1634:.] THE EARL OF PORTLAND. 25 



A royal visit in the autumn of the following year 

 was arranged to have taken place, but in i634. 

 consequence of "the small-pox at New- c. October, 

 market," the king and Court were prevented "going 

 thither.' * It seems the queen was expected at New- 

 market in the month of July ; but whether she came 

 or no we have been unable to ascertain. 



^^^ Sir Richard Weston, Knight — elder son and heir of 

 Sir Hierome Weston, Knight, of Boxwell, in Essex, and 

 Mary, daughter and co-heir of Anthony Cave, Esq., of 

 Chicheley, Bucks — born in 1577, was employed in the reign 

 of James I. as ambassador to Bohemia, and subsequently 

 to Brussels, to treat with the ambassadors of the Emperor 

 and King of Spain, regarding the restitution of the Palatine. 

 Soon after he was constituted Chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 and elevated to the peerage, April 13, 1628, as Baron Weston 

 of Nayland, county Suffolk. He was subsequently made Lord 

 Treasurer of England, invested with the garter, and created 

 February 17th, 1633, Earl OF PORTLAND. He married, ist, 

 Elizabeth, daughter of W^illiam Pinchon, Esq., of Writtle, 

 county Essex, by whom he had issue Richard, who died 

 unmarried in the earl's lifetime ; Elizabeth, married to Sir 

 John Netterville, Knight, son and heir of Viscount Netterville ; 

 and Mary, married to Sir Walter Aston, Knight, son and heir 

 of Walter, Lord Aston. The Earl of Portland married, 2ndly, 

 Francis, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Walgrave, Esq., of 

 Boreley, in Essex, and had four sons and four daughters, viz., 

 Jerome, his successor ; Thomas, who succeeded his nephew as 

 Earl of Portland ; Nicholas, who died s. p. ; Benjamin, who 



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* Strafford's Letters and Despatches, i-z^/^ data. 



