Robert Boyle, Works, 1744, vol. i. p. 7.
Footnote 336: Lismore Papers, 1st Series, vol. v. pp. 78, 80.
Footnote 337: Ibid., 112.
Footnote 338: It was a common custom at this time to marry one's sons,
if a favourable match could be made, before they went abroad.
Footnote 339: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 95.
Footnote 340: On Nov. 23rd, 1610, Carleton, the Ambassador at Venice,
wrote to Salisbury that his son was ill at Padua. "He finds relish in
nothing on this side the mountains, nor much in anything on this side
the sea; his affections being so strangely set on his return homeward,
that any opposition is a disease." Cranborne's tutor, Dr Lister, wrote
to Carleton in December: "Sir, we must for England, there is no
resisting of it. If we stay the fruit will not be great, the discontent
infinite. My Lord is going to dinner, this being the first meal he
eateth." (State Papers, 1610. Cited in Life and Letters of Sir Henry
Wotton, ed. Pearsall-Smith, vol. i. p. 501.)
Footnote 341: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 98.
Footnote 342: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 234.
Footnote 343: Ibid., p. 171.
Footnote 344: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.
Footnote 345: Ibid., p. 103.
Footnote 346: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.
Footnote 347: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 99.
Footnote 348: In March 1640. This fact, and his appearance in the
Lismore Papers, are not mentioned in the Dictionary of National
Biography.
