Sir Robert Howard was a brother of the first Earl of Berkshire, who married a niece of Lady Elizabeth Hatton. It may possibly have been through this connection by marriage that Sir Robert Howard became acquainted and intimate with Lady Purbeck; and, to make a long story short, let it be observed here that, in relation to the boy who was christened Robert Wright, Lady Purbeck had had what, among the lower classes, is euphemistically termed "a misfortune."
FOOTNOTES:
[55] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLIII., No. 6.
[56] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLII, No. 13.
[57] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CLXX., No. 54, 24th July, 1624.
[58] Cabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, etc., p. 318.
[59] S.P. Dom., James I., Vol. CIII., No. 111.
[60] Coles' MSS., Vol. XXXIII., pp. 17, 18.