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From this it seems that the Duchess would have been nearer the mark if she had writen:—
“About this time King James, of blessed memory, having a purpose to smooth over a troublesome dispute, made my Lord Viscount Mansfield and Baron Ogle,ssss1 for a consideration”.
ssss1 Not Baron of Bolsover till later.
There is reason for suggesting the last clause. From what the Duchess wrote, it might be inferred that these honours were given simply as the reward of merit, without any monetary payment on the part of the recipient; but judging from the following very matter-of-fact letter from Cavendish, about a peerage, not for himself but for another, a somewhat different inference might excusably be drawn.
“State Papers, Domestic, Charles 1st. Vol. LV, No. 26. 1627, Feb. 27.
“Mansfield to the Duke of Buckingham.
ssss1
“To my most Honble Patron the Duke of Buckingham his Grace.
“May it please your Grace,
“Accordinge to your Lop commands I have treated with my cosen Pierepoint, and as effectually as I coulde, his answer in his own wordes are these: he sayeth that Doctor Moore treated with him in King James his times aboute Honor, and tolde him that if he woulde be a Baron he might and for 4000£.