summoned personally to appear at the House of Lords and a Committee chosen to examine the Grounds and Reasons of his undertaking that Design but my Lord shewed them his Commission and that it was done in obedience to His Majesties Commands and so was cleared of that Action Not long after my Lord obtained the freedom from His Majesty to retire again to his Countrey-Life which he did with much alacrity He had not remained many months there but His Majesty was forced by the fury of the said Parliament to repair in Person to York and to send the Queen beyond the Seas for her safety No sooner was His Majesty arrived at York but he sent his Gommands to my Lord to come thither to him which according to his wonted custom and loyalty he readily obeyed and after a few days spent there in Consultation His Majesty was pleased to Command him to Newcastle upon Tyne to take upon him the Government of that Town and the four Counties next adjoining that is to say Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and the Bishoprick of Durham which my Lord did accordingly although he wanted Men Money and Ammunition for the performance of that design for when he came thither he neither found any Military provision considerable for the undertaking that work nor generally any great encouragement from the people in those parts more then what his own interest created in them Nevertheless he thought it his duty rather to hazard all then to neglect the Commands of His Soveraign and resolved to shew his Fidelity by nobly setting all at stake as he did though he well knew how to have secured himself as too many others did either by Neutrality or adhering to the Rebellious Party but his Honour and Loyalty was too great to be stained with such foul adherencies As soon as my Lord came to Newcastle in the first place he sent for all his Tenants and Friends in those parts and presently raised a Troop of Horse consisting of 120. and a Regiment of Foot and put them under Command and upon duty and exercise in the Town of Newcastle and with this small beginning took the Government of that place upon him where with the assistance of the Towns-men particularly the Mayor whom by the power of his Forces he continued Mayor for the year following he being a person of much trust and fidelity as he approved himself and the rest of his Brethren within few days he fortified the Town and raised men daily and put a Garrison of Soldiers into Tinmouth Castle standing upon the River Tyne betwixt Newcastle and the Sea to secure that Port and armed the Soldiers as well as he could And thus he stood upon his Guard and continued them upon Duty playing his weak Game with much Prudence and giving the Town and Country very great satisfaction by his noble and honourable Deportment In the mean time there happend a great mutiny of the Trainband Souldiers of the Bishoprick at Durham so that my Lord was forced to remove thither in Person attended with some forces to appease them where at his arrival I mention it by the way and as a merry passage a jovial Fellow used this expression That he liked my Lord very well but not his Company meaning his Soldiers After my Lord had reduced them to their obedience and duty he took great care of the Church Government in the said Bishoprick as he did no less in all other places committed to his Care and Protection well knowing that Schism and Faction in Religion is the Mother of all or most Rebellions Wars and Disturbances in a State or Government and constituted that Learned and Eminent Divine the then Dean of Peterborough now Lord-Bishop of Durham to view all sermons that were to be Preached and suffer nothing in them that in the least reflected against His Majesties Person and Government but to put forth and add whatsoever he thought convenient and punish those that should trespass against it In which that worthy Person used so much care and industry that never the Church could be more happily govern'd then it was at that present Some short time after my Lord received from Her Majesty the Queen out of Holland a small supply of Money viz. a little barrel of Ducatoons which amounted to about 500 l. Sterling which my Lord distributed amongst the Officers of his new raised Army to encourage them the better in their service as also some Armes the most part whereof were consigned to his late Majesty and those that were ordered to be conveyed to his Majesty were sent accordingly conducted by that onely Troop of Horse which my Lord had newly raised with orders to return again to him but it seems His Majesty liked the Troop so well that he was pleased to command their stay to recruit his own Army About the same time the King of Denmark was likewise pleased to send His Majesty a Ship which arrived at Newcastle laden with some Ammunition Armes Regiment Pieces and Danish Clubs which my Lord kept for the furnishing of some Forces which he intended to raise for His Majesties service for he perceiving the flames increase more and more in both the Houses of Parliament then sitting at Westminster against his Majesties Person and Government upon Consultation with his Friends and Allies and the interest he had in those Northern parts took a resolution to raise an Army for His Majesties service and by an express acquainted His Majesty with his design who was so well pleased with it that he sent him Commissions for that purpose to constitute him General of all the Forces raised and to be raised in all the parts of the Kingdom Trent-North and moreover in the several Counties of Lincoln Nottingham Derby Lancashire Cheshire Leicester Rutland Cambridg Huntington Norfolk Suffolk and Essex and Commander in Chief for the same as also to impower and authorize him to confer the honour of Knighthood upon such Persons as he should conceive deserved it and to coin Money and Print whensoever he saw occasion for it Which as it was not onely a great Honour but a great Trust and Power so he used it with much discretion and wisdom onely in such occurrencies where he found it tending to the advancement of His Majesties Service and conferr'd the honour of Knighthood sparingly and but on such persons whose Valiant and Loyal Actions did justly deserve it so that he Knighted in all to the number of Twelve Within a short time my Lord formed an Army of 8000 Foot Horse and Dragoons and put them into a condition to march in the beginning of November 1642. No sooner was this effected but the Insurrection grew high in York-Shire in so much that most of His Majesties good subjects of that County as well the Nobility as Gentry were forced for the preservation of their persons to retire to the City of York a walled Town but of no great strength and hearing that my Lord had not onely kept
his Friends to try what means he could procure for his subsistance but though he used all the industry and endeavour he could yet he effected but little by reason every body was so affraid of the Parliament that they durst not relieve Him who was counted a Traitor for his Honest and Loyal service to his King and Country Not long after My Lord had profers made him of some Rich Matches in England for his two Sons whom therefore he sent thither with one Mr. Loving hoping by that means to provide both for them and himself but they being arrived there out of some reasons best known to them declared their unwillingness to Marry as yet continuing nevertheless in England and living as well as they could Some two years after my Lord's Marriage when he had prevailed so far with his Creditors that they began to trust him anew the first thing he did was that he removed out of those Lodgings in Paris where he had been necessitated to live hitherto to a House which he hired for himself and his Family and furnished it as well as his new gotten Credit would permit and withal resolving for his own recreation and divertisement in his banished condition to exercise the Art of Mannage which he is a great lover and Master of bought a Barbary-horse for that purpose which cost him 200 Pistols and soon after another Barbary-horse from the Lord Crofts for which he was to pay him 100 l. when he returned into England About this time there was a Council call'd at St. Germain in which were present besides My Lord Her Majesty the now Queen Mother of England His Highness the Prince our now gracious King His Cousin Prince Rupert the Marquess of Worcester the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond the Lord Iermyn now Earl of St. Albans and several others where after several debates concerning the then present condition of His Majesty King Charles the First my Lord delivered his sentiment that he could perceive no other probability of procuring Forces for His Majesty but an assistance of the Scots But Her Majesty was pleased to answer my Lord That he was too quick Not long after When my Lord had begun to settle himsef in his mentioned new house His gracious Master the Prince having taken a resolution to go into Holland upon some designs Her Majesty the Queen Mother desired my Lord to follow him promising to engage for his debts which hitherto he had contracted at Paris and commanding Her Controller and Treasurer to be bound for them in Her behalf which they did although the Creditors would not content themselves until my Lord had joined his word to theirs So great and generous was the bounty and favour of Her Majesty to my Lord considering she had already given him heretofore near upon 2000 l. Sterling even at that time when Her Majesty stood most in need of it My Lord after his Highness the Prince was gone being ready to execute Her Majesties Commands in following Him and preparing for his Journey wanted the chief thing which was Money and having much endeavoured for it at last had the good Fortune to obtain upon Credit three or four hundred pounds sterl With which Sum he set out of Paris in the same Equipage he entred viz. One Coach which he had newly caused to be made wherein were the Lord Widdrington my Lord's Brother Sir Charles Cavendish Mr. Loving my Waiting-Maid and some others whereof the two later were then returned out of England one little Chariot that would onely hold my Lord and my self and three Waggons besides an indifferent number of Servants on Horse-back That day when we left Paris the Creditors coming to take their Farwell of my Lord expressed so great a love and kindness for him accompanied vvith so many hearty Prayers and Wishes that he could not but prosper on his Journey Being come into the King of Spain's Dominions my Lord found a very Noble Reception At Cambray the Governour vvas so civil that my Lord coming to that place somevvhat late and vvhen it vvas dark he commanded some Lights and Torches to meet my Lord and conduct him to his Lodgings He offer'd my Lord the Keys of the City and desir'd him to give the Word that night and moreover invited him to an Entertainment which he had made for him of purpose but it being late my Lord tyred with his Journey excused himself as civilly as he could the Governour notwithstanding being pleased to send all manner of Provisions to my Lords Lodgings and charging our Landlord to take no pay for any thing we had Which extraordinary Civilities shewed that he was a Right Noble Spaniard The next morning early my Lord went on his Journey and was very civilly used in every place of His Majesty of Spain's Dominions where he arrived At last coming to Antwerp He took water to Rotterdam which Town he chose for his residing place during the time of his stay in Holland and sent thither to a Friend of his a Gentleman of Quality to provide him some Lodgings which he did and procured them at the house of one Mrs. Banaum Widow to an English Merchant who had always been very Loyal to His Majesty the King of England and serviceable to His Majesties faithful Subjects in whatsoever lay in his Power My Lord being come to Rotterdam was informed that His Highness the Prince now our Gracious King was gone to Sea Wherefore he resolved to follow him and for that purpose hired a Boat and victual'd it but since no body knew whither His Highness was gone and I being unwilling that my Lord should venture upon so uncertain a Voyage and as the Proverb is Seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay he desisted from that design The Lord Widdrington nevertheless and Sir Will. Throckmorton being resolved to find out the Prince but having by a storm been driven towards the Coast of Scotland and endangered their lives they returned without obtaining their aim After some little time my Lord having notice that the Prince was arrived at the Hague he went to wait on His Highness which he also did afterwards at several times so long as His Highness continued there expecting some opportunity where he might be able to shew his readiness to serve His King and Countrey as certainly there was no little hopes for it for first it was believed that the English Fleet would come and render it self into the obedience of the Prince next it was reported that the Duke of Hamilton was going out of Scotland with a great Army into England to the assistance of His Majesty and that His Majesty had then some party at Colchester but it pleased God that none of these proved effectual For the Fleet did not come in the Duke of Hamilton's Army was destroyed and Colchester was taken by the Enemy where my dear Brother Sir Charles Lucas and his dear Friend Sir George Lile were most inhumanly murther'd and shot to death they
the Duke of Oldenburg and the Prince of East-Friesland did my Lord the Honour and presented him with Horses of their own breed One time it happen'd that His Highness Dom Iohn d' Austria who was then Governour of those Provinces came to Antwerp and stayed there some few days and then almost all his Court waited on my Lord so that one day I reckoned about seventeen Coaches in which were all Persons of Quality who came in the morning of purpose to see my Lord's Mannage My Lord receiving so great an honour thought it sit to shew his respect and civility to them and to ride some of his Horses himself which otherwise he never did but for his own excercise and delight Amongst the rest of those great and noble Persons there were two of our Nation viz. the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond and the Earl of Bristol but Dom Iohn was not there in Person excusing himself afterwards to my Lord when my Lord waited on him that the multiplicity of his weighty affairs had hindred his coming thither which my Lord accounted as a very high honour and favour from so great a Prince and conceiving it his duty to wait on his Highness but being unknown to him the Earl of Bristol who had acquaintance with him did my Lord the favour and upon his request presented him to his Highness which favour of the said Earl my Lord highly resented Dom ` Iohn received my Lord with all kindness and respect for although there were many great and noble Persons that waited on him in an out room yet so soon as his Highness heard of my Lord's and the Earl of Bristol's being there he was pleased to admit them before all the rest My Lord after he had passed his Complements told His Highness That he found himself bound in all duty to make his humble acknowledgments for the Favour he received from His Catholick Majesty for permitting and suffering him a banished man to live in His Dominions and under the Government of His Highness whereupon Dom Iohn ask'd my Lord whether he wanted any thing and whether he liv'd peaceably without any molestation or disturbance My Lord answer'd That he lived as much to his own content as a banish'd man could do and received more respect and civility from that City then he could have expected for which he returned his most humble thanks to his Catholick Majesty and His Highness After some short Discourse my Lord took his leave of Dom Iohn Several of the Spaniards advising him to go into Spain and assuring him of His Catholick Majesties Kindness and Favour but my Lord being engaged in the City of Antwerp and besides in years and wanting means for so long and chargeable a voyage was not able to embrace their motions and surely he was so well pleased with the great Civilities he received from that City that then he was resolved to chuse no other residing place all the time of his banishment but that he being not onely credited there for all manner of Provisions and Necessaries for his subsistance but also free both from ordinary and extraordinary Taxes and from paying Excise which was a great favour and obligation to my Lord. After His Highness Dom Iohn had left the Government of those Provinces the Marquess of Caracena succeeded in his place who having a great desire to see my Lord ride in the Mannage entreated a Gentleman of the City that was acquainted with my Lord to beg that favour of him My Lord having not been at that Exercise six weeks or two months by reason of some sickness that made him unfit for it civilly begg'd his excuse but he was so much importuned by the said Gentleman that at last he granted his Request and rid one or two Horses in presence of the said Marquess of Caracena and the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond who often used to honour my Lord with his Company The said Marquess of Caracena seem'd to take much pleasure and satisfaction in it and highly complemented my Lord and certainly I have observed That Noble and Meritorious persons take great delight in honouring each other But not onely strangers but His Majesty Himself our now Gracious Soveraign was pleased to see my Lord ride and one time did ride Himself He being an Excellent Master of that Art and instructed by my Lord who had the Honour to set Him first on a Horse of Mannage when he was His Governour where His Majesties Capacity was such that being but Ten years of Age he would ride leaping Horses and such as would overthrow others and mannage them with the greatest Skill and Dexterity to the admiration of all that beheld Him Nor was this the onely Honour my Lord received from His Majesty but His Majesty and all the Royal Race that is to say Her Highness the then Princess Royal His Highness the Duke of York with His Brother the Duke of Glocester except the Princesse Henrietta now Duchess of Orleans being met one time in Antwerp were pleased to honour my Lord with their Presence and accept of a small Entertainment at his House such as his present Condition was able to afford them And some other time His Majesty passing through the City was pleased to accept of a private Dinner at my Lord's House after which I receiving that gracious Favour from His Majesty that he was pleased to see me he did merrily and in jest tell me That he perceived my Lord's Credit could procure better Meat then His own Again some other time upon a merry Challenge playing a Game at Butts with my Lord when my Lord had the better of Him What said He my Lord have you invited me to play the Rook with me Although their Stakes were not at all considerable but onely for Pastime These passages I mention onely to declare my Lord's happiness in his miseries which he received by the honour and kindness not onely of foreign Princes but of his own Master and Gracious Soveraign I will not speak now of the good esteem and repute he had by his late Majesty King Charles the First and Her Majesty the now Queen-Mother who always held and found him a very loyal and faithful Subject although Fortune was pleased to oppose him in the height of his endeavours for his onely and chief intention was to hinder His Majesties Enemies from executing that cruel design which they had upon their gracious and merciful King In which he tried his uttermost power in so much that I have heard him say out of a passionate Zeal and Loyalty That he would willingly sacrifice himself and all his Posterity for the sake of his Majesty and the Royal Race Nor did he ever repine either at his losses or sufferings but rejoyced rather that he was able to suffer for His King and Countrey His Army was the onely Army that was able to uphold His Majesties Power which so long as it was Victorious it preserved both His Majesties Person and
chiefly it appears by the rate as my Lords Estate is let at present there being several of the mentioned Lands that are let at a higher rate now then they were surveighed nor are they all valued in the mentioned particular according to the surveigh but many of them which were not surveighed are accounted according to the rate they are let at this present The Loss of my Lords Estate in plain Rents as also upon ordinary Use and Use upon Use is as followeth The Annual Rent of My Lords Lands viz. 22393 l. 10 s. 1 d. being lost for the space of 18 years which was the time of his acting in the Wars and of his Banishment without any benefit to him reckoned without any Interest amounts to 403083 l. But being accounted with the ordinary Use at Six in the Hundred and Use upon Use for the mentioned space of 18 Years it amounts to 733579 l. But some perhaps will say That if My Lord had enjoyed his Estate he would have spent it at least so much as to maintain himself according to his degree and quality I answer That it is very improbable My Lord should have spent all his Estate if he had enjoyed it he being a man of great Wisdom and Prudence knowing well how to spend and how to manage for though he lived nobly before the time of the Wars yet not beyond the Compass of his Estate nay so far he would have been from spending his Estate that no doubt but he would have increast it to a vast value as he did before the Wars where notwithstanding his Hospitality and noble House-keeping his charges of Building came to about 31000 l the portion of his second Daughter which was 12000 l the noble entertainments he gave King Charles the First one whereof came to almost 15000 l. another to above 4000 l and a third to 1700 l. as hereafter shall be mentioned and his great expences during the time of his being Governour to His Majesty that now is he yet encreased his Estate to the value of 100000 l which is 5000 per annum when it was by so much less But if any one will reckon the charges of his House-keeping during the time of his Exile and when he had not the enjoyment of his Estate he may substract the sum accounted for the payment of his debts contracted in the time of his Banishment which went to the maintenance of himself and his Family or in lieu thereof considering that I do not account all My Lords losses but onely those that are certainly known he may compare it with the loss of his personal Estate whereof I shall make some mention anon and he 'll find that I do not heighten my Lords Losses but rather diminish them for surely the losses of his personal Estate and those I account not will counterballance the charges of his House-keeping if not exceed them Again others will say That there was much Land sold in the time of My Lords Banishment by his Sons and Feoffees in Trust. I answer First That whatsoever was sold was first bought of the Rebellious Power Next although they sold some Lands yet My Lord knew nothing of it neither did he receive a penny worth for himself neither of what they purchased nor sold all the time of his Banishment till his return And thus much of the loss of My Lords Estate in Rents Concerning the loss of his Parks and Woods as much as is generally known for I do not reckon particular Trees cut down in several of his Woods yet standing 't is as follows 1. Clipston-Park and Woods cut down to the value of 20000 l. 2. Kirkby-Woods for which my Lord was formerly proferr'd 10000 l. 3. Woods cut down in Derbyshire 8000 l. 4. Red-lodg-Wood Rome-wood and others near Welbeck 4000 l. 5. Woods cut down in Stafford-shire 1000 l. 6. Woods cut down in York-shire 1000 l. 7. Woods cut down in Northumberland 1500 l. The Total 45000 l. The Lands which My Lord hath lost in present posession are 2015 l. per annum which at 20 years purchase come to 40300 l. and those which he hath lost in Reversion are 3214 l. per annum which at 16 years purchase amount to the value of 51424 l. The Lands which my Lord since his return has sold for the payment of some of his debts occasioned by the Wars for I do not reckon those he sold to buy others come to the value of 56000 l. to which out of his yearly revenue he has added 10000 l. more which is in all 66000 l. Lastly The Composition of his Brothers Estate was 5000 l. and the loss of it for eight years comes to 16000 l. All which if summ'd up together amounts to 941303 l. These are the accountable losses which My Dear Lord and Husband has suffered by the late Civil Wars and his Loyalty to his King and Country Concerning the loss of his personal Estate since as I often mentioned it cannot be exactly known I shall not endeavour to set down the Particulars thereof onely in General give you a Note of what partly they are 1. The pulling down of several of his dwelling or manor-Mannor-houses 2. The disfurnishing of them of which the Furniture at Bolsover and Welbeck was very noble and rich Out of his london-London-house at Clarken-well there were taken amongst other Goods suits of Linnen viz. Table-Cloths Sideboard-cloths Napkins c. whereof one suit cost 160 l. they being bought for an Entertainment which My Lord made for Their Majesties King Charles the First and the Queen at Bolsover-Castle And of 150 Suits of Hangings of all sorts in all his Houses there were not above 10 or 12 saved Of Silver-plate My Lord had so much as came to the value of 3800 l. besides several Curiosities of Cabinets Cups and other things which after My Lord was gone out of England were taken out of his Mannor house Welbeck by a Garison of the Kings Party that lay therein whereof he recovered onely 1100 l. which Money was sent him beyond the Seas the rest was lost As for Pewter Brass Bedding Linnen and other Houshold-stuff there was nothing else left but some few old Feather-beds and those all spoiled and fit for no use 3. My Lord's Stock of Corn Cattel c. was very great before the Warrs by reason of the largeness and capacity of those grounds and the great number of Granges he kept for his own use as for example Barlow Carkholston Gleadthorp Welbeck and several more which were all well manured and stockt But all this stock was lost besides his Race of Horses in his Grounds Grange-Horses Hackny-Horses Mannage-Horses Coach-Horses and others he kept for his use To these Losses I may well and justly join the charges which my Lord hath been put to since his return into England by reason they were caused by the ruines of the said Warrs whereof I reckon 1. His Law-suits which have been very chargeable to him more then advantagious 2. The
west part of York-shire viz. Hallifax Bradford Leeds Wakefield c. where he remained some time to recruit and enlarge his Army which was much lessened by erecting of Garisons and to keep those parts in order and obedience to His Majesty And after he had thus ordered his Affairs He was enabled to give Protection to those parts of the Country that mere most willing to embrace it and quarter'd his Army for a time in such places which he had reduced Tadcaster which stood upon a Pass he made a Garison or rather a strong Quarter and put also a Garison into Pomfret Castle not above eight Miles distant from Tadcaster which commanded that Town and a great part of the Country During the time that his Army remained at Pomfret My Lord setled a Garison at Newark in Nottingham-shire standing upon the River Trent a very considerable pass which kept the greatest part of Nottingham-shire and part of Lincoln-shire in obedience and after that he returned in the beginning of Ianuary 1642 back to York with an intention to supply Himself with some Ammunition which He had ordered to be brought from Newcastle A Convoy of Horse that were imployed to conduct it from thence under the Command of the Lieutenant General of the Army the Lord Ethyn was by the Enemy at a pass called Yarum-bridg in York-shire fiercely encountred in which encounter My Lord's Forces totally routed them slew many and took many Prisoners and most of their Horse Colours consisting of Seventeen Cornets and so march'd on to York with their Ammunition without any other Interruption My Lord after he had received this Ammunition put his Army into a condition to march and having intelligence that the Queen was at Sea with intention to land in some part of the Eastriding of York-shire he directed his March in February 1642 into those parts to be ready to attend Her Majesties landing who was then daily expected from Holland Within a short time after it had pleased God to protect Her Majesty both from the fury of Wind and Waves there being for several days such a Tempest at Sea that Her Majesty with all her Attendance was in danger to be cast away every minute as also from the fury of the Rebels which had the whole Naval Power of the Kingdom then in their Hands she arrived safely at a small Port in the Eastriding of York-shire called Burlington Key where Her Majesty was no sooner landed but the Enemy at Sea made continual shot against her Ships in the Port which reached not onely Her Majesties landing but even the House where she lay though without the least hurt to any so that she her self and her Attendants were forced to leave the same and to seek Protection from a Hill near that place under which they retired and all that while it was observed that Her Majesty shewed as much Courage as ever any person could do for Her undaunted and Generous spirit was like her Royal Birth deriving it self from that unparrallell'd King Her Father whose Heroick Actions will be in perpetual Memory whilest the World hath a being My Lord finding Her Majesty in this condition drew his Army near the place where she was ready to attend and protect Her Majesties Person who was pleased to take a view of the Army as it was drawn up in order and immediately after which was in March 1643 took Her journey towards York whither the whole Army conducted Her Majesty and brought her safe into the City About this time Her Majesty having some present occasion for Money My Lord presented Her with 3000 l. Sterling which she graciously accepted of and having spent some time there in Consultation about the present affairs she was pleased to send some Armes and Ammunition to the King who was then in Oxford to which end my Lord ordered a Party consisting of 1500 well Commanded to conduct the same with whom the Lord Percy who then had waited upon Her Majesty from the King returned to Oxford which Party His Majesty was pleased to keep with him for his own Service Not long after My Lord who always endeavoured to win any place or persons by fair means rather then by using of force reduced to His Majesties obedience a strong Fort and Castle upon the Sea and a very good Haven call'd Scarborough-Castle perswading the Governour thereof who heretofore had opposed his Forces at Yarum-bridg with such rational and convincible Arguments that he willingly rendred himself and all the Garison under His Majesties Devotion By which prudent Action My Lord highly advanced His Majesties Interest for by that means the Enemy was much annoyed and prejudiced at Sea and a great part in the East-riding of York-shire kept in due obedience After this My Lord having received Intelligence that the Enemies General of the Horse had designed to march with a Party from Cawood Castle whither they were fled from Tadcaster as before is mentioned to some Garisons which they had in the West of York-shire presently order'd a party of Horse Commanded by the General of the Horse the Lord George Goring to attend the Enemy in their March who overtook them on a Moor call'd Seacroft-Moor and fell upon their Rear which caused the Enemy to draw up their Forces into a Body to whom they gave a Total rout although their number was much greater and took about 800 Prisoners and 10 or 12 Colours of Horse besides many that were slain in the charge which Prisoners were brought to York about 10 or 12 miles distant from that same place Immediately after in pursuit of that Victory My Lord sent a considerable Party into the West of York-shire where they met with about 2000 of the Enemies Forces taken out of their several Garisons in those parts to execute some design upon a Moor called Tankerly-Moor and there fought them and routed them many were slain and some taken Prisoners Not long after the Remainder of the Army that were left at York marched to Leeds in the West of York-shire and from thence to Wakefield being both the Enemies Quarters to reduce and settle that part of the Country My Lord having possessed himself of the Town of Wakefield it being large and of great compass and able to make a strong quarter order'd it accordingly and receiving Intelligence that in two Market-Towns Southwest from Wakefield viz. Rotheram and Sheffield the Enemy was very busie to raise Forces against his Majesty and had fortified them both about four miles distant from each other hoping thereby to give protection and encouragement to all those parts of the Country which were populous rich and rebellious he thought it necessary to use his best endeavours to blast those their wicked designs in the bud and thereupon took a resolution in April 1643 to march with part of his Army from Wakefield into the mentioned parts attended with a convenient Train of Artillery and Ammunition leaving the greatest part of it at Wakefield with the remainder of
Debts like Thunder-bolts by which he was in danger of being utterly undone had not Patience and Prudence together with Heavens Blessings saved him from that threatning Ruine 5. He never repined at his Losses and Sufferings because he lost and suffered for his King and Countrey nay so far was he from that that I have heard him say If the same Warrs should happen again and he was sure to lose both his life and all he had lest him yet he would most willingly sacrifice it for His Majesties Service 6. He never connived or conspired with the Enemy neither directly nor indirectly for though some Person of Quality being sent in the late Wars to him into the North from His late Majesty who was then at Oxford with some Message did withal in private acquaint him that some of the Nobility that were with the King desired him to side with them against His Majesty alledging that if His Majesty should become an absolute Conqueror both himself and the rest of the Nobility would lose all their Rights and Priviledges yet he was so far from consenting to it that he returned him this answer namely That he entred into actions of War for no other end but for the service of His King and Master and to keep up His Majesties Rights and Prerogatives for which he was resolved to venture both his Life Posterity and Estate for certainly said he the Nobility cannot fall if the King be Victorious nor can they keep up their Dignities if the King be overcome This Message was delivered by word of mouth but none of their names mentioned so that it is not certainly known whether it was a real truth or not more probable it was that they intended to sound my Lord or to make if possible more division for certainly not all that pretended to be for the King were His Friends and I my self remember very well when I was with Her Hajesty the now Queen-Mother in Oxford although I was too young to perceive their intrigues yet I was old enough to observe that there were great Factions both amongst the Courtiers and Soldiers But my Lords Loyalty was such that he kept always faithful and true to His Majesty and could by no means be brought to side with the Rebellious Party or to juggle and mind his own Interest more then his Majesties Service and this was the cause that he had as great private Enemies at Court as he had publick Enemies in the Field who sought as much his ruine and destruction privately and â—ould cast aspersions upon his Loyalty and Duty as theâ—â— did publickly oppose him In short that it may appear the better what loyal and faithful services my Lord has done both for His late Majesty King Charles the First and His now Gracious Master King Charles the Second I have thought fit to subjoin both Their Majesties Commendations which they were pleased to give him when for his Great and Loyal Services they confer'd upon him the Titles and Dignities of Marquess and Duke of Newcastle A Copy of the Preamble of My Lord's Patent for Marquess Englished Rex c. Salutem WHereas it appears to Us That William Earl of Newcastle upon Tyne besides his most Eminent Birth and splendid Alliances hath equalled all those Titles with which he is adorned by Desert and hath also wonne them by Virtue Industry Prudence and a stedfast Faith Whilest with dangers and expences gathering together Soldiers Armes and all other War-like Habiliments and applying them as well in Our Affairs as most plentifully sending them to Us having fore-thought of Our Dignity and security he was ready with Us in all Actions in Yorkshire and governed the Town of Newcastle and Castle in the mouth of Tyne at the time of that fatal Revolt of the People who were got together and with a Bond of his Friends did opportunely seize that Port and settled it a Garison bringing Armes to Us then Our onely relief In which Service so strongly going on which was of grand moment to our affairs We do gratefully remember him still to have stood to Afterwards having Mustered together a good Army Our self being gone else-where the Rebels now enjoying almost all York-shire and the chiefest Fortress of all the Country now appearing to have scarce refuge or safety for him against the swelling Rebels the whole Country then desiring and praying for his coming that he might timely relieve them in their desperate condition And leading his said Army in the midst of Winter gave the Rebels Battel in his passage vanquish'd them and put them to flight and took from them several Garisons and places of Refuge and restored Health to the Subjects and by his many Victories Peace and Security to the Countryes Witness those places made Noble by the death and flight of the Rebels in Lincoln-shire Gainsborough and Lincoln in Derby-shire Chesterfield but in York-shire Peirce-bridge Seacroft Tankerly Tadcaster Sheffield Rotheram Yarum Beverly Cawood Selby Halifax Leeds and above all Bradford where when the Yorkshire and Lancashire Rebels were united and Battel joined with them when Our Army as well by the great numbers of the Rebels as much more the badness of Our ground was so prest upon that the Soldiers now seemed to think of flying He their General with a full Carier commanding two Troops to follow him broke into the very rage of the Battel and with so much violence fell upon the right Wing of those Rebels That those who were but now certain of Victory turn'd their backs and fled from the Conqueror who by his Wisdom Virtue and his own Hand brought death and flight to the Rebels Victory and Glory to Himself Plunder to the Soldiery and 22 great Guns and many Ensigns to Us. Nor was there before this wanting to so much Virtue equal Felicity for Our most beloved Consort after a dismal Tempest coming from Holland being drove ashore at Burlington and undergoing a more grievous danger by the excursions of the Rebels then the tossing and tumbling of the Sea He having heard of it speedily goes to Her with his Army and dutifully receiveth Her in safety brings Her and with all security conducts Her to Us at Oxford Whereas therefore the aforesaid Earl hath raised so many Monuments of His Virtue and Fidelity towards Us Our Queen Children and Our Kingdom when also he doth at this time establish with safety and with His Power defend the Nothern parts of Our Kingdom against the Rebels when lastly nothing more concerns Mankind and Princes and nothing can be more just then that he may receive for his Deeds a Reward suitable to his name which requires that he who defends the Borders should be created by Us Governour of Marquess of the Borderers Know therefore c. A Copy of the Preamble of My Lord's Patent for DUKE Englished Rex c. Salutem WHereas Our most beloved and faithful Cousin and Counsellor William Earl and Marquess of Newcastle upon Tyne c. worthy by