" THE I.OYAL DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 7 



made to Mr. Hutton for the delivery of the deed.* I acknow- 

 ledge I said I would deliver it, but there were condicions annexed. 

 If one take a parte of a sentence, or a parte of a promise, it may 

 be invested contrary to the meaning of the wliole. The note left 

 w"" you will manifest what I promised. I dare appeale to his 

 LordPP out of passion from his Lo^p in passion to judge who 

 was in fault. I would rather be nothinge than be a slave, &c., &c. 



" Yo"' servant, 

 "G. S." 



" Tiie 19th day of ffebruary 1662 I George Sitwell of Renishaw 

 in the County of Derby doe make claime to one halfe of all the 

 Timber trees and other Trees standing, growing, lyeing, or being 

 in all or any of the Outvvoods belonging to the Mannor of 

 Clipston w"' in the County of Nottingham called fflishcarr, 

 Annette Bower, and the Shroggs, by vertue of a grant from the 

 late right hon'''^ Charles Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield ; as may 

 appeare by a Deed (refferrence there unto being had) beareing 

 date the Thirtith day of September 1656, made betweene the 

 said Viscount Mansfield of the one partie and me the said George 

 Sitwell & others of the other partie." 



" ffor the right hon''''' the Lord Vi.scount Mansfield, 

 [Lord Mansfield's house was in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street]. 



"July 19th, 1664. 

 " My good Lord, though I know your \ .0^^^ unwillingness to 

 meddle with your ffathers business, yet I make bould to give 

 yo' honor the trouble of this in vindication of my self against the 

 false reports of some, who, I suspect, would render me odious to 

 yo' honor as they have already done to his Ex"'* your ffather. 



1 beleeve those flatt" about his Ex"'* abuse him as well as others, 

 and have found out the way to per:, wade him, sometimes to his 

 owne loss ; for I have heard one of them say that sometimes he 



* The deed is in my possession. 



