After this address, the young Prince was wafted down to Whitehall Stairs, where he landed. Passing on to the palace, he saluted the King, who stood on the palace stairs. The ceremony of creation, which took place on the following Monday, was performed in the hall of Whitehall Palace; and at night, “to crown it with more heroical honour, fortie worthy gentlemen of the ten noble societies of Innes of Court, and every way qualified by birth to break three staves, three swords, and exchange ten blows a-piece,” encountered each other. The delicate health of the Prince, and the late season of the year, prevented any great procession at the creation, but it was commemorated by tilting at the ring, to give great lustre and honour to the occasion, and among fourteen names of high degree, is found, among the challengers, that of Viscount Villiers, his first appearance in the tilt yard. Among the gallants who flaunted it out with the greatest bravery, are to be found many famous in successive times.[141] Footnote 141: The Lord Seymour, who had married the Lady Arabella Stuart, was among a set of newly-created Knights of the Bath; and Tom Carew and Phil Lytton, third son of Sir Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth, Herts., “were squires of high degree, for cast and bravery;” the one being esquire to Lord Beauchamp, the other to his cousin, Rowland St. John.—Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. State Paper Office, November 4th. Notwithstanding the sanction which James gave to a growing intimacy between the heir apparent and his favourite, there had been various early disagreements between them, which delayed the reciprocal affection which the King strove to promote between Charles and Buckingham. Their confidence was, in truth, the growth of years, and was impeded by several incidents, which those who were adverse to Villiers were eager to notice and to record. It was generally expected that a jealousy between them would defeat the King’s wishes, and divide the court into two parties; and the following letter imparts one of those incidents upon which such anticipations were founded:— _Letter of Edward Sherburn to Lord Holland._ “_March 14, 1615._