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William, Earl of Exeter, one of the greatest fortunes and 

 most celebrated beauty of the period, but had no issue. His 

 lordship died at Breda, in the Netherlands, where he had the 

 command of a regiment under the Prince of Orange, when 

 the Spaniards captured that stronghold by famine, after a 

 dreadful siege of nearly eleven months, in 1625. 



'^^ Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon, who was advanced, 

 June 6, 162 1, to the viscounty of Rochfort, and created. May 

 8, 1627, Earl of Dover. He married, ist, Judith, .daughter of 

 Sir Thomas Pelham, Bart., of Loughton, Sussex, by whom he 

 had four sons and three daughters ; and, 2ndly, Mary, 

 daughter of Richard Morris. He died in 1668. 



About this time there v^as keen rivalry between 

 the Dutch and the British East India Companies 

 touching their respective trading monopoHes, which 

 continued for years. When the court was at New- 

 market both companies employed agents, who were 

 " persons of quality," to advocate the interests of their 

 employes with the king and the ministers as oppor- 

 tunity offered them. 



The king and a portion of his court were at 

 Newmarket in the month of January, 16 18-19; ^^id 

 on the 22nd the Marquis of Buckingham, in his 

 capacity of Chief Justice in Eyre north of the 

 Trent, wrote thence to Sir Edward Stanhope and 

 others his deputies in the forest of Galtres, inform- 

 ing them that he had received a petition from the 

 inhabitants of Easingwold complaining against a 

 recent enclosure of three hundred acres of that forest, 

 that had been appropriated for the king's deer, which 

 enclosure, the petitioners alleged, was an infringe- 

 ment of their rights and privileges. Nevertheless 



