expressing of our bounden duetie to our gratious Soveraigne, and of our thankfulness and joy for so greate blessing, that wee shold attend upon his Majestie in such nomber and order as with most convenyencie wee may on the sodaine, to expresse this our service to his Majestie. Theis shalbe therefore to will and require you, in his Majestie's name, to provyde and have in a readynes the full nomber of [ten] persons of the most grave, tall, and comely personages of your said Company, every of them to be well horsed and apparrelled in velvet coats and chaines of gold; and that not only your selves, but also every of the said persons, being well and sufficyently horsed, apparrelled, and appointed as aforesaid, do meet at the Guildhall to-morrowe at twelve of the clocke in the forenoone, from thence to attend upon mee and my Brethren the Aldermen to Gray's Inn-fields, from thence to waite and attend upon his most excellent Majestie to his said Highnes' Pallace. And hereof faile not, as you will answeare the contrary at your perills, if through your negligence or defalt any parte of this service shall not be fully performed. Ffrom my house, this last of May 1619. After arriving at Whitehall, on the first of June, his Majesty knighted Sir Nicholas Lower. On the 4th, Thomas Mackworth, of Normanton, Rutlandshire, Esquire', was created a Baronet, being the 107 th raised to that dignity. On the 5th, Mr. Chamberlain thus wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton: "The King came from Theobalds on Tuesday to Whitehall all along the fields; and on the back side of Gray's Inn was met by a fair troop of our Citizens on horseback, with their chains of gold, or pearl, or diamonds, and the Aldermen in scarlet. The Recorder made a short Speech in gratulation of his recovery, and excuse of the Lord Mayor's absence; whereto the King gave no This family is derived from Mackworth in Derbyshire. The first Baronet served Sheriff of Rutlandshire in 1599 and 1609; and at the Rebellion compounded for his estate at £.879. He was succeeded by his son Sir Henry; from whom Sir Henry, the present and seventh Baronet, is fourth in descent. great heed, making little shew of being pleased, as being given to understand he is more sullen than sick, which in very truth is otherwise, for he continues still in weak estate. The King was attended by the Prince and all the Nobility in very good equipage, himself being fresh in suit of watchet satin laid with a blue and white feather; as also his horse was furnished with the like both before and behind; insomuch that all the Company was glad to see him so gallant, and more like a Wooer than a Mourner. But what decorum it will be, when Ambassadors come to condole (as here is from the Duke of Loraine with two or threeand-twenty followers all in black,) let them consider whom it more concerns. "The Lord Chancellor [Bacon] waited his coming in the Presence at Whitehall, accompanied with the whole Choir, as he termed it, of Judges and Lawyers. The King was gone early the next morning on hunting, and that night to Greenwich, so that it seems his only coming hither was to receive these applauses and gratulations. "He makes account to continue at Greenwich, Theobalds, Wansted, Havering, and hereabouts, till the 18th of July, that he begins his Progress Northward as far as Royston, Nottingham, Derby, and so, by Warwick and Sir William Pope's. to Woodstock, Rycot, Bisham, and Windsor 1." On the 7th of June, Esme Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny, (afterwards third Duke of Lennox,) was created, by patent, Baron Stuart of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire, and Earl of March. On the 8th, the King knighted, at Greenwich, Sir Miles Sandys 3; and feasted there an Ambassador from the Duke of Lorraine, who had arrived on the 3d 4. On the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 13th, Sir John White, Sir Joseph Hayes, Sir Birch's MSS. (Brit. Mus.) 4174. "See vol. II. pp. 186, 247, 442; and this vol. p. 136.-His title of Baron was taken from the estate of his father-in-law Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, of whom see vol. II. p. 335, and who had, as Camden says, "laid violent hands on himself" in October preceding the present date, leaving Lady D'Aubigny his sole heir.-The Barony of Stuart of Leighton Bromswold and Earldom of March became extinct with Charles sixth Duke of Richmond in 1672; but King Charles the Second conferred the Earldom with the Dukedom in 1675 on his natural son Charles Lennox, and they have jointly descended to his present Grace, the fifth of his family. 3 Eldest son of Sir Miles Sandys, Bart. of whom in vol. I. He succeeded his father in that 116. p. title in 1644, but it became extinct with him. See Collins's Baronetage, 1720, vol. I. p. 363. 4 Camden's Annals. Robert Bennet, and Sir Sampson Darrell, were knighted at Greenwich; as, about the same time, was Sir Robert Gorges, at a place unrecorded. "On Sunday the 13th of June, all the Privy Counsellors, by the King's special command, partake of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at Greenwich, in order to shew mutual charity one to another '." On the 15th, William Grey, Esquire, son and heir of Sir Ralph Grey, of Chillingham, Northumberland, Knight2, (and afterwards Lord Grey of Warke,) was advanced to a Baronetcy, being the 108th in rank of Creation. On the 16th, James Hamilton, second Marquis of Hamilton 3, was advanced, by patent, to be Baron of Ennerdale in Cumberland, and Earl of Cambridge. On the 19th, Mr. Chamberlain wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton: "The King came unlooked for from Theobalds to Whitehall on Thursday. He went hence yesterday morning very early to Theobalds, and at night was entertained by young Sir Henry Mildmay at Wanstead, which he hath lately purchased 4 of the Marquis of Buckingham, who, they say, is in speech to marry the Earl of Rutland's daughter, and that by the King's procurement. [His Majesty knighted, at Wanstead, on the 18th, Sir John Honywood of Kent 5; and on the 22d, Sir Nicholas Fuller.] "This day the King is gone to Greenwich; where on Sunday he received the Communion very solemnly in company of the Lords and Counsellors, and gave a great largess of venison, bestowing seven bucks to be spent there that day." On the 19th, his Majesty kep this birth-day; and on that day also, Sir John 'Camden's Annals. • From Sir William being so styled in the lists of Baronets created by King James, it is evident that his father Sir Ralph was still living, and of course was Lord of Chillingham when the King was entertained there in 1617 (see p. 297). Sir William was created Baron Grey of Warke, Feb. 11, 1623. It appears from the Life of the Lord Keeper Guilford, that, on the Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland, the Warke estates rose from £.1000 to 7 or £8000 a year, the devasta tion attendant on Border warfare being then nearly terminated. Titles follow wealth in the natural course of things. The subject of the present note died July 29, 1674, and was succeeded by his son Ralph, whose son Ford was created Earl of Tankerville in 1695. That title died with him in 1701, as did the Barony and Baronetcy in 1706 with his brother Ralph; but the Earldom was revived in the Earl's son-in-law Lord Ossulton, wnose great-great-grandson now enjoys it. 3 of whom see a short memoir in p. 385; and see pp. 390, 413, 464.-His English titles now conferred became extinct with his son William the second Duke of Hamilton, the third who enjoyed them, in 1651. * See pp. 483, 486, 555. s Eldest son of Sir Thomas Honywood, noticed in vol. I. p. 439, and father of the first Baronet. 4 B VOL. III. 554 THE ROYAL HUNTSMAN'S RECIPE FOR STRENGTHENING HIS LEGS, 1619. Villiers, elder brother of the Marquess of Buckingham, was created Baron Villiers of Stoke, co. Bucks, and Viscount of Purbeck, co. Dorset1. On June 24, Sir Thomas Ridley was knighted at Greenwich; and on the 25th, the King was again entertained by Sir Thomas Watson at Halsted 2, together with the Prince, the Earl of Montgomery, and the Lord Sheffield 3. On the 25th, a person unknown thus wrote to Mr. William Trumbull: "The King on Monday next is to be feasted at Wimbledon, where the States. are entertained this day by the Earl of Exeter and General [Sir Edward] Cecil4." On the 26th, Mr. Chamberlain wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton: "Our new Noblemen had their patents delivered them on Sunday last; the Marquess of Hamilton to be Earl of Cambridge and Baron of I know not what place in Yorkshire; the Lord Aubigny to be Earl of March and Baron of I now not where; Sir John Villiers made Baron of Stoke and Viscount Purbeck; and yet, as far as I can learn, the Lady Hatton will not be drawn to put him into possession of either; but only holds him in expectation, or rather in doubtful hope. "The Lady of Salisbury is lately brought to bed of a son, who is to be Christened this week by the Prince and Marquis of Buckingham 5. "The King the next week makes a petty Progress to Otelands, Oking, and Windsor, and so means to pass over the time hereabout till the 19th of the next month, that he removes from Theobalds to Royston on his Journey Northward. His legs and feet are come pretty well to him, having found out a very good expedient of ease, to bathe them in every buck's and stag's belly in the place where he kills them; which is counted an excellent remedy to strengthen and restore the sinews. Al resto, he has fallen to his old diet, and will not be persuaded to forbeare fruit nor sweet wines. "We are driven to hardships for money, and all too little, so that we are fain to make sale of Jewels for £.20,000 to furnish out this Progress 6." On the 28th, the King knighted, in the morning, at Greenwich, Sir Charles Smith; and, in the afternoon, at Wimbledon 7, Sir Samuel Rolls. 'See pp. 176, 438. As before stated, his titles died with him. * See pp. 482, 487. 3 Camden's Annals. Birch's MSS. (Brit. Mus.) 4176. 5 This was Charles, the Earl's second son. He was made K. B. at the Coronation of Charles the First; but died in his father's life-time, in 1659, having had seven sons (the eldest of whom James succeeded his Grandfather as third Earl,) and five daughters. Of the Christening and death of his elder brother James to whom the King stood Godfather, see p. 175. 7 See p. 174. Birch's MSS. (Brit. Mus.) 4174. On June 29, his Majesty knighted, at Greenwich, Sir James Wolveridge, Sir Richard Moor, Sir Eauball Thelwald, and Sir Robert Rich; on the 30th, he departed from Greenwich to Oatlands 1; where he dubbed, on the first of July, Sir Thomas Hinton and Sir Baptista Jones. On the 7th of July, having conferred knighthood, at Windsor, on Sir John Trevor, Sir Alexander Hume, and Sir John Howell, his Majesty returned to Whitehall3; where, on the 8th, Sir Robert Vaughan received that honour. On the 9th, our Monarch was again at Wanstead 4, and knighted there Sir Edward Widnall, of Surrey. On the 13th, his Majesty, having knighted, at Theobalds, Sir John Cochre, Sir Edmund Vanderduffin, and Sir Joachim Lynes, Commissioners from the United Provinces; and Sir John Tunstall, of Surrey 5; "came to Somerset-house, and is said to have visited my Lord Mayor [Sir Sebastian Harvey], in order to recommend the Match of my Lord's daughter with Christopher Villiers "." On the 15th, Sir John Clarke, and Sir Edward Engham of Kent, were knighted at Theobalds; and on the same day Mr. Chamberlain wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton: "The King is to continue at Theobalds till the 19th of this month, that he begins his Progress. "Divers of our great Lords, as the Marquess of Buckingham, the Lord Chamberlain [the Earl of Pembroke], the Earl of Arundel, and others, are minded, they say, to make a posting journey into Scotland, when the King is at Rufford, to accompany the Duke [of Lennox] and Marquess of Hamilton; and this bon voyage is upon a gaiety and kind of promise a gaiety and kind of promise some of them made when they were there 8. Camden's Annals. Erroneously printed Thomas in Philipot's List of Knights, and erroneously June 7 in the Peerages. Sir John was grandfather of the first Lord Trevor, and elder brother of Sir Thomas, of whom in p. 547. He was seated at Trevallin, co. Flint, and died in 1673, having had issue three daughters and four sons, the eldest of whom, Sir John, Secretary of State to King Charles the Second, was father of the first Baron. See Brydges's Peerage, vol. VI. P. 295. Camden's Annals. 4 See p. 553. 5 Sir John Tunstall, of Carshalton, was in this year 1619 one of the Justices of the Peace wit nesses to the foundation of Dulwich College. 6 Camden's Annals. 7 Sir Edward Engham, of Goodnestone, was Sheriff of Kent in 1627. 8 In his letter of Aug. 10, Mr. Chamberlain says: "The Lord Chamberlain [the Earl of Pem |