Index of Gardiner's History of England

Somerset, Earl of, 1613 (Robert Carr),

• marriage of,
• wealth of,
• becomes James's sole confidant,
• supports the Prince's marriage with a Savoyard princess,
• urges Sarmiento to break off the French alliance,
• votes against conferring with the Commons on the impositions,
• becomes Lord Chamberlain,
• his influence with James,
• his rudeness to James,
• is allowed to carry on the negotiation with Sarmiento on the Spanish marriage,
• intrigues to substitute Villiers for, as James's favourite,
• James refuses some of the requests of,
• threatens Villiers,
• prepares a pardon,
• Ellesmere refuses to seal the pardon of,
• is implicated in the charge of murdering Overbury,
• his last interview with James,
• urges the King to alter the course of the investigation into the murder,
• is placed in confinement,
• Bacon's opinion on the evidence against,
• threatens to bring a charge against the King,
• declares that he will not go to his trial,
• is brought to the bar,
• trial of,
• is pardoned after a long imprisonment,
• his connection with Dudley's paper of advice,
• is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,