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 Reviews of Books Essex, for no other purpose it would seem than that of checkmating her husband. She found a powerful ally in Lord Chancellor Bacon, who with reason feared the ascendency which his rival, Coke, would acquire by an alliance with the familyof the favorite duke. But Buckingham and King James espoused the father's side of the quarrel, and Bacon for very self-preservation was forced to abandon his policy, and to urge forward the nuptials with Villiers.

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LadyHattonatthis time making an more ill-advised attempt again to secure pos session of her daughter at Stoke Pogis, Coke brought the matter beforethe Privy Council as a breach of the King's peace, and had the satisfaction of confining his wife in the Tower while the marriage of his choice was taking place. No further action was taken against the lady. Shortly after she was released, and the King himself induced her to join in making a marriage settlement on her son-in-law.

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