Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, 1 (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1822. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL 1610. Court news.--Account of prince. Henry.--Parliament.--Lord Salisbury's speech.--Grievances.--King's dislike to the common late--Cornell's Interpreter.--Arrogant speech of the king.--Sir J. Spencer.--Letter of lady Campion.-- Creation of the prince of Wales.--Mask of queens.--Tilt. inS---Assassination of Henry IV.--Prosecutions of Jesuits; --death of Cadtoallader.--Death and character of father Parsons.--Of archbishop Bancroft.--Motives of Abbot's promotion.--Affair of Sprot.--Baldzeyn the Jesuit.--Lord Herbert of Chirbury.--Free speech of sir II. Neville.--* Parliament dissolved. JL HE state of the court at the opening of the year 1610, is thus reported by Mr. Chamberlain in a letter to Win wood of February 13. "I can make you no long relation of our Christmas games, being grown such a house-dove that I stir little abroad., specially to look after such sports. The barriers on Twelfth-night they say were very well performed, and the prince behaved himself every way very well and gracefully. The three prizes were bestowed on the earl of Montgomery, -young Darcy son to the lord Darcy, and sir Robert Gordon a Scot, more in favor of the nation than for any due desert. Instead of a plaudits, they had an exceeding good peal of ordnance or chambers, that graced the matter very much. Vol. i. z "The "The next day, the prince, with his assistance all in livery, and the defendants in their best bravery, rode in great pomp to convoy the king to St. James's, whither he had invited him and all the court to supper (the queen only being absent), and there ended his table; the allowance whereof, from the publishing of his challenge, had been 100Z. a day. If the charge do not hinder it, he would fain undertake another triumph, or show, against the king's day in March, and the q...