The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sourcesThomson, A. T., Mrs.
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The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sources
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628
The Countess of Suffolk and her retinue proceeded to Magdalen College,
which had been founded by Lord Chancellor Audley, the grandfather of the
Earl of Suffolk.[68]
Footnote 68:
Lord Audley is said to have given this College the name of Magdalen,
or rather Maudleyn, in allusion to his own name, adding one letter at
the beginning and at the end. M AUDLEY N. See Nichols’s Progresses, p.
45, note.
The youngest daughter of the Earl of Suffolk accompanied her sister and
mother. This was Catherine, married to William Cecil, second Earl of
Salisbury. By this union long enmities between the two families of
Howard and of Percy were partially reconciled; a daughter of the house
of Cecil marrying eventually Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland,
“whose blood,” it had been said by the Earl of Salisbury, “would not
mingle in a basin,” so inborn was the hereditary hatred between the two
races. This union had been one of policy alone; for the Earl of
Salisbury inherited no traits of his ancestry but their titles; and his
weak and abject nature revived the remembrance of only the worst parts
of his father’s character; “a man,” adds Clarendon, who sums up the
whole, “of no words, except in hunting and hawking.”
Lady Howard of Walden, the daughter of George Hume, Earl of Dunbar, and
wife of the eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk, and Lady Howard, the wife
of Thomas, Lord Howard of Charlton, his second son, completed the family
array. The latter of these two ladies was a Cecil, but her claims to
celebrity rest chiefly upon her being the mother of Lady Elisabeth
Howard, who married the great Dryden; her two sons, Sir Robert and
Edward Howard, enjoyed some portion of literary fame in their day.[69]
Footnote 69:
Brydge’s Peers of England, p. 260.
The first night’s entertainment at Cambridge was a comedy, acted by the
gownsmen of St. John’s College. This was a sort of burlesque, ridiculing
Sir Edward Radcliffe, the King’s physician; it proved, according to
public opinion, but “a lean argument, and though it was larded with
pretty shows at the beginning and end, and with somewhat too broad
speech for such a presence, still it was dry.”
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