joined the royal progress towards Wilton House in Somerset, and on 12 August visited Loseley Park where a timepiece inspired his poem, Uppon a Horologe of the Clock at Sir George More's at his Place of Loseley. In September 1603, he met Arbella Stuart at Woodstock Palace, and wrote two sonnets, one addressed to her, and the Upon a Horologe of the Clock at Loseley which contains a partial anagram of her name. Fowler sent the sonnets to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and wrote that Arbella was the "eighth wonder of the world" and "the phoenix of her sex". He wrote to Earl from Winchester on 11 October, with news of the death of Alexander Dicsone. On 26 May 1604 he wrote to Lord Cecil apologising for delays in expediting Anna of Denmark's business. He said suits and patents were "in the custody of the women" and he blamed one "Margarete" who usurped authority in the queen's name, perhaps meaning the Scottish servant Margaret Hartsyde. In July, at Greenwich Palace, he drew up the queen's warrant in support of founding a college or university at Ripon in Yorkshire, which was promoted by Cecily Sandys, widow of the Bishop Edwin Sandys, and supported by Bess of Hardwick. Noting seems to have resulted from this. In October 1604 he wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury from Hampton Court with court news and news of death of the son of the Earl of Dunbar, who he called "our great St George, the Lord of Berwick." Fowler wrote to Cecil in February 1605 mentioning their recent meeting at Woodstock Palace. Anne of Denmark had placed in his custody portraits of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia. They had been gifts to her from the Flemish ambassador, the Count of Arenberg, in September 1603. She was considering giving them to a friend in Scotland. Fowler thought they would be better at Cecil's house, Theobalds. In the mean time the pictures were to be displayed in the gallery at Somerset House. Fowler attended the royal progress in 1605 and was at Drayton, Lord Mordaunt's house in August. His older brother William Fowler, an Edinburgh merchant, died in 1606, and the poet was made a burgess of Edinburgh. The poet John Donne had some hopes of gaining a position in the queen's household by Fowler's means, and heard from a clerk of