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

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

[76]. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 59.

[77]. Nichols’s Progresses. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Mr. D. Carleton, State Papers, Domestic, James I.

[78]. Ibid.

[79]. See the Character of Buckingham in Disraeli’s Commentaries on Charles I., vol. ii., p, 163.

[80]. Biographia Britannica.

[81]. Sanderson’s Life of James I., pp. 45 and 457.

[82]. Rushworth’s Collections, vol. i., pp. 460 and 461.

[83]. 1615.

[84]. State Paper, Domestic, 1616. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton.

[85]. See Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 80. By a page in that work, it appears that Villiers’ appointment to the Royal Chambers, and his being knighted, took place on successive days, the ceremony of knighthood being performed at Somerset House.