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Introduction INTRODUCTION. SIR JAMES WHITELOCKE, the writer of the manuscript now published, occupied a prominent position in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. Eising from the middle ranks, he became a lawyer of eminence, connected himself with several families of importance, took a leading part in constitutional proceedings in parliament, sat with credit on the judicial bench, and was author of several valuable professional and antiquarian papers. Nor does our interest in his family terminate with himself. As in the previous instances of More and Bacon, and in several other eminent and well-known cases > which occur far more frequently in the law than in other professions, sir James's son, Bulstrode Whitelocke, excelled his father in all the principal points of his career. As a lawyer he was more eminent, as a statesman far more distinguished, and as an author, his works are among the most useful materials for the history of his period.a A marriage with an heiress of the De la Beches, near the end of the reign of Henry VI., first brought the Whitelockes into consider- » The recent republication of his Journal of his Swedish Embassy, under the editorship of Henry Eeeve, esq. (2 vols. 8vo. 1855), affords proof that his works still interest his- torical readers. Of his Historical Memorials it is sufficient to remark that it is scarcely pos- sible to find a book upon any incident in the reign of Charles I. which does not contain many references to it as an authority. b Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 30 Sep 2021 at 10:24:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003928 "ii INTRODUCTION. ation. By this marriage a John Whitelocke became possessed of the manor of Beeches, near Okingham, co. Berks. After several generations we come to a William Whitelocke, who was the first person in the family given to literature. Sent from Eton to King's College, Cambridge, in 1537, in due time he became a fellow of his college and took the degree of B.D. The church rewarded his learning with the vicarage of Prescot, a prebend in Lichfield cathedral, and the rectory of Greenford in the county of Middlesex. He wrote a continuation of Thomas Chesterfield's Chronicle of Lichfield Cathedral, published in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, vol. i. p. 444. This William Whitelocke died shortly before 15th April, 1584. Richard Whitelocke, the father of sir James Whitelocke, stands in the pedigree as the youngest brother of William Whitelocke the chronicler. " Put to London to be brought up in the trade of merchandize," he entered into his calling with spirit, and was accustomed to visit foreign countries in the way of his business. In 1570, during one of his journeys into France, he was seised with pleurisy at Bordeaux, and died there at the age of 37. As a Pro- testant, there were difficulties respecting his interment, but the English merchants resident in that city, " to the number of 100 or more, armed with shot, did carry the corpse into the vineyards, and there did honorably inter it." The young merchant who thus found a grave on the banks of the Garonne left in his native country a widow and two sons, who were increased to four within a few days after his death. The narrative which is here given of the struggles of his widow in bringing up her children, constitutes a picture of considerable interest. Her maiden name was Colte. She had a brother a merchant at Dantzick, but her paternal family was seated Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 30 Sep 2021 at 10:24:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003928 INTRODUCTION. iii at Little Munden, in the county of Hertford. Fearless in matri- monial speculation, her first adventure was with a London merchant named Brockhurst, " who dealt with the Italians for kersies and fine cloths." Death soon severed that companionship, her husband and a daughter, their only child, being carried off by the plague in 1563. Richard Whitelocke was her second husband, a man of gravity and prudence. After his death she married again. Her third adventure was with Thomas Price, and this time she was most unfortunate. A notable unthrift, her husband squandered the means which White- locke had bequeathed to her, and was moreover personally " unkind and insolent." Her life for many years was one of " daily miseries." In the midst of her troubles, although continually "robbed and pilled by her cruel and wasteful husband,'' she steadily persevered in the performance of her duties towards the young Whitelockes. Two things she determined to accomplish for them, and in both she was successful. Although "miserably afflicted in the law'' by her third husband's creditors, she resolved to preserve for the sons of her second husband the portions left them by their father, and, better still, she set her heart on bringing them up " in as good sort as any gentleman in England would do, as in singing, dancing, playing on the lute and other instruments, the Latin, Greek. Hebrew, and French tongues, and to write fair." Such was education in England in the time of queen Elizabeth. The struggles of this exemplary woman to secure these advantages for her children, and the pious and peaceful close of her life, after she had brought up her children to man's estate and " buried her unthrifty and unkind husband;" she herself going away "with old age even as a candle goeth out," are affectionately commemorated by her son in several passages in the present volume. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 30 Sep 2021 at 10:24:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003928 IV INTRODUCTION. The characters of her sons were as various as their fortunes. Edmund, the eldest, is well sketched by his lawyer brother. He was the fine gentleman of the family. Clever, witty, adventurous, well taught, well bred, a soldier, a traveller, an excellent companion, fond of " worshipful society," a pleasant, jovial fellow, uncertain in his movements, impetuous in temper, and with never a penny in his purse. He figured as " Captain Whitelocke " among the boon companions and spendthrifts of his day, and was led by high con- nections into circumstances which occasioned him to be suspected of participation in the two most notable conspiracies in our history, that of the Earl of Essex, and the Gunpowder Treason. " The brainsick meeting at Essex House" made him acquainted with the interior of Newgate, from whence he was transferred to the bar of the court of King's Bench, but the vengeance of the law had been satisfied ere the course of judicial inquiry arrived at the minor and more doubtful offenders; after a time he was committed to the free custody of his brother, the future sir James, and shortly afterwards was entirely discharged. The suspicion against him in connection with the Gunpowder Treason arose out of his dependency on the earl of Northumberland, whom the gallant captain took for his patron after the death of the earl of Essex. On this occasion captain Whitelocke was confined for a little while in the Tower, and afterwards in the Fleet, but was ultimately set at liberty and permitted to relieve with his cheerful society the long imprison- ment of his second patron. In the unhealthy summer of 1608, captain Whitelocke was attacked with the disorder ordinarily pre- valent during our fruit season. After being much reduced in strength, he "was let blood;" and under this treatment, not unnatu- rally, " went away quietly, as in a slumber." He was on a visit at Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 30 Sep 2021 at 10:24:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003928 INTRODUCTION. V the time to the earl of Sussex, at Newhall in Essex, and the " picked man of countries," "a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy," was honourably interred by his noble friend in the resting-place of the Katcliffes. Richard, the second son, followed his father's way of life, and visited many countries in pursuit of commercial profit. Finally, he fixed himself at Elbing. His success in merchandize was various, but he married a lady of Elbing, possessed of some fortune, and had a numerous family. One of his sons came to England and claimed acquaintance with his uncle Sir James, then become a judge. Richard Whitelocke died at Elbing in 1624. William, the third son, • had no mind to learning, and was therefore bound apprentice; but he had other aspirations than those which could be satisfied behind a counter. When the drum beat for volunteers for the expedition to Portugal, young Whitelocke was carried away by the popular enthusiasm for Don Antonio. He left " master, thrift, and all," and followed the wars. On his return from that expedition he seemed at death's door. Maternal care restored him to unlooked-for health. On his recovery he joined himself to sir Francis Drake, and partook of the perils and adventures of the eminent sailor's closing years.
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