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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	knight_n	10,768	5	7.7193	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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