Brion was then in London, with Clerivault, for the second time since that visit first recorded. He was staying, as Raleigh’s guest, at Durham House in the Strand--a former ‘Inn’ of the Bishops of Durham, presented by the young Edward VI to his sweet ‘sister Temperance,’ and afterwards by her to her much favoured courtier. It was an austere but imposing building on the riverside, involving such expenditure in its maintenance that, to enable its owner to live there in a state befitting its character, his accommodating sovereign had conferred upon him a patent to license the vending of wines throughout the kingdom--a sinecure so rich in emoluments as to make him, with his other properties, a wealthy man; though it may be said for him that he spent his fortune magnificently, and often much of it in the public interest. Yet still dissatisfied, it seemed, with these tokens of her royal regard, her Majesty continued to heap benefits on that lucky recipient, confirming his election as Knight of the Shire of Devon, and further, about this time or a little later, appointing him Seneschal of the Duchies of Cornwall and Exeter, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Devon and Cornwall, besides bestowing upon him some twelve thousand acres of forfeited land in Cork and Waterford, with other signal marks of her attachment. So that, it would seem, the ‘pack of small accomplishments’ had been exploited to rare effect, with the result that its owner had become one of the most envied and courted men in the Kingdom.