1610: Duke of Mallard
Private papers
We have at last secured our rights in perpetuum to the lands and titles once granted unto us by the late sovereign, Queen Elizabeth, in recognition of our family’s long and steadfast favour. Now our new monarch, King James, hath confirmed this agreement with his royal hand and hath graciously bestowed upon our house a new and honourable title.
From this day forth, we are to be known as the Earl of New England. It is a mark of great distinction and charge alike, for with it comes the power and wealth to establish and raise a township in those far colonies across the Atlantic, a venture upon which much hope and fortune rest.
This honour doth bind our family’s name to the new world, and with God’s providence, our lineage shall flourish there as it has in England.
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