264 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. Book IV. 



he was obliged to abandon it altogether ; whereupon he 

 obtained from Charles I. a patent of Maryland to him and 

 his heirs for ever, with the same title and royalties as in 

 Avalon, to hold in common soccage as of the manor of 

 Windsor, paying yearly, as acknowledgment to the Crown, two 

 Indian arrows at Windsor Castle, upon Easter Tuesday, and 

 the fifth part of the gold and silver ore. His lordship did not 

 live, however, to see the grant pass the Great Seal, and his son 

 Cecil, the succeeding Lord Baltimore, had it made out in his 

 own name, bearing date June 20, 1632. The province of 

 Maryland was so named by Charles I. in honour of his queen, 

 Henrietta Maria. 



'^^ She was charged for practising sorcery, which could not 

 be sustained, and subsequently for incontinency (see Bishop 

 Goodman's "The Court of James I.," vol. ii., p. 376). Lady 

 PURBECK cohabited with Sir Robert Howard, fifth son of the 

 Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Chamberlain. A son having been 

 born,Lady Purbeck and the reputed father. Sir Robert Howard, 

 were both prosecuted for adultery in the Court of High Com- 

 mission, and were convicted and sentenced to do penance. 

 Lady Purbeck escaped the humiliating ceremony by conceal- 

 ing herself ; but her paramour had probably to undergo it, for 

 in 1640, when the "Old Powdering Tub" was abolished, a 

 fine of i^SOO was, at the suit of Sir Robert Howard, imposed 

 on Archbishop Laud, who had passed the sentence. It seems 

 that the Ambassador of Savoy was implicated in this intrigue. 

 Sir John Finett records that — 



" In the time of Christmas, the Vicountess of Purbeck 

 having for execution of a sentance pronounced against her 

 in the High Commission Court, her house beset by a Serjeant 

 at Armes, with other Officers of Justice ; a Gentleman came 

 in the morning from the Countess of Buckingham to the 

 Ambassador of Savoy, demanding leave of him for the said 

 Officers to pass through his house into his Garden (joined to 

 the Ladies) for her more easie apprehension, and arrest by 

 that way, which though at first he somewhat struck at (as 

 wronging and lesning, he thought, the respect of his quality, 



