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DUNBAR 511 appointed to the same office in England for life, June 1603, and High Trea- surer [S.], 5 Sep. 1 60 1. Attending the King into England, he was made P.C. 4 May 1603. On 7 July 1604, he was cr. "BARON HUME (Howme), OF BERWICK" [E.], with rem. to his heirs for ever, but never took his seat in the English House of Lords.(*) Shortly afterwards he was as "Lord Home of Berwick in England by patent dat. at Windsor, 3 July 1605, cr. EARL OF DUNBAR [S.], with rem. to his heirs male.(^) Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1603-07; High Commissioner to the General Assembly [S.], 1606-10, being employed by the King for the restoration of episcopacy in Scotland; nom. K.G. 23 Apr. and inst. 18 May 1608. Keeper of Holyrood Palace Jan. 1609/10. He m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Alexander Gordon, of Gight, by Agnes, illegit. da. of Cardinal David Betoun, Archbishop of St. Andrews [S.]. He d. s.p.m., at Whitehall, somewhat suddenly,^) 20 Jan. 1610/11, since which time his honours have remained dormant.(^) He was bur. at Dunbar. M.I.C') (*) See Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records. There is no reference therein to the remarkable clause in this creation (which, as it was never exercised, came to an end at the death of the grantee), enabling the grantee to nominate any kinsman or relation "to have and hold the same dignity to him and his heirs." See vol. ii, p. 291, note "c," for a chronological list of this class of creations. In the 1st edition of this work this was treated as a Scottish peerage, and it seems that the patent was directed to pass a/so under the Great Seal of Scotland, as were also the letters patent creating Lord Kinloss, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, and Sir Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine of Dirletoun. Crawfurd states it to be an English creation on the authority of Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii, p. 419, where the Patent Roll is quoted. Hewlett, p. 39, says: "There appears to have been much uncertainty after the accession of King James VI [S.] to the throne of England, as to the manner in which Peerages of Scotland should be created. Subsequendy dignities were conferred under commissions addressed to the great Officers of State in Scotland, commanding them to inaugurate or invest the grantees with the honour to be conferred, and subsequently, towards the close of the reign of King James, by ordinary charters or letters patent passed in pursuance of warrants signed by the King himself m England or wherever he might be." G.E.C. and V^G. () See Wood's Douglas, vol. ii, p. 675. 1^) He is said to have been poisoned by Secretary Cecil. See Scott's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen. This is probably a calumny. He was, however, a cause of much jealousy. Archbishop Spottiswoode describes him as "a man of deep wit, few words, and, in his Majesty's service, no less faithful than fortunate." {^ The Barony of Home of Berwick [S.j being to heirs general would appear to be vested in the issue of his two daughters and coheirs. These were (i) Anne, wife of Sir James Home, and mother of James, who in Feb. 1 633 sue. as 3rd Earl of Home [S.], being ancestor of the succeeding Earls; (2) Elizabeth, m.. Mar. 161 1/2 (the pre- parations therefor having been made by her lately deed, father), Theophilus (Howard), 2nd Earl of Suffolk, whose representative is the Lord Howard de Walden. (') " A kind of favourite, but not such as after appeared, with young faces and smooth chins, but one that for his wisdom and gravity had been in some secret coun- sels with his master." (Sir Anthony Welldon, James I, p. 320). In Osborne's Eliza- beth, he is spoken of as one of those who " lay sucking at the breasts of the State." V.G.