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from the i8th of James I. to the 3rd of Charles I. as one of 

 the knights of the shire for the county of Cambridge, and 

 was custos rotulorum thereof, which office he was deprived of 

 by the influence of the Duke of Buckingham. "Whereupon 

 he was so much disgusted, that he first drew his pen against 

 the court, and writ several pamphlets with great acrimon}' 

 against Charles I. and the royalists." He subsequently sided 

 with the Presbyterians in the great rebellion, and so im- 

 poverished himself in the cause, that he was obliged to sell 

 Isleham, and, drawing his son into joining him, sold the whole 

 estate, with the reserve only of annuities, during both their 

 lives. 



^"^ See ante. 



Sir John Finet gives the following account of 

 the Spanish ambassador's journey to Newmarket : — 

 " Monsieur de Bolscot, Ambassador Extraordinary 

 from the Arch-Duke, arriving at London while the 

 King was at Theobalds in his way to New-Market, 

 and setting forth from London, (in Company of the 

 Spanish Ambassador, Don Carlos de Coloma to come 

 to their Audience of his Majesty). On Sunday the 

 23 of February [they] lay at Ware the first night, 

 the next at Royston, the third at Cambridge, where 

 in Trinity Colledge, the Master's Lodgings were 

 taken up for them, the King's officers of his House 

 appointed to serve them ; being defrayed there, all the 

 way out and home by his Majestie, but not befor 

 nor after in London. The Wednesday following they 

 were fetcht, (by Lord Walden, with three or four 

 Gentlemen, the King's servants, in the King's Coach, 

 and others appointed for their Journey), to New- 

 Market, where straight entering the Court for their 



