WARWICK-RUSHWORTH. 161 regiment, went round about the ledge of five miles of Burrough-Hill, where his Ma- | narrow passage with musquets and other jesty's army still continued, to whom a weapons. Desborough with the general's commanded party of horse gave an alarm. By some prisoners taken, he understood that his Majesty was diverting himself with hunting, the soldiers in no good order, and many of their horses at grass, having no thoughts of the so near advance of the Parliamentarians. Yet the alarm was so quickly taken through all their quarters. that Fairfax's foot being somewhat behind, and night approaching, he did not then think fit to venture any further attempt: but being rather apprehensive they might visit his quarters, mounted about twelve that night, and rode about the horse and foot guards till four in the morning, where an odd adventure happened. Having his thoughts otherwise busied, he himself forgot the word, and was stopt at the first guard; whereupon declaring who he was, and requiring the soldier that stood sentinel to give it to him, the fellow refused, saying, he was to demand the word from all that Colonel Poyer, at Pembroke. then "THE man is certainly in two dispositions every day, in the morning sober and penitent, but in the afternoon drunk and full of plots. When he heareth news that pleaseth him, he puts forth bloody colours, and then he is for the King and Book of Common Prayer; but if that wind turn, he is for the oath and covenant, and then puts forth blue and white. He takes it very ill the King is in the Isle of Wight, and calls the general, King Thomas Fairfax, with other opprobrious language. He got a gentleman the other day, and prest him to tell him whether he was an Independent, or a Presbiter. The gentleman answered, neither, for he was a Protestant. Why so am I, quoth Poyer, therefore let us be merry. “IRETON made a soldierly and notable So in they went, and drunk so hard that neither was able to stir in four and twenty hours after. past him, but to give it to none; and if he advanced without it he would shoot him. And so made the general stay in the wet, till he sent for the captain of the guard to receive his commission to give the word. And in the end the soldier was rewarded for his duty and carefulness." defence."-SIR P. WARWICK. "IN Sir Marmaduke Langdale's wing which Cromwell soon routed, there were some trivial but pernicious disputes betwixt him and the commander of the Newark horse."-Ibid. Club-men. "WHEN Cromwell defeated about 4000 of them (1645) at Hambleton-hill, near Shrawton, (which had been an old Roman work, deeply trenched), they' shot briskly from the bank of the old work, and kept the "Fairfax says 'I am now preparing an arrow to send in a message unto his men, who I hope shortly will bring him out bound, and as many more as have run unto him, since the first summons.'"-Ibid. vol. 7, p. 1033-4. Wales. May, 1648. "MOST of the enemies have in their hats a blue and white riband, with this motto, 'we long to see our king.' The Countries are universally bent against the M 162 RUSHWORTH-THORESBY. Parliament; wherever forces come, they carry away their children, cattle, with what goods they can get, fly into the woods, leaving their houses empty; which how sad would it be to them, should we take the German way? Their smiths are all gone, their bellows cut by themselves before they went. If one would give forty shillings for a horse shoe, or a place to make it, it is not to be had. There is no possibility of ending this trouble, but by such a power, and such a way, as is lamentable to think."-Ibid. p. 1098. Colchester. "THE other night they roasted a whole horse at one of their courts of guard; the foot were very merry at it, but the troopers are discontented for the loss of their horses, not knowing how to get others; nor well liking the service of mowing with their new devised long sithes, which weapons are put into the hands of such as were troopers."Ibid. vol. 7, p. 1204. IN a house called the Red Hall, at Leeds,' because the first that was built of brick, (1628) by Thomas Medcalf, alderman of the city, is an apartment called the King's Chamber, where Charles is said to have lodged: "probably," says a note in Whitaker's edition of Thoresby, (p. 25) "while in the hands of the Scots and on his way from Newark to Newcastle, a maid servant entreated him to put on her clothes and escape, offering to conduct him in the dark out of the garden door into a back alley called Land's Lane, and thence to a friend's house, from whence he might make his way to France. The King declined this, but gave her a token (the garter says the story) by which his son might reward her good will, if it should never be in his own power. She married a man who was an Under Bailiff, and Charles II. in conse 1 See suprà; 1st series p. 532. J. W. W. quence made him Chief Bailiff in Yorkshire, and he afterwards built Crosby House in the Head Row." "WHEN I was at Marston, alias Hutton Wandsley," says THORESBY," Mr. Corlas, the Rector, shewed me the door that Bishop Moreton had caused to be made out of his chamber, 1602, when the great plague being at York, that excellent prelate, (then minister there) exercised the most heroical charity to the poorer part of the infected, who being turned out of the city had booths erected for them on Hob-Moor, whither he went to pray with and for them, and to make him the more acceptable, he usually carried a sack of provisions with him. But because none should run any hazard thereby but himself, he would not suffer any servant to attend him, but went from his study through this door to the stables, where he was his own groom."-Appendix, p. 148. DR. RICHARD MARCH, Vicar of Halifax. "The soldiers coming in to the house in search of him, and supposing he might where his wife was laid, and so frighted and be hid in bed, stabbed their swords into it, wounded her, that it threw her into labour and she expired almost as soon as delivered. The doctor fled, and a maid servant made her escape with the child in the night, with nothing but her shift on, carrying it in that condition fourteen miles in the dark, to a relation of the doctor's."-History of Halifax, p. 489. STRAFFORD-NICHOLS-CARTE-NALSON. 163 which and by which we, in this your garden of Ireland, smell the gracious flowers of your government, enjoy the felicity of your plantations, and feed our hearts with the satiety of present and hope of future improvement, so that no place, no degree, no sex over all this pleasant paradise, but is partaker of your comfortable influence. Even those choked up in the midst of the darkest prisons acknowledge the sunshine of your provident care, and receiving new life and relief from your hands, cry out, Long live our life, our relief, noble Wentworth."-Collect. Hib. vol. 2, p. 413. province of York is to that of Canterbury. | many provisions of state, regulating the Needs, forsooth, we must be a Church of disorders of human society, daily issuing ourselves, which is utterly lost unless the from your Solomon-like prescience; in Canons here differ, albeit not in substance, yet in some form from yours in England; and this crotchet put the good man into such an agony, as you cannot believe so learned a man should be troubled withal. But I quieted him by approving his writing to your lordship, and assuring him I should repose myself in whatever was assented by your grace; to whose wisdom indeed I wholly submit myself, being very ready to do therein as I shall receive directions from you. The truth is, I conceive, there are some Puritan correspondents of his, that infuse these necessities into his head, besides a popular disposition which inclines him to a desire of pleasing all, the sure way I think never to please a man's self. You will amongst the rest find a rare he had very little of self-interest in him." canon against the sword salve, which I-CARTE'S Ormonde, vol. 1, p. 56. EVELYN says, "I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, whose crimes coming under the cognizance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction. To such exorbitancy were things arrived.” THE mayor of Kilkenny, in an address delivered to Wentworth, 1636, eulogized him for "so many wholesome laws and statutes voted in the last parliament; so That letter was a forgery.-CARTE's Ormonde, vol. 1. p. 138. "WHATEVER affection he had for power, "If he could be said to lean on any side it was in favour of the poor."-Ibid. p. 86. "THEY," says Nalson (vol. 2, p. 1), “who will pull down the throne of Solomon, always first endeavour to remove and destroy the lions that support it." "WHEN he was made lord lieutenant of Ireland, he, by Laud's assistance, procured from his Majesty the restoring of all the impropriations which in that nation were then in the crown to the bishops and clergy; thereby rescuing the churchmen from those disadvantages which contempt and poverty in these declining ages of religion had reduced them to; and by proposing rewards to merit, virtue, learning and piety, encouraged men of parts to dedicate them "Let judges also remember, that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides; let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne; being circumspect, that they do not check or oppose any points of sovereignty."-BACON'S Essays. Of Judicature. J. W. W. 164 DIGBY-WARWICK-SOUTH-STRAFFORD. selves to those nobler studies, that, con- they would not let the wisest head among tenting themselves with those competent them stand upon its own shoulders."—Ibid. provisions, they might be enabled to resist p. 162. the temptations of applying themselves to the more gainful arts of secular professions." -NALSON, vol. 2, p. 4. DIGBY'S speech upon the attainder.Ibid. pp. 157, 864-5. CHARLES said to Dr. Sheldon (afterwards archbishop), "that if ever he was in a condition to perform his vows, it was his intention to do public penance for the injustice he had suffered to be done to Strafford."Ibid. p. 194. BRUTALITY at his execution.-Ibid. p. 163. JUxON's advice to Charles.-SOUTH, vol. 4, p. 26. In a letter to Sir John Jackson, 1624, he says, "being, I must confess, in my own nature a great lover and converser of hereditary good wills, such as have been amongst our nearest friends; and therefore I desire that as they live still in us otherwise, so Poems they may too in their affections.”—STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 25. STATE of the army under him in Ireland. Ibid. vol. 2, p. 537. "His memory was great, and he made it greater by confiding in it."-SIR P. WAR WICK. "He gave an early specimen of the roughness of his nature when in the eager pursuit of the House of Commons after the Duke of Buckingham, he advised or gave a counsel against another, which was afterwards taken up and pursued against himself. Thus pressing upon another man's case, he awakened his own fate. For when that house was in consultation how to frame the particular charge against that great duke, he advised to make a general one, and to accuse him of treason, and to let him afterwards get off as he could, which befell himself at last."-Ibid. p. 111 “BELIEVE me, I keep a narrower watch over myself than any of them can do, and I trust God shall so assist me with his grace, that where they think to surprize me, shame shall fall upon themselves. I much value not what men say, govern myself, am persuaded as little by opinion as most men: yet I could be content that dogs should rather fawn than snarl upon me; and sometimes to hear from a faithful wise friend, what judgement others have of me; for so I may come to hear of my errors, which I should be sure to amend with all possible speed and care." To Lord Cottington.— STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 163. "I AM happy to live in the noble memory of my lady; it is her ladyship's great goodness to have it so, else this bent and illfavoured brow of mine was never prosperous in the favour of ladies. Yet did they know how perfectly I do honour, and how much I value that excellent and gracious sex, I His good management of Ireland.-Ibid. am persuaded I should become a favourite p. 115. "RICHELIEU, hearing of his death, said, the English nation were so foolish that amongst them. Tush, my lord, tush, there are few of them know how gentle a Garçon I am." To the Earl of Exeter.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 179. STRAFFORD. 1633. HE writes from Ireland to the King, that "the yearly payments in that country alone (without the debt) are impossible by any other ordinary way to be in time supplied, but by the subject in Parliament and to pass to the extraordinary, before there be at least an attempt first to effect it with ease, were to love difficulties too well,—rather voluntary to seek them, than unwillingly to meet them, and might seem as well vanity in the first respect so to affect them, as faintless to bow under them when they are not to be avoided."Ibid. vol. 1, p. 183 THE Earl of Exeter says to him, "My lord, I could be angry with you, were you not so far off, for wronging of your bent brow, as you term it in your letter: for you had been curst with a meek brow and an arch of white hair upon it, never to have governed Ireland nor Yorkshire so well as you do, where your lawful commands have gotten you an exact obedience. Content yourself with that brave commanding part of your face which sheweth gravity without dulness, severity without cruelty, clemency without easiness, and love without extravagancy; and if it should be any impeachment unto your favour with that sex which you so much honour, you should be no loser; for they that have known them so long as I have done, have found them nothing less than diabolos blancos."—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 241. "My opinion hath ever been, that honourable and just redemptions of the subject from oppression and wrong, should be the immediate acts of sovereignty, indeed the proper charge and office of kings to provide for, without interposition of any parliament, or other body, betwixt their light and the eyes of their people who discerning whence those blessings are communicated, may be justly moved to praise and magnify them for their goodness and protection."-Ibid. vol. 1. p. 245. 165 STRAFFORD recommends to the King a constant rule that nothing imposed by way of fine upon delinquents should come into any other purse than his own exchequer Ibid. vol. 1, p. 249. SPEAKING of the Bishop of Durham's vexing the Catholicks for clandestine marriages, &c. after they had compounded for their recusancy, STRAFFORD says (A. D. 1634), " But yet did I never know Puritans capable of this Christian wisdom, as I take it to be, to choose fit times and opportunities their zeal ever eating up all human judgement and providence with a Deus providebit, or some such misapplied text of holy writ. I beseech your lordship he may be learnt a little to believe his majesty and his ministers, and how to carry himself in these civil matters; for it is too much he should exercise sovereignty over us both in and forth of the pulpit. Neither hath his Majesty these under instruments in right tune, till he hath made them and taught them to dance his measure, rather than one invented after their own fancy."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 268. 1634. To Lord Cottington.-"By my truth, my lord, in good earnest, I grow extremely old, and full of gray hairs, since I came into this kingdom, and should wax exceeding melancholy were it not for two little girls that come now and then to play by me. Remember, I tell you I am of no long life, and then shall you lose the faithfullest of all your lordship's most humble and most affectionate servants.”—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 294. 1634. "I HEAR the Spanish resident is very angry, I am sorry for it. Would to God our master could hit it with that crown! for undoubtedly, in my poor judgement, the common and public interests of these kings and their people stand best together of any |