222 Longleat Tapers, No. 5. 



" 9 Sept. For a boat to pass the stuff [baggage] in the coach from Beautry 



to Melwood by water in the night 3/6. 

 Given a man of M^ Noiihes came to guide the gentlewymen and 



horses that night to Melwood 2/6. 

 For a coach horse boiight of Sir Gervase Clifton £20. 

 Gave Needham my Lo. Shrewsbury's man for a packet of letters 



he brought from Welbecke * to Melwood 5/. 

 Given a keeper brought my La. a stagg from S"' Edward Swifte f 



to Melwood 1. 0. 0." 



The Return Journey. 



" Sept. 13. To Watermen that rowed my La. in a boat from Melwood to 



Stock with 1. 0. 0. 

 To those that mended the Highway betwixt Melwood and Stock- 



with 18/. 

 To the Poor att Melwood as my La. came away 13/4. 

 Amongst other poor by my La. comand betwixt Melwood and Wor- 



soppe 2/2." 



Worksop, Notts. 



[Worksop Priory : granted at the Dissolution to Francis, son of 



George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury.] 



" Sept. 14. Given a mayde brought my La. a present from Sir Bryan Lassells J 

 to Worsoppe 10/0. 

 For certain spices bought by my La. comand at Worsoppe 4/9. 

 Among the servants that wayted at Worsoppe that night my Lady 

 lay there 5. 0. 0." 



Aston. 

 [A few miles east of Sheffield, then the seat of John, Lord Darcy, 

 who died 1635. His relative. Cony ers, Lord Darcy, was created Earl 

 of Holderness. The house (like that at Winterslow, in Wilts,) was 

 destroyed by fire on the night of a ball, during the minority of 

 the last earl, who was born in 1718. (See Hunter's S. Y., ii., 165.)] 



• Welbeck : then belonging to Sir Charles UaTendish, the youngest of Lady Arabella's maternal 

 uncles. 



+ Sir Edward Swyft. This Swyft family was originally of Rotherham, Co. York. Sir Robert, 

 (father of Sir Edward,) had estates about Doncaster and lived at Street Thorpe, where he entertained 

 Prince Henry, son of King James I. He was known by the name of Carallero Swyft, being given 

 to quarrelling and fighting duels, in one of which the rapier of his adversary — John Kingston, of 

 Grimsby— forced out two of his front teeth. Some one in a company happening to say that this 

 disfigurement had been caused by a candlestick having been thrown at him, Ivingston gave the true 

 version of the case, adding " Body of my lord ! had he not had strong teeth, I had run him through 

 tbehead." Sir Robert was bow-bearer of the Royal chace of Hatfield. His son Sir Edward, had 

 been knighted at Belvoir by James I. on his way to London. He died before his lather : and his 

 brother by half-blood— Baruham Swyft— was created Baron Carlingford. 



} Sir Bryan Lascelles, of Gateford, near Worksop, knighted by King James I. at Belvoir. 



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