THE FOETESCUE PAPEES; CONSISTINO CHIEFLY OF LETTERS RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS, COLLECTED BY JOHN PACKER, SECEETAEY TO OEOEOE VILLIBBS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. EDITED, FROM THE ORIOINAL MSS. IN THE POSSESSION OF THB HON. G. M. FORTESPUE, BY SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, DIEECTOE OP THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXI. WESTMINSTEE I FEINTED BT J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS 25, PAELIAMENT STREET. [new SERIES. I.J COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1871-72. President, SIR WILLIAM TITE, C.B., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.S.A., &c. WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.S.A. WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, ESQ. F.S.A. F. W. COSENS, ESQ. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. D.C.L. SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, ESQ. ALFRED KINGSTON, ESQ. SIR JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A. SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, F.R.S. FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. Treas.S.A. EDWARD RIMBAULT, LL.D. EVELYN P. SHIRLEY, ESQ. M.A., P.S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A. THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER, F.S.A. SIR THOMAS E. WINNINGTON, BART. SIR ALBERT W. WOODS, Garter, F.S.A. The Council of the Camden Society desire it to be under stood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observa tions that may appear in the Society's publications ; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same. PEEFACE. Fob the papers in this volume the Camden Society is indebted to the liberality of the Honorable G. M. Fortescue, who, " on coming into possession of Dropmore in 1864, under the will of Lady Grenville — the heiress and sole representative of the Pitts of Bo- connoc — found in the carpenter's shed an old box which had apparently belonged to Governor Pitt, containing a large quantity of papers in excellent condition, mixed up with the family papers of Mr. Van den Bempde, who died, in 1725." ^ If I may judge by an indorsement in the handwriting of the 18th century, on the back of one of the letters, the collection narrowly escaped a still worse fate than that to which it was temporarily exposed. It ie as follows, ae far as it can be read, part of the paper on which it is written having been torn away: — " Marq. of Bucks on State affairs. .... ers to others, &c. Eliz. & Ja. — useless." The selections which I have made include many papers which will only be of interest to the professed historian, many which, had the originals been in a public library, so as to be easily accessible to the inquirer, I should certainly have omitted. But there are others ' I quote these statements from Sir Erskine Perry's communication to the Philo- biblon Society on the Van den Bempde Papers, of which he has kindly sent me a copy, accompanying it with information acquired by him in preparing them for the press. CAMD. SOC. a PREFACE. which will no doubt attract more general attention. Such for instance is the important letter of James I. (No. XXXIV.) clearing up as it does a question about the procedure in Ealeigh's case after his return from Guiana, upon which no light has hitherto been thrown, and showing that, at least in James's eyes, it was proved that he had recommended an attack upon the Mexico fleet very early in his voyage. After this may be mentioned the letters of Sir Robert Dudley (No. III.), giving an account of his improve ments in naval architecture; of Lord Arundel of Wardour (No. X.), bringing forward a charge against Bacon, which happens to be capable of disproof ; of Sir Thomas Wentworth (No. XL), supply ing a missing link in the correspondence on the office of custos rotulorum published in the Strafford Papers; of Sir Sebastian Harvey (Nos. LII. and LUL), throwing light on Christopher Villiers' courtship; and of Charles I. (No. CLXL), giving an account to Prince Rupert of his victory over Essex in Cornwall. Letters more or less on business matters will also be found from Buckingham himself, from Lord Keeper Williams, from Secretaries Naunton ahd Calvert, from Sir Lionel .Cranfield, the Earl of Suffolk, and other notabilities of the Court of James I. ¦ Of a different kind of interest, though if it be read in connection with the remainder of Effiat's correspondence, its historical importance is considerable, is No. CXLV. From it we learn what sort of French Buckingham could write, when he tried his hand at original coinposition in that language. The whole of the collection placed in my hands consisted of five hundred and eight documents. A calendar of the whole has been prepared for the Historical MSS. Commision, and will n~o doubt appear in their second report. It is a collection which has evidently PREFACE. Ul been brought together from at least two, and perhaps from more sources. The three last papers, all of them in print already, two letters of the first Earl of Clarendon and one of Madame de Maintenon, do not call for any comment. They may have been acquired by anybody at any time. Before these comes the letter of Charles I. mentioned above, which is believed to have been purchased by Lord Grenville, who was interested in it as being dated from Boconnoc. The remaining papers, five hundred and four in all, form the old collection, in which the last dated one was written in May 1627, and the first in June 1568. These papers seem to have found their way into the possession of the Fitt family from Mr. John Van den Bempde, who had purchased the estate of Hackness, in Yorkshire, from the Sydenham family, in 1707.^ How they passed into the hands of the Pitts does not appear, but it is certain that they were in Mr. Van den Bempde's possession at the beginning of the I8th century, partly because no one else, as will be seen, was in a position to unite so heterogeneous a collection, and partly because twenty-two holograph letters of Lord Bacon, which form its most valuable portion, were printed by Stephens in his second collection. Mr. Spedding, who examined the papers two years ago, found not only many of those printed in the present volume named in a MS. catalogue by Stephens, but a note (Add. MSS. 4258, fol. 95) in the handwriting of John Locker, " who edited Stephens's second collection after his death," in the following words : — Mr. Bemde, a g[entleman] of D[utch] extr[action], gave Mr. Stephens those ' The Van den Bempde Papers, 22. IV PREFACE. things which were made use of in a 4to. edition of letters and pieces, which L' Oxford is now possessed of. In this note, after the word " which," was originally written " his lady gave to the R. Hon. the E[arl] of 0[xford]." Mr. Van den Bempde's lady's maiden name was, as Sir Erskine Perry informs me, Temperan<;e Packer, no doubt a descendant of John Packer, secretary to the Duke of Buckingham, whose name occurs frequently in this collection ; a man of whom, considering the position which he held, we should have expected to know more than we do. He was probably one of those businesslike unobtru sive men who, as Charles II. said of Godolphin, are never out of the way and never in the way. Another side of his character is, however, revealed by some of these letters, from which he appears as a munificent supporter of the clergy, apparently rather of the Puritan type. To Packer therefore we may without doubt attribute the mass of the collection, that is to say, the papers from amongst which the letters selected for the present printed volume have been taken, excepi the first three and the last. It is a series which begins with a letter from James I. to Caron, dated in 1616, not printed here. Another series of 52 papers, dated from 1600 to I6I4 have only yielded three letters worth being printed. Many of them are written to Somerset, and they may all very well have come through the hands of a person who occupied the same posi tion in Somerset's household which Packer occupied in Bucking ham's. And if Packer was the sort of man which I suppose him to have been — a man of business, who would not trouble himself with Court parties — it is very possible that Villiers may have taken him on from his predecessor in James's favour, and so all this part of the collection would come through him. PREFACE. V There remain 68 papers to be accounted for. Of these the first 33 are almost, if not exclusively, from Sir Francis Walsing ham's cabinet, and it is worthy of remark that whilst Buckingham allowed papers of the utmost importance to lie about and to fall into his secretary's hands, Walsingham took good care that the gleanings from his correspondence should be of so formal a nature that not one out of the 33 documents is worth the trouble of print ing. Such being the case it is of the less importance to conjecture through whose hands they passed, a point on which I have no evi dence warranting even a guess. The other 35 papers, from No. 34 to 68 in the original collection, are of a very different character. They are all, with one exception, letters relating to the marriage and family affairs of Sir Thomas Hoby and his wife, and though I have not admitted them to a place amongst the State Papers of the present volume, the picture which they afford of the progress of a courtship at the end of the 16th century may not be thought out of place here. Before entering upon this topic, however, let me say a few words about the pedigree of these 35 papers. As Mr. Van den Bempde must have got the Packer papers from his wife, so he must have got the Hoby papers from his estate. He purchased Hackness, as we have seen, from the Sydenham' family in 1707, and the first proprietor of the name, John Sydenham, succeeded to the pro perty upon the death of Sir Thomas Hoby in 1640.' Sir Thomas Hoby acquired it by his marriage with Margaret the daughter and heiress of Arthur Dakins. The correspondence opens with a letter from the Earl of Hunt- in'^don.the Puritan. Earl whom Elizabeth had made Lord President ' Van den Bempde Papers, 22. VI PREFACE. of the North. It is written to Walter Devereux, husband of the heiress of Hackness, the brother of the second Earl of Essex, whose paternal grandmother had been a sister of the Earl of Huntingdon's father ; Huntingdon being thus a first cousin of Devereux' father, the first Earl of Essex. The lady, before her marriage, had been taken into the service of the Countess of Huntingdon, and had been regarded, possibly through some connection between the Earl and her father, as under the special protection of the family. In this letter, which is dated Jan. 13, 1590, Huntingdon advises the young man " to call in tyme for the assurance of Hackenes," which advice appears to be connected with the birth of Essex's son and heir, and is grounded on the argument that if Essex were to die Walter could not expect anything good to be done for him during his nephew's minority. In point of fact the original arrange ment had been that of the £6,500 for which the estate had been purchased as a provision for the young couple, £3,000 should be paid by Essex, £3,000 by Arthur Dakins, and the remaining £500 by tbe Earl of Huntingdon. As, however, neither Dakins nor Huntingdon had completely fulfilled their obligations, the estate was involved until the whole of the purchase-money could be paid.^ Of Walter Devereux we hear no more in this correspondence. He was killed in a skirmish near Rouen, on the Sth of September.^ In those days marriage was regarded far more as an affair of business than it is now, and the scruples which prescribe a decent interval of widowhood before a second alliance had scarcely any existence. There was one joung man, at least, who had no idea of allowing such feelings to stand in the way of the Hackness estate. ' For further particulars see Note at the end of the Preface. 3 Lives of the Devereux, i. 158. PEEFACE. Vll Thomas Posthumus Hoby, the younger and, as hie name imports, the posthumous son of Sir Thomas Hoby, now a youth of some four-and-twenty years, had chances other than personal, of which he was resolved to avail himself. His mother, now Lady Russell, the widow of Lord Russell, second son of the Earl of Bedford, was, through one sister, aunt to Francis Bacon, and, what at that time was of far greater importance, was, through another sister, sister-in- law to the great Lord Burghley. No time was lost, and the court ship was opened by the following letter frora the Lord Treasurer himself, written ori the 21st of September, less than a fortnight after Devereux' death : — My very good Lord : The harty love and dutyfuU goodwyll that I knowe to be bome your Lp. by my good La. and syster in lawe the La. RusseU, maketh me bowlde to joyne with her, as a mother for hir sonne, and my self for my honest servante and nephewe, to commend to your Lps. favore his intentione to seeke, by your Lps. both meanes and advyce, to he a suter to a late yonge wyddowe that was wyfe to Mr. Walter Devereux. And yf your Lp. shall please to geve my La. comforte therin, I wyll joyne with hyr in prosecutione therof both to the wyddow, and any other her freynds she may be advysed by. And I doubt not but the yonge gentlemane, thogh he be Posthumus hy his father's death, beyng borne after, yet my La. hath such respect to hym, and he soe well doth and wyll deserve yt, as he shall be made able to be a father of lyvelode. And I can assure your Lp. by the proofe that I have had at his good nature and conditions, he wyll prove a good and corteous husbande, and a keeper and noe spender. And soe wyshynge to heer of your Lps. good recovery of your broose, from Elvetham the xxi" of 7^"' 1591. Your Lps. moste assuredly at oom. What answer was given to this request does not appear. On the 29th of October Burghley wrote again, tliis time to the lady's father ; — After my very harty commendations. Tho^ yt may he that some have already moved you to understande your dyspositione for your assent to have suyte made to your daughter Mrs. Devereux, wyddowe of Mr. Walter Devereux deceased ; yet, I beynge in mynde, for a speciali particuler freynde of myne, to have, within some tyme after the death of the sayde Mr. Devereux, to have sought to have knowne your mynde, and to have alsoe obtayned your assent to my desyre ; yett for some respect vm PREFACE. of the reputacione of your daughter, whome I accompted woolde rather myslyke of any that shoulde make suyte unto her soe enddeynly after her husbands death, and therefore have dyfierred my purpose untyll nowe that I ame informed that some have or wyll shortly attempt to make some request both to yon and the yonge gentle- womane your daughter, and not knowynge what success they may have, I beynge very loath to ba prevented by any delay, have presently f ownde yt very necessary for me to delay noe farther tyme, and therfore, havynge a great desyre to preferr a yonge gentlemane of good byrth, honesty and understandynge, beynge allyed unto me, and of neer kyndred to dyvers my chyldren, I doe lett you knowe, the party is the aonne of Sir Tho. Hoby deceased and the La. Russell nowe lyvinge, syster to my late wyfe, and his name is Thomas Hoby with an addition of Posthumus, because he was borne after his father's buryall, whoe dyed in Fraunce, wher he was Embas sador for hys Ma'y to the then French Kynge, havynge but one brother lyvinge named Sir Edw. Hoby, knyght, whoe hath noe children, soe as this gentlemane is lykely to inherytt all his lyvelode. And besyds that, my La. Russell, his mother, hath provyded a good portione of lyvelod to be left to hym, yf he shall content her in his marryadge, and wyll deal very honorably and kyndly with hym, to enhable hym to make to his wyfe a convenient joynture, in case she shall lyke of his choyse. And accordyngly, her La. and 1 have of late conferred heerupon, and wee both woolde be glade to procure a maryadge for hym with your daughter, and to that purpose I doe hy thes present lettres sygnify to you both hys and my request, pray- inge you to accept the same as proceedinge from our harty goodwylls, and of the allowance of your daughter's vertues and conditiones soe reported to us very credybly. And heerunto we both requyre your answer of your inclynatione heerto, soe as the party may have comforte to repayre thyther, to see and acquaynte hymselfe with your daughter, and to make his suyte to herself, to ohtayn heyr love ; and I shall moste kyndly accept your speedy answer. 29 Octob. 1591. The reply, when it came, was not such as Burghley probably expected. Immediately on the receipt of the letter Dakins wrote thus : — May it please your Lo. to understande that your lettres, dated at Westmynster the 29"" of Octob. laste, wer delyvered unto me heer at Hackenes, neigh Scarborough, by a, gentlemane one Mr. Peerse Stanly, this present day the x" of Novemb. the which to answer as I woolde I noe ways can, which breedeth some greefe in me for that my . daughter toke her jorney towards London the 2. of this instant November laste with my lettres to the Right Honorable therle of Huntyngdon, and the Countess his wyfe, her owlde mistress ; yeeldynge therby my consente to theyr honors for the disposynge of my daughter in her maryadge, which God knoweth is meane, and farr unworthy the proffer your Ho. doth make by your sayde lettres. Yf I wer able to gratify your honour by any meanes, I stande moste bownd soe to doe for yom- former o-oodness PREFACE. IX towards me, the which as your Ho. doth not remember, soe shall I never forget them, but shall dayly yeelde my harty thanks to Almighty God, whome yt hath pleased to prepare you a stronge pyller for this owre common weal. The L. preserve you, and sende you longe contynuance amongst us. Thus I moste humbly take my leave ; from Hackeneys aforesayde ; the sayde x* of Novemb. 1591. Your Lo. honour's moste humhle at com. with his service, Arthuee Dakyns. There is nothing upon the surface of Burghley's letters beyond a desire to do the best for his wife's nephew. But it is not unlikely that political reasons mingled with his desire for the advancement of one so closely connected with his own family circle. Hackness was in the centre of a population which still held firmly to the creed and church of their ancestors. Lurking priests found warm protectors alike amongst the landowners and the people. The pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant from the High Commission ran a good chance of coming back with a bloody head, and even the officials of the Council at York knocked in vain at the doors of houses which were prepared to stand a siege.^ Under these circumstances Burghley may well have thought it politic to recommend a man whom he could thoroughly trust to hold what he must have regarded as the command of the Protestant garrison at Hackness. In the meanwhile Hoby had been feeling his way towards making personal advances, as appears from the following letter written by Lady Perrot, who, as a sister of Walter Devereux, might have some influence over his widow : — Mt. Hoby ; I sent a man of myne who long served her to see my Lady of Huntington from me, who as of hime sebre did inquier of the gentill woman you ' J. Feme to Sir E. Cecil, April 27, 1599. :S. E. Dom. Eliz. cclxx. 99. CAMD. SOC. b X PREFACE. knowe of ; hut coulde learne nothing of her coming up. If you will have me send to know as from my selfe, I will, or what else I may to do your liking ; I pray you remember me humbly to my Lady, and so I leave you to all good happs, this first of November. Your frend that wisheth you well, D. Peekott. A second letter of the 13th conveys the required information, that " the gentill womane you know of is come to my Lorde of Hunttington's." By this time it was known that there was an other suitor in the field. The Countess of Huntingdon was one of two sisters of the favourite Leicester, the other having been the wife of Sir Henry Sidney, and mother of Sir Philip and his two brothers. The youngest of these was Thomas Sidney, and his aunt Lady Huntington had made up her mind that the heiress should be his. According to information which subsequently reached Hoby, it was at the Earl of Huntingdon's request that Dakins had sent his daughter to the Earl's house in London, and where, as soon as she arrived, she was conducted to her chamber, "which she closely kept until she was maryed." * Thomas Sidney had a special claim upon the Earl as well upon the Countess, having been left as a minor to his guardianship by his father's will.* As yet, however, Hoby was not aware how invincible were the obstacles opposed to him. The next letter we have is from his mother, Lady Russell : — Posthumus. I have sent you what I have rec[eived]. Shew Mr. Stanley's letter to me unto my Lord your master.' Now, chyld, it standeth yow aper for your owne ' See p. xvi, 2 Collins' Sidney Papers, i. 96. ° Burjjhley. PREFACE. creditt's sake to trye your frends. My La. Perrott the wisest, surest, and fittest to your good, who, after she hath f ownd her disposityon tooching Sidney, may, on some tyme of the gentlewoman's comming to visitt my La. Dorothie,' let you understand of the tyme when yowrself may mete her there. Yf this prove a matche, I will be bownd to leave to yow that which shall be worth v C li. by yere, wherof iii c li. of it joynter to her after my death, and a howse presently furnished to bring her to. Yf in affection she be gon to Sidney, it is one thing : if by reason she be willing to be ledd to her owne good, yow will be fownd the better mache of bothe. I have promised your brother to defray the charges of assurances for the entayle of Bisham, which I consent to for feare of sayle. He sayth it will cost me 40 li. I pray God it be worth so much to yourself. Your most loving mother, Elizabeth Russell. I woold you coold so use the matter that fhe widdow be here this Christmas. I have appoynted your brother's musi- tyons : have hard them aud given the master v s. earnest. Let Anthony Cooke' help to steale her away. She hath her father's consent to match where she list. It soon appeared, however, that Hoby had no chance. Sidney's marriage to Walter Devereux' widow took place some time Ifefore the 31st of May, 1592, as appears from a letter of Huntingdon's to him of that date. Onthe 23rd of July, 1592,^ Arthur Dakins died, leaving the young couple to take possession of Hackness. But this second mar riage, like the first, was not of long duration. Thomas Sidney died in the summer of 1595,* probably about the end of July or the be ginning of August, and her old suitor lost no time in making an other stroke for the prize. A fresh application was made to the ' Lady Perrot. ' Lady Eussell's nephew, son of Richard, the eldest son of her father Sir Anthony. ' I give the date from the Inquisition p. rh. Chancery Inquisitions, 35 Eliz. part 2, No. 32. Sir Erskine Perry (Van den Bempde Papers, 13) gives it in the following year, without stating the authority. ' The first letter relating to Hohy's renewed suit is dated Sept. 12, 1595, whilst his marriage took place between June 26 and Sept. 4, 1596. According to Lady Hohy's epitaph in Hackness church, quoted hy Sir Erskine Perry, she was a widow this time for thirteen: months. Xll PREFACE. Earl of Huntingdon, who, knowing that the lady had not listened to Hoby on the last occasion, contented himself with giving him the following letter to Mr. Edward Stanhope, a member of the Council of the North, of which Huntingdon was President. Stan hope was in some way or other related both to Mrs. Sydney and to Hoby, who, as will be seen, had been knighted since we last heard of him : — Mr. Stanhope. This gentleman. Sir Thomas Hobby, taketh a longe jorney into the North for a good cause, as himself will shewe you. My Lady his mother did first write unto me to give him my best freindly meanes in the matter. And since my Lo. Trea. hath also required the same of me, both by his letters and speaches to me, which I am willinge to performe ; but, as I have said to the Knight himself, I take it to he verry sone for me to deale therein, yet ; and, to speake the trewthe, though I be verry willinge to do any good ofBce towards him that may lye in me, yet so bad hath bin my successe that yf I might be spared I would never deale that way agayne for any such matter. And for this tyme I am spared to write, hut he requireth that I would assigne some man to accompany him to the place that he may the redilyar have a sight of the gentlewoman. And because you are his kinse- man, I hope shortely to see you in Yorkesheire, and for this tyme, with my harty commendacions, I do comitt you to our Lord. Your loving freind, H. Huntingdon. At Highgate the xii* of Septemb., 1595. The, result.of Hoby's diplomacy appears in the next letter, which is Stanhope's reply to the Earl : — My humble duetie to your good Lp. premysed. It may please you to be advertised that of Saterday last the xx"" of this moneth, I receyved your Lps. lettres by my cosen Sir Thomas Hobby, and understandinge that night at Yorke that the gentle woman was newely removed to Hull, wee spent the Sabbath at Yorke. The next daye, good Mr. Cotrell's funerall beinge to be solemnized, in respecte he put me in trust as a supervisor, wee staid ther till that aftemoone, and then went towarde Hull, accompanyed also with Mr. Peres Stanley, whither we came upon Tuesday by one of the clocke, and went to the manor, where my cosen Sydney after a while admitted mee to her chamber. I founde her layde complayninge of payne in her eyes and heade, which I fonnde to proceede of greate lamentacion for the losse of the worthy gentleman her late husbande, for she coulde not then speake of him without teares. After some speches of curtesey and entertaynment, I recomended your Lps. favor PREFACE. XIU unto her, apperenge by your lettres which 1 shewed her, whereby finding the occasion of my cominge, she shedd teares againe, sayinge that thoughe she helde her selfe bounde to your Lp. to whom ' she was wholly devoted, yet the tender love she bare to him that was dead, made yt grevous to her to hear of any newe ; and much more to be thought of the gentleman that she were to be delt with in any suche matter soe soone, which I excused, as I had receyved from himselfe before, that he had that reverend regard of her, as that in his owne opinione he might be thought to blame ; but that two respectes ledd him. One, in desier his eyes to witnes that which publicke reporte had delivered him, that the guyftes of nature had in some sorte equalled her vertues.' Thother, havinge bene longe drawne to affect her for thes guyftes, he was desirous to be made knowne to her, as the first that shoulde seeke her, though he after forbore for some tyme to entertayne or prosecute his suyte. In thend, unwillingly, but in duetifull regard of your Lps. recomendacion, and to avoyd to offer that discurtesey, not to be sene to a gentleman of his worth that came soe farr for that purpose, in very modest sort she yelded that after some tyme of my withdrawinge from her, she woulde admytt him to doe your Lps. comendacions to her. In which meane while my cosen Alred's wief cominge thither, after some half hower, my self was required to bringe Sir Thomas and Mr. Peres Stanley into her chamber, where curteousley and modestly intertayning him with fewe speeches, she retired to the gentlewomen, and, after smal tyme spent in the chamber, wee left her, I sayinge to her that if your Lps. cominge downe were not very shortely, this gentle man woulde he boulde in his cominge up, to knowe if she woulde comaunde him any thinge to your Lp. and my good Lady. That eveninge I acquainted my cosen Aldred and his wief both with your Lps. favor to recomende the gent, to this match, and with the licklyhoode how well, by the naturall affeccion bome him of his honorable mother, his owne industry, his educacion in soe good a schoole of experience as my L. Threasorer's chamber, and his alyence and kindered, he might prove a very good match to the gentlewoeman. They both cheifely respectinge that it was mocioned with your Lps. speciali liking, which they doubted not hut woulde he seconded by my Lady, when tyme had over- worne the great grefe she takes for the losse of a kinsman of soe greate good parts and expectacion, did not onely yeelde to geve there best furderance to the match, as occasione might be offered them, but my cosen Aired entred into consultacion with us, what course might be helde in prosecuting of yt, best beseminge the reputacions of them boeth. Whereupon, although Sir Thomas at the firiit was desirous to have procured some I " when " in MS. 2 So that he had never yet seen her. XIV PREFACE. place in or nere the towne of Hull, to the which, within a weeke or thereabouts, he might have repaired the better to take oportunitye to intertayne the gentlewoman ; yet, upon better advisement, be yeelded to this counsell, that he woulde retyre him selfe for V or vi dayes, and if in that tyme he harde not of your Lps. presente cominge into the cuntry, he woulde take his journey by Hull to your Lp. and there salutinge the gentlewoeman, woulde let her knowe that he was so fully satisficed by sight of her, that all things was answerable to the goode reporte he had receyved of her before, as he ment to settle himselfe upon her favor. Nevertheles, tenderly regard- inge her reputacion, he woulde for a tyme retyre himselfe into the southe, and there eyther awayte your Lps. cominge downe, or if it were not soe soone as he wished, hoped to receyve your Lps. recomendacion to her as well of himselfe, as by his freendes, for his state and haviour. And this course he meaninge to observe, and apperinge to as desirous to be onely hehouldinge to your Lp. and my Lady for this matche, which, chefelie in regard of the gentlewoeman's vertues, whereof he beareth by all that speake of her, he will accompt a greate preferment to him, we came of Wedensday from Hull soe farr toge ther towardes Doncaster as I comytted him to Mr. Stanley nere his house at Womersley, and I repaired to Doncaster, where I was in respect of my place ther to attende the next day the eleccion of the [mayor],' where by foresight and good meanes, without contradiction or shewe of faccion (not usuall heretofore), William Hansley, one in duetie and service towards your Lp. was chosen there maior. ******* • I humbly cease to trouble your Lp. 27 V""' 1596. Your Lps. humbly to command, E. S. This intervention of Mr. Edward Stanhope, which in the present day would have been enough to ruin any one's suit, was well received by the man who was chiefly interested in its success. The great Lord Treasurer wrote'at^once to Stanhope, and to his " cozen Aired," to thank themfor their assistance. Hoby's next step taken seems to have been to collect letters in his favour from persons of note, much in the^same way as a candidate for an appointment would now-a-days furnish himself with testimonials of his merit. The following letter from Sir Robert Cecil to Huntingdon looks very much as if Hoby suspected the Earl of bein^ lukewarm in his interests : — ' This^must be the word intended ;'.but it is written " manor." PREFACE. XV My good Lorde. I have hen so emestlie intreated by my cosin Sir Tho. Hobbie to acknowledge in his behalfe the great obligacion for your favour already extended towards him, as I could do no lesse then by this lettre yeld your L. most humble thanks, and in regarde of myne owne affection towards him, further ingage my selfe towards yoer Lo. by beseeching your continuance as a favour which I will accomt my selfe bounde to deserve and requytt by anie service I can. And thus for this tyme I doe most humblie take my leave. From the Corte this xxviii"' of Octobre 1595. Yof L. poore friend at com[mand]. In the next letter Hoby recounts to Huntingdon his ill success : — R[ight] H[onorable]. Beynge very loath to neglect the fytt opertunity of this bearer, I have presumed by hym to troble your Lp. aswell to manyfest my dutyfull desyres to become thankfull for your honorable favoure shewed in your furtherynge of myn endevours, as to lett your Ho. understande howe I have proceeded, synce your Lps. departure. And because I can not my self render unto your honour due thankes for your honorable coorses helde in the cause, I wyll referr that unto thos honorable persons that fyrst recomended myself and cause to your favoure, and wyll be bould to relate unto them at large withowte any omyssyone the honorable care you have pleased to have of my suyte. Now, concernynge the state wherein I nowe stande, yt ys soe we.ake that I fynde noe reasons as yet to hope for better, neyther wyll my affectione be drawne altogether to despayre ; for the favourable access which your Lp. obtayned for me ys soe unwyllyngly performed as, had I not learned a former lessone of aiidaoes fortuna jwoat, wherby I ame ledd contynually to exceed good manners in beynge more ruled by my love then reasone, it woold have been longe synce absolutely denyed me. But as I came not soe farr to be dyscouradged with some fewe repulses, soe -vrjW I not departe untyll I have performed the utter- moste of my strengthe in seekynge her, styll referrynge the sequell to God's good pleasure and her own self ; and to that ende, God wyllynge, I wyll remayne heer untyll your Lps. retourne from the North parts, and then I wyll my selfe wayte upon you ; and soe for this tyme I wyll humbly leave to troble your Lp. any farther. This xx"" of Novemb. 1595. Your Lps. moste humbly to commaunde. Hoby's judgment of the lady's feelings towards him was justified by the event. She wrote to Huntingdoti to decline her importunate suitor. But, as appears from the Earl's reply, Hoby had also made up his mind not to take no for an answer : — Mrs. Margarett. Beare with me whatsoever I wryte, for I was not in a greater payne tynce my laste joniey then I even nowe ame in. I did acquaynte hym with xvi PREFACE. the contents of your lettre, and at the laste I dyd geve hym the lettre to perase, but yt moved him not to that purpose you desyred. And soe he toulde me he woolde tell your self, yet withowte my lettre he woolde not retume. He doth not beleeve that you wyll geve such a denyall as your lettre mentioneth. Eor God's cawse have care of all our credyts, and soe handle the matter as his commynge agayne may he neyther offensyve to you nor dyspleasynge to hymself. And so with wysh of all good and happynes to you, for this tyme I ende and commytt you to the L. Jesns. At Yorke this 9"' Decemb. Your lovynge freynde, H. Huntingdon. Huntingdon's " greater payne " was the precursor of his death, which took place on the I4th of December, and Hoby had no help to look for from his brother and successor. On the 3rd of February, 1596, we have a letter from Hoby to his cousin Anthony Bacon, written to influence the Earl of Essex, who appears to have been offended with his brother's widow on account of her haste in mar rying Thomas Sidney : — Sir. Beynge more then desyrous to compass a matter that doth not a lyttle import me, I have been boulde (in respect of our neemes in nature, and our mutuall love,) to entreate your kyndest freyndship for the better effectynge therof, hopynge therin to fynde you as wyllynge as I have juste cause to thynke you able, fully to contryve yt. Soe yt ys, good cosyne, that my La. my mother shewed me a lettre sent unto her from my L. of Essex ; wherin I founde very greate reasone to fiolde my selfe exceedingly bownde unto his Ho. for his favourable conceite therin expressed of me. And because I muste confess my selfe therof altogether unworthy, I wyll ever heer after by all dutyfull endevours seeke to deserve the same. But wheras his Lp. seemed in the same lettre to be highly offended with the gentlewomane with whome I seeke to match, my earnest request unto you ys that you wyll be an humble suter to his Lp., that his Ho. wylbe pleased to heer some reasoues that wyll suffyce (I hope) to move hym to remove all former dyslyke from his honourable breaste. And (because I wyll not name any thynge that his Lp. is wyllinge to forgett) I wyll only seeke to excuse the gentlewoman's suddayne marryadge at the tyme of her first wyddowhoode, wherof noe mane can better speake then my self, whoe was then desyrous to be a suter (as I nowe ame) unto her. And to delyver playnly what I thynke therof, I muste truely confess the actione in yt self to be meerly evyll, hut all cyrcomstances ryghtly consydered, his Lp. (I doubt not) wyll see some' cause; to myttegatt his former displeasure commytted agaynst. her. But to speake shortly.- .-oi PREFACE. XVU the matter, thus yt then stoode ; I my self beynge then very desyrous to seeke her best affection, procured my La. my mother, to move the matter to my L. of Essex, which she dyd by lettre delyvered by my self ; and, that done, I had my L. Thre. letters to break the matter to my late L. of Huntyngdon, and to the gentlewoman's father, the better to effect my purpose. This done, my sayd L. of Huntingdon seeynge my earnest persecutione of the cause (fearyinge to be prevented) sent Mr. Sydney presently downe ; whoe (by his Lps. meanes) prevayled soe fare with owlde Mr. Dakyns, then lyvynge, as that he sent his daughter to London forthwith, unto my La. of Huntyngdone, and at her fyrst eomynge she was brought to her chamber, which she closly kept untyll she was maryed. Nowe what I coolde say farther is fytter for my L. to imagyne, then for me to relate, and therfore leavynge her close prysoner in her chamber, whyther none wer suffered to come, withowte especiall admyttance, I wyll retourne unto my sute, which I ame humbly to make to his Lp. which ys that his Ho. wyll fyrst rightly conceave of the state wherin she then stoode, and then, yf she seem not altogether excusable, yet that he wylbe pleased at my humble suyte to forgett all former oversightes, because I woolde be very loath to match with one that lyves in his Lps. dyslyke, and I shoulde be more loath by much to have her contenywe in his Lps. dysgraee after maryadge. And soe, leavynge my cause to your wyse mediatione and to my Ls. moste honourable dyspositione, I wyll take my leave this 3. of Feb. 1595. On the I4th of March we have an appeal to the widowed Countess of Huntingdon, who had been the prime mover in the last marriage, and an undated letter, received on the 4th of April, from Sir Robert Sidney, Thomas Sidney's only surviving brother, stating that he had "not fownd fit time to move my Lady of Huntington," but would do so at his " next coming from the Court." Another letter received on the same day from the Countess of Essex, the widow of Sir Philip Sidney, ran thus : — Sir, — I have receaved your letter, the contentes -wherof being honest and honor ably, doe so fullie free you, in my conceit, from all imputation of presumption, as that I would willinglie have testified both my approbation and furderance of the matter to your M'''" if I had not of late beene much importund to writte in the same argument by some that perswaded them selfes I hade small reasson (besides my will) to denie them (as they thought) so reasonable a request, and, if I would have bene an achtor in marege mattars, I would not have refust them my best fourdrans. Let thes excus my not sattesfieing your request, not but that I holde you worthe of har CAMD. SOC. C XVlll PREFACE. you desir, but that in honnor I cannot be for you sens I have promest an othar not to be aganst him. I comett you to the protection of the Higheyst, and Your loving frend, Fe. Essex. The next month a new phase of the affair presented itself. The new Earl of Huntingdon, looking over his brother's accounts, found, as he asserted, that he was himself the real owner of the Hack ness estate. A long letter, written on the 28th of May to Mrs. Sidney, by Edward Stanhope, whom we have heard of before as Hoby's supporter, informed her that she had a Chancery suit before her. The story of Mrs. Sidney's business difficulties need not detain us here, all that is necessary to be known being given in a note at the end of the Preface. But the conclusion of the letter is in every way too noticeable to allow of its omission : — Now, my good cosen, what course for you to take in the meane while to make yt [i.e. the chancery suit] sure, I cannot so well advise yon, as if I were voyd of sus picion that my advise tended not to serve some other's turne, which I protest I am free from intencion, and therfore will let you simply know what I thinke for your good ; which is that having thes great folks to stand against you-, (and you having none greater, that you may make account as sure to you, that may sway with my L. Keeper to cast the ballance being indifferent of your syde,) if you would so farr use your faithfull servant Sir Thomas as dyrect him by your appointment to trye his credytt with my L. Threr. for you, I know his Lp. may sway the matter wholly, and I am assured he so much affecteth his kinsman, as if he fynde that the mocion pro ceedeth from your self, and that Sir Thomas shall have kynde thanks of you for yt, he will stryke it sure for you. Herein use your owne diserecion, for if I were not assm-ed that the speciali favour I wish you to afford Sir Thomas for his long service and entyer affeccion should not fall out as much to your good and comfort hereafter, as his, and that I know his estate shall be so well supplyed by his honorable mother as that he shall be able (without that which you bring) to maintaine you according to his degree, I protest to you, by the faith of an honest man, I would not use thes speeches unto you, or seeke any way to draw you to your hinderance, and knowing the trust you repose in me, which I will never deceyve ; and therfore what I have ingaged my creditt unto you for, I doubt not but be able always to maintaine, and even so referring yon to your owne good wisdome and honorable government, which hitherto you have caryed PREFACE. XIX of yourself to your great creditt, I leave the report of the rest of the buysines to Mr. Mease, and so betake you to God. It is not necessary to believe that Lord Burghley and Sir Thomas Egerton would have lent themselves to such a scheme as this. But that their names should have been mentioned iu connection with it is certainly startling. But returning to a less important subject, it looks very much as if it was this letter that effected the marriage, and that the widow granted, to the fear of losing a suit in Chancery, what she had denied to her wooer's importunity. At all events Stanhope's letter is dated May 28, and on the 26th of June we have the following letter from Hoby to Lady Huntingdon, couched in terms which show that he considered himself in a fair way to obtain the object of his desires : — B[ight] H[onourable]. Fyudynge. by sundry reports howe greatly I ame bownde unto your Ho. for youre favorable coorse helde in my present sute unto my M", wherin your LaP hath pleased neyther to advyz her unto me, nor to geve her counsell agaynst me, but, with some favourable speaches not a lyttle tendynge to my good, your Ho. hath suffyciently publyshed the same to be a matter by you helde very indyffereut, and soe have ' her to her owne free choyce, I have at this tyme presumed to troble your Ho. -with thes rude lynes, that in them I myght both yeeld nnto your Ho. moste humble thankes for your soe greate and by me altogether undeserved favoure, and alsoe that I myght the better manyfest my dutyfull desyres to become moste servyceable for the same. And althogh I have hitherto been but a meer stranger,-and soe have wanted meanes to merrytt your Ho. favourable con ceyte, and much less to deserve the leaste furtheraunce in my present proceedinges ; yet shall your Ho. heerafter fynde me moste ready in all dutyfull endeavours to doe you all dutifuU servyce. Aud when I shall prove soe happy as to possess the happy nes I doe nowe seeke for (wherof my self-unworthynes myght make me dyspayre) I ¦wyll be fo-wnde as dutyfully servyceable, as if I wer a naturall branch of the stocke yt self, whereto I shall then be but grafted. But I wyll leave at thia tyme to be further troblesome unto your Ho. and wyll humbly submytt my servyce to your Ho. comma"'. This 26"' of June, 1596. The marriage was not long postponed. We have a letter of the 1 " leave her '' no doubt, in the original letter, of which the MS. is a copy. XX PREFACE. 4th of September from Burghley to the new Earl of Huntingdon, inquiring after "certeyne hanginges " to be found amongst "the things that were at Yorke of the late Erie of Huntyngdon 's," which his nephew, Sir T. Hoby, has informed him are the property " of his nowe wyfe, then Mrs. Sydney wydowe." And so this diplomatic courtship had its ending. The letters from which its details have been gathered have transported us for a moment amongst men whose habits and modes of proceeding are different from our own, and they may perhaps helpthe historian to realise that the characters with which he has to deal are not to be judged by the standard of the manners of the 19th century. The affair of the marriage of Sir John Villiers, for instance, has, before this, been told by writers who have ascribed to Bacon feel ings on the subject of the marriage-tie which it is certain that he never possessed, and the reader of the present volume will be all the more likely not to misinterpret Buckingham's letter to Bacon (No. LXXV.) about his brother's marriage, if he has first pondered the meaning of Hoby's correspondence. Of the marriage itself and of the future life of Hoby there is not much to say. His name occasionally occurs in the correspondence of the times, but not in any marked way. Sir Erskine Perry has printed 1 a letter from Lady Hoby to her husband, which is written in the spirit of an affectionate wife, upon which he comments in the following manner' : — Sir Thomas P. Hoby, however, it would appear, by no means deserves to stand on the high pedestal where his affectionate wife placed him. According to the tradi tions still existing at Hackness, he accelerated her end by kicking her down stairs ; and the late parish clerk, John Noble, used to relate that he and his father had often tried to efface the spots of his wife's blood in the old hall, but in vain. He ' Van den Bempde Papers, 17. PREFACE. XXl was as bad a neighbour as he was a husband, aud Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, who was owner of the adjoining lordship of Whitby, thns speaks of him in his memoirs : — He says, " That his father. Sir Eichard, 1608, was much annoyed by a troublesome and vexatious neighbour, one Sir Thomas Hobby, who, having married a widow, the inheritor of Hackness lordship, having a full purse and no children, delighted to spend his money and time in lawsuits." Sir Hugh in another part calls him, " My father's old enemy, Sir Thomas Hobby," and says, " That he was of such a nature, unless a man became his very slave, that there was not any keeping friendship, for he loved to carry all things after his own way and humour, how unjust or injm-ious soever ; and within a year, being at the sessions and differing in opinion with him, he thought to put an affront on me, by determining the matter after his omi mind ; but I, putting it to the opinion of the bench, had them all on my side, insomuch that he, turning about, said to the gentleman that sat next to him, ' His grandfather once crossed me thus on the bench, but I made him repent it, and so will I this man.' And truly, soon after he began a suit against me in the Star Chamber, and I against him in the Court of York ; but finding himself to have the worst end of the staff^ procuring the Lord Coventry, then Lord Keeper, to send for me to compose both ; but after the check I gave him in the Sessions, he never appeared there more, nor was so active or formidable in the country as formerly. The Sydenhams, now pos sessed of Hackness, may in some sort thank me for it, for Sir Thomas Hobby, to make the Lord Coventry his friend against me, proposed his cousin Sydenham in marriage to my Lord's grandchild, and so settled Hackness on him, which in right belonged to Mr. Dakins, next to Sir Thomas's lady, whose land that was." Sir Hugh Cholmondeley is -wrong in details, though probably right in substance, as to the negotiations between Hoby and the Lord Keeper, for Sir Thomas's nephew, John Sydenham, did actually marry, not the granddaughter, but the niece of the Lord Keeper, Anne Hart, and succeeded to the property at Sir Thomas's death in 1640. I am not concerned to defend the character of Sir T. Hoby, of which I know nothing, except that Burghley speaks of him as "of a tractable and kynde dyspositione." But it is only fair to say that a parish clerk's legend of the last resident landlord of an estate deserted from 1640 till 1792 must be received with caution, and that, as for the Cholmondeley s, their account was that of a family whose proceedings had probably much to do with enlisting Burgh ley's warmest sympathies on the side of his nephew. Let us see, for instance, how the two names corae out in a letter XXll PREFACE. written on the 27th of April, 1599, by a member of the Council of York to Sir Robert Cecil. After speaking of his intention to attack a house near Whitby, John Fern goes on to say : — " I must imploy as great strengthe of people as I can from Yorke, for Sir Tho. Hobby being now at London I do not knowe of any faithfull assistance in the cuntry ; in which respect, for that the people are wholy defected from religion XX myles along the coste, and doe resist all warrants and ofScers that come amongeat them, I doe reaolve (althoughe it hath seldome bene so used) to be the same tyme within 4 myles of the howse, to prevent any rescues to be mayd by the cuntrye (following Mr. Henry Cholmeley) whose tenant Hodgesonne is, for in January last one Aslaby, another of Mr. Cholmley's tenants, did rescue a person, a recusant, from the pursevant to the High Commission, and uppon the 23. of this present the like waa done by 40 persons all weaponed against 2 men, that had bothe warrant from this counsell and the High Comession to apprehend some recusants ; affirming that yf there came never so many with whatsoever authority, they shold be slayne befor any towarda Mr. Cholmley ahold be caryed away (and yet Cholmeley is a justice of peace, by what means I know not) and threatned revenge against Sir Thos. Hobby." Two families thus severed from one another so completely on religious and political grounds are not likely to have comported themselves peaceably as neighbours, or to have appreciated one another fairly in their descriptions of character. ORDERS AND DECREES. CHANCERY. [See note ', p. vi.] 1597 A, fol. 88. ix die Junii [1597]. Forasmuch as upon the hearinge and long debatinge ^, T, i.r. -IT X.T. °^ "^^ matter this daye in the presence of the Councell Tho"": Posthumus Hobby i„„^„„j „„ „ii . / ,. ,, Knight, and the Lady Mar- learned on all parts touchmge the manner and parson- garett his wyef , plaintifes ; a,ge of Hackneys in the countye of York, which the pi. Geo. Earle of Huntingdon clayme to belonge in equity to the sayd Lady Hobby fSfd"^^"^ ^'"^*'' '^^' ^'"'^ ^^"^ ^eye^' ^'I'i ^^i<='i tlie sayd Earle of Hunting don supposed to apperteyne to him in equytye in respect of such money as the late Earl of Hunting don, whoae brother and heyre the nowe Earle ys, did laye owt for or in respect ' J. Feme to Sir E. Cecil. April 27, 1599. S. P. Dom. Eliz. cclxx. 99. PREFACE. xxiii of a marryage to be had betweene Walter Devorux, brother to the Eight Honor able the nowe Earle of Essex, and the said Dame Margarett, beinge dawghter and heyre of one Arthm-e Dakyns Esquyer, which marryage was effected by the meanes of the sayd Earle of Essex, and the late Earle of Huntingdon. The aayd mannor and parsonage waa purchased of Sir Henry Constable, Knight, for the some of 650011., whereof 300011. should have ben payd by the aaid Earle of Essex, other 300011. by the aayd Dakyns, and the other 5 c li. by the late Earle of Huntingdon, aud that yf the said Dakyns had payd the sayd 3000 li. accordingly, then the premysses had gone, as this court conceaveth, to the behoof of the said Walter Devorux and of the said Dame Margarett and of theyr heyres. But because the sayd Dakyns would then undertake to pay but 2000 li., which he payd accordingly toward the sayd purchase, and c li. more as the pi. alleadge, the said Earle of Essex imdertoke to pay the other 4000 li., and thereupon the said mannq;- and parsonage were assured to Eichard Broughton and Thomas Crompton Esquyers, who became aewertyea for payment of that 4000 li. for theyr endempnytye in that behalf. After which tyme the aaid Mr. Devorux dyed without yssue, and then the said late Earle of Huntingdon procured the said Dame Margarett to be secondly marryed to his ¦vvyef 's nephewe, Tho. Sydney, whose preferment the aame Earle sought, and at the specyall request of the aame Earle made on that behaulf to the sayd Earle of Essex, wherein the said late Earle perswaded the said Earle of Easex that yt ahould be an honourable parte in him, aynce the aayd Dakyna had payd 2000 li. towarda the purchase of the sayd lands, to yeeld that the sayd land should goe to the Dame Margarett, beinge the sayd Dakyns' dawghter. He, the same Earle of Essex, very honorably was content that the sayd Browghton and Mr. Crompton should make over all the premysses to Sir John Harrington, Knight, and Edward Mountagewe Esq., beinge put in truate by the seyd late Earle of Huntingdon therewith, to the entent that they, beinge satisfyed all such money as they should pay in respect thereof, should convey the same over to such person or persona aa the said late Earle of Huntingdon should appoynt, who meant the same to the behoof of the said Thomas Sydney whom he desyred to prefer, and of the said Dame Margarett, as in her right, as two wytneases doe depose, and to the use of them two and of theyr heyres aa a third -wytnesse doth of his owne knowledge alsoe depose ; and in respect that the saide premysses weere soe conveyed to the aaid Sir John Harrington and Edw. Mounta gewe at the said late Earle of Huntingdon's request made to the said Earle of Essex, as aforeaaid, the said late Earl of Huntingdon or the said Sir John Harrington and Edw. Mountagewe Esqr. were to satisfye unto the sayd Earle of Essex all such money as he had layd owt about the premysseg[ being 4080 li., and did also as yt seemeth by one deposycion cawse a tytle of a joyncture which the same Dame Margarett was to have had from the sayd Walter Devorux her fyrst husband to be yeelded up. After which tyme the sayd Tho. Sydney also dyed without yssue, and in respect the sayd Smyth, when the said Sir John Harrington and Edw. Mounta gewe were unwillinge to deale any further abowtr the premisses, did, at the request of the said late Earle of Huntingdon, ingage himself for the same Earle for such great xxiv PREFACE. sumes of money which the sayd Earle waa to pay for the premyases, the said Sir John Harrington and Edw. Mountagewe, by the appoyntment of the same late Earle, conveyed all the premyases to the sayd Smyth, that, by meanes of such money as he hath layd owt about the aame which hath ben hitherunto kept from him to his great hinderance, greatly weakened his estate, and yet nevertheles snbmytteth him self to convey the premysses as thia Court shall thinke meete and appoynt, so as he may be fyrst satisfyed all snch money as he hath disbursed for or in respect of the premysses, and all such damages as this Courte shall thinke meete to he allowed unto him, for or in respect that the aame money hath, contrary to his will, ben deteyned from him ; so as then the questyon chyefly rested whether the premysses should be conveyed to the same Dame Margarett, or the said nowe Earle of Huntingdon. But forasmuch as yt appereth that the father of the same Dame Margarett payd 2000 li. at the least towards the purchase of the premyases for her good, and that, yf he had payd his full parte fyrst agreed upon, viz. 3000 li., then the premysses should, without questyon, have come unto her and her heyres, the sayd Tho. Sydney beenge deade without yssue ; and because also 700 li. was paid by the said Mr. Sydney towards the sayd purchase, and 2260 li. hath ben raysed of fynes also of leases made of parte of the premysaea towards the same purchase, whereof 2000 li. at the leaat was payd by the said Thomas Sydney towards that purchase, and the rest aa yt ia alleadged 160 or thereabouts rests in the tenants' hands unpaid ; and further also the said Dame Margarett hath noe joynture or preferment left to her by eyther of her two honourable marriages, savinge a howse and a amale quantyty of land waa (aa the said Sir Thomaa Posthumus Hobby now deposed in open court) sould by him and the said Dame Margaret alao -bond fide to the beat advantage, and yet they conld have but 51011. for the aame, which hath ben payd also for the debts of the saide Mr. Sydney ; and hecawse yt atandes proved as aforesaide, that upon her said second marryage the premyaaes were meant to her behoof and to her and her heyres, as one deposeth ; and because noe proof ys made that the same premysses were ever meant to the use of the sayd late Earle of Huntingdon, other wyse then for securytye of such money as he or anye for him disbursed for or in respect of the same premysaea ; thia Cowrt therefore, and upon consyderacion had of the other circum stances of the cawse, ya rather enclyned, that the premysses ought to be assured to the said Dame Margarett and her heyres, then the aaid nowe Earle of Huntingdon, the same Earle beinge fyrst satisfyed whatsoever the late Earle hath disbm-sed or payd for interest or otherwyse for or in respect of the purchase of the premysses, and the same Smyth beinge also fyrst and speedely satisfyed as aforesaide ; It is therfore ordered that Mr. X' Lewy and Mr. X'' Hone, two of the Masters of this Cowrt, shall with all convenyent speede examyne and fynde owt by all good meanes what and how much money the said late Earle of Huntingdon hath disbursed or ben prej udyced for interest or otherwyse, bond fide for or towarde the purchase of the premysses, which hath not hen synce repayd or satisfyed unto him or unto the now Earle, by receypt of any rents or profytts of the premysses, or by any other wayes and meanea, or sufficiently proved betweene them to be freely gyven by the said late Earle to the PREFACE. XXV said Mr. Sydney towards the said purchase, wherein they are to have specyall regard by all good meanes to fynde owt whether the aayd late Earle payd the whole 500 li., or not, which originally waa appoynted to be payed by him to the said Sir Henry Constable towards the said purchase, for that the said Sir Henry ys nowe sure, aa the said Sir Hemy deposeth, for 20011. of the same 50011., which the said late Earle was appoynted by the aaid Sir Henry to pay to two of his credytors, and the sayd Smyth is to be examyned upon interrogatoryes to be forthwith mynestred unto him on the pi. parte to fynde owt what and how much money he hath payd or dysbursed in interest or otherwyse for or towards the purchase of the said mannor and parson age or eyther of them, and what and how much thereof he hath ben repayd or satisfyed by any mannor of meanes. And then the pi. shalbe bo-wnden by the examynacion to allowe that his, the sayde Smyth's, chardge, beayde his damages for forbearinge of his money, amounteth to soe much aa he ahall soe depose, and the sayd Smyth ya alao further requyred to sett downe in -wrytinge upon his othe also, in as particuler a sorte as he may convenyently, what damages he hath susteyned for want of his money which he hath disbursed as aforesaid, and by whose meanea he hath susteyned the same, and then the Lo. Keeper wilbe pleased, together with the said Masters of this Court, to consyder thereof, and to allowe unto him such reason able and competent damages aa shalbe thought meete ; and the foresaid Masters of this Cowrte are also appoynted to examyne and fynde owt whether the said Dakyns payd any more then the foresaid 200011. or not towards the said purchase and thereof, and of all other the recon[i]ngs to them two only before referred to make report to this Co-wrt, together with theyr opynion towchinge the same, for further order to he taken thereupon accordingly. Aud yt is lastly ordered that all the fynes and arrerages of rents, which rest dewe in any of the tennants' hands of any of the premysses, shalbe speedely payd by the same tenants to the said Smyth towards the satisfaction of that which shalbe fownd dewe unto him, and then, upon such payraent of the said fynes and rents, all the leases for which the same fynes shalbe aoe payd shalbe forthwith delyvered to the tenanta which paid the same, and aoe lykewyse shall all the bonds soe delyvered up, which were made for or towchyng the payment of the said fynes, and those bonds also which one Wm. Carrington heretofore toke of any of the same tenants for or towching the delyvery of theyre leasses shall lykewyse upon payment of the fynes and arerages forthwith [be] delyvered unto them. CAMD. SOC. d CONTENTS. PAGE I.— James I. to Henry IV. King of France, Sept. ? 1607 1 II.— James I. to Henry IV. King of France, May |4 ? 1609 3 III.— Sir Robert Dudley to [Sir David Foulis], May 8, 1614 6 IV. — Sir George ViUiers to Lord Howard de Walden, ¦ Feb. 4, 1616 12 V.i-James I. to Frederick V. Elector Palatine, June I6I6 13 VI. — James I. to Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, June 1616 14 VII.— Mr. Toby Matthew to Sir George Villiers, July 16, 1616 15 VIII. — Sir Henry Docwra to Viscount Villiers, Nov. 9, 1616 18 IX. — Sir John Digby to the Earl of Buckingham, June 4, 1617 20 X. — Lord Arundel of Wardour to the Earl of Buck ingham, Sept. 3. 1617 21 XI. — Sir Thomas Wentworth to the Earl of Bucking ham, Sept. 15, 1617 23 XII. — Sir Thomas Savile to the Earl of Buckingham, Sept. 1617 27 XIII. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Earl of Buckingham, Oct. 25, 1617 28 XIV. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Earl of Buckingham, Nov. 24, 1617 30 CONTENTS. XXVU PAGE XV. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Earl of Buckingham, Nov. 21, 1617 33 XVI. — Lord Keeper Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Suffolk to James I. Nov. 24, 1617 ... 34 XVII — Sir Thomas Lake to [the Earl of Buckingham], Nov. 27, 1617 35 XVIII. — Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, to James I. Jan. 3, 1618 37 XIX. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan. 12, 1618 38 XX. — Sir Lionel Cranfield to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Jan. 14, 1618 41 XXI. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan. 21, 1618 42 XXII. — Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan. 24, 1618 43 XXIII. — EUzabeth, Electress Palatine, to James I. Feb. 10, 1618 45 XXIV. — Sir Humphrey May to the Marquis of Bucking ham, March ? 1618 45 XXV. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Humphrey May 47 XXVI. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Robert Naun ton, June 16, 1618 48 XXVII.— The Marquis of Buckingham to the Count of Gondomar, June 18, 1618 .... 49 XXVIII.— The Earl of Suffolk to the Marquis of Bucking ham, July 31, 1618 50 XXIX. — Lord ShefSeld to the Marquis of Buckingham, Aug. I, 1618 52 XXX. — Lord Sheffield to the Marquis of Buckingham, Aug. 4, 1618 53 XXXI.— The Earl of Suffolk to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Sept. 13, 1618 54 CONTENTS. XXXIL- XXXIIL- ¦" XXXIV.- XXXV.- XXXVL- XXX VII.- XXXVIII - XXXIX.- XL.- XLL- XLIL- XLIIL- XLIV.- XLV- XLVL- XLVIL- XLVIIL- XLIX.- -The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Robert Naun ton, Oct. 10, 1618 -Sir H. Carey to the Marquis of Buckingham, Oct. 14, 1618 -James I. to the Commissioners for the exami nation of Sir Walter Ealeigh, Oct. 20, 1618 -Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham Nov. 1618 -Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham, Nov. 14, 1618 -Sir Lionel Cranfield to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 17, 1618 .... -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 21, 1618 .... -Sir Oliver St. John to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 24, 1618 .... -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 27, 1618 -The Marquis of Buckingham to Lady Carr, Dec, 10, 1618 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. 11, 1618 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckings ham, Dec. 13, 1618 .... -The Earl of Suffolk to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. ? 1618 -The Earl of Suffolk to James I. Jan. ? 1619 -The Marquis of Buckingham to the Earl of Suffolk, Jan. 11, 1619 -The Earl of Suffolk to James I. Jan. 1619 . -Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham Jan. 11, 1619 .... -Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan 23, 1619 ... PAGE 55 56 57 59 60 61 636667 70 71737576 7779 8081 CONTENTS. XXIX PAGE L. — Sir Edward Coke to the Marquis of Buckingham, April 7, 1619 82 LI. — [The Marquis of Buckingham] to Viscount Don caster, July ? 1619 83 LII. — Statement by Sir Sebastian Harvey of his treat ment of Christopher ViUiers' suit for. his daughter's hand, Oct. 2 ? 1619 .... 84 LIII. — Sir Sebastian Harvey to Mr. Eobert Heath, Oct. ? 1619 86 LIV. — Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Oct. 9, 1619 88 LV. — Sir Fulk Greville to the Marquis of Buckingham, Oct. 12, 1619 90 LVL— Sir George Calvert to Mr. John Packer, Oct. 17, 1619 91 LVII. — Julian Sanchez de Ulloa to the Marquis of Buck- ingham, ^, 1619 92 LVIII. — Julian Sanchez de Ulloa to the Marquis of Buck ingham, Nov. T^, 1619 93 LIX. — Sir Eobert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 11, 1619 94 LX. — Sir Eobert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 27, 1619 -95 LXI. — Sir George Goring to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 28, 1619 97 LXII. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Nov. 29, 1619 98 LXIII. — Theophilus Field, Bishop of Llandaff, to the Marquis of Buckingham, Nov. ? 1619 . . 100 LXIV. — Lady Howard de Walden»to the Marquis of Buck ingham, Nov. ? 1619 101 LXV. — Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. I, 1619 102 LXVI. — Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. 2, 1619 105 xxx CONTENTS. LXVIL- LXVIIL- LXIX.. LXX.- LXXL- LXXIL- LXXIIL- LXXIV.- LXXV.- LXXVL- LXXVIL- LXXVIIL- LXXIX.- LXXX.- LXXXL- LXXXIL- LXXXIIL- LXXXIV.- PAGE -Sh- Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. 6, 1619 106 -Mr. Patrick Young to Mr. John Packer, Dec. 7, 1619 108 -Signor Gabaleon to the Marquis of Buckingham, Dec. ifi, 1619 109 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Dec. 11, 1619 Ill -The Earl of Nottingham to the Marquis of Buck ingham, Dec. 23, 1619 112 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Jan. 13, 1620 114 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Jan. 20, 1620 115 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Jan. 23, 1620 117 -The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Chancellor Verulam, Jan. ? 1620 118 -Sir Eobert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Feb. 3, 1620 119 -Signor Gabaleon to the Marquis of Buckingham, Feb. T^, 1620 120 -Mr. Anthony Warton to Mr. John Packer, Feb. 24,1620 121 -Frederick, King of Bohemia, to Mr. Packer, AprU -fy, 1620 123 -The Bishop of Carlisle to the Marquis of Buck ingham, AprU 27, 1620 124 -Sir Eobert Naunton to James I. May 8, 1620 . 126 -Dr. John Bowie to the Marquis of Buckingham, May 18, 1620 128 -Frederick, King of Bohemia, to Mr. Packer, July ,6^,1620 129 -Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, July 21, 1620 129 CONTENTS. XXXI PAGE LXXXV. — J. H. Marye to the Marquis of Buckingham, Aug. 5, 1620 132 LXXXVI. — Sir OUver St. John to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Aug. 17, 1620 133 LXXXVII. — Sir Lionel Cranfield to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Aug. 22, 1620 135 LXXXVIII. — Sir Dudley Carleton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Sept. 1, 1620 136 LXXXIX. — EUzabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to the Marquis of Buckingham, Sept. if, 1620 .... 138 XC— The Marquis of Buckingham to the Earl of Suf folk, Sept. 21, 1620 138 XCI. — Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Oct. 26, 1620 139 XCIL— The Earl of Hertford to James I. Nov. 2, 1620 . 140 XCIII. — Adolph Steingen to the Marquis of Buckingham, Nov. 18, 1620 141 XCIV. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, Nov. 28, 1620 143 XCV. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, Dec. 4, 1620 144 XCVI. to the Marquis of Buckingham, Dec. ? 1620 145 XCVIL— The Marquis of Buckmgham to EUzabeth, Titular Queen of Bohemia, Dec. ? 1620 . . .147 XCVIII. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Chancellor Verulam, 1620 ? 148 XCIX. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Chancellor Verulam, Dec. ? 1620 149 "^ C. — Sir George Calvert to th© Marquis of Bucking ham, Feb. 1621 150 CL— Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Bucking ham, March 13, 1621 151 CIL — Sir Edward Herbert to the Marquis of Bucking ham, March 26, 1621 152 xxxu CONTENTS. PAGE CIII.— Sh Walter Aston to the Marquis of Buckingham, June 13, 1621 152 CIV. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, July 6, 1621 154 C V. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, July 19, 1621 154 CVI. — Attorney- General Sir Thomas Coventry to the Marquis of Buckingham, July 23, I62I . . 155 CVII. — Petition to the Marquis of Buckingham, July? 1621 157 CVIII. — Dr. John Donne to the Marquis of Buckingham, Aug. 8, 1621 157 CIX. — Lord Keeper WiUiams to Mr. John Packer, Aug. 11, 1621 158 ex. — Lord Keeper Williams to Mr. John Packer, Sept. 1, 1621 159 CXI. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir George Calvert, Sept. 1621 160 CXII. — Lord Keeper WiUiams to Mr. John Packer, Oct. 17, 1621 161 CXIII. — Lord Keeper Williams to Mr. John Packer, Oct. 22, 1621 163 CXIV. — The Archbishop of Canterbury to James I. Nov. 13, 1621 164 CXV. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to the Marquis of Buckingham, Nov. 13, 1621. . . .166 CXVI. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Nov. 13, 1621 167 CXVII. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Nov. 16, 1621 168 CXVIII. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Nov. 22, 1621 170 CXIX. — Sir Robert Heath to the Marquis of Buckingham, Dec. 3, 1621 171 CONTENTS. CXX. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir George Calvert Dec. 1621 CXXI. — The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Henry Wotton Jan. 2, 1622 CXXII. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan. 17, 1622 CXXIII. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, Jan, 17, 1622 CXXIV. —Lord Chief Justice Ley to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Jan. 29, 1622 CXXV. — Lord Falkland to the Marquis of Buckingham Feb. 1, 1622 CXXVL — Sir John Suckling to the Marquis of Buckingham Feb. 8, 1622 CXXVII. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Feb. 25, 1622 . CXXVIII.— The Earl of Nottingham to the Marquis of Buckingham, March 28, 1622 . CXXIX.— The Bishop of Chester to Mr. John Packer July 31, 1622 CXXX.— Mr. WUUam Fenner to Mr. John Packer, Aug. 20 1622 CXXXI. — Sir Francis Annesley to the Marquis of Bucking ham, Sept. 20, 1622 CXXXIL— The Earl of Kelly to the Marquis of Buckmgham, Oct. 16, 1622 CXXXIII. — Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, Oct. 21, 1622 CXXXIV. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Oct. 28, 1622 .* . CXXXV.— James L to Sir George Calvert, Nov. 1622 CXXXVI — The English Commissioners for the East India business to James I. Nov. 19, 1622 . CXXXVII. — Lord Say and Seie to the Marquis of Buckingham, Feb. 13, 1623 CAMD. SOC. « 172 172173 174175176 177 178 179 180 182 183 185 186 187 187188 191 XXXIV CONTENTS. PAGE CXXXVIIL— The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Say and Seie, Feb. 13, 1623 192 CXXXIX. — Sir Robert Naunton to the Duke of Buckingham, Oct. 6, 1623 .192 CXL. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Jan. 14, 1624 193 CXLI — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to James I. Jan, 15, 1624 194 CXLII. — Lord Kensington to the Duke of Buckingham, Jan. 22, 1624 195 CXLIIL— Sir Richard Knightley to the Duke of Bucking ham, May 1624 196 CXLIV.— EUzabeth, Titular Queen of Bohemia, to the Duke of Buckingham . . . . . .197 CXLV.— The Duke of Buckingham to Louis XIII. Aug. 16, 1624 197 CXLVL— Capt. John Chudleigh to the Duke of Bucking ham, Oct. 13, 1624 199 CXL VII. — Sir Thomas Chamberlain to the Duke of Bucking ham, Oct. 17, 1624 200 CXLVIII.— The Earl of Oxford to the Duke of Buckingham, Oct. 18, 1624 201 CXLIX. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Oct. 19, 1624 202 CL. — Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Nov. 20, 1624 203 CLI. — Sir Thomas Eoe to the Duke of Buckingham, Dec. 9, 1624 204 CLII. — Christian Duke of Brunswick to the Duke of Buckingham, Feb. i§, 1625 .... 207 CLIII.— -The Marquis of Effiat to the Duke of Buckingham, Feb. 11, 1625 208 CLIV. — The Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer, Feb. 1625 209 CONTENTS. XXXV CLV.— The Marquis of Effiat to the Duke of Buckingham March |J, 1625 CLVI. — Sir Thomas Dutton to the Duke of Buckingham March 22, 1625 CLVIL— The Earl of CarUsle to the Duke of Buckingham, 1625 CLVIII. — EUzabeth, Titular Queen of Bohemia, to the Duke Buckingham, April ¦^, 1625 . CLIX — Count Mansfeld to the Duke of Buckingham, May, 1625 CLX — Elizabeth, Ex-Queen of Bohemia, to the Duke of Buckhigham, ^J, 1625 . . . . 210 212213 214 215216 CLXL— Charles L to [Prince Eupert] September 3, 1644 217 EEKATA. Page 21. Heading of No. X./or Arundell read Arundel. Page 53. Signature, /or Sheffild read Sheffield. Page 58. Note 6, two lines from bottom, /or vol. iii. read vol. v. Page 192. Heading of No CXXXVIIL, /or XCVL read CXXXVII. Page 214. Heading, /or CLXIII. read CLVIII. Page 215, Heading, for CLXIV. read CLIX. FORTESCUE PAPEES. No. 1. James I. to Henry IV. King or France. [Draft.] Mon Frere. Nous avons receu voz lettres^ du vingt cinquiesme 1607. jour d'Aoust dernier touchant un de noz subjects nomme Forbis, ^^ ' ' qui passa par vostre Cour ; pour qui nous trouvons par vos lettres que vous avez use de plus grande caution et jugement en le recom- mendant, que luy d'honestete et sincerite envers vous, en vous in formant de son affaire. Ce que pour vous faire plus clairement comprendre, vous entendrez que il y a environ deux ans que quelques ministrfes de nostre Royaume d'Escosse d'un esprit turbulent et repugnant a la discipline et forme de gouvernement establie au dit Royaulme pour les affaires ecclesiastiques, entreprirent (sans qu'ilz en eussent authority ou pouvoir de par nous,) de tenir une assem- blee generale ^ pour les affaires de I'Eglise. Et nonobstant qu'ilz fussent admonestez par quelques uns, ayans a ce commission de nous, de I'erreur qu'ils commirent en cest endroict, et leur fust defendu d'y proceder plus avant, ils continuerent toutesfois leur assemblee, soustenans que de leur propre authority -ilz le pouvoient faire sans ' Neither this letter, nor any reply from Hem-y are amongst the Xettrea Missives de Henri IV. 2 At Aberdeen, July 2, 1605 (Calderwood, vi. 279), when John Forbes waa chosen Moderator, for which' he was, with five other members, banished in November 1606. (Calderwood, vi. 590.) CAMD. SOC. B 2 rORTESCUE PAPEES. -[607. nostre conge et licence. Pour laquelle presomption ils furent con- Sept. ? venus par devant nostre Conseil, et leur fut remonstree la grandeur de leur forfaict, et qu'en cest affaire ilz avoient empiet^ sur nostre authority regale, et par les lolx du Royaume ilz estoient tombez en crime de Lese Majesty. Neantmoins ilz s'obstinerent d maintenir le diet acte, declinerent nostre authorite, et ne laisserent pas de prononcer en pleine assemble, que en causes de I'Eglise nous n'estions pas leurs juges, mais que leur authorite dependoit d'eux- mesmes. Et combien que nostre pardon et faveur fust offerte, moyennant qu' ilz voulussent retractor leur erreur, ilz le refuserent obstineement. Sur quoy fut donnd sentence centre eux par nostre dit Conseil, par laquelle ils furent jugez selon les loix d'iceluy nostre Royaume coulpables de Lese Majesty. Du quel crime combien qu'il soit cogneu k tous quelle est la punition, si est ce que de nostre clemence nous leur donnasmes la vie, et ne fismes que les bannir seulement hors du pais, afin d'eviter par la la contagion que leur example pouvoit espandre parmy d'autres. Or ce Jehan Forbis qui vous a surpris d'escrire en sa faveur n'estoit pas seulement un de ceste compagnie, ains chef et premier d'icelle. Lequel aussy du depuis a si peu merits de faveur de par nous que tout au contraire il a fort aggravd son offence, premierement en ce qu'il vous a cel^ (pour le moins a ce que nous divinons de voz lettres) qu'il estoit ministre, ains se disant Gentilhomme ; puis en rinformation de sa cause, ne vous ayant dit pas une parole vraye des particuliers d'icelle : tiercement, qu'estant condamne et consequemment fors de nostre faveur et de la protection de nos loix, il a voulu prende telle hardiesse que de nous addresser sans nostre licence preallablement obtenue, aucunes lettres. Finalement au stile de ses lettres h nous mesmes tant s'en faut qu'il recognoisse sa faute, ou qu'il face signe quelconque de penitence, qu'il ne laisse pas de prendre a partie nostre Conseil pour la sentence donnee encontre luy et ses com- pagnons, allegant impudemment a nous mesmes qu'il ne doubte point que ne soions maintenant bien persuadez en nostre entendement de tort a eux faict, et satisfaict touchant ce poinct. Lesquelles FORTESCUE PAPSIRS. 3 siennes lettres nous furent baillees a mesme instant et par la mesmc i607. main que nous rendist les vostres, scavoir est, par son frere. Pour ®®P'' •'' la quelle presomption estant de naissance nostre subject, n'eust este la protection qu'il a de vostre service, nous ne I'eussions pas laisse eschapper impuny. Mais pour amour de vous ayant a cest' heure deduict tout le faict de ce Jehan Forbis, il ne sera poinct de besoing de vous alleguer aucune raison pourquoy nous n'accordons pas ce que vos desirez, d'autant que nous nous asseurons que la narration mesme du eas vous aura satisfaict, qu'il n'est pas seulement indigne d'aucune faveur de nous, ains qu'il merite vostre mauvaise grace pour avoir ainsy abuse de vous. Car, quant a vous, vous vous asseurerez qu'il n'y a chose fondee aulcunement en raison la quelle vous vouldriez desirer, que nous ne vous accorderions aussi volontiers et d'aussi bon cceur que scauriez esperer de celuy qui est. Et pour ce qui est de nostre disposition envers nos subjects faillant en ceste sorte la, nous avons fait preuve suffisante qu'a telz d'entr'eux qui en out est^ penitents nous n'avons jamais denie mercy et grace, dont un de ceux qui furent bannis quant ce Forbis a bien en experience, le quel ne s'est pas plustot repenty de sa folie, qu'il n'a este receu en nostre bonne grace. Indorsed .•— Fr. Vere. Full. Cast. Wilbr. Myne. Delv. Hadd. Ch. Prog. Adm. Buchl. Min. Ful. No. II. James I. to Henrt IV. King or France. [Draft.] Tres hault, &c. Comme I'injuste proce(|ure du Pape envers moy ne vous est pas incogneu, en deschargeant par ses brevets et ' The date is given in the King of France's answer of June J^ {Lettres Missives de Henri IV. vii. 731), as May 15, most probably 0. S., as it would be iu the letter itself. The notices in La Boderie's despatches, on the whole, favour this conclusion. On •^^P"^"' he writes (Ambaasades, iv. 315) that he had sent a copy of the book, b2 1609. May^? 4 fortescue PAPEES. 1609. defendant a aulcuns de mes subjects qui estoyent Catholiques Ro- **ay 53 ? mains de faire le serment de fideliti^ envers moy qui fust ordonn^ en mes Estats sur I'occasion de la trahison de pouldre, environ de trois ans et demy passez, aussy ne me puis je souvenir de cest affaire que je n'aye occasion de vous tesmoigner combien je me sens redev- able h vostre affection en ce point la. Car premierement, incon tinent aprez que ces dits breves du Pape furent publiez, vostre Ambassadeur alors Resident a Rome remonstra au Pape I'inconve- nient qui ne pouvoit faillir d'ensuivre par la publication d'icelles. Dont, comme il vous pleust m'en advertir par aprez par vostre Ambassadeur icy resident, le Pape en sa responce fist semblant d'estre marry de ceste si precipit^e procedure, en remettant la ooulpe sur I'importunite de ceulx de I'lnquisition qui Ty avoyent press^ quasi centre son gre. Mais depuis ce temps, men Apelogie ayant este publico pour la juste defence du dit serment, estant assez bien recogneu peur mien (encores que mon nom ny esteit pas mis) deux llbelles diffamatoires I'un en Latyn I'aultre en Angloys ent depuis sorty de la boutique Remaine, lesquels esteyent non seulement rem- plys de mille injures centre men dit livvre, mais aussi n'esparg- neyent point ma propre personne. Sur laquelle occasion vestre Ambassadeur aprez resident a Reme en paria derechef au Pape, qui a ceste feis aussi fist semblant en estre marry, dont il vous pleust m'advertir par vostre resident icy, qui par vestre commandement the second edition of the Apologia pro Jiiramento fidelitatis, but tliat it " auasitot qu'il eut vu le jour fut renferme," in order to receive fm-ther corrections. On May J, (Amb. iv. 323) he says that it had not yet been sent back to the printer, ¦vyhich makes it unlikely that the letter to the King of France should have been written on the following day, which it must have been if the I5th N. S. is meant by Henry in his answer. On the ^ La Boderie writea that the book waa just ready to appear, and would be presented to the Princes to whom it was addressed by the English ambasaadors at their courts. Some days before he had had a conversation with Salisbury, who had inquired whether the King of France would receive the copy and read it. To this the Frenchman had replied that his maater would doubtless receive it, but that he would not answer for his reading it. The letter above was no doubt written shortly after thia interview. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 5 ¦m'asseura que le Pape esteit content de premestre que doresnavant 1609. il ne se mesleroit ^ plus de men gouvernement en mes dominions ny ^^^ ^ ' publieroit plus aulcuns tels briefs au prejudice de mon estat, et de 1' obedience que mes subjects sent tenus me porter. Mais le coup estoit premierement faict, et la playe donnee, devant qu'on ouyst parler de cest emplastre. Vestre diet Ambassadeur m'a aussi declare vostre advis et ben ceuseil qu'il ne m'estoit nullement honorable de faire responce a ces calumniateurs, et comme j'ay grand occasion de vous remercier tres affectueusement, comme a present je fais, de vostre aimable procedure envers moy en toutte cest affaire, aussy veus puis je asseurer qu'il n'entra jamais en mon entendement de me peyner de faire responce a ces gents la ; seulement ay je prins a ceste heure occasion de publier de neuveau ma dicte apologie, en y mettant men nom pour menstrer que je n'ay point de honte de I'advouer au monde, y adjoustant aussi un aultre traict^ en forme de preface, par lequel je dedie men diet livre k touts les Reys et Princes Chrestiens entre lesquels (puis que vous estes non seulement le Roy tres Chrestien, mais aussy avez tousjours main- tenu comme touts ves Predecessours d'heureuse memeire la liberte de I'Eglise Gallicane a I'henneur immertel de vostre ceuronne, et consyderant aussi I'estroicte amitie et alliance qui est entre nos deulx perseunes et couronnes) je ne puis si dignement faire present a aulcun de men dit livvre qu'a vous, cemme je le vous enveye quant a^ la presente, vous priant diligemment et meurement de consyderer sur un si grand point qui concerne I'estat et la liberty de touts les Princes Chrestiens ; et cemme ves Predecesseurs ent tousjours maintenu la Pragmatique Sanction qui fust premierement institute et estably par un d'iceulx si Catholique qu'il en eust le tiltre de Ledovicus Pius ; aussy ne puis je doubter que Dieu vous fera la grace de maintenir (avecq pareille censtance et courage que vous avez acquis la possession, et encores jouissez de vestre roy aulme,) le cemmun interest de la liberty et security de touts Reys ¦ Mosleroit. MS. ^ "et." MS. 6 FORTESCUE PAPERS; 1609. et Princes Chrestiens centre les ambitieuses usurpations de I'Eglise ^^yM-' Remaine qui n'a jamais faillye dez long temps passe d'attempter et s'empieter sur la liberty des Roys et Royaulmes Chrestiens, quand oncques ils pouveyent trouver la convenience de I'eccasien. M'as- seurant dencques que ce mien livvre veus sera agreable, et que vous prendrez la peyne de le lire a vestre ben loisir peur ramour de moy. Je &C.-' No. IIL Sir Robert Dudley to [Sir David Foulis]. [Copy.] 1614. My very honorable and woerthye. frende. I receaved your May 8. answer ^ tuiching his Majesty's aprehension of the forcible vesseU ' Henry's reply to thia letter, dated June ^, is printed in the Lettres Missives de Henri IV. vii. 731. " Je suia marry '' writes the King, after announcing his recep tion of the book, " qu'il ayt fallu que vous ayes pria ceste peine, car je n'ay pas opinion que vous en retiries la consolation et les advantages qne vous en esperes. Veritablement les actions des Roys sont subjectes a detraction comme les aultres, et quelques fois plus que celles des moindres, d'autant qu'elles importent et attouchent a plus de gens, et servent sonvent de regie comme d'exemple a leurs subjects: c'est pourquoy elles ne peuvent estre trop justes ny trop eclaircies et justifiees entre les hommes. Neantmoins comme I'envie et la calomnie out, en ce siecle deprave, plus de vogue aouvent et d'authenticite que la verite mesme, il est perilleux de soubs- mettre au jugement public ce dont Ton n'est responsahle qu'a Dieu seul et a sa conscience ; et une trop curiense justification aussy engendre souvent des effects contraires a nostre expectation. Mais celuy qui en tel eas s'est contente aoy mesme a obtenu la meilleure partie de son desir. Je veux croire qu'il vous en eat ainsy advenu, de faijon que je ne vous en diray davantage ; mais vous prieray tousjours d'attendre dela continuation de mon amitie fratemelle tons vraya et ainceres efEects." 2 Thia correspondence was opened by the following letter (S. P. Dom. Ixxi. 35) -written to Foulis, as Cofferer to Prince Henry, on the 14th of November, 1612: " Sir, — Althoughe I have had heretofore a sufEciente taste of your reddines in doeinge many good oflSces for mee, whereby I boulde my selfe obliged unto you verry muche, yet I have beene since advertised by some lettera from Mr. Yates, of fortescue PAPEES. 7 I propounded for his gratious service as I am obliged being his igi4_ Majesty's subject: wherein first I gave yew exceeding thankes for May 8. the freindlye office, in presenting my dewtye and service te my King, wherin I am sure by my offer not to fayle in the dewtye of my loyaltye, as I ara confident net to erre in the performance, when tyme shall serve te make testymonye theref. And if in all the increase of your extraordinary good respecte unto mee, which nowe at his cominge to Florence hee hath soe fully confirmed (affirminge you to bee a principall agente in the speedie efEectinge of my busines with the Prince my master)," i.e. the sale of his estate at Kenilworth, afterwards transferred to Prince Charles. " I cannot devise howe to give fitte correspondency to this your exceedinge lovinge kindnes towardes mee; seeinge therefore that I neede not doubte of your constante per severance therein, I will not bee dainty to make you a partie to my dessignes. I have sente unto hia Highnes a litle treatise muche importinge his owne security and proflitte, the coppie whereof I have herewith sente unto you, that you may [the better instruct your selfe to incurrage his Highnes to undertake a matter of that consequence for his owne safety and perpetuall good. It cannott bee unknowne to you that I have given his Highnes my estate of Killingworthe for a smalle matter, consideringe the worthe thereof. I have onely reserved the conistableshippe of the castle, that I may have somme commande there under his Highnes, whensoever I shall happen to comme into Englande ; and allsoe that he will protecte mee (and that but justly,) in the sale of Etchington and Balsall, that I mighte setle my estate, to bee the better able to doe his Highnes service ; for withoute the sale thereof I shal bee in farre worse case then I waa before. I have given warrante to Mr. Yates to undergoe all my businesses whatsoever in my behalfe, in my absence ; and hee hath soe confirmed mee in the assurance of your forwarde and readie assistance uppon all occasions, that I neede not any more solicite you therein ; but hee cann likewise assure you that, uppon the sale of those landes, I have proportioned a thankefnll gratuity for you, as a testimony of my exceedinge love and thankfullnes unto you.'' The treatise which follows is compoaed of two parta, the first showing " the greate importance for soe greate a Prince as your Highnes, to bee master of the seaa ;" the second, explaining the construction of the Gallizabra. Again, in January 1614, we have a letter (S. P.' Dorn. Ixxvi. 16) written by Sir E. Dudley to a friend in London ; perhaps, to Mr. Yates, not, as suggested by Mrs. Green, to Sir D. Foulis, who is referred to aa a third person, speaking of a new kind of vessel which he had invented, aud had called a counter-galliaas, and which seems to be the same as the Gallerata in the text. In May 1614, probably on the same day as the letter to Foulis, Dudley wrote (S. P. Dom. Ixxvii. 16) to Somerset, commending the matter to his attention. » FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1614. my propositions ef the lyke nature and some more difficulte, I M^y ^" have hetherto performed more then promesed to others, I doubt net but be able to shewe much mere perfection in the service of my owne King. In fyne I am sure of doing it upon the frayme of demonstrable preefes I have made, applying all my experience and tryall of that mater in one perfect vessell, and wishe onelye his Majestye had somme store ef them fer his owne safetye, and prefer that wishe befer any other wishe to my selfe ef performance. It is trewe that it is net possible to give a perfytte demonstration of the thing without it doinge, and if I had my meanes maid over to me for certane lands te be sould by agreement in the bargan in Kennel woorthe to the Prince, as yew well knew and Mr. Yattes,^ I would not fayle, uppen such orders as his Majestye would com mand me, te make ene of my ewne charrges, referring the recompence to his gratieusnes, in all wherin my honour ner henestye may not be taxed, and, wheref I am sure his Majesty's goodnes would have principall censideratien, and to that I referre me. In the meane tyme, te give his Majestye seme demonstrable reason that it is possible to make a vessell of dowble the force to his galliens, that is to saye, 10 fer 20, I will argwe this by example of ethers, and preefes of some thinges I have doun. First, for example, his Majestye maye informe himselfe that 10 of his ewne galliens is well able to beate 20 of the King ef Spaynes, as hathe bene proved, though they be bigger then his. And the reason is, the qualitye of shippe te be swyfter and there ordinance plaiced for mere advantage, by which advantage xhey maye take the wynde ef these huge gallions and sincke them, becaus in sincking consistithe the mederne secretes ef fight, and net in boerding as antienlye they did. Se by the lyke reason that arte which can make a vessell ef suche qualytye te be much swifter then the Kinges Majesty's, and carye mere ordinance and better to passe then theye arre able to doe, I maye conclude that ' His agent in England. FORTESCUE PAPERS. vessels ef such qualitye and force are as much towe strong fer his i6i4. Majesty's shippes, as his Majesty's are proved and sayed te be towe ^^^ ^¦ strong for the King of Spaynes, Secondlye, to conferme the probabilitye by the preefes I have doinge, this is manifest te be seene that I speake ef at this hewer. I maide a vessell of my owne invention, and the first I maide for the G[rand] D[uke] called the gallion St. Giolvanni] Babtista, which is but 600 tonne, and not halfe in burthen to the famous shippe that the Prince maide ; yett this small one caryethe as manye ordinance and of as much force as that greate one which caryethe 60 peices or thereaboutes, and so manye dothe this of rayne, being the lower tyere demy cannones, and upper tyere demy culverin ; by which force this small shippe being swifter of saille then the greater, as I take sure to be, is by that qualitye able to take the advantage of the wynde, and equall in ordinance hathe the advantages to beate the greater, and is of more force. An other vessell I have made nearer by proofe this sorte of vessell I pretend for the Kinges service, that is but 300 tonnes er rather 250 tonnes, I call gallizabra, which by her proportion is farre swyfter then the other mentioned and caryethe but 50 peices. Yette her lower tyere being all demy cannones and better to passe, is as forcible as the other of 600 tonnes.- I saye then that this lesser vessell being fare mere swyfte then the Gallie St. Gioljvannij Babtist (espetiallye uppon a tacke) by her qualitye, is of better serte then the greater, and of much mere service by her flatnes, not drawing above 8 feete water, and so maye offend or defend upon mere advantages. Touching the preefes of swyftnes, yow must understand that gallies and galliases are the ewyftest ef the world, by reason of there great lenthe and fleteness, so as theye alfe able te saille 2 feete fer one with anye shippe. I have maide a vessell ef my owne inven tion I call gallerata, different in proportion from a gallie, that is proved to saille J parte more, and wherin a gallie caristhe but 7 or 8 peices, this gallerata being no bigger then a gallie and so swyfte CAMD. SOC. C 10 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1614_ as I saye, caryethe neire 30 peices of brace and 20 bombardini or May 8. pederers, so as she maye be treble er 4 tymes the force ef a gallie, &c: Newe I conclude from these proofes and experiences that I have maid, with dyvers ethers to lenge to repeate, I have framed this vessell I propounded fer the King's "service, which for swyftnes I can pretties shall alwaye the worst ef these ought saill^ the Kinges ships §- parte : eache ef these shall carye 100 peices of ordinance as good in service as anye the shipps of his Majestye can carye : I meane in any ene shippe, net anye one peice. That these sorte ef vessels shall net pass 10 or II feete water at most, which is but -| the draught ef seme ships of the navye. That these vessell by a proved invention can hardlye be suncke by the enemyes ordinance. That these shalbe sufEcientlye secure for fewle weather. That these maye in the symmer tyme be able to rowe lyke gal liasses, albeit they have 2 whele deckes and the galliasses but ene decke, in which consistithe much arte, and a great secrete of con- tinewing. That these vessels maye be kept under arches in an arsinall as galliasses be se kept drye, and no charge te kepte them, in respect ef shippes. That this vessell usithe square salles, with seme difference from shippes. That this vessell is not halfe the charge to make as a greate shippe, I mean fer the building, and in lesse tyme. That the use ef these vessells is net so fitt fer long viages te the Indies or such lyke, as to defend the State, thoughe they maye be able verye safelye in occasion to navigat te the West Indies. This vessell I call a centre galliasse by reason of there exceiding force, swyftnes, and that they are able to rewe.competentelye well, thereby to gayne manye advantages that shipps can net dee. And this what I wryte I am able to make good by my ewne experiences as securelye as anye of them I have maide and more : ' Outsail. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 11 and if I had my monyes which I expect for Balsall and Ichington 1614. I would make one at my owne charge upon such conditions as his *^ " Majesty wilbe pleased to offer me : wherin yew must consider what condition maye bring me heme with my honour and honestye and honour ef my birthe right, well deserving thera to doe the State se memorable a service, and the derect waye te make it the happiest and greatest monarchic of the world being applyde as I knewe. One thing I resolve yow, that if it please his Majesty to harkin to this greatnes to him selfe, I must pretend to desyre te be generall (with that tytle) of such a squadron ef these vesselles as his Majestye shalbe pleased to have, and te be a command and goverraent by it selfe, not te be under the Admirall ef England ; but as the gallies is in France, a different command at sea, nor hazard the reputation of my owne werkes under the discretion or skill of an other. His Majesty maye make as manye ef these as he please fer his safetye and strenthe, but lesse then 6 were ne fitt squadrant, which maye be maide in one yeire, and having maide an arsinall after my fashon fer these vessels, which his Majestye maye doe about London hed- land or where he pleasithe, and kepe these vesselles drye alwayes above the water for litle charges yerelye. This fer the present is as much as I can saye te satisfye his Majestye in this poynt, which I am most willing te dee as his loyall and faithfull subject that hathe net spent his tyme idlye to serve him, and se I commit yew most affectienatlye to Ged's protection. From the Great Duke's Court at Pisa this 8 ef Maye 1614. Yeur most faithfull frende ever to command, Ro. Dud[ley] et W[arwick.]^ Indorsed : A trewe copye of Sir Rob' Dudlye's lettre, sent from Florence in Maye, 1614. ' On the 15th of July Dudley wrote again to Foulis (S.T. Dom. Ixxvii. 65) to press the adoption of his project. " I thought it not amisse," he saya, " at this preasent to writte you a worde of some importaunte matter for his Ma"«= good, uppon the occasioii of the thawartnes I understande of late the parlement useth -towardes him neather consenting to snch subsedies accostomed or necessarie, but rather with much presumtion standing uppon worser termes ; and I conseaving to under- 12 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. IV. SiE George Villiers to Lord Howaed de Walden. [Autograph signature.] 1616. My noble Lord. I have acquainted his Ma"« with the contents stande something these natm-s, I doubte in time may growe to a, bad obatinancie, eapecially understanding there malice much pretendeth agaynst the Scotish nation to whome I have bene particularly beholding, maketh mee ought of gratitude wright this, which for a time I had thought to have prolonged ; neather would I doe it to anye ther but yourselfe, knowing your fidelytie to the Kinge, and worth. Having longe suspected some mischeafes I see creapiug one, I kepte in store a certeyne disseene of mine, which followed in Englande by his Ma''«, I knowe may make him secure agaynst all these rubbs, for his profit, and make him safe to doe whathe please with hia owne, as an absolute monarche as he is, withought dangerous reaiatance, and as free from the possibilitie of foren invasions, if anie should eaver be attembted, and kepe the bridel in his owne hande, so stronge [?] and neaver Kinge had a greater in those parts ; nay, I doubte not, by the same means I knowe he may increase hia revenew to a much greater valewe, I hope duble, and I make noe queation withought discontent of his poepel, and not to be vexed with the varietie of so manie men's minde[s] as the Parlamente afford[s]." The scheme is to be unfolded if the King will give a commission to some Scottish gentleman to come to Florence to hear it, for he " will trust noe English " with his On the 1 2th of September Somerset wrote (S. P. Dom. Ixxvii. 84) in reply, " If the offer made in your letters prove answearable [to] that you promise, I shalbe ready to employ myself to procure you such favour and reward as shall be sutable to the service aa, uppon the retume of thia messenger and his Ma"^ satisfaction by his report of the businesse, you shall more particularly understand." The scheme thus presented for James' acceptance must have been that which subsequently acquired notoriety hy the Star Chamber prosecution of Sir E. Cotton in 1629, for having it in his possession. It is printed in Sushworth, vol. i. App. p. 12, and a full account of the affair will be found in the Siographia Sritannica, ed. Kippis, Art. Sir R. Cotton. Note ¦*,*. The date, however, there given of 1613 is sho-wn to be -wrong by the extracts here printed ; and the idea waa evidently one which aprung from the events of 1614. Sir Robert Cotton, no doubt, got the paper into his hands from Somerset, with whom he was closely connected. It is to be noticed that the treatise about the Gallizabra forwarded to Prince Henry (p. 6, note 2) appears from its indorsement to have been laid before Charles I. on the 1st of January, 1630. The King was then reminded of Dudley's inventions in naval architecture by the affair of Sir R. Cotton's prosecution, and wished to refresh his memory. FOETESCUE PAPERS. 13 of your LoP^ letter concerning the affairs ef the middle shires,^ at 1616. the sight whereof his Ma''^ rijoyceth te have played the prophet. ^^^- *¦ For, alltheugh his Ma*^'= knew net till now of the taking back of that half of the garrison frejn residing in that part of the cuntry where yeur LoP' lands do lie, and where his Ma^'e had erdayned them to remaine, yet as scene as he heard of the Earle ef Cumber land's coming up, and having been informed ef the daily growing of disorders in that cuntrie his Ma*'^ sent a dispatch (two daies agee) to his Councail commanding them to call my Lord of Cumberland, yeur Lop, and my Le. W™ Howard before them, and to examine yeu of the causes of these abuses, and especially what was become of that half of the garrison which his Ma*'^ had appointed te lie in yeur part of the cuntree : so as thereupon yeur LqP will have good occasion te relate what hath fallen out, wherein his Ma*'^ will not faile te take order accordingly. The notice yeur Le^ takes of my service dene to yeur sister,^ is beyond my meritt, since his Ma"* hath taken it into his owne hands, who alone deserves thanks. Yeur LoP^ servant, Geoege Villiees. Newmarkett, the 4th of February, 1615. No. V. King James I. to Frederick V. Elector Palatine. [Copy.] Men tres cher filz. Le Colonel Schemberg vous apporte lare- 1616. spence ce qu'il m'a propose de vestre part, a la sulfisance du quel j'en remets la relation. Je suis marry d'^veir entendu de la dispute que vous avez eu aveques ma filie, touchant la preseance ; mais je ne puis m'estonner assez que vous en ayez faict une si publique contes tation sans avoir premierement sonde mon advis la dessus en priv^, ' The borders, ' The Coimtess of Essex. 14 FORTESCUE PAPEES. lgig_ mais je m'asseure que vestre ben naturel a est^ abus^ en ce poinct June. par quelque pernicieux conseil. Pour ma part, vous veus peuvez asseurer que jamais pere ne s'esvertuera plus que mey de faire sa filie humblement obeissante k son mary, mais en ce qui concerne sa quality et I'henneur de sa naissance, elle seroit indigne de vivre si elle quittereit sa place sans men s^eu et advis. J'espere que de vous mesmes veus trouverez quelque meyen en vostre prudence d'esclair- cir au monde vestre benne intention et le respect que vous portez k la naissance de ma filie, mais si veus ne vous y pouvez resouldre de veus mesmes, je ne faudray point, Dieu aydant, de veus enveyer un des miens qui vous en dira men opinion et veus assistera des meil- leurs conseils de celuy qui demeurera a jamais Vestre tres affectienn^ Pere. June. No. VI. - King James I. to Elizabeth Electress Palatine. [Copy.] 1616. Ma filie, mes compertements ent este tels au Colonel Schemberg pour I'ameur de vous, que je m'asseure il en a re9eu ample satisfac tion touchant la dispute de vestre preseance. Je vous remercie de tout mon coeur que veus, n'avez voulu coder en ce qui concerne la qualite de vostre naissance sans men consentement. Si vostre mary ne se peult resouldre de considdrer mieux le respect qu'il me deibt, je luy envoyeray un des miens, qui veus assistera a tous deux de mes meilleurs conseils. Cependant censelez veus, ma chere filie, que je n'omettray a toutes occasions de vous maintenir et assister, tant par mes meilleurs conseils qu'autrement, selen ce que la nature a oblige celuy qui ne peult estre autre que Vostre bon Pere. Indorsement to this and No. V., which are written on one sheet of paper: — June 1616. Copies of his Majesty's letters to the Count Palatine and the Lady Eliza beth, with his own hand. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 15 Ne. VII. Mr. Toby Matthew to Sir George Villiers. [Holograph.] It may please your Honour. I may have pardon if I take the ^gjg boldnes either to trouble yeur buisines er to disquiet your leasure by July 16. these few lines, since I understand many waies that your Honour hath vouch saft to keepe se peere a man as my selfe not only in your memeire but in yeur favour. My very enemies have never adventured to esteeme me ungratefuU, and I must be so in the highest degree if I faile to professe the uttermost of my service te a person whome the greate favour of my Soveraigne . hath not only made worthie, but feunde worthie ef all respectes, and wheme the splendour of fortune hath net beene able to make either lesse ver tuous nor less courteous. The world hath alreadie, in my hearinge, geven your H[onour] this due, that you have nobly obliged mere persons in fewe monethes, then some ethers ef like condition could be drawne te dee in many yeares. It will net, therefore, seeme straunge, if I runne towards your H[onour] with hepe to be regarded, since I have winges geven to me, not only by the common fame ef yeur goodnes, but by the knowledge I have of the favour your H [enour] was wont te doe me, and the notice which is come to me of late, that bothe you are pleas'd te wishe me well, and that yeu wilbe carefull upon just occasions te expresse it. I have a suite unto his most excellent Majestie, which shall cest him nothinge, but shall rather make him the richer, since it will minister an occasion te the exercise of much reyall vertue ; and yeur H[onour] shall have made a purchase, at an easie rate, of as many humble and faithfull servauntes as I have .frendes' in the worlde, by vouchsafinge te move it. It is, that after the absence 16 FORTESCUE PAPEES. 1616. ef se many yeares eut ef my countrey, in such a conversatieh as July 16. yQyj, H[oneur] sawe in Paris (and I have cause te glory in such a witnes), I may be repatriated, and withall be obliged, whilest I live, te kisse that hande of yours which shall have derived such a.benefite upon me frome his moste excellent Majestie. The reasons that may induce it are such as followe : That seme ^ nine yeares since I was not bannished, but absented only, with this clause, that I should net returne till his Majesties pleasure were first knewne ; That the Lordes of the Councell promised, as appeares by the order it self, te meve his Majestie for my returne, upon notice had ef my dutifull behaviour abroade ; That I have lived these nine yeares abroade, without all tutche of disloyalty ; That I have never accepted from any Prince er Prelate one peniworth ef enterteynement ; That I have upon all occasions published my self for the instance ef his Majesties great clemencie and geodnes towardes me ; That I have lived with great satisfaction of the great persons ef my station, and his Majesties Ambassadours and Agentes wheme I have had the honour te converse withall, wherein I remitte my self to theire tes timony; That my estate in England is entangled, partly by a suite in the Chauncery, and partly by debtes, whereby, without my pre sence there, I am not able to make benefite ef my peere estate, accord inge to that graunte which his Majestie hath beene pleasd to make me ; That I have offended noe otherwise then in the errour of my judgmente, and hoe otherwise then thousandes ef my profession in England, who yet are suffred te breathe in the aire of theire coun trey ; nay, that I may be accounted to deserve more faveur then they, rather then lesse, bycause I have made se leng a probation of my fidelity and loyall affection to his Majesties sacred person and ' An extract from this letter commencing here, " Some nine years since " down to " die then feele," with some verbal differences, is calendered by Mrs. Green, next to a letter on the same subject of Sept. 6, under the date of Sept. ? (S. P: Dom. Ixxviii. 74), there being nothing in the paper itself to fix the exact date. FORTESCUE PAPEES. 17 the State in places of temptatien and daunger ; that, if it should be 1616. doubted whether in England I shall carry myself with that modesty Ju'y 16 and discretion as is requisite, it is te be answered, that I may in stantly be sente eut againe with so much scorne and shame as I had rather die then feele. These are some of the many greundes whereupon I would hope that a greater buildinge then that ef beinge restored te ray countrey might be raised, ner can I feare but that my desire and hope will securely take effecte, if it may be putt in motion by se powerfull an intercesseur te my most gracious Soveraigne, whose very person my conscience tells me that I dee se reverently and deerely leve, and ef whose fame it is well knowne I have beene a trumpett in the eares ef great persons, protesting that I had, in many occasions, heard his Majestie make certaine proofes ef greater partes then I thought any subject ef his in the werlde could appreachc unto. I could speake of diligences which I have used to discover the authours of infamous libells at the instance of seme Ministers ef his Majesties, whereof I can make solide proofe. I will net dee ray Kinges clemencie, your neblenes, or mine own inuQcencie se much disadvauntage, as te enlarge myself upon this subjecte. It sufficeth towardes the strengthning ef my hope, that you are yourself, and that the least shininge ef yeur favour towardes me wilbe able to discharge all cloudes of miscenceite, which may offer to interpose themselves betwene me and ray returne into ray countrey. Ner am I se vaine as to make you a solemne presente ef ray ser vice, bycause I am net worth so rauch; but although yeu are not capable (through your fulnes) of any substantiall addition from me, yet it is in my power te geve yeu the glory ef praise, and you feede not that mouthe in the werlde which shall open it self to your H[eneur] with mere appetite of affection then this of mine, and that, whether you meve this suite or nee, fer I am net mercenarie, and you have already done me mere honour and favour then I can CAMD. SOC. D 18 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1616. answere fer. I humbly doe yeur H [eneur] all reverence and kisse July 16. your hand, continuing Your Honour's most obliged humble servaunte, ToBiE Matthew.1 Spa, this 16th of July 1616. Indorsed : Tobie Mathew. No. viii. Sir Henry Docwra to Viscount Villiers. [Autograph" signature.] Nov. 9. Right Honorable. It is net unknowne te yeur Lordship when I first became an humble suitour to the King fer this place of im ployment in his service which of his gratious faveur it pleased him te bestowe upon me, my desire was to have had it in the same tearmes that he and many ethers that went before me had held and exercised it for many yeres together. But it seemed otherwise fitt te the Lordes of the Counsaile for his Majesties service, and so was concluded the office shold be divided in twee, but with this speciali cawtion, that eur charges shold be kepte aparte and se distinguisht as neither of us shold have power to increache or invade eche upon ether.^ In defaulte ef which order, it was even then easy te be seene, the service wold be prejudiced by a confused and prepestereus course ef paiementes, and that which his Majestie intended te rae as a grace and singuler benefitt weld manifestly redownd to the dimi nution both of ray profit and estimation. My L[erd], I speake not upon an uncertaine grewnd ; I ara very well informed and assured ' He obtained the permission which he desired, and returned to England in the follo-n-ing summer. Chamberlain to Carleton, July 19, 1617, S. P. Dom. xcii. 96. 2 Docwra was Treasurer at Wars in Ireland July 19, 1616, at which time Sir Arthur Savage became Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and Receiver-General. Sir Thomas Ridgway had previously held the two offices in combination. fortescue papers. 19 of it : there are divers beth hore'and in England that dee earnestly igie. labour to gett themselves removed from the establishment to receive ^°^- ®- their enterta3-nmentes imediatly upon the revenues : a pointe once gained by- one will fellowe by consequence to manie more ; and then what will insue further is easy to be ferseene. My hurable desire therefore is this te your Lordship that, as I hold this place from the begyning by none other help er favour but your ewne free and honorable intercession for me to the King (which as I shall ever be duly thankefull for, so let rae speede and prosper and none otherwise), se you will nowe be pleased to centynewe and gee on in the sarae way te support and uphold rae in it, which I dowt will verie hardly be done, except your Lordship vouchsafe me se high a favour as directlie to acquaint his Majestie with ray case, and pro cure the signification of his gratious will and pleasure, that there be ne suche alteration of the before-intended order, and te satisfie them at the full with reason (if that maie content them) that are the suiteurs for this innovation, if the former order raay stand and be kept inviolable, that the Vice-Threasurer be directed to deliver unto me suche surplusage of the revenues as he shall at any tyrae have in his handes. If then I give cawse to anie man justly to complaine against me for cunning er delaies in giving them their due, the sentence ef condemnation shall passe out of myne owne mouthe against myself Let me be dealt withall and handled according te my desertes; I ask ne faveur. My L[ord] I am net discouraged by any censideratien of my ewne defect ef merit te presume thus farre te tender this humble suite ef myne te your Lordship's faveur, fer it is with this knowledge and testimeney ef the true intentions of my harte that I am in all thinges as becoraes an honest and thankfull man fer the same, Yeur Lordship's true and faithfull servant to commaunde, Heney Docwea. Dublin, 9 November, 1616. Addressed: To the right honorable my very good Lord the Lord Viscount Villars. Indorsed : S'' H. Dockwra to my Lord. D 2 20 fortescue papkrs. Ne. IX. Sir John Digby to the Earl of Buckingham. [Holograph .] 1617. My singular geed Lorde. Finding that my Lords the Commis sioners were not likely to take any speedye resolution in the busi nesse of the Pyratts, and that my instructions injoyned me to receave my derectiens therini from them before my departure,^ I thought it fitt te have recourse unto his Majestye fer my dispatch, and to that effect have written te your Lordship with the rest of my Lerdes, to meve his Majestye that my going be no longer delayed, which I beseech your Lordship te further, for that his Majestyes service will receave prejudice by my further staye. For the solli- citing hereof, as likewise for that I was desyrous to put his Majestyes cypher- into a hande that raight be answerable fer the delivery of it unto your Lordship, I have sente dewne my secretary to attende yow ; and I hope that by him I shall receave my full dispatch, together with your Lordship's cemraandments, that I may within two dayes after his retourne beginn my journey. My Lerde, it is written te me out ef Irelande that the eyes of all the townes of that State are sett en the preceeding that is like to be held within tiie towne of Waterferde for the pointe of conform ing of themselves. His Majestye hath bene pleased te thinke this interim whilest a match was in treatye with Spayne the fittest for the settling of those businesses there, and I am telde by your Lord ship te put his Majestye in mynde of doing so, for that I know (that uppen any difference that may happen) Spayne relyeth uppen nee advantadge against England but by Irelande, and it may be this treatye may administer te the Irish seme hopes of mittigatien ' On the plan for obtaining the co-operation of Spain against the Barhary pirates. ' For Spain. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 21 which may make them backwarder in conforming of themselves ; 1617. and therfore I humble offer it to his Majestyes censideratien if it ""^^ ' will not be fitt that order be given for a speedye and rownde pre ceeding with the towne ef Waterferde,i leaste otherwise the advantadge which his Majestye intended by the interim of this treatye for the settling of Irelande be perverted te his disservice. Her Majestye and the Prince, God bo praised, are well ; and all here is se quiet that ther is ne newes to write unto yew, and I am loath to interrupt your Lordship's businesses with unnecessarye lynes, and therfore humbly intreating that my service may be presented unto his Majestye,^ I give your Lordship thankes fer all your favours, assuring your Lordship that you shall ever finde me a mindefull and a gratefuU man for the good I have receaved by you, and so wishing yeu much increase of honor and happinesse, I rest Your Lordship's faythfull servante, Jhon Digbyb. London, the 4th of June, 1617. No. X. Lord Arundell of Wardour to the Earl of Buckingham. [Autograph signature.] My good Lord. I receaved your Lordshipp's letter, and finde Sept. 3. thereby that the King is willing that the matter in contreversye may bee peaceablye ended, but is much agaynst the delay ef any proceeding in matter ef justice, especially the Chauncerye. Truly, my Lord, I never intended by my petition to delay justice : all that I aske is but that justice may be observed, and that the just judgraent of the late Lord ChaunceUer given in the same cause and in the sarae court and confirmed by the greate [^ Seale , ' The citizens of Waterford had for aome time elected magiatrates who refused the oath of supremacy, and .the seizure of their charter was now in contemplation. 2 The King, attended by Buckingham, was then in Scotland. 22 fortescue papers. 1617. of England raay be kept, the contrary whereof would be great Sept. 3. injustice. The president is strange : the continuance thereof wilbe insufferable. I am not ignorant how much I am bound unto your Lordshipp for some speeches to my Lord Keeper in this matter, wherein though his Lordshipp hath hitherto given little satisfaction, yet now I assure myselfe (for some reasons which hereafter I will raake knowne to your Lordshipp) that if you shalbe pleased to use the same speeches once more unto hira, it will worke a better effect in him ; if not, then I desire to be soe much beholding to yeur Lordshippe as that eyther your selfe or the King by your procuring will talke with Mr. Attorneye- Generall concerning this businese, charging hira upon his alleagance to deliver his opinion not onely ef the cause (wherewith he is acquaynted from the beginning) but of this new president allsoe of revoking of decrees ; and I shall rest bound to your Lordshipp for soe great a favour, which thougli the justnes of my cause may well expect from a noble rainde, yet, because rayselfe have noe way deserved It, I raust acknowledge ray bend to be the greater, and shall ever rest Your Lordshipp's ready te doe you service, Tho. Arundell. Wardour Castle, thia third of September, 1617. I have sent your Lordshipp here inclosed certayne reasons to preve that a new tryall in Chauncery after a publike decree under the great seale is great injustice.' Indorsed : Lord Wardour. ' A charge of this kind against Bacon deserves investigation. From the Chancery Order Books it appears that a suit had been instituted against Lord Arundell, nominally by the Earl of Worcester, but in fact by Thomas Arundell, the eldest son of Lord Arundell, and the husband of Worcester's daughter. It related to certain lands settled by Lord Arundell's father, which, as the young man contended, could not be alienated before they came into his hands. Onthe llth of February 1615 EUesmere (^Order Soolt, 1614 A. fol. 740) directed Lord Arundell to pay his son an annuity of £600 a-year for his maintenance, and on the 26th of November 1616 he finally dismissed the suit {Order Booh, 1616 A. fol. 233) on the ground that he could not come to a decision where the evidence was so uncertain. At the same FOETESCUE PAPERS. 23 No. XI. Sir Thomas Wentworth to the Earl of Buckingham. [Autograph signature.] Right Honorable and my very good Lord. Thes are to give 1617. your Lordship humble thankes for your respective letters dated ^^P'- 1 ^¦ time he expressed a strong opinion that the case waa one for arbitration, and that it ought not to come into Court. This decision Lord Arundell took aa implying a revocation of the order of February 1615, and accordingly omitted at Lady Day 1617 to pay the half-yearly instalment of his son's annuity., Thomas ArundeU at once filed a bill against his father, reopening the whole question of the right to alienate the lands, and specially demanding the payment of his annuity. Bacon, who had now succeeded EUesmere, recommended Lord Arundell on the 1st of July 1617 ( Order Booh, 1516 A. fol. 1129) to pay the annuity, but reserved his decision on the main question, and a few days later made the following order {Order Booh, 1616 A. fol. 1006), which is the one complained of by Lord Arundell: — " Sabbati 12'°» die Julii [1617]. "Thomas Arrundell, Esqre., pl'.^ Forasmuch as the right honorable the Lord Thomas Lord Arrundell, def. f Keeper was thia day informed by Mr. John Fynch being of the pit' councell, that the def by order of the first of this presfent July was wished and advized to continewe the payment of the anuetye of 600'' to the pit., and allso to pay the arrerage thereof, beinge 300" due at our Lady Day last, or to shewe unto his Iopp good cause to the contrary before the end of the last terme, but hee hath shewed noe such cause ; wherefore, and because the pit' occasions are urgent and wanting meanea to aupport his chardge, it was desired, on the pit" behaulf, that the def might be ordered forthwith to pay the 300" due at our Lady Day last, and allso to pay 300" at Mich"' next, and soe to contyn- newe the payment of the said anuity every half yeare as the s."ime shall from henceforth growe due. And forasmuch as the def hath spent all the last terme in delayes ; and nowe the very last day of the terme hath putt in a demurrer to the pit' Bill, upon noe other ground but because the suit was formei-ly dismissed, the Lord Privy Seale being pi' in the former suite ; nowe the same is preferred onely by and in the name of the nowe pi' ; which [demurrer his IoPp will take into con sideration, and give such order and direccion therein as shalbee meete. And whereas Mr. S'' Fynch of councell with the aaid def alleadged that the saide pi' is 24 fortescue papers. 1617. from Warwicke the 5 of this instant September,i ^hich I receaved Sept. 15. |.]^g 23 Qf the same; the messinger told me your Lordship expected a speedy answear, in observance whearef I must crave your patience in reading a long letter. Yeur Lordship was pleased therin to lett me understande, that wheras his Majestie is informed that Sir John Savill yealded up his place of Custos Rotulorum voluntarily unto me, his Majestie will take itt well att my hands that I resigne itt up to him againe, with the same willingnes, and will be mindfull of me te give me as good prefermentt upon any other occasion. satisfied his anuity to a penny, that should accrewe at our Lady Day last, by reason the def had satisfied his sonne to supply his wantes one half yeares anuity before hand, which whether yt were receaved before hand, or for presente mayntenance then, as was nowe alleadged by the pi'' councell, was overruled in the former suite, and the def adjudged to pay the same half yeares anuitye which hee pretended was paied before hand, as by the said order of the llth of February 12'"'' Jacob! Ra. appeareth, and therefore hia LoPp thought fytt, this beinge for the sustentacion and liefe of the deft' owne childe, that the def should paye whatsoever of the saide anuity is in arrere, and for direccion therein his Lopp -wilbee guided by the said former order of the ll'ii^ of February ; and doeth nowe order that the def shall upon notice or sight of this order forthwith pay unto the pi' the 300'' due at our Lady Day last, and at Mich"' next 300" more, and soe contjnewe the payment of the' said anuity of 600" accordinge to the said order of the II"' of February, and the direccion thereof." Against this Lord Arundell complained to Buckingham, timing hia letter exceed ingly well, as it was written just when every one supposed Bacon to be in deep dis grace on account of the part which he had taken about Sir John ViUiers' marriage. It is evident that it is untrue that Bacon reopened a ease decided by his predecessor, EUesmere having refused to decide it at all. As far as the annuity weut he maintained hia ground. On the Sth of November ( Order Booh, 1617 A. fol. 153) he peremptorily ordered it to be paid, adding,' however, that he " thought not fytt now to heare or consider of the demurrer as touchinge the bodie of the cause." Of any further proceedings I can find no trace. Possibly Arundell and his son were induced to submit to that arbitration which EUesmere recommended. At all events, if Bacon used his influence to keep the dispute out of court, he was only carrying out his predecessor's wishes. Lord Arundell's charge appears to have been entirely without foundation. ' The recovery of this letter fills up the miaaing link in the correspondence on the subject of the office of Custos Rotulorum, which is printed in the Strafford Letters. In his Life of Strafford (p. 199) Mr. Forster expressed his regret at ita loss. FOUTESCUE PAPERS. 25 My Lord : I am with all duty te receave and with all humble 1617. thankfullnes te acknowledge his Majesties great favours hearin : both ^^P'' ^^" of his espetiall grace to take the consentt of his humblest subject, wher it might have pleased his Majestie absolutely to commaund, as alsoe for soe princely a promise of other prefermentt : and itt wear indeed the greatest good happ unto me, if I had the means wherby his Majestie would be pleased to take notice how much I esteem myself bownd to his princely goodnes for the same. Wher your Lordship is informed that Sir Jhon yealded up his place ef Custos Rotulorum willingly unto rae; under faveur, I have nee reason see to conceave ; for first, he had nee interest to yeald, and further, I imagin he would not have done the same willingly att all, wherof this his desiring itt againe is a suf&cientt argumentt. Butt, howsoever, voluntarily unto me I cannot be perswaded, both in respect he never acquainted rae with this motion, which would have been dene, had I been soe much behoulden unto him as is pretended, and in regard I had then sorae reason te misdoubt (which I have since found) he was not soe well affected towards me. Butt if itt please your Lordship to be satisfied of the truth, you shall find Sir Jhon brought into the Staire-charaber for his passionate cariage upon the benche towards ene of his fellow commissioners ; upon a motion in that Court for his contempts committed te the Fleet, and, upon reading ef an affidavit, thought unfitt te be con tinued in the Comraission of Peace, te which purpose ray late Lord Chancelour gave his direction about the 3. ef December shallbe tow years ; which Sir Jhon getting notice of, to give the better couller te his displacing, writt some 3 dayes after te my Lord desirino- his Lordship would be pleased to spaire his service in respect of his years; wher indeed he was in effect out of the Commission before, by vertu of that direction: and so consequently ther was nothing in him te resigne, aither voluntarily or other wayes. This will partly appear by a coppy ef Sir Jhen's letter,' and ray Lord's answear under the sarae, which this bearer hath te shew your Lordship. ' Savile to EUesmere. Dec. 6, I6I5, Strafford Letters, 3. CAMD. SOC. E 26 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1617. Presently hearupon itt pleased my Lord Chancelour, I being att Sept. 15. tijj^t J.- jjjg jj^ tjjg c^^ntry, freely of himself to conferre that place upon me, and as his Lordship did fully assure rae, without any motion made unto him, directly or indirectly, by any frend of mine whoe- soever. Being thus placed I have ever since, according to that poore talent God hath lentt me, applied myself, with all paines, dilligence, care, and sincerity to his Majesties service, both according to the commen duty ef a subject and the particular duty of my place, wherin if any man can charge me to the contrary, I wilbe ready to justifie my self. Allbeitt I doe infinittly desire to doe his Majestie service, I may truly say that I am free from ambition to desire places of imploy mentt whereby ether his Majesties service might not be soe well performed, or my owne ends better effected ; yett, my Lord, te be removed without any misdeamenour, I trust, that can be alledged against me, the like I thinke hath not been heard of ; but thatt Sir Jhon should supply the roome in my place, the -worlde cenceaving generally and I having felt experiencedly to be very little frendly towards mej itt might justly be taken as the greatest disgrace that could be done unto me, and being' that which his Majestie never offered to Sir Jhon during all the time ef his displeasure against him, I might well conclave his Majestie to be (to my greatest greef) highly offended with me, by some indirect means of my adversaries. Thes reasons give rae assurance in ray hope that his Majestie out of his accustomed goodnes to all sort ef persons willbe pleased to deale gracieusely with me, espetially when his Majestie shallbe in formed of these reasons, which I humbly desire he may by yeur Lordship's good means, as alsoe if Sir Jhon be soe desirouse to doe his Majestie service (which is all our duties) he may doe itt as effec tually, being Justice of Peace, as if he wear the Custos Rotulorum. Howsoever with all due reverence and observance shall I waite his Majesties best pleasure, and willingly and dutifully submitt myself to the same, yett humbly crave to be excused if, out ef thes reasons. FORTESCUE PAPEES. 27 I say plainly as yett I finde nee willingnes in myself to yeald up my i6i7. place te Sir Jhon Savill. ®'P'' ^^• Thus much am I bold to signifie te your Lordship to give you satisfaction, which I doe very much desire, and withall to move yeur Lordship very humbly that ther may be nee further procedings hearin, till I attend your Lordship, which shallbe, God willing, with all convenient speed. Easily, my Lord, myself never having nourished a thought that might in any sortt draw yeur Lordship's hard conceitt towards me, I fully rely upon your Lordship's favour, in a matter of this nature, that see deeply concerns my creditt in the cuntry whear I live, which makes me now therof the more sensible; and shall give me just occasion still to indevour myself to doe you service, and beseeche God to blesse your Lordship with longe life and all happines. Your Lordship's humbly to be commaunded, Th. Wentwoeth.i Gawthorp, this 15th of September, 1617. No. XII, Sie Thomas Savile to the Eael of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My most noble Lorde. I presumed the reading of a letter would Sept. be less troublesome to youre Lordship then my owne attendance, which makes me the rather choose to write. For Sir Thomas Wentworth's allegations, I can saye no more then this, that if Mr. Bond, who was then my Lord Chauncelloures Secretarie and the messenger to me from his Lorde, do not justifie that my Lord was unwilling to put in anie to the place which my father had resigned, but whorae he wished wel unto ; and therefore he desired me te name one, and I named Sir Thomas Wentworth : let me ' Buckingham's answer closes the correspondence, Sept. 23, 1617, Strafford Letters, 4. E 2 28 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1617. forfett for ever my creditt with youre Lordship, which I would net doe fer all Wentworth's estate. I could alledge my father hath beene in it this forty yeeres and done the King continuall service ; I could allso alledge that his deservings te the King (setting aside the wrangling in the Par- lament which you, my noble Lord, I hope have reconciled,) would farr outweigh his. But my humble suite and weightiest argument at this time te your Lordship must be this, that the doing of this concernes me so much in my estate, as if your Lordship should give me two or three thowsand pownd a yeare : which, though none know, I make bold to let youre Lordship understand. The pre judice that comes to Sir Thomas Wentworth by it, is not worth two shilling, and, done fairelie, the disgrace none. I most humblie therefore desire, that this greate importance to me maye outweigh in youre Lordship's opinion the peevish and malitious humoure of him. My father doth expect everie hower my answeare, which I begg ef your Lordship, and if I have anie more powerfull praiers then mine own, I add them te, for I presume I maye, and shall for ever rest Your Lordship's most humble servaunt, Thomas Savile.^ Indorsed : Sir Th. Savile. No. XIIL Sie Thomas Lake to the Eael of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Oct. 25. My duety te your Lordship humbly remembred. This after- neene arrived here this gentleman Mr. Simon Digby, who hath lettres te his Majestie, and was desirous to deliver them as soone as he might. He hath also delivered me lettres directed to the ' The -writer of this letter was the third son of the Sir John Savile whose restora tion to. office was in question ; Sir John Savile was created in 1628 Lord Savile of Pontefract, in which title he was succeeded, in 1630, by this his then eldest surviving son Thomas. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 29 Commissioners," which cannot be opened till they meet, and, some 1617. of them being this after noon at Grehwich, their meeting is ap pointed to morrow after noon at two of the clock at my Lo[rd] Keeper's howse. But because Sir John Digby sent to me a copie of that which is written to my Lordship, and that I know not whether he have written at so much length to his Majestie, I thought it not unfitt to send the copie to your Lo[rdship] that his Majestie may be acquainted with it, and thereuppon consyder whether he will give any present direction before he dee. further heare, or ne. I doe not conceave of any point that will need ad vertisement, but that of the Nuntio's declaring himselfe adverse, whether it procead of truth or of art ; in both cases it is necessary Sir John Digby be wary in his proceeding, least, when all other thinges he passed over, that may be reserved fer a straw te stumble at, that the Pope will not consent. And although that Sir John Digbyes proposition te the Duke of Lerma be very provident that they should talke of the points of religion but by way ef discourse, and net as in vertue of the commission till it might appeare how neere they shoulde come together, yet caveat from his Majestie uppon that point cannot but dee well. If his Majestie uppon his own lettres doe raake any dispatch from theare, it may be re membred, or els I will writt as your Lordship shall direct. After my Lords have perused their lettres, if any thinge falle into their consyderation fitt to be advertised to his Majestie, your Lordship shall heare of it. I thought it net unfitt te send to.your Lo[rdship] a lettre he hath written to my selfe, because of some wordes in it which have rela tion to Sir John Digby and my selfe, leaving it to your Lo[rdship's] judgment whether you thinke fitt to lett his Majestie knew it. If a matter ef this moment be liked by none but him and me,^ it were ' The Commissioners for the Spanish business. ^ If thia, as is most probable, refers to the marriage, it shows that, in Digby's opinion, the approbation of the Commissionera to whom it had been referred was no indication of their real opinions, and also that Digby had, at this time, expressed himaelf in favour of the marriage. 30 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1617. pity there should be any more den in it. When your Lo[rdship] Got. 25 jja^^j^ ^Qjj .^-^^-j^ jj^g lettres, I beseach you return them. I have this evening receaved yours concerning the agent,i and though the Master of the Rolles and I have not yet spoken with him but purpose te dee sometyme te morrow, yet that much I can say for his Majesties satisfac[tion] in that clause which your Le[rd- ship] sent by itself taken out of his last writing, that he meaneth his Majestie ; and the avowing of the wordes sentina and cloaca : for when he was with me, I putt him te it uppon that place, and he told me that his Majestie at Woodestock had avowed them. For Sir John Bennett, I thinke he cannot produce profe, though he be stiffe in it that it was told to the Spanish Ambassador and him by soiAe who now dare not stand to it, but we will speake with him together, and then your Le[rdship] shall heare. When yeur Lordship hath perused this minute of Sir John Digbyes lettres, it may please yeu to lett my Lord Fenton see it, being one ofthe Commissioners. So I humbly take my leave. Your Lordship's humbly to command, Tho. Lake. From Charing Crosse, this 25 October, 1617. No. XIV. Sie Thomas Lake to the Earl of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Nov. 14. My duety to your Lo[rdship] humbly remembred. I thought good to lett your Lo[rdship] know that yesterday at councell was effected in the matter of his Majesty ['s] howshold^ which I writt of to your Lo[rdship] to be don by his Majesty ; that is, that my LL., after debating and disputing, finding ^ no other certain way, ' The agent for the Archdukes. The paaaage refers to a libellous book Corona Regia, which had been printed in the Low Countries. 1 1n his letter to the Council of November 21 (Cabala, ed. 1691, p. 337), the King -writes, " Ye know what task I gave you to work upon during my absence." We have here a glimpse of the first steps in the economical reforms of the succeeding year. 5 " finde," MS, FOETESCUE PAPERS. 31 did command the officers in his Majesty['s] name to take it in i617. hande, signifying te tjiem that it was his pleasure to have his ^°''- ^^^ expenses of howse reduced to fifty thowsand poundes yearely, togither with the Queen's ; onely omitting the stable, which is left to your Lo[rdship's] ordering ; and there is fewrteen dayes given them te frame their project and send it to his Majesty. Notwith standing I am of opinion it shalbe to good purpose that his Majesty writt to thera a lettre to that effect which I desired by ray last ; for in truth they went very unwillingly about the busines, and his Majesty['s] authority will spurre them rauch. Fer the wardrobbe my Lo[rd] Hay^ and my Lo[rd] Chamberlain^ have taken the charge to make a frame thereof, and to give it as much expedition as they possibly can. So ef the three greate heades there resteth but the matter ef pensions, which we shalbe next in hand with, and how it shall proceed your Lordship shall heare. In the Navy we concluded yesterday with Sir Robert Mansell, uppon his offer that, if he might have ten thowsand pound presently his Majestie should save six hundred poundes a monthe for ever, which is about seven thowsand pounds by yeare, and the raystery was not great, though it have been leng in suspence, for it was no more but where his Majestie keepeth now continewally at seas seven ships and pynaces he wold keep but fowre and discharge the rest, which this ten thowsand pound must full pay for their service past ; but we have ordered he shall have the raoney. In Ireland we can doe little till the officers come, who are not yet arrived. Wednesday next is appointed fer the Border matters, where, if the garrison be discharged and the fees of Commissioners, his Majestie shall save ene thowsand pound by yeare. The Venetian ambassador^ hath been with me, who, uppon these occasions which are conteyned in the lettres ef Sir Henry Wotton* which I have sent te yeur Lordship, presseth still for a declaration of his Majesty, although his advertlseraent, as he delivered it to ' Master of the Wardrobe. ' The Earl of Pembroke. ' Pietro Contarini. * Ambassador at Venice: 32 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1617. me, be farre short of that which Sir Henry Wotton writteth. I Nov. 14. }^g^YQ given him geed werdes concerning hig Majesty ['s] disposition to that State, and that when it shall appeare that the King of Spain breaketh through his own fault, his Majesty will net fayle to dee as his honnor shall require. This I did the rather because Sir Henry Wetton craveth tyme of a weeke more to advertise mere certainly. If Mr. Comptroller 1 had spoken with me before his going I might have learned by him what opinion is in France about the observa tion of this peace with Venice,^ or what their disposition is toward the maintenance of it, and have knewen better what to have sayd to the Venetian ; but now he is there his Majesty raay knew it of hira, and se give his directions as he shall see cause. I have sent your Lo[rdship] lettres which I receaved even now out ef France. When your Lordship hath perused these lettres which I send to you from tyme to tyme I beseach you that Mr. Packer may return them. So I humbly take my leave. From the Court at Whitehall this 14 November 1617. Your Lo[rdship's] humbly to coramand, Tho. Lake. ' Sir Thomas Edmondes, who had been, for many years, ambassador in France. He was now recalled and had arrived in London on the llth. On the day on which this letter was written, he set out for the Court at Newmarket. Chamterlain to Carleton, November 15, S. P. Dom. xciv. 30. ' Articles to serve as a basis of peace between Venice and the Archduke Fer dinand, and also between Spayne and Savoy, were signed at Paris, g — ^ — r- — -^ The latter combatants signed the final treaty at Pavia — ^ —, the former did not come to terms till =rT- — ^, 1618. It was, no doubt, in consequence of this delay that the Venetians appealed to James. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 33 No. XV. Sie Thomas Lake to the Eael of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My duety to your Lo[rdship] humbly remembred. I am very 1617. sory that his Majesty doth mistake my raeaning in the matter of the pensions; for I did not intend his Majesty should be troubled with particuler abatements; but, wher^ he had exempted such as I doe assure myselfe he will, as forrain Princes, his necessary servants, and seme Privy Councellors, te deliver his pleasure straightly and in generall, that off nil others he wold have abated a third part. But it seameth his Majesty will have it the worke of his Councell te abate uppon particulers, wherein I feare there wilbe so rauch diversity of opinion as there will not be rauch don to his Majesty['s] expectation. I doe not forgett, nor will not, my duety in calling uppon it, but I beseach his Majestie to consyder that their LL. have so many thinges to doe, and the terme taketh up so many of the principall of them as they can meete but twice in the weeke. This afternoon shalbe read his Majesty ['s] lettres by Mr. Comp troller^ and those your Lo[rdship] sent me inclosed in yours, and after your Lo [rdship] shalbe- advertised.^ what shall passe. I have sent your Lo[rdship] the Warrant for Sir Thomas Dash- ington, and so humbly take my leave. From Whitehall this 21 November 1617. Your Lordships humbly to comraand, Tho. Lake. ' Qy. when. » Sir T. Edmondes. CAMD. SOC. 34. fortescue PAPERS. No. XVI. Lord Keepbe Sir Francis Bacon and the Eael of Suffolk to James I. [Autograph signatures.] igi7_ It may please your Majestie. We have, accordinge te your Ma- Nov. 24. jestes command, taken into eur consideration the offers made by Sir Richard Haughton' to your Majestie of his allome werkes; and, aswell by our owne experience in generall as upon perticuler con ference with divers yeur Majesty's officers and others, fourth of longe practice likelyest to have best knowledge in these werkes, we fynde that your Majesty's owne allome workes are now already setled fer the yearely makeinge of soe many tennes of allome as (accordinge to a medium thereof formerly cast upp) can pessiblely receave vent eyther at heme or abroade. Soe that if these werkes ef Sir Richarde Haughten's weare at this instant in your Majesty's handes, we dee not se to what purpose your Majestie should be at the charge to keepe them upp, beinge there is as much allome already undertaken to be made fer your Majestie as can be vented. Besides, your Majestie haveinge byn already at see greate a charge in setlinge these workes of your owne, how fytt yt may be te yssue mere monies in these needefull tymes in a new werke unnecessarie, we humbly leave to your Majesties good consideracion. Yet beinge that the makeinge and sellinge of allome at Sir Richarde Houghton's workes may hinder the vent of the proportion now made at your Majesties, in that respect your Majestie may please te gratify him with seme such convenient sute as he shall fynde out fyt for your ' The King visited Sir Richard's at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire, on the I5th of August. Aasheton writes in his diary (Nichols' Progresses, iii. 399), under the date of Aug. 16, " About four o'clock the King went downe to the allome-mynes, and was ther au hower, viewed them preciselie, and then went and shott at a stagg, and missed." FOETESCUE PAPERS. 35 Majestie to grant in lieu of the benefyt of his allome workes ; and igi7_ in the meane tyme, till such a sute be founde, if your Majestie shall Nov. 24. please to lay some comande upon Sir Robert Bannister to forbeare to take the extremitie of the forfeture ef Sir Richardes landes, yet soe as he may sustaine nee losse in the forbearance of his monies, we thinke your Majestie deales verie graciously with Sir Richard Haughton and yt cannot be much prejudiciall te Sir Robert Banister. We have sent some other certificates and reasons concerninge the state of this businesse te our verie good Lorde the Earle of Buck ingham te give your Majestie further information therein. All which we humbly submitt to yeur Majesties good pleasure as Yeur Majesties most humble Servantes, Fr. Bacon, C.S. xxiiij". November, 1617. T. Suffolke. No. XVII. Sie Thomas Lake to [the Eael of Buckingham]. [Holograph.] My duety to yeur Lo [rdship] humbly remembred. After I had Nov. 27. raade up myne other lettres I receaved these inclosed from Mr. Trumbull,' bringing me the discomfortable newes of my Lord Rosse ^ coorses, who is now certainly at Rome, and what further so unsettled and unconstant a brayn as he hath will dee I know not. That Diego, his Spaniard, is not with him, I doe beleave the cause to be that he stayeth somewhere hidden till his peace be made. I confesse I never liked Diego, for all his show ef religion ; howsoever my Lord of Canterbury had a great opinion of him, for I heard that ' Agent at Brussels. ' Lord ' Roos, grandson and heir of the Earl of Exeter, and aon-in-law of Sir Thomas Lake. F 2 36 FQETESCUE PAPERS. 1617. he had secret resort to the Spanish Ambassador, and I was uppon a '• coorse to have found seme certainty of it, when we went into Scot land, but before his Majesty's return he was gon, and had caryed his master with him. All these revolters are suspicious to me till I see good proofe. Now that it is knowen where he is I desire to know his Ma jesty ['s] pleasure, whether my selfe in his Majesty ['s] name or sorae of ray LL.may writt te command his return, thereby to trye him , although I feare now the worst. If his Majesty like it I will finde seme way to have it delivered. I thought it my duety te lett his Majesty knew what is become of him. Touching Mr. Trumbul's motion for his return, I shall attend his Majesty tyme enough at Newmarkett, but for his increase of allowance, so as to putt his Majesty te a new charge, I knew not how to 'doe it ; but, if his Majesty like to have him stay there, I will, out ef the allowance I have for secreat services, give him one hundred poundes or two hundred markes more by the year, rather then draw a new charge on his Majesty for example. And seing that he resteth there but in the quality of a private man,'^ if his Majesty thinke fit te continew him in that quality, he must have signification ef his pleasure; if as an agent or publike minister, he must have seme lettres ef credence. So I humbly take my leave. From Charing Crosse, this 27 November, 1617. Your Lordship's humbly to command, Tho. Lake, In the middest of your serious busines you may take ether learning or mirth out of this booke, specially being so neere allyed to yeu. The title is multifarious and the contents multiplicieus. I have learned se much onely by looking on it. ' He had been recalled and had taken leave in June, but had been directed to j-emain at Brussels till further orders. He snbaequently continued however at his ]iost as agent for many years. FORTESCUE PAPEBS. 37 No. XVIIL Elizabeth, Electeess Palatine, to James I. [Holograph.] Sire. Monsieur I'Electeur envoyant le Baron de Winnenberg }^^^i "TT Tl (T N. 1 ¦»-* r- J 8/11. O. vers V. M. et aussy a la Royne pour l[uy su]ipplier qu'avec mon cher frere il luy pleut [de lever]i au bastesme le petit black babie que j'ay eu dernierement,^ je I'ay voulu charger avec cellecy pour remercier tres humblement Votre Majesty your ces gratieux lettres ct beau present que Mens. Merton m'a apporte, et ce qui m'[a] resjouy encore extremement c'est de voir par la lettre de la main propre de Votre Majeste qu'elle y eu agreable le desir que j'ay d'aveir I'henneur de la voir, et qu'aussy Votre Majesty paroist a le desirer en me donnant esperance que cela se fera, car il faut que je confesse que je ne saurois avoir un plus grand contenteraent que de reveir encore V. M. Ce porteur pourra dire a V. M. toutes les nou- velles d'icy; il nous laisse tous en fort bonne sant^, je n'iraportuneray plus V. M. pour a cest heure, la suppliant de rae conserver tousjours en ces bonnes graces comme estant a jamais. Sire, deV.M. La tres humble et tres obeissante filie et servante, Elizabeth. D'Heidelberg ce 3 de Janvier. Je remercie tres humbleraent V. M. qu'il luy a pleu de faire Morten sen Agent, car cela servira beaucoup a raes affaires. Ma bonne ihere Madame de Harrington se sent extreraent honnor^ qu'il a pleu k V. M. de la nommer en sa lettre ; elle dit que, tant qu'elle aura un corps et des jambes peur la potter, elle me suivera par tout. ' Almoat entirely obliterated by damp, - Her aecond child Charlea Louia, who succeeded his father in the Electorate, The term " black baby " ? =," black doll " was applied by Elizabeth also to her eldest child. See Mrs. Green's Princesses, v. 278. Jan. 12, 38 FOETESCUE PAPEES. No. XIX. Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1618. My duety to your Lordship humbly remembred. This lettre shall give his Majesty by your Lo[rdship] an accompt of such things at it pleasd him to committ te raee at Theobalds, or as do concerne his service. First for the Lord Wotton, when I had delivered his Majesties message to him in such manner as I receaved it, his Lordship tooke thereby occasion to repeate from the beginning the course ef pro ceeding in that businesse betweene him and Sir Henry Carey, inferring still that he never yeelded to deliver his staffe ^ and retire without some raarke of his Majesties favor, and he hoped his Majesty had not beene otherwise informed. ,That, notwithstanding, he did not intend to capitulate with his Majesty, for he knew his staffe was in his pleasure, and he would lay it at his feete, if he would have it soe, but yet had confidence in his long service and in his Majestyes gracious acceptance thereof, and that he hoped his Majesty would not regard him lesse then he had done ethers of his ranke, and named my Lord Wallingford, who had not only an advancement of dignity, but a ward yearly by condition with his Majesty.^ To that I awnswered that my Lord Walllingford's case and his differed, for from my Lord Wallingford his Majesty tooke the staffe fer his service, and gave him no leave to dispose of it ; and for the ward, he had it not by condition, but of his Majestyes favor some moneths after. My Lord Wotton said that he knew not that, and when I urged that he ought to have had the like confidence of his Majestyes 1 Lord Wotton resigned the Treasurerahip of the Houaehold, and -waa succeeded by Sir T. Edmondes, Feb. 1, 1618. The ComptroUership thus vacated was given to Sir Henry Carey, afterwards the first Lord Falkland. Lord Wotton is spoken of by Gondomar as being secretly a Roman Catholic. ^ When removed from the Treasurership of the Household to the Mastership of the Wards, FOETESCUE PAPEES. 39 grace towards him in any reasonable matter, as the other had had, 16I8. his reply was, that he had no cause to doubt it, but asked mee if I '^^"' ^^^ would give ray word that I would be carefull sollicitor for him. I said I durst not give my word (without I had warrant) in a thing depending upon his Majestyes will, but would advertise his Majesty of his awnswere, and for mee his Lordship needed not to doubt but that fer myne ancient acquaintance with him I would be ready to do him any good office that lay in my power. I must net omitt to tell your Lordship that, among other things, I said to hira that he was te accompt it for a great marke of his Majestyes faveur that he had leave to nominate his successor, which he did acknowledge, but alleadged his auncient service, and that he thought his Majesty would not find it unreasonable he should expect his favour in his suite. I thinke that if he may have seme hope thereof, though he do it not by way of capitulation, yet he will performe with Sir Henry Carey. But because I see him desirous to have some comfort of it, and te put in me some confidence fer the furthering of it, I durst go no further than I have till I heare from his Majesty. I must net emitt also that in speaking of the reference of his suite to those who could judge of it, hee tooke exceptions to the Lord Treasurer 1 and Mr. Chancellor ^ as havinge beene adverse te him before, which I said his Majesty might easely helpe by adding some others to them. And this is as much as I can say for that part. I have acquainted my Lords with the suite of the Ambassador of Venice,' who de like very well of his Majestyes awnswere, and do appoint to speake with him on Wensday next. I receaved also lettres from Sir Henry Wotton, whereby he deth advertise that the State there have made the like motion to him. The lettres I have sent herewith and others from ether places, which, though they bee many, I hope his Majesty will not be displeased with mee for discharging my duety, and yet there is ne great matter in any of them. By this occasion I desire your Lordship to lett me know I The Earl of Suffolk. 2 Sir Fulk Greville. 3 See pp. 31 and 32, Note ». 40 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1618. whether hereafter when like lettres come to mee I shall addresse Jan. 12. them to your Lordship or Mr. Secretary ^ when he is there. Yesterday my Lords heard the raatter of Captaine Bayliffe,^ and when se much had beene examined as concerned his leaving ef Sir Walter Raleigh, I thinke, if nothing else had happned, my Lords would have beene divided in opinion about his committing, at least some of us should. But ray Lord Admiral ^ produced two things whereof ray Lords had never heard before ; the one was a report made by Bayliffe, and delivered abroad in writing, wherein he doth lay foule iraputacions on Sir Walter Raleigh, whereof there is no proofe, and ef many the examinacions do cleare him, so that wee should all have agreed te have committed him for that. But, that being dene, ray L[ord] Admiral alleaged that Bayliffe had, en Thursday last at a dinner, speken that he could accuse Sir Walter Raleigh ef treason, and some others greater then hee, and presently called in two men who advewed to my Lords that Bayliffe had so said, and likewise a third was sent fer by Bayliffe's direction, one Captaine Chester, who did in effect affirm as much, and Bayliffe being urged to the particulars, awnsweared he knew them not ; but that Mr. Hastings, my Lord Huntingdon's brother, had told him at Plymouth that Sir Walter Raleigh was a false unworthy fellow, and that he had said te him that which was treason. Upon this, my Lords have committed Bayliffe close prisoner, and given order to his Majestyes Councell to examine the witnesses and him, fer if that be true which he saieth upon Sir Walter Raleigh, yet is it misprision of treason in him to conceale it so long. Of this my Lordes will write themselves to his Majesty, and so I ara the shorter. I have spoken with Mr. Chancellor ef the Exchequer concerning the Earl of Somerset's motion, and my Lord Hay^and hee and I had some conference about it. He conceaveth it to bee indifferent for his Majesty, but cannot give a direct awnswere till he know how many yeares purchase my Lord' will insist upon, fer if he tye his ^ Sir Robert Naunton, who had been just made Secretary. = Bailey. = The Earl of Nottingham. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 41 Majesty to the uttermost valew, then is my Lord Treaserer and hee leis. but my Lord of Somerset's bayliffes to raa]?:e money fer him, and ^"- • perhaps his Majesty tyeing himselfe to a certainty at the highest rate, may loose. I thinke, for ray opinion, it were good Mr. Chan cellor had order to go speake with him and to understand him clearely and to conclude as he shall see cause. The Merchants Adventurers have delivered a very honest awn swere, which is that they will payi rent with[in] foure or five'dayes, and within tenne dayes after tenne thousand poundes,. and the whele before Shrovetide. After I had written thus much I receaved a lettre from my Lord Wotton which I send your Lordship herewith, and thereby I thinke you will discerne that which I have delivered as my opinion that, upon a new charge of his bargaine, with some hope in the suite, he will make an end. And so I hurably take my leave. Your Lordship's humbly to command, Tho. Lake. Whitehall, this 12th of January, 1617. Indorsed : — Seci. Lake, 12 Janr No. XX. Sie Lionel Ceanfield to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Right Honorable my most Hennored Lord. My fellowe Com- Jan. 14. missioners and myselfe are laboringe daylye from morninge till night in that great buyssines ef the Hewshowlde wherin it hath pleased your Lordship for his Majesties service to ingadge me : and do hepe within fewe dayes te give your Lordship such an accompt as wilbe most acceptable to the Kinge* and pleasinge to yeur Lord ship ; for I do thincke wee shall do more then satisfie his Majesties expectation. I was yesternight with my L [ord] ChaunceUer, with whom I spent som tyme in acquaintinge him with the manner ef owr proceedinge, ' Paper torn, CAMD. SOC. G 42 FORTESCUE PAPEES. 1618. who was pleased to approve therof, and is as full of hope and '^"' ^*' desire it maye succeed te his Majesties satisfaction as wee that are the laborers in it. I shall ever with all thankfullnes acknowledge the many honor able favors I have received from your Lordship, and do hurably praye your Lordship to increase my obligation by mackinge one addition to the rest, which is to move his Majestie to bestowe en me the ChaunceUer of the Dutchie his place, when hee dyes that now. hath it,i who I hard this morninge is verry sicke. I shall in liewe therof leave to your Lordship's disposition my Master ef Requestes place, and ray Recevership of the Lycences of wynes, which do equall that place in proffitt, or do any thinge besides your Lordship shall please to commaund. My desire beinge te conclude with that marcke of his Majesties favor (by your Hennor's media tion), that after my many and dangerous adventures in his Majesties service, I maye (notwithstandinge the mallice of my greate enemyes) reste' salffe in so good a harber. I humblye leave ray selffe and this my suite te yeur Lordship's trewe noble disposition, and will ever rest Your Lordship's humble and faithfullest Servant te command, Lionell Ceanfeilde. January 14th, 1617, Addressed : To the Right Honorable my most honnored Lorde the Marques of Bucking ham, Master of his Majesties Horse, Indorsed : Sir L, Cranfield. No. XXL Sie Thomas Lake to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Jan. 21. My duety to your Lo [rdship] humbly remembred. This gentle man Mr. Scott used your Lordship's name to me in a busines which ' Sir Thomas Parry, He was succeeded by Sir Humphrey May, FOETESCUE PAPEES. 43 may concern his Majesties proffitt, wherein Mr. Secretary Wyn- leis. wood dealt while he lived. It is a raatter ef great difficulty and •'^^- ^^' wherein good consyderation is te be taken, which maketh me goe warrily to werke. He will lett your Lo[rdship] understand the particulers, and se I shall not need to be mere troublesome te your Lordship. I was this afternoon with the .Lord Wetton to subscribe his resignation,'- but he hath taken tyme till tomorrow, because it seameth he hath not full satisfaction from Sir Henry Cary about his raoneys. I have sent doun ray sonne Arthur to yeur Lo [rd ship] to acquaint you with serae thing passed here concerning his sister my daughter Rosse,^ wherein I humbly desire your Lordship's favor for even and indifferent proceeding. I knew your own nature is just and honorable, and I hope that to me or myne it will be kinde and favorable. So I humbly take my leave. From Charing Cresse this 21 January 1617. Yeur Lordship's humbly to command, Tho. Lake. I have made bold to send te yeur Le [rdship] herewith the true copies ef two writings, ene a declaration delivered to the Commis sioners by my daughter, the other of the writing which he' gave her. I beseach your Lordship te take the paines to peruse them, and doe me the favor that his Majestie may peruse them, and then lett thera be given to my sonne Arthur. No. XXIL Sie Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My duety to your Lo[rdship] humbly remembred. I have sent to Jan. 24, Mr, Secretary the resignation and commission concerning my Lord 1 Of the Treasurership of the Household, " Lady Roos. ^ Does thia mean Lord Roos ? g2 44 fortescue papers. 1 618. Wotton, and withall some forrain lettres ; but this from Mr. Cettingtorr I thought good to send to your Lo[rdship] because of the later clause concerning Sir John Digby. I hope within three or fowre dayes his Secretary wilbe here, for these lettres have been almost six weekes on the way. At his arrivall his Majestie shalbe able to conjecture of the successe of that busines.^ I did writt unto your Lo [rdship] concerning the office of the Dutchy, and directed mj sonne te attend your Lordship about it. I cannot but still soUicite you as one that wold be glad te cary some testimony of your good will te me. I doubt there be some that may seeke to doe ill offices, which is common to thinges in Court, but I know your Le[rdship's] judgement will not be caryed with others' passions ; therefore I doe still beseach your Lo[rd- ship's] favour in it, and the chief cause is for that that place hath a good howse and standing conveniently for his Majesties service: besides a little ambition pricketh me.that I might have that place which my master Sir Fra[ncis] Walsingham once had. I did also will my sonne to acquaint your Lo[rdship] with the case between my La[dy] ef Excester and my daughter, which when your Lo[rdship] shalbe truely informed of, yeu will, I doubt net, rest satisfied. I have some cause to speake with his Majesty, though my stay be net long, and purpose to come abowt the middle ef the next weeke, as I have written to Mr. Secretary Nanton, and therein I beseach your Lo[rdship's] favor, and rest Your Lo[rdship's] humbly te comraand, Tho. Lake. 24 January 1617. ' Of his negotiation in Spain for the marriage. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 45 No. XXIII. Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, to James I. [Llolograph.] Sire. Cestecy est pour remercier tres humbleraent V. M. pour 1618. la belle bagne qu'il luy a pleu m'envoyer par le gentilhomme de Monsieur I'Electeur ; I'assurance qu'il m'a donne que V. M. me faites I'honneur de me retenir tousjours en ces bonnes graces m'e resjouyt infiniment ; je la supplie dont de ra'y conserver toutes fois que je ne puis meriter tant de faveurs que je re^ois journellement de V. M,, laquelle je supplie tres-humblement de souvenir de I'esperance qu'elle m'a donne d'estre un jour si heureuse que de voir V. M. ¦' et de luy pouvoir dire de bouche en tout humilite que je suis a jamais, Sire, de V. M. La treshumble et tresobeissante filie et servante, Elizabeth. D'Heidleberg, ce 10 de Fevrier, No. XXIV. Sir Humphrey May to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My Lord. I do most willingly acknowledso that T have hereto- 1618. . o J o _ March?'' fore received greate favours and benifites from you, and that without ' See, on this projected visit to England, Mrs. Green's Princesses, v, 286. ' I take the date from the following extract. " Sir H. May is to bee ChanceUor of the Duchye, but not Counsellor. Ben Rudyerd is to be Survayer of the Com-t of Wards, and Mr. Packer is to have 300'' a yeare pension, which Sir Plum. May held in the Exchequer, It was thus agreed when the King came from Newmarket, but my Lord of Buckingham, being angry with Sir H. May, hath thus long kept it backe from bestowing, to lett him knowe that only for my Lord Hamilton's and the 46 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1618. any merit of mine, in a short space wherin I injoyed the benignity March ? ^f your aspect upou me you were pleased to do more fer me to the raysing and setling of ray fortune, then any other frendes had donne in reward ef the service and observaunce of many yeares performed unto them. This being trew and sincerely professed by rae, your Lordship raay easily conceive that the loss ef your favour, if I have any sence of morall dutyes, must needes be raatter of extreme greefe and discontentment unto me, and that as I have cause te sesteeme it one of the greatest infselicityes that ever befell me, so nothing could be more pleasinge unto rae then the recovery thereof, which to the utterraest of my power I will indevour te effect, by all other raeanes then such as would dishonest me te the world and you, and make me unworthy te be received by you. 1 have often heretofore attempted it by the best wayes I knew, and thoughe hetherto it hath bin without success, yet in duty and humility I de still persevere te seeke unto yeu, and do not dispaire but that I shall find you, bycause I know there is nobleness ef nature, goodness and mag nanimity in you. I do confess that these ill impressions [received by i] yeur Lord ship concerning me, and which fir[st took all] heart from me, were so appareled with [cunning false] hood that they would have wrought [in an]y [man li]vinge these ill effectes towardes me as they did in you. But, ray Lord, I do infinitely desire yeur favour, and not te debate whether I have bin faulty or unfortunat only towardes your « Lordship, being unwillinge to ravell into the meraory of those Lord Chamberlaynes sake, and to advance Mr. Rudyerd, he hath yeilded to him. The offence was that Humphrey May, to make sure of this place, had written to Mr. Packer that he wold resigne the Survayorship of the Court of Wards, and hya pension also to him, if he cold bring my Lord of Buckingham to advance him to the Chancellorship. He also acquaints Ben Rudyerd, that if he wold engage hys frends for his remove to that place, he wold give over the Survayorship to him ; which made him allso use hys frendes, so that, by theyre importunacy on both sides, he assurd himselfe he cold not misse, which he doth not ; but yett the Marques made offended with him." Gerrard to Carleton, March 6, 1818. S. P. Dom. xcvi. 48. ' Paper torn ; the lacunae filled up by conjecture. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 47 offensive particulers which may stir up a fresh acriraony [in your] isig. Lordship towardes me, and cannot conduce to the end I [aim] at, March? which is the recovery of your Lordship's good opinion, to [which] pur- ¦ pose 1 humbly desire yeur Lordship that nothing may be remembred of the tiraes past, but only the favours and benifites which I have received from yeu, which in gratitude ought ever to binde me to serve you faithfully, and that your Lordship wilbe pleased to looke forward only upon me, and te valewe me as yeu shall find me to be just and upright in all ray wayes and actions towardes you. M[y] Lord, this ray desire to be received into the n[umber] ef your servantes, is, without any teraporary ar[tifice] sincere and cordiall, and if yeu shalbe pleased te accept of me, yeu shall find that I have a larger heart to serve you faithfully then a pen to express it. Your Lordship's In all humbleness to be commaunded Humfrey May. Addressed : — To the right honorable my Lord the Lord Marques Buckingham Lord highe Admirall of England. No. XXV. The Marquis of Buckingham to Sie Humphrey May. [Draft.] Sir. I have receaved your letter by Sir Henry Rich, whome I March? (that by the tryall I have had of your frends and enemies, can best judge in that kinde) assure yeu to be yeur very true frend.^ Atid alltheugh you had. made so great and 'poioerfull meanes to me by his Highnes, who next after his Majestie* hath so transcendent a com mand over me that I can deny him nothing, yet, seing so free an expression of your mynd in this letter which I have now receaved, I ' The words in italics were no doubt omitted in the fair copy, and the following paragraph substituted. 48 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1618. am the more disposed to take you bythe hand, assuring you thai what I doe is reall and cordiall, and I doe it the more especially at this tyme when there is some thing in acting against you, that you may have -proofe that 1 am as good an enemy as a frend,. I finde some what in your letter which I doe not understand, but ivill tell you what it is at our meeting that you may be your own expositor. But before yeur lettre came I saw what powerfull meanes you had made by the Prince, who next after his Majestie hath so tran scendent a command over me, that I could not but be very willing to take yeu by the hand ; and th« rather at this tyrae because it was now in ray power to act something which might make you see that I am as good an enemie as a frend. And now seeing in your own letter to me the earnest protesta tion ef yeur sinceritie, I can assure yeu of this en my part, that what I doe is very cordiall. Some thing I finde in your letter that I doe not well understand, which I leave to our meeting to be interpreted by your self.^ Indorsed : Coppie of my Lord's answeare to Sir H. May. No. XXVI. The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Robert Naunton. [Draft.] June 16. Sy[r]. His Majestie commaunded me to -write unto yeu that yeu should make ready an answeare to the Duke ef Savoyes last lettre touching the rendring of Vercelli,i with all speed, containing ' " Sir Humphrie May," wrote Chamberlain on the 7th of March (S.P.Dom. xcvi. 50), " hath outstript his competitors and carried away the Chauncellorship of the Duchie, though yt be muche maymed by the renting of a speciali member, for the Lady Compton or Villers hath got a leaae, and is in possession of the houae belonging to yt at the Savoy." ' This place, taken by Don Pedro de Toledo from the Duke of Savoy, in July FOETESCUE PAPERS. 49 these 3 points: — First, to thank him fer his care _ in giving his 1^18. Majestie se quick advertisement of that good newes ; next, to con gratulate with hira the rendring of that town, and yet te lett hira knowe that it is no more then his Majestie ever expected, both because his own Ambassador, then residing in Spayne, and his agent, gave him centinuU advertisementes that order was given in Spayne for the yielding ef it up. And besides the Spanish Ambas sador here gave his Majestie confident assurance therof, and bad him take himself to him if it were net done; and therefore his Majestie imputeth it to the ill nature of Don Pedro de Toledo that it was so long delayed, who hindred the performance thereof against the hart of his Master. Thirdly, te give the Duke of Savoye assurance from his Majestie that he is as glad as any man of this good be ginning of the settling of his affaires, so he will in all occacions continue his affection for the finishing thereof. Now, the reason why his Majestie hasteneth his aunsweare so much is this, because without there be speed made of it, it will lose the grace ; and so I rest Your very assured frend at commaund, G. B. Indorsed: 16 June, 1618. M. to Sir R. Naunton. Answeare to Duke of Savoye for the rendringe of Vercelli. No. XXVII. The Marquis of Buckingham to the Count of Gondomar. [Copy.] , My very good Lord. His Majesty hath commanded me to sig- Jnne 18. nifie unto you, that whereas he is given to understand of the paynes , , , . , , T. , . September 29 .^n -n ^ 1617, waa to be restored bythe treaty signed at Pavia m ^ , , „ . Don Pedro had however delayed carrying out hia part of the bargain tUl now. CAMD. SOC. H 50 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1618. and care which M"^ Timperley,i of Hintlesham, in the Countie ef June 18. Suffolk, hath taken in procuring ease unto your Lordship in point of yeur health, he will cause such raeanes to be used for the raitiga- tien of any rigorous course to be taken against her for matter ef religion, as that beth herself, her husband, and faraily shall finde great comfort and ease in regard ef the service she hath done unto your Lordship, se long as they shall make- moderate use of this his Majestys gracious favor, and not presume so much thereon as to give any publike offence or scandali. God keep your Lordship many happie yeares, as I desire. From the Court at Theobalds this 18 of June, 1618. Indorsed : Coppie of my Lords l[ett]re to the Sp[anish] Amb[assado]r touching M[ist]ris Timperley. Mem. The 17"' of June Sy[mon] Digby brought a- lettre to be signed, which being shelved to the King, he said it was quite mis taken, and called in Sy. Digby, to whome he gave new directions accord ing to thia coppie, which hia Majestie looked upon at Wanstead, and said it was well. Your Lordship's servant. XXVIIL The Earl of Suffolk to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] July 31. My -Ho[norable] good Lord. I do acknowledg your noble favour in procuring leave for my servant Humfrees coming unto me, but I pray your Lordship to lycens me truly te acquaynt you what raesery yt hath produced unto me ; for, searching the bottom of ' See a reference to thia lady's case in a consulta by Aliaga and Gondomar, of which extracts are printed in the Appendix to Francisco de Jesus, 311. fortescue papers. 51 my debt, I fynde my selfe forty thowsand pounds to pay upon 1618. bounds and morgages, wherin raany of my frends and servaunts "^ " stand engaged fer me, besydes the land that I lately sold to Williams the geldsmyth, for which I had fiveteen thowsand pounds, and fyve thowsand of Sir Nycholas Salter for land sold hym not long before. I report this mesyry of myne to yeur Lordship to no other end but to let you knowe how desierous I ara te satisfye all men, because the fault ef the expence was my folly. Now, my Lord, my state stands so as no body wyll bargayn with me fer any thing untyll his Majestie be satysfyed that I am not endebted to hym, by which I may be freed to bargayn and deale with them. My desyer ys net so to hasten this as therby the Kyng's Majestie may have any prejudyce in concealyng one crown that I duely do ewe hym ; on the other syde, I appeale te your Lo[rdshi]p, my case were extreame hard yf this brute of my being much endebted to hys Majestie showld contynew long ; therfore my humble sute to your Lordship ys that out ef yeur noble dysposition you wyll take this into consederation, that some course in fytt tyme may be taken, that by yeur Lordship's faveur I may be releeved in this reasonable sute of myne, whicli I wyll ever acknowledg to yeu fer a great oblygation, which I presume the rather to do because yt pleased you te promyse me your kyndnes and faveur in any fitting occasion ; and se, kyssing your hands, I rest Your Lordship's loving cosen and servaunt to commaund, T. Suffolke. Audly End thia last of July. Addressed : To the right honorable my very good Lord the Marques of Buckyng- ham. Master of his Majesties Horse. h2 52 fortescue papers. No. XXIX. Lord Sheffield to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1618. My very good Lord. I understand by my Lord Scroope hewe "^' ¦ noblie yeur Lordship hath given furtherance unto my ends in his suite and mine unto his Majestie, of which I will allwaies have a thankefull remerabrance whensoever I may dee yeur Lordship service. Notwithstandinge which I perceive that his Majestie, for some respects knowen to himselfe, is resolved te continewe my attendance in those places which I helde under him in the Northe,^ of whiche (by reason of the many infirmities attendinge my yeares and constitution,) I desired to have beene eased, therbie to have given way unto some other more able to doe his Majestie service. Howbeit, since his Majesties pleasure is otherwise, I humblie submitt my selfe therunto. But by reason this his gracious purpose comes unto me only by reporte, wherbie it raay seame presumption in me to resume them without the significacion of his Majesties pleasure, eyther from himselfe or some ether by whom hee shall please to doe it, havinge formerly resigned them into his handes, I desire your Lordship that under such warrantie I may bee protected, otherwise I shall not adventure to doe his Majestie service in those places. And because this resignacien of my imployments falls out in a time when ethers dee the like out of other grounds (beeinge giltie of sorae miscarriage in their places), therby to avoyde question, by reason wherof some scandali hath fallne upon me as conceived to bee iu the same predicamente, his Majestie shall bee very gracious unto me (and for the sarae I will thinke ray selfe muche bounde unto your Lordship) if in my restitucion some such gracious passage bee incerted as wherbie the trewe cause of my offringe up of my imployraents (wante ef healthe and abilitie to dee his Majestie ' As President of the Council of the North. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 53 service) may bee intiraated, for the satisfieinge in some serte ef this I6I8. calumniatinge worlde which lies in waite to blemishe my good -^-^S- 1- name and honor. And thus, relienge upon your Lordship's approved favor, I commend my love and service te you and reste Att your Lordship's commaundment, E. Sheffild. Att Lond[on] this firste of August 1618. I desire your Lordship te returne yeur answere with all con venient speede, for I have nowe noe other cause of stay in towne. Addressed : To the right honorable my very good Lord the Lord Marqueis of Buckingham, Master of the Horse to the Kings Ma"e these dd. Indorsed : Lord SheffeUd. 1 August, No. XXX. Lord Sheffield to the Marquis of Buckingham. Noble Lord. Your raany noble respects towardes me (of which -*-"§• ^• I am very sensible) doth imbolden me te commende unto yeur Lordship's favor a busines raore particulerly concerninge me then any I have ever had occasion to use yeu in. It is not unknowen to your Lordship, that I have served the Kinge and the State now these 15 yeares in a greate, a chargable, but a poore place, by reason whereof I have soe muche prejudiced my estate, as, the Kinge not beeinge able or willinge to releeve raee, I have beene forced to desire sparinge frora further attendance or publique imployment. Nowe, my Lord, findinge an opportunitie offred wherbie I may releeve rayselfe and therbie bee enabled to serve the Kinge without pressure unto him, I desire yeur Lordship's favour and furtherance therin, which is no more but that your Lordship will bee a furtherer of me in beeinge a suitor unto the greate riche 54 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1618. widowe of Sir William Craven, ^ and that your Lordship will make -*-"§¦ *• this my resolucion knowen to the Kinge, movinge him humbly from me for soe much favor and furtherance as hee may give me in this busines; then I doubt net but to carrie it against all raen, and therbie bee made able te serve him without any charge to him in any his imployments (which I shall bee ever willinge and readie to doe as lenge as I have life and healthe with all duetie and fidelitie) reservinge unto my Lord Scroope that right which your Lordship knowes me tied unto in honor, if it shall please his Majestie te give allowance therunto : and I shall likewise bee enhabled to bee every way thankefull to my frendes, of which number I doe especially accounte your Lordship one, whome I will for this and all your other noble favors ever honor and love, and soe reste Your Lordship's moste faithfull frend. Ever to bee commaunded by you, E. Sheffield. Att London this 4th day of Anguste 1618. Addressed: To the right honorable my very good Lord the Marquis of Buck ingham these dd. Indorsed : Lord Sheffield. Vid[ua] Craven. No. XXXI. The Earl of Suffolk to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Sept, 13. My honorable good Lord. Hys Majestie drawing neer te the end of hys progress geves me meanes to have oportunitye to kyss hys hands, which as I do infynitly long for, so out of the hope of your Lordship's faveur I desyer that you wolde be pleased to bring me to have access to hys Majestie. I purpose to wayte upon hym when he comes to Theobals, but thought fytt fyrst to acquaynt yeur ' According to Dugdale, Lord Sheffield's second and last wife was Mariana, daughter of Sir WiUiam Erwin, so that this stroke for a fortune came to nothing. fortescue papers. 55 Lordship withall, by whose kyndnes I desyer to obtayne this 1618. hapynes, for which I wyll ever be ^^P'" '^^' Your Lordship's loving kynsman And servaunt to commaund, T. Suffolke. Audly End this 13 of September. Addressed : To the right hon. my very good Lord the Marquis of Buckyng- ham. Master of the Horse to hys Ma"". Indorsed : Earl of Suffolk. Sept. With my Lord's answer.' No. XXXII. The Maequis of Buckingham to Sie Robeet Naunton. [Copy.] Sir. His Majestie hath commanded me to send unto you these Oct. lo. two letters frora the Countesse of Exeter, the ene to his Majestie the other te myself, being graciously inclyned te showe her anie favor in this her desire that raay according te lawe be yeelded unto hir ; which net knowing hew farre he raay lawfully grant, hath coramanded me te signifie his pleasure unto you that you call his Atturney-generall and Sollicitor both unto yeu, and advise with them what is fitt and convenient in, lawe te be donne in this case either for any warrant from his Majestie or deliverie of any writinges er other thinges appertayning to this proces now in hand ; and, what soever they shall thinke fitt, that you take speedie order fer the per formance thereof accordingly. October 10, 1618. Indorsed : My Lord to S. Naunton, Ladie Exeter. ' Half of the fly -leaf, on which Buckingham's answer was no doubt -written, has been torn off. 56 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. XXXIII. Sir H. Carey to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1618. Infinitely noble Lord. I 'was in hope when his Majesty was att Hampton Courte that my Lord of Wallingferde had beene in peace with his affayres, because all was then husht upp in silence : but since my comminge to Lunden I fynd the cry broaken owt lowed and constant ageyne for his remove, i for which I raust needes say (ignotd causa) I ara veary sorry. Whatt fate dependes uppon that voice, er what vertewe there is in the people's ydle predictions to bringe eventes te passe, though I beleeve not much, yett to soe generall a concurrency as I doe discerne in that opinion, I cannot but yeald upp ray dowbte of the worste which raay befall hira. And that dowbte begetts in ray contemplacion the consideracion of what must ensew, viz. manifeuld desires and competitions te succeed hira. Amongest which (pittiing that necessity his hard destiny may enforce) yf withowt the imputacien ef irreguler ambition to prefer myselfe, or seemeing to overpress your noble inclynation to me warde, I might lawfully offer my desires, I would presente them te you for it. Yett if he cann stand in his Majesty's favor and your Lordship's good likeing by any vertew of his owen inno cency, I ingeniously confess yt, I wishe it truly and shall be gladd of it sincerely. But yf-his fate or faulte will have him fall, I knewe his gladd consent will goe with me te supply his place, might his Majesty's grace and yeur Lordship's good opinion concurr with it. In this playne forme I use yeu raay discerne with what open con fidence I proceed with you, whose faythfully I ara, and he cannot justely accuse me te have dealte hollowly with him, whom he trusted te deale fer him, for I have yourself te be my noble wittness for my intyre proceedeing. New I have mentioned my narae and my desires with my motive and reservations, I recommend the reso- ' From the Mastership of the Wards, He was a aon-in-law of Suffolk, and Ms wife had taken part inthe attempt of the Howarda to overthrow Buckingham. fortescue papers. 57 lution to your wisedome, and myself in all other considerations in yt isis. to the absolute disposall of your election, as becomes him who hath ^'''- ¦"-*¦ allready receyved obligation more then sufficient ever to reraayne in all the degrees of ray fortune. Your Lordship's most affectionate honest servant, H. Cary. Gary Howse, this 14th day of October, 1618. By Sir Dudley Digges himself your Lordship will receyve the relation of the present state of Muscovy. Addressed : To the Right Honorable and ingulerly Noble Lord my Lord the Marquisse of Buckingham, at the Courte. Indorsed : Sir H. Cary, M' of Wards. No. XXXIV. James I. to the Commissioners foe the examination of Sie Walter Raleigh. [Draft.] Right trustie and welbeloved Counsellors, we greet you well.^ Oct. 20. f'^V^e have perused your letter touching the proceeding with Sir Walter Raleigh, in both which courses propounded by you we find imperfeccion. As first we like not that there should be only a nar rative sett forth in print ef his crimes togither with our warrant for his execution. And for the other course ef a publik calling him before our Counsell wee think it net fitt, because it would make him too popular, as was found by experience at his arraignement at Winchester, where by his witt he turned the hatred of men into compassion of him. Secondly, it were too great honor to him to have that course taken against one of his sort, which we have ob served never to have been used but toward persons of great qualitie, . ' This is a reply to the letter of October 18, from the Commissioners to the King, printed in Bacon's Works, ed. Montagu, xii. 331. CAMD. SOC. I 58 fortescue papers, 1618. as naraely the Countesse of Shrewsbury, and sorae such. Besides Oct. 20, £(. -^o,;ii(j make too great a stirre te have such sending of advice and directions te and fre as you mention in your lettre. We have therefore thought ef a middle course. That he be called only before those who have been the examiners of him hitherto, and that the examinations be read, and himself heard, and ethers confronted with him who were with him in this action. And that our Atturney and Sollicitor be employed to informe against him [touchingi his actes of hostilitie, depredation, abuse as well of eur Commission as of eur subjectes under his charge, his imposture, attempt of escape, and other his misderaeasnors] : only for the French, we hold it net fitt that they be named, but only by incident and that very lightly, And then, after bnge suspended. as that he should have escaped in a French barke.^ the sentence fer his execution which hath been thus a declaration be presently putt forth in print, a warrant being sent down for us to signe for his execution. Wherein we hold the French Physitian's confession very materiall te be inserted, as allso his own and his consortes confession that, before they were at the Islandes,^ he told them his ayme was at the fleet, with his son's - oration when'' they came to the town, and some touch of his hate- \ full speeches of eur ^ person.^ "T Indorsed : October 20. His Majestie to my Lo, Chancellor Sir W, Raleigh, ' The words in brackets are added as an interlineation. ' Here follows, erased by a penstroke, " without drawing them into the crime." That which was not to be mentioned was, doubtless, the intrigue with the Admiral of France for permission to return to a French port. ' This shows that the King's impression of the full evidence was that the pro posal to attack the Spanish fleet was -made before, and not after, the failure at the mine. ' " when " is substituted for " bef." i.e. before. ' " Onr " is substituted for " his Ma''="," erased. ^ This letter not only shows what was the nature of Raleigh's trial before the Commissioners, cf which all we know is taken from Sir Julius Csesar's notes printed in the Camden Miscellany, vol. iii., but it fixes approximatively the date of that paper, which I had, as Mr. Spedding has kindly pointed out to me, assigned to the 161£ FORTESCUE PAPERS. 59 No. XXXV. Sir Thomas Lake to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My duety to yeur Lo[rdship] humbly remembred. I have made bold to renew unto yeur Le [rdship] a sute I moved in a lettre to Nov, his Majesty at Hampton Coort, uppen a clamor made by my Lady of Excester about a mayd of my daughter's who should speake strange thinges ef rae, and that I had given her money for lettres she deli vered me. My sute then was and now is that it wold please his Majesty to be informed of those lettres, and what they were, fer his own private satisfaction, and I have them ready if his Majesty wilbe pleased to see them or appoint your Lo [rdship] te see them and informe him ; for, as I then gave my faith to God and my allegiance to his Majesty, he shall finde they doe no way concern this ^busines of my Lady of Excester, nor are fitt to be speken ef in the hearing of this cause, as his Majesty will judge when he shall know what they are. The same sute I doe humbly still renew to his Majesty, and to th'end that his Majesty may see how idle and in generall termes the accusation is, I have sent to yeur Lordship the deposition of the Lady Bamfield from whom the report came first, and likewise of the mayd, as she is deposed both on their part and on rayne, exceedingly contradictory to the Lady Bamfield. And fer the money, hew it came te be payd to hir and uppon what occasion, this bearer can satisfie your Lordship, who knoweth more of it then ever I did till it came to be talked of I beseach yeur Lordship that it may please his Majesty (if his affaires will give him 17th of Auguat, on altogether insufficient grounds. The trial must evidently have taken place soon after the -writing of this letter on the 20th of October, Mr. Sped ding haa also noticed the following errata in Sir J. Cassar's notes, as printed by me : p. 10, 1. 14, dele " King ;" p. II, 1. 23, for " looked" I. " tooke a ;" p. 12, 1, 6, for "faU" I. "fact;"l. 9, for "had hee" I. "hee had;" p, 13, 1. 1, after "de ceaved" insert "him;" 1. 4, for "confesseth" I. "confessed;" 1, 6, before " July " insert "12;"' before "counseU" insert "inthe," I 2 60 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1618. leave) to peruse these depositions, and I hope he shalbe satisfied con cerning me. If the money had been given hir for those lettres, er to conceale anything concerning my Lady. of Excester, it wrought little effect, for the talke between hir and the Lady Bamfield was in August, and the money she had, as it seemeth, about Midsummer. So I most humbly take ray leave, and remayn, Your Le [rdship's] in all true service and duety, Tho. Lake. Addressed: To the right honorable my singuler good Lord the Lord Marquis of Buckingham, Master of the Horse to his Majesty, -of his Privy CounceU, and of the most noble order of the Garter Knight. Indorsed : S, Lake. ^^^^. Examinacions. No. XXXVI. SiE Thomas Lake to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Nov. 14. My duety te your Lo[rdship] humbly reraerabred. Seing it pleased your Lo [rdship] to say to me that, for any misconceipt you had taken of rae, you were pleased to bury it, I hope that the sarae noble nature which moved you te remitt yeur own, will perswade you to be a mediator to his Majesty to forgive myne offence toward him, and I cannot beleave but that so gracious a nature as he hath, sollicited by so noble a meanes as you, shalbe able to effect it, and to procure me so rauch favor as te understand that his Majesty is pleased to forgive me. Your Lo[rdship] shall thereby oblige a disconsolate raan to yeu, and shalbe assured to finde from me as much faith and assurance to your selfe as frora an honest mynde can be expected. Your Le [rdship's] last aunsweare te rae at my being with you did so much distemper me, as I was never well since : for I finde that the long mist of his Majesty's displeasure, which hath lyen uppon my mynde, doth werke to fast uppen my FOETESCUE PAPERS. 61 body, except by your Lordship's favor and meanes some comfort 16I8. be procured me. For the matter of the Starre Chamber, I must ^°^' ¦'¦^¦ abide his Majesty's pleasure, although I doe not see why, if it shall please him to remitt his own offence, he raight not shew rae sorae testimony ef his geed opinion to keep rae from despaire, whereof hoping te finde the comfort by your Lordship, I will rest Yours, in all duety and service, Tho. Lake. 14 Nov. 1618, Addressed : To the right honorable my singuler good Lord the Lord Marquis of Buckingham, of his Majesties Pri-vy Councell and Master of the Horae to his Majestie. Indorsed: Sec. Lake, Novi^". No. XXXVII. Sir Lionel Cranfield to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] Right Honorable and my most Honnored Lord. I have sig- Nov. 17. nified his Majesties pleasure abowt the accompte of the chest belonginge to the maymed soldiers to ray fellowe Commissioners, which wee will expedite, that Sir Wm. St. John maye be satisfied according to your Lordship's desire. For the buyssines of the Navye wee followe it daylle, wherin wee fynd all thinges to succeed better then wee could hope ; only Sir Richard Bingley'e excuseth his offer of one thowsand poundes for the two shipps, saying Sir Wm. RusselP was to forward to informe his Majestie therof, it beinge but cutserye speech withowt either meaninge or meanes (on his part) to mack good that offer. Owr Commission^ wilbe ready within three or four dayes, wherby your Lordship shall perceive wee have ne other ende but ' Treasurer of the Navy. ' The permanent Navy Commission. 62 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1618. to do his Majestie service, and to restore the Lord Admirall's place Nov, 17, to the auntient right and greatnes ; and that wee intend te bee but yeur Lordship's servauntes, allthowghe some te gayn yeur Lordship's good opynion have indevored te mack yew believe otherwise. I have attended the Lordes twise abowt these greate and im- portaunt buyssinesses.of the strangers imployment, and allteration of the monyes, in which allthowghe I fynd that raeasure at my Lord Chauncellor's handes which I did net expect nor have deserved, yet I am not discerradged ner wilbe cowld in buyssinesses of that highe nature, consideringe not only my great master his honnor, but one sixt part of his Highnes revenue is in question, I knowe your Lordship respectes no man in comparison of the Kinges service, which cawseth me with cowradge and compforte to spend my tyme and suffer that which I do. My humble suite for the present is your Lordship wilbee pleased te suspend your judgment (notwithstanding any informations or insinuations) till his Majesties Pryvy Councell macke their joynt reporte ; and then your Lordship will fynd yf I ever did service acceptable to his Majestie or pleasing to yeur Lordship this wilbe it. I humbly pray your honnor to give creditt to him in this who never did nor will abuse his Majestie or your Lordship with an untruth. And se, with my prayer fer the continewaunce and increase of your honnor, I rest Your Lordship's faithfullest servant and lover, Lionell Cranfeilde. Wardrake, the 17th November 1618. Addressed : To the right honorable my singuler good Lord the Lord Marques Buckingham, of his Majesties Pryvy Councell. Indorsed : Sir L, Cranfield, Nov. FORTESCUE PAPEES. 63 No. XXXVIII. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My most noble Lord. I am exceedingly bound to your Lordship j^,^^ gi. fer your taking so much care of ine as to dictate so long a lettre as you did touching the Lady Carre, i which I must aunswer, because your Lordship wisheth rae so te do, and only to be rightly under stood by yeur Lordship, which if I be, I have no further ambicion to give her Ladyship or raany others any other satisfaction then will stand with the trust reposed in me by my dead friend. It is pore incouragement for one that hath se much buisines of import ance charged upon him, as I have, te be put to write apologies for doing his duety, upon every causeles complaint. One I was put to for Beote,^ and now for this Lady. She sent an old instrument ef her brother to me, whom I have knowen thes 20 years, and not one of all thera that served her husband could she trust with her errand. He came te me to tell me that shee, out of her tryall of my faithful nes to her father (who committed her and her porcion and all her moveable estate unto me at his death), had caused her husband to make me executor. Now his mocion was I wold help her to the wardship of her sonnes directly against her husband's will. Lettre from her he brought none. I answered him I beleeved not his message, nor that she wold oppose her husband's last will, and added how sory I was te heare of her fall te Peperie. He would have had me write to her. I tould him (as he might see very well) I was extremly sicke in ray bed, and fitter to thinke of raaking myne own will then to execute an other man's ; but that I cold litle ' Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Dyer, Knight, of Staughton, co. Huntingdon, second wife of Sir Edward Carr, Baronet, of Sleaford, co, Lincoln. 2 A Dutchman in the service of the King, who had been arrested in Holland on a charge of an intrigue with the Archdukes. See Carleton Letters, 327-385, passim. 64 fortescue papers. 1618. hope to have mine owne faithfuly performed if I shold breake my Nov. 21. frend's will in such an important poinct as the bringing up his sonne and heyre : that it was against the King's instructions to thinke of any ether executor, when the testator had named one without exception. My conclusion was, I prayd him to commend me to her, and her te give me leave to be as honest a man te her husband as I had bene to her father. Seme 2 or 3 weeks after she wrote me a lettre affirming she had made me executor to her husband, which if it had bene true, she had dene me small honor in choosing me to be her fittest man to breake the trust he had reposed in me. I told her messenger, when she came te town I wold aunswer her lettre by word of mouth, which was all the scorne I used to him; for to write I had neither leysure, nor lyst to have ray lines come to be scanned by any equivocating preists; though I forbare to tell her messenger so much, who I knew wold have made all werse than nought if I had spoken any free word unto him, in hope to get the dealings for the ward into his owne hands, as new he doth, specialy I having tould him so plainly at first that I could net beleeve his message. Hew I came to be executor your Lordship will best perceive by the inclosed, which was sent me by Sir Thomas Grantham and Sir Tho[mas] Ellis, who for ought I knew ar no more of kin to Sir Ed. Carre then myselfe, who will quitt my title of reversion te all his lands for 3 single halfe pence, and I am as ready to do the like fer my executorship, now that I have discharged my duty te God and the dead father, as your Lordship will beare rae wittnes I have, first by word ef mouth, and after by writing. But she hath made a witty tale of the wine fetched from the taverne. And did that make her forbeare prayers in her husband's God and her- house ? Let ray L. Hobert be judge. Againe, that Sir E. Carre selfe best know had scarce seen me 3 times} My behaviour then was raore alluring trug_ as it seemes then all her conterseidg[ing] him was, that she could ' The words in italics are underlined in the MS. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 65 preyvaile more to make me one ef the executors then herselfe. Alas ! leis. she litle knowes how oft her husband and I mett in London, and ^°^- ^•^• what teares and complaints he depositated in my bosome, knowing my true affection to-his and her good for her father and mother's sake, who both put me in trust for her. Had I had so much witt to have improved the opportunitie of ray executorship and the wardship to have courted the widow, and left the dead to be buried by the dead;, I had then shewed my selfe an honorable and a worthy gentle man, and a discreet and a kindly brother, and a true step-father to the children committed unto me indeed ! I pray God her new ghostly fathers have net scholed her to equivocate with my deare Soverain Lord and Master ; sure I am the divel hath taught her truoheman,^ and he her to selaunder me to your Lordship, that am net so harshly cemplexioned nor so currishly bred as to give any harsh language to a Lady whora I have called sister since she was 7 yeares eld. But she is a woman, and must obey the old proverb : Aut amat aut odit, nihil est tertium. So with my many due thankes for your Lordship's so great care of me, and pardon craved for my teydiousnes, I humbly take leave, but will leave never to be Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden, R. Naunton. WhitehaU, 21° 91"'^ 1618, Addressed : For hia Majesties affayres. To the right honorable my singular good Lord my L. Marquis of Bucking ham, at the Courte, Whitehall, the 2Ith of November, at 2 in the aftemoone. Hast, hast, post hast. R, Naunton. London at 3 .[ ?] in the aftemoone, Wal tham at 12 in nighte. Ware, 22m. past 2 in the morning. 'Royston at almost 6 in the morninge. Indorsed : S, Naunton, La : Carre. ' Interpreter, i.e. the messenger who carried the messages between us, CAMD. SOC. K 66 FORTESCUE PAPEES. No. XXXIX. SiK Oliver St. JohnI to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1618. Most honorable. It pleased his Majestie to employ Sir James Nov. 24. Balfoure hither for the examination of some articles exhibited unto his Majestie against Sir James Hamylten, with espetiall warraunt by his princely letters unto mee and serae ef the Councell here to receave such informations as his Majestie had committed te Sir James Balfoures trust, to be imparted unto us. In obedience of which, wee have with all care and secrecy proceeded therein, and given his Majestie a just accompt ef what wee have found, where with I hope his Majestie hath receaved good satisfaction. And albeit my duty must ever tye mee to obey his Majestys royall commaunderaents before all other respects, yet I have suffered much in the opinion of noble and worthie personages as well in England as here, as if I had entred into a businesse unfitting the place of his Majestys deputy, who ought tenderly to preserve his Majestys subjects in peace and contentment, and not be an instru ment of blemishing the reputations, or questioning the estates and fortunes of any man. The businesse of Sir James Hamylten is nowe brought te that estate as I hope, shall heare no more of yt ; yet lest his Majestie may by information given unto him in the lyke nature bee drawen to employ my service againe in that kind of examination concerning the lyves and states of any of these who are by his Majestys princely favor committed te ray charge and governement, I hope his Majestie wilbe gratiously pleased to joine te mine assistaunce his principall servaunts and counsellors of this kingdome, and that his warraunts and comraissions raay be open, and the proceedings in them faire and legali. Otherwise, if I , shalbe coraraanded to handle them in a private manner, my selfe ' Lord Deputy of Ireland. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 67 alone, er with seme onely, whatsoever misfortune shall light upon igjg, any I shalbe reputed the causer of yt, and cast rayselfe into a ^"^- ^^• generall hatred, and be made unable to doe his Majestie that service in this kingdome which hee may expect from an ofiicer eraployed in so weighty a charge. I hurably pray your Lordship to hearken to Sir Francys Blundell, whom I have entreated te wayt on your Lordship in this particular, and to vouchsafe unto mee your honor able care for ray preservation, that I may in all mine actions make my selfe werthye of those greate favors I have continually receaved from your Lordship, and have the happinesse to be found still, as I shall infinitely desire, Yeur Lordship's devoted servaunt, Ol. St. John. Dublin, 24 November, 1618, Addressed : To the right honorable my singular good Lord the Lord Mar quesse of Buckingham, Master of the Horse to his Majestie, and of his Maj estes most Hon""'" Privy Counsaile, dd. Indorsed ; Lo. Dep., Sir J. Hamilton. No. XL. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please yeur Lordship. Sir Lewis Stukelyes peticion was published yesterday ; ' the declaracion ^ is this day (upon the dispatch of this packet) to follow after. The printer hath sent me 2 copies of each for his Majestie and the Prince, dnd prayes pardon for some escapes committed in theyr^ haste, which was such as they were faine to watche 2 nights and sett 20 presses aworke at once, I have speken te him for copies to send over to his Majesties ambas sadors and agents abroad. ' Reprinted in Harleian MisceUany, iii. 63. ' The Declaration of Raleigh's offences, k2 Nov. 27. 68 fortescue papers. 1618. Mr. BalcanquaP is dispatched and gene. The Commissioners of Nov. 27, -tlie States 2 come not up hither before to day. I am'^teuld ^Sir Newel Caron went to them yesterday with purpose to accompany thera up in his Majesties barge to day. Mr. Wake his' man came hither yesternight with lettres from his master to Sir Tho [mas] Lake and to Mr. Beecher, and told me that he made, accompt his master weld be come te Paris by this tirae.^ But I_ hope ray last lettres (which directed him from his Majestie to gee to the Duke of Feria*) wold be with him before his setting out, and then (no doubt) he will attend that Duke first, unlesse his occasion to come hither be extraordinarily pressing and important. I send your Lordship herewith a lettre come out of France to Mr. Beecher (which his man brought me to send away to hira thither) because it may conteine some matter fit to be knowen to his Majestie. It heldes generaly that they speake there all they can to the disadvantage of eur nation. I have given order for the Committees for the water workes^ and all the parties interessed te meet to morrow, which could be no sooner to have the buisines well dene, in respect of Mr. Control lers* being forth of towne and Sir Ed. Coke's keeping in, and this day being a Starre Chamber day. So I humbly take leave and remaine, Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve you truly, Robert Naunton. WhitehaU, 27° G"- 1618. My Lord of Doncaster and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer '' ' This must mean to the Synod of Dort. If so, there is an error in Camden's , Annala, who sends him off on the 27th of December. ' Come to treat on the disputes in the East Indies. ' On his return from hia post at Turin. * Governor of Milan. » The New River. ' Sir Henry Carey. ' Sir Fulk Greville. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 69 have bewrayed to me a willingnes to be Commissioners te treat 1618. with thera of the Low Countries. I have aunswered thera, that his Majestie doth reserve the nominacion to himselfe, to fitt them to the qualitie ef the Dutch. Sir F. Gr[eville] replied with some distaste at my coldnes that if he were Secretary he wold make me one. I retorned that I being Secretary wold gladly make myselfe none, unlesse I had time to study the buisines better. Your Lordship may do well to remember his Majestie ef Sir Clement Edmunds and Mr. Dickenson to be imployed in the service, having both bene. used in like imployments both to the States and into Germany. Sir G. Calvert will fall in ef necessitie, because it will be his moneth te wait on the bord. Some civilians and some of the learned councel must likewise be used in the service. Addressed : For hia Majeaties special service. To the right honorable my aingular good Lord my Lord Marquis of Bucking ham at the Court. Whitehall the 27 of November at past 10 in the forenoone. Hast, hast. Post hast, for life, for life. RoBBRT Naunton. Eeseve at London at one at the aftarnone. Ware 27" at nyne in the nyht. Roy ston about one at midnight. Balram ' past 7 in the mome. I Perhaps the name of the postmaster at Newmarket, where the Court waa. 70 FOETESCUE PAPEES. No, XLI. The Marquis of Buckingham to Lady Care, [Draft,] Deo. 10, Madame,' I leave to the testiraonie of others how ready and carefull I have been to doe your Ladyship service in the business you recommended unto me, since yeur going from hence. Wherein if you receave not all that satisfaction which you desired and I have ever since laboured for, your Ladyship will excuse ray freedorae, and not hold it fer a breach of that curtesie which a gentleman oweth to a ladie, if I tell you the true cause ; especially when I have just reason to be grieved that I have dealt so earnestly fer you upon so ill a ground. For Sir Thomas Grantham coming hither since, hath upon his creditt and word of a gentlemen assured me, and hath after upon his allegeance mayntayned unto his Majesty, that for that particular touching your refusing the Sacrament, which yeu alleaged te his Majesty upon the occasion of bringing the wyne from the taverne directly te the Communion table, he never heard speach of it, neither was there ever any notice taken of it in the cuntry, but that for the grossest points of Peperie yeu did not only maintayne them in profession, but defended them by your writing, and made your house a receptacle for Papists and priests in the tyme of your averseness from this religion, and that Sir Edward Carre was so farre from being satisfied of your returne to the reli gion wherein you were bred (though yeur Ladyship af&rmed he had wonne you back again by those bookes he had given you to read), that on the contrary he often said your falling from the reli gion would be the cause of his death ; and for confirmation that he was not satisfied in that point, he not only omitted to make yeu one of his executors by his will, but tooke expresse order therein that you should net have the education of your daughter who is ' See No. xxxviii. FOETESCUE PAPERS. 71 now in your custodie, when she came to certain yeares specified in 1618. his will. °-^°- Notwithstanding, such is his Majesties gracious care ef you, who accounteth it never tee late te receave these that returne to God and conforme themselves to that truth which he maintayneth through his kingdomes, that he hath been pleased upon my motion to graunt that yeu shall be joyned with the fower executors appointed by your husband for the bringing up of your children, and if at any tyme you finde just exception against any of those that are placed about your children, upon any advertisement therof to his Majestie he will take speedy order fer your satisfaction therein, which I doubt net but you will take as a great measure of his Majesties grace toward you, and an assured testimony of my censtancye te remayne ever Your Ladyship's faithfull servant. Indorsed : M, to the Ladie Carre, 1° Dec, No, XLII, Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please yeur Lordship. I have here retorned you the Deo. 11. scribled minute your Lordship sent me, decyphered as neere as I could, whereby it is now apparent how his Majestie hath bene abused and myselfe vilely sclandered for giving no easier way to theyr mountebanqueries. I have encouraged M' Hall the best I could te prosecute the service, who promised me to have made La Forest^ drunke, and so te have taken a cepie'of all his lettres at Gravesend, but he tells me that La Forest's wife was there and could not be ' The Government was at this time particularly on the alert with respect to French intrigues, after the discovery of the French agent's attempt to aid Raleigh in escaping. 72 fortescue papers. 1618, pairted from him to give place te that project. This night he will see what he can do here. He hath detected that La Forest hath written allmost a quire of paper during this his abode at Gravesend, and that a French docter, a silly man, hath undertaken to cary his lettres into France, upon Monday next, toward the evening. Now this doctor, having no other lettres te cary but La Forest's, if they shold be taken from him by a private man wold surely retorne. backe and geve La Forest the alarme, and so he wold de the like beth to Le Clerc ^ in France, and to Boote in Holland. We have therefore held it fitter to present to your Lordship's consideration our pore opinion, that the fittest course wold be te seize en this French doctor, at Dover, for a priest, and so to seize all his lettres and papers, and committ him safe and secretly to some corner in the Castle, where he may remaine unknowen, and La Forest never heare ef his misadventure, and so his lettres may be retorned hither unopened, in which we raay happily find just matter to lay up La Forest as close in another place, and se have it in our owne choise whither we will suffer any notice te ge into France ef his practise at all er net, or to make him write what we will, and intercept Le Clerk and the rest of his complices theyr aunswers they shall re torne him. I thinke it will net be amisse to awaken Sir D. Carle- ton's inquisicion upon Boote, te lay fer his lettres, if he shall be scribling from thence into France ; but I was doubtful to adven ture upon either of thes courses, being different to your Lordship's first instructions (when you made accompt La Forest would have written by a post), without some approbacion from thence, though I cannot see how his lettres will otherwise be intercepted with that secrecie and safetie which was injoyned, but that La Forest will get and give knowledge of it, as I have said. I was therfore the for warder to accept M'' Hall's offer to come down te your Lordship post to-morrow, and to returne with your aunswer en Sonday, ' The French agent, who had retumed to France in conaequence of the King's refusal to receive him, after his behaviour iu connection with Ealeigh's attempted escape. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 73 which will be all in time to lay for our French Doctor (whom he 16I8. hath undertaken to make him be forthcoming here tyll Monday ^®°- ^^• night with his bundle ef La Forest's lettres), then te hazard the bewraying ef the whole buisines fer want ef such secrecie as will be necessarie to effect his Majesties desein, which in the first prey- scribed course will be hardly possible to observe. I send yeur Lordship eur examinacion taken ef Sir A. Gorges and Sir Lewis Stukeley,-'- whom we confronted, and committed Sir Artur to his owne house tyll his Majesties further pleasure shold be knewen. We cannot yet heare of Capt. Smith ; but ray Lord Chancellor and I have written our joinct lettres to Sir F. Gorges and te Sir Tho. Monke to stay his barque and himselfe, if he can be found in that country. I forbeare to treble your Lord ship with a teydious accompt ef eur carefiil proceedings in^ tlie water workes, the Comraissioners having layd it upon Mr. Comp troller^ (one of our fellow Comittees) te informe his Majestie raore particularly ef the whole buisines, poinct by poinct, then could be done by lettre. And so I most humbly take leave, and am Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden, Robert Naunton. . Whitehall, the xj'ii of December 1618, at II in the night. Addressed : For his Majesties apecial service. To the Right Honorable my singular good Lord my Lord Marquis of Buckingham at the Courte. No, XLIII. Sir Robert Naunton to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] It raay ple&se your Lordship. Since my forenoones dispatch I Deo. 13. have presented his Majestys lettres and the inclosed from the States ' This must refer to some proceedings of the Plymouth Company for colonising what was then called the northern parts of Virginia. 2 gij- pienry Carey. CAMD. SOC. L 74 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1618. and from his Excellency unto the Lords, who have thereupon Deo. 13. given order to Sir Clement Edmonds ^ to offer ah audience unto the States 4 Commissioners upon Twesday, in the forenoone, and if the Deputies^ shall then offre to accompanie them of themselves uninvited, their Lordships will have formes prepaired te receive them in an inferior fashion te that of the Commissioners. The cheife occasion of my sending away of this packet is te com municate the inclosed out ef Fraunce, by which his Majestie will see how they begin to bethinke themselves there in part, -and how this strangnes that is growen betwene this two States hath its operacion for the time to sweeten their proceedinges towardes thera of the Religion. D'Agian, that was the contriver of M. d'Mayern' his dis grace, is now in disgrace himselfe, and the divisions and rentes which they plotted betwene the Pretestantes doe now begin to gan- gren amonge themselves. The minutes of the English lettre which was sent thither in censure of your Lordship and other honorable persons here, thoughe -they be contemptible in themselves, yet could I not deteine them from your Lordship's knowledge. M' Beecher and my selfe betweene us will finde eut the inditer of them er longe, Stanly, the preist, shiftes from place to place here in towne, but I dowbt Father Patrick, the Scetishman, is hanging about the Court. My Lord Colvin saith his Majestic forgott to inquier at him of him, which I remember with the more care, because pf an anxious appre hension I have ef their mortali and hatefull mallice against his Majesties sacred person as the raall[er] * and confounder of theyr batell, against whose raallignancie we cannot be too jelously watchfull. For ray own part I must pretest it in season and out ' Clerk of the Council. 2 The mission was composed of Commissionera from the Statea General and Deputies from the Dutch East India Company. ^ James's French physician. * i.e. mauler, smiter aa with a mall or hammer. The word is written with a con traction at the end, aud looks like mall", but there can be no doubt that it should he maU'. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 75 of season ; quicquid id est, timeo. So I humbly take my leave, and ^^g^g rest Dec. 13. Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden, Robeet Naunton. WhitehaU, the xiij"" of December 1618, at 8 in the eveninge. Addressed: For your Lordship. No, XLIV. The Eael of Suffolk to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] My Honorable geed Lord. I perceyve by my sonn my great 1618. oblygation te you, which, yf I be honest, I wyll labour to deserve by the fwe -"^ meanes that are left me. New, my Lord, I must fly to you as to my pryncipall advocate to medyate to hys Majestie for my coming te hys presence, for which I have humbly wrytten unto hym, and am bould to desyer your Lordship to delyver ; at which tyme I desyer your Lordship may be a wytnes hew I shall cary rayselfe in seekyng to geve hys Majestie satesfaction in seme things mysreported of me ; and fer other things that concerne me in pertyculer to your Lordship, I chuse rather to referr myselfe te my sonn's speach then to be tedyous by my to long letter ; and, when I shalbe se happy as to wayte on you I doubt not but fully to satisfye you in whatsoever hath bene tould your Lordship ; remayning more tyed then by bare professions to be Your Lordships freand and cosen to do yeu servyse, T, Suffolke, ' i.e. few. L 2 Jan. ? 76 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. XLV. The Earl of Suffolk to James I. [Holograph.] 1619^ May yt please yeur Majestie, Now to geve me leave most humbly to desyer yeu te call to mynd how I have with much grefe and affliction endured syx months ^ the want of my greatest comfort, yeur Majesties presence, whith some ether heavy great mysfortune of my estate in having a myghty debt upon me, for which many of my frendes and servaunts stand engaged upon bounds forfeyted, besydes the interest that dayly eates upon me ; but by fhis tyme I conceave your Majestie ys informed of all, and I doubt not that many are affyrraed as fowle in me that I showld omitt to set downe in that paper under ray hand which I sent by ray Lord ef Lenox to your Majestie, which, yf yt please you to call me before your Majestie in the presence of my Lord of Buckyngham and m-y Lord of Lenox, I hope I shall well dyscharg my selfe ef that im putation, and geve your Majestie further satisfaction in what hath bene objected agaynst me, and se I humbly submit my self at your feete, most humbly begging of your Majestie that I may be restored to your favour, and be aleued the meanes eut of myne owne estate to pay all men the dwe debts I owe. For the estate of my lands are such as yf I showld dye before they were payed, my sonn ys not tyed te pay a shylling of them, for which my soule showld suffer ; and I wyll ever pray for your Majesties leng lyfe and happy estate as Yeur Majesties faithfull subject and trwe servaunt, T. Suffolke. Addressed : To the Kyngs most ExceUent Majestie. ' Suffolk waa dismissed from hia office July 19, 1618 (Camden's Annals), which, if we suppose that he had not seen the King for some little time previously, would bring this letter to the first days of January or the end of December. From a letter of Su- E. Harwood to Carleton, -written on the 20th of December (S. P. Dom. civ. 36), it appears that Suffolk's friends expected at that time that he would make his peace. On the 9th of January Chamberlain writes (S. P. Dom. cv. 7) that the King meant to bring Suffolk to trial. See, too, the following letter. fortescue papers. 77 No. XLVI, The Marquis of Buckingham to the Earl of Suffolk. [Draft.] The care I have to acquitt myself according to the profession ef jan. li. my frendship toward yeur Lordship, makes me acquaint you at this tyme with some thing that fell out concerning you in the tyme of his Majestes last being at Whitehall. Seme two dayes before ¦ his remove from thence, the Lords and other Commissioners for enquirye touching the raispending of his treasure repayred to his Majestie, and gave him an account ef all their labours, and -amongst the rest what they had found against your Lordship and your wife ; and in conclusion did all upon their knees beseech his Majesty to be pleased that both your Lordship and your wife, togither with Sir John Bingley, might be called to the Starre Chamher, there to be sentenced fer your misdemeanours in your office. The reasons for which they moved his Majestie te yield te this order were two ; first, for his Majestes own honour, who could not otherwise be cleared except by such a publik and legali course in regard of his taking the staff from you; and for stopping the mouths of those ,that reported that yeur Lordship's office was taken from you, not upon just ground, but only by the partiallitie ef a Court faction. The other reason was that by this legalL and publik proceeding there raight an exaraple be raade fer securing his Majestie and his posteritie frora being ill served by any that shall exercise that place hereafter. But though his Majestie (as hiraself told me soon after) disputed with them that it had been fer his Majestes honour te grant you first a hearing upon all the points that you are to be charged with before a certain number of Lords before the tyme that you should be brought te any publick tryall, his Majestie alleaging that many things might appeare fowler to thera then peradventure they would prove when you should be heard te answeare for your self ; and' that then upon yeur answeare his 78 fortescue papers. 1619, Majestie might best discerne whether your offences were of so high Jan. 11, ^ nature or not as to make yeu to be brought to a publik tryall ; yet they all in one voyce insisted in their former suite, affirming that to give you first a mere private hearing was against all cus tome in such [cases, and that you could object ne materiall thing against that that was to be layed te your charge, because you were accused of nothing that was not proved by oath of divers witnesses alltogither undeniable, so as though his M[ajesty], as every man knowes, be niercifull in his own nature, yet could he not resist this their sute, especially they adding to the former reasons that the burden would lye upon them as upon partiall surmisers and pro moters, if the veritie of this cause were not once publikely cleared, leaving it then to his Majesties raercy to pardon and spare as should please hira. I confesse, my Lord, I wish I could acquaint your Lordship with better news, but the sooner you be informed of the truth ybu raay the better prepare you for it, and bethink yeu what you would have his Majestie raoved in, and hew farre. assuring you that I shall ever faithfully represent te his Majesty what your Lordship will be pleased to eraploy me in. As to the expiring of their Comraission, it is now expired for se much as raay have reference to yeur Lordship, but in seme other things which do very much import his Majesties service they do yet go on. This my privat advertisement to your Lordship I wish raay be kept secret to yeur self, for I assure yeu upon myne honour never one of my fellow Counsellors knowes ef this letter, ner of my acquainting your Lordship privatly any way ef this purpose. And so I rest, G. B, Indorsed ; My Lord to the E. of Suffolk, 11 January 1618. FOETESCUE PAPERS. 79 No. XLVIL Earl of Suffolk to King James I, [Holograph.] Most gratious Soveraygn. I have receyved from my noble frend 1619. my Lord ef Buckingham that upon the iraportunytie of the Lords Commissioners about ray late unfortunate offyce your Majestie was very gratious towards rae in being _unwyllingly drawen to yeald to a preceding in the Starr Chamber agaynst me, to which for the Cemmyssieners part I say no more but upon such mysfortune of thers God send them raore tender harted Comraissioners. For the great suras of raoney which I have hard ys layd to ray charg to have deceyved yeur Majestie of, I mene not new nor heerafter to make any lardg contestations te, in what place soever I shalbe assyngned for -my tryal, but to your Majestie I wyll aunser as to God in heaven, that having stryctly accounted with myself whether ever my hart consented to deceyve you in the least sum, I have found my zealous strong affection to your Majesties parson to be so great and honest to you for many yeares before I had the happynes to serve you as my Soverayn, as no thought of rayne ever gave way knowingly te yeald to any base abuse of you in dysbursing of your Treasure, or any other way. I have heretofore confessed to your Majestie" that some escapes might pass rae, but hew this fatall mys fortune ef having so sere a course followed for my so great dy.sgrace, I know net by what evyll constellation yt is so sharply fallen upon me ; but geve me leave, deare Sovetayn, yet not to beleeve that your Majestie, who hath bene ray earthly joy, wyll suffer me in my owld adge to goo to my grave with so rauch sorrow and afflyction ; therfore my conclusion and resolution ys humbly to threwe my selfe at yeur Majesties feet, protesting upon all the dutyes I ewe you, if I could conceyve what to do that might satesfye your 80 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1619, pryncly displeasure conceyved agaynst me, I wold most wyllingly •^''°- submitt myself to yt, and all the sequell of ray lyfe after lyve Your Majesties trwe subject and fathfull servaunt, T. Suffolke. Addressed : To the Kyngs most Excellent Majestie, . mj gratious Soverayn. No. XLVIII. Sir Thomas Lake to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Jan. 11. My duety to your Lo[rdship] humbly remembred. After I had raade up ray other lettres concerning myne own busines, I receaved these enclosed from Mr. Cettington which are worth his Majesties reading ; for thereby he shall see how thinges are like to stand between France and them.^ One part of which he writeth I beseach your Lordship to procure his Majestys aunsweare unto, that it raay be sent tymely to him, which is that if the King of Spain doe goe to Valentia to see his army^ goe out, and te abide the successe of it, which may be a long tyme, whether his Majesties pleasure wilbe that he shall attend him. I make no doubt but his Majestie will thinke it fitt, fer the King may perhaps abide there all the next semraer. In an ether lettre written two dayes after this about his own par ticuler busines he writeth this clause :-%^^His Majesties proceading with Sir Walter Ralegh hath given here so much satisfaction and contentment as I am not able to expresse it unto your honour, but all men doe much extolle his Majesties syncerity in it^^nd in an ' Mother : — " It is even now told me that Diego de SyTva is come to this town, but as yet I have not seen him. His errant, as I con ceave it, is to gett some order from the Conde de Genderaar about ' The Spaniards. ° The secret expedition against Algiers, which was causing so much consternation at this time. FOETESCUE PAPERS. the stuffe and goodes in the Low Cuntryes," So I most humbly 1619. take my leave. From Charing Crosse this II January, 1618, Jan.u. Your Lordship's, in all duety and service, Tho. Lake, Ne. XLIX, Sir Thomas Lake to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My duety to your Lordship humbly reraerabred. My Lords the Jan. 23, Judges have this morning raade me acquainted with a letter ef his Majesties written to them upon a letter of my Lord and Lady of Excester's, wherin they are left at libertie te referr the matter ef exceptions which my adversaryes may take te the byll against Luke Hatton to the Court, which is otherwise then his Majesties former direction that no such exceptions should be admitted without his Majesties privity and allowance, wherein I humbly beseach yeur Lordship that it may please his Majestie so farre to explane himselfe, as that his meaning is not for any formalities in the byll, or errors ef clarkes in writing, the matter be overthrowen or delayed. For the Judges doe disccern that, howsoever shortnes [?] be pretended, the purpose is to avoyd the hearing of that matter of Luke Hatton, which is the first beginning and the introduction to the whole cause. My humble sute is thai his Majestie wilbe pleased so farre to interprete himselfe that if it be found by the Court, or by the Judges, that the scope of the exceptions is to interrupt the order ef hearing sett down by the Judges with his Majesties privity (and so that the matter of Luke Hatton should not be heard) that then the arguments of ether side raay be referred to be reported to his Majestie at his coraing before the day of hearing ; and he to judge of the worthines of thera ; to whose acute judgement I know that all sinester driftes will quickly appeare. I shalbe much bound to camd. soc. m 82 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1619. your L[ordship] fer being mediator of this favor, and to his Majestie for granting it. And so rest your L[ordship's] in all duety and service, Thomas Lake. 23 January, 1618. No. L. Sir Edward Coke to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Holograph,] April 7. Mqs^ noble Lord. My peticion to his Majestie against the Lord Houghton beinge referred te the Lord Chamberlain, the Earle of Arundel, Mr. Secretarie Naunton, and the Master of the Relies, they have raade (upon an exacte examination of the cause) a certi ficat te his Majestie that I had just cause to complaine, so as there is good ground for an information against him in the Starre Chamber. The odiousnes of whose offence appeareth by the severitie of the punishment infiicted for the same by lawe, viz., imprisonment at his Majesties pleasure, and fine and ransome to his Majestie. But besides his offence he hath committed a conterapt with an high hand against his Majestie since the reference of ray peticion, which is of se daungerous a consequence as he is to be coraitted therfore. This Lord Houghton hath bene twice alreadie sentenced in the Starre Chamber,'^ wherein in the service of my Soveraigne in the dutie of my place I had a speciali part ; in unjust revenge wherof he had plotted my destruction, by raising and suborninge recusantes and others to accuse me ef matters nothing concerning himselfe, whiles I was Justice of Assise ; wherof I am innocent. All this good have yeu (noble Lord) effected for me in obteyning ef the 1 One of these sentences is well known from Bacon's charge againat him and others when he was Sir John Holies. Bacon's Letters and Life, ed. Spedding, v. 213, FOETESCUE PAPEES. 83 reference of my just peticion to these Lerdes, for the which you 1619. have bound me eternallie to be a servant of yeur desires and '^" comandementes, hurablie prayeing your Lordship that you will crown your owne worke in obteyning a signification frora his Majestie to the Lordes Comraittees that there certificat may be put in execution, which is just and honorable. And I shall ever remayne at your Lordship's coraaundement and service, Edw. Coke. 7 Aprilis, 1619. No. LI. [The Maequis of Buckingham] to Viscount Doncastee. [Draft.] My noble Lord.^ I have acquainted his Majestie with your "^ •'' Lordship's letter, who commaunded me to returne you this answeare to that point of the lettre of credence to the Duke of Lorrain, to whome he never wrote before, that it could be te ne ether end but te speake of a match, which would be a dishonor to his Majestie in the highest degree to enter into that businesse while the treatie between hira and the King of Spayne is in hand, wherein the Count de Gondomar is shortly expected te bring some resolution. And, therefore, untill it be seen whither that match will breake ef, it would be an odious thing for his Majestie to goe about another. Only he would have your Lordship, according to the directions he hath allready given you, to sound in privat discourse, and as ef yourself, with these confident frendes yeu raeet with, whither that ladie be free, and how such a raatter would be affected in that State in case it should upon occasion be moved. ' Doncaster's despatch sent by Killigrew, to which the latter part of this letter appears to be an answer, was -written on the 9th of July, and is printed in Relations betmeen England and Germany, series i. page 156, The question about the Duke of Lorraine must have been put in a separate letter to Buckingham, M 2 84 FOETESCUE PAPEES. ig^9 As for the Kinge Ferdinand's^ dllatorie answeare, his Majestie July ? would net have your Lordship be discouraged therewith, especiallie since he had neither his own Counsell about him nor the Spanish Ambassador. And besides which the Spanish agent hath this morning assured him that the very sarae day that yeu sent your lettres by Killigrew the King his raaster sent a dispatch to the. King Ferdinand, willing him to carry himself with honor te his Majestie in hearkening to a peace upon the motion of his Ambas sador. I hope the woefull newes your Lordship hath sent from hence touching the Bohemians wilbe followed with better, for now Sir Albertus Moreton is going with all speed, being fuUy instructed what assurances he shall give by word of mouth. I had written this lettre inclosed to be sent by my Lady of Northumberland's man, who promised me her man should call for it, but he went away and left it behinde. I must desire your Lord ship to excuse me that I am constrained to use another hand fer this letter, being now going in hast to see his Majesties shipps, where I will wash away that offence with a health to your Lord ship, and if there shall yet reraayne any dregg of it, I will binde myself perpetually to be Yeur Lordship's humble servant. No. LII. Statement by Sie Sebastian Harvey of his Treatment of Cheistophee Villiees' suit for his Daughter's hand. [Autograph Signature.] Oct. 2 ? Whereas the right honorable the Master of the Rolls ^^ came unto me this daye and tolde me that his Majestie hath taken notice that ' King of Hungary, afterwards the Emperor Ferdinand IX. ' Sir Julius Ctesar. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 85 sithence the message delivered by the said Master of the Rolls unto I619. me, M'^ Christophere Villiers hath bene enterteyned very rudely and ^°'- ^ '' uncivilie both by me, my wife and daughter, cleane contrarie to that protestaclon which by the Master ef the Rolls I roade unto his Majestie, I doe proteste (and many will witnes) that both ray self and my wife did use M'' Villiers with all good respects wee coulde, and that my daughter (by my wife's leave) did spende an hour at leaste with him before dinner before ray cominge home ; soe that I am extreamely sorrowfull that his Majestie should receive anie con trarie informacion. And whereas the Master ef the Rolls, aboute a monethe since, brought me thanks from his most excellente Majestie for my former good affection in this cause, and that I assured his Majestie by my premise that I would net match my daughter before I should make his Majestie privye thereunto, and that M"^ Villiers should be welcome when he came, and withall to lett me knowe that his Majestie woulde (in respecte M' Villiers is a younger brother) himself raake hira a fitt and competente match for my daughter, if I would tell him what I would demaunde. To whome I answered that she was not ready to talke of marriage with anie as yet, and I desired to be spared to speake of anie condicions in that cause with anie till such tyme as I might finde where she would sett her affec tion, and that alsoe before I woulde make anie demaunde in that suite I would consider of rayne owne estate, and I was likewise te remember my wife, with wheme I had received a good advance ment, and that I thought his most excellent Majestie would here with be pleased, viz*, that I would net seeke to match her with anie before his Majestie were first acquainted therewithall, and that M"^ Villiers shoulbe welcome, amongst ethers, to trie his fortune, and the rather for his Majesties recomendacion of him, wherewith I ame still contented, and more I cannot say in this matter. Sebastian Harvey. October ii,' I6I9. ' This is, I think, the right figure, but it may possibly be 11. 86 fortescue papers. No. LIII. SiE Sebastian Haevet to Me. Robeet Heath. * [Autograph Signature]. 1619. gjj, J understande by your letter howe highlie his Majestie is offended with rae, for which I cannot but be raost hartilie sorrie, and for anie misbehaviour towards his Majestie at my beinge with him doe moste humblie crave his Highnes' pardon, which I hope I shall the rather obteyne if his Majestie be pleased to consider the infirmities of my age and sicknes at that tyme, for I proteste I new- lye rose from ray bed and was in greate extremytie ef payne, havinge neither eate nor dranke that daie, besides I presumed uppen myne integritie and freenes from corrupcion in my proceedinges in the causes whereof complainte had beene made, or might be made againste me, which I newe finde and acknowledge was but a pre sumption in me, seing men's accions are subjecte to censure^ be theire hartes never soe upright, and the uprighteste may erre, and the wiseste have erred, and much raore I, especiallie in such a place of governeraent, and amonge such a multitude of buisinesses as depende thereuppon. And in that cause of Dartnall's, whereof complainte had then bene made, yt was net myne error alone, as you knowe, fer yt was done in open Courte, and yt was our misfortune that yeu were then out ef Courte whoe raight have better advised us, yf yt were an error. Fer ourselves our breedinge hath not bene such but that wee may soraetyraes unwillinglie transgresse, which I hope his Highnes will gratiouslie consider and pardon. For the matter of Mr. Villiers, I hope that when his Majestie ' Recorder of London. « The worda in italics are underlined in the MS. FOETESCUE PAPERS. 87 shall trulie be informed of the proceedinge therein he will net con- Oct. ? ceive I have dealt otherwise then fairely in yt. Yt pleased his Majestie in the begynninge to move that raatoh for ray daughter, and that se gratiouslie as I thought it much for her good and myne honor if Ukinge might groice on both partes, wherein my furtherance hath not bene wantinge ; and Mr. Villiers hath alwaies bene and shalbe welcome unto me, though yt hath pleased him to conceive otherwise. I onlie left it te ray daughter to raake her ewne choice, as I doubte net but his Majesties gratious intencion is, and hath bene ; and I never yet entertayned anie other match since that was first moved, nor ever endeavoured to diverte my daughter's affections from Mr. Villiers, neither doe I thinke my wife hath done, or anie from us or by our meanes ; neither have wee anie cause to conceive that Mr. Villiers should whoUie seeke my daughter for his pre- ferrment onlie, when his Majestie hath propounded him soe fairely e; and I cannot distruste his Majesties gratious werdes on Mr. Villiers behalf, and therefore 1 conceive yt shall not be needfull to enter into anie termes of treatye in that kinde before yt be knowen whether Mr. Villiers and my daughter shall like each other or net. For my premise te his Majestie I entende (God willinge) with that integ ritie and respecte towardes his Highnes as shall become me therein. Oute of these I desier yeu (in the humblest manner that may be) on ray behalf te make answere to those thinges whereof his Majestie was pleased to speake as you have written unto rae. And likewise I desire you on my behalf to crave his Highnes' pardon, as well for anie offence paste, as also fer ray boldenes herein. And touchinge those complaintes whereof you write unto me, viz. : Dartnall's and the Constables', or anie other that may come againste me, I hope and humbly pray that his Majestie wilbe^soe gratious unto me as not to give waye that his sacred name be used therein, but that tliose whoe complaine raay be lefte to theire ordynarie remedy by accion to recover their amendes if they have had anie wronge, which, I pray, desire of his Majestie fer me. Soe prayenge fer his Majesties lenge 88 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1619. and prosperous raigne and gratious acceptance of these rayne "*" ' answeres and hurable requestes, I committ you to God and reste Your lovinge friende, Sebastian Haevye. Indorsed : S, Seb, Harvey to Mr. Recorder. Addressed ;• To the right worshipfull my very good friend Mr, Robert Heath, Esq, Recorder of London, these. No. LIV. Sie Robeet Naunton to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] Oct. 9. It may please your Lordship. I have at length gotten this aunswer inclosed from Sir Thos. Smith and the East Indian mer chants, who complaine that they have bene rauch more wronged by the Spaniards and Portugals, and have gotten sentences for divers restitucions to be made them frora theyr own judges in Spaine, but could never recover penie. Whereupon they have bene forced to sue for lettres of reprisal, and have obteined leave under the Great Seale to repaire theyr losses from the subjects of these nacions by whom they were forraerly spoiled, with limitacion that they conteine themselves within the values and summes whereof they have formerly bene robbed, which they protest unto me that they have done. Mris. Abington's peticion I have recommended in his Majesties name te my Lord Chief Baron ^ and the rest of the Judges in the Exchequer, from whom I have received premise of all lawfull favor that may be dene her with justice at the hearing of her cause. I have found eut the cutter of the picture your Lordship sent me, one Thomas Coxton in Foster Lane, who tooke his invention ' Sir Laurence Tanfield. fortescue PAPERS. 89 out of an English pamphlet which he saith was printed by authoritie 1619. / some six years since. I have recovered the plate it selfe which he *^'''- ^• cutt, and called in above a hundreth ef the pictures, so many as I coulde heare of, some set in frames and limmed, and some in printed papers. I send yeur Lordship herewith Mr. Pie his accompt of Francis Heymarke the French prisoner that killed Giles the Deputie Customer, It seems by it, and the ether articles that came with it, that Thomas Williams the Searcher there was partly a cause of this murder, and a very unfitt man to hold such a place, which in my pore opinion were fitter to be bestowed upon some honester man, as well for his Majesties service as for the jeleife ef the pore widow and her nine orphans left her by her husband that was so fowly slaine. It rnay please your Lordship to let me know his Majesties further pleasure, what he will have done with the prisoner and with that Searcher's place. And so I humbly take leave and will persevere Yeur Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 9° Octobris, 1619. Addressed : For his Majesties special service. To the right honorable my singular good Lord my Lord Marquis of Buckingham Lord Highe Admiral of England &c. at the Court. Whitehall 9"" October at past 1 aftnoone. Hast hast post hast. London at allmost 3 in the aftarnone. Waltham att 6 in the / aftemoone. CAMD. SOC. N 90 fortescue PAPERS, No. LV. Sir Fulke Greville to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 16J9. Right honorable my verie good Lord. Upon occasion of a late ^ " ' ' reference from his Majestie to rae,^ touching the change ef one patentee for another, in a wayter's place at the Stilliard, I con- ccaving that office te have been long since discontinued, had con ference with Sir William Garway in it, who assures me beth that and the rest ef the custome-house wayters, serchers, and other inferior officers of that kinde, are generallie a burthen and unne cessarie chardge, without use or service so long as the customes are continued in farme.^ I did, in the last Lord Thresorer's' time, pre sume to deliver my opinion of them to the same effect, and am new confirmed in it by this man's experience ; se that, if it shall please his Majesty te approve me, I will call Sir Lyonel Cranfield with him unto me, and by their advice see what good may be denne in putting the present patentees to reasonable pension, for abating of that unnecessary chardg in the tyme to come. Good Sir, vouhsafe to retorne me answere herein with what convenyent speech you can, because this change may perchance prove a good president for diverse other of the like superfluous nature in other branches of his ' He was Chancellor of the Exchequer. ' This gives a good example of the abuses which were at this time being subjected to reform. The customs had been coUected by the Crown in Elizabeth's reign. When they were, almost immediately upon James's accession, let»to farmers, the interest in repressing smuggling was transferred from the Crown to the farmers who were now the only persons to be injured by it. But the old officials retained their places though they ^\ ere now useless. ¦-> The Earl ol Siiftblk, FOETESCUE PAPERS. 91 Majesties revenues : and so, beseeching your Lordship's pardon ef 161P. this boldnes with you in his Majesties service, I remayne Yeur Lordship's loving grandchilde and humble servante, FuLKE Grevyll. Austinfriers, 12 October, 1619. Addressed : To the Right Hono'''|' my verie good Lord the Marqueas of Buckingham, Lo. Admirall of England. No. LVL Sir George Calvert to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Sir. I understand, by a letter which you sent of late to Mr. Oct. 17. Secretary Naunton, that it is his Majesty's pleasure I should attend him presently after my Lord of Suffolkes day be past, which I shall most willingly obey yf it be his Majesty's pleasure, but I doubt his Majesty conceives that cause wilbe dispatched in one day, which assuredly it will not, ner in two, and therefore I pray yew send me word with all the speede you may whether his Majesty's meaning be that, howsoever the cause do not end on Wednesday next, that neverthelesse I shall wayte upon him immediately after that day, and you shall do a great courtesy. If his Majesty have not heard ef it already, I pray yow lett hira knowe, that by a letter I received yesterday from Naples, I under stand certainely that instantly upon the newes ef the Prince Pala tine's election to the Crowne ef Bohemia there were imbarked the 23. of the last moneth 9,000 men in 18 galleons from thence to Genoa, and so by the spediest and readiest passage they can fynd into Germany. This letter inclosed is sent with some speed to my Lord ef 92 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1619. ArundeU; his servant brought it to me this night. I pray yow Oct. 17. take care fer the delivery of it. And so recommending me very kyndly unto yow, I rest Your assured loving freind, Geo. Calvert. St. Martin's Lane, 17 October, 1619, No. LVII. Julian Sanchez de Ulloa to [the Maequis op Buckingham.] [Autograph Signature.] Oct. 23. Most excelent Lord. I delivered unto his Magestie some dayes ^°''- ^- agoe in Tybolls a letter from the King ,my raaster, and I speake unto him concerning the roberies and hostilitie which certaine Englishmen commit in the East India, requesting his Magestie tp punish the delinquents, and commaund that which those of the Companie have taken be restored. For the facte being manifestly knowne, the King my master, out of the great confidence which he hath of his Magesties amitie and frendshipp towards him, doutes not but that he will graunt this his soe just a request ; especially considering that the King my master hath soe exceeding a great care as he hath to observe al raanner of good correspondence with his Magestie. And because the King my master hath commanded me presently to advertice him what his Magestie doth in the busines, I thought geed to beseech your ExceUencie he would doe me the favor to present this to his Magestie, because I must of force certifie the King my master ef it in al haste ; and I make no dout his Magestie will give all satisfaction to the King ray master, espe cially in a thing see just and appreved as is the foresayd request. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 93 Almighty God prosper your ExceUencie with al increase of honor 1619. and dignity. Clarkenwel, the 2d of November, 1619. Oct^. Your Excellencies most affectionated servitor, Julian Sanchez de Ulloa.' No. LVIII. Julian Sanchez de Ulloa to the Marquis of Buckingham. Most excellent Lord Marques. Having understood of your ExceUencie on Thursday last that his Magestie had remitted unto my Lord Dighby the answere of that which I proposed to his Magestie tuchinge the roberies which Englishmen have committed in the East Indies, I speake unto the sayd Lord about the same, but I ame not satisfied with the answere he gave mee, for that I expected that his Magestie would command satisfaction to be raade and justice to be done as is demanded in the King my master's behalfe in a thing see cleare and raanifest ; as allsoe for that I ame assured that the answere given by my Lord Dighby will net satisfy them in Spaine ; wherfore I ame censtreined once againe to intreate your ExceUencie he would dee me the favor te propose this te his Magestie ; and if the Englishmen have anie coraplaint against the Portihgales, let them demand justice in Spaine; and if the thing be found as certaine and manifest as that which the Englishmen have comitted, let thera assure themselves that the King my master will command satisfaction to be given unto them. Thus desiring hurable pardon of my bouldnes and your Excellencies prosperous increase, I conclude, ever remaineing Your Excellencies most devoted servitor, Julian Sanchez de Ulloa. November the 18th, 1619. Indorsed : Sp. Secretary to my Lord. Nov. i'b. ' Agent to the King of Spain during Gondomar's absence. The letter is appa rently a translation by a Spaniard. 1619. Nov. II. 94 fortescue papers. No. LIX. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My most honored Lord. I send your Lordship here inclosed a letter of the Agent for the Princes of the Union to Sir Edward Herbert, which he desireth that his Majestie might have a sight of it.i Though it import not much more then we knew before, yet it is the best peece of his last dispatche. With it I send for companie this weekes accompt of such as ar buryed and chistened here. The peticioners touching the Mint buisines^ gave no great satis- faction te the Lords, and were directed to bethinke themselves better of the matter, and te present theyr second thoughts with more deliberacion, as well what, as by what meanes they wold reforme that they tooke exception to. The citizens and they of the out ports which cold be found In towne were warned and have promised te make ready theyr collec tions for the yeare paste ef the contribucions to be imployed against the pyrates against the next moneth, which I shold have written yesternight, but I was not well, and am not yet in plight to troble yeur Lordship with any longer discourse. Se I humbly take leave, and remaine Yeur Lordship's raost devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, this xi"| of November, 1619. Addressed : For hia Majesties speciali service. To the right honorable my singular good Lord the Lord Marquis Buckingham Lord High Admirall of England &c, at the Court, Robert Naunton, Whitehall the ll* of November at half an houre past vj in the evening, Reseeved at Londone at 8 in the night, ' This letter from " M. Berstel " is refeiTcd to in Herbert's despatch of Nov, i as being " very considerable and worthy His Majesties sight." Add. MSS. 7082, fol. G,S 5. ^ The jjctition was against light gold. Sec a letter of Sir E, ViUiers and the officers of the Jlint to the Council. Nov. 1610. S. P. Dom. cxi. !3l. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 95 No. LX. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please your Lordship. I received all thes Inclosed lettres ^^^% and advertisements together, which, though they were written in 2 severall weekes, yet the contrarictie of the windes made them come together by the same passage. That indorsed te his Majestie carae recommended from Venice to M. Burlimacchi, and is addressed from Girolamo Vecchietti, a Florentin. By thes his Majestie will see the proceedings in Bohemia, Hun- garie, and Austria, the Venetians' disaccommodations with the Pepe, the Earl of Argile's hopes in the Spanish Jesuites and in the Conde, and his designe in disposing his daughters, the project of the Spanish Armada upon the coasts of Flanders, new that the French have removed them from Graveling ; which makes me wishe yeur Lordship weld advise well upon the ouverture which was presented you In Mr. Coke's lettres which I sent inclosed in one of my last dispatches te your Lordship. I am sorry to heare still that the contents of thos secret lettres sheld still be thus com municated as they have been too to long. This occasion gives me the boldnes out ef my devoted zeale to yeur Lordship's honor and service to let yeur Lordship know what I heare from Out of the besome ef seme of our practical Papists, who do net a litle please themselves in giving it out among theyr confidents by way ef triumph that Mr. Lepton Is now to be readmitted to his Majesties eare, whom your Lordship's mediation hath wrought to commiserat hira. In whom theyr hepe Is now growen rampant as In a confident and active instrument to supplie theyr losse made in Sir Tho. Lake, whicli Is not more acceptable to them then it Is greevous to the best affected subjects, specialy In such a con- 96 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1619. juncture as that of thes times, wherein the Papists ar so desparately Nov. 27. resolved and London doth so swarme with Jesuites and Preists. Yesterday the proofes in Starre Chamber,^ and the credit of the first wittnesses was much strengthened. The excepcion that was taken was at the late entring and antedating of the Order, which was held reasonable and just in the matter. Thes objections doe rauch satisfie the world and honor the Court, when such honorable and just resolucions and rules ar declared upon every such occasion. The Lords have written a joinct lettre to the ofiicers of the Mint, the Merchants Peticioners, and the Goldsmiths, te meet at the Mint and accord theraselves if it raay be ; er els to set downe theyr several complaints, theyr differing opinions, with the reasons of both, and the best remedies they can for reforming what they find faultie, against Tuysday nexte. Sir Basil .Brooke hath given in his Patent inhibiting importacien ef Steele, and praies a new Patent for the sole manufacture and exercise of his own new invention and some satisfaction from his Majestie for his charge he hath bene at, etc. Fer his first suite it was found reasonable, but the later we could geve no eare unto. For that other matter of the pinnes, the learned councel are to attend upon Friday next with theyr opinions, whither that menopolle be against the treaties of com merce with thera of the Low Countries. So for this tirae I humbly take leave, and am Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 27° 9i>ri», 1619. I have yet received no directions how to aunswer Mr. Trum bull's ^ former, which remaine still with your Lordship. ' In the case of the merchant-strangers accused of exporting gold. * The agent at Brussels. fortescue PAPEES. 97 LXL Sir George Goring to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My Lord,^ I feare your Lordship eyther raistooke me, er I yeu, 1619. about the warrant that shoulde come for my Lord of Suffolk's liberty, which this last night I expected. In regarde your Lordship toulde me that yeu woulde wright presently after rae. I beseeche you, my Lord, let it speedily be sent for my discharge, or else they will thinke that I have abused thera ; for I assured my Lord and Lady that it was his Majestyes pleasure, by your Lordship's meanes, that they should presently be inlarged. The rest that was com mitted to my chardge I have faythfully delivered, and shall as faythfully account for at my returne, which shalbe with all the expedition I possibly can ; but my buisines will see neerely presse me fer three or fowre dayes as (without yeur Lordship's commands, whereunto all must subscribe,) I cannot stirr, my fortune and credit soe much depending upon it. One request more, ray Lord, I must presume to make, and that is for my brother BIngly's ^ his remove, if not release te his owne howse, for wheme there shalbe good security given that nothinge shall fall thereby to his Majestyes prejudice. The reason for this ray petition is that he is suddenly fallen sick, and hath an eye muche endangered with the colde there taken. I beseeche your Lordship take these to your noble con sideration, and honor me still with the beleefe that I am most Your Lordship's hurablest faythfuUest servant, George Goring, November 28*, 1619. ' Many other letters of this correspondence are in Harl. MSS. 1580, commencing at fol. 394. ' Sir John Bingley, imprisoned in the Fleet for participation in the misdemeanours of the Earl and Countess of Suffolk. CAMD, SOC. O 98 fortescue papers. Ne. LXII. Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] 1619. My very honorable Lord, Amongst many of your favors whereby yeur Lordshipp hath for ever tyed me unto yow, I accompt it one ef the greatest the noble care you have shewed in your last letter which your Lordshipp pleased te write unto rae to preserve me in his Majestes gracious favor and opinion, by admonishing me of my duty in the carriage of th-Is great busynesse wee have now In hand.^ But I confesse unto yeur Lordshipp. as I apprehend that with com fort and gladnesse, se de I some ether words in your letter with some trouble and feare, as yf his Majesty should conceave seme dis pleasure against me fer not having that care which became me of his service in the late proceeding against ray Lord Tresorer.^ My Lord, I acknowledge with all humble thankfulnesse that besides the generall bond of duty which is common te rae and all the rest of his Majestyes servants, as also the particular duty of my place, which requires a mere speciali care from me of all things that may appertayne unto his Majesty then from raany others, I have a streighter obligation then all these, which It is not possible I should so soone forgett, nor I hepe shall never se long as breath is in me, and that is his Majestes infinite faver towards me in chusing me amongst se raany of farre greater meritt to make rae the subject of his power and ef his goodnesse, by raysing rae to that which I am. In which regard even for that goodnesse sake I humbly besech his Majesty to beleive (which I protest before that God whom I serve is a truth) that yf I erred with those that proceeded me in that sentence, it was neither out of humor, nor popularity, rfor fer company, but was raerely an error of ray judgement, of which I ' The trial of the merchant-strangers for exporting gold. 2 The Earl of Suffolk. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 99 shalbe ready humbly to give his Majesty the best accompt I can, 1619. when I have the happy nesse to wayte upon him. ^°^- ^^' And for the busynesse new in hand,'- though I must needes say unto your Lordshipp there have beene se raany traverses In it at the entrance as I durst never write unto yow any thing by way ef opinion untill It grew nearer an end, yet I dare boldly say for myne owne part, yf the proofes contynue as good still after the defence as they seemed to me on his Majestyes behalf upon Friday last, I shall make little doubt of the cause In my understanding. But untill the defendants have answered, your Lordshipp knowes a man cannot judge whether preefes will be avoyded or no. Alwayes I shall promise fer my self, that his Majesty's service in this, nor In anything else that may be expected ef rae, shall want that dutifull care which becometh me, which I doubt not but shall" withall sort with his Majestes contentment. And se againe with my humblest thankes te yeur Lordshipp for this great favor, I rest your Lord shipp's humbly and faithfully to serve you, Geo, Calveet. I have sent a privy seale for as rauch as was allowed for the last yeares maske, with a blanke fer the name of him to whom your Lordshipp will appoint the moneys to be delivered unto. They were the last yeare te Mr. Leach, the Lord Chamberlanes Secretary, who had the yssuing of them. This other paper Is an extract of a letter I receaved this day out of Italy, St. Martin's Lane, 29 November, I6I9. ' Of the merchant-strangers. 100 FOETESCUE PAPEES. LXIII. The Bishop of Llandaff ^ to the Maequis- of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] I -^^S^* Honorable, My ever acknowledged and (next to God and Nov. ? the King,) raost adored best patron. I have presumed to write to the King ray raaster in the behalfe ef my poore lamentably ruined church of Landaffe,^ whose revennewes (being the very sinnewes of any sea) are shranke from a thowsand pounds a yeare to seaven- skore pounds, Ne part of that which is lost can be recovered without a comraission, and that which is left is in danger of loosing without a new charter.*] PittlfuUy complayning of pillage, and raaking hue and crye after strong theifes, mighty robbers, our poore church, next to the King's, flyes to your honorable patronage and protection. To reskue and relieve her will be a deede of mercy and justice, of singular piety and charity, consequently of high honor and never dying fame ; wherein your Lordship may have a great share, by lending an eye of pitty, a hand ef helpe and furtherance, even one good and gracious word, towardes the obtayning of these two reasonable requests. Having not bin sufficiently thankefuU for raany forraer noble faveurs, I ara much ashamed te beg a new. Necessity hath no law. Untill yeur Lordship be pleased to enable mee to render more then bare thankes (which yeur Honor easily .may by sheeting one arrow after another,) I beseech you accept of these. That beggar Is not unthankfuU who, having receaved an aimes, ceaseth not te pray to the great Giver of all good things for a recompense to his benefactor ; and He is a most bountlfuU rewarder, ' Theophilus Field. ' The restitution of the temporalities is dated Oct, 30, 1619, Patent Rolls, 17 James I. part 14. ' I do not find any charter or commisaion on the Patent Rolls dming thia or the following year. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 101 who gives full oft Heaven for a penny. Amongst those many of jgjg my coate, whom his Majesties raunificence and [your Lordship's Nov. ? bounti]fulU favour hath preferred, I dare say (I raay trewly, and therefore without arrogancy or hypecrysy,) there is not a better beadsman, more frequent, more fervent fer your Lordship's health and haplnes then your Lordship's most bounden In all faithfull duty and service Theophilus Landavensi s. Indorsed : Bp LandafE to my Lord. Commission and charter. Addressed: To the right honorable my very good Lord the Lord Marquess Buckingham Lord High Admirall of England, one of his Majesties most hon'"''' Privy Council. No, LXIV. Lady Howaed de Walden to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] My Lord. I am extremly greefed to se the misfortune that is jjov. ? fallen on my L'ord of Suffolke, because in the end It must reflect one me, especially if my Lord my husband^ should net be recensiled unto yeur Lordship, for I am fully perswayded that many ill offises have bene done betwext yeu contrary to his dessart if the truth ware knowen, and this I speake out ef some good ressons, which I can tell your "Lordship when I see yeu ; if he should suffer any prejuduce, ef necessety it must fall one me, being now his wife, and yeur Lordship so much my frend, as the world takes notice yeu are ; therfor, as your Lordship respects my good and quiet, I beseech you lett me be the means to reconslle you together, that the King ' The worda in bracketa are .very indiatinct from the effect of damp. = Lord Howard de Walden, the Earl of Suffolk's eldest son. 102 FOETESCUE PAPEES.. 1619. foi" i^y sake would faveur hira as in former times, or ether wayes he Nov. ? may well thinke that I have bene rather a means of his ill fortune then of any good by matching with me. I beseech your Lordship to returne me an answer, that I may accordingly make use of It ; otherways I am like to be a missarable woman, which I know your Lordship would be loth to se ene who will never aprove myself other then Yeur Lordship's affectionated frend, Elizabeth Howaed. Addressed: To the right hon"' and nobell Lord the Marquies of Buckinghame, these. No. LXV. SiE Robeet Naunton to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Dec. 1. It may please your Lordship. This day Trask's^ submission was read in the Starrech amber, and their Lordships promised to interced for him unto his Majesty. Then the rest ef the proofes against the buyers and transporters of coine were heard to the good satisfaction of the Lords and the auditorie. Their Lordships resolved to sit de die in diem, tyll the cause should be sentenced, notwithstanding that the councel for the defendants moved for one day's respit to have conferred among themselves, being so many defendants as they ar. Having signified the contents of your Lordship's last toudiing the coine (as your Lordship directed me), their Lordships have resolved te write an accompt to his Majestie ef theyr whele pro ceedings in that buisines, which they meane to signe to-morrow. This morning I received your Lordship's by Sir George Goring, 'by whom I perceived that Sir John BIngly spends the day at his ' John Traske was accused of Judaizing. Fuller's Ch. Hist. v. 459. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 103 owne house, but he thinkes he goes to the Fleet every night. I 16I9. sent Dr. Atkins and Dr, Roe to see his eye, who tell me that his ''^°' •"¦• eye was inflamed on Sonday, but the rheurae is new fallen into one of the almonds under his chlnne, and so his eye Is much amended and out ef danger, so that I have forborne to troble the Lords any further about him. I have sent twice for the Wardens of the Fleet to reseive me whither he lodge in the Fleet or not, because I conceive by your Lordship's lettres that his Majesty supposeth him to reraaine contlnualy in prison. I ara promised the Warden will be here before I shall have finished this despatch. The 2 despatches inclosed from Sir Dudley Carleton I received together, and have committed Brewer ^ to a messenger to be fairely used, tyll his Majesties good pleasure shall be further knowen, how he will have hira proceeded with and by whora. I received this Inclosed discourse and inventorie of the peeces concerning his Majesties debts frora the States and Townes under the Archdukes, from Mr, Trumbull, which he desires I shold shew them to his Majesty and then to his. learned councel.^ It may please his Majestie te direct me whether I shall shew them to his councel at the common law, or at the civil law, or both, that they may consider whether they will be sufficient te cary the cause, or advise of such supplie as they shall find necessarie. His dispatche. had -ne other advertisement worth the encreasing of this packet, saving that in the close of his lettre he added a postscript of an extraordinary currier newly there arrived frora Madrid, who besides bills of exchange for 300,000 crowns for the Emperor brought them newes that the King, ef Spaine is se dangerously ' He was sent over from HoUand for examination for having employed on the printing of books, held to he seditious, a certain William Brewster, a Brownist, no doubi the elder of the Leyden Church, who afterwards emigrated to New England. See Carleton's Letters, 389-437, passim. ' In his despatch of November 26, S. P. Flanders, Trumbull states that his advo cate had made a discourse to prove the justice of His Majesty's pretensions npon the States General of theae provinceafor the sum of well near 100,000^. upon obliga tions given to Queen Elizabeth. 104 FOETESCUE PAPERB. 1619. sicke, as he had received extreme unction, without likelehoed of *''¦ ^' recoverie,^ The Scotish gentleman that comes under the name of George Douglas is arrived at length from Mr. Trumbull, and will be with me to morrow In the evening, is curious te be knowen to none but his Majesty and my selfe, wherewith I beseech your Lordship te acquaint his Majestie, that I raay receive his directions how he will have him proceeded with. Thes other from my Lord Archb. ef Spala ta and to Sir Steven Lesieurs contein something net unfit fer his Majesty te knew, as that of the Polonian, and their purpose te question the election of Ferdinand te be King ef Romans. My Lord ef Doncaster being held out so long beyond expectacion is likely to be short ef meny. It may please your Lordship to move his Majestie that I may meve the Coramlssieners of the Treasury as from his Majestie for his present supplie of sorae £200 raore, which I presume will fall within the proporcion of his daily allowance and his extraordinarie charges and carlages. The Lords Commissioners have speke with Sir L. Cranfeld about the currants and the tobaccho, and are premised a full aunswer to morrow upon further conference with the persons that ar interessed. They have given order to Mr. Attorney to treat with my Lord of Suffolk and Sir Jo. Bingley, and with Cortin, Burlimacchi, and Stamped for their fines set upon them in the Starre Chamber. Se craving pardon for this very teydious scribbling, being nothing well, I pray God for your Lordship's most honor and happines, and remaine Your Lordship's raost devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. The Warden of the Fleet tells me that Sir Je BIngly weares a scarfe before his right eye, but complained very rauch of It ; that a day or two after my Lord of Suffolk's committment he had order ' PhUip ni. did not die till March U, I62I. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 105 from my Lord Chancellor to let him go abroad with a keeper to 1619. follow his buisines fer 14 days, wheref x. are new spent ; that he is ^^°- ^¦ to lodge in the Fleet. WhitehaU, 1° Decembris, 1619. No. LXVI. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph]. It may please your Lordship. I send you here the Lords' accorapt Deo. 2. to his Majestie of theyr proceedinges touching the peticion for the coyne.^ It was drawen by Sir Cleraent Edraunds, but cast in a new mould by my Lord Chancellor. Thes from Sir Dudley Carleton, with the 2 copies of the Prince Palatine's te the States, I received this evening. The King ef Denmarke's attempt upon Stead ^ will alarme thos partes, and divert theyr succors from the Beheraians and the commen cause. I have this evening spoken with George Douglas, (your Lord ship knowes his true name,) ^ who presented me the inclosed frora Mr. Trumbull. He is not forward to enter into the particularities of his errand tyll he shall receive his Majesties directions, whether he will held it fitt and safe for him to attend hira selfe in person, without danger of detection. He is well knowen to Mac Nauten, to James Halg and divers ethers, who if they shold see him about the Court, it would make him uncapable to do the service he pre tends he can from Rome and other partes, where he is yet accepted as a confident. His Majestie will perceive by the inclosed from Sir Jo. Fen- wicke, how duetlfuly he takes his being nominated by his Majesties owne free choice to the sherifwicke of that shire.* ¦ See note at p. 94. « Stade. ' William Gordon, see p. 108. * Northumberland. CAMD. SOC. P 106 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1619. This whole forenoone was spent In Starr Chamber in the defences Deo. 2. of Peter Van Lore and of Sir Thos.- Cooteals and his sonne. To morrow will be imployed for Robert de Lean and some few other ofthe new defendants. On Saterday his Majesties learned councel is to replle. So as we make accompt the sentance will not be given before Monday, there being twenty and one to give theyr censure In the cause, if theyr healthes do all hold out, so many having attended the hearing theroughout. Se I most humbly take leave and remaine Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 2" Decembris, 1619. Dec. 6. No. LXVII. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature]. It raay please your Lordship. I ara sory Sir Dudley Carleton's proceedings with Brewer have beene ne more aggreable te his Majesties good pleasure : indeed he hath intermingled the instruc tions which wee directed him for the States with ether hetero- geneal counseils. This error of his must make me more wary and curious to crave particular directions for my course with him, having received nothing from your Lordship to that effect. He remaineth still with one of the messengers, unquestioned till his Majestie shalbe pleased to prescribe how and by whom he will have him examined. , In my pore opinion Sir John Bennet and Sir Henry Martin will do it well this vacation time, and may use fortescue papers. 107 Mr. Bill's his Majesties printer's attendance to Informe thera of the 1619. books he hath beene privy te, and of the characters with which "^°- ''• they were printed.^ I have commended the papers sent by Mr. Trumbull^ to the Maister of the Rolls and Sir Henry Martin, and delivered him the authentical copies of all the bondes and evidences in the Threasury copied out under the seale of the Exchequer and ten several publique notaries' handes. I sent to the King of Spaines and to the Arch duke's Agents to pray them to signe them upon inspection of the origlnalis as the notaries had done ; but they both forbare to put to their handes, alleaging that they had no such commission from their maisters. Thes Inclosed I received together from Quester this aftemoone from France, Savoy, and Spaine. The Dutch cause^ continues still, and will hold us till Wednesday at the least, though we sit it eut most dayes till neere one after- noone. It is a buisines of rauch intricasle, and receiveth everyday new variacien in the number ef the defendantes, which ar every day reduced to be fewer and fewer in respect of the daily new exceptions which ar offred, in so much as my Lord ChaunceUer himselfe hath tould it in mine eare, that if [he] had beene attornie and had had the following of the matter, he wold not have had so many blots in his tables. The rest of the learned councell seeme abashed at it, and professe they ar all strangers to the proceedings that have beene used. It is rauch muttered at, that so many ar dis charged (yea and some ef the greatest offenders) under hand ; some by want of formalitie, as being unduely exarained, as Deraetrey the brewer (whose howse is deposed to have beene the rendervous of the transporters), and divers ethers by mistaking ofthe officers, and of Sir Henry Bretari and of I knew net whom. I pray God send this cause a good ending. The Lords seeme to be wearle of it. I beseech your Lordship let me receive directions how his Majestie ' Seep. 103, note '. ;; = See p. 103, note 2. ^ The case of the exporters of coin. 108 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1619. will have William Gordon proceeded with, of whose arrivall and ^^"^ ^- attendance here I advertised yeur Lordship by the name of George Douglas. So I humbly take leave and am Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve yeu truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, this e"" of December, 1619, No. LXVIII. Me. Pateick Young ^ to Me. John Packee. [Holograph.] Dec. 7. ]^p_ Packer. So soone as I came to toune I delivered the booke^ and his Majesties letter unto my Lord of Winchester,^ which was on Fryday, about foure of the clock in the aftemoone. Since that tyme ray Lord hath bene ever bussied about it, and layed all things else asyde. Yesternight, after supper, ray Lord did ^returne it unto me sealed, and his letter unto his Majestie within enclosed ; which presentlie I carried, according te your direction in both your letters, unto Secretarie Calwart, to be sent away peast with all speede, and before this I hoape yow have receaved it, I have sent unto yew here enclosed a paper, wherin you raay see all these things yow desyred me to search out sett doune, safe onlie that place of Suetonius, which as yett I have not fallen upon ; but in Julius Capitolinus and JElius Spartlanus I find verie pregnant places to that purpose. This paper, if yow thinke fitt and worthie of his Majesties sight, yow may showe it to his Majestie, and learne ef his Majestie what the title ef the booke must be ; and when yow ' Keeper of the King's libraries. ' This must be the King's book, A Meditation on the Lord's Prayer. ^ Bishop Andrewes. FOETESCUE PAPEES, 109 send the booke back againe for the presse, or shall have anie other 1619. occasion te wrytte unto me touching this bussines, direct your ®''" letters to Mr. BUl's^ shoppe in Paules Church Yaird. Thus leaving of te length your trouble, I take my leave and remaines ever Yeur loving frend readie at coramand, Pa. Young. From my chamber at one Mr, Finch a crosse-bowmaker's house t at the upper end of St. Martin's Lane. December the 7, 1619. Indorsed: Pa. Young. The King's Book. Addressed : To the worshipfull and his verie worthie frend Mr. Packer secretarie uuto my Lord Marquis of Buckingham give these at Courte. No, LXIX, Signor Gabaleon to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Autograph Signature.] Monsieur, Je croye que le chatiment que fust ordonnd centre ceux qui raal traitterent les serviteurs de Mons'^ 1' Ambassadeur de France eusse servy d'exemple a ce peuple d'estre un peu moins rigereux aux estrangiers et plus deux envers les Ambassadours, mais k mon regret je voye au contraire. Hier au seir sur le tard men Aumosnier s'en revenant au lougis, preche a I'ordlnaire des Italiens 11 fust rencontre par quattre Angleis, les queles luy occupants le chemin il contraignirent de passer au milieu d'eux, I'un des queles ayant tr%vers^ une de ses jambes entre les siennes et I'autre heurt^, il gettalent presq' a terre. Le peuvre homme se voyant mal tralttd 11 se mit en devoir de se defendre, mais en un istant tous quattres ils luy sauterent dessus et il battirent cruelement. ' The King's printer. IIO fortescue papers. 1619. j^u mesme temps le Conestable arriva, le quel cria la pais en langue Angloise. Le peuvre homme n'entendit point et tust, grande ment estenn^ de se voyre en mesme Instant, au lieu d'ayde, plus cruelement que par les autres battu par le diet Conestable, le quel cria au peuple de le prendre et de le conduire prisonnler. A ce bruits courut tr^s grand nombre de peuple et entre les autres le raalstre de I'ordlnaire Itallen avec sa femme et un" courier flamand, les quels ne manquere point de faire tous hons ofices et de tesmoigner coraraent le peuvre patient estoit mon demestique et mon Aumosnier, ce que ne servit de rien ; au contraire le diet Conestable, et Ton nemm^ Jan Sutten, I'ayant reconnu pretre, 11 mal traitterent d'avantage avec bastements le trainant par les rues tout ensi comme s'il fust este le plus grand traistre du monde. De cest assassinement je fu incontinent adverty. Je enveye pour le soccourrlr. En chemin les miens rencontrerent un des Cirlfz,^ le quel par pitle 11 esta es mains du peuple et conduict au lougis du Milord Mer^, le quel ayant entendu qu'il esteit un de mes serviteurs premit de^s'en faire justice, et se contenta qu'il fust conduict k la maison, ou il est au present plus preche de la mort que de la vie. Le desplaisir que je sent d'un si mal tralttement est si grand que je ne le puis pas expliquer, Je voye le desordre tellement avancer que d'heresenavant les Ambassadours ils ne serent nullement asseurez en ceste Ville. C'est pourquoye je vous supplie, Monsieur, par I'amour que vous avez tousjours tesmolgn^ a I'androlt de sen Altesse mon Seigneur de faire scavoir a Sa Majeste tout ce qu'est icy pass^, a celle fin que luy plalse de commander que les malfalteurs soyent ohatlez, et de m'excuser si trop je abuse de vostre courtoisie, et de croyre que je suis, Monsieur, Vostre tres humble serviteur, Gabaleon, Arab' de Savoye,^ Londres, ce 20 Dec™, 1619. Indorsed: B' Gabaleone. ' Sheriffs. ' Lord Mayor. ' See the next letter. FORTESCUE PAPERS, 111 No, LXX. Sie Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please your Lordship. Seene after I received your -r}^^% Lordship's last I had thes inclosed brought me frora Sir Edward Harbard,^ which will resolve his Majestie that I forgat not his instructions concerning the Prince of Cond^, though the rough wether that hath bene at seas hath rauch hindred all passages to and fro, as your Lordship will better be Informed by pore . Sir Albert Morton's tedious and dangerous journey.'' I must not forget one particular which Sir Edward Herbert wrete to my selfe a part, as making accompt It was proper to ray place to proporcion his allowances, which I take it so to be for his transpertacions and journles ; but new that he tells me that , the master of the cere monies hath foretould him It wilbe expected that he shold put himself into an extraordinarie equipage at the time of the great ceremonle that is te be performed betweene the 2 Crownes at that King's renewing of his oath,^ and he requires an allowance ef .£1000 er 1000 markes at the least, I dare net ef my selfe take upon rae te cutt se large thonges without his Majesties gracious pleasure first knowen, for which I shall humbly pray your Lordship that I may receive it backe with what convenient speed you may, that I may retorne him a speedy aunswer and neither discorage hira nor gee beyond my warrand. These from Sir D. Carleton I received by Sir Albert Morten. I beseech you to send rae what aunswei I shall retorne him concern ing Boote. The other I received from the Archbishop of Spalate. ' Sir E, Herbert. 2 He had returned from his post with the Queen of Bohemia, upou being made Clerk of the Council, ' At the renewal of the treaty of commerce between England aud France, 112 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 16-19. I have yet ne order what his Majestie wold have dene concerning Brewer's examinacion. I moved that Sir Jo. Bennet and Sir H. Martin raight have the examining of him, but received no appro bacion of that course, ner prescription of any other from your Lordship. Thes inclosed from Gabaleone.^ I suppose they contein some complaint about a preist of his, who being extremely disguised and disordered in drinke, and abusing the constable, was by him put into the stockes, being unknowen what he was, as Mr. Burlimacchi tould me. Theyr Lordships have sent out warrants to bring up divers gen- founders and officers of the port of Lewis for transporting ef erdenance. An^oJig others there Is great complaint made against ene George BIndles, Vice Admiral of Sussex, whom I caused to be forborne, though he hath bene sent for heretofore and could net be found, wherewith I thought it my part to acquaint your Lordship that yeur Lordship might proceed with him yeur selfe, being properly subject to your place. So I most humble take leave, and will persevere Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden te serve you truly, Robert Naunton. WhitehaU, 11" Decembris, I6I9. No. LXXI. The Earl of Nottingham xq the Marquis of Buckingham, [Autograph Signature;] Dee. 23. My most honorable Lord and Sonne. Upon the receipte ef your Lordship's letters I well hoped my nephew Charles (according te his duty and premise and as the truth of the cause required, as I ' See No. Ixix. fortescue papers. 113 have formerly related more at large in my letters to yeur Lordship, 1619. which 1 desired his Majestie should understand) would comformably *°' " have submitted himselfe and brought in those grauntes and pattents touching the offices of Windsor which he hath se unjustly procured and misinformed his Majestie therein, his Majestie having formerly passed them to Mr. Barker the officer there, who hath had his dwelling there and beene his Majesty's auncient servant and Queen Elizabeth's allso long before. But I find that he neither regardeth to lay upon me that I should enforme his Majestie otherwise then truth, nor yet to leave ray yeeres and care of him altogether un satisfied in so just and honest a course for doing justice in my place as Constable of his Majestes Castle and Honor ef Windsor, which I recommend to yeur Lordship's honorable care and zeale in generall to justice, in particular to this my suffring and his obstinate ingrati tude, praying yeur noble Lordship by some few lynes to my Lord Chauncellor to signifie his Majestes pleasure for calling in the said pattents and determining the matter fer the security of Mr. Barker the officer there according to justice. So being bound to your Lordship for all your honorable favours shewen unto me, leaving you to the protection ef the AUmightle te blesse you with all hap pines and .honnor, I rest Your Lordship's most bownd ever te dew you sarvis, Nottingham. Reigate, this 23 of December, 1619. Indorsed : E. of Nottingham to my Lord Mr. Ch. Howard, Addressed: To the right honorable and my especiall good Lord and sonne the Marquis of Buckingham Lord High Admyrall of England. Q 114 fortescue PAPERS. - No. LXXIL Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] 1620. It may please your Lordship. My Lord ef Doncaster, my Lord an. 13. Dig'bie, and I have met, and upon conference and comparing ef the dispatches that passed betwene his Majestie and my Lord of Don caster have cleared the synceritie of his Majesties intentions^ and the integritie of his instructions, and my Lord of Doncaster's faithfull and punctual observacion ef thera all, which we did before Sir Walter Asheton,^ who is to receive extracts of the material poincts, that he may liquidat all scruples when he shall come to the Spanish Court, and ray Lord Digbie may do the like with theyr agents here. Thes Inclosed from Sir Isaac Wake and Bilderbeck and Le Menti I have received since his Majesties departure. The first will deserve his Majesties perusal, the later discover a spie a Benedictin Monke that by writing against the Pope's authoritie for deposing Princes hath gotten a toleration here, and abuseth it te held correspondence with the Pope's Nuncios at Brussells and at Paris. He names him after the fashion of Italy, by his Christian narae, Tom ase, by which it will be hard to find him ; it may be his Majestie knows his surname, without whose direction I will follow him ne further. I have delivered his Majesties raessage andthe copie of the Act of Councell touching Donate te the Venetian Arabassador, who seeraes no more then satisfied with it, but pretesteth to de all the best offices to make his superiors understand his Majesties signal faver hereby demonstrated and Intended them In this conjuncture. Donate Is lesse contented at It, and saith it Is against the dignltie ' From all suspicion of having been concerned in Frederick's election to the Crown of Bohemia, - Sir W. Aston was about to start on his embassy to Madrid, FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1 15 and the libertie of this great kingdora. I conceave his Majestie i620. hath taken the right and straight way, in the raiddest betweene the ¦'''"• •'•^• 2 extreras, without inclining too farre to either of thera both. This inclosed peticion ef the Earl ef Orraend's was almost given way unto. But I remembered their Lordships that he stood out prisoner in conterapt against his Majesties decree made ^ by his own royal person, and raoved that his Majestie raight be acquainted herewith and declare his pleasur before they gave any order herein. Thes examinacions of WiUiam Carre I received yesterday from Durham. It raay please his Majesty te direct what he will have further inquired and done concerning hira by ray Lord of Durham or myselfe. Mr. VlUarnown, that brought the news of the yong Prince's birth at Prague, attends his Majesties lettres, which he tould him he wold addresse them with his own hand, and humbly praies his Majesties signature to this safe conduct here inclosed. So with my humble duetie and service, and daily prayers fer yeur Lordship's most honor and happines, I take leave and am Your Lordship's rriost devoted and bounden to serve yeu truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 13° Januarii, 1619 As I was sealing up this dispatch I received thes advertisements of Bohemia from Mr. Burlimacchi. Ne. LXXIIL Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It raay please your Lordship. Wee lese ne time In his Majesties Jan, 20. buisinesses recommended to the Bord and te his Coramissleners for ' In the dispute between the Earl of Ormond and Lord Dingwall. 116 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1620. the Thr[es]earle, which takes ray time so wholy up, that It must excuse my seldome writing, and 'my forbearance to advertise the particularities of our proceedings, tyll we shall have ripened them te seme profe. Thes inclosed from the Baren Donah ar the cheife cause of this' dispatch, which he hath importuned me te send te his Majestie, aa persuading himselfe to give great satisfaction by them. He prayed me te tell your Lordship from him that he had receaved the Spanyards objections of Secretarie Calvert,^ and that he raakes no doubt to give full aunswere unto them to his Majesties- full contentment when he shall have the honor to attend him at Newmarket. I wrote unto your Lordship soone after his Majestie reraoved from hence, which I thinke were delivered in your Lordship's absence from the Courte. It may please your Lordship that Mr. Packer raay retorne the lettres when his Majestie and your Lordship shall have done with them, that I may hold up intelli gence with my correspondents abroad, and particularly let me know. his Majesties pleasure touching the Earl of Ormond's peticion, which I sent inclosed in that dispatch, for which I suffer envie, having: turned tlie resolucion of the table by putting them and myselfe in rainde of' our dueties'and respects te his Majestie, in disobedience and contempt of whose own sentence given in his royal person that Earle stands out, and is In effect his own prisoner. My Lady of Buckingham hath willed me to let yeur Lordship knew that Sir Sebastian ^ and his lady and the yong gentlewoman ar all joinct suitors, that whereas Cortines debts ^ ar extended by ' " Ha la M'is sua havuto da Doncaster una scrittura consignata a questo Imperatore, nella quale si espresimono le ragioni di esse Ferdinando. Ha po havuto un altra sopra ristesse da questo Agente di Spagna, il quale se maneggia molto accortamente a tutto poter suo. L'una et I'altera ha mandate per Secretarie Calvert all'Ambasciator Dona, accioche responda ad alcune di quelle ragioni." — Laudo to the Doge, January |g, 1620, Relations between England and Germany, Series IL 147. 2 Sir S, Harvey-, whose daughter and heiress waa being sought in vain as a wife for Christopher Villiers, ' For his fine for exporting coin. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 117 Mr. Attorny to the value of seme £7000, he may be used with the i620. like favor that others ar in giving good securitie to pay what his ^^"' Majestie shall be pleased te set upon him and his credit preserved (which Mr. Attourney's ^ course of proceeding with him would shake) whiche they all three professe they will take for a signal favour, and she saith they beginne te shew themselves raore kind and plyant then heretofore. She desires your Lordship wold pro cure his Majesties lettres to the Coramissioners for the Thr[es] earle to give order that, upon good securitie given to the effect above mencioned, his debts may be no further questioned by Mr, Attorny. So with my daily prayers te God for yeur Lordship's most honour and true happines I remaine Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 20 Januarii, 1619. No. LXXIV. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please your Lordship. The occasion of this dispatch Is the speedy conveyance of thes inclosed from my Lord Digbie, Sir Isaac Wake, and Mr. Cettington, which being so manye and so long I must net in conscience add to your Lordship's troble by writing at this time any raore then needs I must. Tomorrow my Lords are to meet, and every bird to bring a fether to the eagle's' nest. I pray God blesse our day's worke ; divers ef them weld willingly have put it ever, as if all meanes had bene studied that the witt of man could compasse, &o. But my Lord Chancellor and my selfe pressed his Majesties Instructions iterato. What the effect will be, Secretarie Calvert will better advertise by word of mouth then can conveniently be done by writing, ' Yelverton. Jan. 23. 118 fortescue papers. 1620. I will not then faile to call daily upon therii to whoni hk Jan. 23. Majestle hath referred the several businesses ef ray Lord of Suffolk's last submission, of Sir H. Breton's peticion, of the late graunt to the City, of Nicholson's patent, the diminishing his Majesties charge in unnecessary officers, and the rest. Se fer this tirae I humbly take leave, and will persevere Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden te serve you truely, Robert Naunton. WhitehaU, 23° Januarii, 1619. No. LXXV. The Marquis of Buckingham to the Lord Chancellor Verulam. [Copy,] Jan. ? After ray very hartle ceramendaclons : His Majestie hath com manded me to write unto yeu that you know very well how earnest he hath been to make a match betweene my brother Christopher Villiers and Sir Sebastian Harveyes^ daughter, wherein Courteen doth offer his travell and paynes te bring it te effect, so that he may be eased of the extent which Is upon him by giving securitie unto his Majestie for the payment of the fine imposed upon hlra..^ Herein his Majestie desireth yeu to be carefull that this be not a pretext used cunningly by Courteen to defraud him ef his money, which is no small matter "(being, as yeu knewe, two and twentie thousand pounds) ; but yf yeu find his Intention be sincere, his Majestie is well pleased for Inceuraging him to use his endeavor in that businesse, to free him from the extent upon his goods, putting in good security for the payment of his Majestes money, but by no other way. Indorsed : M[inute] to Lord Chancelor altered and signed by his Majestie. ' See Nos. LII. LIII. aud LXXIII. 2 jtoj exporting treasm-e. fortescue PAPEES. 119 No. LXXVL Sir Robert Naunton to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Holograph,] It may please your Lordship, I have once mere made bould to J^^^% addresse this ether dispatche of Sir Ed. Herbert's ^ te your Lord ship, because I conceive your Lordship favors him, and you will see by the close of his lettre te ray selfe that he premiseth himself your Lordship's assistance te his Majestie in that which he so rauch affecteth. I have received that King's oath,'* signed and sealed and attested by all the four Secretaries. I cannot oraitt to acquaint your Lordship with the corafort and joy which I conceive to heare how all the best sort of his Majesties people applaud and honor yeur noble forwardnes and furtherance In graceing the Bohemian Am bassador ^ with your visits, and introducing him to conferences and audiences with his Majestie, I make no doubt but God will stand for his own truth ; and will in his good time inspire his Majestie to declare him selfe fer It effec.tualy, after he shall be satis fied and resolved of the right. Se with my daily prayers te God to direct his Majestie and your Lordship, se as shall be most for his owne glory and your highest honor, I humbly take leave, and will persevere Your Lordship's most devoted and bounden to serve yeu truely, Robert Naunton. WhitehaU, 3° Febr. 1619. ' Ambassador in Fra'nce. ° See p. III. ' Baron Actatius Dohna. 120 FOETESCUE PAPERS. No. LXXVII. Signor Gabaleon to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1620^. Monsieur. La lettre eu 11 nous pleut de m'escrire ces jours " passdes non seulement je I'enveya a sen Altesse, afin qu'il voiast la faveur que Sa Majestd luy fit de publier en plaine assemblde de sa Court que les deux de la religion reformde executez desinierment en Piedmont estoyent deux mesohants garniments, qui avoyent este condaranes pour leurs crimes, mais encore je n'en donna plusieurs copies a de raes arais pour le publier en ceste ville, afin que le peuple, entendu la verite du faict, s'en ostat la croyance qu'il n'avoit au contraire. Neantemoins quelque raauvals esprit par igtierance o par malice a fait iraprimer en Angleis la lettre qu'un ministre du Mar- qulsat de Salusses escrivit a Geneve et eux mandd icy, la quels estant plaine de raenterles et faucete, il n'y a nul doubte qu'elle cenfirmera le dit peuple en la majuvaise croyance qu'il n'avoit desja cenceue. C'est pourquoy, Monsieur, je vous supplie s'il se peult de faire en sorte que par ordonanceTie- Sa Majesty les dittos lettres imprimees soyent retirees et bruslees en public comme fauces et plaines de sedition, qu'outre vous vous obligerez Son Altesse, vous donnerez sujet a moy d'adjuster ceste faveur a une infinite d'autres que vous m'avez reparty, et de me dire k jamais cemme je suis, Monsieur, Vostre trfes affectlennd serviteur, Gabaleon, Ambassadeur de Savoye. Londres, ce 13 Fevrier, 1620. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 121 No. LXXVIIL Mr. Anthony Warton to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Quanquam te sclam, vir ornatissime, jamdudum certiorem esse 1620. factum me accepisse gratuitum et amplisslmura illud donum tuum ' (odorem quidem, ut Apostolus ait, bouse fragrantly, sacrificium Deo acceptum et gratum,) quod ad me per D. Boultenum transmiseras, tamen existlmavi ad officium meum pertinere, ut grati animi aliquam apud te significationem prestarem. Ago igitur tibi gratias quas pessum maximas, vir pluribus nominibus' colendissime, et precor Deum per Jesum Christum, ut tuam multipUcem erga ministros et precones verbi Divini benevolentlam nunquam deleri sinat, sed cum foenore tibi abundantissime rependat in hoc seculo, et misericerdiara etiam exhibeat in illo die glorlosae apparitlonis Jesu Christi. Norim quidem, et gaudeo sane Evangelii causa quod profiteris, quantum tua ubique in pauperes prsedlcetur raunificentia. Est hic cultus sane Christo acceptissimus : quatenus enim id fecistis uni ex istis fratribus meis minimis, mihi fecistis, inquit Servator. Sed tamen si com- paratlenera instituere liceat inter raunia tam sua natura prestantia et tam Deo grata, eniravero tum tua pace dixerim, hanc tuam quam ministris imo ecclesiis Christi prsestas beneficentiam ex duobus, hec tempore et seve nostre, esse magis necessariam. Nam qui fame corporis premuntur, et victura sibi sue labore deficientibus viribus comparare non possunt, suas necessitates aliis exponent et potent clbura unde haberi potest. At, proh dolor ! quibus non est faraes habendi panis nee sitis aquarum sed audiendi verbum Jehovse (ut prophetas verbis utar) ii omnino non sentlunt hanc miseriam suam, nee conantur remedium aliqued contra illam adhibere sed voluntarie pereunt In ignorantia et csecitate sua. Utinam ergo Ii, quibus divitise et opes hujus mundi abundanter suppetunt, talium misererentur. Utinam illorum opera prsedicatlone verbi frui possent, Certe qui- CAMD. SOC. R 122 FOETESCUE PAPERS, 1620. bus facultas est et desiderium prjestandl bona opera, hoc, si quod ¦ ¦ aliud, offert se ut prsestantlssimum opus. Nam ubi alia bona opera corpori presunt, hoc preraevet geternam animarum salutem. Pergas ergo, ornatissime vir, obsecro te in nomine Christi communis Serva- toris et Domini nostri, cujus ego minister indignissmus sum, minls- teriura verbi ejnis, quantum petes opibus, authoritate, quin et gratia, qua plurlraum apud regem nostrum serenissimum vales, sustentare. Cegltes tecum quseso quam misera sit ecclesise nostrse facies lis in locis ubi sub trahuntur proventus, annul, et desunt stipendia unde pastores alantur. Proh dolor ! ibi exulat scientia, regnat ignorantia, et Inde quidem superstitio alicubi, allcubl vere licentiesa et profana merum corruptela, ubique autem religionis syncerse et veri tiraorls Dei defectus obtinet. Lachrymabllis fuit ea Israelitarum conditio, quando propter peccata sua dediti et venundati fuere a Domino in manus Aramonltarum, Phlllsteorum, et aliorum hostium qui ra.pinis et deprsedatlonlbus expilarunt et servltute eos presserunt miserrima, Ecce hic ipslssiraus status est ecclesiarura appropriatarum nos trarum ut vulgo vocantur. Traduntur et venundantur In eerura manus qui vellera amant, et oves deglubunt, et animas sibi concre- ditas omnino non curant, sed lupos pre pasteribus agunt, Utinam, 6 utinam rex noster religiosissimus remedium aliqued huic malo afferret. Utinam sicut ministros ecclesiarum Scoticarum preclare nuper in llbertatera asseruit et a pauperie vindicavit ; sic onus illud gravlssimum a cervicibus nostris authoritate regia sua depelleret, quod illis jam diu (heu nimis diu) incubuit. Iniquissimura fuit In Pharaone, quod summam laterum ab Israelltis exigeret, nee tamen stramen illis, ut temporibus anteactis, suppeditaret, sed adigeret palabundes per totam terrain Egypti stipulam pre straralne colligere. Perinde quidem nobiscum agunt ^approprlatores nostri vel ii potius multis in locis, qui approprlatlones Istas ab illis tenent, Curam gregis Domlnlcse nobis curlonlbus cerataittunt ; at ipsi straraen, quin et frumentum, et totum commeatuin antiquitus ministerio destlnatum sibi reservant, et cogunt nos vel aliunde con- quirere, vel cum mlserrlma'paupertate cenfllctari. Dabis mihi veniam FOETESCUE PAPERS. 123 spero, spectatissime et integerrlme vir, si in hac justa quserela mea i620. paule vehementlor fuerim. Ego enim, si quis alius, per longam et Feb, 2 , miseram experientlam, iniquitatem sensi horura aprorum silvestrium (si fas sit Ita loqui) qui vineam Domini vastarunt. Vitam meam mihi acerbam fecerunt, dum libris studiorum fomentis privarunt, et In pauperiem summam cenjecerunt. Qua propter non possum non loqui. Et tamen non hsec tam mei -causa loquor (cui Deus pre misericordia sua, nennuUes dudum amicos excitavit, qui in spem meliorem animura meum erexerunt,) quam ecclesiarum Christi vicem miserabilem condolens quse sub malis istis curatoribus degunt, Harum causam dolendam tibi commendat, vir ornatissime, qui te tuesque omnes in precibus suis quotidie Deo commendat, bene- ficentia tua ad hoc de vinctus. Antonius Warton. Wokingh[am,] 6 cal. Martii 1619. Indorsed : M'' Warton to me. Addressed : To the right worshipfull Master John Packer Eaquier Secretarie to the right honorable the Lord Marquis of Buckinghame be this delivered. No. LXXIX. Frederick King of Bohemia to Mr. Packer, [Autograph Signature.] Monsieur Packer. Eucor que je n'aye jamais dout^ de vostre ApHl^V bonne affection, en mon endroit, si est ce que j'en ay receu des tesmoignages si signalez par I'advis que m'en a donnd le Baron de Dona mon Ambassadeur, que je n'ay voulu lalsser passer cette com modity sans vous en remercier, comme je fais, vous asseurant que la Reine ma treschere compagne et mey n' oublierons point I'assistance que vous et autres gens de bien font peur cette bonne cause, esperant que par vostre exemple plusieurs autres serent Indults a le suivre, et moy je sera bien aise de rencontrer des occasions pour le recog- 124 FORTESCUE PAPERS. ]62i\ nolstre; priant Dieu de veus tenir en sa garde. De mon chasteau April iV Koyal de Prague ce -^ Avril 1620. Vostre affectione amy Feideeic Addressed: A monsieur. Monsieur Packer, Secret^ du Roy de la Gr. Bretagne. April £7. No. LXXX. The Bishop of Carlisle to the Marquis op Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] Right Noble Lord. I have represented unto my self yeur eminent place of service and most honorable impleymentes in the highest affaires of State, and thereupon now for a long tirae forborne to trouble yeur honor with any letters, though I have beene sundrie times importunately occasioned thereunto. But now (if I be not deceived) I have an errand to his Majestie soe contentfuU that your honor will (I hepe) be well pleased te recommend the same to his Highnes most gratious consideracon. The matter is a late accord wherein my peere endeavours have beene prospered with good successe. The shedding of Innocent blood Is a crying sinne, and that most enormous cryme hath beene committed well neare at the gate of his Highnes City of Carlile : the murtherers are some of them in prison ; a more full declaracon ef the raatter is articulately expressed In the note of advertisements herewith sent unto your honor, wherein I have spared many pointes of circumstance, ¦« hereby the untoward proceedinges ef Sir Williara Hutton might be dis played, by whose ridiculous pellicles see good services for the honor of his Majestie and good of the Cuntrie might have beene inter- verted, if I had not beene well acquainted with his former complet- mcnts for his owne turne. Yet to avoid disparagement te himself bycause he had done nothing, he fell to another stratagem by dealing with the prisoners to confesse- nothing to any other but to himself, whereat I smyled, saying that, as in the Apostles time some preached fortescue papers, 125 Christ upon envye, soe in our time some will doe justice not upon 1620.^ zeale of justice, but upon envie. But all is well, if Christ be ^" preached, and justice be done, beth the one way and the other, and now we have a happie opportunitie for the common good ef this cuntrie to his Highnes' great honor and glory ef God, if the service which hitherto hath soe happily succeeded shall as perfectly be consummated and concluded by his Highnes' denlall ef pardon to any of the bloody murtherers upon the suite of any that shall meve his Majesty thereunto. My very Honorable good Lord, I first admired you for the excellencies of your person, nature and com portment, but now I tenne times more honor yow for your vertues and religion testified and recommended te the world by the most judicious and most renowned Monarch that ever sweyed the scepter of Great Brytaine. And as Mordochee said of Ester? Who knoweth whether thow hast beene advaunced for such a tyme as this : soe say I of yeur honor. This time hath need of vertuous and religious courtiers, and who knoweth whether yeu have beene advanced for such time as this ? The purport of this tedious letter Is this, that your honor would be pleased to move his Majesty that the foresaid crying sinne may be severely punished for the relief of the cuntrie by a terror to all future malefactors In that kinde. And if your honor shalbe pleased to signify his Highnes' gratious good pleasure herein te the most Honorable Earle of Arundell, I shall have speedy notice thereof from him, and be thereby yet more bound te love and honor you and to pray continually for your happines, and to rest Your Honor's ever te doe you service, Ro. Carliolen,^ Eose Castle, ApriHs 27° 1620. Indorsed : Bp of Carlile. Addressed: To the most Honorable George Lord Marquesse of Buckingham his very good Lord. At the Court. ' Robert Snowden. 126 FOETESCUE PAPEES. No. LXXXI. Sir Robert Naunton to James I. [Autograph Signature.] It raay please yeur Majestie. We have treated with the Spanish May 8. Arabassador according to your Majesties Instructions frora poinct to poinct, whom we found as yet somewhat distempered In his health, but raore In raind ; and that not so rauch fer the iraportance of what Captn. North can do^ (though he affirraeth that there ar 3 other ships attending thera on theyr way, that set eut before the ship and pinnace with which he went hiraselfe,) as for the unseundnes of the intelligence which will be descanted upon this occasion to be betwene thes two Crownes, fer all the treatie that hath bene so long on foot; specialy when it shall be advertised into those parts that any subject of your Majesties shall dare to thrust hiraselfe upon such an attempt contrary to your owne expresse commandement and pleasure signi fied by the Lord Admiral and by a Secretary ef State; and that all the rather because he Is thought te have presumed herein so rauch the mere upon your Majesties douceur and facilitle, by reason of the under hand abetting and joyning in the adventure ef seme of yeur great Lords and Councel,^ the like whereof he sayd no Grande in Spain could have passed over without sorae signal exemplarie demonstraclon of theyr King's high displeasure and indignacion m such an ouverture. When we had tould him how much your Majesty was trobled with it, how you had expostulated it with your Lords that were adven turers, and how theyr Lordships had disavowed the fact and theyr being any wayes privy to it ; what meanes and diUgence you had ' He sailed to the Amazon in spite of the King's prohibition. 2 The agreement (Harl, MSS, 1583, fol, 81) is signed by the Duke of Lennox, tho Earls of Arundel, Dorset, Warwick, and Clanrickard, Lord North, Captain Roger North, Sir George Hay, Sir Edward Cecil, Su- John Danvers, Sir W, Hervey, Sir Thomas Cheejke, and Sir Nathaniel Rich, FOETESCUE PAPERS. 12? directed to be used for his stay, revocacion, disablement and surprize "i-S^d. by sea or land, either here er in Ireland, and that your Majesty assumed It to your selfe te take It upon yeu beth in honor and con science to discharge and free his Lordship in Spaine, and therfore required him to contribute his owne best advise and opinion what course he shold thinke fittest to be taken further for the redress and ratifieing of this foule fault, and for the preventing any fiiture Inconvenience that raight insue upon it in point ef State or reputa cion to either of your Majesties or unto his owne person, that had lately written as confidently into Spaine to secure them of Captain North as formerly he had dene for Sir Walter Ralghly ; his aunswer was that he most humbly thanked yeur Majestie fer your gratious and princely care of him, but sayd withall that both your Mujestie and himself weld lye subject to he knew not what construction In Spaine, upon this third' mischance and traverse which had bene objected since the beginning of this treaty fer the mariage, of all which three he esteemed this last to be the greatest and the most unseasonable : whereupon his last motion to us was, that we wold earnestly intreat yeur Majesty, as from him, that you wold be pleased to graunt him audience at Theobalds at your first con venience, where he wold offer up his true conceipt ef all the buisines to the uttermost of his understanding and jugement to yeur Majesties princely consideration and wisdorae, with that ingenuite and free- dome which shold both content yeur Majesty, and befitt his ewne place and person. Sir Clement Edmonds hath received the patent^ frora ray Lord of Warwicke, which I have taken into mine owne keeping. His Lord ship, not finding it in his owne house, directed him to the Clerke of the Companie, where it was, and sent one of his owne servants to procure hira the speedy delivery of it, ' The two former were, I suppose, the expedition of Raleigh and the robbery of an East India ship. 2 It is not to be found upon the Patent Rolls, being forfeited before it was enrolled, 128 FOETESCUE PAFEES. 1620. So with my daily prayers to God for your Majesties most pros- ¦'y • perltie and happines I most humbly take leave, Yeur Majesties most obedient and devoted subject and servant, Robeet Naunton, WhitehaU 8 May 1620. Addressed: To the King's most excellent Majestie. No. LXXXIL Dr. John Bowle to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Holograph,] Mav 18, Ryht Honorable, my hurable duty prsemlsed, I could not by any level taken frome ray poore indeavors have measured the favor which your Honor graced mee withall in your Lordship's late letters ; and scince itt pleaseth your Honor to ranke mee in the number of yeur orators whome yeu please to respect, I shall pre serve that testimony to survive tny buriall that ray labors were accepted of the raost honorable and judicious ef the Court. My good Lord, the content and Incouragement I received I cannot express, but scince nowe Itt hath pleased God to take the Bishop of Norwich to his raercy, these lines de humbly Intreat your Honor to lodge raee in that nuraber wheme your Honor will advaunce by this alteration. The Deanery of Westrainster, wher I went to schoole, or some such place, is the uttmost of my desire,^ wher I rayght serve my God, and dayly praye for his Majesty and your Honor. Your Honor's devoted, by what man can bee obliged, John Bowle, BradfeUd, May 18. Addressed : To the most Honorable the Lord Marques Buckingham, Lord High Admirall of England. ' Williams was made Dean of Westminster, and Bowie became Dean of Salisbury. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 129 LXXXIII. Frederick, King of Bohemia, to Mr. Packer. [Autograph Signature.] Monsieur. Outre les bons offices que je sgay que vous avez rendus pour le bien de mes affaires, vous m'avez de plus voulu i620. tesmoigner de vostre main la bonne affection que portez a I'advance- •'"'^ t^^- ment d'icelles, Je vous en remercie presentement, attendant les occasions qui rae donneront le moyen de vous faire sentir les effects de ma bonne volente envers veus et les vostres ; et vous prie cependant d'en prendre asseurance et de men amitie, et me vouloir contlnuer vez bons offices en ce qui pourra cencerner I'advancement de mes affaires par dela, ainsy que jeme lepromets. Sur ce je prie Dieu qu'il vous ait en sa sainte protection. Vostre affectione aray, Frideric, De Prague le i^ Jmllet A° 1620. Indorsed : K. of Bohemia to me. 2. Addressed : A monsieur. Monsieur Packer, Secretaire de Sa Ma'^ de la Grande Bretagne. No, LXXXIV. Sir Robeet Naunton to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Autograph Signature.] It may please your Lordship. Yesterday the Lords set into the July 21 buisinesses recommended by his Majestie. I began first with that of the registring the shippes, etc., which was digested into heades, and se sent to the Comraissioners for the Navie to perfit up and retorne to the Lords, that an Act of Counsel may be passed upon it according to his Majesties directions at Theobalds. Then we entred into consideracion of Sir Thoraas Dutton's suite for the Inland forts In Ireland. In that Counsel's lettres and certi ficate we find they would not undertake to give us any advice fer the fee ferming of them, though that were the maine point wherein CAMD. SOC. S 130 fortescue PAPERS. 1620. -vye required their direct advise ; neither de they give us any par ticuler survey of the lands lyeing to every fert, but leave them se in confuso, as the Lords found ne reason to undertake to determine of that which is yet so unknowen unto them. The lettre Inclosed will give his Majestie a general accompt. The particulers are committed to Secretary Calvert to relate by word of mouth at his coming. The Tobacco fermers and the Virginian and Bermudas Com panies were heard after, and order given to Mr. Solicitor to prepare the patent, and a commission to accord theyr articles, and a license for those Companies to import a porcion of tobacco, notwithstanding the last proclamation for sole importacien to the. formers. After thes Sir Francis Blundel was heard touching the plantaclon of Letrira and the lettres frora Ireland read. And theyr Lordshipps, upon consideracion of the many imperfections and defectes and want of execution in the 3 former plantacions of Ulster, Wexford, and Longford, fell all upon a joinct resolucion to move his Majestie that these 3 former plantacions raight be exactly surveyed and reviewed and reforraed, before they should setle that ef Letrira, for perfiting wherof the season of the yeare would be now overpast, before they could well set into the worke. My Lord ChanceUor, my Lord of Arundel, and my selfe, have corrected the Proclamacion for tenant rights, and sent it away te be ingrossed. The Marchant Adventurers were heard this morning touchino- their propeslcion of removing their staple, but because the Secretary of Middleburgh was absent (who we ar tould that he deth attend there at the Court), and the Marchants themselves desired the con clusion ef that busines might be respited for a time, the Lords could not proceed any further in it as yet. The complaint ef the Counsel ef Scotland ef the want of silver was likewise appointed to have been heard this day. But because Mr. James Douglas, who was te have attended that buisines Is gone away with the Court, we sent to Sir William Alexander te have informed us what he could thereof, but he retorned us aunswer July 21. FORTESCtTE PAPERS. 131 that he was utterly unacquainted with that' complaint, and could 1620 say nothing at all of it, so as we could not settle any jugement what to do in that raatter till we should receive more particuler informacions. MaxwelU and Alured^ are to be before the Lords this aftemoone, and Mr. Solicitor hath theyr pamphlets to charge them with theyr several misdemeanors ; whereupon we expect theyr recegnicion^ to make a way for the Ambassador's mediaclon fer thetn. Toraorrow morning wee have appointed for .Powles,* and the aftemoone to dispatch the new bargaine of the Coales, if we can not end it this aftemoone without Sir Lionel Cranfeld, who Is not yet retorned frora Court. Sir Nowell Caron'' Is to pay this day into the Exchequer £7,105 od raoney, and had paid in £5,000 raore for de la Barre,besldes the £1,600 which hath been seised into the Exchequer of his goodes all ready had he not been seques tred ; for whora now ray Lord Digby Is to accorapt, and Sir Newell Caron te be discharged ef de la Barr's part ef the £60,000. Meses Tryon's pardon is past the Signet by me, but I must pray your Lordship that I may be discharged of the £5,000, which he hath given assurance to pay it unto others, it being a part ofthe £60,000 contracted fer betwene Sir Newell Caron and me. I raust adde one worde raore about the Baronetship of Sir Thomas Bishop, fer whom Mr. Read tould me his Majestie shold have £6,000,^ and I from hira informed his Majestie as much. But now Mr. Read tells me the King must have but £500, and that £100 must ge another way. And of that £500 he saith further, that he hath a lettre of ' On the 27th of November James Maxwell made his submission to the Council for publishing an opinion that the kingdon^of Bohemia was not elective, and that the deposition of Ferdinand aud the election of Frederick were unlawful. S.P, Dom. cxvii. 89. * Author of a letter against the Spanish marriage. ' See Bacon to Buckingham, July 23, 1620, TFor/iS, ed, Montagu, xiii, 23, ? For the repair of St, Paul'si ° On behalf of Dutch merchants fined for exporting goldi ' So in MS. apparently by mistake for £600. 132 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1620. Attorny to pay £200 to a Creditor of Mr. Gordon's in London, •¦"'y^l. whereas his Majesties intencion was that this mony shold be all made over to Mr. Gordon to pay a debt ef his Majesties in Polone which comes to £500, and had ordered that the Comraissioners of the Thresory should have paid him £700 more (besydes the £300 he had with him) fer the discharge of that debt and the interest of it ; which I made accompt it should have been all saved by this Baronet, and so I tould his Majestie, Upon this new reckoning I have stayd the sealing of the bylls for that Baronetship, till I may know his Majesties pleasure whlthei; the money shall be paid into the Exchequer for the true use it Is Intended for, er net ; which I have held my selfe tyed in duetie and honestie to insist upon for mine owne due discharge ofthe trust reposed in me. So craving pardon for my so long lettres, I humbly take leave, and will persevere Your Lordship's most devoted, and bounden to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. Whitehall, 21° July 1620. Addressed : To the Right Honorable my sin gular good Lord my Lord Marquis Buck ingham Lord Highe Admiral of England &c, at the Court. No, LXXXV. J. H, Maeye to Maequis of Buckingham, [Autograph Signature.] Aug. 5, Right honorable. The hepe I have reposed In yeur Lordship's favour hath emboldened me te offer my service to yeur Lordship, whose resplendent virtues have like a cleare sonne given light to my sowle, enflamed my desires, and stirred me up to seeke so great a happiness; wherupon I sollicited Monsier LeGrand, Master ofthe FOETESCUE PAPEES. 133 French King's Herss, who hath written to your Lordship in ray i620. favour, as also Madame the Marquis of Vernell to my L, the Duke of ^^^- ' Lenox, to meve your Lordship in my behalfe. I also composed a panagirick of the immortality of glorie, one for his Majestie, an other fer the Prince, and the third fer yeur Lordship. Moreover I have remayned fiveteene monthes In England, passed over ence into France since, and spent In the meane while above three hundred pownds to no other end but to attayne the happiness te be retayned in your Lordship's service, the which I most humbly desire may be without putting your Honor to any charge. Your Lordship's most humble Servant, J. H. Marye, This 5 of August 1620. Indorsed: Marie Fr. I00"[<>'"'=]. Addressed : To the right Honorable his very good Lord the Lord Marquis of Buckingham. No, LXXXVI. Sir Oliver St. John to the Maequis of Buckingham. Most honourable. The raany crosse accidents happening unto -*-"g- 17- me in the place I ,heuld make me fly unto yeur Lordship's favour as the surest anchour of my fortunes. There is a yong Man lately sworne a Counsellor amongst us. Sir Roger Jones, sonne ef the late Chauncellor, who, with much insolency, in the presence ef a greate noraber of the Noblemen, Bishops, and others at the Councell beard, publiquely interrupted and reprehended mee, contrary te his dutie to his Majestie and the place he held. The manner whereof I have in this enclosed wryting laid downe, I should rather have chosen to have passed it by if I might have found any disposition in him to acknowledge his error, then te have troubled his Majestie and your Lordship with yt. But that I find him animated te repaire into England, as I suppose to countenance himselfe against mee. And therefore I have presumed humbly to make my greife 134 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1(520. knowen to his Majestie, and also to beseech your Lordship te second Aug. 17, y^^ ,^^^ ^g honour me so much as te preserve me from so publique an affront. I have found ef late a strong combination against mee even among the members ef this Councell, such as seeke all occasions, by themselves, and their wrytinges, to blemishe raee In the good opinion of his Majestie', your Lordship, and the greate personages ef that State, araong whora this yong man Is contented to beare a part. But If I may be se much bound to his Majestie and your Lordship that this man Sir Roger Jones may find that his Majestie is displeased with his undutifuU behaviour, and be sente backe againe with admonition to carry himselfe better hereafter, I shall receave much contentment by yt, his Majestie wilbe better served, and ethers by his example be made to conforme themselves with more obedience and respect then hitherunto sorae of thera have done. Otherwise I shalbe altogether disabled and discouraged te doe his Majestie service, and I shall rather wishe to retyre ray selfe to a private lyfe, and spend my tyme In prayers fer his Majestie and my good friends, then to see my selfe contemned and wronged by those that ought te be commaunded by rae, his Majesties service prejudiced by mine unworthinesse and your Lord ship dishonoured, who have hitherto so nobly valued and supported me. I most humbly pray yeur Lordship te afford me in this par ticular your best favor, who have faithfully honoured and served you, as a businesse in the consequence thereof so neerly concerning raee. And so with prayers te God fer your Lordship's happie preservation I remaine Your Lordship's devoted servaunt, Ol: St. John. Dublin, 17 August 1620. Indorsed : L. Dep. to my Lord. S'' Rog. Jones. Addressed': To the right honourable my speciali good Lord the Lord Marquesse of Bucking ham, Lord High Admirall of England. To be kept till called for. Aug FOETESCUE PAPERS. 135 No. LXXXVIL Sir Lionel Ceanfield to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph,] Right Honorable my verry good Lord. I received yesterdaye this inclosed from Sir Nicholas Fortescue, one of my fellow Com- I62r. missioners ef the Navye. He desires. In the name ef the rest ef the Comraissioners, ray direction, which I dare not give, nor any opynion to your Lordship, but have thowght fitt to send the papers theraselves, humbly referring the consideration of them to your wisdom, and attend your pleasure. For the buissines ofthe coales I do assure my self your Lordship hath hard what hath past at lardg and verry particulerly by Mr. Secretary Naunton and Mr, Pye. Eight thowsand pounds ef the fyne is paid to Mr. Pye to clere my Lady Bedford, and £3000 to Sir Robert Maunsfelld by waye of Imprest for the Kinges service. The remaynder of the meny remaynes in the Contractors hand to be disposed for his Majesties service upon the passing of their grant, which the King will have need ef at his returne ; for all the rest of his Highnes' revenue untill our Lady Daye next is anticipated. Tn this byssines I have den your Lordship the best service I coulde, which I rather referr to the report ef ethers then mention my selfe. And as In this, so In all other thinges that shall concerne your Lordship either in saffety, honnor, or proffitt, I shalbe as ready, as carefuU, and as faithfull as any servant you keepe, wherof desiring your Lordship to bee assured, I humbly tack leave and will ever rest Your Lordship'p faithfullest servant, Lionell Cranfeilde. Chelsey, the 22th August 1620. Indorsed : Sir L. Cranfield to my L, 22 Aug, Coales, Addressed : To the Right Honorable my sin guler good Lord the Lord Marques Buck ingham Lord High Admirall of England, etc. At Courte, 136 fortescue papers No. LXXXVHL Sir Dudley Carleton to Marquis of Buckingham. 1620, ^y most honorable Lord. By my wife's report since she went Sept. 1. into England I have receaved the comfort that your Lordship Is pleased to give eare to her sute for the amendment of my poore condition, whereof I take the boldnes to represent the true estate to your Lordship, to the end you may not be unfurnished of argument to his Majesty when you shall finde your owne best time to move him in my favour. It draweth new uppon five yeares since I carae into this service, after having ended two Ambassages of as long continuance in Italy, one ordinarie with the state of Venice, an other exterordinarie with the Duke ef Savoy. This State I fownd governed by a contrarie faction both to Ged's service and his > Majesties, which was supp[orted] by two extraordinarie Ambassa- g[es] of France, besides particular gentleraen sent frora time to tirae, at no sraall cost of that crowne, for the sarae purpose, and a Resident Ambassador, who yet here remaines. These, without any one pennie of extraordinarie charge te his Majestie, I have in- countered from time to time with such happie successe that the true religion Is onely here publiquely professed, all novelties sup pressed, and ne Prince er State looked uppen with an eye of goode affection from hence In comparison ef his Majesty and his king- domes. This required as exterordinarie diligences, se mere then ordinarie expences, by relieving raany poore but sufficient and serviceable men kept under in want and povertle by those who had all power in the state, and giving entertainment to the better sort, which, according to the fashion of this place, is onely tasted at table. My predecessor. Sir Ralph Winwood, having ne such exter ordinarie occasion of expence, but many of benefit, which have not occurred in my time, had notwithstanding, being then but Agent, a liberal Ayuda de Costa owt ef the Exchequer, and his meanes augmented towards the end of his time after he was Ambassador, fortescue papers. 137 besides the advancement he arrived unto at last fer recompence of 1620. his service. All ef my condition who have bin eraployed in my ^^P'- ^- tlme, and some who went into service since rae, have had both rewards and advanceraents ether in possession or revertien, besides that theyr allowance is greater In places lesse chargeable, raine re maining still at the auntient institution to which it was reduced by Sir Raph Winwood, when he came to be Secretarie, which withall hath bin ever so ill payed that I have bin continually exposed to the burden of interests and exchanges, and what shifts I have bin putt unto to supplie my wants to the end his Majesties service might net suffer It is not fitt for me to relate, though they have bin all honest and to ne man's hurt but my owne, who therby am growne deeply indebted beth here on this side the seas and in England, a heavie burden te an ingenious minde, which taking contentment in my publi[que] charge (as I must confesse I doe [that] all hath sorted so happily to his Majesties service) I may the better pleade in that regard for seme favorable consideracion of my privat fortune, which I will humbly beseech your Lordship to continue to take Into your care and myself into your favour, as one that will ever remaine Your Lordship's most humble and most thanekfuU servant, Dudley Carleton. Hagh, this first of Sept. 1620, Indorsed : S' D, Carleton to my Lord. Reasons for his sute. Addressed : To my most honorable Lord the Lord Marquis oi Buckingham Lord High Admiral of England. Court. camd. soc. 138 fortescue papers. No. LXXXIX. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph,] Sept. ". ^y Lord. I dout not but you have alreadie heard hew Spinola hath taken three townes ef the King's in the Lower Palatlnat ; two of them are my join tur : he will, if he can, take all that countree. This makes me write to you at this time (because I ara raost con fident of your affection) that you will move his Majestie now to shew himself a loving father to us, and not suffer his children's in heritance to be taken away. You see how little they regard his Ambassadours and what they say, I ernestlie intreat yeu to use your best raeanes with the King that he would new assist us, for he hath ever professed that he would not suffer the Palatlnat to be taken from us, I dee most confidentlie relie uppen your affection to rae, and you can shew It In nothing more then in this matter, which I ernestlie recoraraend te you, and rest ever Your most affectionat frend, Elizabeth, I pray tell the King that the enemie will more regard his blowes then his wordes, and commend my love to your worthy ladie, Prague, this ^ of September. Addressed : To the Marquis of Buckingham. XC. The Marquis of Buckingham to the Earl of Suffolk. [Copy.] Sept. 21. My noble Lord. His Majestie was pleased upon mine under taking for your Lordship, according to yeur promise to mee, that FORTESCUE PAPERS. 139 you would have the money readie to paie whensoever it should 1620. please his Majestie to call for it, to bestowe it upon my Lord Had- ®^P'- ^^' dingten ; who being now come over, and having present occasion te use it, his Majestie hath commanded mee to write to your Lord ship to deliver him, or to whomsoever he shall appoint to receave it, that [summ] e^ of five thousand pounds which is the reraaynder of the seaven thousand your Lordship was to paie,^ and so I rest Your Lordship's, 21 September 1620. Indorsed : Coppie to E, of Suffolk. L. Haddington. No. XCI. Sir Robert Naunton to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] It may please your Lordship. In yeur Lordship's absence from Oct. 26. Court, I wrote to Secretary Calvert to meve his Majestie for some answer to the Venetian Ambassador's last lettres to yeur Lordship, fer which he was a little importunate with me, as doubting that his Superiors wold held him to be in small esteeme here if he could procure no aunswer at all to those lettres, which mocion I am bould to renew to your Lordship, having heard of yeur retorne to the Court, the rather because I am partly doubtfull that my former te Secretary Calvert may be retorned me unopened, since I heare he was upon coming hither at the very time when mine were to come thither, Thes inclosed to his Majestie contein the Commissioners of the Threa[su]rie theyr general^ aunswer to his Majesties com mandement for payeraent of the forein pensions, Theyr Lordships had given direction to write a particular remonstrance of all the pressing payements lyeng upon them for his Majesties own im- ' The paper ia tom here. 2 As the unremitted part of his Star Chamber fine. 140 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1620. mediate services at home, and of the arreares they ar in for them, Oct. 26. which was signed by Mr. Chancellor, but the rest of the Corarais sioners thought it wold be too sad a spectacle to send unto his Majestie, and have held it raore aggreable with theyr duetiea to represent thos particulars unto his Majestie by word of mouth at theyr next wayting upon' him. So with ray daily prayers for his Majesties and your Lordship's raost happines I humbly take leave. Your Lordship's most devoted and obliged to serve you truely, Robert Naunton. WhitehaU, 26° Octobris 1620. No. XCIL The Eael of Heetfoed to James I. [Holograph.] Nov. 2. Most religious King and peerlesse Prince. May it pleaze your excellent Majesty it is now above 7 yeares past sinse it pleazed your Hignesse to give rae leave to wryte to your Majestie. But before I wryte I must by these my tedious lynes crave your pardon for my net attending yeur Majesties person according to my dewty and place at Salisbury, Your Majesty knoweth men's purposes are disposed of by God by whom it pleazed Him through a fawU from my hag to be absent, and thearupon most humbly to excuse my self by my poore nephew Beauchamp, yeur Majestes most humble servant. Not leng after yt pleazed your Majesty out of your gratious care of me to send my Cousin Rytch ^ Captayn of your guard and Sir George Goring to coumfort me, which they did easely perceave and I hepe delivered to your Majesty. I have sent my keaper of my ' Sir Henry Rich, afterwards Earl of Holland. FOETESCUE PAPERS. 141 red deare parke to your Majesty, whose service if it pleaze your 1520. Majesty I beseach you keape, having none of myne but such as I ^°^' ^' bring up for your H[ighness'] service, I hope your Majesty's worthy Secretary Sir George Calvert hath acquainted your Majesty with my arredinesse to serve your Majesties most vertuous young daughter the Queen of Bohemia, whom I hope (as old as I am) to see an Empresse, and your Majesties self to be the overthrow of the Anti christian Pope and whosoever favor hira against your Majesty, whom God preserve with all your raost noble issue to the comfort of all good Christians, Frora my poore howse at Letley this Thursday the 2d ef November 1620. Your Majestyes most humble subject and faythfull servant Heetfoed. Indorsed : E, of Hertford to his M''. Addressed : To my most gratious Souverain the Kinges most excellent Majesty. No. XCIII. Adolph Steingen to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] Monselgneur. C'estolt le bonheur que Dieu me donna, lorsque Nov. 18. j'eu I'honneur a Tibbolts d'estre cengedi^ tres gracieuseraent et honnor^ de la Chevallerle par sa Majesty, que par vostre presence cet acte fust rendu tant plus illustre, ayant par raesrae occasion trouve sujet de veus presenter la bonne affection de Monselgneur I'Electeur' envers vostre personne, et quand et quand recommander I'equltd de ses demandes faictes par moy k Sa Majesty, a quoy vous vous avez, Monselgneur, offert quasi d'aussy grande promptitude et sincerity de cceur, comme Sa Majesty avoit desja faict auparavant, ' The Elector of Brandenburg. 142 fortescue papers. 1620. de sorte que ne doubte nullement que Son Altesse Electorale en Nov. 18. resentira a son teraps des bons effects, et vous en aura etemeUe obligacion et digne recognoissance, et de raen cost^ suis oblige d'en faire hennorable rapport, II ne reste a present autre que vous supplier bien humblement qu'il veus plaise ebliger tant plus et plus mon Maistre et moy, et commander que les joinctes soyent tres humbleraent presentees a Sa Majesty pour estre autherisi^es par sa subscription : et veu qu'il a pleu k Sa Majestt^ m'avoir (en regard de cette Ambassade) honnor^ d'un present de huict cent onces en vaisselles d'argent dore, lequel je suis en ceuvre de convertir en une chaine d'or avec le pourtraict de Sa Majesty enrichy de pierreries pour une perpetuelle memeire et obligation que moy et ma posterite aura a Sa Majesty en recognoissance de sa liberalite Royalle et ensemble de I'honneur de la Chevallerle receu de ses graces. Mais pour I'accemplissement du dit pourtraict me manquant encores quelque pierrerle pretieuse, j'ay prins la hardiesse, Monselgneur, de vous en faire cette ouverture, me soubmettant du tout a vostre bon plaisir, si me voulez faire I'honneur de remantevoir a Sa Majesty que I'An 1609 estant en Arabassade aupres d'icelle, et ayant pour lers faict la publicque congratulation a Sa Majeste en la presence de la Reine et des Enfants Royaulx de la reception de la Couronne de la Grande Bretagne, dont ma patente de la Chevalerie fait aussy mention, que pour lers ne sgay par quelle faute ou soudain depart nul present fut donnd, ains promis, sans toutefois que jamais il me fust llvr4, si a cett heure plalsoit k Sa Majestd en dispenser gra- tieusement pour I'employer a tant plus grand enrichisseraent dudit pourtraict Royal, vous asseurant y n'avoir nul autre Interest par ticulier, ains seulement que ce n'est qu'un vertueux desir de gloire deceulante de la fontalne des graces et honneurs d'un si grand et incomparable Rey. Et pourtant vous supplie, Monselgneur, y contri- buer I'entremlse de vostre ben credit, quoy faisant obligerez infini ment un de vos plus humbles serviteurs, qui vous souhaite de tout son coeur restablisseraent de vos honnorables et tres lUustres charges et Estats, auxquels le bon Dieu vous a coUoque pour servir a I'ad- fortescue papers. 143 vancement de la gloire de son sainct nom, du bien publicq, et au i620. cententement de Sa Majesty ; me consecrant a tout jamais, comme, ^°^" •'°' Monselgneur, Vostre tres humble serviteur Adolph Steingen. De Londres, ce 18 de Novembre 1620. Addressed : A Monseigneur, Monseigneur le Marquis de Bucquingham Grand Admiral d'Angleterre. En Court. Indorsed: Brandeb[urg] Amb'' to my Lord. Ko. XCIV. Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] May it please your Lordshipp, The only occasion that I have Nov, 28. now te trouble yow is to excuse ray self for not attending on his Majesty all this while. Besides diverse other busynesses of Councell heere (at which perhaps I might have beene spared well enough) I have another in hand, which is the discovery of that seditious book called Vox populi, whereof I have a hope to fynd out the author,^ and am new busy about It, having upon search of a sus- pitieus person fownd eut another pamphlett in his chamber of the like nature intituled Sir Walter Raleighes ghost, or a conference betweene Genderaar the Frier Confessor and Father Baldwin the Jesuite at Elye howse in Holborne. I assure your Lordshipp it is as seditious a booke as the other, yf not much worse, but not yet printed. The author is a poore Captaine about London one Gains- ford, whom I have coramltted to prison, and shall upon this see yf I can worke out the other, yf his Majesty thinke fitt that I stay heere for that purpose, and shall send his Majesty the booke it self after I have taken one or two examinations. In the meane tyme I ' Thomaa Scot. 144 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1620. humbly beseech your Lordshipp I may understand his Majesties pleasure from Mr, Packer, either for my st^y here or attendance there, and I shall willingly obey what I shalbe directed, and am ever Your Lordshipp's with all devotion faithfully to serve yow, Geo. Calveet. St. Martin's Lane, 28 November, 1620. Because his Majesty perhaps will be desirous to see this other booke, I have upon better consideration thought it my duty to send it now presently unto his Majesty, which I beseech your Lordshipp, when his Majesty hath done with it, may be returned unto me againe. No. XCV. SiE Geoege Calveet to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] Dec. 4. May it please your Lordshipp. I did yesterday receive your letter, by which I understand his Majesties pleasure fer ray attendance, which I will dutifully obey, and intend to be at Newmarket (God willing) some tyme this weeke. In the meane tyme, yf yeur Lord shipp have not heard it from any other hand already, it may please yow to understand from me, that in sequence to these libellous pamphletts and pasquiUs that are every where spread abroad and, as they say, factious serraons preached in many pulpitts about London more then, heretofore, there is now at last an alarme given to the Spanish Embassador ' from diverse hands of an assault upon his person and family, which was sayd to have bene plotted for execu tion yesterday in the morning being Advent Sunday (for so It was noted in a letter first sent to Sir Lewys Lewkenor by an unknowne ' The excitement against Gondomar was a result of the news of the battle of Prague. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 145 person) and afterwards seconded by a discovery made te the Em- pee^^ bassador himself by one who professed himself to be a Protestant, and was moved to be of the conspiracy. Hereupon by order frora my Lord Chancellor and Mr. Secretary Naunton there was a strong watch appointed in Holborne neare unto the Erabassador's howse early on Sonday raorning and so contynued untill 12 at noone, and, his feare contynuing still, the like watch was sett all this last night, the Embassador and his whole family being up and armed the whole night both Saturday night and the last. I know not for my part what to think of it, it may be but a devise of purpose to putt the Spanish Embassador into a deffence of his owne safety, which may serve well enough to some ends, as your Lordshipp can well judge, and the rather I thinke it probable enough, because I heare the Embassador of Savoye hath done his best to encrease the other's feares by his earnest advises and warnings te looke to himself. But if it should prove earnest indeede (as God forbidd) his Majesty is so much interested in it, as there cannot be too much caution to prevent the worst. I humbly leave It to his Majesty's great wise- dome to direct such order in it by my Lord Digby as he shall please, ray self being likely enough to be come from hence before any order can come to rae. In the meane tyrae my Lordes that are heere acquainted with it wilbe as carefull as they can. And so humbly kissing your Lordshipp's hands, I rest Yeur Lordshipp's faithfully and affectionately to serve yew, Geo. Calvert. St. Martin's Lane, 4 December, 1620. No. XCVI. TO THE Marquis of Buckingham. My Lord. I humblie beseeche your Lordship to vouchsafe to reade this paper and to censure yt, though it bee to the fyer. CAMD. soc. u Dec? 146 fortescue papers. 1620. Theire lye at this tyme encumbrances upon my estate to the ""- ' valine of eight or nine thowsand poundes ; for the redeeming of my selfe from these, I have no other remedie within my power but the sale ef lande, which yf I now make, by reason that the market is so lewe and the skarcltle of money so great, I shall loose much In the valine and abate much of my present meanes, I have (besydes my Essex landes) In Hampshire and Barkshire three Manners that are now woorthe sixteene thowsand poundes and wilbee woorthe twentie and more ; they are antient land ef in heritance, free from any question of tytle, entayle, or anie encum brance whatsoever, , I hurablie desyer leave (having no children, nor kindred of ray name living,) to assuer by good conveyance these three raannors upon your Lordship and your heires yf I have no heires males, and that your Lordship would bee pleased to procure the making of an English Baron, and bestowe it upon mee yf I can finde a gentleman in birthe quallitie and relligion fitt fer yt, and this allso upon con dition that yf I ever have heires males, these landes bee made lyable to the repayment of so much. This I knewe beeing effected in your Lordship's name, will neither beguett wonder nor envye, and maye easilie by your Lord ship's directions bee privatelie and securelie desposed of to this use. If I knewe anie ether suit, so free from question, prejudice or uncertaintle as this, I would net present this, and in this let mee have the priviledg of a servant to bee denyed without scruple and commanded without limitation, and let your Lordship's bellefe con clude that. my desyers ende where your deslyke beginns, se as this paper beeing burnt they vannish with the smoake of it, for theire Is no creature privie to this devyce which Is but a drearae of raine yf yeur Lordship give yt no beeing. If your Lordship's noble favour to mee and the conveniencie of these tymes (wherein theire is a reporte ef the making ef some Barons before the Parliament) maye encourage yeur Lordship to this noble rescue, I shall acknowledge the support of ray fortunes frora yeur Lordship, and my acknowledg- FORTESCUE PAPERS. 147 ment shalbee as full as my fortunes can fill up. Your Lordship's ^^^o. commanding of John Waterhowse to sende for mee shalbee sufficient intelligence of yt te mee ; yf hee sende mee no such message, all thoughts ef this shall dye with raee and your Lordship's trouble conclude before yt beguinns. But, good my Lord, pardon this presumtion, which ariseth more out of the affection and desyer that I have that these landes of mine and more (yf I have no heires males) should fall entyer te yeur Lordship's desposall then out of the necessitous occasions of ray -ortunes which I cann remedie by the sale of parte of thera ( though with sorae pregludice), and reserve the reraaynder to serve your Lordship withall, for theire is no raan whose heart is larger in devotion, er lyfe and fortunes more entyerlie consecrated te yeur Lordship's service, then mine Is and ever shalbee. No. XCVIL The Maequis of Buckingham to Elizabeth, Titulae Queen of Bohemia. [Copy.] Madame. I should be most unworthy of those infinite favors Dec? which I have received from the King my Master, yf I should be wanting In any duty or respect towards your Majestie his only daughter, and therfore as I have hitherto endeavored te advance all things that I thought might tend unto your Majestie's service, so I conceave I cannot new give you a greater testimony of ray fidelity, then by humbly perswading yeu to be a raeanes to Induce the King yeur husband wholly te rely upon his Majestie's councell and advice which he hath now sent by my brother Sir Edward Villiers as his full resolution, having formerly debated and consulted it in the presence of the Prince, my Lord Duke of Lenox, Marques Hamilton, the Lord Chamberleyn, the Lord of Arundell, the Lord of Kelly, Viscount Doncaster, the Lord DIgbye, the two Secretaryes, 148 fortescue papers. 1620. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and my self, who all with one ^"^ ''' jeynt consent approved what his Majestie now adviseth, as most honorable and most safe for him to councell, and for the King your Husband to followe. Thus much I presume to make knowne unto your Majestie, referring other particulars to the bearer, who thinketh himselfe happye in this occasion, as I shall do in having many whereby I may be imployed In yeur Majestie's service. So wishing your Majesty all increase ef happyness and content, I remayne 3620? No. XCVIII. The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Chancellor LoED Veeulam. [Draft.] My honorable Lord. Though I had resolved net to write to yeur Lordship in anie matter betWeene partie and partie, yet at the earnest request of my noble friend the Lord Norreis, to whome I account myselfe rauch beholden, I could not but recommend unto your Lordship's favor a speciali friend of his, Sir Thomas Monck, who hath a suitt before your Lordship in the chancerle with Sir Robert Bassett, which upon the reporte made unto me thereof seemeth so reasonable that I doubt not but the cause it selfe will move your Lordship to favor him, yf upon the hearing thereof it shall appeare the same unto your Lordship as at the first sight it deth unto mee. I therefore desire your Lordship to shew in this par ticular what faver you lawfully may for my sake, who will account it as denne unto ray -selfe. And will ever rest Your Lordship's Indorsed : M. to L. ChanceUor. Monck at L. Norreis sute. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 149 No. XCIX. The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Chancellor Lord Verulam.'[Copy.] My honorable Lord. I know that to a man of so much noblenes 1^20. nothing will be so acceptable as sinceritie and plainess. And there fore before I move his Majestie in yeur sute I will take the libertie of a frend to deliver unto you myne opinion of it. And to begin with that which is within the compasse of myne own knowledg, the example yeu alleage ef Sir William Candish^ is ne more but the prevention of that honour which no man knoweth how soone it may by his own right fall upon him,' and only stretched a little higher at the sute of my Lord Chamberlayne and my Lord of Arundell. That to my Lord of Doncaster was at his Majesties going into Scotland and upon a consideration whereby he was no gayner, being for buying of hangings to furnish the houses. If Secretarie Winwood obtayned a Baron, it was, as I can assure your Lordship, the only gift his Majesty gave him in reward of long service, and in a tyme when it was not a raatter of such difi&cultie te gett as new it is, when to my knowledg his Majesty cannot endure to heare of raaking any for his own benefitt, notwithstanding the ' The suit would hardly have been made after Bacon's own advancement in the peerage, and, even if it had, Buckingham would probably have referred to his having received snfBcient favour already. If this is the case, the date of the letter is fixed between November 3, 1620, and Jsjjiuary 27, I62I, the dates of the creation of Viscount Mansfield and of Bacon's own creation as Viacount St. Alban'a. 2 Sir W. Cavendish, nephew of the first Earl of Devonshire, created Lord Ogle and Viscount Mansfield, Nov. 3, 1620. ' His mother, Catherine, widow of Sir Charles Cavendish, was the younger of two sisters, daughters and co-heirs of Lord Ogle. The barony was in abeyance, but the elder sister Joan, though mariried to Edward Talbot, was ¦without children. At her death. Lady Cavendish was declared Baroness Ogle by letters patent. 150 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1620. great necessities wherein he is. What the custome hath been for Dec. ? rewarding Chancellors after the Parlament I never heard, but it seemes by your letter, the last claymed It not. Whatsoever the use hath been after the end of the Parlament I assure my self your Lordship will hold It very unseasonable to be done before, and likely to dee mere hurt then good to his Majesty's service (whereof his Majesty hath found no man more carefull then your Lordship) if, while he is asking with one hand, he should be giving with the other. Having thus freely delivered to your Lordship my opinion, I now leave it to your self whither I shall move his Majesty in your sute or no, wherein I will be ready so to carry myself as I shall be further directed by your Lordship, and as it becometh Your Lordship's faithfull frend and servant G. Buckingham. Indorsed: Coppie to my L. Chanc. from my Lord. His sute. No. C. Sir Geoege Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Holograph,] 1621, Feb. 7. May it please your Lordshipp. I acquainted his Majesty a little before his departure from hence with a dispatch sent to Mr. Secre tary Naunton from Sir Isaac Wake, and brought by this bearer Mr. Jacob, who his Majesty was pleased should attend him this aftemoone at Theebaldes, having somewhat to say unto his Majesty for his further information touching the matters contayned in the pacquett. There are many baites offered his Majesty by the Duke of Savoye ; how farre it is fitt for him to accept of them, his great wisedome can best judge. I humbly beseech your Lordshipp to give me leave by this to convey a letter unto his Majesty to be signed unto the East India fortescue papers. I.5I Company, for which he gave order, and that Mr. Packer may send i62l. it me againe because it is for the service of his Majesty and the '^^^' kingdome, and requires haste. Wee are yet busy in Parlement about elections and returne of our Merabers. Sir Henry Brittaine and Sir John Holies are cast out this raorning as unduly returned, and Sir Thomas Beaumont's election for Leicestersliire will not hold. Sir Thomas Wentworth's for Yorkshire is also questioned. These are the greatest busynesses wee yet have had. I shall give his Majesty an accompt of something more materiall by the next, whose health and happynesse I besech God leng te contynue, and so kissing your Lordshipp's hands I rest Your Lordshipp's hurably and faithfully to serve yeu, Geo. Calvert. WhitehaU, 7 February, 1620. No. CL Sec. George Calveet to the Maequis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] May it please your Lordshipp. I presume to trouble yow with March 13. this letter enclosed from his Majesty to Sir Dudley Carleton, be cause I know not whether his Majesty would have any else acquainted with it. He gave me order for it yesterday, and it is for the stay of his daughter the Queen of Bohemia from comraing Into England. Your Lordshipp may please to procure his Majesty to signe it, and to returne it me inclosed in sorae othjer cover by this bearer. Having nothing else now to trouble your Lordshipp withall I hurably kisse your hands and rest Your Lordshipp's much obliged te do you service Geo. Calvert, St. Martin's Lane, 13 March 1620. 152 fortescue papers. No. CIL March^26 ^^'^ EdWAED HeEBEET TO THE MaEQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM, [Autograph Signature,] Right honorable and raost worthy ray Lord Marques, With my last I sent yeur Lordship a copie of a Declaration^ said to be made in his Majesties name by your Lordship unto the Spanish Arabas sador in England ; which I then stayed from printing. Since when an other printer, without my knowledge, hath set it forth in some what a larger manner, whereof I have complained, as thinking it not fit te be published, without your Lordship's leave first obteyned. And now (my Lord) I must humbly againe desire yeur Lordship's good answer to my former of 26 Febr. since it concernes mee so much, and to keep still In yeur Lordship's good favour. Yeur Lordship's most humble and most thankfull servant E, Herbert, Paris, 26 March 1621. St" Aug". Indorsed : S'' Ed, Herbert to my Lord, this Ire printed. No. CIII, Sir Walter Aston to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] June 13. ^y ™°s* honord Lord. By my last of the 23. of May I ac quainted your Lordship how carefull I had beene to stope such rumors as had here beene raysed laying many scandalls (without cawse) upon the proceedings of Sir Robert Manssell with his Majesties Fleete : since when, upon new informations, itt seeras that the King and his rainlsters have taken seme distast, as your Lordship will more att larg see by the copie ef a letter here inclosed which was lately sent me frora the Secretarie Cliiga. Yeur Lordship will alsoe therin finde the obligation put upon me te present itt unto his ' A declaration that Gondomar had never promised that his master would not invade the Palatinate. fortescue papers. 153 Majestie. By the copie ef my letter to the Secretavie you wlU i621. perceave how little reason they had (att least as I conceave itt) to •'"¦'® ^ • give creditt to se improbable an adverticement : but itt beeing there desire, I shall intreate your Lordship te acquaint his Majestie with what I here send you, and to be a means that I may retourn them from his Majestie such an answeare as he in his. wisdome shall thinke fitting, since they will here expect as much from rae. I have not receaved any letter from Sir Robert Manssell since his last departure from this coast, but by a letter from Malaga I am adverticed that there put into that port a barke the 3. of June, that left hira In Mayerque on the last of May stilo veteri, and that he had not in this voyage as then beene before Argirrs. By the first oportunltle I Intend to give Sir Robert Manssell notice of this coraplaint that is come against him, and as soon as I understand from him the trewth and ground (if there be any) ef this errowre, I shall not omitt te represent unto this Kinge and his ministers the relation which he shall give me, wherby I dowte not but they will finde in this that they have too easily given creditt to so fowle an aspersion. Ther is only left me further att this time te intreat your Lord ship that you wilbe a means that such raonnys as yeu releevd me withall last winter raay be payd you out of my allowances, and the overplus that Is dew to me to assist my present occations In his Majesties service, and that I raay ne more Corae se neere such a misery as your Lordship's care redeemd me from, lett mee humbly Intreate yeur Lordship te procure that his Majestie's allowances may be assighned me in some sure place, that I may net be so unhappy to importune his Majestie In this kind, nor forced to exceed all good maners with yeur Lordship, te whom. wishing all increace of hapl- ness I rest Yeur most bound servant, Wa. Aston, Madi-id, 13 June 1621, St, vet. My Lord Admirall, CAMD. SOC. X July 6, 154 Fortescue papers. No. CIV. Sie George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph,] 1621, May It please yeur Lordshipp. I must desire your pardon yf in so much hast I send yeu an yll favored piece of paper and a scribling hand. At this instant I received a letter frora Mr. TrurabuU which advertiseth the Archduke's death at Brussells, for which there Is great laraentation there, as appeareth both by his letter and by the messenger's report that brings It. If it had pleased God it had beene to have beene wished that he might have lived longer, being so respective as he was to his Majesty, and so willing to do all good offices. There will net be any great change there yet awhile I believe untill matters be well advised of in Spayne. The bearer tells rae that they all believe at Brussells that the Infanta will retire herself into her Monastery, and that, for a while, the government wilbe committed to Marquis Spinola. For condoleance his Majesty will consider of that tyme eneugh, and of such instructions as he will be pleased to give Mr. Trumbull, agaynst his returne on Monday to London, or as his Majesty in his wisedome shall thinke fitt. In the meane tyme I humbly kisse yeur Lordshipp's hands and rest Your Lordshipp's faithfully to serve yeu, Geo. Calvert. WhitehaU, 6 July 1621, Ne. CV. Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] July 19. May It please your Lordshipp. Though you have given rae the liberty to use the hand ef one of my servants, yet so long as a little mere paynes and care will serve the turne, I had rather use my owne, yf this will serve. His Majesty will perceive by this letter which I fortescue PAPEES. 155 send of Mr. Trumbull's that there is a beginning of some change In i621. the Emperor's affaires, both In Hungary and Bohemia. So leng as ""^ the Prince Palatine shall keepe himself disengaged from medling In them, I hope It will be to the advantage of his service and facilitate the present negotiation. That great Captaine the Count Bucquoy is certainely dead. The Lords have this morning given my Lord of Oxford order to attend his Majesty, and a coppie of his examination I send your Lordshipp before hand, that you may see how farre he Is faulty by bis owne confession. And so I rest Your Lordshipp's very humbly to serve you, Geo. Calvert. St. Martin's Lane, 19 July 1621, Your Lordshipp may please to meve the King, or else yourselfe in his name, to lay a charge upon my Lord of Oxford that he do not out of jealousy question any person whomsoever for having upon examination testifyed anything against him, nor any way to touch them In their good name and reputation, though the par ticuler persons neede not be knowne unto him. No. CVI. Attorney-General Sir Thomas Coventry to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph signature.] Most honorable Lord. This aftemoone came unto me the Lord juiy 23. Ambassador of Spayne and entered into speech with me concerning some recusantes that were extraordinarily vexed by informers and promeoters, and mencioned two, whereof eue as he sayd was prose cuted by five informers, and the other, being an aged gentlewoman, was sued by fower. I made him answere that, if I might have par- 156 fortescue papers. 1621. ticuler advertisement ofthe names ofthe persons, and ofthe courses July 23, ^-j^^^ .^gj.g jjgjjj against them, I should do ray best that the pro- secucion against thera for breach of the lawes of the realme might be carried with a fitting moderacion, and without vexaclous pressure or extremity. His Lordshipp went no further to the particulers, but att his departure left a gentleman In my chamber that tooke on him te inforrae rae of the old gentlewoman's cause ; and he rested not att the complaynt against the informers, but told rae that the gentlewoman being prosecuted and Indicted of recusancy was like In short tyme to be convicted, and desired her conviction might be stayed by some direction from me. Now because this course of indictment Is the ordinary preceeding against recusantes which I have net yet observed, either by his Majesties charge to his Judges, or otherwise, was raeant to be stayed, I do make bold to advertise your Lordshipp and hurably pray yow att some convenient oppor tunity te acquainte his Majestie therewith. Fer if my Lord Ambassador, in suying to his Majestie to ease thera frora the vexacions of informers and other unjust pressures or strayned extremities, should involve therein the ordinary presecuclon used against recusantes by waye of Indictment to cause them pay the twenty pounds a raoneth, it is more then I dare give way unto, without his Majesties further direction: but the vexacions of in formers and other new devised straynes I shall endeavour te represse. This being the first busines ef this nature that my Lord Ambassador hath receraraended te rae, lett rae be se rauch bound to your noble favour that, by your raeanes, I raay receive such a direction from his Majestie as may best sort with his gracious and honourable ends, and may be a guyde te rae in this particuler and all other of like nature. And in the meane tyme 1 shall in some fayre course respite myne answere to this particuler. And so with my most humble duty and service I remayn Att your Lordshipp's comand, Thomas Coventrye. Inner Tejnple, 2n July 1621 . FORTESCUE PAPERS. 157 No. CVII. Petition to the Marquis of Buckingham. Your Lordship procured fer Sir Thomas Gerrard and others the 1621. Corporation for the Tobaccopipe makers, uppon which there is 400011 layde out and loste. His Majestie hath recalled the grant, and therefore In equity ought in grace to geve recompence. Wee present to his Majestie one without exception to be made a Barron whoe will geve 10,00011. Humbly craving eut of this, such a somme as his Majestie shalbe pleased to grant in lleue of the 4000 Ii loste, besids the leng services of the sutors and the overthrowe ef Sir Thos. Gerrard's estate, being bownd for his father for 7000 ti, which if his Majestie vouchsafe not to releeve, his lands wilbe all seased uppon and utterly lest, te the undoing of him, his wife, children, and famyly. I No. CVIIL Dr. John Donne to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] May It please your Lordship .1 Ever since I had your Lordship's Aug. S, letter, I have esteemed myselfe"~in possession of Salisbury,^ and more then Salisbury, ef a place In your service ; for I tooke Salis bury as a seale of ytt I hear that my Lord Keeper finds reason te continue in Westminster, and I know that neyther yeur Lordship nor he knowes how narrow and penurious a fortune I wrestle with ' i. e. the Deanery which would be vacant if Bowie (see the next letter) succeeded Williams in the Deanery of Westminster. Bowie, however, remained at Salisbury, the Westminster Deanery being retained by Williams in commendam, and on the 27th of November Donne was elected to the Deanery of St. Paul's, 158 fortescue papers. 1621. in thys world. But I arae so far from dependinge upon the assist ance of any but yeur Lordship, as that I de not assist myselfe so far as with a wishe that my Lord Keeper would have left a hole fer se poore a werme as I arae te have crept in at. All that I meane in usinge thys boldnes, ef puttinge rayselfe into your Lordship's presence by thys ragge ef paper, ys to tell your Lordship that I ly in a corner, as a cledd of clay, attendinge what kinde of vessell yt shall please you te make of Your Lordship's humblest and thankfuUest and devotedst servant, ^--^ J. Donne. 8° August 1621. ,^--'- Addressed : To the Bight Honorable my singular good L. the Marquis of Buckingham. No. CIX. Lord Keeper Williams to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Aug, U. ^^^> ^ '^°® iQi^A. you the Reyall assent to my election,^ with the whiche the other buisines'* (as yet dependinge and in your handes) Is to be dispatched, if at all. I ara the raore encouraged, because I am assured by Jo. Bembo, that Mr. Dean ef Sarum ^ doth most willingly ^ve way to my retayninge thereof, for the which I am much obliged to him, howe ever I speede. I praye you heartilye, to desire my Lord, (in my name) to pardon my importunitye for this one thinge : and to ymagin it is the necessitye of supportinge this great place (without drawinge of ayne summes out of the Kinges purse) which makes me soe bold d daringe : the which his Lordshipp maye the rather conceive, ' As Bishop of Lincoln. = The retaining in commendam of the Deanery of Westminster, which was granted him on the 14th of August. Patent Rolls, 19 James I. part 10. 3 Dr, John Bowie, who continued Dean of Salisbury till 1629, when he became Bisliop of Rochester, FOETESCUE PAi?ERS. l59 because I never beg'd smaller or greater preferment In my life « '^^^ii before this tirae. , ^ The Bushoppricke ''the narrower I looke unto it) the mere \ lamentable it proves : Howses, some demolished, others ruinous, the . / woods close shaven, and all like a See wherein I shall coram the fifte BIshopp in ene fifteene yeares. But I leve the last Bishopp ^ soe well that I saye not mere ef the Bushoppricke. My Keeper's place is a great deale more closely poul'd and very rauch dis- membred ; and yet ara I soe'rauch envied by most, as I knowe not ^ where to complayne but in my Lord's besom enelye"r~l J I leave all to Him that must content us all, even to Ged's will and good pleasure; who beyond all expectation hath (to some pur poses best knowne to himselfe) raised me frora the dust to what I have, and hadd affoorded rae long before such a portion of his blessinges, and soe much cententation therein, as I could well have lived upon lesse, and never desired more. To His protection I leave yeu, and rest ever Your assured lovinge friend, ' Jo. LiNC. EL. C.S. Westminster College, this llth of August 1621, No. ex. Lord Keeper Williams to Mr. John Packer. Sept. i. [Holograph.] Sir. I thank you very heartilye for your kynde remembraunce in all my buisinesses. I hadd some sudden occasion to send my raan unto the Court, about raatters concerninge rayne owne office. I thinke it will fall upon you to send backe an awnswere, which desire you to doe with all speede. About the raiddle of the next weeke (or towards the end) I purpose to wayt upon my Lord agayne. Happie in the raeane time (as I accompt my selfe) that I have soe lovinge and carefull a friend in ray absence, which I will never ' George Montaigne, translated to London. 160 FORTESCUE PAPEES. 1621. forgett ner burye (if oppertunitye serve) in unthankefulnes. The Sept. 1. Bishopp of Exeter's death Is here befer your letter. Dr. Sharp importunes me fer my letter, which I dare net write unto my Lord bond fide and seriously. I could wish my Lord of himself weld thinke upon Dr. Carey or Dr. Richardson. But I never presurae to recommend but when I am asked. And soe I cease to trouble you, and commend you to God in my devotions, as resting ever Your assured lovinge and true friend, Jo. Lincoln, el. C.S. Westminster CoUege, this 1 of September, Addressed: Tothewor: my worthy good f reyn d Mr, John Packer Esqr, at Court, Sept, No. CXI. The Maequis of Buckingham to Sie Geoege Calveet, [Copy] His Majestie hath commanded me te write to your Honor to cause a lettre to be drawen from his Majestie to the Marquis Spinola to this effect. First te give him thanks for his freedorae In advertising his Majestie of those points concerning his sonne in law and of the opinion he hath of his Majesties sinceritie in all his proceedings : who as farre as he may undertake fer another man Is perswaded allso that his sonne in law is free from anie imputation that may justly be laid upon him for the Count Mansfelld's courses,^ and the rather his sonne in lawes own protestations and of his Majesties knowledg of Count Mansfelld's estate, who being in a desperate fortune, having sold his own meanes and driven te begg ef other Princes, and seing no hope of being reconciled to the Emperor, followeth perhaps the fashion of the Banditi, setting up his rest to plaie his last prize. The truth whereof his Majestie doubteth not but my Lord Digbie will shortly cleare from Vienna where he now is and whence the certaintie of the whole matter is best knowen, and his Majestie hepeth shortly to be cleared therein from his sonne ' In the Upper Palatinate, FOETESCUE PAPEES, 161 In law himself to whome he hath written te that purpose. But If 1621. his Majestie should finde that his sonne In law deth assist him either ''P'' with money or councell or anie other waie, he professeth that he would quitt hira and never meddle more in his businesse. In the raeane tyme desireth hira to be a good Instrument of settling all thinges in a faire course, notwithstanding anie uncertaine report that may come to his eare. His Majestie would likewise have your Honor cause a courteous lettre to be framed to the Infanta ^ in answeare of that which his Majestie lately receaved from her. I have this daie read the Instructions fer Sir Thomas Ree ® te his Majestie, who Uketh all but ene point touching the mover, which he would have be thus changed: — " It was only his Majestes guift to the Ambassador," instead of, " for levying soldiers &c." I now send yeur Honor all your lettres again, saving the letter from Padre Maestro.^ No. CXII. LoED Keepee Williams to Mr. John Packer. [Autograph Signature.] Good Mr. Packer. I did in my lettre te my Lord ^ like well ef Q^^ ,^ the proclamacion against the Scriveners,^ but did desyre an excep tion of his Lordship, my Lord Treasurer, myselfe, and the judges, er rather all the Lords of the Counsaile, who ar as much excluded from presenting anything te the King as the Projector and the Scrivener. ' The Infanta Isabella. 2 In the instructions dated September 9, printed in Sir T. Roe's Negotiations, p. 2, the change has been made at the end of the first paragraph. ^ Diego de la Fuente. * Printed in Cabala, (ed. 1691) p, 262. ' The following is the form in which the proclamation (Patent Rolls, 19 James I. Part 14) was finally couched, so that no alteration appears to have been made : — " The King's most excellent Majestie observing the inordinate libertie that hath byn taken cheifelie of late tymes, in exhibiting to hia Royall aignature as well bills to paase his greate and privie seale and warrant for preparing such bills, as also letters and other instruments and writings of sundrie natures CAMD, SOC. Y 162 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1621. Serae things we must offer to the King's signature when the clarkes Oct. 17 are not to bee found, and I hope his Majestie hath noe cause to mis trust any ef us, I desyre therefore to knew my Lord's meaning concerning this exception only. To this yew have not answeared. Let the King resolve what his Majestie will concerning the Com missioners fer irregularity,^ I have acquaynted his Majestie with my conjecture ef the event of the same. The pardons are in part past and irrevocable by any power of myne. For those that are to come I will endure the envye to make some pawse upon them. Yow know that to accommodate my J^ord of Exeter^ I was faine to remitte two benefices out of myne ewne guift for his Majestie to raake up a Commendam for hira, Hee is in consideracion thereof dra'wne by scriveners and other like peraona, and not by his Majestie's ofiicers to whome the care thereof appertayneth, whereof ensueth a contynuall vexa clon to his Majestie, and many tymes exceeding danger and prejudice both iu his revenue and otherwise, is fully resolved to aboliahe thoae abuses which have of late yeares crept into his service, and to reduce it to the auncient order and institucion ; and therefore his Majestie doth hereby straightlie charge and commaund that no person or persons whatsoever (other than his Majeatie'a owne ordinary officers to whose places itt appertayneth) doe att any tyme hereafter presume to entermeddle with the drawing, writing, or preparing for his Majeatie'a signature of any bill, warrant, letter, or other instrument or 'writing whatsoever, uppon payne of his Majestie's indignacion and displeasure and such imprisonment and other punish ment as may justlie be inflicted for their contempt. And that no person or persons, under the like paine, presume to preferre to his Majestie to be signed any such bill, warrant, lettre, or other instrument or -writing not drawen or allowed by such his Majestie's ordinarie officers, and by them signed and docqueted, in cases where the like instrument have heretofore byn used to be signed and docqueted. And that none of his Majesties owne officers doe presume to drawe or prepare for his Highnes' signature any bill, warrant, lettre, or other instrument or writing untill they have received direccion to drawe the same either by some significacion of his Majestie's owne royaU pleasure, or by warrant from such as have byn accustomed and allowed to give such warrant, uppon paine of his Majestie's displeasure and to be debarred from the exercise and execucion of their offices and places for such their default and abuse. Given at his Majestie's Courte at Eoyston the aeaventh day of October. " Per ipaum Begem,'' ' The irregularity incurred by Archbishop Abbot in shooting Lord Zouch'a game keeper. 2 Bishop Carey. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 163 willing te resigne up unto me the Prebendary of Stowe in the i62i. Church of Lincolne. It Is a very poore thing, and under the clowde of an ould and a leng lease before the statute. I presume his Majestie will not be displeased that I am a suiter for It, being originally myne owne (eut ef his Majesties grace and goodnes) and having parted (as I said before) with better things fer the fitting ef my Lord of Exeter. I recomend unto your love, for the sarae, the bearer hereof Mr. Clarke ^ a learned Bachelor of Divinity and an excellent good Preacher, now ray chapleyne, but ence my fellow chapleyne in my Lord ChanceUor Elsmer's howse ; whome I leave te the King's mercy and your favor for this poore prebend. Thus with hearty comendacions unto yeu, with thankes for all your trowbles and paynes about myne owne and my freinds' affayres, I comend me unto yow, and yow te God's protection, and rest Your assured true and loving freind, Jo. Lincoln, elect. Custos Sigilli. Westminster Colledge, 17 October 1621, Addressed : To the right worshipfull his very loving freind Mr. John Packer Esq' at Court, deliver these. Indorsed : L. Keeper to me 17 Octob. No. CXIII. Lord Keeper Williams to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Sir. I thanke you for Mr. Clarkcj or rather fer my selfe, whom Oct. 22. upon all occasions yeu dee soe much engage unto you. But I beseech you, when I send any one to have a buisines dispatched doe not refuse your ordinarye fee, or els I will be more sparinge here after. Yeat I doe not heare ef your opinion whether this newe pro- ' Robert Clarke, B.D, collated to the prebend August 12, 1622. 164 fortescue papers. 1621. claraatien^ Is to be sealed without those exceptions I sent unto you : '''¦ ¦ te witt of the Privye Counsaile and the Judges, who must sometimes present thinges Immediately to his Majesties signature, and wold be loath to encurr his Majesties highe displeasure by Proclamation, I have written unto my Lord a long letter (as forced thereunto by many occasions), God. send his Lordship the leysure and patience to reade it, I expect awnswer onely to ene point, which is our newe Comraission here, which troubles me infinltlye ^thls terme time. I pray yeu call upon his Lordshipp fer his awnswer to that. His Majesties going to Burleigh makes me suspect that I shall have nee quicke returne. I ara called awaye, net by the crie of the dogges, but by a more unpleasing noise, of the lawyers in Westminster Hall. And ther fore I raust abruptly take ray leave and leave you in God's pro tection, restlnge ever Your assured faythfiiU and true freynd, Jo. Lincoln, el. C.S. Westminster CoUedge, this 22'ii of October 1621. Addressed : To the right worshipfull his very loving Freind Mr, John Packer Esq' at Court, deliver these. Indorsed : L. Keeper to me 22 Octob. 1621. No. CXIV. The Archbishop of Canterbury to the King. [Autograph Signature.] Nov. 13. May it please your most excellent Majesty. I have received the letter sent frora yeur Majesty concerning the consecration ef the three Bishops of SaUsbury, St. David's, and Exeter, to bee performed on Sonday next. Unto whiche my humble and true aunswere is that on Friday last in the presence of them aU three I ordered that to bee done at the same time whiche yeur Majesty now requireth. And so, God willing, it shaU bee accomplished; but net understanding ' See p. 161 note '. FORTESCUE PAPEES. 165 till the Wednesday before that the Lord Keeper had a purpose to j^^l^\'s bee consecrated on the Sunday felowing, it was impossible by the shortnesse of the time to have the instruments ready fer all the Consecrations upon the Sunday after. Secondly, the Bishop of Exeter had not the certificate ef his election, eut ef whiche the confirraation was to bee made, but hath now sent a post to Exeter for that purpose and doubteth not but it shall bee heere by the ende of the weeke, se that hee may go on then with the other two. Moreover the Churche of Westminster being an exempt and pri vileged place, and consequently out ofthe Archbishop's jurisdiction, I held it not unfit, since it could not bee performed on Sonday last, that It should bee dene In the Bishop of London's Chappel, whiche is a place within my Province, and there where by mee eleven yeeres since the Archbishop of St. Andrewes and the two other Bishops of Scotland were consecrated. And fer the Commission to performe these things I gave order now foure dayes since, as also for all other matters appertaining thereunto : the intervening of eight dayes well permitting that the Certificate raay bee brought from Exeter and all the instruments bee orderly drawne up without flawe or exception. So that there being no default in mee, to whorae It was indifferent whither their consecration had bene on Sonday last er were to be on Sonday next, I hope your Majesty in your princely judgeraent will discharge mee of all blarae. If care bee had for their restitution to their teraporalties the next day after their consecration, they raay very well bee present at the beginning of the Parliament. And so humbly thanking your Majesty for all your gracious favours towards mee, and naraely for that speciali one at the day ef yeur departure hence, with my prayers te the Alraighty for your Majesties prosperity, I remaine Your Majesties most humble servant and obliged Chaplein, G Cant.i Addressed : To the Kinges most excellent Majesty. Indorsed : L. Cant, to his M"' 13 Nov. ' George Abbot. 166 FOETESCUE PAPEES. No. CXV. Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to the Maequis op Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1621 ]y|y most noble lord. I have bene much tormented with a flying report of your Lordship's crazynes and indisposicion, although your Lordship's late letter and another sithence that time from Mr. John Packer puts me in good hepe that things are net so 111 as they are reported. My Lord of Southampton (who, coming to Towne in hope to kisse his Majestie's hand, stayd there untill this day,) is very willing to fellowe his Majestie's directions in that busynes yeur Lordship understands of. He only (as your Lordship may find "by his lettres) desyres his Majestie's leave ef absence, which is usuall and reasonable. But his Majestie may choose to graunt this leave immediately by his owne gracious lettres, or te give rae power (under the signet, or by a lettre from your Lordship to that effect,) whereby I may be enhabled to dispence with the necessary absences of this Session. Men in my place have heretofore (as from the King) graunted these indulgences ; although at this time (by reason of the Prince's prse- sence) I am of opinion this dispensing power were mere fittly placed in his Highnes. My Lord ef S[euthampton] is touch'd with some feare of his two pencions, but relyes alltogelther upon his Majestie's mercy and yeur Lordship's good mediation ; and I cannot yet but wish hira all geed successe in that perticular. Mr. Packer moved his Majestie fer the revercion of a poore place (under me) for one of my servants of good birth and quaUtle, and returnes unto rae his Majestie's denyall to graunt any revercions. I am sorry and somwhat discomforted that this resolution takes place against me only, but failes In aU others whose revercions (even of FOETESCUE PAPEES. 167 places under my judicature) I use to seale dayly. My meanes are so 1621. short both fer men and maister (nor will they grow better till wee ^°'' ^^• grow worse) that, if his Majestie's bountie in this kinde be thus v^ closed up towards mee, I shaU have nee men of breeding er qualitie that will long continew in my service. I was by my Lord ef London's hands (and your Lordship's speciali faver) put Into a rochet this last Sunday, which occasions mee to remember (what I cannot forget) my innumerable respects and obligations unto your Lordship. Yew have advaunced rae in the comon wealth to serve yew, in the Church to pray for yew, in both to honnor yow to the utmost of my power ; and let me be soone weeded out of both, when I first declyne from persisting Yeur Lordship's most faythfull servant and creature, Jo. Lincoln. C.S. Westminster College, 13 November I62I. Addressed : To the right Honorable my 'most noble Lord, the Lord Admyrall at Court, deliver theae. Indorsed : L. Keeper to my Lord. No. CXVI. LoED Keepee the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer. [Autograph Signature.] Sir. Sythence the writing of yeur last lettre his Majestie hath Nov. 13. twice broken his resolucion for revercions. This seemes not straunge unto me, who ever was of opinion that the King was above his \J lawes. I remitte the whelle buisinfes (as I doe all my hopes and ambitions) to his Majestie's good will and pleasure, and the read- vauncing and suppressing of the same to your diserecion and future oportunity. The Rectory of Grafton was designed by my Lord to three severall men, Mr. Scott ; a schoelefellow ef Mr. Porter's ; and, as 108 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1621. farre as I remember, afore either of these two, to Mr. Cade- his ^ "''¦ ¦ Lordship's Schoolem aster. Upon your last lettre I have made a presentacion thereof unto this last man, which being allready sealed, yow shall dee well to send for, and I shall entreat yew to excuse me to my Lord for the other two, I have conferred allso the Chauntership ef Lincolne upon Doctor Berridge, according to the Intencion of a lettre of my Lord's which he formerly wrote unto me by Sir Gregory Fenner, Also I have bestowed ray prebend at Peterborrow upon ene Mr. Swifte at the recoraraendacion of ray Lord's raother, and my donative upon my Lord ef Spalate by the King's commaundement. And soe this dele is ended. It is now full time that Mr. Doctor Gwyn's bill for the poore Archdeaconry of Huntington be passed, and my thankes returned unto my Lord Adrayrall and your selfe fer the same, I have some litle blessing in stere to mend this place for him, which otherwise doth not exceed £30 a yere, aile charges deducted. And se I commend yeu for this tyme to Ged's protection, and doe remayne as yow have well deserved Yeur assured loving freind, Jo. Lincoln, C.S. Weatminster College, 13° Novembris 1621. Addressed : To the right worshipfull my very loving Freind Mr. John Packer, Esq. at Com't, deliver these. Indorsed : L. Keeper to me. Mr. Cade. No. CXVII. Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer. [Autograph Signature.] Nov. 16. Good Mr. Packer. I thanke yow for keeping mee stiU in the fruition of my ould freind the poore parsonage of Walgrave, where- FOETESCUE PAPERS. 169 with I am not yet in any raynd to depart. The necessity of my i621. attendance upon comraittees this present Parliament hath raade rae °''- • inquire of the Judges and others how I might be restor'd te ray teraporalties without doing my homage fer the Bushopprick of Lincolne, my occasions not suffering rae by any meanes to corae downe in person to Newraarket, I am resolved that, as I might have done ray homage when the King was here before ray conse cration (if I had bene so learned, and soe well read In the statute) soe I raay be restor'd to my teraporalties with a respite ef homage (which the King grants every day to laymen) if his Majestie will be pleased to signe this restitution hereinclosed, differing nothing from the ordinary ferme, but in ene line onely, where his Majestie doth respite my homage untill Christmas eve. I could net all yes terday get the Clarke ef the Signet to docquet the same, as being no where to be found, and therefore I have sent yew inclosed Mr. Attorney Generall's opinion which (by reason ef this new addi tion of respite of horaage) I held more satisfactory to his Majestie then the subscripcion of the Clarke of the Signet ; besyds that the Clarke drawes these things upon ray warrant usually .¦¦¦ Fer revercions that have passed In my tyme they are very many. Sir Raffe Freeman had a couple, of two Auditor's places of great consequence and importance. Mr. Mewtis had one or two rever cions in my court, and without ence asking ray leave ; which was never heard of in the raemory ef any raan. My Lord Davers had one or two. One Mr, Shawe had another the last day, and I never open ray seale but there passeth one or ether, Poore Mostyn is the onely raan that I heard of stopped, whora I raust leave te your love and further opertunitles ; and se, with my thankes unto you for all ' A blank is left here in the MS. CAMD. SOC. Z 170 FORTESCUE PAPERS, 1621. your paynes in my busynes, I leave you for this time in God's pro- Nov. 16. teccion, and rest ever Your assured loving and faithfull freind, Jo, Lincoln. C,S, Westminster College, 16 November I62I. Reraeraber my hurable respectes to my Lord and both the Ladyes : and knewe of his Majestie whether I shall deliver the donative for my Lord ef Spalato, or reserve it untill his Majestye coms hither. Addressed : To tbe right worshipfull my very loving Freind Mr. John Packer Eaquier at Court deliver theae. Indorsed : L. Keeper to me. Respit o homage. No. CXVIII, Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr, John Packer, [Autograph Signature.] Nov. 22. Sir. I thanke yow for your faver in raaking rae a Baron ef the Parliament,^ which otherwise I had not bene before Christmas, and withaU for your raany other dayly and greater courtesyes, which I will by all occasions that ever shalbe offred endeavor to deserve in sorae proportion. Although the restitucion of my teraporalties deth enable me to bestowe the poore Archdeaconry of Huntington upon Doctor Gwyn (for what was in the King of that Bushopprick upon Munday last, is now invested In me,) yeat I desyre you to passe it from the King as you have kindly beganne, because it wilbe a greater securitie and more honor unto the Doctor to have it after that maner. And so I cease to be further trowblesome at this time, and rest ever Your assured loving freind, Jo. Lincoln. C.S. Westminster CoUege, 22° November 1621. Addressed : To the right worshipfull his very loving freind Mr. John Packer Esqre. at Court, deliver these. Indorsed : 22 Nov, L, Keeper to me, ' Temporalities restored Nov, 20, see p. 169, FORTESCUE PAPERS, 171 No. CXIX, Sir Robert Heath to the Marquis of Buckingham. Right Honorable ray singuler good Lord, An unhappye accident Dec. 3. is fallen out lately, which doth much concerne me In mine ewne private, wherin I humbly beseech your Lordship to be mine honorable good Lord and a Mediator for me to his Majesty. It hath been my folly to be tee deeply ingaged for Sir Thomas Watson's dettes. He is lately dead in the Kinges dett, and I am bound for him in seme good sums fer which I have security by landes. I am also bound fer him In seme other good sums borrowed lately to pay the King part of his dett for which I have noe security. My hurable suite to his Majesty is but this, that he would be pleased to recommend his owne cause for his owne dett to my Lord Trea- soror and Mr, Atturney, and that I may have the faver, as farre forth only as they two shall find to be just, to be relieved by his Majestyes means, his owne dett being first truly satisfied. The delays of the Ladye Watson, who is the sole' executor to her husband, give me just occasion te suspect that ther is not soe just a course intended towards me as I knowe I have deserved at ther handes. I beseech your Lordship be pleased te move his Majesty for me with as much convenient speed as your greater affaires will give leave, that I be not prevented and his Majesty otherwise engaged. For your Lordship's services I only give this account for the present, that I goe on in the busines about the Straungers, and prepare the Bill for the fishing against a fitt opportunity. For other thinges I shall remitt them to ray noble frend Sir Georg Goring, by whom I humbly Intreat I may be bound unto you for an aunswer. Your Lordship's taost bounden and most devoted to doe you service, Ro: Heath. 3 Dec. 1621. Addressed: To the right Hon"' my singuler good Lord the Marquess Buckingham, Lord High Admirall of England, Indorsed : Mr, Sollicitor to my Lord, 172 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. CXX. The Maequis of Buckingham to Sie George Calvert. [Draft.] 1621. Sir. Jjis Majestie hath coramanded me to write to you that yeu beware yeu have net given the House toe great scope in giving thera libertie to deale with any offences committed directly against the House or any member thereof in Sir Edward Coke's case, and that thereupon they touch upon the point of conspiracie, which if they doe, that whole businesse wilbe foyled and the blame will light upon you. Besides his Majestie would have you advise with his learned CounseU, whither . actions intended wilbe comprized within the generall pardon, and, if yeu finde they be not, his pleasure is you deale with the pursuers of the busines te put in presently a BiU into the Starchamber against Sir Edward Coke which his Majesty thinketh fitt, how ever It be. Indorsed : My Lord's lettre to S, Calvert. Sir Ed, Coke, Jan. 2, No, CXXI. The Marquis of Buckingham to Sir Henry Wotton. [Copy.] 1622. My Lord. I have all this while respited ray answeare in expec tacion of the issue of a treatie I had in hand between my Lord Treasurer that now is ^ and the Master of the Rolls ^ touching an exchang ef their places, whereupon my deseigne was to have left it to your choyce whither you would have taken a reversion of the Mastership of the Wards after Sir Julius Csesar (which I doubted ' Lord Cranfield. = Sir Julius Cicsar. fortescue papers. 173 not but his Majestie would have granted) er expected the aveydance i622. of the other place ^ upon that clayme yeu have to It. But that ''''"¦ ^¦ busines being now broken ef, and there being ne ether coarse left but te stick te the interest you have in his Majesties gratious pro mise for the Rolls, I thought it new tirae te send away your man after this leng stay, with assurance that when the occasion serves you shall find me Your constant friend and servant 2» Januar. 1621. I thanke your Lordship for the bedd and pictures and other pre sent yeu sent me, and for your good husbandrie in the other pictures yeu bought for me.^ Indorsed : My Lord to Sir H. Wotton. No. CXXII, Lord Keepee the Bishop of Lincoln to the Maequis of. Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] My most noble Lord. I have receav'd a lettre from his Majesty Ja">- 17. concerning the discharging and freeing of the Lord HoUys^ frora a suite in the Star-Chamber followed against him in the King's right ; but by the soUIcitacion ef Sir Edw. Cooke I ferbere (upon con ference with his Majesty) to doe any thing herein, in the sitting of the last Parliament, for feare ef styrriifg up that waspe which hath sythence so bestyrr'd himselfe. If his Majestie be still graciously disposed to have the Lord HoUys freed, I beseech yeur Lordship te ' The Mastership of the Rolls. * ^ The postscript is written across the back of the sheet. ' A mistake for Lord Houghton (John Holies). 174 FOETESCUE PAPEES, 1622. Jan. 17. igt ^j.- Packer write a word unto me to that effect.' I cease to be further troublesome, and rest ever Your Lordship's faythfull Servaunt and creature, Jo: Lincoln. C.S. Westm"- CoU. 17 Jan. 1621. Addressed: Tothe Right Honorable My most noble Lord the Lord Admyrall at Court. Indorsed : L. Keeper to my Lord L. HoUys. No. CXXIIL Sie Geoege Calveet to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] Jan. 17. May It please your Lordship. Understanding that the Arch- bishopp of Yorke Is dead,^ and that it may be the occasion of diverse removes in the Chui:ch, I besech yeur Lordshipp give me leave to recoramend unto your reraembrance Mr. Doctor Wright, one for whora I have beene often a sollicitor heretofore, and who is now so well knowne unto yeur Lordshipp and his abilityes by com mendation also from others, to whose judgement I presurae your Lordshipp will attribute much, as I neede not speake more of his sufficiency and worth. If by your favorable meanes he may be advanced at this tyrae, your Lordshipp shall rauch bynd him unto yow, and putt the like obligation upon my self, who am Your Lordshipp's very humbly to serve yeu, Geo. Calvert. St. Martin's Lane, 17 January 1621. Addressed: To the Right Hon'"'' my singular good Lord the Lo : Marquis of Buckingham Lo: Highe Admirall of England. Indorsed: S. C. to my L. Dr. Wright. ' Marginal note, " A lettre written to that purpose, 19 Jan." ' This was the same rumour, said to have been designedly spread hy the Arch bishop himself, which induced Antonio de Dominis to make application for the vacant see. fortescue papers. 175 No. CXXIV, Lord Chief Justice Ley to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Autograph Signature,] My humble duety and service to yeur Lordship reraerabred. . It 1^22 pleased the Lordes of the Councell to call ray Lord Hobard and rae before them about the assessing of the prices of wynes, at which tyme it was declared unto us, that because they were not willing to put us te a double labour, therefore they thought fitt to propound unto us, that we would let them know what Benevolence we would willingly bestow towardes the Palatinate. To whome we answered that, in the generall, we were very willing te give according to eur abilities, and in the particuler we did humbly present the sumrae of an hundred poundes apeece, with this, that te declare our willingnes we would doe eur best endevors te incourage all others of eur voca tion to doe the like, according to their preporciens, which free offer ef ours the Lordes did accept with good approbacion and te our great comfort, which we raust acknowledge to proceed from those worthie direccions which it pleased your Lordshipp by your letters to give us. It new followeth that your Lordshipp would vouchsaffe to give me leave to make a mocion for that which all or most of my predecessors and others have formerlie obtayned, to wardes which, if your Lordshipp will be pleased to loeke upon my age and late sicknes, I hepe yeur Lordshipp will not thinke it unreasonable for me te be an hurable suter to be allowed a circuit for my most ease and saffetie, which is in the Westerne partes. And if it shall please your Lordshipp to move his Majestie for the sarae and to procure a warrant to ray Lord Keeper to that effect, with a Non obstante ef my being that Countrey man, your Lordshipp shall dee therein (as alwaies you have done) an extraordinary favor unto me, whereof the short tyme for appointment of clrcuites deth re quire the more expedicion. And to take awaie all excepcion, Mr. 176 fortescue papers, 1622. Justice Hutton whoe goeth that circuit is as glad to exchaung for Jan. 29. ^^ circuit as I ara fer his. And soe wishing yeur Lordshipp all Increase of honor and happines, I hurably take my leave. Your Lordship's alwais faithfully to serve you, James Ley. From Serjeants Inne, Fleet Street, the xxix* of January 1621. Addressed : To the right hon'''= hia very good Lord, the Lord Marques Buckingham, Lord Admirall of England. Indorsed .¦|^29_^Jan. 1621. L. Chief Justice to my L. -Feb. 1, No, CXXV. Lord Falkland to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Holograph.] My deare M"^' I lately receyved a letter from my Lady of Wallingford,^ wherein she desired my mediation to yeur Lordship fer the farther extention of the lyne of his Majestyes grace in my Lord and Lady Sommersett's liberty to one rayle longer, because she hath an other howse called Niew Elme, the best and holsomest ayre for the Spring of all hir howses, whereunto she purposes to gee veary shortely, which would be then within the compass ef their allowed circuict, being 4 miles from Grayes and farther from any of his Majestyes howses er resortes then any of the other : and this is desired by way of addition, net ef alteration, which Is to my poore seemeing soe reasonable and moderate a request as I presume your generous and confident noblenes will never deney It. One word under his Majestyes hand or under your Lordshipes owen signifying his pleasure wilbe good and sufficient warrant for that matter. Your Hanns in the Kelder^ is passing well, and like to make a francke ' Apparently Mistress, probably from aome joke. - Sister of the Countess of Somerset. ' A Dutch phrase for an unborn infant. Buckingham's first child Mary was born in the following April, and the Marchioness had, I suppose, been playing at the game of cards called gleek. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 177 gamester, for all ready he loves glceke with all his harte, and I with all my harte love and honnor my M"^ to whom I will ever be Your honest trew harted servant, Falkland. WhightehaU, this first of February 1621. Addressed : To exceUent and singulerly most noble Lord, my Lord the Marquiss of Buck ingham, Lord High Admyrall of England &c. Att Courte. Indorsed : L, Falkland to my Lord. E. of Somer sett, 1622. Feb. 1. No. CXXVL Sie John Suckling to the Maequis of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] My hurable service to your Lordship remembred. I am belde te Feb. 8. addresse theis fewe to yeur Lordship touching the busines of Steele which the interessed parties will begin this moneth to make. And because Mr. Doctor Fludd, to whom it was at first granted, hath not yett passed the great seale fer the sarae. It being hetherto no further then the privie seale, I humbly pray your Lordship that his Majestie woulde vouchsafe to give order to the Master of Requests new. attending at Court for his gratious pleasure to be signified to the Lord Keeper te send fer the sayd Docter Fludd te attend him, and withall te require him to passe It presently under the great seale, to remaine with his Lordship untill securitie be given for the true answering ofthe third parte to his Majestie's use of the profittes which shall therof arrise, as was agreed before the Lords of his Majestie's Privie CounceU. , My reasons for this are two, thone for that his Majes'tie is net Interessed in the profittes ef tho sayd third part untill It be under the greate seale : thother that I cannot signifie his Majestie's good pleasure on the behalf of Mr. Christopher Villiers about the moietle ef the sayd third part before it be under the greate seale, which it pleased hira te bestow upon Mr. Villiers in my audience at Ruffbrd In the moneth of August CAMD. SOC. 2 A 178 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1622. last. I have been twice at Lymehouse where the houses, furnaces, ^^^- ^- and watermlU are buylt fer the making and working ef the sayd Steele, it being a very faire busines and likely to proove very pro fitable, and against it ne just exception can be taken. For his Majesty restrains not any person either from bringing it from be yond the seas nor from raaking of It within the land ; and yett he Is nevertheles to have a third parte of the gaine by the voluntary offer of the contractors ; and I did purposely hetherto forbeare to call upon the passing it under the great seale, in regard the housing and other necessaries were but lately finished, and not ready to make any Steele till this present moneth. I humbly desire the contynuance ef your noble favoure towards me, and beseech your Lordship to have this geed opinion of me that no man can or shall serve you more honestlie justlie and faythfully then Yeur Lordship's humbly devoted at commande, Jo. Suckling. 8"' February I62I. Addressed : To the right Ho^e the Lo. Marques of Buckingham, Lo! High Admirall of England, Indorsed : 8 Febr, 1621. S' Jo ; Suckling to raj Lord Steele, No. CXXVII. LoED Keepee the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packee. [Holograph.] Feb. 25. Sir. I pray you to deliver this letter unto my Lord, and desire his Lordshipp to reade it over, though it be somewhat long. It is my opinion about Mr. Murray's maner of preceding in the obteyning of this place •} fer I speake nothing against the matter, as wishing the man all good, and remembring whose tutor he was. Comend me te Sir Sidney Montague, I pray you, with my thankes for his letter with the petition of that clamorous ladye the Lady Dacres, ' The Provostship of Eton. The letter ref ciTed to is printed in Cabala (ed. 1691) 264, FORTESCUE PAPERS. 179 I have already acquaynted the King with what I did, and justified * p'^^^.?'; it In the Parliament, and shalbe able to doe soe still. But his letter was soe delivered unto me amongst a 100 petitions, with such slight and contempt, that It was never opened and presented unto me by my Secretarye untill within this halfe howre. I will eyther write or bring an awnswer within these 3 dayes, the time being nothing soe nere spending as is enformed. I beseech yeu if oppertunity be offred put my Lord ence more in raynde of Dr. Piers for Peterburgh. I forget it when I spake with his Lordshipp. Soe I cease (for this time) to be further troublesom, comending yeu to Godes protection, and rest ever Your assured loving freynd Jo, Lincoln, C.S, Westminster College, this 25 of February, I62I. If you held it fit I pray you seale up the enclosed when you have read it. Addressed : To the right worshipfull my assured loving Frend Mr. John Packer Esqre, at Court deliver these. Indorsed : L. Keeper to me 25 Feb. No. CXXVIII. The Earl of Nottingham to the Marquis of Buckingham. My most honorable Lord and Sonne. I can shew in writing of March 28, allmost three thousand deere red and fallow which I have forborne the taking of by my warrants since his Majestie came into this Realme, besides some parkes which I never sent to at all, but have forborne to preserve them for his Majestes pleasure, as St. Jeames, Greenewich, and the litle parke of Elthara, and never had any deere out ef thera. Now ray hurable suite is unto his Majestie that it would please hira to geeve me 16 or 20 male deere out of the great parke of Nonsuch, which may very well spare them. I desire to have them to put into my parke at Reigate, which is alltogether 180 , FORTESCUE PAtEE^. 162". decalcd of male deere, that I may have new in my old yeeres, being March 28. j^qj. g^]^ ^^ g^g ^^^^, q£ ^^ hunt, to have some sport theare now and then to kill a bucke with ray beagle, which may peradventure pro long my life a yeere or two. Thus yeur Lordship sees how bold I am to trouble you ; fer, ray good Lord, all ray life and bringing up was in warr, hunting, or hawking ever since I was a man. If the abilitye of my body were as able as the willingnes of ray hart I would attend oftener upon his Majestie with my service, but Insteed of that I dee daylle and nightlie pray for his Majestie's long life and happie raigne, and your Lordship long to live to doe his Majestie and the Realme service. So I allwaies rest Your Lordship's most assured in all love and affection to doe you service, Nottingham. Haling, this 28"' March 1622. Yet my Lord I must confesse trulie unto yew that I am this winter and new at this instant better in health and strength of bedy then I was ten yeere agoe. No. Addressed : To the right Hon'''= and my very good Lord and Sonne, the Marquis of Bucking- ingham. Lord High Admirall of England, dd. Indorsed ; E. of Notingham to my L. No. CXXIX. The Bishop of Chestee to John Packer. [Autograph Signature.] "^"'y ^^' Salutem in Christo. I pray God blesse you and yours for that unusuall (and I think unraatchiable) blessing which you afford unto Ged's Church here in this country, which like a dry and barren soyl drinks in that heavenly water (which yeu have showred down upon thera) with greedynes. Mr. Hyat hath ever since his coming emong us preached at a place caled Goosnargh, not farr from Preston in Lancashire. I hold that the most needful place for his labors though '"i'ORTESCUE PAPERS. 181 the most unfitting place for his living, for it cannot fitt him for a 1622. house to lodge in (as they promised he should have) though it afford him auditors, the church full. I purpose he shall divide his paynes emong diverse auditors, though he bestow raost emong those with whom he shall dwell, unles you otherwise dispose (fer at yeur dis posall it must be, as is most reasonable seeing you pay him his wages) and if yeu please to signify to me at any tyme you will I shall order him acordinglyin all things. The country blesses God for this great benefit and pray for yeu and yours heartely, and my prayres shall never be wanting for you that God will multiply this your goodnes by his graces dayly unto your bosome; he that suffereth not a cup of cold water to be bestowed upon one of his litle ones unrewarded will (no doubt) retribute (for this so great a work) rauch raore to you and yeur posterity, seing so many of his litle ones are continuall fed with that spirituall food which you have sent them. I wrote long since to ray Lord Bishop of Litchfield' about the other preacher, te know his pleasure fer tire placeing ef him here or in Staffordshire as you wrote, and I receaved his lettre In answere desireing me net to presse him fer this country, but that he might labor you to plant him in his dioces : wherupon I forbare to write more to you about that busines, presumeing that my Lord himself hath long since written to you about it. The God of Heaven continue and encrease these good desires In you, and work the like in others by yeur example, to the glory of his Son, the good of his Church, and your endles comfort in another world. Yeur true and much bounden frind, Jo: Cestren." Wigan Hall, Ultimo Julii 1622. Addressed : To the right worshipful and Reli gious Gentleman Johu Packar, Chief Secre- ta,ry to the Right Hon'''' the Lord Marques of Buckingham. Indorsed : W of Chester to me. ' Thomas Morton. ' John Bridgeman 182 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. CXXX. Mr. William Fenner to Me. John Packer. [Holograph.] 1622. Worthie Gentleman. What cause I have of thanckesgiveing both "°' ¦ to God fer yeu, and to you for yeur love, ray heart tells rae. You for your various good deedes may well be, like the Bishop of Alexandria, called Johannes Eleeraosynarius, in regard as well of soule as bodie. What favour I have found with my Lord of Lelch- field and Coventrie, that same •jrepKpavr)'; 6 avrjp Kai 7rp6/ia%09 t^? evaej3eia<; as Theedoret stiles Gregory Naziananzen, fer your sake, without Ingratitude to you beth I cannot conceale. I am bound to respect and honor his Lordship (besides that I heard, ef his worth before my comeing, which raakes him fair and high renowned) as leng as I live, his leve Is-such toward rae ; I make ne question but you will give hira than ekes for his so great kindnesse. I have bene hitherto at his Lordship's and have preacht at his appointment where he seeth that there is need. Now I have a place, a set ahead assigned most according te yeur religious intent. It's fit indeed such a noble purpose should be carefully lookt unto. Greater liberality then which there can hardly be any. Not an ordinary commendation In this close-fisted world. Wherein raany are not unlike the ship- men in Sigebertus his chronicle that being askt a piece of bread by a poore man answeared Se nihil prceter lapides habere. Forthwith the beggar cursed sayeing Omnia ergo vertantur in lapides, whose curse God heard so as all their food was no better then stones for their eating. But the spirits of the poore blesse your tender heart every where, and their blessings are effectuaU with God and for this heroicall intendement of yours much more. This one thing heartens me, the confidence that God will prosper the proceeding in so rauch that its fer so royall an end. Fer ray part I am net onely to satisfie your desires herein, which are very bountlfuU aud pious, but have fortescue papers. 183 respect to God hiraselfe by all seduleusnesse in the charge, who sug- ^^'^'^¦ gested it to yeur heart. I have and shall have ray Lord of Leich- field and Coventrie^ his directions in the performance (which I will folow in all things) meaning to use all meekenesse, humility, dis cretion, diligence, fidelity that I can therein, together with contlnuaU thanckes unto your worthinesse for the same. Quem capisti amare, porro ama, and you shall (God willing) never repent it. The Lord of Heaven keep yeu for much good. Thus with reraembrance of my best respect unto yeu (I might adde without suspicion of insinuation. Patron) I rest Yours to command in all love, William Fenner. From EcclesaU in Staffordshire, Auguat 20, 1622. Addressed : To the WorahipfuU my very much reapected friend Mr. Packer, Secretary to the Right Honourable and his very good Lord the Marquesse of Buckingham, theae. At Mr, Packar'a house, at the Cloister at Westminster, No. CXXXL Sir Francis Annesley to the Marquis of Buckingham. , [Autograph Signature.] It may pleas your most honorable Lordship. I am told by Sept, 20, Mr. Francis Cave that your Lordship was offended with me for signeing of a letter to the Lords with the Commissioners con cerning the plantacons, wherein ther was Indeed impertinent mention of Mr. Wrayes graunt of the natives' fines, which I knewe belonged to your Lordship. I will eaver acknowledg my self to be so highly bound te your Lordship fer your manifold favors, as I wear the IngratefuUest man liveing if my harte er hand should willingly consent to any thing that might geeve your Lordship the least ' Thomas Morton. 184 fortescue papers. 1622. occasion of dislike ; and as touching that lettre I did make open Sei't. 20, protestaclon against the whoU contentes therof, and took particular exception to that claus of the natives' fines which I have eaver strongly argued to be rather increased then abated so long as they contynue their conterapt against his Majestie's proclamacion, and 1 withstood the signeing of that letter till I was (somewhat unman nerly as I conceaved) asked by Sir William Jones wheather I thought myself wiser then all the Comraissioners to oppose that which they had concluded upon, whereuntoe I made a more modest answere then his rude question deserved, that I neaver affected singularity of opinion either in myself or any other raan, but desiered that ray reasons might be heard with patience, and then 1 would submitt to better judgements, and when I had urged all I could against the irapossibility of getting treable rents from the undertakers and against severall other pointes of the lettre, fer which I am still constant in my opinion there was noe ground of reason, yet I was overruled by most voyces to subscribe therunto, eaven against my will, as by my letters to the Lord Treasurer of England I did then express, doubting that some of the Commissioners might Informe his Lordship that I was opposite to the Kinges proffitt, which by Godes grace I will neaver be wher I can discern honorable waies for thaccomplishment therof, but I did and doe still conceave that the standing for treable rentes, te which the undertakers neaver did nor will I thinke consent, doth te his Majestie's great disproffitt teee long protract the effecting of double rentes and geoveing of £30. upon every thousand acres by way of coraposicion for the graunte ofthe natives' fines, to which raost ofthe undertakers assented ; and butt that Sir Francis Blundell told rae he would then write to your Lordship touchinge that letter and the carladge ef itt, as he still sayeth he did, I would have presumed te have addressed ray letters to yeur Lordship, as I did to the Lord Treasurer, I will not further interrupt yeur Lordship's high imployments but doe most hurably beseech you to contynue mee in your good favour and proteccien as one that honors you, and studies to doe you service more then to fortescue PAPEES, 185 any subjecte, and I wish that neither I nor myne may prosper longer 1622. then I am your most honorable Lordship's faithfull servaunte, ^^'" ' Fea: Annesley. Dublin, this 20"' of September, 1622. Addressed : To the most honorable Lord the Lord Marqueaa Buckingham, Lord High Admirall of England. Indorsed: Sir Fr, Anneeley to my L, Apologie. No. CXXXIL The Eael op Kelly to the Marquis of Buckingham, [Autograph signature.] It -may please your Lordshipe, You warr soe busied att your oot. 16. beinge here In toun that I did not thinke it good manners to trowble yew with this busines ef my Lady Purbeck's ; I have dene my best to have drawn the seume ^ te eight hundreth pounds, but could not prevale, soe that I muste humbly intreate your Lordshipe wilbe pleased te lett it be £1,000 as yeu did say te me. There restes nothinge but a howse, whareof I have putt hir oute of all hope that any can come from your Lordshipe : and I have of myselfe delt with hir mother, whoe sayes she hes no mynde to have hir doghter in hir company, least shee may incurr your displeaser, whiche I thinke a strange conceate in hir mother. In my opinion if your Lordship wilbe pleased to signifie soe rauch to me by two lynnes that yow will thinke it more convenient that shee be with hir mother then alone, then I hope to sattle that poynt with the rest, which I thinke shall give your Lordshipe a great dale of qwyetnes. Thus remittinge the rest to your Lordshipes directions, I will end this, but ever remane your Lordship's affectionat servaunt, Cheringe croce, 16"" October 1622. Addressed : To the Right Honorable and my very good Lord My Lord Marquea of Buck ingham, Lord High Admirall of England &c. Indorsed : E. of Kelly to my Lo. Kellie, ' Lady Purbeck's alimony, her husband being insane. CAMD. SOC. 2 B 186 fortescue papers. No. CXXXIII, Sir George Calvert to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph,] 1622. May it please your Lordshipp. I am rauch bownd unto your "'¦ ¦ favor, and so ara I for your patience in that you are pleased to give me leave thus te trowble yow. I am sorry that yeur last letter, which was so full of noblenesse and courtesy, should stand neede of any replye. But fer that I see that my Lord Tresorer takes no notice to me of any such matter as yeur Lordshipp writes of, nor of any conference betweene yow concerning me, notwithstanding that I have beene in his company diverse tymes synce your Lordshipp's departure hence, I shall hurably pray your Lordshipp to signify the King's pleasure unto the Clarke of the Signett attendant for drawing of a privy seale for the £2,000, without which I knowe he can pay ne money, and then it will be some grownd for me to attend him ; otherwise I have no couler te offer it, and shall be in danger of a repulse, which I would not willingly have for twise so rauch money, my Lord Tresorer and I being now upon so good termes of under standing each other, as I de net doubt but he holds me for his servant, and I should be very unhappy if any new occasion should happen that might make rae doubt hira te be my friend. Yeur Lordshipp will pardon this freedome, and give that dispatch te my suite which may advantage me much though the thing In itself be small, and I shall humbly attend your answere by Mr. Packer, remayning ever, ,^^ Your Lordshipp's faithfull and true servant, Geo. Calvert. st, Martin's Lane, 21 October, 1622. Addressed : To the Right Honorable my very good Lord the Lord Marquis of Buckingham Lord Highe Admirall of England. Indorsed: S. Calvert to my L, Oct. 28. FORTESCUE PAPEES. 187 No. CXXXIV. Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Mr. Packer. I pray yeu present to my Lord these patents for 1622, Justices, and these enclosed letters of my Lord of Northampton and myne, Alsoe I pray you to acquaint ray Lord that I have net yet received the Kinges reference concerning the juste difference betwene the Earles of Orraend and Desraond, but doe much suspect that one of the two Earles doth suppresse it ; beth of them afraide ef jis. But I have taken great paines in inforraing my self in the cause, whereof I will give his Lordshipp some accorapt at Theobalds, I thought his Lordship would have directed you to write soraewhat unto me concerning the Bushopprick of Bristowe.^ But I referr that to his Lordshipp's pleasure an d leasure, Onely I recommended te his thoughts, Dr. Wright, Dr. Collins, and Dr, Price nowe imployed in Ireland : but without any suite of myne, which I never did nor wiU make for any man in this kynde, unles mere necessitye shall put me in mynde of the Deane of Westrainster ^ hereafter. And soe leave you for this time in God's protection, and rest Yeur assured lovinge freynd, Jo, Lincoln, C.S, Westminster College thia 28 of Oct, 1622. Addressed: To the Worshipfull my assured loving Freind Mr. John Packer eaquier at Court, deliver these. Indorsed : L, Keeper to me, Bp of Bristoll. No. CXXXV. James I. to Sir George Calvert, [Imperfect fragment of draft,] Right trusty &c. Wee cannot but wonder that those ef our ^'ov. Counsell who were appointed to meet with the States have been so ' Bishop Searchfield died October II, 1622, and was succeeded by Dr. Eobert Wright, Warden of Wadham. ^ i. e. of himself. 188 FORTESCUE PAPERS, 1622. negligent as to disappoint them. And therefore wee would have you acquaint our dearest sonne the Prince therewith that he raay in our name command them all to meet with them as speedily as may be. And our pleasure is that your self goe to the States' Ambassadors and divert them from coming hither te take their leave,' but te desire them both in eur ewne and our Sonne's narae to be contented once againe to meet with our Counsell, whose negligence is inex cusable, being pittie that the busines should be hindered being so neere an end for want of their Indorsed: M, from his M, to S. Cal: No. CXXXVI, The English Commissioners for the East India Business TO James I. [Copy.] Nov. 19. jyja^y it please your moste excellent Majestie, Wee have, accord ing to yeur Majestie's commandement and direccions at Theebaldes, given divers meetinges to the States' Ambassadors, not omitting anie one day when your Majestie's other greate affaires woulde permit, and following therein the way your Majesty prescribed us. We began first with the charge of Bantam, which had bene so rauch disputed before your Majestie, and the better to prepare and ripen that question, the raarchantes on both sydes^were ordered to meet togeather, which they did accordingly, the English not falling except onely one time, when they were coraraanded to attende us your Majestie's Coramis sioners here about that businesse, which we are bolde to intimate to your Majesty, because the States complaine thereof to us as a neglect, and we gave them this answere, wherewith we hope they were satisfied. But fer the raatter it selfe ef the account, yeur Majesty's ' The Dutch Commissioners for negotiating a settlement of the East India disputes threatened to take their leave, in consequence of the alleged neglect of the English Commissioners to attend the meetinga. See the next letter. FORTESCUE PAPERS, 189 marchants founde it so unreasonable and exorbitant as it [seemed] 1622, to thera rather to be devised here then otherwise. From this point being put into the marchantes handes, we fel to other thr[ee] points which were before left incertaine, namely the discount ofthe pepper brought into Hollande, the restitution of the goodes at Lantor,i and the exchange of the reals of eight, in none of which coulde wee for the present obtaine any reasonable satisfaction from thera. Neverthelesse, to shewe eur earnest desire of an accoramodation, and to oraitt nothing that raight conduce thereunto, we proceeded to the reigleraent of trade, hoping that, if that had bene wel setled for the future, the rest woulde more easilie have followed ; and whereas yeur marchants had presented unto them a draught of raany particular demandes, withva preface which the States dislyked, we .caused all that might be anie way distastefull to be put out, and of those thinges which remained in our conference with them we principally Insisted upon three, which seemed of such necessity as our marchants being earnestly pressed by us in private te yeilde to the uttermeste they coulde, protested vehemently t|jat without redresse in those thinges they coulde net maintaine that trade, ner draw adventurers to contribute thereunto. One ef these was to have places assigned where your marchants raight erect forts ; touching which, though we conceive them to be at libertie fer the Moluccas, Ambolna, and Banda, there being now expired the tyme of three yeares which is limitted by the Treatie and more explained by an Act ef Counsel! by yeur Majestie's expresse commandement on the 24th of June 1619, yet the Ambassadors net onely denie it in those places without their consent, but also in any other places of the Indies : Secondly we required that each. Companie might have the governing, correcting, and imposing of taxes upon their owne nation ; But hereto we coulde finde them no way inclining ; For howsoever they avoyded the name of Souverainty (against which ' In the Banda Isles, Nov. 19 190 FOETESCUE PAPEES. 1622. -vye ever earnestly protested,) yet they pressed the act and practise thereof. Lastly we desired to have the noraber of twentie ships, which semes certaine by the treatie, to be left indefinite in nomber, with a power te the Counsel of Defense there by common consent to appoint the nomber more or lesse, as the exigence of the affaires may require. For the English Corapanie pretesteth that neither the trade as it hath bene hitherto caryed, can maintaine their pro portion of ten, nor hath there bene anie necessitie of maintaining that nomber for defense of their trade ; and for offense it is not warranted by the treatie. And this question coraing into dispute we helde the decision thereof to be left unto your Majestie and the States by the 30th Article ef the aforesaide Treatie. All these points of reigleraent having bene long debated yesterday araongst us, at laste It was the Arabassadors' desire that the Marchantes on beth sydes shoulde withdraw themselves that we might speake privately together; we conceiving their purpose te have bene to accommodate the businesse betwene our selves as we have often done heretofore. But contrarie to our expectation, passing by all busines, they acquainted us with their resolucion to begin their journey this morning towardes Newmarket, wherein we finding them firme helde it our duties to give your Majestie this account, and withall that we thought it strange they should never acquaint us with this their intention til six of the clock yesternight, our caryage (we hope) having deserved wel at their handes, though we must confesse to your Majestie that yesterday the language both of the Ambassadors and their Marchants was in a higher stralne of Souveraintie in the Indies then we expected. And humbly praying your Majestie to pardon this length, since the necessitie of the businesse enforceth it, we doe in all humilitie kisse your Majestie's royall handes and rest, &c. Whytehall, the 19'" of November, 1622. Indorsed : Copie of the former letter touching this subject. FORTESCUE PAPERS, 191 No. CXXXVII. Lord Say and Sele to the Marquis of Buckingham. [Holograph.] 1623. My Lord. I am very unwillinge to err in any circumstance whearby his Majestie's displeasure agaynst rae might be farther ^®''- ^^ '' occasioned, and thearfore although I stir not out of the house whear I lye,^ yeat shall I not thearin rest secure, except I may under stande the little stay I desyre uppon just occasion to make in this place may be pleasinge to him, I beseech your Lordship doe me the faveur that I may in a word from you understande wheather his Majestie will be pleased to give me leave to stay in London for three weekes er a fortenight before I goe to myne owne house, both because I feare my bodye by soe longe a restraynt is become ill able uppon the sudden to indure the open Countrye ayre, fyndinge I have nead to use seme healpe ef physicke, as alsoe that in this time I may dispatch some busineses I have hear and provide thinges necessary thear. My Lord, these are the true causes why I desyre to stay ; notwithstandinge, if your Lordship fynde this shall not stande with his Majestie's good Ukinge I will presently repayre to myne owne house though it should preve dangerous to my ' He had been committed to the Fleet in June 1622, for dissuading persons from contributing to the benevolence. (Chamberlain to Carleton, June 8, 1622, S. P. Dom, cxxxi, ^?J There is a letter from him to Buckingham amongst the State Papers (S, P. Dom. cxxxviii. 6) explaining his conduct, Mrs, Green states, from the Council Register, that he was removed from the Fleet to his own house at Norton, February 4th, There must be some mistake in this, the date being perhaps that of the order for hia removal, aa he was evidently still in London on the I3th. See the next letter. 192 fortescue papers. 1623. health and other wayse inconvenient. Your Lordship wiU please Feb. 13 ? ^Q excuse my boldnes, and accompt me Your Lordship's humble servant, W. Say and Seale. 13 Feb. 1622, Addressed : To the Right Honorable Lord George Lord Marques of Buckingham, Lord High Admirall of England, Indorsed: Lo, Say to my Lord and copie of answeare. No. CXXXVIIL The Marquis of Buckingham to Lord Say and Sele. [Copy on the fly leaf of No, XCVL] Feb. 13. My Lord, I have acquainted his Majestie with your desire to remayne in London a fortnight er three weekes, to take phisick and settle your businesse, which his Majestie is gratiously pleased to grant, and hath commanded me to signifie so much unto you. Your Lordship's 13 Feb. 1622. Ne, CXXXIX, Sir Robert Naunton to the Duke of Buckingham, [Holograph.'] Get. 6. My most noble Lord. Though my person be still under restraint^ (my due obedience whereunto must be my best sacrifice,) yet my ' The handwriting ia not the usual one, but is yet, I think, from Naunton's own pen, but 'written with great care and deliberation, ' Confined to his O'wu house for entering into an unauthorised negociation with Cadenet, the French ambassador. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 193 penne is so free, as that it can not hold from an intire congratulation i623. of this happie and holy day,' the happiest that mine eyes have '^"'^ ^• seene, since that of his Majesties moist joyful entrance into this his kingdorae. No other words can so fully expresse ray hart's Jubile for this happines, as those of that glorious Angel " GLORIE BE to GOD in the highest, on earth peace, geed will towards raen." The rest of it shall be raade up by faithful Simeon, Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine secundum verbum tuum in pace. And though I can not be yet se happy as was imported in that spiritual sence of his, yet will it be no small secondarie happines in a secondarie sence, upon this so longed for apparition of his Highnes and yeur Lordship's as the two good Angels ef eur Church and State, te be dismissed in so good an hower and made an ocular wittnes and a free beheulder with the rest, of both yeur own and the kingdomes happines in this your safe returne, which the same God that hath so graciously graunted it, blisse and prosper it to both yourselves and to all that truely zeale yeur truest prosperities, as deth Your Grace's most faithful Beadsman ever obliged Robert Naunton. Charin Crosse, 6° Octobris, 1623. Addressed : To the right honorable my sing'ular good Lord my Lord Duke of Buckingham, Indorsed : Sir Rob, Naunton to my Lord, 6 Octob, 1623. No, CXL. Lord Keeper the Bishop op Lincoln to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph,] Mr, Packer, with ray heartiest comendations unto you. If my j^®^J; Lord's Grace be there, I pray you to remember unto his Grace my ' The day of the Prince's arrival in London on hia return from Spain, CAMD, soc, 2 C 194 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1624. most humble dutye, and desier his Grace te present unto the Kinge Jan. 14. tjjig enclosed submission of my Lord Say, which (the meannesse of his offence, beinge but an omission in his office of a Justice of the peace, considered) his Majestye raaye without any dirainution of regalltye accepte. But herein I siibmitt my opinion unto his Grace. If my Lord Duke be not there, I pray you present It your selfe unto his Majestye, and returne unto me with all speede his royall direction. You may saye unto his Majestye that if my Lord ef Wynchester^ cannot (because he preacheth the daye before) discharge the sermon of the first daye ef the Parliament, I doe conceyve the Lord Bishop of Liechfield^ or the Lord Bushop of Exeter' will very well discharge the place. The latter Is the better preacher, the former better esteemed by the Lords and ether Parliaraentary men. Both are greate schollers. I will net further trouble you at this tirae, but doe coraend you te God's best protection, and rest Your very assured lovinge and faithfuU freynde, Jo. Lincoln. C.S. Westminster CoUege, 14 January, 1623. Addressed : To the Eight Worshipfull. my very loveing Frend, John Packer Esqr, at Court, In his absence to my Lord of Anan, or Mr. Henrie Gibb. Indorsed: 14 Jan, 1623, Lo: Keeper to me. No. CXLL LoED Keepee the Bishop of Lincoln to James I. [Autograph Signature.] Jan. 15. May It please your most excellent Majestie. I praesent unto your Majesty here Inclosed the humble subraission of the Lord Saye. ' Launcelot Andrewes, a Xhomas Morton. ' Valentine Carey. FOETESCUE PAPERS, 195 And, the boundles ocean ef your Majesties sweetenes and mercye 1624. together with the nature ef his offence (falling but within his office •^^'"- ^^• of a Justice of the Peace) being considered, I doe most hurably expect your Majesties pleasure for dissolving of his Lordshipp's confinement and his restitution te the Commission, wherein he hath at other tyraes perforraed very great service unto your Majestie. I dee not doubte but his Lordshipp 'wilbe soe sensible ef this gracious clemencye as to imploye his best abilities (which are raore then ordinary) to doe your Majestie all acceptable service. God AUmightle blesse and prseserve your most excellent Majestie. The most obliged of all Yeur Majesties vassals, Jo. Lincoln. C.S, 15 January, 1623, Addressed: To the Kinges most exceUent Majestye, Indorsed : Lo: Keeper to his Ma'y Lord Say. No. CXLII. Lord Kensington to the Duke of Buckingham. [Holograph,] My best and dearest Lord. I have acordinge unto yeur comend- Jan, 22. ment returned you your letter intended unto Monsieur Le Grande by the bearer. I expect to reseive that other that yeur Grace pur poses for him. The sooner yeu shall bee pleased to send it unto mee, my jurny will begine. Tomorrow in the morninge I must waight upon the Prince to acquaint him what 'comandments his Father the Kinge hath given mee, and likwlse to reseive his, the which I hope will bee a litle more clear and particular, since it conserns him nearer. My Lord, though the favers and heners that I have reselved from you bee infinit, as is the goodnes of that hart from whence they 196 FORTESCUE PAPERS. Jan. 22. kame, yet Is my will and desires as large as man's gratitude can bee te acknowledge them ; but I confesse they can present no words unto mee suficiently fitte to cloth my thankfulnesse as becomes my un speakable obligaslons unto your Lordship, the which hath made all that I can saye and Indeed the best ef all ray services in comparison of what is deserved by you, slight and weake returns ; but this I will saye, and with a vow unto my God, untill I returne te that of which hee made mee, I will unchangably be Yeur Grace's most devoted creature and humblest servant, Kensington. This 22 of January. Addressed : For Your Grace, Indorsed : Lo, Kensington to my Lo, No. CXLIIL Sir Richard Knightley to Duke of Buckingham. [Holograph.] May? May it please your Grace, My duty is to your honour all I knowe, your company Is the best medicine against mischief here. I ara sure we are alraost fallen frora that active word hope by your absence, though I am confident your geed there will bringe us hoame te the best good, God being on your cause's side. The reasons of discomfort in men's raouthes (which will certainely hinder the subsedies till they be blowne over), the malignity of Spaine, that it should make any trouble with his Majestie, that he should heare such whose verie presence is a torment te geed men that noe pro clamacion is come forth, nor none heard of ; that the Treasurour's busines should have such a delay, which is interpreted a gapp fer an escape If any can be made either by mischeife or money. The disturbance in men's thoughts are, that soe rauch duty really showne should not produce a speedy dispatch, the time of the yeare require- fortescue PAPERS, 197 inge nee dallyinge. Yeu must excuse me, if I write net that which j^ " will please yeu, since I write it as my duty to yeu, thinkinge it fitt for you to knowe. Yeur goodness hath ever the best interpretations, my innocency shall cleare any thinge when I may really showe my self whose harty servant I am. Your Grace's in all obligaclns, Richard Knightley. Addressed: To the iUustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham these be dd. No. CXLIV Elizabeth titular Queen of Bohemia to the Duke of Buckingham. [Holograph,] My Lord, Pringje must have this letter to you, who I assure j^^g ,3 you Is much your servant. He hath brought me verie good horses from my deare brother. I am confident these yeu will send will be se toe, fer you never sent me ether. I am glade to heere you beginn to recover your health againe, which I pray take care of I assure you that none wisheth your weldeing more then doth Your most affectionate frend Elizabeth. The Hagh, this ^ of June, Addressed : To the Duke of Buckingham. Indorsed : Q. of Bohemia, No. CXLV. The Duke of Buckingham to Louis XIII. [Draft, with autograph corrections and additions.'] Sire. L'henneur des lettres de Votre Majesty surraonte toute Aug. 16, possibUit^ de recognoissance, Mais sa bente qui a precede mes ' The letter itself is in Packer's hand, but the portions in brackets are additions in Buckingham's own writing. We must not, therefore, take too literally the expres- 198 fortescue papers, 162^ merites me contralnct de confesser que la grandeur de ses incom- parables vertus en bente et courtoisie, qui la rend recommandable entre tous autres Princes, a produlct en mey de tels effects que je ne S9ay bonnement a quoy me reseudre ou k la passer soubz silence, ce qui me feroit raourlr d'im patience ou k tascher de I'exprimer par paroles qui sont trop foibles pour tesraolgner la passion dont je suis porte a I'admiratlon de voz vertus qui surpassent toute flaterie, Estant en ce combat d'esprit et ne sachant de quel cost^ rae tourner pour rendre service a Vestre Majesty, je rae suis address^ a Mensr. le Marquis d'Effiat son Arabassadeur Extraordinaire, lequel m'a denn^ une si vraye et vive impression de voz perfections en capacity, jugement, et meurete au gouvernement et cenduicte des affaires que je ne me suis pas servi du chemin ordinaire des Arabassadeurs, quoy que mes priv^s et confidents amys, mais en la sincerity de mon ame prens I'asseurance de m'addresser a Vostre Majesty, pour luy remon- strer que le Roy mon maistre n'a rien plus a coeur que d'estreindre I'alllance des deux Couronnes et des personnes de Madame vostre sceur et son tres cher filz, tant pour le contenteraent qu'en recevroyent leurs incomparables personnes, que pour le bien de la Chrestient^, peur lequel conduire a heureuse fin le Roy men maistre a resolu de consentir a tout ce qui luy sera possible, et se confiant que le reste des Articles sont accordis, a couch^ le dernier en termes contenus au papier cy-adjoinct. En quoy je prie tres humbleraent Vestre Majesty de croire que c'est I'extremitd [a que je le puis insiter, et en mon pevre opinion] tout ce que Ton scauroit desirer avec raison, car le Roy raen maistre ne peut abellier les leys, et par ce moyen ill joueront cepieussement des effects de la bentd et clemense de Sa Majeste, et je ne suis neuleraent en doubte que Vestre Majesty ne vise princepalement a I'oneur et heureus estat du Roy men maistre, sion in a letter written a few days later by Effiat, in which he reported that Buck ingham objected to write a French letter in his presence, as it waa impoaaible for him to do ao ; " ne a9achant paa escrire en Fran9ois, estant vray qu'il a grande peine a le parler, n'en sachant que bien peu de mots." Effiat to Ville aux Clercs, ^^i^ 1624. Harl, MSS, 4595, fol, 238 b. Sept, 4 ' FORTESCUE PAPERS, 199 preferrant la seuret^ et palsible governement de Sa Majesty aus i624, efrene et Imraoderes desires de ses subjects Catholicks Roraaines, qui ¦*¦"&• 16, out bien de subject sur ceste occation si len leur deprevoir a leur propre soulagement non seulement de san con tanter , et ains d'ampoyer tous leur creditt envers le Pape pour fadliter la dispensation, con- siderant I'extremit^ ausquell ills estoyt reduis despuis nageres, et la grand apparance quill serent en pire estat que jamais, si ce traitd se venoyt a romper, et que par ce moyen ce Prince sera contralnct de se marler a une de nostre religion : mais je suis si certaine des bonnes intentions de vestre Majeste et de la sincere affection que vous portes tant au Rey men maistre qu' a sen fis unique, que je ne puis douter que vostre Majeste ne coupera la breche a toutes impediments peur doner un bone et heureuse fin a ce trete pour le bien non seulement de vestre Majesty et le Rey mon maistre ains ausie pour la bien et la pais de tout la Cretlente, ainsi [supplicant] Vestre Majeste de me faire I'oneur de [me fare] S9av6ir sa resolution [par les Irabassadeurs de mon maistre] aupres de vous, le plus premptement que faire se pourra, afin de ne perdre plus de temps en un affaire de telle consequence et expedition, et de recevoir les asseurances que luy donnera Mon seigneur le Marquis d'Effiat de raa rondeur et Intpgrit^ que j'estlrae le plus beau moyen de luy rendre preuve de mon zele a son service. Indorsed : 16 Aug. 1624, My Eo : to the French King, No. CXLVL Capt, John Chudleigh to the Duke of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] May yt please your Grace to understand that, accordinge to Oct. 13. your commaund, I have heare at Vlushinge landed Comte Mansfield this 13*"^ of October, It beinge the seventh day after our departure from England, The reson of our soe tedious passage was calmes 20Q FORTESCUE PAPERS, 1624. and cross windes, but noe detraction either of time or meanes which was te be used by me, I purpose heare to attend his retorne,' or untill I heare to the contrary from him. Thus havinge nothinge elles to Informe your Grace of at this present, I rest Your humble and devoted Servant, Jo, Chudleigh. From abord hia Majestes Shipp the Speedwell at 'Vlishinge 2 the 13<-^ of October, 1624. Addressed : To his Grace of Buckingham, Lord High Admirall of England, these with speed. Indorsed : Cap. Chudleigh to my Lo. No. CXLVIL Sir Thos. Chamberlain to the Duke op Buckingham, [Original Letter with the signature torn off.] May it please your Grace, At ray being at Hanwell, when I waited ther upon your Lordship, you were pleased te present rae to the Kinges Majestie, who then made knowen unto me his RoyaU pleasure that I should be his Justice of Chester,^ unto which I did most humblie subraitt my selfe, and shalbe ever readie to doe what service his Majestie shall coraraaund me, I am now become an humble suter to your Grace neither fer place nor profitt, but, as I was made a Judge by your gracious favoure, see I desire to live and dye a Judge, assuring myselfe that his Majestie will rather grace then disgrace me in sending me downe about his Majesties service, I did understand this night after supper that ther is a writt ' On the return voyage, he was 'wrecked on November I, 2 Flushing. ' He had been a Justice of the King's Bench, and now returned to the office of Chief Justice of Cheater which he had formerly held, making an exchange with ¦Whitelocke. The reason for this was said (Chamberlain to Carleton, October 23, S, P, Dom. clxxiii. 82) to be a disagreement between Whitelocke and the Lord Pre sident of Wales, the Earl of Northampton. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 201 made and to be sealled fer my dischardge from being a Judge i624. (unles his Majestie shall speedilie signifie his royall pleasure to the '^<"- ^'^• contrarie) ; whereas I conceave, and the Judges are ef opinion, that I may remayne a Judge, having a writt onlie of my dischardge fer my attendaunce and execucion of the place in the Kinges Bench ; but, if his Majesties pleasure be otherwise, I most humblie submitt myselfe thereunto. In Kinge Edward the Fourthes time Needara was Judge of the Comraon Pleas and Justice of Chester all at one tyme, and in Kinge Henrie the Seaventhes tyrae Englefield was Judge ofthe Coraraon Pleas and Justice of Chester at one tyrae, and see was Sylllard in Kinge Henrie the eighth's tyme, and in Queene Elizabethes tyme Corbett was Judge of the Kinges Bench and Justice of North Wales at one tyrae, and Crooke Justice ef South Wales and Judge of the Kinges Bench in his Majesties tyrae, which is all one as Chester, I seeke after noe such matter, but onlie to honnor the Kinges service with the name of a Judge in ray antl- qultie and habitt, wherewith the Judges are all well pleased, and nee cause of offence te any ; for otherwise men will conceave that I was rather In disgrace then in grace with Majestie, And on this dale senlght, when I wayted upon your Grace in London, I did receave a most gracious aunswere from you therein. And soe, most humbly craving pardon fer ray presumption herein, resting onlie under the shadowe ef your gracious winges, I shall ever be Your most bounden Servant te comaund London, 17 October, 1624. Addressed : To the highe and mightie Prince George Duke of Buckingham, Lord Highe Admirall of England, Indorsed : Sir Th. Chamberlayn to my Lo. CAMD, SOC. 2 D 202 FORTESCUE PAPEBS. No. CXLVIIL The Earl of Oxford to the Duke of Buckingham, [Holograph.] 1624. My Lord. I latelye wryte unto you by Sir Jhon Wentworth, Oct. 18. •vyherin I intymated unto yeur Grace my request that if anny [werej^ to command as Colonell Generall over our Nation under Mansfilde, yeu wolde be pleased to honor me with yeur favour in the obtaining of that charge. When theis businesses weare first in agitation, I moved your Grace in generall termes concerning this point, and received a noble answer from you, which was seconded by per formance as farr as the ocation presented, and as then I depended wholye uppon your Grace ; for in this and all things els will I never devide ray acknowledgraents by using anny other raeans, but refer my selfe unto your disposing, unto whome I confess my thankes and servlses due. Since Sir Jhon Wentworth's departure their has been no alteration hier,'' nor annything attempted on either side ; we have this daye finyshed our entrenchment at Walwike, from whence theis lines bring you my affectionate well wishes, as uppon all ocations I will, whatsoever I am raaster of, so aprove my selfe Your Grace's most faithfull and humble servant, H, OXENFORD, From Prince Henryea quarter at Walwick, *«°'^1^'« of October, 1624. new 28 ' Addressed : To His Grace the Duke of Buck ingham, Lo: Hygh Admiral of England. Indorsed : E. of Oxef ord to my Lo. ' Paper torn away. At the siege of Breda. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 203 No. CXLIX. Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr, John Packer, [Holograph.] Mr. Packer. As soone as ever I hadd remov'd Sir Thom. 1624. Chamberlayne '^ from his place in the King's Benche (with his full assent and Ukinge) a certayne qualme came over his stomacke to be of a Judge noe Judge, that you raust tell ray Lord Duke that if he wold have him live to goe downe Into Wales, his Grace must move his Majestye to signe him this writt, whereby he may be a neminall Judge of the Coramon Pleas, with his place in Wales, he dis'clay- mlnge from all fees and profitts of the place in the Commen Pleas, which I have assured the rest of the Judges there. This his Majestie may well dee, and]|this is the onelye way to preserve him a Judge, which he most ambitiously affectes, the poore man beinge tormented with the stone, and allreadye up to the gyrdle in his grave, ^ but much offended at me (who ever did and doe heartilye love him) that this preservation of his honor was net thought of before, which with the helpe of all the Judges in Westminster Hall wee hadd much adoe te fynde eut nowe. The effect (if the Kinge shold aske you) is this ; to raake him a supernumerarye Judge of the Common Pleas,^ without fee or charge, that soe, havinge once beene a Judge, he might die a Judge, which otherwise by his place in Wales he shall not doe, but playne Sergeaunt Chamberlayne. This is the first letter (and that Inclosed) I have written these ' See No. clxvii. = He lived tiU September 17, 1625. ' In the reign of Charles I, he actuaUy sat upon the Bench of the Common Pleas. Thia letter gives an explanation of the fact which Mr, Foss (Lives of the Judges, vi. 276) had some difficulty in accounting for. 204 FORTESCUE PAPEES. 1624. ten dayes, wherein I have been tormented with the newe slckenes,^ ^°'' ¦'^' but nowe (I thanke God for It) I have not been forced to goe to Steele these 17 er 18 howres and I hope it Is at a stopp, althoughe I am still ready te sound at the very thought ef any meate, I rest ever your assured lovinge freynd Jo, Lincoln. C.S, Westminster CoUege, 19 October, 1624. Addressed : To my very lovinge freynd Mr. John Packer Esq. at Court deliver these in haste. Indorsed: Lo: Keeper to me Sir Th. Chamberlayn. No, CL. Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Me. John Packee. [Holograph.] Nov. 20. Mr. Packer. I doe send Dr. Wilson unto you, fer your further aunce in his suyte, without all comraendaclous. For you knowe the man, his learninge, pietye, and discretion every waye. I will onelye say unto you, that he is well beneficed, and a good house keeper nere unto Rippon in Yorkeshire, that he is prebendarye and sub-deane ef that poore church. Nowe my earnest suyte unto you and humble petition unto my Lord is this, that this Deanerye of a hundred markes a yeare beinge novve voide, you wold be pleas'd te doe yeur best endevoure, to take away this Termi7ium diminuente-m of sub and make him playne Deane of Rippon. Soe worthy a man (I knewe) will not appeare in the competiclon for soe unworthy and meane a remote northerne Deanerye. I beseech you doe the Dr. what favoure herein you maye, and remember ray most humble ' According to Chamberlain, Oct. 23 (S. P. Dom. clxxiii. 82), three or four hundred persons were dying of the disease every week. FOETESCUE PAPEES. 205 dutye and service to my Lord Duke. Soe I recommend you in my i624. prayers to Ged's protection, and dee rest ^°^- 2". Your very assured loving freynd, Jo. Lincoln. C.S. Westminster College, 20 November, 1624, Addressed : To my very worthy freynd Mr. John Packer esq. at Com-te, these. Indorsed: Lo: Keeper tome. Deane of Rippon. No. CLL Sie Thomas Roe to the Duke of Buckingham. [Autograph signature.] My Lorde. I have long esteemed your Grace ray protector and therefore presurae new to find you my deliverer ; I shall have finished my ovenant with the Levant Company in December 1625,' having then served for thera faithfully four yeares, and spent indus triously eleven of my best tyme araong Infidells, not rauch to ray proffitt, yet I repent not the tryall ef Ged's great faveur In so many and so crooked wayes. I professe Ingenuously to your Grace I have not advanced £1,000 In this imployment, and yett the Company have extended such liberalityes to mee, as for honesty I cannot complayne, nor for shame, knowing the poverty and weakeness of their trade exact more upon them. This Is not a Residence wherein to make a fortune, fer it raust then rise by unjust wayes upon the Merchant or by enterteynment. They are able to give no raore, and there depends no hope of preferraent after It, because it is disesteeraed in England. I have fallen upon many extraordinary charges in his Majestie's particular service, ef which I dare not presume te aske recompence ; it is eneugh if it bee accepted. Butt having fuUfiUed ' The Ambaaaador at Constantinople was paid by this Company, Dec. 9. 206 FOETESCUE PAPERS. 1624. "'y tyme, my humble suite to his Majestie and your Grace is, that I Dee. 9. may with good favour, retorne as soone as it shall conveniently stand with the commodity of the Company, of whose good I have great cause to bee respectfuU, I have sett in order all their affaires and revived their trade. In such sort that I hope it shalbee both beneficiall to the Kingdome and to them, and in advance of his Majestes customes, I have settled the Peace with Barbary, if it bee not shaken againe by want of small liberalityes to maynteyne it. It shalbee to mee a comfort to have such a successor as may bewtify and build upon these my poore foundations, Heerein only I can doe them the last service, which is no yll ene to His Majestie, to enforme Your Grace (upon whom they depend) rightly their estate and what manner of education is convenient for them. The Com pany are allready in debt, and the remove of an Arabassador is to them a charge they cannot recover in 4 yeares, all their Consulage abroad beeing not sufficient to defray the ordinary. It is not every man (though of great parts) that can fitt this place. It requires one well acquainted and tender of the affaires of merchants, one that hath experience and practicque with all nations : Fer though this imployment Is slighted in England, yett (if it were not a kind of vaynglery in mee te presse it) I can showe good reason that to discharge this duty well doth require as much sufficiency and honesty as any other whatsoever, and there is as much dishonor and danger in any miscarriage. Here are many Arabassadors Resident, many Extraordinary, and these with their Princes of greatest estimation, having bene formerly tryed in England, Spayne, France and the Court of the Emperour, before they are trusted here. I am most assured that your Grace hath nothing equall in your care to a gene rall good, Newe trade is a litle revived, if yeu please to conferre that grace upon the Company, er if I have any meritt upon mee to recommend a man qualified for the place, one that may comport with the merchants and these peeple, I shall esteeme myselfe too much honored by so great a mark of your Grace's favour. Herein you shall give life to a dead plant ; for the Company having the FOETESCUE PAPERS. 207 power to present one, they can make their owne condition with him _ and save £1,000 in the remove. This is the cause of ray presump- Deo. 9. tion and I am confident in myne owne integrity, that your Grace will rightly enterprett ray faithfull meaning to his Majestie's service and your owne honor. If his Majestie or yeur Grace have any other purpose or designment upon any, I am silent and aske pardon for my ignorance, only in all humiUty desyring then myne owne liberty that I may retorne to live under your Grace's shadowe, so poore a raan that meat, drink, and myne owne cuntry cloth is all I can have and all my arabltion. I beseech your Grace accept mee still for your servant. I have ne such unworthy hearte to dissemble for any end. I honour and love your virtues, and, if you would vouchsafe to make tryall of raee, I will prove my devotion to yeur Grace to bee more zealous then I knewe howe to promise. If in the meane tyme you wilbee pleased to continue your mediation to his Majestie that I may have at least the comfort ef his good opinion, I will repay your Lordship the beggar's reward, to pray for you, as I think all good Englishmen dee and is all I can doe, Your Grace's most humble Servant, Tho. Roe. Constantinople, ^ December, 1624. No. CLII. Christian Duke op Brunswick to the Duke of Buckingham. {Autograph signature.] Monsieur. Je scay qu'aveque I'affection que vous av^s au bien peb, ^. public, vostre bont^ conduit tellement vostre disposition .k la cour toisie, que me sentant deja plus oblige k vos faveurs qu'homme du monde, j'attendray avec supplication celle dont je requiers tres instamment Vostre Excellence. C'est qu'il vous plaise avoir agreable 208 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1625. de commander de vostre plein et propre pouvoir que six navires de ^^- ^- sa Majesty, k tout le moins ceux qui sont a la Rade de Sandwidge se rendent Icy au retour de ce Gentilhomme, I'attente desquels nous arreste encore icy, sur tout apres la perte de trois navires du Roy tres chrestien, en la tourmente de ces jours passes, et le debris des navires Holandois destines pour escorte. Je supplie bien humble ment Votre Excellence, puis que mon honneur en despend, que I'execution de sa volenti ne soit retard^ en un fait de teUe exigence, la Cavalerie Franjoise la plus belle qu'il se puisse voir commengant a s'erabarquer. Ainsy je m'advanceray, quant et eUe, sans recevoir de destourbler en cherain par ceux de Dunkerk, qui avec quinze navires de guerre, et autant de Frey-buiters, nous attendent en intention de nous attacquer, a faute d 'escorte suffisant. Ceste obli gation augraentera granderaent celles que je vous ay deja. Dont je .seray tant que je respireray de Votre Excellence, Monsieur, Le tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur. Christian.' De Calais, le Jg de Febvrier 1625. Indorsed : Duke of Brunswick to my Lord. No. CLIIL The Maequis of Effiat to the Duke of Buckingham. [Autograph signature.] Monsieur. Le Courier que Mens'' de Brunzvik envoye a Vostre Excellence m'a dit que la tempeste avoyt est^ sy furieuze qu'elle avoyt non seuUement retards nostre Cavallerle, mais fracasse tous noz vaisseaux de guerre quy la deibvent escorter, et Ton m'egcrlt par une qu'il m'a apport^e que j' envoye k Vostre ExceUence affin qu'elle voye comme ilz craignent ceux de Dunkerke, quy se prepal-ent a • He was to conduct French cavalry to join Mansfeld's force, which was at that time destined to march through the Low Countries to the Palatinate, FOETESCUE PAPERS. 209 empescher leur passage. Cest pourquoy ilz ont recours a demander i625. assistance de six ou sept de vez gardes costes et navires de guerre a ^®^' ^'' ce passage et faire, s'il vous plaist, que le commanderaent seyt donne sur le champ, afin qu'il ny aye plus de temps perdu, car cette Caval- lerye a telleraent mang^ la Picardle depuis deux mois qu'elle y est qu'ilz ny trouvent plus rien, et ont peur qu'ilz se desbandent, Cest pourquoy je supplie Vostre ExceUence d'ordonner le plus prempte ment qu'il se pourra que I'escorte seyt denude, affin que suivant sen desir ilz puissent estre bientost jolnctz avec Mens, de Mansfelt que le passionne, en cette coiisideracion estant. Monsieur, Vostre tres hurable et tres obeissant serviteur, D' Effiat. A Londres ce xxvij. Feb'. 1625, Addressed : Monsieur le Due Bukingham Grand Admiral d'Angleterre. Indorsed : Fr- Amb' to my Lo: 27 Feb. 1624. No. CLIV. The Lord Keeper the Bishop of Lincoln to Mr. John Packer. [Holograph.] Sir. I returne yeu very heartye thankes for that accompte you peb. have allreadye made of seme parte of ray remembrances, and hepe you give rae to heare (in tirae) ef the rest. Judge Crooke' his election is received with the greatest applause that ever I knew any action in this kinde, and ray Lord (te whose grace I doe appropriat the worke) much blessed and comraended for the same. The Warrant fer Sergeaunt Richardson^ wanted forme, and that for Sir Them. Crewe ^ beinge. I send you therefor both, hopinge ' Sir Gteorge Croke, Justice C. P. February II, 1625. ' Serjeants Eichardson and Crewe succeeded Croke and Ranulph Crewe as King's Serjeants. CAMD. SOC. 2 E 210 FORTESCUE PAPERS. 1625. that my Lord's Grace will supplie these twp vacant places (of Justice Crewe^ and Justice Crooke) with these two persons, either whereof hath beene a Speaker ef the House of Commons. Sir Thom. Crewe hath been a very good servaunt to the Kinge In this last Session, and very ready (upon all occasions) to serve my Lord Duke. Thoughe he be relliglous and of an humble spiritt, yeat is he very sensible of the least neglect, and (as my Lord Elsraer was went to terme hira) a very waspe, if he be angred. I finde by my Lord Treasurer's extraordinary good intentions to me, that my Lord Duke hath settled my. pension^ better then his Grace premised unto me, and I heare from all men that his Grace pewres favowres and respectes upon me to the Kinge upon all occasions. I pray God to blesse him fer it, and to raake me as able as I am wiUinge and cordially disposed to serve his Grace upon all occasions. And soe I doe (for this time) recommend you to God's protection and rest Your very lovinge freynd, Jo. Lincoln. C.S. Addressed: To my very lovinge freynd Mr. John Pa<-ker Esq' at the Courte these. Indorsed : Lo : Keeper to me. No. CLV. The Marquis of Effiat to the Duke of Buckingham. Monsieur. Je n'ay jamais seng^ a demander une cheze sy pub licque comme en la vouUu faire entendre k Votre Excellence, me contentant de ce quy a este accords et non pas davantage, et avoir la lettre de Mens"" I'Archevesque D'York, ou celle qu'a demande Mons. le Garde des sceaux comme plus utile et moins scandaleuze, ' Ranulph Crewe, Ch. J. K. B. January 26, 1625, 5 Of 2,000 marks. Sir J, Coke to Buckingham, January 1625, S. P. Dom. clxxxu, 79. fortescue papers. 211 et que Mens'' Conovay m'avoyt promis quand il alia a Neumarquet 1625. de m'envoyer dans le Jeudy ensuivant de son partement. Et sy j'en ^^'^'^^ i- suis encores la, tant 11 s'est peu soucle des paroUes qu'il m'en a denn^ez. Mais ce discours est de trop longue halelne pour en Importuner V. E. par escrist ; c'est pourquoy je le remetteray quand j'auray l'henneur de la veeir, esperant que ce sera dans un jour ou deux pour le plus tard, croyant que dans ce temps Ik 11 arrivera quelque courier de Paris quy apportera quelques bonnes neuvelles, quy servlrent de passeport a cette importunite, ne dezirant pas incom- moder es responses de V. E. auparavant, ce quy ra'oblige d'en demeurer la: c'est pourquoy je quitte ce discours pour supplier V. E. de veuUeir enveyer un mot de lettre par lequel elle permet de prendre les navires^ dont son secretaire raa donn^ le raemoire, quy est sy zeie a nostre contenteraent par le commanderaent que V. E. luy en a faict, qu'il prend la peyne d'aller a exprez a Thiboldz pour luy faire entendre ce quy en est. Le S"^ Burlaraaki en a escrit un memeire que j'enveye a V. E. quy monstre la necessite q'uil y a d'en uzer ainsy, ce quy me force de supplier V. E. de vouUoir enveyer ceste lettre, affin de parachever cette affaire que le Roy nien Maistre presse sy fert, passiennant de recevoir les fruyctz de la bont^ du Rey de la Grande Bretaigne, a quoy V. E. a tant contribu^ qu'elle a obllgd toutte notre nation k se dire comme moy de Vostre Ex ceUence, Monsieur, tres humble et tres fidei serviteur, D'EFFIAT, A Londres, ce xxij. jour de Mars 1625. Addressed : A Son Excellence Monsieur le Due de Bukingham, Grand Admiral d'Angleterre. Indorsed : French Amb' to my Lo: 23 March, 1624. 1 The ships which were ultimately taken against La Rochelle, March 22. 212 FORTESCUE PAPERS. No. CLVI. Sir Thomas Dutton to the Duke of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] 1625. May it pleas yeur Excellency. If my fortunes proves never so crose in my profession, yet the many bountys ef your Grace's favores, must comand ray life, when you pies. I ara sorry your Grace's great desiers to have this army prosper^ has had so bad success, which is wholy to bee imputed to the cruelty of the wether, and so remote a place as Giteringberke "^ assigned for our randevowes at this tyme ef the yeare : and now wee are marched to our quarters at the Sprange^ wee finde thera all plundered and spoyld of all forrage and necessary previsions by the Princes of Orringes leauger, which has lyen In these partes all this yeare, and to speake truth our longe lyinge on shipboard, and the want ef tranesport and provlsslons for eur sicke raen, which could noe wayes be gotten, has bine the meane cause of eur great mortallity in generall. New, as wee are, it is impossible for the English Army to march into the feild with honore till the be supplyed with 5000 good men, well armed and clothed, and besides a present supply of sherts stockings and shewes to refresh those nasty ill men wee have left, which have bine all poysoned fer want of thes nesessarys : and in ray judgeraent, the whole number now exceedes nott the nuraber of 6000 men ef all sortes. I knowe not what reporte may come to yeur Grace's handes, of our noble Generall's usage of us, but in my pere oppinion, hetherto, considering all exstremetys, it could net be well mended : and I thinke without the Kinge resolve te suffer him to de some thinge here to ruenat the Kinge of Spaine's Army before Breda, our Generall wilbe able to doe nothinge In prose- ' Mansfeld's army. ' Gertruidenberg. 3 Sprang, in North Brabant, where the Dutch under Prince Frederick Henry were watching Spinola's operations against Breda. FORTESCUE PAPERS. 213 cutinge the Germayne Warres ; the enemy beinge so powerfully 1625. possesed of all stronge places one the Rhyne : besides wee to leave to Spanish armey at our backes, and Tilli's armey and all the IU affected Germaynes to stope his passage, and starve him up without bloes, is to hazerdus in my opinion to adventure : but if wee for tune to give the enemy a bloue in these parts, in Godes narae wee may hereafter raarch where wee liste. I most humbly crave your Excellency to pardon the errore of these my dutys, because I pre ferre your honore above my life : And so rest in all dutyes Your Grace's humble servant, Yee" [ ?] Thom. Dutton. Good my Lord, as I ever found your Grace kinde to me, se see my wife receave my meanes and what is dew te me in lerland, to keepe her and my children and to pay my debtes in my absence, and God will reward you fer it. Frome the Sprange, 22"" ' of March 1625. Addressed : To his Excellency the Duke of Buckingham in all dutye, these at the Court, England. Inclosed : S' Tho. Dutton to my L: No. CLVIL The Earl of Carlisle to the Duke of Buckingham, [Autograph.] My most noble deare Lord. I grieve to heare that your Lord- April ? ship dethe grieve so muche, and I feare, not onely out of my per sonall respects to your Lordship as your most faythfull humble servant, but for ray love te the publiquee, that your iraraoderat ' Originally written 18, 22 being written over the figures in paler ink. 214 FORTESCUE PAPEES, 1625. passion may be prejudiciall to eur great Master's service. Your ¦*?¦¦''• comminge hither is infinitly longed for by me for my owne par ticular contentment and desire te wayt upon your Lordship quickly, and more for the infinit use there would be of your Lordship's presence here, that by yeur vysdeme authorety and dexterety the affayres might be managed with more advantage for his Majestie's honor and service, I consider allso that in the present conjuncture yeur Lordship's presence raay be of excellent use at horae, se as I could wishe since your presence is so necessary in bothe places that yew would borrow so rauche of ubiquity as that your persone could be in the severall places where your sufficlensy is so necessary, but since that cannot be I will leave the choise to his Majestie's pleasure and te your ewne Infinit wysderae. If yow resolve to cura hither I shall have my lenginge and yeur Lordship shall have my faythfull service. If yow shall take an other resolution I will not fayll to mak an offer unto yew of all that my Industry and Knoledge can collect submittlnge all my proceedings and endevors to be censured and directed by your Lordship's wysdome. In which resolutione yow shall ever fynd Yeur Grace's most faythfull frend and most humble servant, Caelile. Addressed : For your Grace. Indorsed : E. of Carlisle to my L. No, CLXIII. Elizabeth titulae Queen of Bohemia to the Duke of Buckingham. [Holograph,] April y. My Lord, I have sent this bearer Nethersole to the King my deare brother to condole with him our common loss, and to wish him a happie raigne, which I hope shall be more glorious then anie FOETESCUE PAPEES. 215 of his ancestors. I can say no other to you then that you have lest i625. a good maister, and I a deare and loving father: what greef I feel fer ^P"' "il- it yeu raay easilie judge by yeur self My affliction would be much more but that I ame confident of the King my brother's leve, in whose faveur I Intreat you stiU to help to continue rae. You shall understand - by Nethersole how all goeth heere, and other particulars which I will faithfullie tell you. He is so honest as I ame sure you will trust him, which I intreat you to doe, and allso beleeve me ever Your raost affectionat frend Elizabeth. The Hagh, this ^ of April. By George Goring I made request for this bearer that he raight succeed Sir Dudlie Carleton heere, I intreat you still about the same, and in the raeane time that his allowance and place of Agent may be continued hira, which he had by yeur faveur you did to him for my sake ; and he is your true servant for it. Addressed : To the Duke of Buckingham, No. CLXIV. Count Mansfelt to the Doke of Buckingham. [Autograph Signature.] Monsieur, Votre Excellence scait si bien quelle puissance elle jj^y^ s'est merltolrement acquise sur mey qu'elle ne peut douter que la moindre de ses intentions ne me serve de ley, et que si parfois elle n'est accemplie, la faute en deibt estre plustest Iraput^e a men impuissance ou a rindlsposltion du sujet sur lequel elle desire de m'eraployer qu a raanquement de volonte, comme a la verite il arrive au faict des efficiers du Regiment de Monsieur le Comte de 216 FOETESCUE PAPEES, 1625, Lincolne,^ car estant reduict a deux cens et quelques compagnies a" ^*^' cinq ou six hommes, il m'estoit impossible de tenir tous les officiers en pied sans le deservice de sa Majesty. J'ay toutesfois pour le respect du diet Sieur Comte, et pour me conformer au desir de Votre Excellence, retenu les compagnies du Lieutenant Celonnel, Sergent Major, et la plus forte qui restoit en estat sans faveur ou acception de personnes, quoy que soubz d'autres Celonnels, veu qu'il m'estoit force de reformer le leur, ce que je m'asseure Votre Excel lence ne trouvera raauvals pour les raisons portyes cydessus, et si je n'ay peu en ceste occasion satisfaire de tout point a sa Volenti qu' elle ne lairra pour cela de se servir de moy en toutes autres humainement possibles, professant qu'il ne scauroit arriver plus d'honeur[?] et de contenteraent que m'eraployer a I'execution de ses commandements, dont je la supplie m'honorer de temps en temps. D'une chose la supplie-je tres humbleraent, qu'elle ne se lasse point en sy beau cheraluj^ et que, nous precurant en teraps les raoiens de poursuivre un si grand et iraportant affaire, elle se conserve la gloire et I'honneur de I'aveir entrepris et la volente tres ardente que je luy ay vou& de me monstre a jamais. Monsieur, De Votre Excellence Tres humble et tres obeyssant serviteur, C, E,2 Mansfelt, Au Camp de Donghen le — Addressed : A son Excellence Monsieur le Due de Bukingham, &c. ' " Mansfeld," wrote Carleton to Conway on the 14th of May (S. P. Holland) " hath reformed the Earle of Lincoln's regiment," A letter from Mansfeld him self in the aame collection is dated from the camp of Dunghen, May 16. ' i. e. Comte Emest, if I read the letters rightly. June 10. FOETESCUE PAPEES, 217 No. CLX. Elizabeth, Titulae Queen of Bohemia, to the Duke of Buckingham. [Holograph,] My Lord, You may easilie iraagine how welcome this bearer i625. was to me, having brought so kinde a message from the King my May_3l. deere brother. It Is an infinite contentment to see my self so rauch in his love as beth his letters and yours assures me I ame, besides this honest gentleman's relation, by wheme I understand hew much I arae still beholding to you fer your forwardness in advancing all things that are for the good of ray affaires, which hath made me intreat Sir Henry Vane te speake with yeu and acquaint yeu with some things that concernes me, and also about Sir Dudley Carleton, to whome I ame so beholding as I cannot but recommend his business to you. I have desired this bearer to acquaint you with all things, which I assure my self he will dee faithfullie. I will onelie end this letter with assuring you that you bound me by the manie obligations I have to you to be ever Your most affectionat frend Elizabeth. The Hagh, this 31 of May. My Lord. I raust intreat your favour for ray servant Ash- bournharae, who long and faithfullie served rae. I onelie desire you to favour him to my brother that he may see his good service to me shall in some fashion be recompensed, though I have not the means ; I have desired this bearer to solicite yeu for him. Addressed : To the Duke of Buckingham. CAMD, SOC, 2 F 218 FOETESCUE PAPEES. No, CLXL Charles I, to Prince Rupert, [Holograph,] Boconoke, 3 Sep, 1644, ^5^1 Nepueu, ¦Since my last, it hath pleased God to give rae an Sept. 3, unexpected victory, and you will fynde by the particulars (which I leave te others) that God's protection ef a just cause was never more aparant then at this tyme, fer had our success beene ether deferd, or of an other kynde, nothing but a direct miracle could have saved us, and certainly nothing could be so unlooked for as that Essex In Cornwall should imitate (and eutdee) Meldrum at Ne warke. Goring is new hemming in the Rebelles' horse which broke from us, they lying neere about Pllmouth, and I have sent Sir Richard Grinefeeld with 1500 foot to assist hira (who I hope is there by this tyme), following myselfe as fast as I may, intending' - 1 i scar and t a to bee the morrow at 27: 30: 57: 11: 14: 64: 81:al: 78: 15: u s t o k the n e X [t] 74 : 58 : 79 : 44 : 41 : nz: 48 : 1 : 71 : 80 : and se en tiU wee joyne. The Rebell Midleton is said to bee about Bastable ; now I to propose to you whether you will net thinke fitt nl.: c h with seede unto dors 12: 38: p5: 60: 1: 3: 7: 2: ol: 5: 45: 65: 59: toward sherbo 78: 46: 55: 16: 66: 6: 82: 60: 40: 4: 64:21:47: ' i.e. Intending to be the morrow at Liscard and Tavistock the next, and ao on till we join. The Rebel Middleton ia said to be about Barnstable ; now I propose to you whether you will not think fit to march with speede unto Dorsetshire towards Sherborne, the case being altered with us both since my last, I not knowing then ye were at Bristol ; yet by this I do not alter the main design, which [is] for you to join witb me. m a r 24: 16; 64: e t shire : 3: 8: 378: r n e : 64 :46 1:4:, FOETESCUE PAPEES. 219 the case being altered with us both since ray last, I net knowing i644. i doe n o t S'P'-^- then, ye were at Bristou, yet by this 33: c2: 50: 44: 80: 83: a 1 ter the ra a [i] [n] designe which for 14: 27: 78: 2: 66: nz: 26: 17: 30: 46: 148: p6: c5: Rp. to I eyne with rae 352: 21: 31: 45:32: 50: 1: p5: 14: but as then, so new, I refer it te you to do as you shall judge best fer ray service. Se I rest Your loving Oncle and raost faithfull frend Charles R. Indorsed : No. 20 Kg after Essexes defeate. INDEX. Abbot, G., Archbishop of Canterbm-y, his opinion of Diego, 35 ; writes about Wil- liama'a consecration, 165 Aberdeen, General Assembly at, 1 Abington, Mrs., petition of, 88 Albert, the Archduke, his death, 154 Alum-works, advice about, by Bacon and Suffolk, 34 Alured, his letter about the Spanish marriage, 131 Andrewes, Lancelot, examines the King's Meditation on the Lord's Prayer, 108 Annesley, Sir F., explains his conduct in signing a letter as Commissioner for the Irish plantations, 183 Arundel of Wardour, Lord, complains of a judgement of Bacon, 21 Bacon, Sir F. (afterwards Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Alban's), complaints against a judgment delivered by him, 21 ; Investi gation of the case, 22, note ' ; his advice on Sir R. Houghton's alum-works, 34 ; con sulted by Cranfield about the Houaehold, 41 ; complained of by Cranfield, 62 ; writea to stop Capt. Smith's voyage, 73 ; urgea the obaervation of instructions from the King, 117 ; applied to by Buckingham to favour a suit, 118 ; joins in correcting a proclama tion for tenant-rights in Ireland, 30 ; hia auit for making a Baron, 149 Bailey, Capt., brings charges against Raleigh, 40 Balcanqual, W., goes to Dort, 68 Benevolence for the Palatinate, 175 Bingley, Sir J., his imprisonment, 104 Bohemia, war in, 91 Bowie, Dr. John, asks for the Deanery of Westminster, 128 Brewer, printer of seditious books, 103, 106, 112 Brewster, William, of the Independent Con gregation at Leyden, 108, note ' Bridgeman, John, Bishop of Chester, thanks Parker for his liberality to the clergy, 180 Brunawick, Duke of, see Christian Buckingham, Marquis of, assures Sir H. May of his favour, 48 ; his answer to Lake, 60 ; informs Lady Carr of the King's intentions about the education of her daughter, 70 ; is requested by Suffolk to mediate for him, 74 ; informs Suffolk that he cannot see the King, 75 ; supports Coke againat Lord Houghton, 82 ; favours the Bohemian Am bassador, 119 ; writes to Suffolk about the payment of hia fee, 138 ; offer of an estate to, 146 ; recommends his brother to Eliza beth, 147 ; asks Bacon to favour a suit, 148 ; gives reasons against asking the King to aUow Bacon the making of a Baron, 149 ; directs Calvert to stop the Commons from going too far in Coke's case, 172. See Buck ingham, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of, writes to Louis XIII. on the concessions to be made about the marriage with his sister, 197 Calvert, Sir G., investigates the authorship of seditious pamphlets, 143 ; writes about the attack on Gondomar's house, 144 ; informs Buckingham of the state of current busi ness, 150 ; sends a letter about the Queen of Bohemia, 151 ; sends news continually, 154 ; is directed to write to Spinola, 150 ; recommends Dr. Wright for the Arch bishopric of York, 184 ; asks for a pension, . 186 Canterbury, Archbishop of, see Abbot Carey, Sir H., becomes Comptroller of the Houaehold, 38 ; pleada against Walling- ford's removal from the Masterahip of the Wards, 56. See Falkland, Lord Carleton, Sir D., details his services, 136 Carlisle, Bishop of, see Snowden Carlisle, Earl of, writes to Buckingham, 213 2 G 222 INDEX, Carr, Lady, complains of Naunton's conduct as executor to her husband's will, 63 ; Buckingham's reply to, 70 Carr, Sir Edward, his will, 63 Chamberlain, Sir T,, his desire to retain his justiceship of the K,B,, 200, 203 Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy, writes about Vercelli, 48 Charles, Prince of Wales, supporta Sir H. May's request for the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, 47 ; marriage suggested for him with a, daughter of the Duke of Lorraine, 83 Charles L informs Prince Rupert of his victory over Essex, 218 Chester, Bishop of, see Bridgeman Christian, Duke of Brunswick, asks for a con voy, 207 Chudleigh, Capt., announces the landing of Mansfeld at Flushing, 199 Coke, Sir E., thanks Buckingham for sup porting his petition against Lord Houghton, 82 ; Star Chamber proceeding against, 172 ; interferes with the case against Lord Houghton, 173 Cottington, Francis, extracts from his letters, 80 Cotton, Sir R., Star Chamber prosecution of, 12, note Coventry, Sir T., gives an account of Gon domar's complaint about recusants, 156 Cranfield, Sir L., writes on reforms in the Household, 41 ; asks for the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, 42 ; writes on navy business, 61 ; and about financial matters, 62 ; to be consulted about the Custom House, 90 ; gives advice on Trea sury business, 135 Cumberland, Earl of, sentforhy the Council, 13 Custom Honse, extravagance at the, 90 Dieg'i, has not accompanied Lord Eoos to Rome, 35 Digby, Sir John, begs that his journey to Spain may be hastened, 20 ; advises strict dealing with Waterford, 20 ; writea to Lake on the state of his negociations, 29 Doc\ATa, Sir H., complains of encroachmeuts upon his office, 18 Dohna, Baron Achatius, 116 Donato, Antonio, Venetian Ambassador, ] 14 Doncaster, Viscount, his embassy to Germany, 83; inquiry into his conduct, 114 Donne, Dr. J., asks for promotion, 157 Douglas, George (pseudonym), see Gordon, WiUiam Dudley, Sir R., describes his inventions in naval architecture, 6 ; offers to secure the King againat rubs iu Parliament, 11, note ' Dutton, Sir T., his suit, 129 ; givea an account of the state of Mansfeld's army, 212 East India Company, complaint against the Spaniards, 88 East Indies, Dutch commissioners sent to treat about the, 68 ; proposed audience about, 74 ; alleged neglect of the Dutch commissioners, 187 Effiat, Marquis of, asks for a convoy for Manafeld'a French cavalry, 208 ; writes for favours to the Recusants, 210 Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, question about her precedence, 13, 14 ; announces the birth of her second child, 37 ; thanks her father for a ring, 45 ; complains of Spinola's attack upon the Palatinate, 138; is refused permission to come to England, 151 ; con gratulates Buckingham on the improve ment of his health, 197 ; condoles with Charles I. on their father's death, 214 ; thanks Charles for his message, 217 Exeter, Lady, her Star Chamber suit against Lady Roos, 43, 44, 45, 55, 59, 81, Exporters of bullion, Star Chamber case against, 106,107, 116, 131 Falkland, Lord, asks favour for the Earl and Countess of Somerset, 176 Fenner, William, thanks Packer for his good deeds to the clergy, 182 Forbes, John, Moderator of the Assembly at Aberdeen, applies to Henry IV. for his mediation, 1 Foulis, Sir David, receives a letter from Sir R. Dudley about his inventions, 6 France, commercial treaty with. 111, 119 Frederick, King of Bohemia, thanks Packer for his conduct, 123, 129 Gabaleon, Signor, Savoyard Abassador, com plains of the Ul treatment of his Almoner, 109, 112; thanks the Kiug for contradicting a statement about persecution in Savoy, INDEX. 223 Gondomar, Count of, gives assurances about Vercelli, 49 ; receives a promise of good treatmentforMrs, Timperley, 50; is expected to return to England, 83; objects to Capt, North's voyage, 126; threatened attack upon his house, 144; complains of the treatment of the Recusants, 155 Gopsnargh, preaching at, 1 80 Gordon, William, a spy, 105, 108 Gorges, Sir A,, examination of, 73 GreviUe, Sir F,, conanlted about the Earl of Somerset, 40 ; advises economy jn the custom-house, 90 Harvey, Sir S,, suggested marriage between his daughter and Sir C, Villiers, 81, 86, 118; asks Buckingham's favour, 116 Hay, Lord, appointed to inquire into the wardrobe, 31 ; consulted about the Earl of Somerset, 40, See Doncaster, Viscount Heath, Sir E., asks favour as being involved iu Sir T. Watson's debts to the Crown, 171 Henry IV. King of France, asks James to pardon John Forbes, I ; replies to James about his book, 6, note ' Herbert, Sir E., his demand for money, 111 Hertford, Earl of, explains his absence from Court, 140 Heymarke, Francis, murder committed by, 89 Houghton, Lord, Coke's petition against, 82 Houghton, Sir R., alum works of, 34 Household, the King's, reforms in, 30, 41 Howard, Lord WiUiam, aent for by the Council, 13 James I. writea to Henry IV. about John Forbes, I ; sends him a copy of his Apo logia, 3 ; defends hia daughter's precedence over her husband, 13, 14; lays down the course to be pursued in Raleigh's trial, 57 ; his declaration against Raleigh, 67 ; his book onthe Lord's Prayer, 108; contradicts a statement about persecution in Savoy, 120 ; refuses to allow his daughter to come to England, 151 ; his declaration to Gon domar, 152; defends his son-in-law from the charge of instigating Mansfeld, 160 ; writes to Calvert on Eaat India business, 187 .Tones, Sir R., is insolent to the Lord-Deputy of Ireland, 133 Kelly, Earl of, writes to Buckingham about Lady Purbeck, 185 Kensington, Lord, intends to set out for Paris, 195 Knightley, Sir E,, writes to Buckingham on the feeling of the Commons, 196 La Foret, scheme for obtaining copies of his lettera, 71 Lake, Sir T., writes to Buckingham about the Spanish marriage, 28; acquaints him with the proceedings of the Council, 50 ; proposes a scheme for economising pen sions, 33 ; asks for the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, 44 ; asks for Buckingham's mediation with the King, 60; forwards news from Spain, 80 ; asks for a change in the proceedings in the Lady Exeter's case, 81 Leitrim, plantation of, 130 Ley, Sir James, oifera a benevolence for the Palatinate, 175 Lincoln, Bishop of, see Williams Lincoln, Earl of, his regiment reformed by Mansfeld, 214 Lorrain, the Duke of, suggested marriage of the Prince of Wales with his daughter, 83 Mansell, Sir R., his scheme for economising in the navy, 31 ; his expedition against Algiers, Mansfeld, Count, his proceedings in the Upper Palatinate, 160; lands at Flushing, 199 ; explaina his reasons for reforming the Earl of Lincoln's regiment, 215 Matthew, Toby, begs ViUiers to intercede for permission for him to return to England, 15 Maxwell, James, makes submission for an opinion about the Crown of Bohemia, 131 May, Sir H., his appointment to the Chan cellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, 45, note ^ ; 46 Merchant Adventurers, oflier to pay rent for their charter, 41 Morton, Sir Albertus, returns to England, 111 Naunton, Sir R., ans^^¦ers the complaints of Lady Carr, 63; his scheme for seizins' L;a 224 INDEX. Foret's letters, 71 ; writes to stop Capt. Smith's voyage, 73 ; congratulates Buck ingham ou his return from Spain, 192 Navy, scheme for economy in the, 31 ; admi nistration of, 61 Netherlands, United Statea of the, their Com missioners sent to England, see East Indies North, Capt. Eoger, his voyage to the Amazon, 126 Nottingham, Earl of, his statement about certain charges against Raleigh, 40 ; writes about his nephew's proceedings, 113 ; asks for a present of deer, 179 Ordnance, illegal transportation of, 112 Ormond, Earl of, hia petition, 115 Oxford, Earl of, asks Buckingham that he may be Colonel-General of the English under Mansfeld, 202 Packer, John, his liberality to the clergy, 121, 180, 182; is thanked hy the King of Bo hemia, 123, 129 Parliament of 1621, 151, 172 Parliament of 1624, 196 Patrick, Father, 74 Pembroke, Earl of, appointed to inquire into the state of the wardrobe, 31 Pensions, scheme for economising, 33 Prince of Wales, see Charles Purbeck, Lady, her alimony, 185 Raleigh, Sir W., charges brought against him by Bailey, 40 ; course to he pursued at hia trial, 57 ; his confession of an intention to attack the Mexico fleet, 58 ; the King'a declaration of his proceedings, 67; recep tion of the news of his execution in Spain, 36 Raleigh, Sir W.'s ghost, the author of, disco vered, 143 Roe, Sir T., instructions to, 161, aaking to name his successor at Constantinople, 204 Roos, Lady, her charge against Lady Exeter, 43, 44, 55, 57, 81 Roos, Lord, his journey to Rome, 35 Say and Sele, Lord, his release from imprison ment, 191, 192, 193, 194 St. Alban's, Viscount, see Bacon St, John, Sir O, begs not to be secretly con sulted in matters concerning life or estate, 66, complains of Sir R. Jones's insolence, 133 Sanchez de Ulloa, Julian, complains of the English in the East Indies, 92 Savile, Sir J,, complained of by Sir T. Went worth, 24 Savile, Sir T., answers Sir T. Wentworth's complaint against hia father, 27 Savoy, Duke of, see Charles Emmanuel Schomberg, Colonel, carries message from James I. to his son-in-law, 13 Scriveners, proclamation against, 161 ShefBeld, Lord, writes on his continuance in the Presidency of the North, 52 ; asks Buckingham to help him to marry Lady Craven, 53 Smith, Capt, John, his voyage to be stopped, 73 Snowden, Robert, Bishop of Carlisle, appeals to Buckingham against Sir W. Hutton, 124 Somerset, Earl of, accepts Sir E. Dudley's offers, 12, note; proposals made to the King on his behalf, 40; favour asked for, 176 Southampton, Earl of, is wiUing to follow Buckingham's advice, 166 Stanley, a priest, 74 Steel, patent for, 177 Steingen, A., Brandenbm'g ambassador, asks for some jewels, 141 Stukely, Sir L., publication of his petition, 67 ; examination of, 73 Suckling, Sir J., writes to Buckingham about the patent for steel, 177 Suffolk, Earl of, advice on Sir R. Houghton's alum-works, 34 ; asks Buckingham to sup port him iu his misfortune, 50 ; requests an audience of the King, 54 ; begs Bucking ham to mediate for him, 75 ; asks to explain his case personally to the King, 76 ; pro tests hia innocence, 79 ; required to pay part of hia fine, 138 Timperley, Mrs,, mitigation of her penalties for recusancy, 50 Tobacco-pipe makers, compensation claimed for the abolition of their patent, 157 Trumbull, W,, asks leave to return to Eng land, 36 INDEX, 225 Venice makes peace with the Archduke Fer dinand, 32 Vercelli, surrender of, 48 Verulam, Lord, see Bacon Villiers, Sir C, suggested marriage of, 84, 86, 118 ; his share in the profits of the patent for steelj 177 Villiers, Sir E., sent to Frederick and Eliza beth, 147 Villiers, Sir G,, writes to Lord Howard de Walden ou the state of the border, 12, see Buckingham, Marquis of Vox Populi, publication of, 143 Wallingford, Lord, leaves the Treasurership of the Household, 38 ; removal from the Mastership of the Wards, 56 Wardrobes, the King's, inquiry into the state of, 31 Warton, Anthony, thanks Packer for his liberality, 121 Wentworth, Sir T,, complains of Sir J. Savile, 23 WiUiams, John, Lord Keeper and Bishop of Lincoln, recommends Dr. Sharp to the see of Exeter, 160; writes about the proclama tion against scriveners, 161 ; thanks Packer for favouring Mr. Clarke, 163 ; gives an account of the Earl of Southampton's sub mission, 166 ; recommends candidates for preferment, 167; asks for respite of homage, 169, 170 ; writes on Lord Houghton'a eaae, 173; sends his opinion about the Provost ship of Eton, 178 ; writes to Packer on buaineaa, 187; sends Liord Say and Sele'a submiasion, 193, 194 ; aupports Sir. T. Chamberlain's suit, 203 ; recommenda Dr, Wilson for promotion, 204 ; writes on legal promotions, 209 Williams, Thomas, his connexion with a murder, 89 Winchester, Bishop of, see Andrewes, Lancelot Wotton, Lord, resigns the Treasurership of the Houaehold, 38, 43 Wotton, Sir H,, sends information from Venice, 38 ; promotion offered to him, 172 WESTMINSTEE : PRINTED BY J, B, NICHOLS & SONS, 2,1, PAKLIAMENT STREET. YALE UNIVERSITY