i6o THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book TIL 



Roger was a gentleman of the Bedchamber and Master of the 

 Wardrobe to James I. He married, first, Mary Stewart, 

 daughter of Alexander, Lord Ochiltree, and had four daugh- 

 ters, his co-heirs ; and, 2ndly, Cordelia, daughter of Sir John 

 Stanhope, and sister to the first Earl of Chesterfield, but had 

 no other issue. 



*^ Lord Thomas Howard, eldest son of Thomas Howard, 

 4th Duke of Norfolk, and his second wife Margaret, only 

 daughter and heiress of Thomas, Lord Audley, of Walden, 

 K.G., was a distinguished naval officer in the reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth. His lordship was restored in blood (his father, the 

 Duke, having been attainted and beheaded in 1572) by Act 

 of Parliament in the 27th year of Elizabeth ; and twelve years 

 afterwards, October 24, 1597, was summoned to Parliament 

 as Lord Howard of Walden, He was created Earl OF 

 Suffolk, July 21, 1603, and installed a Knight of the Garter. 

 To his lordship's vigilance the discovery of the Gunpowder 

 Plot has been mainly attributed ; he was elected Chancellor 

 of the University of Cambridge in 161 3, and constituted 

 Lord High Treasurer of England in the following year, of 

 which high office he was deprived in 161 8. His lordship 

 married, ist, Mary, sister and co-heir to Thomas, Lord Dacre, 

 of Gillesland, but had no issue. He married, 2ndly, Cathe- 

 rine, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Knevit, 

 Knight, of Charlton, Wiltshire, and widow of the Hon. 

 Richard Rich, eldest son of Lord Rich, by whom he had 

 several children. He died May 28, 1626, and was succeeded 

 by his eldest son, Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. 



Bishop Goodman mentions the following anec- 

 dote : — When the Spanish Ambassador was at New- 

 market, he had, at one time, occasion to confer in 

 Latin with the king, "and the ambassador speaking 

 false Latin, and sometimes not able to express 



