One hundred and twenty
family uprising and down lyeing, whereof you may take out six or
seven, and all the rest servants and retayners.
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FOR HIS LORDSHIP'S MUSICK. Alphonso Ferrabosco, the son, was Lord
Philip (the first's) lutenist. He sang rarely well to the theorbo
lute. He had a pension and lodgings in Baynard's Castle.
PART II. - CHAPTER III.
OF LEARNED MEN THAT HAD PENSIONS GRANTED TO THEM
BY THE EARLES OF PEMBROKE.
IN the former Chapter I endeavoured to adumbrate Wilton House as to
its architecture. We are now to consider it within, where it will
appeare to have been an academie as well as palace; and was, as it
were, the apiarie to which men that were excellent in armes and arts
did resort and were caress't, and many of them received honourable
pensions.
The hospitality here was very great. I shall wave the grandeur of
William the first Earle, who married [Anne] sister to Queen Katharine
Parre, and was the great favourite of King Henry 8th, and conservator
of his will, and come to our grandfather's memorie, in the times of
his sonne Henry Earle of Pembroke, and his Countess Mary, daughter of
Sir Henry Sydney, and sister to that renowned knight Sir Philip
Sydney, whose fame will never die whilest poetrie lives. His Lordship
was the patron to the men of armes, and to the antiquaries and
heralds; he took a great delight in the study of herauldry, as
appeares by that curious collection of heraldique manuscripts in the
library here.
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