Lives of the friends and contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon : illustrative of portraits in his gallery

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ARTHUR LORD CAPELT,

Chapter I

Birth and parentage of William Seymour - - He succeeds his grandfather in the Earldom of Hertford — He is admitted at Magdalen College, Oxford — He proposes marriage to Lady Arabella Stuart — The Privy Council take cognizance of the matter — The King gives his consent — They are secretly married — They are in consequence imprisoned — They petition the King and the Council, without success — Letter from Lady Arabella to her husband 283

Chapter II

The King orders the removal of Lady Arabella to Durham — She begins her journey, and reaches Barnet — She is detained there by ill health — She escapes from confinement, and attempts to meet her husband — They embark in different ships — She is recaptured at sea, and is committed to the Tower - - Mr. Seymour escapes safely to Ostend — Lord Hertford does not support his grandson against the Court - - 304

Chapter III

Lady Arabella repeatedly petitions the King to release her from Prison — She becomes insane — The Council instruct Dr. Fulton to visit her — She dies in the Tower — Reasons of the King's fear of Lady Arabella — Her descent from Queen Margaret — Her English education — Her marriage with Seymour, a descendant of Lady Catherine Grey - - Her

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supposed leaning to Catholicism --The reception of Seymour at the Court of the Archdukes — Seymour removes to France, but afterwards is permitted to return to Flanders — After Lady Arabella's death he petitions for leave to return to England — The permission is granted, and he returns — He marries Lady Frances Devereux, and succeeds to the Earldom of Hertford on the death of his grandfather Page 330

Chapter IV

Digression — Edward Earl of Hertford, grandfather of William Seymour, privately marries Lady Catherine Grey — He goes abroad — She avows her marriage and pregnancy — She is committed to the Tower, and gives birth to a son — Lord Hertford returns to England, and is committed to the Tower — Their marriage is declared null and void by a Special Commission — She dies in custody — Lord Hertford is forgiven by the Queen — Legal proceedings in the reign of King James to determine the legitimacy of Lord Beauchamp — The suit is ultimately decided against him — His legitimacy is recognised by Letters Patent of Peerage — Edward Lord Hertford dies — William Seymour is summoned to the House of Lords under the new creation, and takes his seat accordingly - 358

Chapter V

Lord Hertford attends the Parliament of 1626 — He lives in retirement until 1640 — In that year he attends Parliament and the Council of Peers at York — He is appointed one of the Commissioners to treat with the Scots — The Commissioners meet at Papon — The negotiations proceed — Impediments to their success — The Commissioners remove to London 393

Chapter VI

Lord Hertford signs a petition for the assembling of a Parliament — The Long Parliament meets — Lord Hertford does not support the proceedings against Strafford — He is one of the Peers who take examinations in Stratford's case — He disapproves of taking StrafTord's life — Attainder of Strafford — The Treaty with the Scots concluded — Lord Hertford's Parliamentary acts during the Session of 1641 — He is made a Privy Councillor - - 406

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Chapter VII

Reasons which induced the King to make Lord Hertford a Privy Councillor — It was a concession to the Parliamentary party - - Relation of the Privy Council to Parliament in the reign of Charles I. - - The King attempts to strengthen his Government by adding members of the popular party to the Privy Council — Explanation of this policy Pap;e 4l'."i

Chapter VIII

Lord Hertford is appointed Governor to the Prince of Wales, in the place of the Duke of Newcastle - - Reasons for the appointment — He is created a Marquis — The King sets out for Scotland — Remonstrances of the Houses of Parliament against the removal of the Prince from Richmond to the Queen's residence at Oatlands — Answer of the Queen — The King is advised by his Ministers to return to England - 430

Chapter IX

The King returns to Theobalds - - He makes a public entry into the City — The King takes the Prince to Hampton Court - The Parliament remonstrate against his removal from the care of Lord Hertford — The King's answer — The Prince is sent back to Lord Hertford — The King desires that the Prince should meet him at Greenwich — The Parliament again remonstrate — Fear of the Prince's removal out of the Kingdom — Deputation of the two Houses to the King — Lord Hertford brings the Prince to Greenwich — The King's answer to the two Houses — Lord Hertford leaves the Prince in the King's custody - He ceases to co-operate with the popular party 454