Note 16 — Sir Robert Carey, Lord Warden of the Middle Marches; and afterwards Earl of Monmouth.
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The account of the blue ring which Lady Elizabeth Spelman gave to Lord Corke was this:—
King James kept a constant and private correspondence with several persons of the English Court, during many years before Queen Elizabeth died. Among them was [Philadelphia] Lady Scroope [see page 478], sister of Sir Robert Carey: to whom His Majesty sent, by Sir James Fullerton, a sapphire ring; with positive orders to return it to him, by a special messenger, as soon as the Queen was actually expired.
Lady Scroope had no opportunity of delivering it to her brother Sir Robert, whilst he was in the Palace of Richmond; but waiting at the window till she saw him at the outside of the Gate [see page 480], she threw it out to him; and he well knew to what purpose he received it.
S.E.B. [Sir S. E. Brydges.] Memoirs of the Peers of England during the reign of James I., p. 413. Ed. 1802. 8vo.