[116]. Ibid; printed in Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 169.
[117]. Biographia Britannica, Art. Villiers.
[118]. The celebrated letter written by Lady Compton on this occasion, is inserted in the Life of Bishop Goodman, vol. ii., p. 127, and affords a fair specimen of the expectations of ladies of rank and fortune in those days.
[119]. Nichols, iii., p. 175. His arms were, after a long dispute, removed higher, in the same manner as when new arms and banners were introduced. According to Camden, “the King ordered that felony should not be reckoned amongst the disgraces of those who were to be excluded from the Order of St. George,”[George,”] “which, was without precedent.” Nichols, iii., p. 177.
[120]. Byfleet, in Surrey.
[121]. According to Carte, Villiers was obliged to pay 11,000l. to Sir Rowland Egerton, who had married Lord Grey’s sister, and also to procure Sir Rowland the patent of Baronetcy. But this is discredited by Sir Egerton Brydges. See Men of Fame, vol. i., p. 79.
[122]. Bacon’s letters, vol. ii., p. 35.
[123]. Bacon’s Letters.
[124]. Bacon’s Letters, vol. ii., p. 85.
[125]. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 187.