32 CARLISLE II. 1622. I. James Hay, s. of Sir James H., of Kingask, was b. about 1580, in Scotland, being of Pitcorthie, co. Fife; was ed. in France; Gent, of the Bedchamber to the King, 1603-15; was naturalised, 14 May 1604, being then a Knight, and, by patent, 21 June i6o6,(^) was cr. LORD HAY, without, however, a seat in the Upper House. () Gent, of the Robes, 1608; Master of the Great Wardrobe, 1613-18. K.B., 4 June 1610. On 29 June 1615 (as "Domims Hay") he was cr. BARON HAY OF SAWLEY, co. York,C=) on 5 July 161 8, he was cr. VISCOUNT DONCASTER, and four years afterwards, on 13 Sep. 1622, cr. EARL OF CARLISLE,^^) co. Cumberland. He was also Ambassador to Paris and Madrid, July to Oct. 161 6; to Germany, 1619-20; to Paris, again, Apr. 1622, to Paris and Madrid, Feb. 1623, and to Venice, Apr. to Oct. 1628. P.C. 20 Mar. 161 6/7. Nom. K.G., 31 Dec. 1624, inst. 13 Dec. 1625. He was as much in favour with Charles I as with the late King, and was First Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1626; Groom of the Stole, 1631 till his death. On 2 July 1627, he was made Gov. of the Caribbee Islands. He m., istly, "by royal mediation," 6 Jan. 1606/7, Honora,^) only child of Edward (Denny), Earl of Norwich, and Lord Denny (of Waltham), by Mary, da. of Thomas (Cecil), Earl of Exeter. She (/. after a miscarriage, and was bur. (at night) 16 Aug. 1614, in Wal- tham Abbey.(') He m., 2ndly, in the King's presence, but without her father's consent,(6) 6 Nov. 161 7, Lucy, da. of Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland, by Dorothy, da. of Walter (Devereux), ist Earl of Essex. He d. at Whitehall, 25 Apr., and was bur. 6 May 1636, from his house in the Strand, in St. Paul's Cathedral. C") Fun. certif. at Coll. of (^) See Creations in App. to 47th Rep. D.K. of the Public Records, p. 10 1. C") According to Dugda/e, vol. ii, p. 427, "with precedence next to the Barons of England." This precedence, however, even if not specified, would, it is presumed, be the natural effect of such a creation. (■=) This creation was " without any solemn investiture (being the first that ever was so created) the Lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the Letters Patent was sufficient, without any ceremony." See Dugda/e, vol. ii, p. 427. {^) Information as to this Earl and his successors has kindly been supplied by the Rev. H. L. L. Denny. V.G. (") " The richest heiress of her time." The match was procured with some diffi- culty by the King's influence on behalf of his favourite. V.G. " The Lady Honoria . . . coming in her coache out of towne somewhat late, either from a masque or from supper about Ludgate Hill had a very rich Jewell pulled violent from her forehead by a fellowe who was presently taken, and although she was an earnest suitor to the Kinge for him, was hanged for it in Fleet Street; she being greate with childe, and by reason of the sudden fright miscarrying died about a week after." {John Pym's Note Book). V.G. («) This marriage was against the will of her father, who " could not endure that his daughter should dance any Scottish jig." V.G. C") Clarendon speaks of his gracefulness and affability, and says that he had " no bowels in the point of running in debt, or borrowing all he could. He was surely a man of the greatest expense in his person of any in the age he lived ... He had a great, an universal, understanding ... He left behind him the reputation of a very fine gentle-
