[50] Biog. Brit., notice of Sir E. Coke. Footnote.

[51] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CXXXI, No. 24.

[52] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CXXVII., No. 35. Chamberlain to Carleton, 19th January, 1622. James I., 1619-23, p. 337. The price paid is said to have been £3,000. See Gardiner, Vol. IV., Chap. XL., p. 279. Lord Wallingford was made Earl of Banbury, and the subsequent claim to this title became as curious as that to the title of Purbeck, which will be shown later.

[53] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLI., No. 86.

[54] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLI., No. 87, 30th August, 1623.

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" ... wed to one half lunatic."
Taming of the Shrew, II., I.