Mars Puer Alecto Virgo VULPES LEO Nullus THE Court and Character OF King James Whereunto is now added THE Court of King CHARLES CONTINUED Unto the beginning of these Unhappy TIMES With some Observations upon Him in stead of a Character Collected and perfected by Sir A. W. Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare Published by Authority Printed at London by R. I. and are to be sold by J. Collins in Little Brittaine 1651. To my most Honoured and truly Noble Lady the Lady Elizabeth Sidley of South fleet Madam I Here present you with an Epitomee of some secret Passages in the whole reign of one King part of anothers Of which my self have been either an Eare or Eye-witnesse or from the testimony of such as have been Authours or Actors therefore unquestionable Truths It is the Conception and Birth of four daies with the help of some scattered Papers as a Midwife to bring them into the world Being therefore but an Embryon you cannot expect any perfect shape But what it wants in that you shall finde in the most perfect form of undeniable Truths The honourable esteem I have ever had of you and your brave Parts is my first motive of presenting it to your view That it comes from no ordinary Author this being the first and for ought I know the last a second That it was written in a Melancholly humour therefore fittest for your Melancholly Temper the last I dare no more trust any other hand to write this than willingly any but your selfe or some such good friends to read it Which is the reason it appeares no fairer to your view And it treads too near the heeles of truth and these Times to appear in publick If you shal please to accept of it as worthy to cast a glance upon at your idle or melancholly hours I have my full desires If cast from you it hath just Deserts Mine ambition only is that so Noble a Lady shal be the God mother of the first and only heir that ever shall come of this quality from Your Ladiships most humble Servant A. W. Upon the Authors Discourse and Observations concerning the whole Reigne of King James and part of King Charles's REader here view a Picture of our Times Drawn to the life the foulest secret Crimes Discover'd with their Authors Tricks of State To create guilty soules the Peoples hate The Prince's feares Favourites Rise and Fall Greatnesse debauched Gentry slighted all To please those Favourites whose highest ends Were to exhaust the State to please their friends View the Isles first Monarch dead the Seconds breath Prerogatives sole life the Kingdomes death THE Court of King James OR A generall Discourse of some secret passages in State since the death of that ever glorious Queene Elizabeth untill this present By the Authors owne observation who was either an eye or eare witnesse or from such as were actors in them from their owne Relation VPon the Twenty fourth of March 1602. did set the most glorious Sun that ever shined in our Firmament of England the never to be forgotten Queen Elizabeth of happy memory about three in the morning at her Mannour of Richmond not only to the unspeakable griefe of her Servants in particular but of all her Subjects in generall And although many of her Courtiers adored that rising Sun appearing in the North yet since not without regret of their monstrous ingratitude to her that Sun now set and in peace For no sooner was that Sun set but Sir Robert Carew Her neare Kinsman and whose Family and himself she had raised from the degree of a meane Gentleman to high Honour in title and place most ingratefully did catch at Her last breath to carry it to the rising Sun then in Scotland notwithstanding a strict Charge laid to keep fast all the Gates yet his Father being Lord Chamberlaine he by that meanes found favour to get out to carry the first newes which although it obtained for him the Governourship of the Duke of York yet hath set so wide a mark of ingratitude on him that it will remaine to Posterity a greater blot then the honour hee obtained afterward will ever wipe out About nine in the morning of that day was proclaimed King Iames of blessed memory by the name of James the first and now nothing on all hands but preparations for accommodating him in his journey for England many posting into Scotland for preferment either by indearing themselves by some merit of their owne to the King or by purchasing friends with their purses Gold and Silver being a precious commodity in that Climate and would procure any thing and did procure Suits Honours and Offices to any that first came of all which the King afterward extended his bounty in so large and ample a manner as procured his owne impoverishment to the pressure of his Subjects so farre as set some distance between him and them which his wisdome and King-craft could easily at all times reconcile The first that came from the King to the Lords in England to give order for all things necessary for the expediting his journey toward England was Sir Roger Aston an English-man borne but had his breeding wholly in Scotland and had served the King many yeares as his Barber an honest and free-hearted man and of an ancient Family in Cheshire but of no breeding answerable to his birth yet he was the only man ever employed as a Messenger from the King to Queen Elizabeth as a Letter carrier only which expressed their owne intentions without any helpe from him besides the delivery but even in that capacity was in very good esteeme with her Majesty and received very royall rewards which did inrich him and gave him a better Revenue then most Gentlemen in Scotland for the Queene did finde him as faithfull to Her as to his Master in which he shewed much wisdome though of no breeding In this his employment I must not passe over one pretty passage I have heard himselfe relate That he did never come to deliver any Letters from his Master but ever he was placed in the Lobby the Hangings being turned him where he might see the Queen dancing to a little Fiddle which was to no other end then that he should tell his Master by her youthfull disposition how likely he was to come to the possession of the Crowne hee so much thirsted after for you must understand the wisest in that Kingdome did beleeve the King should never injoy this Crowne as long as there was an old Wife in England which they did beleeve we ever set up as the other was dead Sir Roger Aston presenting himselfe before the Councell being but a plaine untutored man being asked how he did and courted by all the Lords lighted upon this happy reply Even my Lords like a poore man wandring above forty yeares in a Wildernesse and barren Soyle am now arrived at the Land of Promise This man was afterward made
imprecations for their reliefe and assistance wherein they put some confidence was meerly betrayed by him insomuch that when the Rochel Agents found themselves abused through their whole yeares attendance they left this bitter jeere upon him that now they could rightly call England the Land of Promise He seldome loved any but to serve his turne and would himselfe serve a turne to doe any mischiefe as was to be seene by his saying Amen to every full point of Buckinghams Accusation in the face of the Parliament against Bristol for his miscarriage in Spaine when it appeared by Bristols defence in Publick before the face of that same Parliament that there was not scarce one syllable had any truth in it who also freely put himself upon the Test that if there were any truth in that combined Accusation against him he would yeeld himselfe guilty of it all He was of a very poore spirit which may be conceived amongst other things by his making Buckingham his Privado after he came to the Crown otherwise would he never have forgotten those unsufferable insolencies offered him being Prince what they were you have already heard His Predecessor Henry the fifth and so his brother Henry would have instructed him otherwise for although its true noble mindes should forget injuries so as not to revenge them yet so as not to countenance the doers of them especially to take them into so much nearnesse and dearnesse as he did him after those two proud affronts which argued in him as I said before a poore and ignoble spirit He had all his Kingdomes left in peace and tranquility by his Father which he soone after made a shift to distemper by a foolish Warre upon France and Spaine and by a more foolish conduct of either ignorant unexperienced or cowardly Commanders And in truth if you will give credit to Vox populi the Booke so called written by one Scot they were suitable to the grounds of such Quarrels being no fairer than the satisfying the beastly appetite of his Favourite who must be reveng'd forsooth upon those States In which I admire Gods Justice that he who unjustly made War upon unwarrantable grounds should have Warre thus brought home unto him so that now God hath given him the same measure he hath met to others even full pressed down and running over I wish I may have a time to give him a fairer Character when he is dead then are my observations in his life but I may rather wish then hope in that course he yet continues Certaine observations before Queene Elizabeths death I Cannot but admire Gods Providence in bringing Peace when nothing was thought of but War and now bringing a cruell Warre when nothing could be expected but peace Peace with all forraigne Estates peace at Home Not long before the death of Queene Elizabeth all the discourse was in a secret whispering on whom the Succession would fall some said the Lady Arabella some the King of Scotland and reason given pro and con on both sides they who were for her saying the Lady Arabella was a Native and a Maid and that this Kingdome never flourished more then under a Maidens Reigne Others for the Scot said that the King of Scots was more neare to the Crowne by descent farther off say others as being a Stranger and that Nation ever in Hostility against us Nor did the King himselfe beleeve he should have come in with a sheathed Sword which appeared by that Letter he produced of the Earle of Northumberlands that if he made any doubt hereof he would bring him forty thousand Catholicks should conduct him into England But the Queene dyed the King comes in peaceably even to the admiration of all Forraigne Princes and to the gnashing of their teeth but the reason was they had lived in obedience under a just Sovereigne who was wont ever to say when any great man had opprest a poore Gentleman that Petitioned her for redresse against such oppression when all the great Lords and Officers would hold together to support the Suppressor and trample upon the oppressed My Lords quoth she content you I am Queene of the Valleys as well as of the Hills and I must not suffer the Hills to ore-top nor yet to over-shade the Valleys A worthy saying which if it had been imitated by her Successors these our miseries had never happened but I say and this is it I now drive at her Justice made her Subjects to beleeve there could be no injustice in Monarchy and that was it did facilitate the Kings peaceable entrance In that tranquility did the Kingdome continue all his dayes and about fifteen yeares of his Sons Reign when behold there was nothing but jollity in the Court as if saying to themselves Who dares molest us the King having now a plentifull Issue for let me tell you the Kings Issue made Him and his Courtiers the more to trample on the country Gentry But behold when nothing but peace peace sudden destruction came on them and us unawares and God sends such a War as no man could dreame of Now the corollary of all is this the high injustice of Church and State was the cause of this Warre And O may not the continuing of that in any other Government prove the continuance of this war there being a farre greater appearance of the continuance thereof then ever there was of the beginning But Gods will be done The Contents QVeene Elizabeth died at Richmond house on March 24 1602. page 1 2â— The first that carryed newes thereof into Scotland was Sir Rob. Carew who was afterward made Governor of the Kings then second Son Charles Duke of York p. 2 3â— The first man imployed from Scotland to the English Nobility for preparations of the Kings comming into England was Sir Roger Aston p. 4â— He was afterwards made from the Kings Barbar 〈◊〉 gentleman of his Bed-Chamber p. 6â— The Kings Favourites 1 Sir George Hewme a kind of Favourite for having been of some secret councels with the King whilsâ— in Scotland the cheife of which was that of Gourieâ— Conspiracy p. 7 8â— 2 Sir Robert Cicill a Favourite p. 9â— His il offices he did this Nation p. 1â— His Herodian disease and end p. 1â— 3 4. Hen Howard Tho. Howard Favorites p. 1â— The principall managers of the State affaires in Englanâ— then were Salisbury Suffolke c. p. 1â— 5 Mr. James Hay an high Favourite c. See his riâ— c. p. 17 18 1â— Passages concerning Sir Walter Rawleigh p. 27 â— A notable discovery made by Sir Rob. Mansel of a Spaniards stealing plate which cleared the false imputation laid by them on the English p. 40. c. The King easily perswaâ—ed to retire himselfe by those Managers of the State of which Salisbury was the cheif p. 46 47 48 Secretary Lake p. 49 c. Salisbury Suffolk Northampton great getters more then the whole bunch of the Scots Dunbar excepted p. 54 Kelly Annandale
honest Servants traduced to satisfie the humours of any I beseech you take my staffe for were my selfe and the Earl of Worcester here present put in the ballance against Sir Robert Mansell we should prove too light I am in a great Place and cannot say but by my selfe or servants I may faile yet not with our own wils therefore Sir if you wil suffer such inquisitions there will be no serving your Majesty in such places as I hold by your Majesties favour thus ended the Earle of Northamptons malice which only served to honour Sir Robert Mansell and make a scorne of himselfe and this only to make the venome of this Monster appear who did flatter the King and dissemble with God And now begin Embassadours to appeare from divers Princes the principall were Roney Duke of Sullice from the French King the Constable of Castile from the Spanish King the Count Arremberg from the Arch Duke the former came to congratulate only and desired the confirmation of the ancient amity betwixt the two Crownes the latter two about the establishing a firme peace betwixt these two Kingdomes that had lived in perpetuall Warre and hatred of each other by which it might appeare where the advantage of such a peace would fall by those that sought or rather bought it with an infinite masse of treasure prodigally cast about the English Court To bring these Embassadours over were appointed Sir Robert Mansell being Admirall of the narrow Seas and Sir Jerome Turner his Vice-Admirall the first commanded to attend at Graveling for the Spanish Embassadour the latter at Calis for the French but the French comming first and hearing the Vice-Admirall was to attend him the Admirall the other in a scorne put himselfe in a Passage-boat of Calis came forth with flagge in top instantly Sir Jerome Turner sent to know of the Admirall what he should doe Sir Robert Mansell sent him word to shoot and sinke him if he would not take in the flag this as it made the flag bee pulled in so a great complaint and 't was beleeved it would have undone Sir Robert Mansell the French Faction pressing it so home but he maintained the act and was the better beloved of his Master ever after to his dying day This makes it appeare how jealous old Commanders were of their owne honour and of their Masters and Kingdomes honours which since hath been so prodigally wasted as we are utterly bankerupt having spent our old Stock and have not bravery enough to erect a new The Constable of Castile so plyed his Masters businesse in which he spared for no cost that he procured a peace so advantageous for Spaine and so disadvantageous for England that it and all Christendome have since both seen and felt the lamentable effects thereof There was not one Courtier of note that tasted not of Spaines bounty either in Gold or Jewels and among them not any in so large a proportion as the Countesse of Suffolke who shared in her Lords interest being then a potent man and in that interest which she had in being Mistris to that little great Secretary little in body and stature but great in wit and policy the sole manager of State affaires so it may be said she was a double sharer and in truth Audley-end that famous and great structure had its foundation of Spanish Gold The King was a peaceable and merciful Prince yet God for some secret intent best known to himself laid the foundation of his reigne with the greatest mortality ever before heard of in this Kingdome by a fearefull Plague and some by that judged what his future reign would be yet their wisdomes failed for he was a King of mercy as well as peace never cruell yet surely it had some morall He was forced by that contagion to leave the Metropolis and goe into a by corner in Wiltshire Wilton the Earle of Pembrookes House in which time of his abode there a kinde of Treason brake forth but what it was as no man could then tell so it is left with so dark a Comment that posterity will never understand the Text or remember any such treason it is true some lost their lives yet the world was never satisfied of the justice and one of them and that the only marke of Tyranny upon this good Kings reigne executed many yeares after without all president and on my conscience without any just cause and even against that good Kings will who in many things was over-awed by his timorous disposition But the Spanish Faction and Spanish Gold betrayed his life as they had done the Kingdome before and I beleeve it was one of the greatest Master-peeces of that Embassadour to purchase Rawleighs head yet had not Bristol co-operated the King would never have consented and it may be he had his secret ends fearing his wisdome might once againe have raised him to have looked over Sherborne Castle once his owne and how unjustly taken from him God will one day judge I know not whether there be a curse on those that are owners of it as Fables report but I am confident there is a curse on Bristol for taking away his life I will not take upon me too farre to pry into Gods Arke yet what is like to befall him and hath already his Son as hopefull a Gentleman as any in the Kingdome may give some token of Gods anger against him and his family But because I will not leave you altogether blinde-folded I shall as neare as I can lead you to the discovery of this Treason which consisted of Protestants Puritans Papists and of an Atheist a strange medley you will say to meet in one and the same Treason and keepe counsell which surely they did because they knew not of any the Protestants were the Lord Cobham and George Brook his Brother the one very learned and wise the other a most silly Lord the Puritan the Lord Grey of VVilton a very hopefull Gentleman blasted in the very Bud the Papists VVatson and Clarke Priests and Parham a Gentleman the Atheist Sir Walter Rawleigh then generally so beleeved though after brought by affliction the best School-Mistris to be and so dyed a most religious Gentleman This Treason was compounded of strange ingredients and more strange then true it was very true most of these were discontented to see Salisbury their old friend so high to trample on them that before had been his chiefe supporters and being ever of his faction now neglected and contemned it was then beleeved an errand trick of State to over-throw some and disable others knowing their strong abilities might otherwise live to over-throw Salisbury for they were intimate in all his secret Councels for the ruine of Essex especially Rawleigh Grey and Cobham though the latter was a foole yet had been very usefull to them as the Toole in the hand of the Workman and to have singled out these without some Priests which were Traytors by the Law had smelt
too ranke and appeared too poore and plaine a tricke of State and Salisbury in this had a double benefit First in ridding himselfe of such as he feared would have been thornes in his sides Secondly by endearing himselfe to the King by shewing his diligence and vigilancy for his safety so that it might be said of him as of Caesar in another case Inveniam aut saciam I will either finde out a Treason or make one and this had been a pretty trick had it been only to disgrace without taking away life but how this peece of policy may stand with Religion I feare by this time he too well understands and this plot as neare as I can tell you and I dare say my intelligence gave me as neare a guesse as ever any man had was that all these in a discontented humour had by Watson and Clarke being Confessors dealt with Count Aremberge the Arch Dukes Embassadour to negotiate with the Arch Duke to raise an Army and invade England and they would raise another of Papists and Male-contents to joyne for you must understand the King was beleeved an errand Puritan Cujus contrarium verum est how likely this Plot was let the world judge that the King of Spaine who had bought peace at so deare a rate and found it so advantageous to him by the lamentable experience he had formerly in the Wars with this formidable State should seek to breake it so soone and had it been a reall Treason the State had been bound to have rewarded these Traytors as the best peece of service done in England all that Kings reigne it was indeed those that made the Peace not those that endeavoured the breaking of it were the Traytors and are to be cursed by all Posterity yet this foolish Plot served well enough to take some blocks out of the way that might afterward have made some of them stumble to the breaking of their owne necks They were all Arraigned of Treason at Winchester whither the King having sent some secretly to observe all passages upon whose true and faithfull relations of the innocencies of the Persons Arraigned and the sleight proofes upon which they were condemned he would not be drawne to signe any Warrant for the execution of Rawleigh Cobham and Grey very hardly for any of the rest the two Priests excepted For Rawleighs defence it was so brave and just as had he not wilfully cast himselfe out of very wearinesse as unwilling to detaine the company longer no Jury could ever have cast him all the Evidence brought against him was Cobhams Accusation which he only desired might appeare viva voce and he would yeeld without further defence but that they knew ful well Cobham would not nor could not accuse him having been tampered with by Wade then Lieutenant of the Tower and Salisburies great Creature Wade desired it under his hand that also he refused at last Wade got a trick by his cunning to surprize Cobhams weaknesse to get him write his name to a Blank to which Wade no question wrote the accusation as will appeare hereafter for Salisbury urging Rawleigh often if Cobham had accused him under his hand would he then yeeld Rawleigh replyed He knew Cobham weake of judgement and did not know how that weaknesse might be wrought upon but was confident he would not to his face accuse him and therefore would not put his life fortune and all on that at which fence he stood til nine at night at last his fate carried him against his reason and he yeelded upon the producing his hand which was instantly pulled out and was in truth his hand but not his act or deed so at that present was George Brooke Watson and Clarke executed Parham acquitted and Sir Walter Rawleigh executed many yeares after for the same treason as much against all justice as beyond all reason or any president yea after he had been a Generall by the Kings Commission and had by that power of the Lives of many others utterly against the Civill Law which saith He that hath power of the Lives of others ought to be Master of his owne But the Spaniard was so powerfull at that time in Court as that Faction could command the life of any man that might prove dangerous to his designes Grey and Cobham dyed in their restraint the one much pittied the other scorned and his death as base for hee dyed lousie for want of Apparrell and Linnen and had starved had not a Trencher-scraper sometime his Servant in Court releived him with scraps in whose house he dyed being so poore a house as he was forced to creep up a Ladder into a little hole to his Chamber which was a strange judgement and unpresidented that a man of seven thousand pounds per annum and of a personall estate of thirty thousand pounds of all which the King was so cheated of what should have Escheated to him that he could not give him any maintenance as in all cases the King doth unlesse out of his owne Revenue of the Crown which was the occasion of this Lords want his Wife being very rich would not give him the crums that fell from her Table and this was a just judgement of God on him And now because it will be pertinent in this place to let you understand that Rawleigh had his life surrepticiously taken away I shall give you a true story Queen Anne that brave Princesse was in a desperate and some beleeved an incurable Disease whereof the Phisitians were at the furthest end of their studies to finde the cause at a Non-plus for the Cure Sir Walter Rawleigh being by his long studies an admirable Chymist undertooke and performed the Cure for which he would receive no other reward but that her Majesty would procure that certaine Lords might be sent to examine Cobham whether he had accused Sir Walter Rawleigh of Treason at any time under his hand the King at the Queens request and in Justice could doe no lesse sends six Lords which I take were the Duke of Leonox Salisbury Worcester Suffolke Sir George Carew and Sir Julius Caesar to demand of Cobham whether he had not under his hand accused Sir Walter Rawleigh at Winchester upon that Treason he was Arraigned for Cobham did protest never nor could he but said he That Villaine Wade did often solicite me and not prevailing that way got me by a trick to write my name upon a peece of white Paper which I thinking nothing did so that if any Charge came under my hand it was forged by that Villaine Wade by writing something above my hand without my consent or knowledge These six returning to the King the rest made Salisbury their Spokes-man who said Sir my Lord Cobham hath made good all that ever hee wrote or said Where it is to be noted that this was but an equivocating tricke in Salisbury for it was true that Cobham had made good whatever hee had writ that being but in truth to
against the Scots that were his supporters their Agents divulging every where the Scots would get all and would begger the Kingdom the Scots on the other side complaine to the King they were so poore they under-went the by-word of beggerly Scots to which the King returned this answer as he had a very ready wit Content your selves I will shortly make the English as beggerly as you and so end that controversie this is as true as he truly performed it for however he enriched many in particular as Salisbury Suffolke Northampton Worcester Lake c. yet he did begger himself and the Nation in generall This also was inculcated into the eares of the Parliament when that great businesse about the union was in debate which was much crossed by that opinion if they had already impoverished the kingdome by the union they would bankerupt it But since you see by their owne valour and bravery of spirit they have made us begge a re-union with them and for ought we see all our happines is derived from their favours They that then lived at Court and were curious observers of every mans actions could have affirmed that Salisbury Suffolke and Northampton and their friends did get more then the whole Nation of Scotland Dunbar excepted for whatever others got they spent here only Dunbar laid a foundation of a great Family which did all revert into England againe with his Daughters marriage with the House of Suffolke so in truth all the water run to their Mills It is most true that many Scots did get much but not more with one hand then they spent with the other witnesse the Earle of Kelly Annandale c. nay that great Getter the Earle of Carlisle also and some private Gentlemen as Gideon Murrey John Achmoty James Baily John Gib and Bernard Lindley got some pretty estates not worthy either the naming or envying that old Servants should get some moderate estates to leave to posterity But 〈◊〉 and all the Scots in generall got scarce the Tythe of those English Getters that can be said did stick by them or their posterity besides Salisbury had one tricke to get the kernell and leave the Scots but the shell yet cast all the envie on them He would make them buy Bookes of Fee-farmes some one hundred pounds per annum some one hundred Markes and he would compound with them for a thousand pounds which they were willing to embrace because they were sure to have them passe without any controle or charge and one thousand pounds appeared to them that never saw ten pounds before an inexhaustible treasure then would Salisbury fill up this Booke with such prime Land as should be worth ten or twenty thousand pounds which was easie for him being Treasurer so to doe and by this meanes Salisbury inriched himselfe infinitely yet cast the envie on the Scots in whose names these Bookes appeared and are still upon Record to all posterity though Salisbury had the Honey they poore Gentlemen but part of the Wax Dunbar only had his Agents and could play his owne game which they durst not crosse so was the poore King and State cheated on all hands And now did a contention arise between the English and Scots about the election of a Favourite out of whether Nation he should come now was Montgomery in the wane being given more to his own pleasures then to observe the King so that alway the Earle of Carliste did invest him in his roome he as soon by his neglective carriage did devest himselfe yet was he ever in the Kings good opinion and one that he put more trust in at the time of his death then in all his other servants Then was there a young Gentleman Master Robert Carre who had his breeding in France and was newly returned from Travaile a Gentleman very handsome and well bred and one that was observed to spend his time in serious studies and did accompany himselfe with none but men of such eminencies as by whom hee might be bettered this Gentleman the Scots so wrought it that they got him into a Groomes place of the Bed-chamber and was very well pleasing to all he did more then any other Associate himself with Sir Thomas Overbury a man of excellent parts but those made him proud over-valuing himselfe and under-valuing others and was infected with a kinde of insolency with this Gentleman spent he most of his time and drew the eyes of the Court as well as the affection of his Master upon him yet very few but such as were the curious observers of those times could discerne the drawing of the Kings affection 〈◊〉 upon a Coronation day riding in with the Lord Dingwell to the Tilt-yard his horse fell with him and brake his legge he was instantly carried into Master Riders house at Charing-crosse and the newes as instantly carried to the King having little desire to behold the triumph but much desired to have it ended and no sooner ended but the King went instantly to visite him and after by his daily visiting and mourning over him taking all care for his speedy recovery made the day-breake of his glory appeare every Courtier now concluding him actually a favourite Lord how the great men flocked then to see him and to offer to his Shrine in such abundance that the King was forced to lay a restraint least it might retard his recovery by spending his spirits and to facilitate the cure care was taken for a choyce Dyet for himselfe and Chirurgions with his Attendants and no sooner recovered but a proclaimed Favourite Then the English Lords who formerly coveted an English Favourite and to that end the Countesse of Suffolke did looke out choyce young men whom she daily curled and perfuming their breaths left all hope and she her curling and perfuming all adoring this rising Sun every man striving to invest himselfe into this mans favour not sparing for bounty nor flattery which was not hard to be obtained being naturally more addicted to the English then to the Scotch in so much that he endeavoured to forget his native Country and his Fathers house having none of note about him but English and but one besides English in any familiarity with him which was Sir Robert Carre his Kins-man but above all was Sir Thomas Overbury his Pythias Then was the strife between Salisbury and Suffolke who shonld ingrosse him and make him their Monopoly each presenting proffering and accumulating favours upon Overburyes Kindred the Father made a Iudge in Wales and himselfe offered Offices but Overbury naturally of an insolent spirit which was elevated by being so intimate with a Favourite and wholly having ingrossed that commodity which could not be retayled but by him and his favour with a kind of scorn neglected their friendships yet made use of both Now was Carre Knighted and made Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and Overburies pride rose with the others honours still scorning the Chapmen as they did by their cheap offices