1620.] NEWMARKET PEERS. 225 



of Mons. Lugnes, the French King's Favourite ; which 

 the other would interpret to be meant for somebody 

 here at home, and threatened he would force him to 

 confess it ; which oiitreciiidaiice it seems preceded to 

 the success aforesaid." 



The king seems to have governed the nation by 

 virtue of proclamations, which continued to be issued 

 ad lib., and at this time to be utterly ignored by those 

 to whom they appealed.* 



On the 4th of November, the king set out from 

 London for Theobalds, Royston, and Newmarket, " to 

 stay till Christmas." He does not appear 

 to have reached Newmarket before the loth 

 of that month, and probably sojourned there until 

 about the middle of December, when Chief Justice 

 Montagu ^^ arrived at the palace, "to be ennobled 

 and receive the Treasurership,"*}" for which appoint- 

 ment he gave Buckingham a bribe of ^20,000. In 

 the meantime Sir Henry Carey ^"^ was created Viscount 

 Falkland, and Sir Henry Constable,^^ Baron Constable 

 and Viscount Dunbar in the peerage of Scotland, by 

 patents, dated respectively Newmarket, November 10 

 and 14, 1620.J 



To Thomas Sackvilc ats Footes Gent vsher daily wayter 

 to. his Ma"'^ for thallowaunce of him selfe one yeoman vsher 

 three yeoman hangers twoe groomes of the wardrobe and one 

 groome porter for making ready at Newmarkett for Bohemian 

 Ambassador and at Sir John Croftes house for the King and 



* State Papers, Dom., vol. cxii., passim. 



t Ibid., vol. cxviii. Created Viscount Mandevil. Sec Bishop Goodman's 

 "Court of James I.," and Howell's Letters, p. 116. 

 X Nichols' " Progress," vol. iii., pp. 628, 629. 



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