Sir Edward Nicholas (4 April 1593-1669), English statesman, was the eldest son of John Nicholas, a member of an old Wiltshire family. April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... Events May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyds accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. ... // Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...

He was educated at Salisbury grammar school, Winchester College and Queens College, Oxford. After studying law at the Middle Temple, Nicholas became secretary to Lord Zouch, warden, and admiral of the Cinque Ports, in 1618, and continued in a similar employment under the Duke of Buckingham. In 1625 he became secretary to the admiralty; shortly afterwards he was appointed an extra clerk of the privy council with duties relating to admiralty business, and from 1635 to 1641 he was one of the clerks in ordinary to the council. In this situation Nicholas had much business to transact in connection with the levy of ship-money; and in 1641, when Charles I went to Scotland, a heavy responsibility rested on the secretary who remained in London to keep the king informed of the proceedings of the parliament. On the return of Charles to the capital Nicholas was knighted, and appointed a privy councillor and a Secretary of State, in which capacity he attended the king while the court was at Oxford, and carried out the business of the Treaty of Uxbridge. Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... The Queens College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London. ... Formally, in Kent and Sussex there are five Head Ports making up the Confederation of the Cinque Ports. ... Events March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). ... George Villiers (August 28, 1592 - August 23, 1628) was the 1st Duke of Buckingham of the second creation (1623) of that title and a favourite of King James I of England and then of Charles I. He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, the son of the minor noble Sir George... Events March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ... A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... Events February 10 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. ... Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ... Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ...

Throughout this troubled period he was one of Charles's wisest and most loyal advisers; he it was who arranged the details of the king's surrender to the Scots, though he does not appear to have advised or even to have approved of the step; and to him also fell the duty of treating for the capitulation of Oxford, which included permission for Nicholas himself to retire abroad with his family. He went to France, being recommended by the king to the confidence of the Prince of Wales. Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ...

After the king's death Nicholas remained on the continent concerting measures on behalf of the exiled Charles II with Hyde and other royalists, but the hostility of Queen Henrietta Maria deprived him of any real influence in the counsels of the young sovereign. He lived at The Hague and elsewhere in a state of poverty which hampered his power to serve Charles, but which the latter did nothing to relieve. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (February 18, 1609 - December 9, 1674), English historian and statesman. ... Henrietta Maria, painted by Peter Lely, 1660. ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ...

He returned to England at the Restoration; Charles had appointed him secretary of state while in exile in 1654, and upon the restoration, Nicholas duly took office as Sicretary of State along with William Morice, a former parliamentary supporter. Nicholas was soon retired in favor of Charles's favorite Henry Bennet, however, and he had to content himself with a grant of money and the offer of a peerage, which his poverty compelled him to decline. He retired to a country seat in Surrey which he purchased from a son of Sir Walter Raleigh, and here he lived till his death in 1669. The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... Sir William Morice (c. ... Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (1618 - July 28, 1685), was an English statesman. ... Alternatively, Professor Walter Raleigh was a scholar and author circa 1900. ... // Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ...

By his wife Jane, a daughter of Henry Jay, an alderman of London, he had several sons and daughters; his younger brother Matthew Nicholas (1594-1661) was successively dean of Bristol, canon of Westminster and dean of St Pauls. Events February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims. ... Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ...

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c. ... The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet. ... The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of United Kingdom up to 1782. ... Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (1618 - July 28, 1685), was an English statesman. ... Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents, in many ways, the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...