[56]. Clarendon, vol. i., p. 85; also, Lodge’s Portraits.
[57]. Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, xiv., p. 541; Grainger’s Biographical History of England, Art. Pembroke.
[58]. The death of this nobleman was remarkable. It had been foretold by his tutor and Lady Davis that he should not outlive his fiftieth birthday. The fatal day arrived; it found his Lordship very “pleasant and healthful,” and he supped that evening at the Countess of Bedford’s; he was then heard to remark that he should never trust a lady prophetess again. He went to bed in the same good spirits; but was carried off by a fit of apoplexy in the night. Before his interment it was resolved to embalm his body; when one of the surgeons plunged his knife into it, the Earl is said by a tradition in the family to have lifted up one of his hands. The Lady Davis, who had foretold the death of this nobleman, was imprisoned for some time. The Earl died in 1630.
[59]. Inedited letter in the State Paper Office, from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carlton, September 22nd, 1619.
[60]. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carlton, November, 1614, given in Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol. iii., p. 26.
[61]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 210.
[62]. Fuller’s Worthies of Leicestershire.
[63]. 1613. To the sagacity of the Earl of Suffolk, and not to that of James I., was the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot ascribed. See Winwood’s Memorials, vol. ii., p. 186.
[64]. Winwood’s Memorials, vol. ii., p. 48.
[65]. It was checked by the death of the Duke of Buckingham, whose project had been to erect a Library between the Regent’s Walk and Caius College. See Nichols’s Progresses, p. 40, note.