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literature by natural inclination. The subject was 

 first moved to him, having then become Marquis 

 of Buckingham ; and Bolton was introduced by him 

 to James I. during this royal sojourn in Newmarket. 

 There and then the first outline of the project was 

 presented to the king ; but the affair then fell through. 

 It was again mooted in the House of Lords by Buck- 

 ingham in March, 1621 ; the king was very well dis- 

 posed to it, but his death seems to have been fatal to 

 the undertaking ; for, although his successor likewise 

 extended his patronage to it, political events interfered, 

 and led to its final abandonment. After the Restora- 

 tion a kindred project was once more mooted. The 

 scheme, it is true, somewhat differed from the original 

 project, and was called " The Royal Society." * 



On November 19 the king wrote from New- 

 market to his ambassador, Sir Dudley Carleton, com- 

 plaining that the States of Utrecht had, contrary to 

 the course heretofore practised, bestowed a company 

 in General Cecil's regiment, without his consent, upon 

 a young man " of Sir John Ogle's name and kindred," 

 " which," says the king, " we find very strange ; and 

 therefore we are pleased that you inform yourself by 

 this draught of a letter, which we send you herewith, 

 of the reasons against that course ; and thereupon 

 insist and press them in our name to revoke that, which, 

 contrary to order, they have done therein, and to give 

 to Sir Edward Cecil satisfaction." Cecil importuned 

 Secretary Lake to impress this grievance on the atten- 



* Archoeologia, vol. xxiii. ; Wild's " History of the Royal Society," 

 vol. i. 



