l. 22. the Earle of Portlande, Sir Richard Weston: see No. 5.
l. 24. Hambleton, Clarendon's usual spelling of 'Hamilton'.
5.
Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 28-32; History, Bk. I, ed. 1702, vol. i, pp. 31-43; ed. Macray, vol. i, pp. 59-67.
Another and more favourable character of Weston is the matter of an undated letter which Sir Henry Wotton sent to him as 'a strange New years Gift' about 1635. 'In short, it is only an Image of your Self, drawn by memory from such discourse as I have taken up here and there of your Lordship, among the most intelligent and unmalignant men; which to pourtrait before you I thought no servile office, but ingenuous and real'. See Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, ed. 1672, pp. 333-6.
Page 21, l. 7. the white staffe. 'The Third Great Officer of the
Crown, is the Lord High Treasurer of England, who receives this High
Office by delivery of a White Staffe to him by the King, and
holds it durante bene placito Regis' (Edward Chamberlayne, Angliæ
Notitia, 1674, p. 152).
Page 23, l. 4. L'd Brooke, Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) the friend and biographer of Sir Philip Sidney. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1614 to 1621.
Page 28, l. 18. eclarcicement, introduced into English about this time, and in frequent use till the beginning of the nineteenth century.
l. 28. a younge, beautifull Lady, Frances, daughter of Esmé, third Duke of Lennox, married to Jerome Weston, afterwards second Earl of Portland, in 1632.
6.