[21]. Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iv., p. 688.

[22]. Fuller styles him the second son of his mother, and the fourth of his father.—Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire.

[23]. Nichols’s Hist. of Leicestershire, p. 189.

[24]. This title, the 109th baronetcy, ceased in 1711, when the elder branch of the Villiers family became extinct by the death of the third Baronet, Sir William, without issue.

[25]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.

[26]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.

[27]. Disparity between Robert Davereux, Earl of Essex, and the Duke of Buckingham, by Lord Clarendon.

[28]. Ibid.

[29]. Coke’s Detection, p. 81.

[30]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.