[374b] See p. 126.
[375a] Gervase Markham, Honour in his Perfection, 1624.
[375b] Loseley MSS. ed. A. J. Kempe, p. 240.
[375c] His mother, after thirteen years of widowhood, married in 1594 Sir Thomas Heneage, vice chamberlain of Queen Elizabeth’s household; but he died within a year, and in 1596 she took a third husband, Sir William Hervey, who distinguished himself in military service in Ireland and was created a peer as Lord Hervey by James I.
[376a] By kind permission of the Marquis of Salisbury I lately copied out this essay at Hatfield.
[376b] In 1588 his brother-in-law, Thomas Arundel, afterwards first Lord Arundel of Wardour (husband of his only sister, Mary), petitioned Lord Burghley to grant him an additional tract of the New Forest about his house at Beaulieu. Although in his ‘nonage,’ Arundel wrote, the Earl was by no means ‘of the smallest hope.’ Arundel, with almost prophetic insight, added that the Earl of Pembroke was Southampton’s ‘most feared rival’ in the competition for the land in question. Arundel was referring to the father of that third Earl of Pembroke who, despite the absence of evidence, has been described as Shakespeare’s friend of the sonnets (cf. Calendar of Hatfield MSS. iii. 365).
[377a] Cf. Apollinis et Musarum Ευκτικα Ειδυλλια, Oxford, 1592, reprinted in Elizabethan Oxford (Oxford Historical Society), edited by Charles Plummer, xxix. 294:
| Comes South- Hamp- toniæ. |
Post hunc (i.e. Earl of Essex) insequitur clarâ de stirpe
Dynasta Iure suo diues quem South-Hamptonia magnum Vendicat heroem; quo non formosior alter Affuit, ant doctâ iuuenis præstantior arte; Ora licet tenerâ vix dum lanugine vernent. |
[377b] Historical MSS. Commission, 7th Report (Appendix) p. 521b.
[378] Peele’s Anglorum Feriæ.