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towards God and his own conscience: he therefore proceeded in this search with all moderate haste, and about the twentieth year of his age, did show the then Dean of Gloucester,* (whose name, my memory hath now lost,) all the cardinal's works marked with many weighty observations under his own hand; which works were bequeathed by him at his death, as a legacy to a most dear friend.

About a year following, he resolved to travel;† and the Earl of Essex going first the Cales, and after the Island voyages,-the

* Dr. Anthony Rudde, a native of Yorkshire, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He died bishop of St. David's, in 1615. Fuller says he was "a most excellent preacher, whose sermons were very acceptable to queen Elizabeth;" though he once incurred her heavy displeasure, when preaching before her, in 1596. Taking his text from Ps. xc., 12. "O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom;” he gave way to the ungallant personal remark, that " age had furrowed her face, and besprinkled her hair with its meal." Fuller adds, however, of the too plain-spoken bishop, that "he justly retained the repute of a reverend and godly prelate, and carried the same to the grave."--Ch. Hist., b. x., p. 68-9.

That is to say, on attaining his majority, and acquiring possession of his accumulated portion under the will of his father. These circumstances appear to have concurred about the month of April, 1594. The expedition to Cadiz occurred two years afterwards. The interval was probably employed in the foreign travel into Spain and Italy referred to in the text.

The Cales or Cadiz voyage, was a secret expedition set forward in 1596, to prevent the invasion of England by Philip, king of Spain. It consisted of a fleet of one-hundred-and-fifty sail, with twenty-two Dutch ships, and seven thousand soldiers; Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, being Lord High Admiral, and the earl of Essex, General of the land forces.

Sacred to the liberties and the reformed religion of England, with a thankful remembrance of preservation from threatened destruction by the "invincible armada," the cause was entered on with a becoming spirit of humility, and dependence on the divine blessing. The queen composed a prayer for the occasion, which for fervent simplicity has not been surpassed; and still existing in manuscript, may be reproduced with advantage to her memory.

"Her Maties pryuat meditation vpon ye present expedition, sent from Sir Robt. Cecyll to ye Generalls of her Higes army at Plymouth," extant in the Cotton Library, is as follows:

"Most Omnipotent, and guyder of all our worlde's masse, that onelie serchest and fadomist ye bottom of all harts' conceyts, and in them seest ye true originall of all acc'ons intended, Thou yat by thy foresight dost truely discerne, how no malice of reuenge nor quittance of iniurie, nor desyre of bloodshedde, nor greedines of luker, hath bred ye resolution of our now sette out army, but a heedful care

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first anno 1596, the second 1597, he took the advantage of those opportunities, waited upon his lordship, and was an eye-witness

and wary watche, yat no neglect of foes, nor ouer suerty of harme, might breede either danger to vs or glory to them. These being groundes, thou yat diddest inspire ye minde, we humblie beseech wth bended knees, prosper ye worke, and with the best forewindes guyde the iourney, speede the victorie, and make the retourne the advauncement of thy glorie, the triumphe of thy fame, and suerty to the Realme, with the least losse of English bloode. To theis deuout petitions, Lord give thou thy blessed graunt. Amen."

In "her Maties letters 'wreten with her oune hande,' to the twoo Lo: Generalls," [from the same depository,] she writes: "I make this humble bill of requeste to Him yt all makes and does, that with His benigne hand he will shadowe you soe as all harme may light beside you, and all y' may be best happ to your share, that your retorne may make you better and me gladder. Let your companion, my most faithful Charles [the Lord High Admiral] be sure that his name is not left out in this petition. God blesse you bothe as I would be if I were there, which whether I wish or not, He alone doth know."

In a previous letter to the same, her majesty had written: "make known to our army howe dearely we wish them the favor of Almighty God, as sent by that Prynce whose trust is in his providence, and whose precious care for their preservation is beyonde our tongue to utter."

Dr. Marbeck, physician in attendance on the person of the Lord High Admiral, in his interesting "Breefe Discourse of the late honorable voyage," [also in manuscript in the British Museum] notes, that "all thinges beinge in very good order and well appointed, the most holy name of our omnipotent God being most religiouslie and devoutlie cauled upon, and his blessed and sacred communion beinge dyvers tymes most reverentlie and publiquelie celebrated," they set sail from Plymouth on the 1st, though the fleet did not finally leave the roads until the 3rd June.

To inculcate discipline and subordination, and to impress on his followers the sacredness of their cause, Dr. Marbeck records, that the Lord Admiral--(indeed it was a part of his Instructions)--had service performed three times a day,-in the morning, in the evening, and at bed time, "at the clearinge of the glasse." Shakspere, from a different aspect, is believed, in the following lines, to have described the gallant spirits composing this expedition :

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all the unsettled humours of the land-
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,-
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits
Did never float upon the swelling tide.

The Admiral's flag was hoisted on board the Ark; Sir Walter Raleigh, commanded in the War Spright; Sir Francis Vere, in the Rainbowe; Sir Robert Southwell, in the Lyon; and Sir George Carew, in the Mary Rose. The latter, familiar to modern ears, was a vessel of the portage of five hundred tons, carrying twenty-four guns, one hundred and fifty mariners, and seventy-six soldiers. On the 21st June, the Spanish squadron was destroyed off Cadiz, after a desperate

of those happy and unhappy employments. But he returned not back into England, till he had staid some years, first in Italy and then in Spain, where he made many useful observations of those countries, their laws and manner of government, and returned perfect in their languages.

The time that he spent in Spain, was, at his first going into Italy, designed for travelling to the Holy Land, and for viewing Jerusalem and the sepulchre of our Saviour. But at his being in the furthest parts of Italy, the disappointment of company, or of a safe convoy, or the uncertainty of returns of money into those remote parts, denied him that happiness; which he did often occasionally mention with a deploration.

Not long after his return into England, that exemplary pattern of gravity and wisdom, the lord Ellesmere,* then keeper of the

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engagement, and the town taken, with an immense amount of treasure and stores; the inhabitants redeeming their lives at the cost of 520,000 ducats. Tradition assigns the bell of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, to be a portion of the spoils of this gallant enterprise.

The Island voyage was also an expedition to prevent the king of Spain aiding "Her Majesty's rebels," in Ireland, in 1597; and consisted of one-hundred-andtwenty sail, with six thousand land forces under the earl of Essex. It was the intention first to have destroyed the ships preparing, and then, sailing to the Azores or Western Islands, to have waited for and captured the Spanish India fleet. The plan, however, failed, through contrary winds, storms, and a disagreement between the earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh.

Thomas Egerton, lord Ellesmere, son of Richard Egerton, of Ridley, in Cheshire, was born about the year 1540. In 1556 he was entered of Brazen-nose College, Oxford; and thence removed to Lincoln's Inn, for the study of the law. In 1581, 23rd Elizabeth, he was constituted the Queen's Solicitor General; and in 1592, Attorney-General; soon after when the honor of knighthood was conferred on him. In two years he was promoted to the Mastership of the Rolls; and in 1596, the great seal was committed to him, with the title of lord-keeper. James I. created him Baron Ellesmere, and constituted him Lord High Chancellor of England, an office he filled, to within a very short time of his death, in the most upright and exemplary manner. When at last, overwhelmed by age, he was constrained to surrender a burden which pressed too heavily on one weighed down by the load of seventy-six years, James accepted his resignation with expressions of heartfelt sorrow at parting with so valued a servant, and testified his sense of his merit by creating him viscount Brackley. He shortly after announced his intention of raising him to an earldom, an honour he did not live to receive, and it was conferred on his son, John Egerton, who was created earl of Bridgwater. Lord Ellesmere was distinguished for his literary acquirements as well as by legal

great seal, and Lord Chancellor of England, taking notice of his learning, languages, and other abilities, and much affecting his person and behaviour, took him to be his chief secretary; supposing and intending it to be an introduction to some more weighty employment in the State; for which, his lordship did often protest, he thought him very fit.

Nor did his lordship, in this time of Master Donne's attendance upon him, account him to be so much his servant, as to forget he was his friend; and, to testify it, did always use him with much courtesy, appointing him a place at his own table, to which he esteemed his company and discourse to be a great ornament.

He continued that employment for the space of five years, being daily useful, and not mercenary to his friends. During which time, he, I dare not say unhappily, fell into such a liking as, with her approbation, increased into a love with a young gentlewoman that lived in that family, who was niece to the lady Ellesmere, and daughter to Sir George More," then chancellor of the garter and lieutenant of the Tower.

knowledge. In the gallery over the schools at Oxford (of which University he had been Chancellor) may yet be seen the picture of his dignified and venerable person; which gave a grace and ornament to the court wherein he presided, as did his ability and integrity a sanction to his decrees.

He died at York House, in the Strand, the 15th March, 1617, in his seventyseventh year, "in a good old age,-full of virtuous fame;" and was buried at Doddlestone, in Cheshire, the 6th of April following.--Collins' Peerage, v. i., p. 812.

In one of his letters to the lord keeper Egerton, extant at Loseley, Doune writes: "I had a desire to be yo' L'p's servant, by the favor wch yr good sonne's love to me obtain'd. I was 4 years your L'p's secretary." Thomas, eldest son of the lord keeper, accompanied the earl of Essex in the expedition to Cadiz, and was one of those knighted by him on that occasion. On the return of that expedition, as it would appear from his own statement, Donne had obtained his introduction and appointment at York-House, in the service of the newly-promoted lord keeper; which renders it scarcely probable that he joined the expedition of the following year. His friend Sir Thomas, accompanied the earl of Essex in his unfortunate adventure to Ireland, in 1599; and his death there, is the subject of a very interesting letter to his father, the lord keeper, from the earl of Essex, printed in the Egerton Manuscripts.

* Elizabeth lady Ellesmere (or rather lady Egerton, since she died before her husband was created baron Ellesmere) was daughter of Sir William More, of Loseley, and widow of Sir John Wolley, of Pyrford, co. Surrey, knt. She was one of the ladies in waiting on queen Elizabeth, and much esteemed by her.

Sir George had some intimation of it, and, knowing prevention to be a great part of wisdom, did therefore remove her with much

She died in 1599. In the Loseley chapel, adjoining to the church of St. Nicholas, Guildford, among the memorials of her family, is an alabaster monument, with the effigy of a lady, kneeling, to her memory, and recording her three marriages. Sir Francis Wolley, hereafter mentioned, was her son.

Sir George More, of Loseley, brother of the lady Egerton, was born in 1553, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, whence he removed to the Inns of court. About 1597, he was knighted; and became Treasurer to Henry, Prince of Wales. In 1610, he was appointed Chancellor of the Garter; and in 1615, Lieutenant of the Tower. Sir George appears to have been very serviceable to, and much in the confidence of king James; but from the draughts of sundry disregarded memorials extant at Loseley, he appears to have been ill-requited, and neglected in his declining years. Indeed a reverse of fortune is noted in a future page, when Donne, then Dean of St. Paul's, declined to receive his stipulated annuity. "It is enough," said he, “you have been kind to me and mine; I know your present condition is such as not to abound; and I hope mine is or will be such as not to need it."

Sir George attended the funeral of the king, as Chancellor of the Garter, in a very infirm state; and died at the age of 79 years, in October, 1632; surviving both his daughter, and his son-in-law, Dr. Donne. The other daughters of Sir George More were married,-Mary, to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Carew; Margaret, to Sir Thomas Grymes; Elizabeth, to Sir John Mill, bart.; and Frances, to Sir John Oglander. In the Loseley Chapel, Guildford, is a monument to the memory of Sir George More and his first wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings, knt. (mother of his children), with their effigies in a kneeling posture.

Loseley House, an old grey stone sombrous edifice, is situate in the Hundred of Godalming, about two miles south-west of Guildford. It consists of a main body, facing the north, and one wing extending northward from its western extremity; the former, built by Sir William More, contains the hall. The latter, added by Sir George More, has a noble gallery on the first floor, one hundred and twenty-one feet long. The principal entrance, which opens into the hall, was formerly more to the eastward, by a porch or vestibule, surmounted by three stone figures. On the left, Fortune, on a globe, holding a wheel, with the inscription, Fortuna omnia. On the right, Fate, holding a celestial globe, with these words inscribed, Non Fors, sed Fatum. In the middle, a figure with one foot on a wheel, the other on a globe, holding an open book, and pointing to these words, Non Fors, nec Fatum, sed

The house had also appropriate inscriptions over the doors of the principal apartments; and the withdrawing room, a fine specimen of the decorated Elizabethan style, contains, on an enriched cornice, the rebus of the More family, a Mulberry Tree, intersecting the motto:

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sibylline words, that, as interpreted, have scarcely been borne out by events.--See Manning's, and Mantell's Hist. of Surrey.

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