it self with those hazardous travells of our brave prince's affections to bring home his equalls. I will therefore hope that it is among kinges and princes as with private men, where we see suspition to begett suspition, caution to bring forth caution, and contrariwise, a gallantaesse of proceeding to have as gallant a manner of retorne. Their part is yet behinde for the consummation of all. In the cariage of which your lordshipp shall have just cause to observe, that howsoever, in petty thinges, the spreading scepter of Spayne maie seeme to bend under the myter of Rome; yet in regalities and thinges of high nature, I presume you shall see it reserves a more singlatyve greatness, then other petty soveraignes of the same faith doe, or dare imagine.

"I seriously wish this hasty errand ended, and your selves at home, where you shall finde your old graundchilde hartely devoted to lyve and dye

"Your lordships loving and humble servant,

"F. BROOKe.

"Whitehall, this 10th of Aprill 1623. "Lord Marquesse Buckingham."]

Ben Jonson, Randolph, Howell, and other poets, adopted paternal and filial titles when they addressed each other, but it seems that courtiers carried this foolery still farther; and Villiers duke of Buckingham stiled the minion-loving monarch" his dear dade and gossip." Vide Nugæ Antiq. vol. i. p. 394.

GEORGE CAREW,

EARL OF TOTNESS,

THE HE younger son of a dean of Exeter, raised himself by his merit to great honours. Though his titles were conferred by the kings James and Charles, his services were performed under Elizabeth, in whose reign he was master of the ordnance in Ireland, treasurer of the army there, president of Munster, and one of the lords justices. With less than four thousand men he reduced many castles and forts to the queen's obedience, took the earl of Desmond prisoner, and brought the Bourks, O'Briens, and other rebels, to submission. He baffled all attempts of the Spaniards on his province, and established it in perfect peace. He died in an honourable old age at the Savoy in 1629, and is buried under a goodly monument at Stratford upon Avon. He was a great patron of learning and lover of antiquities.

He wrote,

"Pacata Hibernia; or the History of the Wars

in Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster, 1599, 1600, 1601, and 1602;" which after his death was printed in folio at London in 1633, with seventeen maps, being published by his natural son Thomas Stafford3.

It is certain that his lordship proposed to write the reign of Henry the fifth, and had made collections and extracts for that purpose. The author of the life of Michael Drayton says", that Speed's reign of that prince was written by

[This work, says bishop Nicolson, contains the transactions of three years of much action in Munster, from the latter end of 1599 to the death of queen Elizabeth, in the conclusion of 1602. The whole is divided into three books: whereof the first treats of the desperate condition of that province, above other parts of the kingdom, when the lord president entered upon his government, and the hopeful prospect whereinto publick affairs were brought by his wise management within the compass of twelve months. The next gives an account of the landing of the Spaniards, and the entire conquest of them at Kinsale, with the transporting of the invaders back to Spain In the third, a recruit of money and ammunition puts new spirits into the rebels; which occasions the siege, taking, and demolishing of the strong castle of Dunboy, which put an end to the troubles of Munster. Irish Historical Lib. p. 25. If any one, says Walter Harris, takes the pains of looking into the preface, and into p. 367, and other parts of Pacata Hibernia, he will be convinced that Carew was not the author of it; but it was probably compiled by his directions, to which he furnished the materials. Harris's edit. of Ware's Ireland, vol. iii. P. 329.]

• Vide Ant. Wood and Dugdale's Baronage.

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