Francis Wolley

The Queen stood godmother, with the Countess of Lincoln, Surrey's "fair Geraldine", acting as her proxy, and both Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, personally present at the ceremony as his godfathers.

[2] In 1595, when he was only twelve years of age, his father unsuccessfully made suit to have Francis joined with him in his office of Clerk of the Pipe Rolls.

[6] In 1601, at the age of eighteen, he was elected to Parliament for Haslemere, nominated by his uncle, Sir George More, who was lord of the manor.

More's rage when he learned of the clandestine marriage knew no bounds, and he had Donne dismissed from his position as secretary to Egerton, and imprisoned in the Fleet.

[3] At Twelfth Night 1608 Wolley is said to have won more than £800 gambling with King James, the Earl of Montgomery, Sir Robert Cecil, Lord Buckhurst and others.

In the will, which was probated on 12 December, he bequeathed £4,000 for a ‘fair tomb’ to be built in Old St Paul's Cathedral for himself and his parents, and the large sum of £1,300 to various servants.