden chaines of her noble erle’s with the iron fetters of wretched prisoners, given over to be inhabited by battes and owles, she is ashamed to speake before you.” Nichols’s, vol. iii., p. 431. This speech was transcribed for Nichols’s Progresses, by the late William Hamper, Esq., F.S.A., from the Black Book of Warwick, a book preserved by the corporation. Sir Fulke Grevill spent 20,000l. in restoring the Castle with its pleasaunce and gardens. To his care the preservation of that interesting structure is due. 172. Birch’s MSS., 4173. 173. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 90. 174. “The Court of Chancery,” says the author of the Life of Sir Edward Coke (published for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge), “had long exercised a jurisdiction, which had formed one of the articles against Wolsey, of revising and correcting judgments which had been obtained in the courts of common law.” It was not until the reign of James, that this privilege had been called into question. Sir Edward Coke, who was tenacious of the authority of the Common Law Courts, and the twelve judges, gave it as their opinion, that Chancery had no such power; and that an appeal from a judgment at law could not be made except to Parliament. To this decision proceedings were instituted against the judges in the Star Chamber. The conduct of the judges and of the chief-justice in this matter, has been generally condemned. 175. See an able Life of Sir Edward Coke, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, p. 8. Also, Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chief Justices, Art. Coke, vol. i., p. 287. 176. Ibid. 177. Bacon’s Letters, vol. ii., p. 85; taken from the Introduction to Bacon’s Works by Stephens, p. 47. 178. Biographia, Art. Coke. 179. Biographia, Art. Coke, from Bacon’s Works. 180. Note to Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p. 85. 181. Nichols, vol. ii., p. 178; from Birch’s MSS., vol. iv., p. 173. 182. Bishop Goodman, vol. ii., p. 166. 183. Bishop Goodman, vol. ii., p. 166. 184. Ibid. 185. Nichols, from Birch’s MS., p. 4172. 186. Ibid. 187. Ibid, p. 227. 188. Amos’s Great Oyer of Poisoning, p. 418. 189. Nichols, p. 227. 190. Ibid, p. 225. 191. Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. State Paper Office. London, August 9th, 1617. Inedited. 192. Nichols, iii., p. 371. 193. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain, before quoted. 194. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain, before quoted. 195. Stephens’s Introduction to Bacon’s letters, p. 42. Also Inedited Letters in the State Paper Offices, Domestic, 1616, 17. 196. Now first published from the State Paper Office. Domestic, July 10, 1617. 197. A kinsman of Buckingham’s. 198. Nichols, 272. 199. Coke. 200. These letters are taken from Mr. Montague’s edition of Bacon’s works, vol. vii., Bacon’s Life, p. 16. 201. Lord Purbeck. 202. Life of Sir E. Coke, by Lord Campbell. 203. Bacon’s Relics, ii., 29. 204. Sir Peter Chapman, that belongs to the Earl of Exeter; Sir Francis Nedham, an old solicitor betwixt her and Sir Christopher Hatton; Sir Nathaniel Neil, a kinsman of Sir Robert; and one Withipole, a kinsman of her own. 205. Nichols, iii. 448. 206. The Isle of Purbeck belonged to Lady Hatton. 207. Calendar of State Papers for 1619, cix., p. 26. 208. Biog. Brit. Art. Coke. 209. Nichols, iii., 548. 210. Nov. 14, 1617, Sir Nathaniel Brent to Sir Dudley Carleton. Domestic. 211. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, Nov. 8, 1617. Inedited State Papers. 212. See Letter from Nathaniel Brent to Sir D. Carleton. 213. Inedited Letter in the State Paper Office. 214. State Paper, vol. cv., No. 103. 215. State Paper. 216. Life of Ben Jonson, by Gifford, p. 33. 217. Gifford, p. 65. 218. Gifford, p. 67. 219. Ben Jonson’s Works. 220. Calendar of State Papers, vol. cv., 4. 221. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton. Inedited State Papers, Jan. 10, 1617-18. 222. Afterwards the wife of Henry, Lord de la Warr. 223. Inedited State Papers. Domestic. Mr. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, 10 Jan., 1617-18. 224. Inedited State Papers. It is dated, London, March 11, 1619-20. 225. Inedited State Papers, Feb. 26, 1619-20. 226. Sir J. Croft’s Daughters. 227. N. Brent to Sir D. Carleton, March 30, 1618. State Paper Office, inedited. 228. Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, Nov. 28, 1618. State Paper Office, inedited. 229. T. Locke to Sir Dudley Carleton, Nov. 17, 1618, State Paper Office, inedited. 230. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 477. 231. Nichols, 484, from Birch’s MSS. British Museum. 232. Life of B. Goodman, p. 286. 233. Hume. Life of James I. 234. Birch’s Negotiations between England, France, and Brussels, p. 372. 235. Inedited State Papers, March 20, 1619-20. 236. Inedited State Papers for 1619-20. 237. Letter to Winwood. 238. Hume. Reign of James I. 239. Oldmixon. History of the House of Stuart, p. 52. 240. Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams, vol. i., p. 171. 241. Oldmixon, p. 52. 242. Nichols, iii., p. 493. 243. It begins thus:—“Receive from thy unfortunate husband these, his last lines; these, the last words that ever thou shalt receive from him. That I can live, and think never to see you and my child more, I cannot. I have desired God, and disputed with my reason, but nature and compassion hath the victory. That I can live to think how you are both left a spoil to my enemies, and that my name shall be a dishonour to my child, I cannot—I cannot endure the memory thereof. Unfortunate woman! unfortunate child! comfort yourselves, trust God, and be contented with your poor estate; I would have bettered it, if I had enjoyed it a few years.”—Bishop Goodman, ii., p. 93. Mr. Brewer has, by the discovery of this letter, in the College of All Souls, Oxford, definitively settled the question whether Ralegh did or did not attempt his life in the Tower. Ralegh’s list of his debts, and his beseeching his wife “to take care of them,” are not among the least affecting parts of his letter. 244. Nichols, p. 493. 245. Letter in the State Paper Office, no date. See Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by the author. Appendix, p. 395. 246. Oldys’s Life of Ralegh, folio viii., p. 729. 247. State Papers. Domestic. 1618-19. 248. Her mother was a Howard—the sister of the infamous Lady Somerset. 249. Nichols, iii., 521. 250. Bishop Goodman’s Letters, ii., 188 251. The fire happened in the day time, at eleven, and lasted only an hour. Lord Chancellor Bacon was among those high personages who by his presence attempted to ensure order; but there was much spoliation even in the face of day. The hall was re-erected three years afterwards. This ancient building might, it is thought, have been saved; but two men, who saw the flames break out, went away for fear of being blamed. 252. State Papers. Calendar, vol. cvii., No. 7. 253. Ibid, 52. 254. State Papers, vol. cviii., No. 85. Calendar. 255. Nichols, iii., 546. 256. Letter from Sir Edward Harwood to Sir Dudley Carleton. State Paper Office. Domestic, 1618-19. 257. Birch’s MSS., British Museum, 4173. Letter of Oct. 3, 1618. 258. Miss Strickland’s Life of Anne of Denmark. 259. Nichols, iii. 539. 260. Made Chancellor on the 4th of January, 1617. 261. Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p 201, note. 262. Bacon’s Works, p. 225. 263. The Lord Mayor. 264. Nichols, 548. 265. State Papers, vol. cix; No. 76. Calendars. 266. Nichols, vol., iii. p. 556. 267. Brydges’s Peers of James I. 268. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 589. 269. Ibid, vol. iv., p. 606. 270. State Papers, vol. cxiii., No. 38. 271. Which afterwards came to the Granvilles, hence the name of Bevile Granville. 272. This lady is said to have died in consequence of some medicine given her by Sir W. Ralegh;—a slanderous accusation. 273. Granger, from Howell. Art. Rutland. 274. State Papers, vol. cxii., No. 104. 275. Even King James, it is said, was not exempt from the designs of the wicked. In the State Paper Office is the following entry:—“A man named Peacock, a schoolmaster, to be committed to the Tower and tortured, ‘for practising sorcery on the King, to infatuate him in Sir Thomas Lake’s 276. The interior was destroyed by fire, in 1816; it has been rebuilt in a style of great magnificence. 277. The present Duke of Rutland traces his descent in direct line from the founder of the castle, Robert de Belvedeir. 278. In January, 1814, when George IV., then Prince Regent, was received at Belvoir Castle, the key of Staunton Tower, of gold, and beautifully wrought, was presented to him in the drawing-room, on a gold cushion, by the Rev. Dr. Staunton, with a suitable address. Nichols’s Progress, vol. ii., p. 458. 279. The whole of the castle stands in Leicestershire. 280. Note in Nichols’s Progresses, vol. i., p. 490. 281. Wilson’s Life of James I., p. 149. 282. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. Inedited State Papers, March 11th, 1619-20. 283. From Court and Times of King James. Bishop Goodman, vol. ii., p. 189. 284. From Harleian, 1581, p. 134. 285. Buckingham. 286. Inedited State Papers. Letter from Sir Edward Zouch to Lord Zouch, February 5th, 1619-20. Domestic. Sir Edward Zouch was a much esteemed wit and courtier. His family is now nearly, if not wholly extinct.—Brydges’s Peers of King James, p. 71. 287. Inedited State Papers. Letter dated March. 20th, 1619-20. 288. State Papers. Letter from the Earl of Rutland. Domestic. 1625. 289. Nichols, iv., 606. 290. This house was afterwards inhabited by the Lumley family. The navy office was once here, until removed to Somerset House. The immense warehouses belonging to the East India Company, now cover the spot where Buckingham’s nuptials took place.—See Pennant’s London, p. 237. 291. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 607. 292. He was called by the Earl of Pembroke, “Iniquity Jones.” It is said, in that nobleman’s MS., that he had 16,000l. a year for keeping the King’s houses in repair.—Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii., p. 271. 293. Wright’s History of Rutland, 1684, p. 30. 294. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 778. 295. York House was not at present in his possession. 296. Nichols, p. 881, from Harleian MSS., 6987. 297. For a fuller history of Newhall, see Nichols’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i., p. 94-6. 298. Harleian MSS., 6987., quoted in Nichols’s Progresses of King James. 299. Newhall is now a nunnery. 300. Inedited Letters in the State Paper Office, Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, July 31, 1619. 301. Wright’s Hist. of Essex, vol. ii., p. 502-3. 302. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 364. 303. Sir William Mildmay’s descendants conveyed it to Sir Joseph Child, whose son Richard, afterwards created Earl of Tilney, built Wanstead House, well known in modern days, on the site of the mansion which had been the home of Leicester and of Buckingham. The new house was erected in 1715. It descended, in due time, to Miss Tilney Long, who married the Hon. Wellesley Pole, now Earl of Mornington. In 1825 she died, and Wanstead House was sold in lots under the hammer. The park is now let out for grazing cattle. The ancient church of Wanstead has also been pulled down, and a new one erected; so that those who look for any traces of Leicester and Buckingham will not find them at Wanstead.—Note in Wright’s “Essex,” p. 1150. 304. Nichols, v. 699. 305. Bishop Goodman, ii., 228. 306. Bishop Goodman, 243. 307. State Papers, Calendar, vol. cxviii., No. 29. 308. Letter in Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol. ii., p. 215, from Mr. Mead to Sir M. Stuteville. 309. Nichols, iv., 630; and iii., 120. 310. Wilson, Hume, Oldmixon. 311. 1620. 312. The line of life in Palmistry is the line encompassing the ball of the thumb.—See, for this masque, Gifford’s edition of Ben Jonson. 313. James’s known dislike of pork was one trait of his Scottish descent. 314. Grainger. 315. Gifford. 316. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 710. 317. 1622. 318. Or, as it was called, Middleton’s Water, from the great contriver of that inestimable improvement, the introduction of water into the metropolis, Sir Hugh Middleton. 319. Granger’s Biography, Reign of King James, vol. i., p. 237. 320. Nichols’ Progresses, vol. iv., p. 756. 321. Oldmixon. 322. Ibid. 323. Brydges’s Peers of James I. 324. Wilson, p. 162. 325. Cabala. 326. Brydges’s Peers of James I., p. 324. 327. Ibid, 326. 328. By Richard Braithwayte in the dedication of his Scholar’s Medley.—See Brydges’s Peers, p. 325. 329. Oldmixon, p. 56. 330. Lord Southampton died in a foreign service, that of the States-general, in the defensive alliance at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1624. His family fell into the deepest pecuniary distress, and afterwards solicited the aid of Buckingham.—See “Cabala,” p. 299. 331. Nichols, iv., 670. 332. Oldmixon says not until the 1st of September (see p. 56); but Mr. Chamberlain’s information is more precise and impartial. 333. Wilson. 334. Life of Sir Edward Coke, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, p. 22. 335. “Perhaps,” says Mr. Amos, “Sir Edward Coke never descended lower in point of wit and insult of misery, than when he told Cuffe, when under trial for high treason, ‘that he would give him a cuff that should let him down by-and-by.’”—Grand Oyer of Poisoning, p. 460. 336. Life of Bacon, by Basil Montague. Preface, p. 9. 337. The essay or letter treated of the following subjects:—1. Matters that concern religion, and the Church, and Churchmen. 2. Matters concerning justice, and the laws, and the professions thereof. 3. Councillors, and the council-table, and the great offices and officers of the kingdom. 4. Foreign negotiations and embassies. 338. Life of Lord Bacon, by Basil Montague, p. 181. 339. Lord Bacon’s Works, i., p. 518-19. 340. Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon in the Edinburgh Review. 341. Sir Anthony Weldon’s Court and Character of King James. 342. Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon, note. 343. Bacon’s Works, ii., p. 201. 344. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 297. 345. Biographia Britannica, Art. Bacon, note. 346. Bacon’s Works, ii., p. 20. 347. Oldmixon, p. 52. 348. Nichols, iv., 660. 349. Ibid, note. 350. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 660. 351. State Papers, vol. cxx., No. 13. 352. State Papers, cxxii., No. 8. 353. Harl. MSS. 646—See Nichols, vol. iv., p. 649, note. 354. Macaulay. 355. Advice to Sir George Villiers. 356. Mr. Montagu’s Life of Bacon, note. 357. Bishop Hacket’s Life of Williams. 358. Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon. 359. Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon. 360. Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon. 361. Montagu’s Life, p. 332. 362. State Papers, vol. cxx., No. 28. 363. State Papers, vol. cxx., No. 97. 364. Ibid, No. 104. 365. Nichols, from Sir Symonds D’Ewes’s Diary. 366. Goodman’s Life, i., p. 285. 367. Grainger, chap, iv., t. 1. 368. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 589. 369. Ibid, vol. ii., Appendix. 370. Chamberlain to Carleton.—State Papers, vol. cxxiii., No. 23. 371. Chamberlain to Carleton, State Papers, vol. cxxii.,No. 23. 372. State Papers, vol. cxiii., No. 18. 373. Oldmixon, 53. 374. Goodman, vol. i., p. 286. 375. Note to Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon. 376. Oldmixon, p. 53. 377. March 24th. 378. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 754. 379. Ibid, p. 769. 380. State Papers, vol. cxxxi., No. 24. 381. Ibid, vol. cxxxiii., No. 24. 382. Hacket’s Life of Williams, p. 114. 383. Letter from Lord Digby to Charles, dated Madrid, 30th June, 1622.—Inedited State Papers. 384. Letter from Lord Digby to Charles, dated Madrid, 30th June, 1622.—Inedited State Papers. 385. Dated Madrid, February 22, 1622-23.—Inedited State Papers. 386. Description of the Infanta of Spain, by Toby Mathew. Dated June, 28, 1623.—Inedited State Papers. 387. Letter of Lord Digby, before quoted. 388. Letter from Dr. Joseph Hall to Carleton. 389. State Papers, vol. cxxviii., p. 96. 390. This affair, as Mr. Brewer observes, “was something of a counterpart to his son’s knight-errantry.”—Bishop Goodman’s Life, note, vol. i., p. 363. 391. Bishop Goodman, vol. i., p. 364. 392. State Papers, vol. cxxiv., No. 3. 393. Ibid, No. 8. 394. Ibid, No. 27. 395. State Papers, vol. cxxxviii., No. 23. 396. This nobleman died suddenly in 1623, universally respected.—Grainger’s Peers of James I., chap. ii. 397. Life of Bishop Goodman, vol. i., p. 36. 398. Life of Bishop Goodman, vol. i., p. 36. 399. Goodman. 400. Letter from Mr. Meade to Sir Martin Stuteville.—Ellis’s Letters Illustrative of English History, vol. iii., 1st series, p. 216. 401. Nichols, vol. i., p. 807. 402. Inedited State Papers, Domestic. March 8. 1623. 403. State Papers, vol. cxxxix., No. 16. 404. Feb. 18th. 405. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 406. Nichols, iv., p. 806. 407. Porter, as it appears by a letter in the State Paper Office, addressed by him to his wife, was at this time a married man, and his wife, Olivia Porter, was a relation of the Marchioness of Buckingham. 408. Louis XIII. 409. Anne of Austria. 410. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 411. Inedited Letter in the State Paper Office, from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, 1623. 412. He was killed on May 10th, 1610.—See Sir George Carew’s Relation of the State of France under Henry IV., in Birch’s Negotiations, p. 481. 413. Birch’s Negotiations, p. 492. 414. Sir George Carew. 415. Birch’s Negotiations. 416. Memoirs of Madame de Motteville, vol. i., p. 8. 417. Madame de Motteville. 418. Ibid, p. 8. 419. Madame de Motteville, p. 32. 420. Madame de Motteville, p. 32. 421. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 422. Harleian MSS., 6987. 423. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 809, note. 424. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ, p. 216. 425. ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ. 426. In 1621. 427. History of Spain and Portugal.—Cabinet CyclopÆdia, vol. i., pp. 91, 92. 428. Of his illegitimate children, the most famous was the celebrated Don Juan, surnamed of Austria, believed to be the son of an actress of Madrid. “On this son the choicest favours of the crown were conferred.”—Ibid, 99. 429. Ellis’s Letters, vol. iii., p. 132, 1st series. 430. Ibid, 124. 431. Letter from the Earl of Bristol to King James. Madrid, Feb. 22, 1623-4.—State Papers, Foreign. 432. Letters from the Earl of Bristol to King James. Madrid, Feb. 22, 1623-4. Inedited State Papers. 433. Nichols, 811. 434. Harl. MSS., 389. Quoted in Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 808. 435. To throw off Charles’s disguise. 436. Harleian MSS., 6987.—Printed at length in Nichols. 437. March 10, 1622-23. 438. State Papers. 439. State Paper Office, vol. cxliii., No. 41. 440. From London. March 18. 441. Howell’s Letters, p. 116. 442. The account of the Prince’s reception in Spain is chiefly taken from “A True Relation and Journal of the Arrival and Entertainment given to the High and Mighty Prince Charles, by the King of 443. Howell. 444. Note from Harl. MSS., 6987.—Nichols, p. 823. 445. Howell’s Letters. 446. Nichols, 832, note. 447. 17th March, 1622-23. 448. Thus described in the list:—“A looking-glasse set in goulde, the backside richly garnished with faire dyamondes, and six peeces of chayne to hange it, garnished with dyamondes on both sydes.” 449. A jewel in the form of a T. 450. Nichols, 817, note. 451. Nichols, 835. Note from Harleian MSS., 6987. 452. James Hamilton, second Marquis of Hamilton, in Scotland, upon whom James had conferred, in 1619, the Earldom of Cambridge, a title formerly borne by King Edward IV., before his accession to the Throne. The Marquis was Steward of the Royal Household.—Burke’s Extinct Peerage. 453. Nichols, p. 840. 454. Ibid, p. 845. 455. The Earl of Carlisle. 456. Referring not to Elizabeth of Bohemia, but to the Infanta. 457. Nichols, p. 846. 458. Nichols, vol. ii., p. 847, dated March 25, 1623. 459. Alluding to having lent the Prince his own jewels. 460. Nichols, 848. Note from ArchÆologia, vol. xv. p. 18. 461. Ibid, 249. 462. Ibid, 857. 463. Harl. MSS., 6987. In Buckingham’s own Autograph, quoted by Nichols, note, p. 854. 464. Narrative of Andres of Mendoza. This tract was entered at Stationer’s Hall, July 5, 1623. There is a copy in the British Museum, and also in the Bodleian Library. Only two others are known.—Nichols, 856. 465. Nichols, p. 864. 466. Howell’s Letters. 467. Narrative of Andres de Mendoza, Nichols, p. 869. Transcriber’s Note There are several anomolies in the footnoting. In the original, there is a single footnote 1 in the Preface, and the numbering begins again at the opening of the first chapter. The sequence continues to 99, and then restarts with 1. This is repeated several times. There are also several notes which are denoted only with a traditional asterisk. On occasion, footnotes appear out of order. There is no apparent reason for the dual system, and it seems most likely that the non-numeric references were added later, after the numbering had been completed, and were used to avoid the need to re-sequence work already done. For this text, all footnotes have been re-sequenced numerically across the whole volume, to assure uniqueness. They will appear in the correct order.
The two spellings of the modern Hurstpierpoint, ‘Hurst-pierre-point’ and ‘Hurst-per-point’, are retained, though the second hyphen in the latter occurs on a line break. The text ends with a list of errata which covers many of the issues listed at the end of this note. The intent of this list has been honored, and the indicated changes made. Links are provided to the corresponding item in that list. The first items of the errata would seem to correct the spelling of the home of the Villiers from ‘Brokesby’ to ‘Brookesby’. There are two more instances that were not mentioned, which have been corrected as well. Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. Given the frequent quotations, it was inevitable that opening and closing quotation marks would sometimes be lost. They are placed here where the context or voice makes their position obvious, or where an inspection of the original sources was possible and allowed for the proper punctuation. The paragraph beginning on p. 147 ends with a closing quotation mark. There is no obvious point at which that quotation might begin. The mark is retained, in any case. On p. 338, the sentence ending with a reference to note 403 includes a closing quotation mark, which has no corresponding open. The note references State Papers, vol. cxxxix, No. 16, which seems to be an error. The topic can be found discussed in State Papers, vol. cxliv, No. 16,, but only the phrases quoted earlier can be found there. The closing quotation marks seems an error. On p. 339, continuing on p. 340 there is an long paraphrased passage from ReliquiÆ WottonianÆ., p. 213, which would seem to end at ‘Lieutenant of Dover Castle’. The closing quotation mark has been added there. The references are to the page and line in the original. Where three numbers are referenced, the second refers to a note on that page, and the third to the line therein.
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