ng her majesty's decease, and the recognition and proclamation
of King James of Scotland: who had such a sense of lord Buckhurst's
services, and superior abilities, that before his arrival in England,
he ordered the renewal of his patent, as Lord High Treasurer for life.
On the 13th of March next ensuing, he was created earl of Dorset,
and constituted one of the commissioners for executing the office
of Earl-Marshal of England, and for reforming sundry abuses in the
College of Arms.

In the year 1608, this great man died suddenly at the Council-Table,
Whitehall, after a bustling life devoted to the public weal; and the
26th of May following, his remains were deposited with great solemnity
in Westminster Abbey, his funeral sermon being preached by Dr. Abbot,
his chaplain, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Besides this
celebrated sermon of the primate's, in which he is very lavish in
his praise, Lord Chancellor Bacon, and Sir Robert Naunton, bestow
particular encomiums upon him; and Sir Richard Paker observes, "That
he had excellent parts, and in his place was exceeding industrious,
and that he had heard many exchequer men say, there never was a better
Treasurer, both for the King's profit, and the good of the subject."

By his dying suddenly at the Council-Table, his death was interpreted
by some people in a mysterious manner;[9] but his head being opened,
there were found in it certain little bags of water, which, whether by
straining in his study the night before, in which he sat up till 11
o'clock, or otherwise by their own maturity, suddenly breaking, and
falling upon his brain, produced his death, to the universal grief
of the nation, for which he had spent his strength, and for whose
interest, in a very immediate manner, he may be justly said to have
fallen a sacrifice. Of all our court poets he seems to have united the
greatest industry and variety of genius: It is seldom found, that the
sons of Parnassus can devote themselves to public business, or execute
it with success. I have already observed, that the world has lost many
excellent works, which no doubt this cultivated genius would have
accomplished, had he been less involved in court-affairs: but as
he acted in so public a sphere, and discharged every office with
inviolable honour, and consummate prudence, it is perhaps somewhat
selfish in the lovers of poetry, to wish he had wrote more, and acted
less. From him is descended the present noble family of t