Siege of Brunswick.

December.

Brownswike was beseeged by the Duke of Brvnswicke.a The King of Denmarke in person came to ayde his nephew, attended but with a few horse; the breache was made and an assault geven; the assayllants were repulsed with the losse (as is sayed) of more than 3,000 men; yet the siedge continewed vntill Count Henry with troopes from the Netherlands came within some few dayes marche of ( ,) vppon the heate of whose approache

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the King and the Duke rose from the siedge.

The 30. Sir Thomas Monson appeared att the barre in Gvilldhall in London, but for some special reasons he was not thatt day arraygned, but retourned to the alderman's where he was formerly prisoner.

December.-The 4. Thomas Mounson appeared the second tyme att the barre in Gvildhall; his enditement was read; wherevnto when he had pleaded nott gviltie, for some important causes he was no further proceeded withall, but sent prisoner to the Tower.

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James Franklin the 9th of December was executed att St. Thomas of Wateringes, for the murder of Overburie.

The 10. the Countess of Sommersett in the Blackefriers, where she is prisoner, was delivered of a daughter.d

The 8. the Ladie Willmott, Sir Charles e his wife, died.

Coppinger, and one other who attended my Lord of Sommerset in

a Christian II., son of William, by Dorothy, daughter of Christian III., King of Denmark, succeeded his brother Ernest 1611, elected K.G. 1624. Died 1626.

b Count Henry of Nassau. He accompanied the Elector Palatine to England in 1612, when he fell in love with the daughter of the Earl of Northumberland.-S.P.Office, Dom. Corr. vol. lxxij. 91.

c Sir John Throckmorton, on the 20th December, 1615, says, "On Monday last Sir Thomas Monson was committed to the Tower for business of a higher nature than the death of Sir Thomas Overburie. The Lord Chief Justice said that God had discovered a practice for which the whole state was bound to give God thanks, which should be discovered [i.e. made public] in due time.”—Birch, vol. i. p. 384.

d The Lady Anne Carr. She inherited her mother's beauty, and was married, in 1637, to William Lord Russell, who afterwards became the first Duke of Bedford. She died 1684.

e Sir Charles Wilmot was a distinguished soldier in Ireland, where he was knighted by the Earl of Essex in August 1599, He was Constable of Castlemain 1600-5, and

the Tower, were removed from him, and committed in other places close prisoners, and two other of his servants were sent to attend him. The 11. the Lord Howard of Effingham,a the Lord Admirall's eldest sonne, died.

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The 23. the Erle of Pembroke was made his Majesties Lord Chamberlayne.

Sir Robert Cotton, the 29, (for what cause I know nott,) is comitted close prisoner to an alderman's house, where he yet remaynes. The 31. we receved news (which is trew) thatt my wife Dudley,d maried as you know to Monsieur Shaumburge, died in childbed, but her child lives.

The last, two boyes borne at one birthe by the Countesse of Argile,e were by her Majestie, the Prince, and the Erle of Worcester, baptised in Sommerset house.

President of Connaught from 1616 to his death in 1644. In 1620 he was created Viscount Wilmot of Athlone, and Henry, his son and successor, for his zealous and eminent services in the Royal cause during the Civil Wars, was in 1643 created Baron Wilmot in the English Peerage, and in 1652 Earl of Rochester.

a William Howard, son and heir apparent of Charles first Earl of Nottingham. He married Anne, daughter and heir of John Lord St.John of Bletsoe, and left an only daughter, who married John, first Earl of Peterborough.

b William, third Earl. His mother was "Sydney's sister." Elected K.G. 1603, made Governor of Portsmouth 1609. Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1617. Lord Chamberlain 1615-1625. Died 1630.

c Sir Robert Cotton, founder of the Cottonian Library in the British Museum, the collection of which he commenced in 1588. A Commission was issued on the 20th October, 1615, to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, to seize his person and examine his papers, upon the ground of his having amassed together divers secrets of state, and communicated them to the Spanish Ambassador. (Birch, vol. i. p. 371.) Sir Robert Cotton was knighted 1603, and created a Baronet 1611. Died 1631, aged 60.

d See noted, p. 6.

e Wife of Archibald Campbell, seventh Earl of Argyle. According to Douglas he was twice married, first to Anne Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Morton, by whom he had one son, Archibald, who succeeded him, and four daughters; and secondly to Anne, daughter of Sir William Cornwallis, of Brome, by whom he had one son, James, created in 1622 Lord Kintyre, and in 1642 Earl of Irvine. This double birth is not mentioned in Douglas's Peerage of Scotland.

f Edward Somerset, fourth Earl, K.G. 1593. He was Master of the Horse 1602-15. Lord Privy Seal 1615-27. Died 1628.

A.D. 1616.

January.

Januarye.-The Erle of Worcester the 2 day of this monethe surrendered his office of Master of the Horse to the King, in lieu whereof he was made Lord Privye Seal, and allso a larger pention was given vnto him,

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The 3. Sir George Villers was made Master of the Horse, and the same day (as I take itt) Sir Thomas Lake was ioyned principall Secretarye with Sir Ralph Winwood.b

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It is sayed thatt the Ladie Penelope Spencer, the Erle of Southampton's daughter, is dead.

Sir Roger Dallison hathe surrendered his office of Lieutenant of the Ordenance to Sir Richard Morrison.e

A dispatche is gone into Irland for the removinge of the Lord

a Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, co. Middlesex, knighted 1603, being then Clerk of the Signet, made Privy Councillor 1614.

b Sir Ralph Winwood, born 1565, at Aynhoe, co. Northampton, knighted 1607, and sent Ambassador to Holland. Made Secretary of State 1614, died 1617.

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Penelope Spencer, eldest daughter of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and wife of Sir William Spencer, eldest son and successor (1627) of Robert first Lord Spencer of Wormleighton. She did not die at this time, but survived her husband, who expired 1636, thirty-one years, leaving a high character for all female virtues. She was buried at Brington 16th July, 1667, where a monument to her memory yet remains.

d Sir Roger Dallison, of Laughton, co. Lincoln, was Sheriff of that county 1601, knighted 1603, made Surveyor of the Ordnance for life 1606, upon the surrender of which office he was made Lieutenant of the Ordnance for life in 1608. Created a Baronet 1611.

e Sir Richard Moryson, of Tooley Park, co. Leicester. He first distinguished himself in the wars in the Low Countries, where, at 18 years of age, he was made the Captain of a company, which company he held until his death. He accompanied the Earl of Essex to Ireland, where he served with great credit, and was knighted in August 1599. He became successively Governor of Dundalk, Lecale, Waterford, and the town and county of Wexford. On the death of Sir Henry Brounker, in 1607, he was joined in a commission with the Earl of Thomond to execute the office of Lord President of Munster, which he held until the Lord Danvers was appointed, under whom he served as Vice-President. (Lamb. MSS. 619, 131.) He is said to have paid the Lord Danvers 3,0001. for the reversion of this office, (Birch, i. 167), and that he agreed to do so would seem to be confirmed by the MS. above quoted, which is a petition to the King to allow the Lord Danvers to resign in his favour. The Earl of Thomond appears, however, to have been a better bidder, (see note o, p. 4,) and accordingly obtained the appointment.

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Deputie of Irland, a and in his roome the Lord Chauncelor and the Lord Chiefe Justice of thatt realme are constituted Lords Justices.b The 13. Sir William Monson was comitted close prisoner to the Tower, but the cause of his comittment is vnknowne.

The 19. att Westminster, the Erle of Sommerset and his wife, were indited for the deathe of Overburye, and the grande jurye found itt to be billa vera.

Cottington, the Clarke of the Counsell, is sent into Spayne, and he carries with him a commandment (as is sayed) for the present retourne of Sir John Digbye,e his Majesties Ambassador there.

The reversion of the office was however in 1618 granted to Sir Richard; notwithstanding which he seems never to have enjoyed it, for upon the Earl of Thomond's death, in 1624, it was granted to the Earl's son and others in commission. (Liber Munerum Hiberniæ, Part II. p. 184.) Sir Richard Moryson was Cessor of Composition Money for the Province of Munster 1616-25, and in 1616 was granted the office of Lieutenant of the Ordnance for life, and also for the life of Sir William Harrington, (Sir Richard Moryson's will, Clark, 104,) who received the profits for some time after Sir Richard's death. (Ord. MSS.) Sir Richard Moryson married the daughter of Sir Henry Harrington, and died 1625. Will proved 30th December. His eldest son was knighted at Whitehall 8 October, 1627, and his daughter, Letitia, became the wife of Lucius Carey, the great Viscount Falkland. She was a lady whose character, according to Clarendon, bore, in some degree, a parallel to that of her distinguished husband. (Nichols's Hist. of Leic.) Sir Richard Moryson's brother, Fynes Moryson, was the author of the Annals of Ireland, published in Holinshed's Collection.

a Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Belfast.

b Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, and Sir John Denham Lord Chief Justice.

c Sir William Monson, of Kinnersley, co. Surrey, the celebrated Admiral, and compiler of the Tracts upon Naval Affairs published in 1703. Died 1642.

d Francis Cottington, a younger son of Philip Cottington, of Godmanston, co. Somerset. He was for many years attached to the embassy at the court of Spain, and was well acquainted with Spanish affairs. Knighted and created a Baronet 1623, made Master of Wards and Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer 1629, created Baron Cottington, of Hanworth, 1631. He zealously attached himself to the Royal Cause in the following reign, and having attended Charles II. in his exile, died at Valladolid, in 1653, aged 77.

e Sir John Digby, third son of Sir George Digby, of Coleshill, co. Warwick. Sir John was knighted 1605, created Baron Digby, of Sherborne, 1618, and Earl of Bristol 1622. Walpole mentions him in his Catalogue of Noble Authors. Died 1652.

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The Lord Roste, (the Lord Burghleis sonne,) shall marrye Sir Thomas Lake's daughter, the parents of both sides consentinge vnto itt.

The Kinges Majestie, the Queene, and the Prince, thankes be to God, are in exceedinge good health, which I beseeche God they may evermore enioy."

Now that I have passed over the occurrants within the realme, I may nott omitt somme forrayne accidents. This last sommor, (vppon the conclusion of the articles betwene Fraunce and Spayne for interchangeable matches betwene those kingdomes, which were in handlinge before your departure,) the kinge and the queene mother, garded with sufficient forces, went to Burdeaux, wherevnto the Infanta of Spayned was brought, and the daughter of France e from thence was sent into Spayne, so as the marriages are as muche consummated as by proxie canne be required. The Prince of Condie, with sundrye of the peers and noblesse of France, are in armes, and the whole boddie of the Religion are ioyned with them, so as they are very stronge in horse and foote; and for the payment of there troopes they are bold with the kinges entrata, which in sundrye places of the realme they have and doe take vppe to serve thatt turne. The iniquitie of the murder of Kinge Henry 4, the displacinge of corrupt councillors about the kinge, the inconveniences which may ensue by the matche with Spayne, and the confirmation of the former Edicts in the behalfe of the Religion, are the

a William Cecill, Lord Roos, eldest son of William, 2d Earl of Exeter, by Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Edward Manners, Earl of Rutland. In right of his mother, who died 1591, he acquired the Barony of Roos, and married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, as stated in the text. Died 1618, s.p.

b Louis XIII.

c Maria de' Medici.

d Anne, daughter of Philip III.

e Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Henry IV.

f Henry II., born 1588. At the solicitation of Henry IV. he turned Romanist, but

on the death of Louis XIII. he recovered favour at court, and was Minister of State under the Regent.

Died 1646.