2'"» S. X. Nov. 17. 'GO.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



383 



liament in 16 Car. I. and in his father's lifetime, 

 as Baron of Nettlested. He was a brave Royalist, 

 a kinsman of Strafford, and father of the unhappy 

 Baroness Wentworth who infatuated Monmouth, 

 and whose fate is told by Lord Macaulay. Straf- 

 ford's barony was Wentworth of Wentworth 

 Woodhouse. J. K. 



Highclere. 



INEDITED LETTER OF CROMWELL. 



The accompanying document has, I believe, 

 hitherto remained unprinted. It is to be found 

 in a manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library 

 (Rawlinson, A. 261.). The volume in which it 

 occurs is written in a hand of the last century ; it 

 is entirely composed of copies of letters and other 

 official documents issued by Oliver Cromwell dur- 

 ing his Protectorate. Judging from a casual exa- 

 mination I am inclined to believe that nearly the 

 whole of these official letters are unpublished. If 

 so, the collection is well worthy of attention : it 

 should indeed be printed without delay. The 

 following letter is especially interesting, as it shows 

 the extreme care with which the minor interests of 

 the country were watched by the Protector at a 

 time when civil war was scarcely extinguished : — 



"The'Earleof Moulgraue ' to whose 'care and vigi- 

 lance ' the game was intrusted was Edmund Sheifield 

 2<> Earl of Mulgrave and 4"» Baron Butterwike who suc- 

 ceeded his grandfather in his titles and estates in 1646. 

 He was the son of Sir John Sheffield, K.B. by his wife 

 Grisilda daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson Kinight, Lord 

 Chief Justice of the Kings Bensh. This Sir John was 

 the second son of the first Earl of Mulgrave by his first 

 wife Ursula daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettilby. 

 He and two of his brothers — Edmund and Philip — were 

 drouned, during their father's life time, (December 1614) 

 in crossing VVhitgift Ferry over the River Humber. The 

 second Earl died in 1658, and was succeeded by his son 

 •John, who was created Marquis of Normanby Co. Lincoln 

 in 1694, and Duke of Buckinghamshire and of Normanby 

 in 1703. He died in 1720, and was succeeded by an infant 

 son, on whose death a minor without issue in 1735 the 

 honours of the family became extinct. 



" The Sheffields took the side of the Parliament in the 

 civil war. The name of one of them — James ShefFeld (^sic') 

 — occurs as a captain in the Parlimentary army of 

 1642.* This person I believe to have been James Sheffield, 

 one of the three sons of the first Earl of Mulgrave by his 

 second wife Mariana daughter of Sir William Irwyn, 

 Knight. A colonel Thomas ShefFeild (sic) is also to be 

 found serving under Fairfax in 1646. f It is not improba- 

 ble that he was a brother of the above named, but I do 

 not, at present, know how to prove the connection. The 

 fact, however, that James Sheffield son of the first Earl of 

 Mulgrave had a brother Thomas who might have been in 



' The list of the Army raised under the command of 



the Earl of Essex with the names of the severall 



officers belonging to the Army. London, printed for 

 John Partredge, 1642, page 16. There are two copies of 

 this tract in the British Museum. I have never seen or 

 heard of one elsewhere. 



t Anglia Rediviva, by Joshua Sprigg, Lond. 1647. Re- 

 print by the University of Oxford, 1856, p. 331. 



the army at this time is established by the printed Pedi« 

 grees of the family.* 



" Oliver P. 



" Whereas vpon information that our Deere & Game 

 of Hares Pheasant & Partridg in our Forrests & other 

 places in our Countie of Lincoln were from tyme to tyme 

 spoyld, killed & destroyed by seuerall persons Liueing in, 

 & about the said Countie who for that purpose kept & 

 made vse of Gunnes Netts & Doggs ; Wee did appoint & 

 Declare that the Laws & Statutes, heretofore made & 

 published for the preservation of the same should be 

 duely put in Execution & by, our Comission in that be- 

 halfe of the 30"» of November last comitted the same to 

 the Care & Vigilance of the Earle of Moulgraue, who by 

 all means hath endeauored the preseruation of the Deere 

 & Game aforesaid, yet not withstanding cannot effect the 

 same. For that as we are giuen to understand the Soul- 

 diers now quartering within Our said Countie of Lincolne 

 doe frequently enter the forrests & other places in the 

 said County (sic) Countie (sic) & destroy, & kill, our said 

 Deere & Game. We haue therefore thought fitt for the 

 prevention of those, & such like disorders which are in 

 manifest Contempt of Our Authority & of the Laws to for- 

 bid as wee doe hereby all Souldiers whatsoeuer that they 

 do in no wise kill spoil or destroy, any of the Game or 

 Deere aforesaid, or interupt the said Earle of Moulgraue 

 in the execution of the trust coiSitted to him in this be- 

 halfe. .4.nd doe hereby require you to take Care that this 

 order & direction bee from tyme to tyme observed accord- 

 ingly. 



"And so not doubting of your readynes to vse your 

 vtraost endeavours heerein. Wee bid jou heartilv fare- 

 well. Given at Whitehall the 20'" of February 1654. 



" To Colonel Berry & any 

 other Coiiiannder in'Cheife* 

 with the Forces now quartering 

 or shall hereafter quarter in 

 Our Countie of Lincoln & in our Cittie 

 & Countie of Our Citie of Lincolne 

 or parts adjacent." [fol. 35.] 



Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Manor, Brigg. 



Minat ^attS, 



John Taylor, the Water Poet. — Having, since 

 my Note relative to Taylor the Water Poet (2"'^ S. 

 ix. 385.), found the original warrant signed " by 

 order of the Councill of State, Jo. ]3radshaw, 

 Presid'," the endorsement of the same as hereun- 

 der copied will show that he was apprehended 

 under it, that an examination took place, and 

 that he had to give in bail for his farther appear- 

 ance : — 



(Endorsement.) 

 " A warrant to apprehend Taylor the water poett, 



Aug. 15, 1649. 

 " This warrant executed by 



" Francis Deakins, 

 William Rickes, and 

 Edward Teitton. 

 " The prisoner called for and examined, but still goeth 

 under bayle, and not dischardged." 



Ithuriel. 



* Collins's Peerage, 1735, vol. i. p. 146. 



