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report he mentions some experiments that were to be made to test 
the so-called discovery; but there is no further record of the 
matter. 
The Prince in December, 1610, after being created Prince of 
Wales, settled his household, and appointed Sir Thomas Chaloner 
to be his Chamberlain ; Sir William Fleetwood, his brother-in-law, 
to be his Surveyor-General, and later his Attorney-General ; and 
another brother-in-law, Sir David Foulis, his Cofferer. In the 
following year the Prince bought from Sir Robert Dudley, son of 
the Earl of Leicester, the great estate of Kenilworth, which that 
unfortunate youth was compelled to sell. He was a man of 
brilliant abilities, and had been a pupil of Chaloner, and had 
imbibed from his instructions a love of science, which, had he led 
a more regular life, would have made him one of the most eminent 
men of his time. 
But the term of existence of the poor Prince, to whom he was 
no doubt deeply attached, was drawing to a close, and slowly and 
surely the inevitable end manifested its coming, as it did at a 
quarter before eight on Friday the 6th November, 1612. Sir 
Thomas Chaloner, as Head of the Household, figured conspicu- 
ously in the Funeral Procession of 7th December of that year. 
On June 13th, he had a grant of a lease of the manor of East 
Garston, in Berkshire, with a flock of two hundred sheep. On 
August 28th, 1613, he is associated with two others in a grant of 
all that part of Guiana, on the Continent of America, lying between 
the rivers Amazon and Dollesquebe. The last mention but one 
that I find of him, is his Petition to the Council, 1615, that the 
farmers of alum may be ordered to continue to him his pension of 
forty marks per annum granted for his labours in discovering 
the alum mines in Yorkshire. , 
Sir Thomas says in his will, dated November 26th, 1615, “I 
have conveyed unto my brother-in-law, Sir William Fleetwood, the 
two parts in three parts to be divided, of the profits that shall 
or may accrue or come of my part of the allum mines, for the 
benefit of my children which I had by my first wife, which I hold 
to be a very sufficient advancement for them; now my will is, 
