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King James alluded to “Tom Badger” in his letters to the [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham|Duke of Buckingham]] and Buckingham mentions Bagehott as his confidante in their correspondence.<ref>David M. Bergeron, ”King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire” (University of Iowa, 1999), pp. 176, 180: [[James Orchard Halliwell|James Halliwell-Phillipps]], ”Letters of the Kings of England”, 2 (London, Colburn, 1846), pp. 235, 243.</ref> |
King James alluded to “Tom Badger” in his letters to the [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham|Duke of Buckingham]] and Buckingham mentions Bagehott as his confidante in their correspondence.<ref>David M. Bergeron, ”King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire” (University of Iowa, 1999), pp. 176, 180: [[James Orchard Halliwell|James Halliwell-Phillipps]], ”Letters of the Kings of England”, 2 (London, Colburn, 1846), pp. 235, 243.</ref> |
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In 1631, Charles I allowed Bagehott to form a partnership with [[Thomas Pott]] and [[Timothy Tyrrell (died 1632)|Timothy Tyrrell]] (Master of the Buckhounds) with an exclusive patent to breed and export dogs. The dogs would be bred and trained in England or Wales.<ref>”Foedera”, 19 (London, 1732), pp. 283-4.</ref> |
In 1631, Charles I allowed Bagehott to form a partnership with [[Thomas Pott]] and [[Timothy Tyrrell (died 1632)|Timothy Tyrrell]] (Master of the Buckhounds) with an exclusive patent to breed and export dogs. The dogs would be bred and trained in England or Wales.<ref>”Foedera”, 19 (London, 1732), pp. 283-4.</ref> |
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Thomas Bagehott also known as Thomas Badger (died 1639) was an English courtier, royal huntsman, and Member of Parliament for Stockbridge (1625 and 1626) and Lostwithiel (1628–1629).
He was a son of George Bagehott of Hall Place, Prestbury, Gloucestershire, and Alice, daughter of Richard Wakeman of the Mythe, Gloucester.[1]
He was knighted on 23 July 1603, in the days before the coronation of James I and Anne of Denmark. In 1605, Bagehott was appointed Master of the King’s Harriers or Old Harriers.[2]
Bagehott was a regular performer in court theatre, appearing in December 1604 in the masque at the wedding of Philip Herbert and Susan de Vere,[3] in 1606 as a defender of Truth in the Barriers at a Marriage at the wedding of Frances Howard and the Earl of Essex, and as a knight of Apollo in Lord Hay’s Masque at the wedding of Sir James Hay and Honora Denny, daughter of Edward, Lord Denny.[4]
In January 1618, Bagehott acted with other courtiers at Theobalds led by Sir John Finet in an interlude featuring “Tom of Bedlam the Tinker” intended to amuse King James who was suffering from gout.[5][6] The cast included: Thomas Dutton, George Goring, Thomas Tyringham, Robert Yaxley, William Uvedale, Arthur Lake, Edward Zouch, and George Garret. The King however was displeased by the play, especially the lyrics sung or written by Finet, and John Chamberlain was surprised that “none had the judgement to see how unfit it was to bring such beastly gear in public before a prince”.[7] John Bingley was knighted on this occasion.[8]
Bagehott developed a reputation as a buffoon at the court of King James,[9] and his name was included in the ballad Listen jolly gentleman with other courtiers with whom the king “loves to be merry”:
- Att Royston and Newmarkett he’ll hunt till he be leane,
- But hee hath merry boys that with masks, and toyes,
- Can make him fatt againe,
- Nedd Zouch, Harrie Riche, Tom Badger,
- George Goring, and Jacke Finett,
- Will dance a heate till they stincke of sweat.[10]
King James alluded to “Tom Badger” in his letters to the Duke of Buckingham and Buckingham mentions Bagehott as his confidante in their correspondence.[11]
In 1631, Charles I allowed Bagehott to form a partnership with Thomas Pott and Timothy Tyrrell (Master of the Buckhounds) with an exclusive patent to breed and export dogs. The dogs would be bred and trained in England or Wales.[12]
- ^ ‘BAGEHOTT (BADGER), Sir Thomas, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
- ^ ‘BAGEHOTT (BADGER), Sir Thomas, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
- ^ Maurice Leee, jr., Dudeley Carleton to John Chamberlain: Jacobean Letters (Rutgers University Press, 1972), p. 67.
- ^ David Lindley, Court Masques (Oxford, 1995), pp. 15, 21–22.
- ^ Edward Chaney & Timothy Wilks, The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe (I.B. Tauris: London, 2014), p. 233.
- ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, 2, p. 129.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 465.
- ^ Thomas Birch and Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 57–58.
- ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, 2, p. 14.
- ^ Early Stuart Libels L5 Listen jolly gentlemen
- ^ David M. Bergeron, King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire (University of Iowa, 1999), pp. 176, 180: James Halliwell-Phillipps, Letters of the Kings of England, 2 (London, Colburn, 1846), pp. 152–153, 235, 243.
- ^ Foedera, 19 (London, 1732), pp. 283-4.
