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POLITICAL HISTORY the king was inquiring for the names of persons in the county capable of advancing money to him by way of loan on Privy Seals, 1 a measure which called forth a remonstrance from the gentlemen of Surrey to the lord lieutenant, representing the impoverishment of the county and its extreme barrenness, great part of it being given up to forests, chaces and parks.* On January 10, 1613, the Council ordered the justices to see again to the disarming of the recusants in Surrey, 3 leaving them however sufficient to protect their houses. The marvel is that the recusants, so often disarmed, had any weapons left worth the taking. The act was a consequence no doubt of the state of foreign politics. The murder of Henri IV. in 1610, the revived activity of the Catholic party abroad under Spanish leadership, and the design of raising the Archduke Albert, the Cardinal Infant, son-in-law to the late Philip II., to the imperial throne, had driven James and the German Protestants, Holland and even France into concerted resistance to Catholic projects. But England was not engaged in war in this most peaceful of reigns till just before the end in 1624, when volunteers were called for from Surrey, and these not being forthcoming in sufficient numbers, orders were issued for the impressing of 200 men to serve under Count Mansfeld. 4 Under him they suffered much and performed little. The end of the reign of Elizabeth and that of James are marked by one meritorious feature of another kind. Some of the ruin of the Reformation spoliations was being repaired. The monasteries, which had been swept up by a grasping king and greedy courtiers, might some of them have been preserved for good uses. They were gone, and some schools and colleges had received a small part of their wealth. Other new foundations of a different kind were now being made. Under Elizabeth Archbishop Whitgift founded his hospital at Croydon, which was begun in 1597. Under James, Edward Alleyne the player, joint proprietor of a theatre and bear-pit and c keeper of the king's bears,' founded Dulwich College in 1619. Both foundations were to provide for needy old people, and each had a school attached for the young. These were the very purposes which some monasteries had once answered. In 1622 the Hospital of the Holy Trinity in Guildford was incorporated for the maintenance of old people, and in its first concep- tion for the apprenticing and setting to work of the young. It was the munificent foundation of George Abbot, the archbishop, a native of the town. All three places were as much religious foundations as any of the mediaeval age. The changed spirit of the times was shown in their making a provision for the opening and the closing years of life only. The world outside was not too rough a place for those in the vigour of their age. In 1612 Guildford Castle was granted by the Crown to Francis Carter, gentleman, of Guildford. It had ceased to be the county gaol for Sussex under Henry VII. and for Surrey some time in the latter 1 Loseley MSS. October 31,9]. I. . 78. * Ibid. November, 161 1, xii. 72. 8 Ibid. January 10, 1612-3, v - P l - >> 65. * Ibid. October 22, 1624. 399