CHAPTER XXVIII

MR. VILLIERS The opportunity for which the vindictive Sir Thomas Lake waited with vigilant patience presented itself at Cambridge in the following March. The King, accompanied by Prince Charles, was paying the town a royal visit at once to honour the University and its Chancellor, the Earl of Suffolk. A great concourse of gallants attended the King, but it was to be observed that there were only seven ladies in the party, and all of these either by blood or alliance members of the Howard family. This had resulted f…