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Thomas Bo fyn Earl of Wiltshire.
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Henry VIII.
II Q^ Elizabeth.
His mother being couHn to the ijueen, and wife of htr great fa vourite Leice.'cr, eafilv accounted for young ElTcx's fudden promo- tion : ir went on rapidly with- out theie fuppor.s. At twnty he was made malter of the horfe ; the next year general of the horfe at the camp at Tilbury, and knight of the garter. On thefe dignities were afterwards heaped the great ports of ma.ter of the ordnance, earl marfhal, chancel- lor of Cambridge, and lord lieu- tenant of Ireland. Lofty
diftinctions from a princefs fo fpar-
ing of her favours. Of what
Ihe was iliil more fparing, he ob- tained to the value of 300,0001. In one of her letters fhe reproach- ed him with her great favours bellowed without his defert : in eve- ry in; ance but in bi^ and Leicef- ter's, fhe was not wont to overpay fer vices.
His early marriage with the
Mary, Wm. Ld. Hunfdon.
II . Katharine,
Sir Francis Knolles.
II
Lettice,
Walter Earl of EfTex,
Robert Eari of Leiceller.
II Robert Earl of EfTex.
widow of Sir Philip Sidney did not look, as if he himfelf had any idea of her majeity's inclinaticn for him : perhaps he had learned from the example of his faiher-in -law, that her m jefty's pafTions never extended to macrimony Yet Lie- fcre this he bad infulted Sir Charles Blount, on a * jealouly of the queen's partiality. in'Jeid of ientimencal foftnefs, the fpiric of her father nroke out on that occafion, fhe fwore a round oaih, ' That unlefs feme one or oiher ' took him down, there would be ' no ruing him '
Lord Clarendon, in his fenfibie anfwerto Sir Harry Worton'5 paral- lel of the Earl of EfTex arci the Duke of Buckingham, obferves, that the former endeavoured rather to maficr the queen's afteciion than to win it : if he was crofTed in a fuit, he abfented himfelf frcni court, and made her purchafe his return. A fond woman may be
- Sir Charles Blount, pfterwards Earl of Devonfhli'e, a very comely yonnsf
ipian, liaving difting'iidiid hiiv.ielt at tilt, her irjajefty fent him a chef^-cjneen of gold enamelled, which he tied upon his arm with a criinfon libbon. Eflex p-i- ceiving it, faid with affttted fcorn. ' Now I perceive every fool muft have a fa-
- vo\!r !' On tiiis. Sir Charles challenged, fought him ic Marybone park, dif-
araied and wounded him in the thigh.
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