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ssss1 “Drinking tobacco” has an odd look; but it was a phrase of the time. One version of a well-known refrain ran:—
“Think this while you’re drinking tobacco”.
ssss1 He was executed on Tower Hill on 14 May, 1631. A fresh patent of nobility was afterwards granted to his son.
The appointment of Newcastle to attend the King to Scotland, noticed at the end of the next letter, was destined to put him to enormous expense.
“Francis, Lord Cottington to the Earl of Newcastle.
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“1632, December 13. Charing Cross.—The death of the two Kings, Sweden and Bohemia, with his Majesty’s late sickness of the small-pox, has almost put by here all kind of home negociations; yet I must tell you from my Lord Treasurer that you are lively in the memory both of the King and of his lordship. The King is now well though he still keeps his chamber, and my Lord Deputyssss1 is precisely sent for, so that you will have one friend more here. You are appointed to attend the King into Scotland which I conceive might be a good motive for your friends to put it to a period.”