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[128]. Great Oyer of Poisoning, p. 29, by Andrew Amos, Esq.

[129]. Birch’s MSS. 4176. This anecdote, so creditable to Buckingham, is confirmed by a grant in the State Paper Office. S. P. O. vol. cv., No. 20, see Calendar, 1616-17, March 12, the grant to the Earl of Buckingham, fee-simple of the manors of Beaumont, Oldhall and Newhall de Beaumont, Mose, Okeley Magna, Okeley Parva, Sligghawe, Okeley Park, Mose Park, Essex, together with all timbers and advowsons belonging to them, which the Lord Darcie of Chiche holdeth for terme of his life. Manor of Fleete, marshes of Trewdales, Fleetehouse Hall Hills, in Lincolne, in lieu of the manor of Teynton Magna, Gloucester, part of value for Sherborne, escheated to the Crown by Somerset’s attainder. Inedited MSS. Domestic, 1616-17.

[130]. Hutchins’s History of Dorsetshire, vol. iv., p. 83.

[131]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.

[132]. Kennet’s Hist. England, p. 1.

[133]. Sir Robert Carey’s Memoirs, p. 201.

[134]. Kennet’s Hist. England.

[135]. Goodman’s Life, vol. i., p. 7.