My Lord of Hunsdon was of the Queenes nearest kindred, and on the decease of Sussex, both he and his sonne successively tooke the place of Lord Chamberlaine, he was Henry Carey was created Baron Hunsdon, of Hunsdon in Hertfordshire, by Queen Elizabeth, in 1558, the first year of her reign. His father was William Carey, who married Mary Bullen, elder sister to Queen Anne Bullen; therefore Lord Hunsdon was first cousin to Queen Elizabeth, who made him Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners, Knight of the Garter, and Governor of Berwick, where he was instrumental in suppressing the rebellion of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland; and having secured the former, he sent him to York, where he was beheaded. He also defeated the forces of Leonard Dacre, which he raised in order to rescue the Queen of Scots. After this he was appointed Lord Chamberlain; and when the Spanish invasion was expected, he had the charge of the Queen's person, with 2000 horse and 34.000 foot. He was of a soldierly disposition himself, and was a great lover of men of the sword, was remarkable for a freedom of speech and behaviour, oftener to be found in a camp, than a court. It is said that the Queen offered to create him an Earl, when he lay upon his death-bed, but that he refused the honour as unreasonable. L a fast man to his prince, and firme to his friend, and servants, and though he might speake big, and therein would be borne out, yet was he the more dreadfull, but lesse harmefull, and far from the practise of the Lord of Leicesters instructions, for he was downe-right, and I have heard those that both knew him well, and had interest in him, say meerely of him, that his Lattine and dissimulation were alike, and that his custome of swearing and obscoenitie in speaking, made him seeme a worse christian then he was, and a better knight of her carpet then he could be: as he lived in a roughling time so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of their hands, of which sort he had many brave gentlemen that followed him, yet not taken for a popular and dangerous person; and this is one that stood amongst the Togati, of an honest stout heart, and such a one that upon occasion would have fought for his prince and country, for he had the charge of the Queenes person, both in the court, and in the camp at Tilbury. Sir Walter Raleigh. SIR Walter Raleigh, was one that it seems fortune had picked out of purpose, of whom to make an example, and to use as her tennis-ball, thereby to shew what she could do, for she tossed him up of nothing, and to and fro to greatnesse, and from thence down to little more then to that wherein she found him a bare gentleman, and not * Sir Walter Raleigh served in the wars in the Low Countries, and in Ireland; end was afterwards employed in discoveries in the West Indies, and in the improvement of Navigation, to which his genius was strongly inclined. In 1584, he discovered Virginia, to which he made no less than five voyages. He was one of the most distinguished officers on board the Fleet which engaged the Armada, and was constantly employed in literary pursuits at sea and land. His learning was continually improved into habits of life, and helped greatly to advance his knowledge of men and things; and he became a better soldier, a better sea-officer, an abler statesman, and a more accomplished courtier, in proportion as he was a better scholar. In 1695, he was kept several months in prison for seducing one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, whom he afterwards married. After being set at liberty he was banished from the Court, and undertook a voyage in search of the gold mines in Guinea |