[251]. Inedited Documents in the State Paper Office, July 13th, 1624.
[252]. State Papers.
[253]. To the Earl of Carlisle, 22,000 crowns. To the Earl of Holland, 20,000 crowns. Sir G. Young had a diamond from the King worth 2,000 francs; from the queen-mother one of 300l., and curious plate to the value of 12,000l.--State Papers, 1624.
[254]. Parallel. Reliquiæ Wotton., p. 172.
[255]. Ibid, 174.
[256]. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton. In edited State Papers, June 13th, 1624.
[257]. In the State Paper Office there are several letters from Endymion Porter to his wife, written in the inflated style of love letters of that period, which the curious in such matters will find in the Domestic Papers, 1624, 1625.
[258]. On the 22nd of June, 1625. I have not found this account in any of our historians.--State Papers, inedited.
[259]. Sturgeon, as well as whales, were excepted from the other great fishes, sea dogs, called royal fishes, to which the Lord High Admiral laid claim, when they came near the shore by right.--See Chamberlayne’s State of England, p. 81.
[260]. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, June 25.--State Papers inedited.