On the 29th and 30th of August, the Royal Party were entertained at Wilton', the noble mansion of William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke.

We shall meet the King and Queen again at Wilton House early in October.

This Nobleman succeeded his father Earl Henry, and his mother was the famous sister of Sir Philip Sidney. This Earl, who was born at Wilton April 8, 1580, and was educated at New College in Oxford, is frequently mentioned in Rowland Whyte's Letters to Sir Robert Sidney; " 19 April 1597, he says, 'My Lord Harbert hath, with much adoe, brought his father to consent that he may live at London, yet not before the next spring.'—Again, 4 Aug. 1599. My Lord Harbert meanes to follow

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camp, and bids me write unto you, that if yourself come not over, he meanes to make bold with you, and send for Bayleigh [a horse] to Penshurst, to serve upon. Yf you have any armor or pistols, that may steede him for himself only, he desires he may have the use of them till your own return.'-11 Aug. 1599. 'Lord Harbert is to have 200 horse sent up by his father to attend her Majesty's person. He sent to my Lady to borrow Bayleigh. She returned this answer, that he shall have it, but conditionally, that if you come over, or send for it to Flushing, he may restore it, which he agrees unto.'-18 Aug. 1599. My Lord Harbert hath beene from Court these seven daies in London, swagering yt amongest the men of warre, and viewing the maner of the musters.' 8 Sept. 1599. 'My Lord Harbert is a continuall Courtier, but doth not follow his business with that care as is fit; he is to cold a Courtier in a matter of such greatnes.'-12 Sept. 1599. 'Now that my Lord Harbert is gon, he is much blamed for his cold and weake maner of pursuing her Majestie's favor, having had soe good steps to leade him unto it. There is a want of spirit and courage laid to his charge, and that he is a melancholy young man. Young Carey followes it with more care and boldnes. I protest unto you, that I did from time to time advise his Lordship to a more careful course, assuring him, that to goe back would prove disgraceful unto him, and that this yong competitor might purposely start up, to try what he wold doe, Yt is not yet to late, if he stay not to long in the country. Some jealousy I had that you were sent away, because you shuld not be here to advise and counsell him in a matter of such greatness; for surely it wold be to your good to see him a favorit.'-Michaelmas day, 1599. 'My Lord Harbert was sent for by the Queen's commandment whose pleasure was signified by Sir John Stanhope; but his Lordship's father will not suffer him to goe away; I believe it is in respect of his expences. But all is well at Wilton againe, and Goodruch hath done a great cure.'-24 Nov. 1599. My Lord Harbert is exceedingly beloved at Court of all men; he is careful for your leave, and puts Sir Robert Cecil and Lord Nottingham oft in minde of it. He goes to Ramsbury to see his father, on Wednesday next.'-29 Nov. 1599. 'Lord Harbert is highly favoured by the Queen; for at his departure he had accesse unto her; and was private an hour; but he greatly wants advise, and extremely longes for you here.'-15 Dec. 1599. I heare that my Lord Harbert brought my Lord and Ladie, his mother, to the Earle of Hertford's to dinner, hard by Ramisbury; and that a matche is intended betweene the said Earle and Lady Anne.'-26 Jan. 1599. Even now I open a Letter from my Lord Harbert to me, who saies, that he hath a continuall paine in his head, and finds no manner of ease, but by taking of tobacco. He wills me to comend hym unto you, and to signifie, that you cannot send hym a more pleasing gifte then excellent tobacco. The like request I made from my Lady Pembroke.-22 March 1599. My Lord Harbert is at Court, and desires me

to salute you very kindly from him. I doubt not but you shall have great comfort by him, and I

On the 31st of August the King and Queen visited Everley in Wiltshire, the residence of Mr. Sadler.

On the first of September, Lord Cecil writes thus from Basing to Sir Thomas Parry: "Monsieur de Vitry hath ben very well receaved by the King in his Progress, and is much delighted with the manner of the King's hunting. The Spanish Ambassadour is now in two or three days to be brought to Oxford, because his Majesty intends to geve him his first access at Woodstock; the Erle of Devonbelieve he will prove a great man in Court. He is very well beloved, and truly deserves it.'-26 Sept. 1600. · My Lord Harbert resolves this yeare to shew hymself a man at armes, and prepares for yt; and because it is his first tyme of runninge, yt were good he came in with some excellent devise; I make yt known to your Lordship, that if you please to honor my Lord Harbert with your advice, my feare is, that Mr. Sanford will in his humour, persuade my Lord to some pedantike invention.'-30 Oct. 1600. 'My Lord Harbert is practising at Greenwich; I sent him word of this; he leapes, he daunces, he singes, he gives counterbuffes, he makes his horse runne with more speede; he thanckes me, and meanes to be exceeding merry with you this winter in Baynard's Castell, where you must take physicke.' - On Jan. 19, 1600-1, this Nobleman became, by his father's death, Earl of Pembroke; and in 1603 was made by James I. Knight of the Garter. In 1603 a treaty of marriage was commenced between the Earl and Lady Mary, one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, which was completed in the following year. It seems by a Letter published in Lodge's Illustrations, as if some deposit towards her fortune was then very convenient to his pecuniary demands. At that time too, it appears, Lord and Lady Shrewsbury were flattered with warm hopes of the happiness of this matrimonial union, which, by Lord Clarendon's account, turned out far otherwise. -In 7 James I. he was appointed Governor of Portsmouth; and, in the 15th of this reign was Chancellor of the University of Oxford; as also, Lord Chamberlain of the Household.—In 1608 a quarrel happened between this Earl and Sir George Wharton (eldest son of Philip, third Lord Wharton), which is related in a curious manner, in a Letter from Thomas Coke to the Countess of Shrewsbury, printed in Lodge's Illustrations," vol. III. p. 259.

Wood says, "He was the very picture and viva effigies of Nobility. His person was rather majestic than elegant, and his presence, whether quiet or in motion, was full of stately gravity. His mind was purely heroic, often stout, but never disloyal; and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard, that when that match fell under consideration in the latter end of the reign of James I. he would sometimes rouse to the trepidation of that King, yet kept in favour still; for his Majesty knew plain dealing (as a jewel in all men so) was in a Privy Counsellor an ornamental duty; and the same trueheartedness commended him to Charles I." And Lord Clarendon's character of this Nobleman is an exquisite portrait. He died April 10, 1630. See more of him in Sir Egerton Brydges' " Memoirs of the Peers of England during the Reign of James the First."

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Everley lordship," says the author of Magna Britannia, " was the property for several successions of the Plantagenets Dukes of Lancaster, and eventually became vested in the Crown by the accession of Henry of Bolingbroke (son to John of Gaunt) to the regal dignity." The same authority states, that there" is in this place a famous warren, known in these parts by the name of Everley

shire is appointed to meet him at Henley, and to accompany him to Oxford, and so from thence to bring him to the King, the Lord Davers having ben before sent to meet him as farr as Canterbury, wch circumstance I the rather note unto you, because you may you may know that in these matters of ceremony we have observed such decorum, as to offer no more to him than was done to Monsieur Rosny at his being here, no nor less than becomes the greatness of such a Prince for whome this Ambassdor comes 1."

From the first to the 4th of September the King and Queen were entertained at Tottenham Park 2, the mansion of the Earl of Hertford3; and on the 5th and 6th they were the guests of Lord Chief Justice Popham, at Littlecote3.

Warren, where is a great breed of hares, which afford the recreation of hunting to the neighbouring gentry." In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the manor was granted to Sir Ralph Sadler, then Royal Falconer. It afterwards became the property of Sir John Evelyn, and passed from him to the Barkers, one of whom sold it to Sir John Astley, who bequeathed it to Francis Astley, Esq. father of Sir John Dugdale Astley, Bart. the present owner, who is one of the Representatives in Parliament for Wilts. 1 Cotton MSS. Caligula, E. x. fol. 213.

• In Tottenham Park, situate within Savernake Forest, was a noble old mansion, the property of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, which passed from the Seymours by marriage to Charles Bruce, Earl of Aylesbury, ancestor of the present Marquess of Aylesbury, whose property it now is; but instead of the old house, which was demolished in the Civil Wars, a brick building has been erected consisting of a square centre with two wings at each end. The centre was built under the direction of the Earl of Burlington, for a hunting-seat.

3 Edward Seymour, eldest son by a second wife, and heir by a special entail, to the great Duke of Somerset, of whose titles and estates he had been deprived, when a child, by an act of Parliament procured through the malice of his father's enemies. The late Queen created him Earl of Hertford in her first year, but he soon after incurred her displeasure by marrying the Lady Catherine Grey, daughter and heir of Henry Duke of Suffolk; sister to the amiable and unfortunate Lady Jane; and grand-daughter to Mary Queen Dowager of France, Henry the Eighth's sister. Elizabeth, whose dread of competitors produced most of those enormities of conduct which have unhappily blackened her fame, imprisoned them both; and, after a confinement of many years, the cause of the Queen's jealousy being removed by the death of the Countess, the Earl was set at liberty, and retired with a broken spirit into the country. He was now, with much importunity, drawn from his retirement to go Ambassador to the Archduke (towards whom it appears, by a subsequent Letter, that he set out on the 12th of April,) to conclude the great business of the peace. He died very old, in April 1621, having enjoyed his title 62 years.

✦ John Popham, Esq. was called to the degree of Serjeant at Law, and appointed Solicitor General in June 1579; Attorney General in June 1580. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1592; appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in June 1592; and of the King's Bench in April 160S. He died in 1607, aged 76. See the "Progresses of Queen Elizabeth," vol. III. p. 565.

5 Now the seat of Major-General Edward Leybourne Popham, situated to the westward of Chil

On the 7th and 8th of September the King and Queen were at Wadley', in the parish of Faringdon, Berkshire, the residence of Dame Dorothy Umpton, Relict of Sir Henry Umpton, Knight of the Garter, and some time Ambassador at the Court of France 2.

From the 9th to the 11th they were at Burford Priory3 in Oxfordshire, the residence of Mr. Tanfield4; and thence to the Royal Palace of Woodstock; from which place Proclamation was made, for adjourning of Michaelmas Term to the Fourth Return, commonly called Mense Michaelis, and to be continued at Westminster.

ton Foliot, being partly in that parish and partly in the parish of Ramsbury. In ancient times it was the residence of the family of the Darells. By one of them it was sold to Sir John Popham, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. whose descendants, in the male line, continued to possess it till the present proprietor obtained it by will. This Gentleman is son of Edward Leybourne, Esq. who was Governor of Grenada in 1772, by Anne, daughter of Edward Popham, Esq. He took the name of Popham on coming to this estate.

⚫ Of Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Sir Edward Umpton at Wadley, see her "Progresses," vol. I. p. 391. • Of Sir Henry Umpton, and his Embassy, see the Queen's "Progresses," vol. II. p. 86.—Lady Umpton "was daughter of that valuable man Sir Thomas Wright, Knight;" as appears by the fine monument which she placed in Faringdon Church to the memory of her husband, who died in 1596. › At Burford, a small market town at the western extremity of Oxfordshire, on the borders of Gloucestershire, was a small Priory dedicated to St. John, and valued at £.13. 6s. 6d. No part of the building now remains, but at the dissolution it was granted to Edmund Harman, Esq. and by this Gentleman it appears probable that the present handsome mansion, termed the Priory, was constructed as a private residence. This estate afterwards became the property of Sir Laurence Tanfield, Knt. whose only daughter married Henry Lord Falkland. Sir Laurence left the Priory, in conjunction with the chief part of his other estates after the death of his Lady, who deceased in 1629, to his grandson, the gallant Lord Falkland, killed at Newbury. Shortly after the death of this Nobleman, the Priory was purchased by William Lenthal, Esq. the celebrated Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. Lenthal long lived here in a dignified retirement; and the building is still the property and residence of his descendant. The mansion is the great ornament of Burford. Much of the old house has been lately taken down; but some fresh rooms have been added, more suited to the needs of an improved elegance of manners. Adjoining is a chapel built by the Speaker Lenthal. In the Priory are preserved several fine paintings, some of which were brought here from the collection of King Charles I. at Hampton Court, when those paintings were sold by order of the House of Commons.

4 Sir Lawrence Tanfield, at this time a Serjeant at Law (see p. 157), was knighted at the Tower on March 14, 1603-4; became a Puisne Justice of the King's Bench in 1605; and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1607. He has a costly monument in Burford Church, Oxfordshire.-Tanfield-court in the Temple is, probably, so called from him.

"The King having several weeks before left London, came in September to Woodstock, to whom retired (as 'tis said in the Life of Archbishop Laud) the Vice-chancellor, Doctors, and Proctors, and what appearance could be made in the University; and after an usual Speech, the King promised them his favour, and presence also, when God should abate the infection now raging in his Kingdom 1." On the 11th of September, the following Letter was addressed, from Woodstock, to the Earl of Shrewsbury from Sir Thomas Edmonds 2:

"I suppose yo L. is noe lesse enterteyned wth the pleasure of yor hunting there then we are here; so as you doe not care, nor expect, to heare anie novelties from us during this time. Since the tyme that yo' L. left us we have whollie spent our tyme in that exercise; but the Queene remayned at Basing3 till the Kinge's coming hither; and she hath as well enterteyned herself wth good dansing, wch hath brought fourth the effectes of a marriage betweene my Lord Admyrall and the Lady Margaret Stuart 4. His L. in his passage hither by the waie of Neweberrye, hath recovered the possession of Donnington Castle from the Ladye Russell 5, she being absent in Wales wth her daughter the Lady Harbet.

"The Judges have of late mett at Maydenhedd, to consider of the crymes of the psoners; and, as I understand, they make noe question of fynding them all culpable, save onlie Sr Walter Rawleigh, agaynst whom it is sayd that the proofes are not so pregnant. Serjeant Harrys hath ben this daye called before the Lordes about those busynes, but I doe not yett see anie likelyhoode that he will prove much faultie. It hath ben this daie resolved to put of the Terme till wthin a few dayes of Allhollantyde, in respect of the violent contynuing of the sicknes; and then either to deferre it longer, as there shalbe further necessitie, or to keepe it at such place as shalbe freest from the infection: St. Albon's, Hertford, Northampton, Coventrie, and dyvers other places, have ben earnest sutors for the drawing of the Terme unto them, but the pmise thereof is respyted till hereafter. The Court 'Wood's Annals, by Gutch, vol. II. p. 280. Lodge's Illustrations, vol. III. p. 171.

' Of Basing House, see before, p. 252.—It gives the title of Baron to the Dukes of Bolton. L. The Admiral (Charles Earl of Nottingham) married her in his 68th year, and had two sons by her, the younger of whom, Charles, succeeded his half-brother in the Earldom many years after. L. 5 Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Anthony Cooke, and widow of John Lord Russell, second son of Francis second Earl of Bedford. Anne, her only child, had been lately married to Henry Lord Herbert, son and heir of Edward Somerset, Earl of Worcester. Of the dispute concerning Donnington Castle (said to have been the seat of Chaucer, and of late years possessed by the old Berkshire family of Packer, the heiress of which was mother to Winchcombe Henry Hartley, Esq. the present possessor) we are not likely to gain further information than this Letter gives us. L.