My Lord of Hunsdown was of the Queen’s nearest kindred, and, on the
decease of Sussex, both he and his son successively took the place of
Lord Chamberlain. He was a man fast to his prince, and firm to his
friends and servants; and though he might speak big, and therein would be
borne out, yet was he the more dreadful, but less harmful, and far from
the practice of the Lord of Leicester’s instructions, for he was
downright; and I have heard those that both knew him well and had
interest in him, say merrily of him that his Latin and dissimulation were
alike; and that his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him
seem a worse Christian than he was, and a better knight of her carpet
than he could be. As he lived in a roughling time, so he loved sword and
buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of their
hands; of which sort he had many brave gentlemen that followed him, yet
not taken for a popular and dangerous person: and this is one that stood
among the _Togati_, of an honest, stout heart, and such a one, that, upon
occasion, would have fought for his prince and country, for he had the
charge of the Queen’s person, both in the Court and in the camp at
Tilbury.