1616.] S/R RALPH WINWOOD. 189 



more noblemen than they which were at Thessalonicar By 

 Privy Seal dated at Westminster, January 5, 162 1 [-22], and 

 by patent, dated February 7, same year, he was elevated a 

 step in the peerage by the title of Viscount Moore of Droug- 

 heda. His lordship married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry 

 Colley, of Castle-Carbery, county Kildare, by whom he had 

 issue seven sons and five daughters. Henry Moore, the 3rd 

 Viscount, was created Earl of Drougheda June 14, 1661, and 

 Charles, the 6th Earl, became Marquis of Drougheda by 

 patent, dated June 27, 1791. Francis Henry Seymour Moore, 

 8th Earl, and 3rd Marquis of Drougheda, K.P., ranger of the 

 Curragh, one of the most notable turfites in Ireland, now 

 represents this Newmarket creation. 



'^ Sir Ralph Winwood, Secretary of State in the reign 

 of James I., was son of Lewis Winwood, Esq., sometime 

 secretary to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and was 

 born in 1565, at Aynho, in Northamptonshire. After com- 

 pleting his university career at Oxford, he travelled on the 

 Continent, and returned to England a very accomplished 

 gentleman. In 1599 he attended Sir Henry Neville, am- 

 bassador to France, as his secretary ; and in the absence of Sir 

 Henry, was appointed resident at Paris, whence he was recalled 

 in 1602-3, and sent later in that year to the States of Holland 

 by James I. In 1607 he was knighted, and the same year 

 appointed ambassador, jointly with Sir Richard Spencer, to 

 Holland. He was sent there again in 1609 by James I., to 

 deliver the Remonstrance of the British Solomon against the 

 so-called heresy of Vorstius to the assembly, or council, of the 

 States, to which royal utterance they very properly paid little 

 attention. Upon this the king proceeded to threaten them 

 with his pen, and in one of those Newmarket effusions his 

 Majesty had the audacity to tell them that if they had the 

 hardiness to " fetch again from hell ancient heresies long since 

 dead, etc., he should be constrained to proceed publicly against 

 them." This idiotic ebullition of royal wisdom, with amplifi- 

 cations, was printed and published by royal command in 161 1. 



