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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 3, 1855. 



grateful recognition it has at length come to re- 

 ceive of its just claims to an imperishable renown. 



If ever (vain expectation!) a history — one de- 

 serving of the name, I mean — of this august 

 assembly, of this " the Father of Parliaments, which 

 first rendered Parliaments supreme," and "the 

 most remarkable Parliament that ever sat" (as 

 Mr. Carlyle designates it), should be written, it 

 will assuredly be in a keen and almost microscopic 

 examination alone of the genuine archives of the 

 period — of its monuments and its memorials, of 

 its registers and its records, of its minutes and its 

 journals, of its declarations and its ordinances, of 

 its speeches and its dispatches, of its state papers, 

 but, above all, of its domestic correspondence — 

 by intelligent scrutiny, in short, into each and all 

 its acts, and facts, and deeds, and " utterances," 

 proveably identifiable as such, and by no longer 

 rendering tame, servile "suit and service" to lying 

 cotemporary Histories, and Chronicles, and Col- 

 lections, and Lives, and Memoirs*, and similar 

 apocryphal " authorities," all more or less wanting 

 in those three most indispensable cardinal virtues 

 of professing narrative, to wit, accuracy, impar- 

 tiality, and truth, that some dim perception, some 

 faint realisation of those noble manifestations of 

 human character in times of unprecedented diffi- 

 culty and danger which the fierce antagonism and 

 mortal strife of the civil wars either brought to light 

 or gave birth to, — characters illumined, elevated, 

 purified, and exalted by hourly sharing in the 

 perils, and participating in the common glories 

 and responsibilities by which they were sur- 

 rounded, — will perchance eventually be arrived 

 at. F. Kyffin Lenthall. 



Bessels -Leigh, Berks. 



"Booke of the Names of the Members of the House of Com- 

 ons that advance Horse, Moyieij, and Plate, for Defence 

 of the Parliament, June lOth, ilth, 8fc., 1642. 



Veneris x" Junli, 1612. 



Sir Jo. Evelj'n, jim., will biinge in fower horses and two 



hundred pownds in present money. 

 Mr. Long, fower horses and two hundred pownds in plate 



or monej'. 

 Sir Peter VVentworth, three horses, hundred pownds in 



present money. 

 Mr. Tomkins, two horses freely at his owne charge. 

 Mr. Arth. Goodwyn, one hundred pownds in ready money, 



and will mainteyne fower horses at his own charge. 



* I must except Mrs. Hutchinson's fine Memoirs from 

 the somewhat sweeping condemnation I have passed in 

 the above sentence. Notwithstanding her undoubtedly 

 strong political predilections, I believe a more conscien- 

 tiously honest narrative was never given to the world, or 

 a more faithful representation of the history of the times 

 in which she lived written, than she has bequeathed to 

 us in her admirable Life of Col. Hutchinson. There is 

 scarcely a passage or incident in the whole book relating 

 to public aifairs which is not more or less borne out and 

 corroborated either by the journals of the two Houses, or 

 other indisputable evidence. 

 No. 314.] 



Mr. Wm. Strode will maintej'ne two horses at his own 

 charge, and will bringe in fifty pownds and some plate. 

 Mr. Holies will bringe in three hundred pownds, and main- 

 teyne fower horses, and sett them forth in buffe cotes 



and 



Sir Sam. Rolle will mainteyne the paj'e of twelve horses. 

 Mr. Valentine will bringe in and mainteyne two horses. 

 Mr. Martin will bringe in and mainteyne six horses at 



his owne charge. 

 Mr. Serg' Wilde will bringe in and mainteyne two horses 



at his owne charge. 

 Sir Jo. Northcott, will bringe in two horses and men* 

 presentlye, and fower more soe soone as hee can have 

 them out of the country, and a hundred pownds in 

 money. 

 Sir Gilb* Gerard will bringe in fower horses, and main- 

 teyne them at his owne charge. 

 Sir Jo. Francklyn will doe the like. 

 Mr. Hampden will bringe in two hundred pownds in plate, 



and bringe in and mainteyne three horses. 

 Mr. Crue will bringe in two hundred pownds in plate, 



and mainteyne fower horses. 

 Mr. Pierrepointe will bringe in and mainteyne two 

 horses, and bringe in an hundred pownds in money or 

 plate. 

 Mr. Pym will bringe in and mainteyne two horses, and 



one hundred pownds, eyther in plate or money. 

 Jlr. Nath. Fines will finde one horse, and bringe an hun- 

 dred pownds in money. 

 Sir Rob' Pye will bringe in and mainteyne four horses, 

 and laye downe, eyther in money or plate, two hundred 

 pownds. 

 Mr. H. Darley will bringe in two hundred pownds. 

 Sir Ro. Coke, will bringe in and mainteyne two horses, 

 and bringe in one hundred pownds in money or plate. 

 He offers the like for Sir Sam. Luke. 

 Sir Benj. Rudyard, an hundred pownds freely without in- 

 terest, for defence of king, kingdome, and parliament 

 conjunctively. 

 Sir F. KnoUys", sen., will bringe in and mainteyne two 



horses for himself and two for his sonne. 

 Mr. Browne, of Dorset, will bringe in and mainteyne one 



horse, and bringe in an hundred pownds. 

 Sir W™ Brereton will bringe in fower horses, and send 

 them up as speedyly as hee can, and bringe in an hun- 

 dred pownds in readj^ money or plate. 

 Mr. John Aslie will contribute weekely ten pounds towards 

 the mainteyning of horse soe long as the service* shall 

 continue. 

 Mr. Edw. Ashe will bringe in fower horses and mainteyne 

 them at his owne charge, and if there bee occasion to 

 marche, will have five hundred pownds ready at an 

 hour's warninge for the service. 

 Sir W-n Litton will bringe in two horses and an hundred 



pownds. 

 Mr. Winwood will bringe in sixe horses, and sixe more if 



there bee need. 

 Mr. Warten will bringe in two horses and a hundred 



pownds in monev. 

 Sir Nath. Barndisten will bringe in two horses, and con- 

 tinue the five hundred pownds hee has formerly sent. 

 Sir Thos. Dacres will bringe in two horses, and, eyther in 



money or plate, two hundred pownds. 

 Sir Edm. Fowell will bringe in two horses, for king, 

 kingdome, and parliament conjunctively. 



(^To be concluded in our next.^ 



* The pay of a trooper in the service of the Parlia- 

 ment at this period was 2s. Qd. per diem, of which sum 

 Is. Ad. was for the "maintenance" of his horse. Foot 

 soldiers received 8rf. per diem. 



