01 Jan 1619. The 1st of this month I began to have the curtain drawn in my chamber and to see light. This day the Child did put on her crimson velvet coat laced with silver lace, which was the 1st velevt coat she ever had. I sent the Queen a New Year’s gift, a cloth of silver cushion embroidered richly with the King of Denmark’s arms, and all one with stripes of tent stitch.

Note. About this time died my Lord Cobham (age 54), he being lately come out of the Tower [Map]. He being the last of the three that was condemned for the first conspiracy [Main and Bye Plots] against the King at his first coming to England.

02 Jan 1619. The 2-3-4-5th I sat up and had many ladies come to see me, and much other company, and so I passed the time.

My Lord (age 29) went often to the Court abroad and on Twelfth Eve lost 400 pieces playing with the King.

11 Jan 1619. The 11th my Lord (age 29) went to Knole.

16 Jan 1619. The 16th came my Lord of Arundel and his Lady. The same day I sent my Coz. Hall of Gletford a letter and my picture with it which Sarkinge drew this summer at Knole.

Note. I brought down with me my Lady's great trunk of papers to pass away the time which trunk was full of writings of Craven and Westmoreland and other affairs, with certain letters of her friends and many papers of philosophy.

18 Jan 1619. The 18th my Lady Wootton came to see me and stayed most part of the afternoon with me, with whom I had much conference of old matters and of the Mathew business.

19 Jan 1619. The 19th my Lady Verulam came, my Lord (age 29) and Lady Cavendish, her Lady, my Lord Bruce, his Sister, and much other company, my Lady Herbert, my old Lady Donne, my young Lady Donne, with whom I had much talk about religion.

20 Jan 1619. The 20th came my Lord Russell, Sir Edward Gage, my Sisters Beauchamp, Compton, and Sackville and dined with me, and in the afternoon came my Lady Bridgewater and much other company, and my Lady of Warwick who told me a great deal of news.

22 Jan 1619. The 22nd here supped with me my Sisters Sackville and Beauchamp, Bess Neville, Tom Glenham, and my Brother Compton and his wife. I brought them to sup here on purpose hoping to make them friends.

Note. My Lord (age 29) came into my room and told me the news of my Sister Beauchamp's child's death. About this time my Sister Compton was reconciled to her husband and went to his house in Finch Lane, where they stayed ten or twelve days and then he brought her into the country to Bramble- tye.

23 Jan 1619. The 23rd I came from London to Knole in a litter, the Child riding all the way in her coach, I went through the City and over the bridge, but she crossed the water. We found my Lord (age 29) at Knole, who had stayed there all this time since his coming from London.

24 Jan 1619. The 24th Sunday here dined Sir William and Lady Selby and Sir Ralph Boswell. All this week I kept my chamber, because I found myself ill and weak.

29 Jan 1619. The 29th in the morning died my Sister Beauchamp's daughter Mrs Anne Seymour in the same house her father died in 2 months before; the child was opened, it having a corrupt body, so it was put in lead and the day following Legge brought it to Knole, | which day was my birthday, I being now 29 years old.

31 Jan 1619. The 31st my Coz. Russell’s (age 26) wife (age 39) was brought to bed of a son (it being the 7th child) at Chiswick, which was christened in the Church privately and was named Francis.

Feb 1619. About this time Lord William caused my Coz. Clifford to come before the Lords of the Council about northern business, so as the spleen increased between them more and more and bred faction in Westmoreland, which I held to be a very good matter for me.

01 Feb 1619. The 1st carried Lord Beauchamp’s child from Knole, where it had stood in his chamber, to Withyham, where it was carried in the vault, so now there was an end of the issue of that marriage which was concluded soon after mine.

Note. This line was continued by Lord Beauchamp's next brother, the Marquis of Hert- ford of the Civil Wars.

02 Feb 1619. The 2nd my Lord (age 29) went to Buckhurst meaning to lie there private a fortnight or thereabouts.

08 Feb 1619. The 8th Lady Woolton sent Mr Page so see me, and that day I made pancakes with my women in the great Chamber.

10 Feb 1619. The 10th Wat. Coniston began to read St. Austin of the City of God to me, and I received a letter from Mr Davis with another enclosed in it of Ralph Conniston, whereby I perceived things went in Westmoreland as I would have them.

Note. My Lady of Suffolk at Northampton House about this time had the small-pox which spoiled that good face of hers, which had brought to others much misery and to herself greatness which ended with much unhappiness.

15 Feb 1619. The 15th Sir Thomas Lake (age 51), his Lady (age 44), and Lady Ross (age 19), were sent to the Tower [Map]. There was nothing heard all this term but the matter between the Countess of Exeter (age 39) and them, at which the King sat [five] several days. It was censured on my Lady Exeter’s (age 39) side against them, who were fined great fines both to the King and her, there was spoken extraordinary foul matters of my Lady Ross (age 19) and reports went that amongst others she lay with her own brother, so as their foul matters did double the miseries of my Lady Lettice (age 30) Lake in her unfortunate marriage. Sarah Swarton was fined and censured to be whipt, which censure was not executed, the reason she confessed all that she knew.

In Sir Thomas Lake’s (age 51) place Sir George Calvert (age 39) was sworn secretary.

25 Feb 1619. My Lord (age 29) should have gone to London the 24th of this month but I entreated him to stay here the 25th, because on that day 10 years I was married, which I kept as a day of jubilee to me, so my Lord (age 29) went not till the 27th, at which time he rid on horseback by reason of the great snow and was so ill after his journey that whereas he intended to return two or three days he stay’d nine or ten.

28 Feb 1619. The 28th Sunday the Judges came to Sevenoaks. I did often receive letters from Mr Davis and Marsh by which I perceived my motion to Sir John Suckling on his behalf took good effect, and that businesses went well to my liking in Westmoreland, by reason of difference between Lord William and my Coz. Clifford.

Note. About the 20th the King fell into an extreme fit of the stone at Newmarket, so as many doubted of his recovery, and the Prince rid down post to see him, most of the great ladies about the town put themselves in mourning and did watch the Queen's corpse at Denmark House which lay there with much state.

The Queen Dowager of Denmark was alive when her daughter Queen Anne of England died.

02 Mar 1619. The 2nd the Queen died at Hampton Court between two and three in the morning, the King was then at Newmarket. Legge brought me the news of her death about two in the afternoon, I being in the bed chamber at Knole where I had the first news of my Mother’s death about the same hour. (Legge told me my Lord (age 29) was about to take some physic of Mr Smith and as he could not come from London these four or five days yet.) She died in the same room that Queen Jane, Harry 8th’s wife died in, though Rina was there when the pangs of death came upon her, but went into another chamber some half an hour before she died.

04 Mar 1619. The 4th my Lord Sheffield (age 53) was married at Westminster in St. Margaret’s Church [Map] to one Anne Erwin, daughter of her [sec] Wilkam Erwin a Scottish man, which was held a very mean match, an undiscreet on part of him.

05 Mar 1619. The 5th about 9 o’clock the Queen’s bowels all saving her heart were buried privately in the Abbey at Westminster in the place where the King’s mother’s tomb is, there was none came with it but three or four of her servants and gentlemen ushers which carried it, and a herald before it. The Dean of Westminster and about ten others were by.

Note. The 9th the Queen’s corpse was brought from Hampton Court to Denmark House by water in the night in a barge with many Lords and Ladies attending it.

09 Mar 1619. The 9th my Lord (age 29) came down from Knole and continued taking physic and diet.

Note. When my Lord (age 29) was at London my Brother Sackville fell sick of a fever and was dangerously ill, at length it turned to an ague which continued most of the month, so as it was generally reported he was dead.

I began keeping Lent very strictly, not eating butter or eggs till the 18th of February. Moll Neville kept it with me but my Lord (age 29) persuaded me, and M? Smith wrote unto me so as I was content to break it, besides I looked very pale and ill and was very weak and sickly.

17 Mar 1619. The 17th my Lord (age 29) went to Buckhurst to search for armour and provision which should be laid up by the Papists. This day I made an end of my Lady’s Book of Praise of a solitary life.

18 Mar 1619. The 18th I compared the two books of the Cliffords that Mr Keniston sent me down.

20 Mar 1619. The 20th my Lord of Warwick (age 59) died at Arlington House leaving a great estate to Lord Rich (age 31)¹ and my good friend his Lady (age 29), and leaving his wife which was my Lady Lampwell a widow the second time. This day Wat. Coniston made an end of reading Mr Saragol’s Book of the Supplication of the Saints which my Lord (age 30) gave me.

Note 1. 2nd Earl of Warwick, the Parliament’s Admiral.

26 Mar 1619. The 26th Good Friday after supper I fell in a great passion of weeping in my chamber, and when my Lord (age 30) came in I told him I found my mind so troubled as I held not myself fit to receive the Communion this Easter, which all this Lent I intended to have done.

27 Mar 1619. The 27th in the morning I sent for Mr Rand [sic] and told him I found myself not fit to receive the Communion. The next day when my Lord (age 30) heard I had told Mr Rand so much he sent for him and told him the Communion should be put off both for him and his household, except any of them should receive at the Church.

28 Mar 1619. The 28th Easter Day Mr Rand preached in the Chapel but there was no Communion in the house but at the Church. In the afternoon I began to repent that I had caused the Communion to be put off till Whit Sunday, my Lord (age 30) protesting to me that he would be a very good husband to me and that I should receive no prejudice by releasing my thirds.

29 Mar 1619. The 29th my Lord (age 30) went to Buckhurst and so to Lewes, to see the muster which the county prepared in so much better fashion by reason of their affection to him, which was as much as my Lord (age 30) hath in any county or can have.

01 Apr 1619. The 1st day in the morning I wrote in the Chronicles.

04 Apr 1619. The 4th there was a general Thanksgiving at Paul’s Cross for the King’s recovery, at which was most of the Privy Council, and the Bishop of London preached.

05 Apr 1619. The 5th Lord Hume (age 53) died in Channel Row, who married Mrs Mary Dudley (age 33), my old companion, and left her as well as he could possibly.

06 Apr 1619. The 6th my Lord (age 30) came from Buckhurst to Knole. At his being at Lewes there was great play between my Lord of Hunsden (age 39), my Lady of Effingham, and my Lord (age 30) who lost them £200, and the town entertained him with fireworks.

08 Apr 1619. The 8th there came a letter to my Lord (age 30) to advise him to come to Royston to the King because most of the Lords had been with him at the time of his sickness.

09 Apr 1619. The 9th my Lord (age 30) went from Knole to London, the next day he went to Royston to the King, with whom he watched that night. My Lord of Warwick (age 31) and my Lord North (age 36) watched with him. The King used him very well so that my Lord (age 30) came not back till the 13th to London, there he stayed till I came up.

17 Apr 1619. The 17th I came to London, Moll Nevill the gentlewoman, and most of the household came with me so that I left none to wait on the Child but Mary Hutchins.

18 Apr 1619. Sunday the 18th I went to Warwick House to see my young Lady of Warwick (age 29) where I met my Lord of Warwick (age 31), Mr Charles Rich, Mr Nathaniel Rich, Lady Harriet Rich. After all the company were gone to Sermon my Lord (age 30) came in thither. This day I put on my black mourning attire and went to my Sister Beauchamp where I spake with Mrs Bathurst and told her I did both forget and forgive anything she had done against me and that I had spoken to Lady Warwick in her behalf.

19 Apr 1619. Monday the 19th I went to Somerset House and sat a good while there by the Queen’s corpse, and then went into the Privy Galleries and shewed my Coz. Mary those fine delicate things there.

From thence I went to Bedford House and stayed with my Lady of Bedford (age 39) a little while, and she and I went to Channel Row to see my Lady Hume (age 33) the widow.

This day my Lord (age 30), my Lord Hundson (age 39), and my Sister Sackville, christened Hammon’s child at St. Dunstan’s Church.

20 Apr 1619. The 20th I went to Parsons Green to my Lady St. John’s, where I met the Spanish friar that is the agent here.

This day and the next my Lord (age 30) had cocking at the Cock Pit where there met him an infinite company.

20 Apr 1619. The 20th the King was brought in a litter from Royston to Ware, and the next day to Tibbalds, being carried most part of the way by the guard, for that he was so ill he could not endure the litter.

22 Apr 1619. Thursday the 22nd I went in the morning to see my Sister Compton and found my Brother Compton there. I was in the room where my Lord’s mother-in-law died, the Countess of Dorset, and went up and down the rooms. Afterwards my Sisters Beauchamp and Sackville came to see me.

23 Apr 1619. Friday the 23rd I went to Black Friars to see my Lady Cavendish and my Lady Kinloss in that house where my Lady Somerset was brought to bed in her great troubles. Then I went to Denmark House and heard prayers there, and this night I watched all night by the Queen’s corpse. There watched with me my Lord Carew’s Lady, my Lady Elizabeth Grye, and various other ladies and gentlemen, beside there sat up my Brother Compton, my Coz. George, my Coz. Thatcher, Mrs Renolds, the beginning of the night there came thither my Lord (age 30) and my Lady Warwick, Sir H. Rich, Charles Rich, my Lord Carew, and Sir Thomas Edmondes, but all these went away before 12 o’clock. I came not away till 5 o’clock in the morning.

24 Apr 1619. Saturday 24th my Lord (age 30) went to Tibbalds to see the King who used him very graciously. This night my Coz. Clifford came out of the North where matters went more to my content and less to his than were expected. Either this night or next morning Sir Arthur Lake’s (age 21) Lady (age 30) was brought to bed of a son.

25 Apr 1619. Sunday 25th after dinner, I and my Lady Warwick went to Denmark House and went to sermon in the great Hall, after sermon my Lord (age 30) came thither to fetch me, so we went to Hyde Park and took the air. After my Lord (age 30) came home he went to see my Brother Sackville who still continueth to look ill and is very sick and out of temper in his body.

26 Apr 1619. Monday the 26th my Lord's (age 30) cocks fought at Whitehall when my Lord (age 30) won five or six battles. I went in the afternoon to see my Lady Windsor (age 44)¹, my Lady Rawleigh (age 54) in her house which is hard by Austin Friars. Then went to Clerkenwell to the house that Sir Thomas Challum built.

Note 1. Catherine (age 44), daughter of Edward Somerset (age 69) Earl of Worcester, Lord Privy Seal, and wife of Thomas 6th Lord Windsor (age 27).

27 Apr 1619. Tuesday the 27th I put on my new black mourning night gown and those white things that Nan Horn made for me. This day Mr Orfuir brought me two of the tenants of Westmoreland who craved my assistance against my Uncle Cumberland.

28 Apr 1619. The 28th my Lord (age 30) and I, my Coz. Sackville and Lady Windsor went to the Tower to see my Lady Somerset (age 28), where we saw her little child (age 3)¹. My Lord (age 30) went to see Earl of Northumberland (age 55)² and I and the Lady Windsor went to see Lady Shrewsbury (age 63)³, and after supper my Lord (age 30) and I went by water to Channel Row to see my Lord of Hertford (age 79)⁴ and his Lady (age 40) where we found my Lady Beauchamp⁵, my Lord Essex’s (age 28) Sister, then I went to Arundel House and talked with her about Lords being made Knights of the Garter.

Note 1. “Her little Child,” Anne Carr (age 3), afterwards married to William 5th Earl and 1st Duke of Bedford (age 2).

Note 2. Henry (age 55), 6th Earl, a Prisoner since the time of the Gunpowder Plot.

Note 3. Mary Cavendish (age 63), wife of Gilbert 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, was sent to the Tower in June 1611, at the same time with her niece the Lady Arabella Stuart first cousin of King James. Lady Arabella died, in the Tower, in 1615.

Note 4. Earl of Hertford (age 79) son of Protector Somerset, and his 3rd wife Frances (age 40), d. of Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon, widow of Henry Pranell, Esq., and married, 3rdly to Ludovick Stuart Duke of Lenox and Richmond (age 44).

Note 5. Lady Frances Devereux (age 19), and wife of William Lord Beauchamp (age 31), afterwards Marquis of Hertford; daughter of Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, and sister of the Parliament’s General (age 28).

30 Apr 1619. The 30th my Lord Southampton (age 45) was sworn a Privy Councillor at Tibbalds.

01 May 1619. The 1st after supper Mr Davis came and did read to my Lord (age 30) and me the Bill my Uncle Cumberland and my Coz. Clifford put in the Chancery against the tenants of King’s Meaborne.

02 May 1619. The 2nd when I returned home I found Mr Hammers and his wife here, I told her that for my part she had made so many scorns and jests of me she was nothing welcome to me.

03 May 1619. The 3rd about two or three o’clock in the morning Sir Arthur Lake’s (age 21) wife (age 30) died, having been grievously tormented a long time with pains and sores which broke out in blotches so that it was reported she died of the French disease. This day Williams a lawyer was arraigned and condemned at the King’s Bench of Treason and adjudged to be hanged, drawn and quartered for a certain book he had made and entitled Balaam’s Ass, for which book one Cotton was committed to the Tower and a long time kept prisoner there upon suspicion of it, but of late got out on bail and was now well acquitted, but Williams was carried to Newgate and on the 5th hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross [Map].

Note. The 3rd Barnwelt was beheaded at the Hague which is like to breed alteration for the best for this man hath long been a secret friend to the Spaniards and an enemy to the English.

05 May 1619. The 5th my Lord of Kent’s daughter Lady Susanna Longueville and her husband (age 29) came and dined with me.

06 May 1619. The 6th my Lord (age 30) sat up playing at cards and did not come home till 12 o’clock at night.

07 May 1619. The 7th presently after dinner my Coz. Clifford came and sat in the Gallery ½ an hour and so my Lord (age 30) and he went abroad.

08 May 1619. The 8th John and Richard Dent were before the Chancellor, my Coz. Clifford and John Taylor being present where the Chancellor told them that fr. [?] tenants’ rights he meant utterly to break them, willing them to be good tenants to my Uncle Cumberland, whereat the poor men were much perplexed and troubled, but I gave them the best comfort and encouragement I could.

09 May 1619. Sunday the 9th my Lord (age 30) and I went not to Church in the morning because Skinnie was married that day to Sarah. In the afternoon I was not well so neither my Lord (age 30) nor I went to Church.

My Sister Beauchamp came and sat here and my Brother Compton whom I made promise me and he gave me his hand upon it, that he would keep his house in Finch Lane until Lady Day next because my Sister Compton might sometimes come up to London. After I was gone to bed I had them into the chamber. Sir John was very forward to do me all the pleasure he could, and Mr Sherborne promised to speak to the Chancellor in behalf of the tenants.

10 May 1619. The 10th Sir fohn North came and told me much news from beyond sea.

11 May 1619. The 11th in the morning Lord William Howard came up to me in Lady Margaret’s chamber and conferred with me about an hour, promising to do all the good he could in the Northern business. This day my Lord (age 30) went to Salisbury House to see my Coz. Clifford, there being ordinary passages of kindness between them, so that he useth to keep my Lord (age 30) company at running at the ring and going to Hyde Park and those places.

Note 1. About this time my Lord of Doncaster went to his embassage into Germany, being sent by the King both to the Emperor and the [Pope ?] to mediate between them.

13 May 1619. The 13th I was one of the mourners at the Queen’s funeral. I attended the corpse from Somerset House to the Abbey at Westminster. My Lord (age 30) was also one of the Earls that mourned. I went all the way hand in hand. with my Lady Lincoln after the sermon, and, all the ceremonies ended, my Lord (age 30), myself, and the Earl of Warwick and his Lady came home by barges, being come home I went to my Sister Beauchamp to shew her my mourning attire. At the funeral I met with my old Lady Pembroke and divers others of my acquaintance with whom I had much talk. My Coz. Clifford was also a mourner and bare the banner after the Lords. When all the company was gone and the Church door shut up the Dean of Westminster, the Prebends, Sir Edward Zouch, who was Knight Marshall, came up a private way and buried the corpse at the east end of Henry the 7th Chapel about 7 o’clock at night. There was 180 poor women mourners. I went to see Lord Hertford (which was the last time I ever saw him) in Channel Row and spake very earnestly in Wood’s behalf, but I could not prevail and his answer was that he would not pay any of his grandchildren’s debts after his death.

This night my Lord (age 30) made a great supper to two or three of the Frenchmen that came over with the embassador. After supper there was a play and then a banquet at which my Lady Penniston (age 19) and a great many of Lords and Ladies there.

The 13th. It is past 13 years and a month since my Father’s funeral was kept and solemnized in the Church at Skipton as Queen Ann’s Body was this night buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster.

15 May 1619. The 15th I went by water to the Savoy to my Lord Carew, and spoke to him very earnestly in behalf of Peter Coolinge and his son for a gunner’s place in Carlisle and received a reasonable good answer from him. After the shower was past, my Lady Dudley which was my Mother’s old friend came to see me and brought her daughter Margaret with her.

My Lord (age 30) and I intended to have gone home into the country and had sent the coach and horses; about then there came a sudden great shower which stayed our going.

My Lord (age 30) brought me to Westminster Abbey where I stayed to see the tombs and the place where the Queen was buried in an angle in Henry 7th’s Chapel.

17 May 1619. The 17th my Lord (age 30) and I and all the household came down to Knole. I took my leave also of the two tenants and gave them gold and silver. The 24, 25, 26, and 27th I went abroad with my Brother Sackville, sometimes early in the morning and sometimes after supper he and I being kind and having better correspondence than we have had.

31 May 1619. The 31st I stayed at home and was sad and melancholy.

Note. After I came out of town my Lord Chancellor had the tenants before him and willed them to yield to my Uncle Cumberland, at which time he gave Mr Davis bad words.

The 27th my Lord (age 30) and my Brother Sackville and I, Moll Neville and Mr Longworth rid abroad on horseback in Whitby Wood and did not sup till 8 or 9 o’clock. After supper my Lord (age 30) and I walked before the gate where I told him how good he was teverybody else and how unkind to me. In conclusion he promised me in a manner that he would make me a jointure of four thousand pounds a year, whereof part should be of the land he has assured to my Uncle Cumberland.

This term there was great expectation that my Lord (age 30) and Lord Suffolk and that faction would be proceeded against in the Star Chamber but at their suit it was put off till Michaelmas Term. This term Lord William Howard put a Bill into the Star Chamber against Sir William Hatton and others of my Coz. Clifford’s faction. This term my Lord (age 30) kept an exceeding great table, at dinner had much company. He had often cocking and sometimes with the King at Greenwich and won a great deal of money.

The 19th Lady Rosse’s submission was read in the Star Chamber but Sir Thomas and Lady Lake refused to submit, for which their contempt they were committed close prisoners to the Tower. The 21st Sir Thomas Glenham (age 25) married Sir Peter Vavasour’s daughter with whom he had a great portion. This marriage was at her Father’s house and very private.

About this time my Coz. Mary made an end of reading Parson’s resolutions to me.

01 Jun 1619. The 1st my Sister Beauchamp took her journey to Glenham where she intends to sojourn these two or three years so as her household is dispersed. Only some necessary attendants remain and Mrs Batten came into Kent.

02 Jun 1619. The 2nd I rose about 4 o’clock in the morning and rid abroad on horseback and my Coz. Mary with me. I was sad and melancholy all night. I brake a piece of my tooth off right before.

04 Jun 1619. The 4th I and Moll Newville rid about 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning and up to the Beacon, and went up to my Lady Selby’s for some bread and butter. This night was the 1st that Lady Margaret lay alone, Maris having a bed made hard by.

06 Jun 1619. The 6th Sunday I heard neither sermon or prayers because I had no coach to go to Church. All this week I spent at my work and sometimes riding abroad. My Coz. Maria read Ovid’s Metamorphoses to me.

18 Jun 1619. The 18th my Lord (age 30) came down from London after supper from the Term.

20 Jun 1619. The 20th my Lord (age 30) and I went to Church at Sevenoaks.

23 Jun 1619. The 23rd my Lord (age 30) went up to London to take up certain bonds which he did discharge with part of my portion.

24 Jun 1619. The 24th my Lord (age 30) received the last payment of my portion which was £6,000, so as he hath received in all £17,000. John Taylor required of my Lord (age 30) an acquittance which he refused to give in regard he had delivered in the Statutes which were a sufficient discharge.

25 Jun 1619. The 25th the King dined at Sir Thomas Watson’s and returned to Greenwich at night.

28 Jun 1619. The 28th my Lady Walton borrowed my Lord's (age 30) coach and went to London, for altogether, as I think for Jemima, she came not to avoid the King’s importunity for the passing of Purbeck whereof her son-in-law (age 28) was made Viscount.

30 Jun 1619. The 30th my Brother Compton came here and all his mother’s place was delivered to him so after dinner he returned to Brambletie where his wife lives with him but with many discontents.

02 Jul 1619. The 2nd my Lord (age 30) and Sir Henry Vane (age 30) played at bowls. This night my Lady Margaret (age 5) was 5 years old so as my Lord (age 30) caused her health to be drank throughout the house.

04 Jul 1619. The 4th Mr Chantrell preached at Sevenoaks, my Lord (age 30) having sent for him purposely for that end.

19 Jul 1619. The 19th Lady Devonshire came back from the Wells and dined at Sevenoaks and came not hither but sent her woman to see me.

22 Jul 1619. 22nd my Lady Margaret began to sit to Mrs [Mr ?] Vansommer for her picture.

27 Jul 1619. The 27th about this time my Lady Bedford (age 39) had the smallpox and had them in that extremity that she lost one of her eyes. About this time my Coz. Cilifford’s wife was brought to bed at Lanesboro of a son, which lived not seven hours and was christened Francis and was buried there. The same day Lord Rutland and Lady Kath. Manners came and dined here from the Wells and in the evening went to London.

Note. This Sunday my Coz. Oldworth was true and shewed those remembrances me which are to be set up at Cheyneys for my Great Grand Father of Bedford and my Grand Father of Bedford and my Aunt Warwick. About this time my Lady Law was married to Secretary Maunton.

All this Summer Lady Penniston (age 19) was at the Wells near Tunbridge drinking the waters. This coming hither of Lady Penniston's (age 19) was much talked of abroad and my Lord (age 30) was condemned for it.

14 Aug 1619. The 14th my Coz. Mary and I had a bitter falling out.

15 Aug 1619. The 15th being Sunday I went not to Church at all. I fell out with Kate Burton and swore I would not keep her and caused her to send to her Father.

18 Aug 1619. The 18th Sir Edward Burton came hither and I told him I was determined I would not keep his daughter.

24 Aug 1619. The 24th after supper came Sir Thomas Penniston (age 28) and his Lady (age 19), Sir Maximilian and Lady Dallison.

25 Aug 1619. The 25th they stayed here all day, there being great entertainment and much stir about them.

26 Aug 1619. The 26th they all went away.

27 Aug 1619. The 27th my Lord (age 30) rid about betimes in the morning and came not in till night. This night the 2 green beds in my chamber were removed.

Note. About this time my Lord (age 30) intended to keep a more sparing house, put away Thomas Work and Gifford and took one in their place which was Sir Fohn Suckling’s man.

The 11th I paid Mr Beat 10 pieces upon his return from jerusalem, who told me much news from Rome, Naples, &c.

30 Aug 1619. The 30th my Lord (age 30) sat much to have his picture drawn by Vansomer, and one picture was drawn for me.

21 Sep 1619. The 21st. All this week I spent with my Sister Compton; and my Sister Sackville, being sad about an unkind letter from my Lord (age 30).

01 Oct 1619. The 1st came my Lord Dacres, his new wife, my Lady Wildgoose, Mr Pembroke Lennard to see me and sat here two or three hours with me in the afternoon.

02 Oct 1619. The 2nd Kate Burton went away from serving me to her Father’s house in Sussex.

Upon the 2nd I began to think I was quick with child so as I told it to my Lord (age 30), my Sister Sackville, and my Sister Compton.

06 Oct 1619. The 6th Lady Selby was my deputy in christening Sir Henry Vane’s (age 30) child. Mr Walter Stuart and Sir Robert Yeakley were godfathers—the child was named Walter.

The 7th Bess of the Laundry went away and one Nell came in her room. About this time I kept my chamber and stirred not out of it till the latter end of March so as most of my friends thought I should not have escaped it.

10 Oct 1619. This 10th Mary was brought to bed of a boy. The same night I began to be ill.

14 Oct 1619. The 14th came Sir Francis Slingsby and brought his daughter Mary to serve me who came that night and lay in Judith’s chamber so that I mean to keep her continually about me.

18 Oct 1619. Upon the 18th at night the Fire Dog play’d with fire, so as I took cold with standing in the window.

24 Oct 1619. The 24th my Lady Margaret christened Mary’s child with Sir Wilkam Selby and my Coz. Sackville and called him Richard, but neither my Lord (age 30) nor I was at Church.

Note. About this time the Gallery was hung with all my Lord's (age 30) caparisons which Edwards the upholsterer made up.

25 Oct 1619. The 25th came down hither to see me my Lord Russell (age 26)¹ and my Coz. Sir Edward George. My Lord (age 30) made very much of them — and shewed them the house and the chambers and my closet but I did not stir forth of my chamber.

Note 1. Had succeeded his father as Lord Russell of Thornhaugh in 1613, and became 4th Earl of Bedford in 1627.

26 Oct 1619. The 26th I kept James Wray a day or two who told me of many old matters and the certain day of the death of my Brother Robert¹.

Note 1. Son of George Earl of Cumberland, died in his childhood.

The 28th the Palsgrave was crowned King of Bohemia at Prague and the 25th the Lady Elizabeth was crowned Queen.

About the end of this month my Sister Beauchamp came from Glenham altogether and came to live with my Sister Sackville at the end of Dorset House which end my Brother Sackville and my Lord (age 30) did lately repair and make fine.

29 Oct 1619. The 29th came little Sir Harry Neville and dined here and went back to Penshurst.

This night the Drawing Chamber chimney was on fire so that I supped in the new Drawing Chamber with my Lord (age 30). After this I never stirred out of my own bedchamber till the 23rd of March¹.

Note 1. All this term there was much sitting in the Star Chamber by all the Heads of the Council about my Lord Suffolk’s business, In the end the answer was given that he should pay six thousand pounds to the King and that he and his Lady should remain prisoners in the Tower during his Majesty’s pleasure. The 16th at night Willoughby came to lie in the child’s chamber and Pennis to do all the work in the nursery.

02 Nov 1619. Upon the 2nd I had such ill luck with playing at Glecko with Legge and Basket that I said I would not play again in six months.

08 Nov 1619. Upon the 8th shortly after supper when I came into my chamber I was so ill that I fell into a swoon which was the first time I ever swooned.

20 Nov 1619. The 20th my Lord and Lady Suffolk¹ were sent to the Tower.

Note 1. Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk (age 58) and Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk (age 55).

24 Nov 1619. Upon the 24th Sir Francis Slingsby came hither to me and read to me in the sea papers about my Father’s voyages.

28 Nov 1619. The 28th though I kept my chamber altogether yet methinks the time is not so tedious to me as when I used to be abroad.

About this time I received letters from Mr Davis by which I perceived how ill things were likely to go in Westmoreland especially with Mr Hilton and Michael Brunstall.¹

Note 1. About this time of my Lord's (age 30) being at London he kept a great table having a great company of Lords and gentlemen that used to dine with him.

All this winter my Lady Margaret’s speech was very ill so as strangers cannot understand her, besides she was so apt to take cold and so out of temper that it grieved me to think of it. I verily believe all these inconveniences proceed from some distemper in her head.

The 29th of November was the last time my Lord (age 30) came to my Lady Penniston’s (age 19) at her Mother’s lodgings in the Strand. The 30th my Lord and Lady Suffolk¹ came out of the Tower.

Note 1. Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk (age 58) and Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk (age 55)

29 Nov 1619. The 29th all the Ladies hereabout being very kind to me all the time of my not being well. This day I received a letter and a box of sweetmeats from my Coz. Hall which was brought to me by one of his tenants, to whom I gave a good reward, returned her a letter of many thanks.

02 Dec 1619. The 2nd Wat. Conniston made an end of reading a book called Leicester’s Common Wealth, in which there’s many things concerning the reignment and death of the Queen of Scots, which was all read to me.

07 Dec 1619. The 7th I gave Sir Robert Taxley my sable muff.

Sunday my Lord (age 30) neither went to Church nor heard sermon here, because M! Ran was at Oxford. Sir Ralph Boswell dined here and played and sung to me in the afternoon.

13 Dec 1619. The 13th my Lord (age 30) gave me three shirts to make clouts of.

14 Dec 1619. The 14th Wat. Conniston began to read the book of Fosephus.

15 Dec 1619. The 15th my Lord (age 30) and I by Mr Amherst’s direction, set our hands to a letter of Attorny for Ralph Conniston to receive those debts which were due to my Lady of the enants, and this day he went on his journey to the North.

After supper my Lord (age 30) and I had a great falling out, he saying that, if ever my land came to me I should assure it as he would have me.

18 Dec 1619. The 18th my Lord (age 30) came and supped with me in my chamber, which he had not done before since his coming from London, for I determined to keep my chamber, and did not so much as go over the threshold of the door.

26 Dec 1619. The 26th there dined below with the gentlewomen Mrs Care, Goody Davis, and Goody Crawley. I writ a letter to my Lord (age 30) to thank him for a pedigree of the Sackvilles which he sent me.

27 Dec 1619. The 27th fudith and Bromedish aired the furs which came down from London, and I spent the time as before in looking at the Chronicles.

30 Dec 1619. The 30th and 31st I spent in hearing of reading, and playing at tables with the Steward. About this time my Lord of Doncaster came home from his long embassage into Germany.