the Privy-chambers, and, out of them following him to the Presence-chamber, they there dined,—the Polonian at the lower side of the table on the King's left hand, and the Florentine at the end of it. A Count Palatine, cosin to the Polonian, and three or four Knights of Malta and of Saint Stephen, of the Florentine's Traine, dined in the Councell-chamber. At the end of the table sate the Count Palatine in a chaire, and for company the Lord Clifford on his right hand, the three Knights on the left side, and beneath them the rest of the Florentine's company; on the other side sate the Polonian's Gentlemen, &c. The inferior sort sate not at all there, but had the remains after at the same table. Dinner done, the Ambassadors after their retreat to their chambers had their several Audiences; the Polonian first, in the Gallery, who was after conducted to the Prince by his Highness' Gentleman-usher. And after him the Florentine in the same place and order. The Polonian Ambassador not long after departed, having obtained of his Majesty by the cunning assistance of the Count de Gondemar, the loane (I may say the gift,-as never to be restored,) of ten thousand pounds sterling 1." On the same day, July 15, Dr. John Williams, Dean of Westminster, "is constituted Keeper of the Great Seal, and heard Evening Prayer, Manwaring carrying the Seal before him, and Sutton. "The Marquess of Hamilton was sent into Scotland to hold a Parliament, and Viscount Doncaster was [a second time] sent Extraordinary Ambassador to the French King. Sir Edward Herbert is recalled from France because he had treated the Constable Luines [the Favourite of the French Monarch] irreverently. Sir Edward Sackville was appointed in his place 2." On the 13th and 16th, the King was at Theobalds; where, on the former day, he knighted Sir Robert Pye3; on the latter, Sir Arthur Ingram, Sir Thomas Leveson, and Sir Thomas Eversfield. From Theobalds his Majesty began a Summer Progress, proceeding first to Royston, where he knighted, on the 19th of July, Sir John Fenner and Sir Richard Rogers. • Finetti Philoxenis, p. 79. 2 Camden's Annals. 'The Treasurer's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, introduced to that service by Buckingham; see p. 487. • Son of Sir Arthur, of whom in p. 273; and father of Henry, created Viscount of Irvine in Scotland in 1661. This Sir Arthur was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1630, and died July 4, 1655. On the same day, July 19, the 154th Baronetcy was conferred on John Rivers, of Chafford, Kent, Esquire 1. On the 21st, Mr. Chamberlain wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton: "On Sunday the Earl of Arundel had the baton delivered him, and was made Earl Marshal at Theobalds. The King would have given him £.2000 a year pension withall2; but (whatsoever the reason was) he would not accept but the ordinary fee, which is £.20 per annum. "On Monday the Marquis of Buckingham came to town, and made many visits. He was with the Earl of Northumberland and Sir Henry Yelverton in the Tower; with the Earl of Southampton two hours together at Westminster; with the Earl of Oxford at Sir William Cockaine's; with Sir Thomas Lake at his house; in all which places his coming was taken for a good presage, like the appearing of St. Elmo after a tempest. And accordingly, on Wednesday morning very early, the Lord Keeper [Williams] carried the Earl of Southampton to Theobalds, where the King, before he began his Progress, had long conference with him, none being admitted in the room but the Lord Keeper and the Lord of Buckingham; but in conclusion the Lord Keeper brought him home to his own house in Holborne, dined with him, and there left him at liberty 3. "That afternoon the Earl of Northumberland was released from his long imprisonment in the Tower, where the Lord of Doncaster [his son-in-law] went to fetch him, and brought him to his house with a coach and six horses. It was my chance to see him in Paul's Church-yard; and in my judgment he is nothing altered from that he was more than fifteen years ago that he was committed 4. He hath liberty to lie at Petworth, or in any place within thirty miles.compass of it, within which circuit I take Sion to be. The Warders of the Tower make great moan that they have lost such a benefactor. 66 Captain North 5 was delivered then likewise; and Sir Henry Yelverton the Eldest son of Sir George Rivers, knighted at Oxford August 30, 1605 (see vol. I. p. 560), and who was M. P. for East Grinstead in 1596. Sir John was successively followed in the title by two of his grandsons, from the latter of whom the present and ninth Baronet, the Rev. Sir Henry Rivers, is third in descent. • Such a pension is recorded in Brydges's Peerage, vol. I. p. 116; but no refusal is there mentioned. * The Earl had suffered for his behaviour in Parliament (see p. 657); and was first delivered to the custody of the Dean of Westminster, June 16. Camden's Annals. At the time of the Gunpowder Treason; see vol. I. p. 583; this vol. pp. 181, 445. 5 Sir Roger; see p. 482. On the 20th of December 1620, “ having received a message from the |