The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) / From original and authentic sources

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

[424]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 216.

[425]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.

[426]. In 1621.

[427]. History of Spain and Portugal.—Cabinet Cyclopædia, vol. i., pp. 91, 92.

[428]. Of his illegitimate children, the most famous was the celebrated Don Juan, surnamed of Austria, believed to be the son of an actress of Madrid. “On this son the choicest favours of the crown were conferred.”—Ibid, 99.

[429]. Ellis’s Letters, vol. iii., p. 132, 1st series.

[430]. Ibid, 124.

[431]. Letter from the Earl of Bristol to King James. Madrid, Feb. 22, 1623-4.—State Papers, Foreign.

[432]. Letters from the Earl of Bristol to King James. Madrid, Feb. 22, 1623-4. Inedited State Papers.

[433]. Nichols, 811.