Sir John Oglander's List of Those Who Sailed from Portsmouth to Join Prince Charles in Spain

Isle of Wight Record Office and Archive: OG/BB/57

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Anno xxjo Mr Iacob

The Names of ye Prince Highness Servants, with ye Number of their followers appointed to goe after his Highness into Spayne

Chamber Gentlemen of ye privy chamber

Sir William Howard ij Servants
Sir Edmond Varney ij
Sir John Worth ij
Sir Richard Winn ij
Mr Glemman ij
Mr Clare ij
Mr ffrancis Carie ij
Mr Sandelans ij

Lord Carie.
Lordes: Lord Compton
Lord Vaughan
4 servants a pece:

Archeball Armestronge the kinges ffoole ij

Grooms of ye Bechamber

Mr Kerke ij
Mr Pitcarne ij

Grooms of ye privy chamber

Mr Progers j
Mr Iames Elliott j
Mr Iohn Portewes j

Sir Rychard Kingley

Kaptayne of the Aduenture

Mr Yonge gentleman Vsher j
Mr Newton gentleman Vsher j
Mr Dethicke gentleman Vsher quarter wayter j

Chaplaines.

Doctour Mawe j
Doctor Wrenn j

MPages of honour

Mr German j
Mr Washington j
Mr Lasley j

Doctour Bethune phisicion j
Mr Lownes apothecary j

Barber to the Prince
Mr Caldwall j Servant. Mr Clowes chirurgion j

Pages of ye Bedchamber

Mr Rosse j
Mr Wood j
Mr Jossey yeoman of ye roabes
Mr Aquilla day page of ye wardrobe j
Mr West page of the ye presence j

Grooms of ye chamber

Mr Thomas Henn j
Mr Cooke j

Vestrie.

Mr Wilson j

Thomas Ruske groom portersman

William Smyth servant to ye backstaires

Howshold/

Mr Rugge Clarke Kitchen ij Servantes
Mr KnollysClarke of ye spicery & paymaster ij
Iohn Lyle Mr Cooke j Mr Robert Evans j
Mr Bennett j
Mr Lumbert j
Mr Taylor j
Vincent Atcheson j|

The Stable

Equerries

Mr Terwhitt j Servantes
Mr Bowclare j
Mr Allison Clarke of ye stables j

Humphrey Rogs

Henry Mawgridge

Cornelius Moore

MorganKavener

Michael Cracke

Brian Marchonell

Daniel Lawrence

Patricke Dormy

Thomas yeate sadler

Hugh Evans

George Symmons

William Armor

All these Came to Portesmouth and lay there :12: dayes for a wynde °I being then Liftennant Gouernor° (signed) John Oglander

  • Marginalia
    • ffootemen
    • Grooms great horsestable
  • Footnotes
    • Chamber: underlined; start of the first of two columns
    • Lord Carie … Vaughan: the names are encompassed by a left brace pointing toward Lordes:
    • 4 … pece: written in a lighter coloured ink but in the same hand; evidently added after the first writing, to the right of the list of gentlemen of the privy chamber
    • Lord Archeball … ij: written in a lighter coloured ink but in the same hand; evidently added after the first writing, to the right of the list of gentlemen of the privy chamber
    • Bechamber: for Bedchamber
    • LordMr Kerke ij: written in a lighter coloured ink but in the same hand; possibly added after the first writing
    • Sir … Aduenture: evidently added after the first writing to the right of the list of grooms of the privy chamber
    • Barber … Prince: start of second of two columns
    • Howshold: underlined in MS
    • Knollys: y written over another letter
    • Mr: written to the left of the margin of the column
  • Endnote

    The Oglander family was resident at Nunwell House.

    Archibald Armstrong became fool or jester to King James VI of Scotland and followed James' court to England, being given a pension of 2s in 1611 and the monopoly on tobacco pipes in 1618. Armstrong accompanied Prince Charles on the latter's embassy to Spain and several stories exist about 'Archy' from this trip, including one wherein he put his fool's cap on the king's head, saying James was the fool for risking his son in Spain (John Southworth, Fools and Jesters at the English Court (Stroud, Glos, 1998), 141–2, 144, 203 n 21).

  • Document Description

    Record title: Sir John Oglander's List of Those Who Sailed from Portsmouth to Join Prince Charles in Spain
    Repository: Isle of Wight Record Office and Archive
    Shelfmark: OG/BB/57
    Repository location: Newport

    Prince Charles and the duke of Buckingham (George Villiers, (1592–1628)) travelled to Spain in 1623 to try to reach a final agreement on the long anticipated match between Charles and the Spanish Infanta. Charles was in Spain from February to October, but ultimately the agreement fell apart. Sir John Oglander, who was deputy governor of Portsmouth at this time, made a list of the entire party that was sent some time later to attend on Charles in Madrid.

    1623; English; paper; bifolium; 306mm x 204mm; written on f [1] and f [1v], endorsed on f [2v]: 'A List of Prince Charles Seruantes yat Came to Portesmouth to goe to Spayne to theyre Mayster.' Formerly OG/17/31.

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