ARTILLERY UNDER THE STUART KINGS, 1424-1625. 
599 
The matter was referred to Sir Dailey Carleton, Ambassador at the 
Hague, who replied to Mr. Murray :— 
cc There is nothing bat the price which makes me suspend my 
advice, otherwise I should judge them fit for a Prince because he 
may read in them a soldier’s lesson, en petit volume , and make 
himself perfect in his chamber against he comes into the field.” 1 2 
Prince Charles left the decision of the purchase money to Sir 
Horace Yere (Master-General of the Ordnance in the next reign) and 
Sir B. Cecil. On 21 September, 1616, Edward Sherburn (a future 
Clerk of the Ordnance) announced to Sir D. Carleton the arrival of the 
models at St. James’s Palace, where they were to be set up by the 
Dutchman who had brought them. And a month later we find Sir 
Horace Yere writing to Sir D. Carleton to the effect that the Prince 
was delighted with the models. 3 
On 27 March, 1625, James I. of England died and was succeeded 
by his son Charles, who rushed headlong into a war with Spain. Did 
not the ill-success which attended Charles I. in war, from the very 
beginning to the very close of his stormy reign, spring more from 
mismanagement than from any other cause ? Ill-luck is only another 
name for bad management. 
1 “ Life of Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon,” by Charles Dalton, Vol. I. 'p. 237. 
2 Ibid., p. 238. 
