Note 102 — MANNINGHAM'S DIARY. (continued 2)

Capt. Edmund Whitelocke, a brother of Sir James Whitelocke, father of Bulstrode Whitelocke. The Captain was one of the gayest and wildest of men, a great traveller, "well seen in the tongues," "extreme prodigal," a fellow of infinite merriment, and suspected of being concerned in half the plots and duels of his day. He was in trouble with the Earl of Essex, and again about the Powder Plot, and probably knew familiarly all the prisons in the metropolis. He died about six years after the time with which our Diarist is dealing, at Newhall, in Essex, the seat of his friend the Earl of Sussex. The Earl attended his funeral, and laid him honourably in the chapel of the Ratcliffes. See Liber Famelicus of Sir James Whitelocke, (Camden Society,) pp. iv. 10. The Earl of Sussex hero alluded to was Robert the fifth Earl of the family of the Radcliffes, 1593-1629.