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| ” | 13, | ” 1—for Brokesby, read Brookesby. |
| ” | 43, | ” 21—for Lord de Ross, read Lord de Roos. |
| ” | 87, | —note.—for Endysmoir Porter, read Endymion Porter. |
| ” | 92, | line 6—for Abbo, read Abbot. |
| ” | 97, | delete first line. |
| ” | 108, | line 6—for favours read favour. |
| ” | 155, | ” 17—for King James’s room; though, read King James’s room, where. |
| ” | 163, | ” 13—for pours out of contention, read comes out of contention. |
| ” | 172, | ” 18—for a young lady of the seven, read a young lady of the seventeenth century. |
| ” | 186, | ” 27—for of his succession, read of his successor. |
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 tempstemps a ce bon roi.”—Lacretelle “Histoire de France,” pendant les Guerres de Religion, tome iv., p. 385.
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:—
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 EndymionEndymion Porter’s letters, (State Paper Office, Domestic) to many persons of condition.
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.—D’Ewes’sD’Ewes’s MS. Journal in Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol. iv., p. 144.
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. George,”George,” “which, was without precedent.” Nichols, iii., p. 177.
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 bravery;”bravery;” the one being esquire to Lord Beauchamp, the other to his cousin, Rowland St. John.—Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. State Paper Office, November 4th.
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.