1621.] S/R FRANCIS WOLLEY. 3^9 



ei sic de c ester is ; so that I heard of no winners, 

 but the King and Sir Francis Whooley,^^^ who got 

 above /8oo. The King went a hawking journey 

 yesterday to Newmarket, and returns to-morrow." * 

 On Twelfth Night, 1618, the Marquis of Hamilton"' 

 won ^400, and the Earl of Dorset "^ /500 " at play 

 in the King's Chamber." f 



116 William Parker, eldest son and heir of Edward Parker, 

 Lord Morley, and Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of 

 William Stanley, Baron Monteagle, who had been summoned 

 to Parliament in the lifetime of his father, in right of his 

 mother, as Baron Monteagle, and was summoned to the 

 Upper House as Lord Morley and Monteagle, from January 

 30, 1 62 1, to November 4 in the same year. This is the 

 nobleman to whom the memorable anonymous letter was 

 addressed, by which the Gunpowder Plot was fortunately 

 discovered. It is said to have been written by his sister 

 Mary, wife of Thomas Abington (or Habington), of Hinlip, 

 which Thomas had been cofferer to Queen Elizabeth. Abing- 

 ton was concerned in many projects for the release of Mary, 

 Queen of Scotland, and contrived various places of con- 

 cealment in his old mansion at Hinlip. He was condemned 

 to die for concealing Garnet and Oldcorn the Jesuits, but 

 was pardoned at the intercession of his wife and Lord Mont- 

 eagle. This Lord Morley and Monteagle married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, Knight, and was succeeded 

 at his death, in 1622, by his eldest son, Sir Henry Parker, 

 K.B., second Lord Morley and Monteagle. 



ii'' Sir Francis Wolley, of Priford, Surrey, where he 

 entertained James I., August 10, 1603, by ^whom he was 

 knighted, at the Charter-house, May 3, same year. 



lis James, 2nd Marquis OF HAMILTON, K.G. — only son and 



* "The Court and Times of James I.," vol. i., p. 71. 

 t State Papers, Dom. vol. xciv., No. 14. 



