BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  The prince and duke travelled under the assumed names of John and Thomas Smith.  King James wrote a poem on this expedition, of which the first and last verses are as follow.  A copy is preserved among the Rawlinson MSS., Bodleian Library:—­

    “What sudden change hath darked of late
    The glory of the Arcadian state? 
    The fleecy flocks refuse to feed,
    The lambs to play, the ewes to breed;
      The altars smoke, the offerings burn,
      Till Jack and Tom do safe return.

    “Kind shepherds that have loved them long,
    Be not too rash in censuring wrong;
    Correct your fears, leave off to mourn,
    The heavens shall favour their return! 
      Commit the care to Royal Pan,
      Of Jack his son, and Tom his man.”

]

[Footnote 2:  In MS. Harl., 6987, is preserved Buckingham’s letter to James I, describing the first interview.  Speaking of the prince, he says, “Baby Charles is himself so touched at the heart, that he confesses all he ever yet saw is nothing to her, and swears, that if he want her, there shall be blows.”]

[Footnote 3:  Though Buckingham and Charles were exigeant of jewels for presents, the king was equally profuse in sending until he had exhausted his store.  Considerably more than 150,000_ l._ worth were consigned to Spain.  In a letter from Newmarket, March 17, 1623, preserved in Harleian MS. 6987, he enumerates a large quantity to be presented to the Infanta; and he is equally careful that Prince Charles should be well supplied; “As for thee, my sweet gossip, I send thee a fair table diamond for wearing in thy hat.”  The king ingeniously prompts them to present the Infanta with a small looking-glass to hang at her girdle, and to assure her that “by art magic, whensoever she shall be pleased to look in it, she shall see the fairest lady that either her brother’s or your father’s dominions can afford.”]

[Footnote 4:  On his first coming to court he was made cup-bearer to the king, then Master of the Horse, then ennobled, made Lord High Admiral, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Constable of Windsor Castle, Ranger of Royal Parks, &c. &c.  A list of the public plunderings of himself and family is given in Sloane MS. 826, amounting to more than 27,000 l. per annum in rents of manors, irrespective of 50,000 l. “paid to the duke by privie seale of free guifts, but alleged to be intended for the navie.”  Many pensions and customs were also made over to his use.]

[Footnote 5:  King James delighted in calling the Duke of Buckingham “Steenie,” as has been already instanced in the letter quoted, p. 463, Vol.  I. This was not the duke’s Christian name, but was invented for him by his royal master, who fancied his features resembled those usually given to St. Stephen, and whose face was usually depicted in accordance with the description in Acts vi. 15, “as it had been the face of an angel.”]