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the memorable battle of Zutphen) and Abigail, daughter of 

 Sir Arthur Haveningham, Knight, of Ketteringham. He was 

 knighted by James I. at Theobalds in 1605, and was one 

 of the king's carvers and master of the Ro}'al Harriers. 

 Having filled some high situations in the Court of James I., 

 and being twice accredited ambassador to the Court of Spain, 

 he was elevated to the peerage at Newmarket, as above stated. 

 He was subsequently employed upon different embassies, but 

 particularly to the Court of Spain, in 1622, touching the pro- 

 jected alliance between Prince Charles and the Infanta, when 

 he was created Earl of Bristol. In 1624 he had a difference 

 with the Duke of Buckingham, when they mutually im- 

 peached each other ; from thence he lived retired until the 

 breaking out of the Civil War, in which he at first sided with 

 the Parliament, but afterwards went over to the king, and at 

 last retired into France, where he died in 1652, after having 

 lost his estate. Walpole mentions him in his " Catalogue of 

 Noble Authors ; " observing, that " he was not supple enough 

 for a Court, but by far too haughty for popularity. He would 

 have been a suitable minister for Austrian phlegm, or a 

 proper patriot in a Diet which would have been content to 

 proceed by remonstrance and memorial." The earl married 

 Beatrix, daughter of Charles Walcot, Esq., of Walcot, county 

 Salop, and had issue George, his successor ; John, who was 

 a general of horse in Lord Hopton's army, and afterwards 

 a secular priest in France ; and two daughters. 



Mr. Chamberlain, writing to Sir Dudley Carleton from 

 London, December 19, says, "The Commissioners of the 

 States [of Holland] returned this day se'nnight from the 

 voyage to Newmarket, where they had reasonable entertain- 

 ment, though nothing so much as was first bruited. They 

 had otherwise a journey bad enough, by reason of the weather 

 and the overthrowing of two coaches. And withal, the King, 

 as I hear, forbore not to tell them their own. They were 

 with the Council at Whitehall on Tuesday." * 



* Birch MS., 4174, fo. 80. 



