[106]. I have passed over the dreadful story of Overbury’s murder, and its concomitant circumstances, because Villiers had no participation in public affairs until shortly before the arraignment of the two culprits. A letter written by Lord Bacon immediately previous to that event is evidently in reply to one addressed to his Lordship by Villiers, by order of the King. This fixes the date of his acting as private secretary to James. See Lord Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p. 173.
[107]. Carte.
[108]. Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol i., p. 225.
[109]. Carte, vol. ii., p. 43, from Weldon’s Court and Character of King James I.
[110]. Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol. i., p. 226.
[111]. Parallel between the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Essex. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 163.
[112]. Ibid.
[113]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 166.
[114]. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir O. Carleton; March 6, 1616. State Papers. Also given in the “Grand Oyer of Poisoning,” by Andrew Amos, Esq.
[115]. See State Paper Office. Domestic, 1616. This letter is printed in Nichols’s Progresses.