Nugæ Antiquæ by Sir John Harington
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Nugæ Antiquæ By Sir John Harington First published 1769, revised edition 1804 This edition published by the Ex-classics Project, 2021 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain Sir John Harington Frontispiece Portrait of Sir John Harington -2- Nugæ Antiquæ CONTENTS Frontispiece .................................................................................................................... 2 Title Page ....................................................................................................................... 7 ADVERTISEMENT Of the revised edition .................................................................. 8 SOME ACCOUNT OF SIR JOHN HARINGTON, of Kelston, Knight........................ 9 ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS; First devised by John Harington, in the Year 1566, and renewed by John Harington, Son of the said John, in the Year 1592: the said John, the Son, being then High Sheriff of the County of Somerset. ................ 13 BRIEF NOTES AND REMEMBRANCES. From Sir John Harington's papers. ...... 15 JOHN HARINGTON TO THE LORD TREASURER BURLEIGH Giving a humorous description of himself, and enclosing the Monks' Hymn to Saint Satan. .... 21 A TREATISE ON PLAY. By Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington. (c. 1597) .......... 22 JOHN HARINGTON, ESQ. TO SIR HUGH PORTMAN, KNIGHT, Describing an interview with his cousin, Sir John Harington of Exton, and the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, who laboured under a mortal malady, which gave serious concern to the Queen. .......................................................................................................................... 36 In Ireland with Essex, 1599 ......................................................................................... 37 REPORT OF A JOURNEY INTO THE NORTH OF IRELAND Written to Justice Carey, by Sir John Harington, 1599. ........................................................................... 38 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. THOMAS COMBE, HIS CONFIDENTIAL SERVANT, from Trim, in Ireland—a further report of military proceedings, 1599. 40 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR ANTHONY STANDEN, KNIGHT. From Athlone, in Ireland, 1599. ............................................................................................ 44 SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S REPORT CONCERNING THE EARL OF ESSEX'S JOURNEYS IN IRELAND from May 10 to July 3, 1599. .......................................... 46 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR ANTHONY STANDEN, KNIGHT, 1600. Written in his rural retreat at Kelston, whither he had retired from the danger and displeasure which prevailed at court, on the failure of the Irish expedition. .................................. 53 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR HUGH PORTMAN, KNIGHT Represents his visit to court, and the alteration in Queen Elizabeth's manners and temper since the death of Essex:—resolves not to leave his poor castle of Kelston again, lest he should find a worse elsewhere. .......................................................................................................... 54 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO HIS LADY, 1602. Relates another interview with the Queen, his royal godmother, whose increasing infirmities and pitiable state are interestingly shown, and her speedy releasement from human pains and misery, truly predicted. ..................................................................................................................... 55 SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO KING JAMES A curious relic of court-craft. ............................................................................................................... 57 KING JAMES TO SIR JOHN HARINGTON; in return for his New Year's gift. ...... 60 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO LORD THOMAS HOWARD, 1603 Persevering in his endeavours to obtain courtly favour, with resolutions of studious labour and actve integrity, which ill accord with his pursuits. ................................................................ 61 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO BISHOP STILL, 1603 Lamenting that Tyrone was brought to England, and treated courteously, after all he had unsergone in assisting to subdue him. Raleigh highly estimated, and the perils of a courtier's life forcibly set forth. ............................................................................................................................. 63 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY, Enclosing a rental of his estate at Lenton, and beseeching the Earl to further his suit against Sir John Skinner. ........................................................................................................................ 65 -3- Sir John Harington SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. SECRETARY BARLOW, Giving an account of the entertainment that King James had prepared for the King of Denmark, which failed, from the intemperance of the assistants and their royal auditor. ..................... 66 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. ROBERT MARKHAM, Apologising for having shown the journal of the Irish expedition to queen Elizabeth, whom he delineates with masterly skill, and portrays with apparent fidelity. ..................................................... 68 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY Enclosing a poetical character of Bishop Gardiner, and announcing his Brief View of the State of the Church. 1606. 71 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR AMIAS PAWLET, Representing his interview and conversation with King James, in which the Monarch is drawn to life. 1606 ...... 72 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. SUTTON, FOUNDER OF THE CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL. Expressing his anxiety about a rumour which had gone abroad, that Sir John had been often tampering with Mr. Sutton to make the Duke of York his heir, in order to procure the honour of a barony. ............................ 74 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY, SON TO KING JAMES I, Detailing the merits and extraordinary sagacity of his dog Bungey. .......................... 75 SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY, 1609, Communicating, from a book in his grandfather's handwriting, fragments of wit and poesy, by Henry the Sixth and Eighth, with a copy of his own Ariosto for which he humbly but earnestly solicits some special mark of his Highness' approbation. ................................................................. 77 A SUPPLEMENT OR ADDITION TO THE CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS, TO THE YEAR 1608, or A Brief View of the State of the Church of England .......................... 79 THE OCCASION WHY THIS WORK WAS TAKEN IN HAND. By Sir John Harington ..................................................................................................................... 80 ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY: Doctor Matthew Parker. .............................. 83 ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY: Doctor Edmond Grindal. ............................. 85 ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY: Doctor John Whitegift. ................................. 86 ARCHBISOPS OF CANTERBURY: Doctor Richard Bancroft. ............................... 88 BISHOPS OF LONDON: Doctor John Elmer. ........................................................... 90 BISHOPS OF LONDON: Doctor Richard Fletcher. .................................................. 93 BISHOPS OF LONDON: Richard Vaughan. .............................................................. 95 BISHOPS OF LONDON: Dr Thomas Ravis. .............................................................. 96 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor William Wykeham. ........................................ 97 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor Stephen Gardiner. ...................................... 103 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor John Whyte. ................................................ 111 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor Thomas Cooper. ......................................... 112 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor William Wickham. ...................................... 114 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor William Day. .............................................. 115 BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER: Doctor Thomas Bilson. ........................................... 117 BISHOPS OF ELY: Doctor Martin Heaton. ............................................................. 118 BISHOPS OF LINCOLN: Doctor William Chatterton. ............................................ 121 BISHOP OF COVENTRY AND LICHFIELD: Doctor William Overton. ............... 123 BISHOPS OF SALISBURY: Doctor John Jewell. ................................................... 124 BISHOPS OF SALISBURY: Doctor John Coldwell, Doctor of Physick. ................ 125 BISHOPS OF SALISBURY: Doctor Henry Cotton. ................................................ 127 BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS: Doctor Oliver King. ....................................... 128 BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS: Doctor William Barlow. ................................ 132 BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS: Doctor Thomas Godwin. ............................... 134 BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS: Doctor John Still. .......................................... 136 BISHOPS OF EXETER: Doctor William Cotton. ..................................................... 139 -4- Nugæ Antiquæ BISHOP OF NORWICH: Doctor John Gegon. ........................................................ 140 BISHOPS OF WORCESTER: Doctor Gervase Babington. ..................................... 141 BISHOPS OF HEREFORD: Doctor John Scory. ...................................................... 142 BISHOPS OF HEREFORD: Doctor Herbert Westphaling. ...................................... 144 BISHOPS OF HEREFORD: Doctor Robert Bennet. ................................................ 146 BISHOPS OF CHICHESTER: Dr Anthony Watson. ................................................ 147 BISPHOPS OF CHICHESTER: Doctor Lancelot Andrews.