Volume 1
Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck.
- Francis Peck
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![3. By whome he had his firft fon Thomas, nowe Lord Burghley.2 4. Afterwards, [the fecond time, viz.'1 the twenty firft of December, 38 H. 8. [1546.3 being twenty four yeres old, he married Mildred Cooke, one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, knightj a wife, & vertuous gentlewoman. Who lived with him about... yeres together: long after he came to be [lord highj treafurer of England.3 5. She was excellently lerned : her perfedion in the Greek being fo greate, as flie tranfiated apeece of Chrifoftome, out of Greeke into Englifhe. 6. He had by her, Anne, married to Edward, nowe Earle of Oxford. Robert, nowe her majefties principall fecretarie, & mafter of her majefties wards & lyveries. Elizabeth, married to William, heyre of the Lord Wentworth. And three other children, Frances a daughter, & William, & William; who all died younge. But I leave the difcription of his fruitful branch to the heraulde; obfervinge only [their] birth[s] & matches.4 .2. In the MS. life it is only-4 Thomas, as afore- * faid’.-The words,-‘ nowe Lord Burghley’- are added from the note Chap II. 7. 4 1542. Mali v°. natus ft mibi Thomas Cecil, films ; 4 cum ejfcm natus annos xxii.’ MS. Diary. * 1543. Feb. xxii°. Maria uxor, mortua rjl in Domino, 4 her aftcunda nodie.7 Id. 3. 4 1545. Dec. xxi°. nupji Mildred#, fillies Antonii *• Cooke, militis, annum agens xxv*n. Ft ilia, in fejlo 4 S. Bartholomai prcscedente, inccpit annum xxii™? MS. Diary. 4. In the MS. life it is here faid—‘ he had by her, ‘ Anne, Robert & Elizabeth, as aforefaid. And Frances 4 Cecill a daughter, & William Sc William, who all three ‘ died younge.’ The reft here is added from the author’s own words in the Note Chap. II. 7. fupra, wrhich I purpofely left out of the text there, becaufe I thought it would come in better here. C II A P. VI. 1. Made majler of requefls to the Duke of Somerfet. 1. At Mufelhorough Field. 3. Where his life is ftrangely preferved. 4. Sent to the Dower about the Duke of Somerfet's firft matter. 5. Where he remains three months, cd is delivered. 6. The Duke of Somerfet, on King Edward the fixth's great liking of Mr. Cecill, makes him fecretary of eftate & one of the privy council. 7. He is alfo knighted. 8. And courted by the two Dukes of Northumberland Hd Somerfet, 9. Do both whom he carries fair. 10. But, after the king's death, falls into difgrace with Nor¬ thumberland, for not coming into his defign for Lady Jane. ■¥. TN the firft yere of King Edward the fixth, the Duke of Somerfit, then lord protestor, _£ hearing of Mr. Cecills towardnes & gifts, fentfor him, to be mafter of his requefls. * 2. And, the fame yere, he went, with the duke, to Mufelborough Feld.2 3. Where he was like to have byn flayn; but [was] myraculufiye faved, by one that, putting forthe his arme, to thrufl Mr. Cecill out of the levell of the cannon, had his arm ftricken of. 4. In the fecond yere of King Edward the fixt, he was committed to the Tower., about the Duke of Somerfits firft calling in queflion.3 1, This was a new office of the duke’s own ereflion, Sc deftgned purely to eafe himfelf of fome part of that trouble which his multitude of buifinefs Sc an infinite number of fuits would otherwife have inevitably drawn upon him. * Anno 1547, [i. E. 6.] collatum 1 4 eft mihi officium cuftodis brevium in > li : xiii : iiii * communi banco, cum feodo annuo ) 4 Proficua bujus ojjicii communibus'K 4 annis (ultra Jlipendium deputati) CXXX1 : 00 : 00 1 ter minis Michaelis IA Hilar ii J ‘ Terminis P aft bee d Trinitatis cii : 00 • 00 MS. Diarv.- 0 ccxxxix : xiii : iiii 2. The battel of Muffelborough Field was fought the X Sept. 1547. And Mr. Cecil himfelf fays, ‘ Anno ‘ 1547. in ccflatefui in Scotia,' MS. Diary. 3. ‘ On the xii. Odt. 1539. (iii. Edw. vi.) the enemies ‘ of the duke came in a body to the king at Windfor, ‘ who received them gracioufly, and allured them that * he took all they had done in good part. Next day ‘ they proceeded to the examination of the duke’s 4 friends, w'ho, upon going out of the council, wxre 4 fent to the Tower, except Cecil, who had his liberty.* Rapin, Vol. Fill. p. 71. Yet he was alfo fent thither foon after. For he him* felf fays, 4 Mcnft Novembris, iii. Fdiv. vi. fui in Turre.’ MS. Diary.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3045637x_0001_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
