annum, besides other advantages.

His lordship succeeded Sir Christopher Hatton, in the Chancellorship
of the university of Oxford, in opposition to Robert Devereux, earl
of Essex, Master of the Horse to the Queen, who a little before was
incorporated master of arts in the said university, to capacitate him
for that office; but on receipt of letters from her Majesty in favour
of lord Buckhurst, the Academicians elected him Chancellor on the
17th of December following. On the death of lord Burleigh, the Queen
considering the great services he had done his country, which had cost
him immense expences, was pleased to constitute him in the 41st year
of her reign, Lord High Treasurer of England: In the succeeding year
1599, he was in commission with Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor,
and the earl of Essex, Earl-Marshal, for negotiating affairs with the
Senate of Denmark, as also in a special commission for suppressing
schism, and afterwards when libels were dispersed by the earl of Essex
and his faction against the Queen, intimating that her Majesty took
little care of the government, and altogether neglected the state of
Ireland,[7] his lordship engaged in a vindication of her Majesty,
and made answers to these libels, representing how brave and well
regulated an army had been sent into Ireland, compleatly furnished
with all manner of provisions, and like wise that her Majesty had
expended on that war in six months time, the sum of 600,000 l. which
lord Essex must own to be true. He suspected that earl's mutinous
designs, by a greater concourse of people resorting to his house than
ordinary, and sent his son to pay him a visit,[8] and to desire him
to be careful of the company he kept. Essex being sensible that
his scheme was already discovered by the penetrating eye of lord
Buckhurst, he and his friends entered upon new measures, and breaking
out into an open rebellion, were obliged to surrender themselves