POLITICAL HISTORY 



the king was inquiring for the names of persons in the county capable 

 of advancing money to him by way of loan on Privy Seals, 1 a measure 

 which called forth a remonstrance from the gentlemen of Surrey to the 

 lord lieutenant, representing the impoverishment of the county and its 

 extreme barrenness, great part of it being given up to forests, chaces and 

 parks.* On January 10, 1613, the Council ordered the justices to see 

 again to the disarming of the recusants in Surrey, 3 leaving them however 

 sufficient to protect their houses. The marvel is that the recusants, so 

 often disarmed, had any weapons left worth the taking. The act was a 

 consequence no doubt of the state of foreign politics. The murder of 

 Henri IV. in 1610, the revived activity of the Catholic party abroad 

 under Spanish leadership, and the design of raising the Archduke Albert, 

 the Cardinal Infant, son-in-law to the late Philip II., to the imperial 

 throne, had driven James and the German Protestants, Holland and even 

 France into concerted resistance to Catholic projects. But England was 

 not engaged in war in this most peaceful of reigns till just before the 

 end in 1624, when volunteers were called for from Surrey, and these 

 not being forthcoming in sufficient numbers, orders were issued for the 

 impressing of 200 men to serve under Count Mansfeld. 4 Under him 

 they suffered much and performed little. 



The end of the reign of Elizabeth and that of James are marked by 

 one meritorious feature of another kind. Some of the ruin of the 

 Reformation spoliations was being repaired. The monasteries, which 

 had been swept up by a grasping king and greedy courtiers, might some 

 of them have been preserved for good uses. They were gone, and some 

 schools and colleges had received a small part of their wealth. Other 

 new foundations of a different kind were now being made. Under 

 Elizabeth Archbishop Whitgift founded his hospital at Croydon, which 

 was begun in 1597. Under James, Edward Alleyne the player, joint 

 proprietor of a theatre and bear-pit and c keeper of the king's bears,' 

 founded Dulwich College in 1619. Both foundations were to provide 

 for needy old people, and each had a school attached for the young. 

 These were the very purposes which some monasteries had once 

 answered. In 1622 the Hospital of the Holy Trinity in Guildford was 

 incorporated for the maintenance of old people, and in its first concep- 

 tion for the apprenticing and setting to work of the young. It was the 

 munificent foundation of George Abbot, the archbishop, a native of the 

 town. All three places were as much religious foundations as any of 

 the mediaeval age. The changed spirit of the times was shown in their 

 making a provision for the opening and the closing years of life only. 

 The world outside was not too rough a place for those in the vigour of 

 their age. 



In 1612 Guildford Castle was granted by the Crown to Francis 

 Carter, gentleman, of Guildford. It had ceased to be the county gaol 

 for Sussex under Henry VII. and for Surrey some time in the latter 



1 Loseley MSS. October 31,9]. I. . 78. * Ibid. November, 161 1, xii. 72. 



8 Ibid. January 10, 1612-3, v - P l - >> 65. * Ibid. October 22, 1624. 



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