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Dingwall, who retained them by royal will and favour. James 

 I., to support a favourite, constituted himself arbitrator in the 

 case ; but Walter, the nth Earl, refusing to submit to such a 

 partisan arrangement, his estates were seized by order of the 

 King, and himself committed prisoner to the Fleet, where he 

 remained for eight years in the most shameful want of the 

 necessaries of life. Earl Walter married Helena, eldest 

 daughter of Edmund, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, by whom 

 he had (with daughters) one son, Thomas, Viscount Thurles, 

 drowned December 15, 1619. He died in 1632, and was 

 succeeded by his grandson, James Butler, 12th Earl and ist 

 Duke of Ormond. 



^* Sir John Throckmorton, Knight, eldest son of Thomas 

 Throckmorton, Esq., of Cloughton, Warwickshire, was a promi- 

 nent courtier and sportsman in the reign of James I. His 

 father's life was one continued scene of difficulty, owing to his 

 religious opinions, his estate being frequently under sequestra- 

 tion and his person often imprisoned. His severest calamity, 

 however, was the loss of the manor of Ravenston, which he 

 held by lease from the Crown, at the yearly rent of £6^ 13^., 

 payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas, or within forty days 

 after these periods ; but advantage having been taken many 

 years after (occasioned by a servant losing part of the money 

 at gaming, which he was sent to pay), he was deprived of 

 this estate, and although the money was subsequently paid 

 to the Crown, and an acquittance given for it as if paid at the 

 proper period, yet he could never obtain restitution of the 

 property. 



James R. 



Our will and pleasure is that p''sentlie vppon receipte hereof 

 yo" kill w"Mn yo'' Chardge one fifatt Doae of this season and 

 the same to deliu^' vnto this bearer for w*^'' this o'' warm* shalbe 

 yo'' dischardge. 



Given at Newmarket the fiftenth of december 161 5. 

 To the Keeper of o"" Parke at Elthame.* 



* Had. MS., 9683, 105, 1 84. 



