Other works of the same kind, though of inferior value, are Sir Edward Peyton's _The Divine Catastrophe of The Kingly Family Of the House of Stuarts_, 1652, and Francis Osborne's _Traditionall Memoyres on The Raigne of King James_, 1658. They were printed together by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 under the title _The Secret History of the Court of James the First_, a collection which contains the historical material employed in _The Fortunes of Nigel_. Though carelessly written, and as carelessly printed, Weldon's character of James is in parts remarkably vivid. It was reprinted by itself in Morgan's _Pboenix Britannicus_, 1732, pp. 54-6; and it was incorporated in the edition of Defoe's _Memoirs of a Cavalier_ published in 1792: see _The Retrospective Review_, 1821, vol. iii, pt. ii, pp. 378-9. There is a valuable article on Weldon's book as a whole in _The Retrospective Review_, 1823, vol. vii, pt. I. PAGE 4, l. 6. _before he was born_, probably an allusion to the murder of Rizzio in Mary's presence. l. 11. The syntax is faulty: delete 'and'? On James's capacity for strong drinks, compare Roger Coke's _Detection of the Court and State of England_ (1694), ed. 1719, vol. i, p. 78. l. 27. _that foul poysoning busines_, the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, the great scandal of the reign. Robert Ker, or Carr, created Viscount Rochester 1611 and Earl of Somerset 1613, had cast his eye on the Countess of Essex, and, after a decree of nullity of marriage with Essex had been procured, married her in December 1613. Overbury, who had been Somerset's friend, opposed the projected marriage. On a trumped up charge of disobedience to the king he was in April 1613 committed to the Tower, where he was slowly poisoned, and died in September. Somerset and the Countess were both found guilty in 1616, but ultimately pardoned; four of the accomplices were hanged. Weldon deals with the scandal at some length in the main part of his work, pp. 61 ff. l. 30. _Mountgomery_, Philip Herbert, created Earl of Montgomery 1605, succeeded his brother, William Herbert, as fourth Earl of Pembroke in 1630 (see No. 7). To this 'most noble and incomparable paire of brethren' Heminge and Condell dedicated the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, 1623. Montgomery's character is given by Clarendon, _History_, ed. Macray, vol. i, pp. 74-5; and, as fourth Earl of Pembroke, vol. ii, pp. 539-41.