showld have, I should be fayne shortly toe begg in trowses. I dowght not but youe will give me satisfaction with your sworde, of which yf you will send me the lengthe, with tyme and place, youe shalbe sure (accordingly toe the appointment) toe meete Lucius Cary." To this impetuous epistle Willoughby replied in a strain which he truly describes as "boath modest and just ". "It was no sute of myne," he declares, "to deprive youe of anything you possest, but toe the contrary. I desired that neyther your honourable fathers nor your's, nor Sir Charles Cootses companyes might be transferred to me." But the soft answer did not avail to turn away wrath, and Sir Lucius (as in 1626 he had become) found himself committed, by order of the Privy Council, to the custody of the warden of the Fleet. There he cooled his heels and his temper for ten days, at the end of which he was released on his father's abject petition to the King.1 Wood asserts, apparently with the object of accounting for his rapid "reformation," that after leaving Trinity his father sent him "to travel under the tutelage and discretion of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life, manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration". A foreign tour after the early completion of the university course would be quite in accord with the custom of the age, but I find no corroboration of Wood's statement, and if the tour did take place it must have been before the incident recorded above. Meanwhile, in 1629, on the death of Lady Tanfield, Lucius had come into the fair inheritance settled upon him by his grandfather. "About the time that he was nineteen years of age," says Clarendon, "all the land, with two very good houses excellently furnished (worth above £2,000 per 1 1 Cf. letter in Cabala, reprinted by Lewis, Appendix A. annum) in a most pleasant country, and the two most pleasant places in that country, with a very plentiful personal estate, fell into his hands and possession and to his entire disposal." Shortly after his succession (conjecturally in 1631) “he committed a fault against his father in marrying a young lady whom he passionately loved, without any considerable portion, which exceedingly offended him and disappointed all his reasonable hopes and expectations of redeeming and repairing his own broken fortune and desperate hopes in court by some advantageous marriage of his son, about which he had then some probable treaty."1 Sir Lucius Cary's bride was Letice Morison, daughter of Sir Richard Morison of Tooley Park, Leicestershire. She was the sister of his dearest friend, Sir Henry Morison, and despite her displeasing lack of fortune proved worthy of the passionate attachment of her chivalrous lover. Henry Morison died shortly before his sister's marriage, and it was to commemorate "the immortal memory and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison" that Ben Jonson wrote the exquisite verses of his Pindaric Ode. Some of the more biographical demand quotation: :-- THE ANTISTROPHE, or COUNTER-TURN Alas! but Morison fell young: He never fell,-thou fall'st, my tongue. All offices were done By him, so ample, full, and round, In weight, in measure, number, sound, 1 Where it were friendship's schism, Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry, To separate these twi Lights, the Dioscuri; And keep the one half from his Harry. But fate doth so alternate the design, Whilst that in heaven, this light on earth must shine. IV. THE STROPHE, OR TURN And shine as you exalted are; Two names of friendship, but one star : Of hearts the union, and those not by chance Made, or indenture, or leased out t'advance The profits for a time. No pleasures vain did chime, Of rymes, or riots, at your feasts, Orgies of drink, of greatness and of good, That knits brave minds and manners, more than blood. THE ANTISTROPHE, OR COUNTER-TURN This made you first know the why You liked, then after, to apply That liking; and approach so one the t'other Each styled by his end, The copy of his friend. You liv'd to be the great sir-names, And titles, by which all made claims Unto the virtue: nothing perfect done, But as a Cary, or a Morison. THE EPODE, OR STAND And such a force the fair example had, The good, and durst not practise it, were glad Was left yet to mankind; Where they might read and find Friendship, indeed, was written not in words; Of two so early men, Whose lines her rolls were, and records: Who, ere the first down bloomed on the chin, Had sow'd these fruits, and got the harvest in. Clarendon's words1 appear to refer to some specific "advantageous marriage" for which Lord Falkland was in treaty, and Lady Theresa Lewis may be right in supposing that the proposed marriage in question was one which would have been unmistakably advantageous to the elder Falkland by uniting his house and fortunes with those of Richard Weston, Earl of Portland, at that time Lord Treasurer. "The truth is," wrote Sir George Gresley to a friend, "the Lord of Falkland and the Lord Treasurer are to match two of their children together and thereupon the Lord Falkland to continue Lord Deputy." But the negotiation with Weston was not the first nor the last of the elder Falkland's attempts to get money or advantage for himself out of his son's marriage. The following extract from the private papers of the Earl of Cork at Lismore suggests that the Lord Deputy had long been pursuing the quest for a highly-dowered bride with some zeal :— "January, 1623. This daie the lo viscount ffalkland lo deputie of Irelande sent me by Sir Lawrence parsons his Mats gracious letters desiring me that the marriadg in treaty between the L deputie and me, for his son and heir for one of my daughters might be concluded. And my Lo Carew also wrott unto me effectually persuading me therunto; whervppon I offered his Lop, with my thirde daughter the La Lettice Boyle, eight thowsand pounds ster:, to be paid in London within two yeares, so as his Lop would procure the L cheefe Barron Tanffield his Ladies ffather to pass over his estate vppon Lucius Carye, and theires males of his boddie, to be begotten on my said daughter, and to have my L Deputy conveigh to his Son and theires male of them 5,000li Lands per anno in Englande, and to mak my daughter for her Joincture a good house fully furneshed with a thowsand pounds Lands per anno in Englande." 3 3 Lismore Papers, ed. Grosart, vol. ii., 118. The same papers bear witness |