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By the Rev. Canon J. EB. Jackson, F.8.A. 161 
examination, when my eye caught some writing hidden under the 
fly-leaf. The fly-leaf itself had been pasted down along the edges, 
to the inside of the parchment cover, but I thought I saw some 
writing through the fly-leaf. So, taking out my penknife, I care- 
fully released the page, and to my no smull surprise found, written 
in a large bold hand, this memorandum :— 
“The 22 of January, 1610, about 4 in the morning, My Lady was married 
at Greenwich to Mr. William Seymour.” 
Then followed the names of the witnesses present, and of the offici- 
ating minister. Underneath, two more memoranda :— 
‘“‘The 8 of July, Mr. Seymour was committed to the Tower.” 
‘“‘ The 9th of the same month My Lady to Sir Thomas Parry’s.” 
It was, in a word, an account book of the Lady Arabella’s kept by 
her secretary, Mr. Crompton; with an entry by him, on the last 
leaf, of the particulars of his Lady’s secret marriage. (Appendiz, 
No. xx.) 
_ All that had been hitherto discovered upon this subject, is thus 
given by the latest biographer of the Lady Arabella :— 
“ Seymour and his friend Rodney, set off for Greenwich, where 
they arrived at midnight. They waited till morning, when the 
marriage was celebrated in the apartment of Arabella, Rodney and 
two servants being the witnesses. No record of the marriage has 
been discovered, nor the name of the priest who officiated. The 
secresy requisite to the safety of the parties probably is the cause of 
this. Perhaps at some-future time, among dusty records, they may 
be found.”? 
The book itself turned out to be rather curious, being a Register 
of a kind of Royal Progress she had made from London to Chats- 
worth, and the return journey to London. This is a part of the 
poor Princess’s life quite unknown to her biographers, so that we 
? Miss E. Cooper’s Life of Lady Arabella Seymour, ii., 110. Since the pub- 
lication of her book, in 1866, she has found among the Tanner MSS. at Oxford, 
the original ‘‘ Confession,” signed by William Seymour: a copy of which she 
has kindly sent me, With this confession Mr. Crompton’s Memoranda in the 
old account book at Longleat exactly correspond. (See Appendix, No. xxi.) 
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