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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 ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p, 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 StateUnited Kingdom In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State is a senior Cabinet Minister in charge of a Government Department. Secretary of State positions can be created without primary legislation; and legislation refers to 'Secretary of State', which is, in which capacity he attended the king while the court was at Oxford, and carried out the business of the Treaty of Uxbridge .

Throughout this troubled period he was one of Charles's wisest and most loyal advisers; he it was who arranged the details of the kings 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 WalesCharles 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. Charles II's father, Charles I, had been executed in 1649 following the English Civil War; the mo.

After the king's death Nicholas remained on the continent concerting measures on behalf of the exiled Charles II with HydeEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon ( February 18, 1609 December 9, 1674), English historian and statesman. Hyde was the third son of Henry Hyde of Dinton, Wiltshire, a member of a family for some time established at Norbury, Cheshire. He entered Magdalen 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 HagueThis article is about the city in the Netherlands; there is also a region known as (the) Hague in France. The Hague ( Dutch: Den Haag or officially 's-Gravenhage is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the and elsewhere in a state of poverty which hampered his power to serve Charles, but which the latter did nothing to relieve.

He returned to England at the RestorationRestoration can be one of several things, depending on context: In history, a restoration is an historical episode under which a previous government of an area is reinstated. In the History of England the term Restoration has a specific meaning in as much; but although Charles had formally appointed him secretary of state in 1654Events April 5 Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. June 3 Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims June 6 Charles X succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the for, this office was now conferred on another, and Nicholas 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.

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.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica