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XXV.—The Will, Inventories, and Funeral Expenses of James Montagu, Bishop of Winchester, anno 1618. From the original in the possession of the Baroness North
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James Montagu (or Mountagu, as he wrote it himself), fifth son of Sir Edward Montagu, of Boughton, in the county of Northampton (who was the eldest son of Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the founder of the ducal house of Montagu), was born at Boughton in the year 1568, and educated in Christ Church College, Cambridge, and became eventually Master of Sidney College, “where,” as Anthony Wood observes “he was noted for his piety, virtue, and learning.” “When the University went to meet James I. on his coming from Scotland, his Majesty first took notice of him at Hinchinbrooke (the seat of the loyal Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle to the Protector), and made him Dean of the Royal Chapel, and in 1604 (December 17) Dean of Worcester. On the 17th of April, 1608, he was consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells, and eight years afterwards, viz., in 1616, translated to the see of Winchester. “For his faithfulness, dexterity, and prudence,” adds Wood, “in weighty affairs, the king chose him to be one of his Privy Council.” (Oct. 11, 1617).
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page 393 note a Ath. Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 853.
page 393 note b State Papers, Domestic, James I. i. 432.
page 393 note c Le Neve's Fasti, ed. 1716, p. 34.
page 393 note d State Papers, Domestic, James I. ii. 488.
page 393 note e Heylin's Observations, p. 77.
page 394 note a Worthies, ed. 1662, p. 284.
page 394 note b State Papers, Domestic, James I. ii. 578.
page 395 note a Lady Charles? The Bishop's sisters are stated in the Peerages to have been Lucy, married to Sir William Wray, of Glentworth, co. Line. knt.; Susanna, to Sir Richard Sondes, of Throwley, co. Lane. knt.; and Theodosia, to Sir Henry Capel, of Kayne, in Essex, knt. I conclude that by Lady Charles he intended his sister-in-law, Mary, daughter of Sir W. Whitmore, the second wife of Sir Charles Montagu.
page 395 note b See the Camden edition of Dingley's History from Marble, where this monument is given at pp. 48 and 58, and also the Addenda, p. 155, for the agreement for the making of it, transcribed from the original at Wroxton.
page 404 note a This entry is erased in the original.
page 406 note a St. Mary Overy, now St. Saviour's, Southwark.
page 409 note a MS. destroyed in this place.
page 410 note a Half a calf.
page 410 note b Obliterated in MS.
page 411 note a The MS. here imperfect.
page 411 note b The best kind of white bread.
page 411 note c Sucketts, conserves, or sweetmeats.—See Harrison's Descriptio n of England, p. 167.
page 412 note a The paper at this corner of the folio decayed and torn oft.
page 415 note a Erased in the MS.
page 415 note b Wadham.
page 416 note a A hole in the paper in this place.
page 417 note a Erased.
page 417 note a MS. torn here.