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whither he was accompanied by the Duke of Buck- 

 ingham and a small suite of retainers. On the 

 7th he issued a proclamation " for redress of the 

 inveterate evil of killing, dressing, and eating flesh 

 in Lent, or on fish days " ! Butchers were not to 

 be licenced, under any circumstances, to infringe 

 this regulation ; and victuallers, hotel-keepers, etc., 

 were to give sureties not to dress meat on such days ; 

 and none were to eat it without special licences from 

 a bishop, which indulgences were to be " sparingly 

 granted." Fishmongers were likewise forbidden to 

 increase the price of fish, A few days later, Sir Albert 

 Morton arrived at the palace, and was sworn in as 

 Secretary of State in succession to Sir George Calvert,^^^ 

 from whom he obtained that post for ^6000 and an 

 Irish barony, either for himself, or any other person 

 on whom he chose to bestow it. Young Edward 

 Hungerford, who was then at Newmarket, was re- 

 ported to have been made a baron by payment, " this 

 being the true golden age." On the 1 3th Bucking- 

 ham wrote to the Lord Chief Justice to take steps to 

 remove his sister-in-law, Frances, Viscountess Purbeck, 

 from the house of the Prince of Wales, " which is 

 defiled by her presence, and where by her subtilty 

 she still works on her husband, to some fitting the 

 prison, the King having ceased to wish her to be 

 treated with respect." ^°^ The master of the toils was 

 ordered to take three brace of bucks in Hyde Park 

 and convey them to Marybone Park (now the Regent's 

 Park), " to supply the scarcity caused by the great rain 

 there." On the 17th Secretary Conway arrived at 



