[284]. From Harleian, 1581, p. 134.
[285]. Buckingham.
[286]. Inedited State Papers. Letter from Sir Edward Zouch to Lord Zouch, February 5th, 1619-20. Domestic. Sir Edward Zouch was a much esteemed wit and courtier. His family is now nearly, if not wholly extinct.—Brydges’s Peers of King James, p. 71.
[287]. Inedited State Papers. Letter dated March. 20th, 1619-20.
[288]. State Papers. Letter from the Earl of Rutland. Domestic. 1625.
[289]. Nichols, iv., 606.
[290]. This house was afterwards inhabited by the Lumley family. The navy office was once here, until removed to Somerset House. The immense warehouses belonging to the East India Company, now cover the spot where Buckingham’s nuptials took place.—See Pennant’s London, p. 237.
[291]. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 607.
[292]. He was called by the Earl of Pembroke, “Iniquity Jones.” It is said, in that nobleman’s MS., that he had 16,000l. a year for keeping the King’s houses in repair.—Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii., p. 271.
[293]. Wright’s History of Rutland, 1684, p. 30.