88 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
that it was to be feared he could raise nothing on it, to aid in settling 
his fine, and therefore begging that consideration be shewn him on 
that account. But on the other hand, and greatly aggravating his 
case, a long declaration was at the same time made by his brother, 
Edward, Lord Howard, of Escrick, that standing engaged as he did 
for sundry debts of the Earl, there had been made over to him by 
deed, before the war, the whole of the Earl’s personal estate in the 
two houses at Ewelme and Westminster, a fact admitted by the 
Earl’s wife and eldest son. The House thereupon made an order 
against either of the two houses being despoiled; a caution of no 
efficacy, for Fairfax’s soldiers, as above shewn, got possession of the 
London house, and the mansion of Ewelme fared no better; the 
contents were scattered among the neighbourhood or found their 
way to London for sale; leaving to Lord Escrick no other remedy 
than a renewed order from the House to prosecute the plunderers 
when he could lay hold of them. 
Cuaries, Lorp Howarp or CuHartTron, Viscount ANDOVER. 
Eldest son of the above. The Lords’ Journals contain several 
documents relating to this nobleman ; the following will be sufficient 
to represent his case. In 1645, having obtained from the King 
license to retire into Holland, he writes from Oxford soliciting from 
Lord Essex a pass, to convey his servants and horses with him, and 
on his way to spend a few days at Charlton, in Wilts. The request 
was refused, but the next year he made a more successful attempt 
to leave the country ; and the following letter written by him soon 
after the King’s death will carry on his narrative :— 
To Viscount Rochfort, or whomsoever is Speaker of the Lords. 
* Dover Castle, 10 July, 1649. 
“My Lorp. I was yesterday the 10th of this month cast in by a tempest at 
Broadstreet in the Isle of Thanet, and there apprehended by the country and 
carried to Margate; from whence as I hear, they acquainted the deputy 
lieutenants of Kent with my seizure; and whilst we expected their orders, 
Major Carter from Sandwich sent a troop of horse for me, who brought me to 
Colonel Rich’s quarters at Walmar, and ke immediately sent me to Dover Castle. 
At first so many various conjectures were made of my being in those parts, that 
finding myself both discovered and apprehended too, I thought lt every way 
best neither to deny my person nor my intention, which was, at any rate or 
hazard, to have gone te my master the Prince (since your lordships were pleased 
