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A67129	A short view of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham written by Henry Wotten ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1642 (1642)	Wing W3652; ESTC R21346	18,072	31

remarkable dayes to inaugurate their favors that they may appeare Actes aswell of the times as of the Will he was Created Marquis of Buckingham and made Lord Admirall of England Chiefe Iustice in Eyre of all the Parkes and Forrests in the South-side of Trent Master of the Kings-Bench office none of the unprofitablest peeces Head Steward of Westminster and Constable of Windsor-Castle Here I must breath a while to satisfie some that perhaps might otherwise wonder at such an Accumulation of benefits like a kinde of Embroidering or listing of one favour upon another Certainly the hearts of great Princes if they be considered as it were in abstract without the necessity of States and Circumstances of time being besides their naturall extent moreover once opened and dilated with affection can take no full and proportionate pleasure in the exercise of any narrow Bounty And albeit at first they give onely vpon Choice and love of the person yet within a while themselves likewise begin to love their givings and to foment their deeds no lesse then Parents doe their Children but let us goe on For these Offices and Dignities already rehearsed and these of the like nature which I shall after set downe in their place were as I am ready to say but the facings or fringes of his greatnesse in comparison of that trust which his last most gracious Master did cast vpon him in the one and twentieth yeere of his Raigne when he made him the Chiefe concomitant of his heire apparant and only sonne our deere Soveraigne now being in a journey of much Adventure and which to shew the strength of his privacie had beene before not communicated with any other of his Majesties most reserved Counsellers at home being carryed with great closenesse liker a busines of love then state as it was in the first intendment Now because the whole Kingdome stood in a zealous trepidation of the absence of such a Prince I have beene the more desirous to research with some diligence the severall passages of the said journey and the particular Accidents of any moment in their way They began their motion in the yeere 1623. on Tewsday the 18. of February from the Marquis his house of late purchase at Newhall in Essex setting out with disguised Beards and with borrowed Names of Thomas and Iohn Smith And then attended with none but Sir Richard Greham Master of the Horse to the Marquesse and of in ward trust about him When they passed the River against Gravesend for lacke of silver they were faine to give the Ferry-man a pecce of two and twenty shillings which strooke the poore fellow into such a melting tendernesse that so good Gentlemen should be going for so he suspected about some quarrell beyond Sea as he could not forbeare to acquaint the Officers of the I owne with what had befallen him who sent presently post for there stay at Rochester through which they were passed before any Intelligence could arrive On the brow of the Hill beyond that City they were somewhat perplexed by espying the French Embassador with the Kings Coach and other attending him which made them bleuch the beaten Roade and teach Post hackneys to leape hedges At Canterbury whether some voyce as it should seeme was runne on before the Mayor of the Towne came himselfe to seise on them as they were taking fresh Horses in a blunt manner alleadging first a warrant to stop them from the Councell next from Sir Lewis Lewkner Master of the Ceremonies and lastly from Sir Henry Manwaring then Lieutenant of Dover Castle At all which confused fiction the Marquis had no leasure to laugh but thought best to dismaske his beard and so told him that he was going covertly with such slight company to take a secret veiw being Admirall of the forwardnesse of his Majesties Fleete which was then in preparation on the Narrow Seas this with much a doe did somewhat hansomly heale the disguisment On the way on afterwards the baggage post boy who had beene at Court got I know not how a glimering who they were But his mouth was easily shut To Dover though bad Horses and those prety impediments they came not before fix at night where they found Sir Francis Cottington then Secretary to the Prince now Baron of Hanwart and Master Endimion Porter who had beene sent before to provide a Vessell for their transportation The foresaid Knight was enjoyned for the neerenesse of his place on the Princes affaires and for his long Residence in the Court of Spaine where he had gotten singular credit even with that cautions Nation by the temper of his Carriage Master Porter was taken in not onely as a Bed-chamber servant of Confidence to his Highnes but likewise as a necessary and usefull Instrument for his naturall skill in the Spanish tongue And these five were at the first the whole Parada of this journey The next morning for the night was tempestuous on the 16. of the foresaid Moneth taking ship at Dover about six of the clocke they landed the same day at Bulloyn in France neere two houres after Noone reaching Monstruell that night like men of dispatch and Paris the second day after being Friday the one and twentieth but some three posts before they had met with two German Gentlemen that came newly from England where they had scene at Newmarket the Prince and the Marquis taking Coach together with the King and retained such a strong impression of them both that they now bewrayed some knowledge of their persons but were out faced by Sir Richard Greham who would needs perswade them they were mistaken which in truth is no very hard matter for the very strangnesse of the thing it selfe and almost the impossibility to conceive so great a Prince and favorite so suddenly Metamorphized into travellers with no greater traine was enough to make any man living unbeleeve his five sences And this I suppose next the assurance of their owne well resolved Carriage against any new accedent to have beene their best Anchor in all such Incounters At Paris the Prince spent one whole day to give his minde some contentment in veiwing of a famous City and Court which was a neighbour to his future estates But for the better Veiling of their visages his Highnesse and the Marquesse bought each of them a Perriwigge somewhat to overshaddow their foreheads Of the King they got a sight after dinner in a Gallery where he was solacing himselfe with familiar pleasures And of the Queene Mother as shee was at her owne Table In neither place desired no not by Mounsier Cadinet who saw them in both one hath bin lately Ambassador in England Towards Evening by a meere chance in appearance though underlined with a providence they had a full sight of the Queene Infanta and of the princesse Henriettae Marie with other great Ladyes at the practise of a Masquing Daunce which was then in preparation having overheard two Gentlemen who were tending towards that

George Villiers Duke Marquis Earle of Buckingham Earle of Couentry Vicount Villiers Baron of Waddon High Admirall of England Ireland and Principallity of Wales Gouernor of all the Castelles and Sea forts and of the Royall Nauye M of the Horse to his Matie Lord Warden Channcellor and Admirall of ye Sinque Ports etc. Chancellor of ye Vniuersite of Cambridge Knight of ye most Noble Order of ye Garter and one of Maties most Honble Priuve Councell etc. A SHORT VIEVV OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GEORGE VILLERS Duke of Buckingham Written by Sir Henry Wotton Knight late Provost of Eaton Colledge LONDON Printed for William Sheares THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GEORGE VILLERS Late Duke of Buckingham I Determine to write the life and the end the nature and the fortunes of George Villers late Duke of Buckingham which yet I have not undertaken out of any wanton pleasure in mine own pen Nor truely without often pondering with my selfe before hand what Censures I might incurre for I would not be ignorant by long observation both abroad and at home That every where all Greatnesse of power and favour is Circumvested with much prejudice And that it is not easie for writers to research with due distinction as they ought in the Actions of eminent personages both how much many have beene blemished by the envy of others and what was corrupted by their owne felicity unlesse after the Period of their splendor which must needes Dazell their beholders and perhaps often times themselves we could as in some Scenes of the fabulous Age excite them againe and conferre a while with their naked Ghosts How ever for my part I have no servile or ignoble end in my present labour which may on either side restraine or embase the freedome of my poore judgment I will therefore steere as evenly as I can and deduce him from his Cradle through the deepe and lubricke wayes of State and Court till he was swallowed in the Gulfe of falelity I finde him borne in the yeere of our Saviour 1592. on the 28. of August at Brookesby in Leycester-shire where his Ancestors had cheifly continued about the space of fourehundred yeeres rather without obscurity then with any great luster After they had long before beene seated in Kinalton in the County of Nottingham he was the third sonne of George Villars Knight and Mary late Countesse of Buck. and Daughter to Anthony Beaumont of Coleorton Esquier names on either side well known of Ancient extraction And yet I remember there was one who in a wild Pamphlet which he published besides other pittifull Maglignities would scant allow him to be a Gentleman He was nurtured where he had beene borne in his first Rudiments till the yeeres of ten And from thence sent to Billisden Schoole in the same County where he was taught the principalls of Musicke and other slight Literature till the Thirteenth of his age At which time his father dyed Then his beautifull and provident Mother for those Attributes will not be denyed her tooke him home to her house at Goodby where shee had him in especiall care so as he was first as we may say a Domesticke favorite But finding him as it should seeme by nature little studious and contemplative she chose rather to endue him with Conversative Qualities and Ornaments of youth as Dancing Fencing and the like Not without perchance even then though far of at a Courtiers life To which lessons he had such a dexterous proclitie as his teachers were faine to restraine his forwardnesse to th' end that his brothers who were under the same trayning might hold pace with him About the Age of Eighteene he travelled into France where he improved himselfe well in the Language for one that had so little Grammaticall foundation but more in the exercises of that Nobility for the space of three yeeres And yet came home in his naturall plight without affected formes the ordinary disease of Travellers After his returne he passed againe one whole yeere as before at Goodby under the Winge and Councells of his Mother And then was forward to become a suter at London to Sir Roger Ashtons Daughter a Gentleman of the Bed chamber to King Iames and Master of his Roabes about which times he falls into intrinsecall society with Sir John Greham then one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Privie Chamber who I know not upon what Luminaryes he spyed in his face disswaded him from marriage and gave him rather incouragement to woe fortune in Court which advise sancke well into his fancy for within some while the King had taken by certaine Glauaces where of the first was at Apthorpe in a progresse such liking of his person that he resolved to make him a Master-peice and to Mould him as it were Platonically to his owne Idea Neither was his Majestie content onely to be the Architect of his fortune without putting his Gracious hand likewise to some part of the worke it selfe Insomuch as it pleased him to descend and to avale his goodnesse even to the giving of his foresaid friend Sir Iohn Grcham secret directions how and by what degrees he should bring him into favour But this was quickly discovered by him who was then as yet in some possession of the Kings heart For there is nothing more Vigilant nothing more jealous then a favorite especially towards the wayning time and suspect of saciety so as many Arts were used to discusse the beginnings of new affliction which lye out of my Roade being a part of another mans story All which notwithstanding for I omitt things intervenient there is Conveyed to Master Villers an intimation of the Kings pleasure to waite and to be sworne his servant And shortly after his Cup-bearer at large And the Summer following he was admitted in ordinary After which time favours came thicke upon him liker mayne showers then sprinkling Droppes or Dewes for the next Saint Georges-day he was Knighted and made Gentleman of the Kings-Bedchamber and the same very day had an Annuall pension given him for his better support of one thousand pounds out of the Court of Wards At Newyeers-tide following the King chose him Master of the Horse After this hee was installed of the most Noble Order And in the next August he Created him Baron of Whaddon and Viscount Villers In Ianuary of the same yeere he was advanced Earle of Buckingham and sworne here of his Majesties Privie Counsell As if a favorite were not so before the March ensuing he attended the King into Scotland And was likewise sworne a Counseller in that Kingdome whereas I have beene instructed by unpassionate men he did carry himselfe with singular sweetnesse and temper which I held very credible for it behoved him being new in favor and succeeding one of their owne to study a moderate stile among those generous Spirits About Newyeers-tyde after his return from thence for those beginnings of yeeres were very propitious unto him as if Kings did choose