And there, as Bacon said of Henry VII, "he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive."

According to the Visitation of Buckinghamshire of 1634 Lord Hunsdon had three daughters1 and nine sons. Of the sons we know 1 The daughters were:

I KATHERINE, who married the Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham, afterwards Earl of Nottingham. (See Collins Peerage, ed. Brydges, iv, 269.) She is the subject of a romantic story about which a whole literature has grown up (see Dict. Nat. Biog., reissue ed., v, 887), but which is not entertained by the serious historians. The most complete version of this tale, as told by a great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth (Nichols, Progresses of James I, i, 35) is as follows: Queen Elizabeth is supposed to have given to her favorite, the Earl of Essex, a ring, with the understanding that she would pardon him any offense if he sent it to her when in danger. When he was in the Tower awaiting execution he delivered the ring to a boy with instructions to carry it to Lady Scrope, then in attendance upon the queen. By mistake the boy delivered it to Lady Scrope's sister, Lady Nottingham, whose husband was an enemy of Essex, who thereupon wilfully withheld the ring from the queen. After Essex's execution, when dying, Lady Nottingham confessed to the queen what she had done, whereupon Elizabeth burst into a violent passion, struck Lady Nottingham in bed and exclaimed, "God may forgive you, but I never can," and soon after she died herself of remorse. Like relics of a saint, the ring afterwards multiplied: rings are exhibited in several English families as the identical token.

Lady Nottingham died in January, 1603, two months before Queen Elizabeth. She left several children, but her blood has persisted only on the distaff side. The most interesting among her descendants are her great-grandson John Mordaunt (1627-1675), the Cavalier conspirator, who married a granddaughter of Sir Robert Carey, thus uniting two strains of old Lord Hunsdon's blood in Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough (1658-1735), the romantic figure in the court of Queen Anne. He deemed himself enough of a Carey to annex the title of Earl of Monmouth, when it became extinct on the death of his mother's brother. II PHILADELPHIA, who married Thomas le Scrope, the son and

little of five,' but the other four, George, John, Edmund, and Robert, were all knighted for sersuccessor as Baron Scrope of Bolton to Hunsdon's colleague on the border. She was mother of Emanuel le Scrope (baptized at Hunsdon August 15, 1584, the queen being his godmother), who as Lord Scrope was president of the north under James I, and was created Earl of Sunderland by Charles I.

III MARGARET, who married Sir Edward Hoby (1560–1617), a nephew of Lord Burghley. Bred at Eton and Oxford, he became a scholar and diplomatist, author of controversial books against the papists and of a notable translation of the Spanish Mendoza's Theorique and Practise of War (1597). He cultivated the literary men of his time and in consequence achieved immortality for his name, e.g., in Camden's Britannia. He and his wife entertained both Elizabeth and James I at their house, Bisham, co. Berks.

1 The inconspicuous sons of the first Lord Hunsdon. These five were:

II HENRY, who sat in Parliament for his father's borough of Buckingham from 1572 to 1583, and appears for a moment on the page of history the subject of a most extraordinary proposal. In 1570 the last Lord Conyers of the Yorkshire family of that name, of kin to the Nevilles and Dacres, had died, leaving three coheiresses; at the trial of the rebels at York that year, after the "rising in the north," the argument was advanced that one of them, Astolph Cleisby, should be pardoned because Henry Carey was a suitor for the hand of one of the Conyers heiresses and Cleisby, "being in great credit with all the sisters, might assist, if his life was spared, in bringing about the match." (Sharp, Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569.) After some hesitation the queen actually acted on this suggestion, but the marriage was not arranged. (See Dugdale, Baronage, under Conyers.)

The rest of our information about this Henry Carey is that he Idied at Berwick in 1581 and that his brother George administered on his estate. (P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, 1581.)

IV WILLIAM, then described as of Berwick, sat in Parliament for Northumberland County 1588-89. He married Martha, daughter of Thomas Turner of Wratting, co. Suffolk, who subsequently married two more husbands, Dudley Fortescue and Sir Nicholas Hayes. He died in 1593, when his widow administered on his estate, and he was described as "of City of London, Esq." (P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, 1593.) His brother Robert in his Memoirs, describing a family lawsuit, says that William died "without children," but the context shows that he meant without sons. At all events the record evidence is that William left a

vice in the field, two of them under their father on the border, and became worthies who warrant our attention.

daughter, Katherine, born in 1576, who afterwards in 1602 married Robert Buxton, Gent. (Bishop of London's Marriage Licenses, Harl. Soc. Pub., xxv (1887), 275), she being described as "attendant" on her aunt, Lady Howard, and the bridegroom as "attendant on ye Lord Howard." Her father is described in the license as 66 Carye of Citty of London, Esq., deceased

about 6 or 7 years ago."

Mr. Robinson (H. & G., iv, 40, 46) gives what purports to be a calendar of the parish register of Buckingham showing the baptism of Henry and William in 1564 and 1570 respectively. Apart from the fact that these dates would bring them far down the list of sons, what we know of their subsequent careers indicates that there must be some mistake in Mr. Robinson's information, doubtless a confused note, that bane of all research, or a mere misprint.

III, VI, VIII. Of the others our chief information is from the Visitation of Buckingham of 1634. Here it is stated that the third son, Michael (styled in some pedigrees Nicholas), died in Ireland without issue. Daniel Rogers (1538?-1591) wrote in Latin verse a tumulus upon him. (See Historical MSS. Commission Report, iv, 253.) The sixth and eighth sons, both named Thomas, are recorded by the Visitation pedigrees to have died in infancy.

Bishop Valentine Carey. Within a year or two after 1568 there was born at Berwick a boy known as Valentine Carey, who is first heard from at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1585. He had back of him influence which with his own ability secured him rapid promotion both at Cambridge and in the Church, being Master of Christ's in 1610, Dean of St. Paul's in 1614, and Bishop of Exeter in 1621. He was, says Fuller, "a complete gentleman and excellent scholar." He secured his bishopric by the aid of Henry Carey, fourth Lord Hunsdon, and at Exeter used the Cary arms in a bordure. Before he died in 1626 he adopted Ernestus Carey, "a younger son of a younger son," grandson of Sir Edmund Carey, the third son of the first Lord Hunsdon, and by his will provided for his education and left him an estate in Cambridgeshire. Although his friend Thomas Fuller definitely says (Worthies of England, ed. Nuttall, 1840, ii, 546) that he was "extracted from the Carys, barons of Hunsdon," Bishop Valentine Carey's name and arms have puzzled the Devon genealogists: Prince, indeed, claims him as a worthy of Devon. It is probable that he was an illegitimate son of the first Lord Hunsdon. See the discussion in Notes and Queries in 1864.