1638. LORD ARUNDEL in a letter to his very good lord and cousin, Lord Clifford at Skipton, says of our three poor northern shires, "it will be fitter to fit them with such light arms as they have been accustomed to use and bear, than load them with heavier, which mingled with some other, may stand in good stead, and archery to be kept on foot."

Dr. WHITAKER asks if this is not the latest instance of the use or intended use of archery in an English army ?-Ibid. p. 299.

Or the Queen mother ECHARD says, "that the English hated her, or suspected her, for her own sake, for her Church's, for her country's, and for her daughters.'"

WHEN the court of wards was taken

away, 1646, I am sorry to find Sir B. Rudyard, who had been surveyor of that court, indemnified with lands to the value of 6000 from the Earl of Worcester's estate. That the Lord Say, as being master, should have £10,000 worth from the same estate was only in character, and could not stain him.-Wood's Athenæ quoted, vol. 2, p. 237.

“HENRY BARD, son of the vicar of Stains, of Eton and King's, a great Oriental Traveller, was one of the first who appeared in arms at York. The Queen soon procured him a colonel's commission. He was afterwards made governor of Cambden House in Gloucestershire, which he quitted and laid in ashes when it was no longer tenable. He was also for some time governor of Worcester. Knighted 1643, soon after created a baronet, and in 1645, made baron of Bromley and viscount Bellamont in the kingdom of Ireland. Being afterwards taken prisoner, he petitioned to be released, with a promise that he would appear no more in arms, but quit the land. ‘Hitherto' said he, 'I have only pursued my fortune, and have fought neither for your religion, nor for your laws, but to maintain the rights of an injured prince, whom Providence seems now disposed to abandon to some hard fate, while religion is entirely lost, and the laws become a mouse trap.' This merry and frank declaration purchased him his freedom, with permission to retire into Flanders. After the King's murder Charles II. sent him to Persia in hopes of obtaining money for the recovery of his crown, the King of Persia being under some obligations to England, upon account of the assistance our merchant

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DODD (vol. 3, p. 58,) affirms that "at Drogheda all were put to the sword, together with the inhabitants, women and children, only about thirty persons escaping, who with several hundreds of the Irish nation were shipped off to serve as slaves in the island of Barbadoes, as I have frequently heard the account from Captain Edmund Molyneux, one of that number who died at St. Germains, whither he followed the unfortunate king James II.

"As for Sir Arthur Ashton he had his brains dashed out with his wooden leg."

This agrees well with Ludlow. Had he gilt his wooden leg? Very likely I think.

This is the same Ashton who commanded at Reading.

THE person who was shot for surrendering Blechingdon House to Cromwell, was Col. Francis Windebank, the secretary's second son. "Some suppose that the supposed demerits of the father had no small influence over his persecutor."-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 59.

"I CANNOT," says BISHOP KENNET," but commend the piety of those gentlemen employed to inter the body of King Charles I. who taking a view of St. George's Chapel in Windsor, to find the most fit and honourable place of burial, they declined at first the tomb house built by Cardinal Wolsey, as supposing King Henry VIII. was

upon occasional discourse express some dislike of King Henry's proceeding in misemploying those vast revenues the suppressed abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses were endowed with."-Parochial Antiq. vol. 2, p. 51. Wood quoted.

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BAXTER held that notion "that the Papists were busy in furthering the work of schism and confusion. The Papists, he said, had begotten the Quakers, first pretending to strange revelations, visions and trances, such as commonly mentioned in the lives of their saints in the legends, and so you have here and there a Papist lurking to be the chief speaker among them; and those have fashioned many others to their turns, who yet know not their own fathers."

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"We know in the latter times of our confusion a project was carried on of destroying the ancient right of tithes, and converting that pious maintenance of the clergy into settled portions of money."KENNET'S Par. Antiq. vol. 2, p. 295.

THE Hampden family are said to have been settled upon the same estate before the conquest.-Hist. of Chilton.

"CHARLES was first brought before the High Court on a Saturday, the next day a fast was kept at Whitehall, where preached Joshua Sprigg, whose text was, 'He that sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:' then Mr. Foxley, whose text was, "Judge not, lest you be judged;' lastly, Hugh Peters, whose text was, I will bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in fetters of iron; and thus by their wicked application of the Word of God, they endeavoured to justify their most execrable murder of their lawful King."—Arbitrary Government displayed to the life, p. 37.

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THE five ministers ordered to administer spiritual help to him after his sentence, were Marshal, Nye, Caryl, Salway and Dell.-Ibid. p. 39.

"I CANNOT here forbear to mention Haselrig's bloody proposition, that six gentlemen of the best quality, royalists, might be put to death in revenge of Dorislaus,1 to deter men from the like attempt hereafter." -Ibid. p. 97.

"THE notorious and blasphemous wretch, pander and buffoon, Hugh Peters, chaplain in ordinary to two great potentates, Lucifer and Oliver Cromwell."

He is here said to have been expelled from Jesus College, Cambridge, for his lascivious life, and to have then turned player in Shakespere's company, usually acting the jester or fool.-Ibid. p. 98.

"THE money drained away from the Royalists, and the vast sums raised on the people by taxes, assessments and excise, coming into the soldiers' pockets, they set it going into motion; which with the vast sums raised on the sale of the King's, Queen's, Princes', Bishops' and Delinquents' lands, made a flood of money for the present, and nothing of want then appeared, which was the effect rather of the tyrant's rapacity than good management. For when this glut began to fall again into the private sinks of rich men, who lived by the use of money; and others who had any great sums fallen to their shares, fearing the iniquities of the times, and knowing no man could promise himself to be long master of his own, especially money, where the will of the tyrant was law, and whom to disoblige was fatal; they remitted vast sums for their security into the bank in Holland, making

1 See Clarendon. History of the Rebellion. Book xii. vol. 6, pp. 297. 421. He was an agent of the Parliament, killed at the Hague. J. W. W.

"In the street called the Murray Gate several bombs unburst, were lately found, deep sunk in the earth, 1782."-DOUGLAS'S East Coast of Scotland, p. 43.

"THE high altar at Aberdeen, a piece of the finest workmanship of any thing of the kind in Europe, was hewn to pieces in 1649, by order of the parish minister. The carpenter employed for this infamous purpose struck with the noble workmanship refused to lay a tool on it, till the more than gothic priest took the hatchet from his hand and struck the first blow."-Ibid. p. 185.

"I HAD it," says GEORGE KEITH, “from the mouth of an honest faithful man, that he heard John Livingston say in prayer, 'Lord, since Dunbar, thou hast spit in our face, and since that never looked over thy shoulder to us again.' This is he whom the author of the postscript calls that great man of God, and this prayer he had in a certain family in Aberdeen."-The Way Cast up, p. 59.

A COLLECTION of verses on Oliver's peace with the Dutch, 1654, was printed at Oxford, with this title Musarum Oxoniensium Ελαιοφορία. "Mr. Hollis," says the worthy biographer of that thoroughly bigotted cosmopolitan, " calls this a curiosity, and so indeed it is, as it contains so many oily compliments to Oliver, from an university which has not been remarkable in this last century for their veneration of his memory." And he goes on in a strain of commonplace insult not worth transcribing. He is quite stupid enough to have written in ignorance or forgetfulness of the fact that Oliver had purged Oxford, and filled it with his creatures when this volume was produced.

It is the height of impudence to accuse Oxford of having acted with time-serving policy in those days.

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THORESBY had two servants, the mother of one of whom, and the grandmother of the other were knights' daughters. He mentions it as an instance of the mutability of fortune; but doubtless it was one of many such instances produced by the civil wars and the extent of ruin which was thus brought on.

"In the ingenious Dr. Sampson's MSS." says THORESBY," is an account of Oliver Cromwell's being set upon when at Cambridge by two mastiffs, whereupon he set his back against a tree, and taking his head with both his hands, as if he would have flung it at them, frighted them away."

"MR. JOHN JACKSON, a good old Puritan, and one of the assembly of divines at Westminster, was yet so zealously affected for King Charles I. when he heard of his being brought before a pretended high court of justice, that he prayed earnestly that God would please to prevent that horrid act, which would be a perpetual shame to the nation, and a reproach to the Protestant religion; or at least would be pleased to remove him that he might not see that woeful day. His prayer was heard and answered as to himself-for he was buried the week before."-THORESBY, Appendix, p. 157.

"WILLIAM LISTER, ESQ. was slain at His son traTadcaster in the civil wars. velling through that town many years after was inquisitive after the place of his father's sepulchre. The sexton who was then making a grave in the quire, told him it was thereabouts. He stays for further satisfaction. Upon taking up the skull they found in it the bullet that had given the fatal wound. This mortifying and so unexpected object made such an impression upon gentleman, that he died upon it shortly after."—Ibid. p. 158.

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ANOTHER Ordinance for the contribution of the value of one meal a week.

"This having been voluntarily practised by many well affected persons, and found to be very useful (for raising auxiliaries) they have thought fit to add convenient power to that way of contribution, that so the burden may not rest alone upon the willing party. All therefore within the bills of mortality shall pay upon each Tuesday the value of one ordinary meal for themselves and families, to be assessed by the alderman, deputy, common council men and others appointed; in case of nonpayment distress to be made for double the value, and if no distress can be found, the person to be committed. This ordinance for three months, and not to extend to such as receive alms." -RUSHWORTH, vol. 5, p. 748.

April 6, 1644.

"AN ordinance that none shall sell any wares or fruits, nor work, nor travel, nor use, nor be present at any exercises, games, or pastimes, on the Lord's day. And that all May-poles (a heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness), be taken down."-Ibid, p. 749.

June, 1644.

“A DUNKIRK ship having been taken near Arundel, wherein there were found several Popish pictures, and particularly one curious large piece, (designed to be set up in St. Ann's church at Seville,) representing the story of Ursula (that went to Rome, as the legend hath it, with 11,000 virgins), and her husband Conanus, and their addresses to the Pope, &c. which picture of Conanus being fancied to be very much like the King, the piece was taken to represent the Queen, directing the King to surrender his sceptre to the Pope, and about this time publicly exposed at Westminster, and some pamphlets gave that interpretation of it. But others honestly explained

the true design of the painter."—Ibid. p. 714.

DECLARATION of General Massey, and Colonel-General Pointz, showing the true grounds and reasons that induced them to depart from the City, and for awhile from the kingdom.

"-Services begun by command of the state, grew first into suspicion, and afterwards into offence. It was a crime to do anything but what must be cried up by those who would have all things to dance according to the motions of their own sphere.

"We hold it safer wisdom to withdraw to our own friends, whom we have always found fast and entire to their first principles, than continue with those who like waves are beaten with every wind, and do take or receive counsel as their fears do prompt them. But not without this confession, that we acknowledge the General himself to be an excellent personage, and free from those violent distempers and heats of passion in which other men do delight and perish.

"We shall always labour to keep ourselves in that posture, both with heaven