Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 89 
to remand my pass) to pay to him those domestic duties that by my oath I am 
bound todo. Therefore seeing I ought to be neither examined nor heard before 
any but the Lords in Parliament, thither I appeal, protesting against any other 
judicature. My lord, your lordship’s most humble servant, 
“ HowarD oF CHARLTON.” 
Further contumacy being unavailing, he petitions, 19th July, 
1649, admitting that he adhered unto and assisted the forces raised 
against the Parliament ; but he affirms that about the year 1646 he 
left the King’s party and withdrew himself into parts beyond the 
sea where he still continued. His servants, John Stacey and William 
Williams, making oath that he was a resident in Exeter within 
three months before the treaty for the rendition thereof, he is in a 
position to claim the benefit of the articles of Exeter. As to his 
estate; by virtue of a conveyance made to him by his father, the 
Earl of Berkshire, in 1640, he is seised of a freehold for life, re- 
mainder to the Lady Dorothy, his wife, and heirs, remainder in fee 
to the Earl of Berkshire, of and in a moiety of the manor of 
Hankerton, with lands there and at Charlton and Brokenborough, 
worth £250 perannum. Fine, £375’; dated 25th September, 1649. 
The Earl of Berkshire died at a very advanced age, some time 
after the Restoration, but not before he had received gratifying 
marks of the royal favour. On the 12th of April, 1662, a grant — 
was made to him of £8000, being £5000 for himself and £3000 
for his daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Dryden ; to be paid at the rate 
of £1000 a year by the Receiver for Yorkshire ; but on the discovery 
that the Yorkshire revenue was mostly settled on the Queen, the 
liability was transferred to Somerset and Dorset. Eventually, “ on 
account of the great extremity of the Earl’s affairs,” it was assigned 
upon the Receiver-General of rents. As a further solatium a con- 
firmation was soon after made to him and to his son, Sir Robert 
Howard, of the Green-Wax fines in the Exchequer for thirty-one 
years, at £577 rent, and of the Post-fines in the Common Pleas for 
forty-eight years, at £2276 rent. The personal history of the other 
members of the Earl’s numerous family constitutes a copious chapter 
in the annals of that period, but in the matter of sequestration there 
is not much more to say about them. Sir Robert, the sixth son, 
