your disfavour in any measur; but rather your good oppinion.

"Whearfore, yf your lordshipe have conceived ill againste me, or of me, call me to answere: or yf by any malicious enemys your lordshipe have byne provoked, I hombly beseeche your lordshipe, put me to myn appologie. And so, fearinge leste I have byn too tedious, I cease to trouble your lordshipe.

"JOHN HOLLIS. "From Sandwich the 25 of June, 1597."]

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EDWARD CECYLL,

VISCOUNT WIMBLEDON,

A MARTIAL lord in the reigns of king James and king Charles, followed the wars in the Netherlands for the space of thirty-five years, and was a general of great reputation till his miscarriage in the expedition to Cales. He was second son of the earl of Exeter, and grandson of Burleigh. King Charles made him of his privy council, governor of Portsmouth, and a peer 3. He has barely a title to this catalogue, and yet too much to be omitted. In the king's library are two tracts in manuscript drawn up by his lordships, one intituled,

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"The Lord Viscount Wimbleton his Method how the Coasts of the Kingdom may be defended against any Enemy, in case the Royal

[Third, says Bolton, Extinct Peerage, p. 308.]

⚫ [He was created baron Cecil, of Putney in Surrey, 1625; and viscount Wimbledon, in the year following. His lordship married three wives, but dying without a male heir, his titles died with him. Ib.]

' [Why barely a title? when three tracts written by this peer are still extant,and were all pointed out by lord Orford himself.] • Casley's Catalogue, p. 276.

Navye should be otherwise employed or impeached, 1628."

As I am unwilling to multiply authors unnecessarily, it will be sufficient to mention, that in the same place is another paper on the same subject, with a noble name to it, and called"The Opinion of the LORD GRAY, Sir John Norris, &c. for the Defence of the Realm against Invasion, 1588."

Our peer's other piece is intituled,

"Lord Viscount Wimbledon's Demonstration of divers Parts of War; especially of Cavallerye 7."

There is extant besides in print,

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"The Answer of the Viscount Wimbledon to the Charge of the Earl of Essex and nine

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6 Casley's Catalogue, p. 281.

Ib. 283. There is a letter from Camden to this lord, who had consulted him upon some precedent of discipline. Camdeni, &c. Epistolæ, p. 351.

Journall of

[In Harl. MS. 6807, two copies of this Charge occur, which are followed by viscount Wimbledon's Answer, extending to eleven folio leaves. In No. 66 is a 354, the Voyage and Enterprise upon Spain, by the English and Dutch, under the Command of Sir Edward Cecyl, General by Sea and Land: from the 8th of Sept. 1625, to the 5th of Dec. following: wherein are sett down, all Instructions, Warrants, Letters," &c.]

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