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. 5. Peace5. Peace and war, both foreign and civil, and in that the navy and forts, and what belongs to them. 6. Trade at home and abroad. 7. Colonies, or foreign plantations. 8. The court and curialty.

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 Spain.”Spain.”—Printed in Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 818.

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.

p. 99 Footnote 112 (‘Ibid.’) had no anchor in the text, but, based on the passages in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ referred to in the prior note, the quoted text would seem to end near the bottom of the page, and has been added there.
p. 105 There is a anchor to a footnote 119 at ‘benefited his family more than himself.[119]’ which does not appear on the page. The same anchor appears on p. 107 along with a footnote using the same number. The dubious anchor has been removed.
p. 152 Footnote 169 had no anchor in the text, but refers to the
quoted passage. An anchor (169)has been added at that point.

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.

1.17 BRO[O]KESBY, THE NATIVE PLACE OF GEORGE VILLIERS Added.
12.5 adding to his name the designation of “Bro[o]kesby;” Added.
12.16 At Bro[o]kesby, the manorial residence Added.
12.26 now owns the name of Bro[o]kesby. Added.
13.1 The town of Bro[o]kesby has, of late years Added.
13.23 From the retirement of Bro[o]kesby Added.
18.10 On the fourth of January, 1[5/6]05-6, Sir George Villiers died. Replaced.
22.15 “the conservative qualities and ornaments of youth.[”] Added.
26.34.7 de survivre trop long tem[p]s a ce bon roi. Added.
28.3 was Ravaillac[s]’s fatal opportunity Removed.
43.21 to the Lord de Ro[s/o]s Replaced.
46.18 this was Burleigh-on-the[ /-]Hill which she sold Replaced.
47.54.1 Art[.] Lucy Harrington. Added.
63.21 and to bring Villiers in.[’/”] Replaced.
87.93.3 Endy[smoir/mion] Porter’s letters. Replaced.
90.101.11 D’Ewe[s]’s MS. Journal in Bishop Goodman’s Life Added.
92.6 which was imperatively due to the Primate, Abbo[t] Added.
97.1 [way most gratifying to an honourable mind.] Removed.
107.119.6 who were to be excluded from the Order of St. George,[”] Added.
108.6 and the noble miscreants be restored to favour[s]. Removed.
126.21 the rich banners and streamers,[”] Removed. No opening.
128.141.5 “were squires of high degree, for cast and bravery;[”] Added. No closing.
144.7 the “most commended for notable fooling[,/.]” Replaced.
146.18 he conceived that the partition of the kingdom placed him.[”] Added. Probable.
147.6 had not public business interfered.[”] sic: opening quote?
150.18 and so was apprehended near Carlisle.[”] Added.
154.15 the most curious combat of world[l]y passions Added.
155.17 called King James’s room; [though/where] the monarch is said Replaced.
163.13 [pours/comes] out of contention Replaced.
166.11 to hang him with a silken halter.[”] Added.
167.20 a partner violent, litigious, and un[s]crupulous. Added.
167.5 without [bans] or licence sic: banns
172.18 a young lady of the seven[teenth century] Added.
175.3 Bacon “took to be the worst of his enemies.[”] Added.
177.12 will set all on fire when he is in.[”] Added.
186.27 would have had the nomination of his success[ion/or] Replaced.
188.2 for her own good, or her friends.[”] Removed.
202.4 writes Mr. Chamberlain, merrily, [“]at Newmarket Added.
232.15 but Harvey, “sick and surfeited[”], declined attendance Added. Probable.
238.275.6 to infatuate him in Sir Thomas Lake’s business[,/.] Replaced.
248.9 on the site of the ancient Monast[e]ry of Crutched Friars Added.
279.22 more than at their own interest;[”] Removed.
286.337.6 [5/6]. Peace and war, both foreign and civil Replaced.
308.26 than he had done as Dean of Westminster,[”] “which,” he adds, Added.
321.3 [“]and so,” adds the minute observer Added.
323.23 without any sign of agitation.[”] Added.
333.16 [“]and where,” adds the crafty Spaniard Added.
338.13 restored on his return home.[”] Removed.
339.27 [“]It seemed, however,” says the same writer Added.
340.6 then Lieutenant of Dover Castle.[”] Added.
340.27 says Sir Henry Wotton, [‘/“]singular credit Replaced.
357.15 the pecuniary difficult[i]es Added.
358.4 [“]The Spaniards, too,” as the Earl stated Added.
359.14 “imperfect note my babie had[’/”] Replaced.
368.23 The King afterwards promised Charles that [“]though it were Lent Added.
369.1 In the eve[n]ing of Saturday Added.
369.442.4 by the King of Spain.[”] Added.
372.21 at the Monastery of San Gero[min/nim]o Transposed.
381.8 [“]To which James answers:—“I wonder quhy ye shoulde Removed
393.17 “a life to all actions of greatness and courtship.[”] Added.
398.6 his horse’s [main] and tail sic: mane