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OLD WORLD MASTERS
Robert Rich was born in 1587 and was admitted to Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, in 1603 and in that year was created a Knight
of the Bath. He was quite old enough to have remembered the excit-
ing days of the Essex conspiracy, the part his mother took in this, her
imprisonment and release, and his uncle’s execution in 1601. At the
age of twenty-three he was elected to Parliament and was again elected
in 1614. In 1619 he succeeded to the title.
Robert Rich was one of the original members of the Company
for the Plantation of the Bermudas in 1614 and was granted a seat
on the Council of the New England Company in 1620, which two
great enterprises connect this handsome lord with our own country.
Also in 1624 Robert Rich was made a member of the Council of the
Virginia Government. Yet this was not all. Warwick’s Colonial
interests brought him into close relation with the leading men of the
Puritan Party and link his name with the early history of the New
England Colonies. He was closely associated with the origin of Con-
necticut, for in 1632 he granted to Lord Say, Lord Brooke, John
Hampden, and others what is known as “the old patent of Connecti-
cut,” under which the town of Saybrook (named for Lord Say and
Lord Brooke) was founded.
In English politics Warwick opposed the policy of Charles I and,
consequently, after the dissolution of the Short Parliament, he was
arrested by the King’s order.
As temporal head of the Puritans and opposed to the party in the
Established Church led by Archbishop Laud, Warwick concurred in
the prosecution of Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Strafford. In
1643 Warwick was appointed Lord High Admiral of the Fleet, serv-
ing Parliament in opposition to Charles I, and he bore the title of
Governor-in-Chief of all the islands and other plantations subject to
the English Crown, on which authority he became associated with
the founding of the Colony of Rhode Island. After the monarchy
and the House of Lords had both been swept away, the Earl of War-
wick gave his support and encouragement to Oliver Cromwell. The
marriage of Cromwell’s daughter to Warwick’s grandson proves the
strength of the friendship. The Earl of Warwick died on April 19,
OLD WORLD MASTERS
Robert Rich was born in 1587 and was admitted to Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, in 1603 and in that year was created a Knight
of the Bath. He was quite old enough to have remembered the excit-
ing days of the Essex conspiracy, the part his mother took in this, her
imprisonment and release, and his uncle’s execution in 1601. At the
age of twenty-three he was elected to Parliament and was again elected
in 1614. In 1619 he succeeded to the title.
Robert Rich was one of the original members of the Company
for the Plantation of the Bermudas in 1614 and was granted a seat
on the Council of the New England Company in 1620, which two
great enterprises connect this handsome lord with our own country.
Also in 1624 Robert Rich was made a member of the Council of the
Virginia Government. Yet this was not all. Warwick’s Colonial
interests brought him into close relation with the leading men of the
Puritan Party and link his name with the early history of the New
England Colonies. He was closely associated with the origin of Con-
necticut, for in 1632 he granted to Lord Say, Lord Brooke, John
Hampden, and others what is known as “the old patent of Connecti-
cut,” under which the town of Saybrook (named for Lord Say and
Lord Brooke) was founded.
In English politics Warwick opposed the policy of Charles I and,
consequently, after the dissolution of the Short Parliament, he was
arrested by the King’s order.
As temporal head of the Puritans and opposed to the party in the
Established Church led by Archbishop Laud, Warwick concurred in
the prosecution of Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Strafford. In
1643 Warwick was appointed Lord High Admiral of the Fleet, serv-
ing Parliament in opposition to Charles I, and he bore the title of
Governor-in-Chief of all the islands and other plantations subject to
the English Crown, on which authority he became associated with
the founding of the Colony of Rhode Island. After the monarchy
and the House of Lords had both been swept away, the Earl of War-
wick gave his support and encouragement to Oliver Cromwell. The
marriage of Cromwell’s daughter to Warwick’s grandson proves the
strength of the friendship. The Earl of Warwick died on April 19,