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Borrows now Under Sequestration as the lands of Jo : Bretland 

 & for his delinquencye & we do farther certifie that the said 

 Jo: Bretland was first sequestered in this county the 13 of 

 January 1647 but that rents of the farme in Borrows first 

 by us from the 29 Sept. 1650 it being concealed from the 

 former Committee which is all materiall in the premises that 

 hath come to the knowledge of 



Gentlemen 



Your humble servants 

 Derby July 7, 1652." 



THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 



All that pertains to "The Loyall Duke" cannot fail to be of 

 interest. Sir William Cavendish was the eldest son of Sir 

 Charles Cavendish, of Bolsover, by his second wife Catherine, 

 daughter and co-heiress of Baron Ogle, and declared Baroness 

 Ogle in her own right in 1628. Sir William was created Lord 

 Ogle, and subsequently Viscount Mansfield by James L In the 

 third year of Charles I., he was advanced to the dignity of 

 Lord Cavendish of Bolsover, and Earl of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 and was appointed governor of Prince Charles. When the Civil 

 War began, the Earl was most zealous for his royal master, and 

 in consequence of his success as Commander-in-Chief was created 

 Marquis of Newcastle when the king was at Oxford. His 

 pecuniary losses through sequestration of his estates and through 

 his own expenditure on the royalist forces during the rebellion 

 were enormous, and are said to have reached a total of ^950,000. 

 At the restoration, he was created by Charles IF. Earl of Ogle 

 and Duke of Newcastle. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heiress of William Bassett, and afterwards to 

 Margaret, daughter of Sir Charles Lucas. The Duke died in 

 1676, aged 84, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. In the 

 life of her husband, the Duchess says that he had one of the 

 best estates in the kingdom, specifying that his income from 



