[294]. Nichols, vol. iv., p. 778.
[295]. York House was not at present in his possession.
[296]. Nichols, p. 881, from Harleian MSS., 6987.
[297]. For a fuller history of Newhall, see Nichols’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i., p. 94-6.
[298]. Harleian MSS., 6987., quoted in Nichols’s Progresses of King James.
[299]. Newhall is now a nunnery.
[300]. Inedited Letters in the State Paper Office, Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, July 31, 1619.
[301]. Wright’s Hist. of Essex, vol. ii., p. 502-3.
[302]. Nichols, vol. iii., p. 364.
[303]. Sir William Mildmay’s descendants conveyed it to Sir Joseph Child, whose son Richard, afterwards created Earl of Tilney, built Wanstead House, well known in modern days, on the site of the mansion which had been the home of Leicester and of Buckingham. The new house was erected in 1715. It descended, in due time, to Miss Tilney Long, who married the Hon. Wellesley Pole, now Earl of Mornington. In 1825 she died, and Wanstead House was sold in lots under the hammer. The park is now let out for grazing cattle. The ancient church of Wanstead has also been pulled down, and a new one erected; so that those who look for any traces of Leicester and Buckingham will not find them at Wanstead.—Note in Wright’s “Essex,” p. 1150.