Index of Gardiner's History of England

Hertford, Marquis of, 1640 (William Seymour)

• signs the petition of the twelve peers,
• asks the Council to support the petition,
• becomes a Privy Councillor,
• is governor of the Prince of Wales and is ordered by the Lords to keep a strict watch over him,
• rumoured dismissal of, from the Council and office,
• warns the bishops against risk from the mob outside the House of Lords,
• is required by the Parliament to keep the Prince of Wales in his care,
• brings the Duke of York to the King,
• is appointed to command for the King in the West, and puts himself at the head of a force raised in Somerset,
• is driven from Wells, and takes up his quarters at Sherborne,
• See Seymour, William
• See Hertford, Earl of