1625.] LADY PURBECK. 265 



to leave his house free of entrance to such persons, especially 

 for the surprize and arrest of a fair Lady his Neighbour) he 

 at last, notwithstanding suffered the Constable to enter it, 

 and with convenience to remain in it and in the Garden, 

 watching his opportunity till dinner-time, when some of the 

 Gentlemen attendants on him, contriving a way to be rid of 

 that incumbrance, dressed the Ambassadors Page (a handsome 

 fair Boy) in womans apparrell, thrust him suddenly into the 

 Lords Coach, (as if it had been the Lady making her escape) 

 and drove fast with him down the Strand, followed by a 

 Multitude of people, and those Officers (not without danger 

 to the Coach-man, from their violence) but with ease to the 

 Ambassador, that had his house by this device cleared of the 

 Constable, but himself after charged by the Duke, That all 

 this was done of designe for the Ladies escape (which in that 

 Hubbub she made) to his no small prejudice, and scorn in a 

 business that so nearly, he said, concerned him (she being 

 Wife to his Brother, and bringing him Children of anothers 

 begetting, yet such as by the Law (because begotten and born 

 while her Husband was in the Land) must be his Fathering). 

 The Ambassador for his Purgation from this charge, went 

 immediately to the Duke at Whitehall, but was denied accesse: 

 Whereupon repairing to my Lord Chamberlain for his media- 

 tion, I was sent to him by his Lordship to let him know more 

 particularly the Dukes displeasure, and back by the Ambas- 

 sador to the Duke with his humble request but of one quarter 

 of an hours audience for his disblaming, he a sevennight after 

 obtained of the Duke an interview in Whitehall Garden, and 

 after an hours parley, a reconciliation." — " Philoxenis," 239. 



To William Glover gentleman vsher daily wayter to his 

 Ma*^^ for the allowaunce of himselfe one gentleman vsher 

 Quarter wayter, one yeoman vsher, one yeoman hanger, 

 and attending from Whitehall to Newmarkett and backe 

 again to Denmarke house Menss Januarij Februarij Martij 

 et Aprilis 1624 et 1625 for Ixxviij*^'' dayes C" ij* (m. 188^). 

 — Aces, of the Treasurer of the Chamber. 



