left the immortality of his
name to one of our suburbs; but having discovered in Stowe's
"Survey," that Walworth was the landlord of the stews on the
Bank-side, which he farmed out to the Dutch _vrows_, and which Wat
had pulled down, I am inclined to suspect that private feeling first
knocked down the saucy ribald, and then thrust him through and
through with his dagger; and that there was as much of personal
vengeance as patriotism, which crushed the demolisher of so much
valuable property!

[309] I have formed my idea of Sir Francis Nethersole from some
strange incidents in his _political_ conduct, which I have read in
some contemporary letters. He was, however, a man of some eminence,
had been Orator for the University of Cambridge, agent for James I.
with the Princes of the Union in Germany, and also Secretary to the
Queen of Bohemia. He founded and endowed a free-school at Polesworth
in Warwickshire.

[310] Manuscript letter.

[311] These speeches are entirely drawn from those manuscript letters
to which I have frequently referred. Coke's may be substantially
found in Rushworth, but without a single expression as here given.

[312] The popular opinion is well expressed in the following lines
preserved in Sloane MS. 826:--

When only one doth rule and guide the ship,
Who neither card nor compass knew before,
The master pilot and the rest asleep,
The stately ship is split upon the shore;
But they awaking start up, stare, and cry,
"Who did this fault?"--"Not I,"--"Nor I,"--"Nor I."
So fares it with a great and wealthy state
Not govern'd by the master, but his mate.

[313] This last letter is printed in Rushworth, vol. i. p. 609.

[314] The king's answer is in Rushworth, vol. i. p. 613.

[315] This eloquent state paper is in Rushworth, vol. i. p. 619.

[316] This interview is taken from manuscript letters.

[317] Manuscript Letters: Lord Dorset to the Earl of Carlisle.--Sloane
MSS. 4178. Letter 519.

[318] Manuscript Letter.

[319] I have given (vol. ii. p. 336) the "Secret History of Charles
the First and his Queen," where I have traced the firmness and
independence of his character. In another article will be found as
much of the "Secret History of the Duke of Buckingham" as I have
been enabled to acquire.

[320] "To conclude," sa