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In the eleventh year of his Age, he was made Knight of the most noble Or∣der of the Garter, and on the sixth day of November, Anno 1612. he lost his Bro∣ther Prince Henry, whom he immediate∣ly succeeded in the Dukedome of Corn∣wall, with all the Royalties, Rents, Pro∣fits, and Commodities of it; according to the entail which was made thereof by King Edward the third, when he confer∣red it upon Edward the black Prince, his eldest Son.
The first solemn Act which he appea∣red in after this change of his condition, was at the Funerall of Prince Henry on the 7. of Decem. following, at which he attended as chief Mourner. And on the 14 of February then next ensuing, being Sunday, and St. Valentines day, he per∣formed the Office of a Brideman (a Pa∣ranymph the Grecians call him) to the Princesse Elizabeth his Sister, married upon that day to Frederick the Fifth, Prince Elector Palatine: A marriage which drew him afterwards into many cares and great expences, of which more hereafter.
In his Childhood he was noted to be very wilful, somewhat inclining to a per∣versenesse of disposition, which might proceed from that retiredness which the imperfection of his Speech, not fitting him for publick discourse, and the weak∣ness of his limbs and joynts (as unfit for Action) made him most delight in.
But now being grown both in years, and state, he began to shake off that re∣tirednesse, and betake himself to all man∣ner
of man-like exercises; such as were Vaulting, riding great Horses, running at the ring, shooting in crosse bowes, Mus∣kets, and sometimes in great Pieces of Ordnance, in which he became so per∣fect, that he was thought to be the best Marks-man, and the most comely man∣nager of a great Horse of any one in all three Kingdoms. And as he shaked off this retirednesse, so he corrected in him∣self the Peccancy of that humour which had grown up with it; there being no man to be found of an evener temper, more pliant to good Counsel, or lesse wedded then he was to his own opinion.