every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
in the Year that is to say At the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary St. John the Baptist and St. Michael the Archangel and the Birth of our Lord God by even and equal Portions the First payment thereof to commence and begin from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two Wherefore we do hereby require authorize and command the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our said Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers there for the time being to make due payment of the said Annuity or yearly Pension of one thousand Pounds on the Feast-days above-mentioned And these Presents or the Inrolment thereof shall be unto them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the payment of the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds from time to time accordingly any Act Statute Provision Proclamation Restraint or other matter or thing heretofore had made enacted or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal HOWARD Irrotulatur in Thesaurarii receptis Scaccarii Domini Regis Caroli Secundi quarto die Junii Anno Regni sui decimo quinto Rob. Long. Irrotulatur inter Recorda Domini Regis Caroli Secundi infra recepta Scaccarii sui remanentia in Officio Clerici Thesaurarii Clerici Willielmi decimo quinto die Junii 1663. Annoque Domini Regis decimo quinto W. Wardour A Commission of King Charles the Second Constituting John Earl of Exeter and Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenants of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis per quidem fidelibus Consanguineis nostris Johanni Comiti de Exeter Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam Actum in Parlamento nostro inchoato apud Westmonasterium octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo octavo ibidem tento usque ad decimum octavum diem Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo quarto abinde per separales prorogationes continuato intitulatum An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum enactitatum existit inter acta ordinaria nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Barvici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes plenam habebunt potestatem authoritatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora ac eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam in aliquibus aliis Comitatibus locis praedictis ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerunt secundum directiones quales ipsi de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem actu contentas specificatas plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parlamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem ac potestate authoritate in eodem actu contentis specificatis Nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus vos praefatum Johannem Comitem de Exeter Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentes nostros per in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae per in omnibus Comitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis Incorporatis Privilegiatis ac aliis locis quibuscunque infra Comitatum illum limites vel proficua ejusdem Et tenore praesentium ac virtute actus praedicti plenam potestatem authoritatem vobis damus concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per actum Parlamenti praedicti enactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentes per nos vigore illius actus nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo vobis mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parliamenti illius in hac parte procedatis ea omnia faciatis exequemini cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo Per ipsum Regem Barker Testimony of Council for the Earl of Peterborow's having been sworn in order to the Lieutenancy At the Court at Whitehall the 13th of June 1666. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Royal Highnes the DUKE of TORK Earl of Craven Earl of Lawlerdale Earl of Middeton Lord Viscoum Fitzharding Lord Arlington Lord Berkeley Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Maurice THis Day the Right honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath appointed by the Act for ordering of the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom to be taken by the Lords Lieutenants of the respective Counties and his Lordship is joined with the Right Honourable John Earl of Ezeter in the place of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and it is ordered that the same be entred in the Register of Council causes Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall June 30. 1666. My LORD HIS Majesty being pressed by the likelihood of a speedy Invasion from abroad by the united Force of France and Holland and being assured by all his Intelligence That the Dutch have Inbarked in their Fleet now upon our Coast Sevea or Eight thousand Land-men with all Necessaries accordingly besides what they expect from the Preparations of France hath resolved among other Expedients occurring to him to raise distinct Troops of Horse to be afterwards incorporated in Regiments as he shall see cause and commanded me to transmit to your Grace this inclosed Commission recommending to you the raising of them with all possible
expedition And your Lordship being pleased to certifie me what place you will appoint for their Rendezvous his Majesty will forthwith send a Commission to Muster them when they shall amount to the number of Thirty and accordingly receive them into pay with their Officers of which I beseech your Lordship to let me be informed with all speed I am with all truth Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON Your Lordship signifying to me the Names of such Persons as you shall chuse for Officers care shall be taken for Commissions to be forthwith dispatched for them A Commission from King Charles the Second to raise a Company consisting of Fourscore Horse to be an independent Troop Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing a special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop of Horse consisting of Eighty Common Troopers besides Officers which you are hereby authorized to raise arm and diligently exercise keeping your Souldiers in good Order and Discipline Commanding them hereby to obey you as their Captain and your self to observe such Order and Directions as you shall receive from time to time from us or our General according to the discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirtieth Day of June in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign 1666. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Henry Earl of Peterborow AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas the present State of affairs may require the speedy Calling together of the Forces of the several Counties in order to the securing the Kingdom from Foreign Invasion the Enemy already appearing with a Fleet of Ships upon the Coast we have thought fit to give you notice thereof to the end speedy Warning may be given for all the Horse and Foot of that County to be in a readiness to march at a short notice to such place as your Lordship shall find most convenient or shall be ordered from hence for opposing the Enemy if he shall make any attempt to Land and for defence of the County And for their Encouragement and such as shall supply them for their March his Majesty hath declared his Royal pleasure and required us to signifie to your Lordship that during the said Forces continuing in Service after their Rendezvousing and marching upon the occasion aforesaid they shall be in his Majesty's pay as the rest of his Forces We are by his Majesty's directions farther to acquaint you That upon serious consideration had of the Act Intituled An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties in this Kingdom it doth appear That any of the said Forces have been formerly in actual service for a month or more and were provided with a Months pay yet nevertheless they in their Persons are to appear and serve whensoever they shall be thereto Summoned as by the said Act doth appear under penalty therein mentioned And for the easing of his Majesty's Charge we pray and require your punctual Care and Diligence in the constant Raising the Monies designed for furnishing Ammunition and other Necessaries and the Fines due from Defaulters upon the said Act and to have the same in readiness to answer Emergences and not doubting of your Lordships Compliance with these his Majesty's Commands we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court at Whitehall the Eleventh Day of June 1667. Your Lordship 's very loving Friends Bath Craven Dorchester Fitz-Harding Ashley J. Bridgwater Anglesey Lawderdale T. Clifford Arlington Will. Maurice W. Coventry R. Brown Since the writing hereof finding that your Lordship amongst some others the Lords Lieutenants of this Kingdom have failed to return to this Board a List of the several Troops and Companies of Militia in the County under your care with the numbers of them severally as you were required We do pray and require your Lordship the next Post after the receipt hereof as you tender the Safety of his Majesty's Kingdoms to send the same unto us and therein also express as many of the Commissioned Officers Names as your Lordship can by that time ascertain Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall 1667. My LORD HIS Majesty commands me to signifie his Pleasure to you that forthwith your Lordship repair to your Lieutenancy there with all diligence to put your Militia and other Troops into such a posture as may best secure the Quiet and Peace of the Country and render them capable to comply with such Orders and Directions as your Lordship shall from time to time receive from his Majesty of which as of all things else that may relate to his Majesty's Service his Majesty desires to receive frequent and particular Advice on all occasions from your Lordship I am with much Truth and Affection My LORD Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Foot Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct have thought fit to constitute and appoint as by these Presents we do constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Foot to be raised for our Service the same to consist of Ten Companies and each Company of Sixty Men besides Officers You are carefully to discharge the Duty of a Collonel by exercising the said Regiment in Arms both Officers and Souldiers and keeping them in good Order and Discipline and we do hereby command them to obey you as their Collonel And we do further constitute and appoint you to be Captain of one of the Companies of the said Regiment and you are from time to time to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from us according to the Rule and Discipline of War pursuant to the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall this Twenty third Day of January in the Twenty fourth Year of our Reign 1672 3. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Commission for the Earl of Peterborow to be Extraordinary Embassador to the Emperor for the Marriage of the Archdutchess with the Duke of York CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Quandoquidem nobis visum fuerit pro singulari illo animi affectu quo prosequimur semperque sumus prosecuti Augustam
bullis de exemptionibus duntaxat exceptis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodos fines adjudicatos amerciamenta exitus forisfactos relevia scutagia ac omnimoda debita compota praestita arreragia firmarum compotorum Nobis ante octavum diem Julii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo sexto qualitercunque debita pertinentia Necnon omnimodas actiones demandas quas Nos solus vel Nos conjunctim cum aliis personis vel alia persona habemus seu habere poterimus versus ipsum Henricum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante eundem octavum diem Julii Nobis debitis ac etiam Utlagariis in ipsum Henricum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum omnimodis debitis compotis Nobis debitis pertinentibus quae vigore literarum nostrarum Patentium seu brevium nostrorum de magno vel privato Sigillo aut per estallamenta sive assignationes respectuata existunt omnino exceptis Et quòd praesens pardonatio nostra quoad praemissa seu aliquod praemissorum non cedat in dampnum praejudicium vel derogationem alicujus alterius personae quà m personae nostrae duntaxat nec quòd praesens pardonatio nostra nec aliqua hujusmodi pardonatio nostra ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt vel qui nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Thesaurarium Cales Hospitii nostri Vitellarios Cales Camerarios Cestriae North Walliae South Walliae Custodes Gardrobae Hospitii nostri aut Custodes magnae Gardrobae nostrae aut Custodes sive Clericos operationum nostrarum Constabularios Burdegales Thesaurarium terrae nostrae Hiberniae receptores Ducatus nostri Lancastriae Ducatus nostri Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quo ad aliqua hujusmodi officia sua seu hujusmodi occupationes suas aut alicujus earundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Kirkeham Per ipsum Regem Indentura inter Ducem Buckinghamiae Henricum Greene pro maritagia Constanciae filiae praedicti Henrici THIS Indenture made the nineteenth day of January in the yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Sixth after the Conquest the six and thirtieth between the high and myghty Prynce Humfrey Duc of Buks on that oon partie and Henry Greene Squyer on that othir partie Witnesseth That it is accorded and agreed between the said parties in the fourme that followeth that is to wite That John oon of the Sonnes of the said Duc shall by the grace of God wedde and take to wyfe Constance Doughter and heire apparant to the said Henry Greene before the fest of Lammasse next comyng and the said Constance shall take to Husband the said John byfore the same fest and the said Duc shall bere all the costes of the same Mariage And the said Duc graunteth by these presents for the said mariage to be had in the fourme aforesaid that he shall make or doo to be made before the fest of the Nativite of Seynt John Baptiste next comyng to William Katesby Knyght Henry Greene Squyer Thomas Littilton Thomas Bylling Serjaunts of Law Thomas Wake Squyer Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford a sufficient and lawful Estate in and of Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the yearly value of four hundred marks over all maner charges and repryses the ordinarie charges of ordinarie officers onely except to have to theyme and to theire heirs for evermore And the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall before the said fest of Seynt John by Fine to be rered in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc between theyme and the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford beying seised of the same Manoirs Londs and Tenements before the said feoffament made to theyme knowlage the same Monoirs Londs and Tenements to be the right of the said William Catesby as tho that the same William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William have of the yeft of the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe And the same Duc and my Lady and the heirs of my said Lady shall warant the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William and to the heirs of the said Willam Catesby for evermore Item The said Duc shall doo and cause Humfrey his sonne and heire apparaunt by his dede sufficient in Law enrolled in the Kyngs Courte of Record to ratefye and confirme the state of the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford and to the heirs of oon of theyme accordyng to the said fyne of and in the Londs and Tenements comprised in the same fyne with a clause of Warantie according to the same Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements shall graunte sufficiently by theire dede to suche persones as the said Henry Greene shall name an annuyte of three hundred markes goying oute of all the said Londs and Tenements to be perceyved for terme of the lyfes of Margaret wyfe to the said Henry John and Constance and everyche of theyme longest lyvyng the same annuyte to begynne to be levable at suche tymes as the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any outher by the sturringe excitation or commandemente of theyme or of outher of theyme durynge the lyfe of the said John or elles the said Constance after the decesse of the said John beyng not relyvered to her said Fader as is hereafter writen disturbe or interrupte in any wise after the deth of the said Henry the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by other at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servants for terme of theire lyfes of three hundred markes worth land by yere beneth excepted or any part thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last will of the said Henry to be made by hyme of Londs by hyme purchased or to be purchased or of his movable goodes and if noe suche disturbance or interruption be the said graunte to be voide Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements after the said graunte of Annuyte and within three monethes after the said mariage had shall make Estate by dede endented of all the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said Duc to have to him for terme of his lyfe withoute impechment of waste the remayndre thereof after his decesse to the
said John and Constance and to the heirs of theire two bodyes begotyn the remayndre thereof for defaute of suche heirs to the right heirs of the said Duc. Item Hit is agreed and accorded between the said parties that the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall have the rule and governaunce of the said Constance after the said mariage had duringe the spousel between the said John and Constance and fynde her at the costes of the same Duc. Item The said Henry graunteth by these Presents that the said Constance his Doughter shall have after his decesse and after the decesse of such persone or persones as now hath or by the said Henry or by his Feoffees at his desire shall have any Londs or Tenements for terme of lyfe whereof the reversion is or shall be to the same Henry or to any other to his use all the issues and profits of all the Londs and Tenements that he or any to his use hath without diminution or abregement and the Feoffees in and of the same Londs and Tenements that now be or shall be shall within six monethes after the dethe of the same Henry make thereof Estate to the said Constance and to her heirs if they be thereto requyred except that it shall be lawful to the said Henry to graunte or doo to be graunted to Margaret his wyfe and to other his servants Londs and Tenements of the same to the yerely value of three hundred markes to have to theyme onely for terme of lyfe of theyme that the said Grauntes shall be made unto soe that the reversion thereof after the decesse of the said Henry and of such persones as the said Grauntes shall be made unto shall come to the said Constance and to her heires Except also that hit shall be lawful to the said Henry for to doo and aleyne at his will and pleasure all such Londs and Tenements as he hath purchased before this tyme now beyng in his handes or in any other mannes to his use and also all such Londs and Tenements as he shall purchase hereafter not beyng at this day in his owne hands nor in none other persones to his use Except also other Londs and Tenements to the yerely value of two hundred marks whereof the Feoffees of the said Henry that now bene or shall be after the decesse of the said Henry shall suffer the said John and Constance to take the profits unto the tyme that the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any othir by theire excitation sturryng or commandement lette disturbe or interrupte in any wise the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by any othir at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servaunts for terme of theire lyfes of the said three hundred marks worth Lond above except or any parte thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last wyll of the said Henry to be made by him of the said Londs by him purchased or to be purchased or of his moveable goodes and if any suche disturbaunce or interruption be then the said Feoffees shall restreyne the said John and Constance of takyng of any profites of the said two hundred markes worth Lond and shall applye the profites thereof for the soule he le of the said Henry or elles for perfourmynge of suche wyll as the said Henry shall thereof declare For seene alway that if the said Henry happen hereafter to have any other issue by the said Margaret his wyfe that then all his said Londs and Tenements except thereof one hundred pounds worth land by yere and except the said Londs and Tenements purchased and to be purchased after the fourme aforesaid shall descende or come to such as the Common Law will shall be heire to the said Henry of the body of the said Margaret begotyn And the said Henry graunteth that if hit happen him hereafter to have issue male by the said Margaret his wyfe that notwithstondyng the said Constance shall have to her and to her heires after the dethe of the said Henry one hundred poundes worth Londs above except of the said Londs and Tenements And if hit happen hereafter the said Henry to have other issue female by the said Margaret and dye withoute issue male begotyn of the body of the same Margaret then the said Constance shall have after the dethe of the same Henry one hundred pounds worth Lond by yere of the said Londs and Tenements over such part as shulde come to her by the dethe of the said Henry her Fader after the course of the Common Law and the same Henry shall not hereafter make any wyll to the contrary of the premisses Item The said Henry graunteth that he shall be bounden to the said Duc by his obligation to be enrolled in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc in two thousand marks upon condition to be conteyned in the same obligation that he shall not alien ne discontynue ne make to be aliened or discontynued any Londs or Tenements which he or any other persone or persones to his use hath in demene or reversion otherwise than is abovesaid but if hit be to the entente abovesaid ne any thing elles doo or cause to be done touching the said Londs and Tenements that shall be in derogation or prejudice of the premisses or contrary to the entente abovesaid Item The said Duc graunteth by these presentes that if hit happen hereafter as God defende the said John his Sonne to dye after the said mariage had lyvyng the said Duc and Constance then the said Duc within two monethes after the decesse of the said John shall delyver or doo to be delyvered to the said Henry or to his Executours at Milton in the Shire of Northampton at the costes of the said Henry or of his Executours the said Constance unmaried and unassured of mariage to any other persone by the sturryng procurynge wille or assent of the said Duc and the same Duc shall do his parte for to lette the said Constance to be maried or assured of marriage to any other persone before the said livere of her made to the said Henry or to his Executours Item The said Duc graunteth that he shall deliver within a halfe yere after the said mariage to the said Henry to the use of the said John and Constance all the Evidences that the same Duc or any other to his behof hath concernyng onely the said Londs and Tenements whereof the same Duc shall make or doo to be made a state to the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William Cumberford as is abovesaid and if any Evidences there be concerning to the same Londs and Tenements or any parte of theyme and other Londs and Tenements that then the said Henry shall have the Exemplification of theyme at the costes of the said Duc if the said Henry desire them In witness whereof to that one parte of these Endentures with the said
of Peterborow to see the Lady and to send him his opinion thereof And to this if it had been any way adviseable His Royal Highness himself would not have been averse from the partiality he ever had to the House of Boullion and principally to Monsieur de Turene whose Niece the Lady was But in truth she was so very young not having fully attain'd Thirteen Years and so little a Woman of that Age too as when it was really represented it was found wholly unproper for the Duke's circumstances and the business of England But to favor it she and her creatures had in the mean time done what they could to detract from the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue to whom notwithstanding from the first impressions he had receiv'd he stood so well enclined as by the return of the next Express after the account of the Princess of Newburgh he commanded the Earl to go back in diligence to Paris where he assured him he should meet all the orders necessary to bring away that Lady The Earl obey'd with much satisfaction esteeming this next to the Italian Alliance the most suitable of any that had ever been proposed So with all the haste he could he came to his first station and not doubting of the performance of what had been so earnestly assured him he lighted at the Monastery where the Princess Mary Anne lived as soon as he came to Paris and acquainted her with the orders he had reason to believe did attend him at his House after the receipt of which he should have but to call her as he said his Mistress and pay her the respects due to the Quality that did attend it He could not but confess the moderation which in other things did appear in her temper was not great enough to conceal her joy in this occasion and she was not to be blamed considering the provision it would have been for an Orphan Maid to Marry a Prince so great both in the circumstances of Fortune and Merit but after he had taken his leave and was return'd home with what a reverse of Fortune did he meet The Agent that did at that time Negotiate in absence of the Embassador had order to watch the Earls approach to Paris that he might deliver his Letters with new orders to him before he arrived thereby to obviate his communication to the Peincess of the last he received at Cullen before he could be forewarned of it or forbiden but by neglect or taking a wrong way to meet him the Earl had seen her and made her complements upon the orders he had so great reason to expect before he could receive his new directions So as coming home and being there saluted by this unwary Minister he received from his Hands such Letters as quite changed all his methods by the total forbidding to proceed any farther in Treaty or Demand of the Princess of Wirtenbergue and directing him to expect instruments and instructions by the following Post to proceed with all haste to Italy to demand according to the forms the young Princess of Modena This last order Reducing the Earl to his first Opinion and Enclination did comfort him against the dissatisfaction of so uncertain and changeable a proceeding He found a way to acquaint the Princess Mary Anne with the unexpected change in the Fortune was design'd her and turn'd the event upon the resolutions of State Ministers from the Duke's changeableness or any dissatisfaction taken from her character Much a do there was to appease a mind disappointed to that degree and there were of those to whom she had seem'd a rival that forbore not to recoyce if not to insult upon this reverse of Fortune But at last she was forc'd to appease her discontents and though the Earl durst see her no more yet he wish'd her much happiness as she did deserve in any other proceeding His Lordship was after this employ'd in preparation for his Voyage to Modena expecting in a Post or two the necessaries should enable him to proceed in that Negotiation In ten days they arrived to his Hands with particular recommendation from the Duke his Master to use that Expedition and diligence which was done capable to establish his Marriage beyond the contradiction or dissolution of a Parliament which it being now the Month of July was like to fit in November and if it were not before that past obstruction would leave no Stone unturn'd that might contradict or hinder any Catholick Alliance He dispatch'd then away his Train and his Equipage under the conduct of his Officers and himself took Post with intention of giving a sudden end to this affair It had been hinted to him That he would find no difficulty in his undertaking all things having been prepar'd by the power and offices of the King of France in whose interests the Princess of this House had of a long time been and that Monarch finding the Match with his Cousin not like to take nor the other of the Princess of Newburgh did not think it adviseable to let His Royal Highness escape into the Alliance of any Family unfavourable to France and therefore he used all the force of his Councels and perswasions to make this Marriage succeed The Earl then receiv'd wings from the Interest and Commands of his Master and came to Lyons in three days but he was no sooner entred into his Inn and began to repose himself believing from the care he had taken to be concealed and his little Equipage that he was there wholly unknown when a Servant of the Inn brought him word There were Two Gentlemen below that desired admittance to speak with him on the part of the Dutchess of Modena He could not refuse to see them not knowing upon what account they came and upon their approach they delivered his Lordship a Letter Signed by one Nardi that stiled himself a Secretary wherein he wrote to acquaint his Excellency That they had heard of his intentions to come into those parts in order to treat of a Marriage with the young Princess of Modena But the Dutchess knowing her Daughters intentions to be entirely against any obligation of that kind and that she was perfectly settled in the resolution of taking upon her a Religious life she thought it reasonable to give him timely advertisement thereof that the King his Master not being unacquainted therewith might desist from exposing himself or his Lordship by pursuing a design which though it was very honourable and advantageous to her her Daughter and the House of Esté yet was unpracticable and by no ways to be brought about The Earl's surprise was infinite in this occasion but he thought it most prudent to seem amaz'd at the cause of such a Letter and to disown to these persons any concern of that nature or orders to proceed in the business they did surmise he told them he was a private Traveller that came upon his own account only to satisfie his curiosity and the