40 SALISBURY. 1596-1612. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1 597-09 ; L. Privy Seal (during two reigns) 1597-1612 ; Ch. Plenipo. to the Congress of Vervins (Feb. to May 1693) with a vieiv of preventing the alliance between France and Spain ; Master of the Court of Wards, 1599. He was also, during the reign of Elizabeth, High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1591 1601, and subsequently, 1601. Chancellor of that Univ. as also of the Univ. of Dublin. By James I (with whom, when King of Scotland, he, for some years had been in constant correspondence,) he was continued as s'lle Secretary of State; 1C. 1603, and was cr. on 13 May 1603, BARON CECIL OF ESS EN DON, co. Uutlaud on 20 Aug. 1601 VISCOUNT(a) CRANBORNE, cn. Dorset, and on 1 May 1605. EARL OF SALISBURY : cr. M.A. of Cambridge 19 July 1605, being incorporated at Oxford 30 Aug. following ;^ h ) L.-Lieut. of Herts, 1605 ; el. and inv. K.G. 24 April and inst. 20 May 1606. L. Treasurer, 160S-12. He m. 31 Aug. 1589, Elizabeth, sister of Henry (Buciokk), 11th Loud Cobham [attainted 1603), da. of William, 10th Lord, by his second wife Frances, da. of Sir John Newton. She, who was b. 1 Jan. 1562, d. at her house in the Strand 21 Jan. 1596, and having been a Lad}- of the Privy chamber and bedchamber, was bur. " as a Baroness " at Westm. Abbey. Funeral certificate.^) He d. of a scorbutic complaiut at Marlborough, ou his road from Bath to London 21 May 1612 in his 19th year.O 1 ), and was bur. at Hatfield, Herts.( c ) Will pr. 1612. XV. 1612. 2. William (Cecil), Karl op Salisbury, &c, only s. and h., b. Feb. 1591 ; ed. at Sherborne School, at Cambridge, nnd at Paris ; K B , 6 Jan. 1604/5 ; styled Viscount Cranborne, 1605-12 ; cr. M.A. of Oxford, 30 Aug. 1605, the same day as his father :{) M.P. for Weymouth, 1610-11 ; sue, in the peerage, as above, 24 May 1612: L. Lieut, of Herts, 1612; Ranger of Enfield Chase, 1622; el. and inv. KG., 31 Dec. 1624, and inst., 13 Dec. 1625; Bearer of the Sceptre with the Cross at the coronation of Charles 1., 2 Feb. 1626; P.O., 1626 ; Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners, 1635-42. Taking part in the Civil war with the Pari, he was one of the 16 " popular" noblemen in Sep. 1640 named by the King to treat with the Scots at Ripon,( r ) and was one of the four Earls sent Jan. 1642/3 to treat with the King at Oxford ;(B) L. Lieut, of Dorset, 1642 ; Membtr of the Assembly of Divines, 1643 ; a Commissioner at the Conference at Uxbridge, 1645, and at that of Newport, 1648. From July to Oct. 1646 he was a Commissiouer uf (*) He is said to have been the first Viscount who assumed a coronet. ( b ) See vol. iii, p. 236, note " a," mi " Effingham " for a list of nobles made or incorporated M.A. at Oxford at that date. ( c ) Printed in " Coll. Top. et Gen" vol. iii, p. 290. ( d ) "The little great Secretary," as he is called by Sir A. Weldon, "died of a most loathsome disease, and remarkable, without house, without pity, without the favour of that master who had raised him to so high an estate; and yet he must have that right done him .... he had great parts, was very wise, full of honour and bounty, h great lover and rewnrder of virtue and able parts in others." The report of his doctor (Theodore Mayerne) refutes the contemporary slanders as to the nature of his disease. There is a very interesting account of his death in a long letter from Sir John Finett, in " Collins." A sarcastic epitaph on him " Not Robin Uoodfellow, nor Robin Hood, But Robin, the encloser of Hatfield Wood " is given in Osborn's " Q. lllizibelh," where his " mean birth and crooked person " are mentioned. His face, says Naunton, was " the best part of his outside." A characteristic portrait of him " after Mark Gheeraedts " is engraved in " Doyle," and given (full length and coloured) in Di-ummond's " Noble Jamilies." He died owing some £38,000, tho', unquestionably, he had, during his long tenure of office, amas Bed 8 vast property. ( 6 ) He had acquired Hatfield chase in 1607 by exchange with the King for Theobalds in Cheshunt, Herts, and it is said that Robert Limminge, the architect of Hatfield House (as also of Bliekling in Norfolk), had from him the general conception of that glorious mansion. This was not, however, completed till after the Eari'i death who himself never resided there. ( f ) See vol. iii, p. 286, note " b," tub " Essex," for their names. (6) See vol. vi, p. 92, note " b," sub « Northumberland."
