The 19. of this monethe the Lord of Roxboroughe is created Earl of Roxborough in Scotland.a Edward Villiers, second sonne to Sir George Villiers, and brother to the Vicecount Villiers by the father, was knighted. Henry Howard, the third sonne to the Earl of Suffolk, is dead. He hathe no child yf his wyfe be nott with child; his brother Sir Charles Howard is heyre to the Barony of Clon, which the Erle of Northampton gave vnto him. mitted to the Bastile. The Prince of Condé was committed to the Bastill in Paris, where Condé comthe first night he had homelye entertaynement, havinge no other bed than a bundell of straw: he is, as it is sayed, to be sent to Bois de Vincennes, where he is sure to securelye gvarded. The Duke of Gvise was the mediator for the other Princes: they are all reconciled to the Kinge, and a declaration of the King's is published, wherein they are declared to be innocent of any offence. This weeke, to make this reconcilement the more firm, there is in proiect three mariages: the first betweene the yonge Count Soyssons d and the Frenche King's youngest sister,e yett an infant of five or six yeres; the second betweene the Duke de Mayne and Madamoyselle de Vendosme, base daughter to King Henry IV.; the third betweene f a Sir Robert Ker, created Baron Roxburgh 1600. He was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal in Scotland 1637, in which office he was confirmed by Parliament in 1641, but by the same authority deprived in 1649, for his efforts in the cause of the King. Died 1650. See note a, p. 31. b Half-brother of the favourite, being the second son of Sir George Villiers by his first wife Audrey, daughter of William Sanders, Esq. Sir Edward was sent Ambassador to Bohemia 1620, and made President of Munster 1622. Died 1826. He acquired considerable property under the will of the Earl of Northampton, and married a great heiress, Elizabeth, only danghter and heir of William Basset of Blore, co. Stafford. After his death she gave birth to a daughter, who married Sir John Harpur, of Swarkston, co. Derby. d Lewis Count of Soissons, born 1604, and slain in 1641. He never married.Anderson. e Henrietta Maria, who afterwards became the Queen of Charles I. f Catherine Henrietta, born 1596. This projected marriage did not take effect, for in 1619 she was married to Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Elbœuf. She died 1663. Her Reconciliation in France. Renewal of hostilities in Savoy. Madamoyselle de Verneville,a (another base daughter of the same kinge,) and the Duke of Longveville: how many of these willbe consummated tyme will manifest. The towne of Chinon and the castell of Bouages in Berry, which places were helld for the Prince of Condé, are rendered vnto the Kinge of France. The 29. of this monethe the Bishop of Elye att Hampton Court was sworne a Counceller. In this monethe newes was brought vnto us thatt the Cardinall of Mantva,d younger brother to the Duke of Mantva, was secretly married in Rome, whereatt the Pope and the Colledge of Cardinalls were highly offended; he is degraded, of any further proceedinge agaynst him yet we here nothinge. In my last vnto you I wrote that the warre betweene Spayne and Savoy was composed, since which tyme in this sommer itt was renewed. Don Pedro de Toledo, the new governour of Millan, hathe invaded Piedmont; the Duke of Nemours,e a neere kinsman to the Duke of Savoy, and next heyre of Savoy after this Duke and his children, havinge levied forces with the Duke's money, (in his ayde as was pretended,) beinge corrupted by Spayne, hathe turned these forces agaynst the Duke, and annoyes him in Savoy, so as the Duke is greatly distressed, and is in danger to be rvined, and the rather because he mother was Gabrielis, the first of Henry IV's four mistresses, and wife of Nicholas Damaroal, Lord of Liancour.-Anderson. a This marriage also did not take effect, for the Duke of Longueville in 1617 married Aloisa, daughter of Charles Count of Soissons.-Anderson. b See note b, p. 25. c Lancelot Andrews, born 1555, Bishop of Chichester and Lord Almoner 1605, Bishop of Ely 1609, of Winchester and Dean of the King's Chapel 1618; which two last preferments he held until his death in 1626. He was a man of ardent zeal and great piety, and ranked with the best preachers and most complete scholars of the age in which he lived. d Vincentius, born 1594. Cardinal 1615, succeeded his brother Ferdinand as Duke of Mantua 1626. He married Isabel Gonzaga, daughter of Ferdinand Duke of Bozzolo, and died 1627. e See note 8, p. 8. is not like to have any ayde out of France, the Queene beinge as she is alltogether Spanishe. October.-At Yorke House in London, the Kinge in person, assisted by the Lord Chanceler a and the old ladie the Marchioness of Northampton, christened Sir John Egerton's little sonne, to the infinite ioy of the Lord Chanceler. с The 7. the Lord Hay retourned frome his employment in France, where he was feasted beyond belief. But Sir Thomas Jermin is lefte in France lame, and feared to be vncurable. The same day I received a iournall of your days workes, beginninge the 6. of Marche 1614, and endinge the 27. day of November 1615. I never heard of itt untill itt was brought vnto me, which was 20 dayes after I had received your letter, sent unto me by Sir Thomas Smithe: itt was faythfullye delivered, and the seales vnbroken, which I curiouslye observed, because I did nott receve itt with your letter. I have geven my selfe caution to be very sparinge in acquayntinge none but your very good frends with itt, and of them nott many, concevinge itt to be most agreeable to your will. In the last monethe the Lord Rosse took his leave of the Kinge, but he did nott beginne his iourney vntill the 9. of this present October. October. The 9. of this October Sir Thomas Monson was enlarged out of Sir Thomas a Sir Thomas Egerton, created Baron Ellesmere 1603, and Viscount Brackley 1616. b Widow of William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, who died 1571. She was his third wife, and a Swede. Her name was Helen Suavenburgh. e Sir John Egerton succeeded his father as Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley 1617, and was immediately created Earl of Bridgwater. The child whose baptism is here noticed died in infancy. See note b, p. 44. d Sir Thomas Smith, of North Ash, co. Kent, knighted 1603, and sent Ambassador to Muscovy. For many years he was Governor of the Muscovy and East India Companies. He was an eminent and opulent merchant, and was often employed by the King on affairs of state connected with the commerce of the country. In 1619 his house at Deptford was burnt to the ground, but in the same year the Marquis Tremouille, Ambassador Extraordinary from France, with a train of 120 persons, was lodged in his house in London. Monson released. The war in Manor of Sher Sir John about the Tower, havinge beene prisoner there allmost a whole. yere The 10. the newes frome Italie is thatt Don Pedro de Toledo, Governor of Millan, hathe fought with the Duke of Savoy, and hathe geven him a great overthrow: the Duke for his saftye hathe put himselfe into Vercelli, a strong town of his vppon the frontier of the Duchye of Millan; the particular relation is nott yett come, but daylie expected. I pray to God in my hart thatt the brave prince may nott be vtterlye ruyned by thatt potent kinge! The goodlye mannour of Shirborne, once Sir Walter Raleghe, then borne given to Prince Henries, and latelye excheated to the Kinge by the Earl of Sommersett's trespasse, is geven to Sir John Digbye, the Kinges Vicechamberlayne. Digby. By later intelligence we heare thatt the overthrow geven to the Duke of Savoy is nott so great as was bruted, and itt rests dowbtful whether part received most losse. The queene mother hathe geven vnto the Marshall d' Ancre, in recompence of his house pulled down in the people's furie, a muche fayrer house, once Zametts, and, towards the losse of his goodes pillaged, so many francs as amounts vnto 40,000 of Englishe money; he hathe also bought the office of Generall of the Artillerie of the Marquis Rossye, the Duke of Svllyes sonne, and he hathe redeemed the Duchie of Alenzon with all the profitts belonginge vnto itt, which was mortgaged vnto the Duke of Wirtemberge for great somes of money. b с The Duke of Espernon makes a pettie warre vpon the towne of a See Appendix No. 2. He was made Grand Master of the Artillery in Died v. p. b Maximilian de Bethune, born 1588. 1618 on the resignation of his father. c John Frederick, patriarch of the lines of Stuttgardt and Neustadt, born 1588. Invested K.G. 1604. Died 1628. Rochell, skirmishes hathe passed, and somme on ether syde slayne and taken prisoners. a Sir Henry Gvyldford his house att Toplow, neere vnto Maydenhead, is burnt downe to the ground; itt chaunced in the nyght, and he, his wife, and children, escaped with difficultie burninge in there beds; the loss of plate, money, and moveables is valewed at more then 8,0001i. tween Austria Count John of Nassaw b is to go to Venice by sea, with 3,000 Hostilities besouldiours, payed by the Estates, to the ayde of the Venetians against and Venice. Ferdinand of Austria, comonlye called the Duke of Gratz, betwene whome and them there hathe been hostillities for more then a yere past. Capten Vere, the late Erle of Oxford's base sonne, and other Englishe captens and officers, are imbarqued in the service. James Lord Cramborne, the onlye sonne to the Erle of Salisburye, and christened by the Kinge att Hattfild, died in this monethe, to the great griefe of his parents. She is now agayne with child. Allso in this monethe five men which were planted in Bermuda, fearinge (as they say) to dye with famine, built a boate little bigger then a double wherry, about two tonnes, and, puttinge into itt such provision of victualls as they could gett, committed themselves to the mercy of the vast ocean, and itt pleased God to preserve them, and they are safelye arrived in England. Whatt will be the successe of thatt plantation is muche to be feared; for my particular, I amme hopelesse of any profitt from thence. a He had another seat at Hemstead Hall, co. Kent, where his father entertained Queen Elizabeth on her progress in 1573. b John Lewis, Count of Nassau-Hadamar, born 1590. He turned Roman Catholic, and was by the Emperor Frederick II. made Chamberlain of the empire. He was one of the Privy Council of Frederick III., and was sent Ambassador to the treaty of Westphalia 1648. Died 1653. c Ferdinand of Hapsburg, Archduke of Gratz, son of Charles of Austria, and brother of Maximilian II., born 1578, elected King of Bohemia 1617, of Hungary 1618, succeeded his cousin the Emperor Mathias as Emperor 1619. Died 1637.-Anderson. d Chamberlain says, "The King was his godfather in person, held him at the font all the while he was christening, gave him the reversion of all his father's places and offices, and yet all these favours could not prolong life.”—Birch, voli. p. 436. |