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towards God, in the maintenance of the prerogative, and 



and senc your nobleness hath pleased to price my true, sincere, and con 

 stant affection at such a rate as I perceive you have done, holde me the 

 unworthiest that ever was yf I bee ever wantinge, false, or fainte, in that I 

 have professed. It overjoyes me to finde that the merrit and memory of 

 my brother Winchester still lives with your lordship, but not to treble you 

 with many wordes or more professions, 



&quot; I rest assuredly at your honor s command, H. MOUNTAGU. 



18 Nov. 1620. 

 &quot; To the right honorable my singular good Lord, 



the Lord Marques Buckingham, Lord High 



Admirall of England.&quot; 



On the 3rd of Dec. 1620, Lord Chief Justice Montagu was appointed 

 Lord Treasurer.* In June, 1626, after the death of Bacon and of King 

 James, Buckingham was impeached by the Commons upon many charges, 

 of which the tenth was, &quot; Whereas no places of judicature in the courts of 

 justice of our sovereign lord the King, nor other like preferments given by 

 the kings of this realm ought to be procured by any subjects whatsoever 

 for any reward, bribe, or gifts ; he the said duke in or about the month of 

 December, in the eighteenth year of the reign of the late King James of 

 famous memory, did procure of the said king the office of High Treasurer 

 of England to the Lord Viscount M. now Earl of M.; which office, at 

 his procurement, was given and granted accordingly to the Lord Viscount 

 M. And as a reward for the said procurement of the said grant, he 

 the said duke did then receive to his own use of and from the said Lord 

 Viscount M. the sum of 20,000 of lawful money of England.&quot; Rush- 

 worth, i. 334. See Cobbett s Parliamentary History, i. 115. 



To this charge the duke answered, &quot;That he received not, or had a 

 penny of either of those sums to his own use ; but the truth is, the Lord 

 M. was made Lord Treasurer by his late majesty without contracting for 

 any thing for it ; and after that he had the office conferred upon him, his 

 late majesty moved him to lend him twenty thousand pounds, upon 

 promise of repayment at the end of a year; the Lord M. yielded it, so as 

 he might have the duke s word that it should be repaid to him accordingly. 

 The duke gave his word for it, the Lord M. relied upon it, and delivered 

 the said sum to the hands of Mr. Porter, then attending upon the duke, 

 by the late king s appointment, to be disposed of as his majesty should 

 direct. And according to the King s direction, that very money was fully 



* Dugdale s Baronage, n. 280. 





