. Historical portraits ... vil courage of some of his sub-ordinates ; and he afterwards spent large sums of his private fortunein relieving the fever-stricken sailors of the English fleet. Butthere was little of the Nelson touch in this Lord High Admiral,and he seems to have frowned on the pirates of the stamp ofDrake, who were anxious to sweep the Spaniards from every seain the world, and who could have done so. He was, however,a sound commander of the old school, and did good service at thecapture of Cadiz in 1596. In 1598 he was created Earl ofNottingham, and retained the Queens favour and
. Historical portraits ... vil courage of some of his sub-ordinates ; and he afterwards spent large sums of his private fortunein relieving the fever-stricken sailors of the English fleet. Butthere was little of the Nelson touch in this Lord High Admiral,and he seems to have frowned on the pirates of the stamp ofDrake, who were anxious to sweep the Spaniards from every seain the world, and who could have done so. He was, however,a sound commander of the old school, and did good service at thecapture of Cadiz in 1596. In 1598 he was created Earl ofNottingham, and retained the Queens favour and that of hersuccessor till his death. As commissioner and ambassador, hewas one of the leaders in negotiating the treaty with Spain in 1605:and he was incessantly employed by King James in all businessof State, though more on land than at sea. It is impossible toacquit him of allowing in his old age the proud traditions of theElizabethan navy to be forgotten, and of winking at many abuseswhich crept into its y o 7) .^ Z b P i ^ ^ U c P re o •— z -• < o o I-U ■o Si c ,— -3 ^ 2^ = ■r. D O O w 2 J -^ u M Si c/) o o W en J ■«-• 2 ^ c £i ^ ^ 1- ■^ 0 ^^ ^ c ■— p ^ ■^ C/) s QJ ^ *u 3 ^ to ■^ o IC CJ Y, -^ u o f_ .£ ;-^ c b •o o ^ a 1— u. T3 t^ O E 0 rs ~ iT < < o o •T^ , o fc-H o y: u Ul ,u K. ^ ^/ 0 < U K i) u r= ^ i63 CHARLES BLOUNT EARL OF DEVONSHIRE(1563-1606) better known as Lord Mountjoy, was the son of James, LordMountjoy, and Katharine Leigh. He first appeared at Court in histwentieth year, and his handsome person at once attracted EHza-beths attention, a fact which produced a duel with another courtier,Essex, afterwards Blounts greatest friend. He fought in the LowCountries and in France, succeeded his father in the peerage in1594, and accompanied the expedition to the Azores, 1597. In theearly days of 1600 he was chosen to retrieve Essexs mishandledventure at suppressing Tyrones rebellion in Ireland, and heperfor
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