July 6. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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brigade under his brotlier in the West in 1645. 

 (Bulstrode's Memoirs, p. 142. ; Carte's Letters, i. 

 116. 121.) 



Some account of the father, Earl of Norwich's 

 operations against the parliament in Essex in 

 1648, is given in a curious autobiography of Ar- 

 tliiir Wilson, the autlior of the History of James J., 

 which is printed in Peck's Desidei-ata Curiosa, 

 book xi. part 5. Wilson was living at the time in 

 Essex. 



An interesting fragment of a letter from Goring 

 the son to the Earl of Dorset, written apparently 

 as he was on the point of retiring into France, and 

 dated Pondesfred, January 25, 1646, is printed in 

 INlr. Eliot Warburton's Memoirs of Prince Rupert, 

 iii. 215. 



Mr. Warburton, by the way, clearly confounds 

 the father with the sun when he speaks of the Earl 

 of Norwich's trial and reprieve (iii. 408.). Three 

 letters printed in Mr. AV'.'s second volume (pp. 

 172. 181, 182.), and signed " Goring," are probably 

 letters of the father's, but given by Air. War- 

 burton to the son. 



I perceive also that Mr. Bell, the editor of the 

 lately publislied Fairfax Correspondence, has not 

 avoided confusion between the father and son. 

 In the first volume of the correspondence relating 

 to the civil war (p. 281.), the editor says, under 

 date January, 164G, — 



" Lord Hopton in the meanwhile has been appointed 

 to the command in Cornwall, superseding Goring, who 

 has been sent off on several negociations to France." 



Goring went off to France on his own account ; 

 liis father was at that time Charles I.'s ambassador 

 at the court of France. 



I should like to know the year in which a letter 

 of Goring the son's, printed by Mr. Bell in vol. i. 

 p. 23., was written, if it can be ascertained. As 

 jirinted, it is dated " Berwick, June 22." Is Ber- 

 wick right? Is there a bath there? The letter is 

 adtlressed to Sir Constantine Huygens, and in it 

 is this passage : — 



" 1 liave now my lameness so much renewed tliat 

 I cannot come to cle;ir myself; as soon as the bath 

 has restored me to my strengtli, I sliall employ it in liis 

 Highness's service, if he jjlease to let me return into 

 the same place of his favour that 1 thought myself happy 

 in before." 



I should expect that this letter was written from 

 France after Goring's abru])t retreat into that 

 country. It is stated that tiie letter eoiues from 

 Mr. Bentleys collecliuil. 



Tiie Earl of Norwich was in Flanders in No- 

 vember 1569, and accompanied the Dukes of York 

 and Gloucester from Brussels to Breda. (Carte's 

 Letters, ii. 282.) CII. 



If the following account of the Goring family 

 given by Banks {Dormant and Extinct Peerage, 

 vol. iii. p. 575.) is correct, it will ajtpear that the 



father and both his sons were styled at different 

 times " Lord Goring," and that they may very 

 easily be distinguished. 



" George Goring, of Hurstpierpont, Sussex, the son 

 of George Goring, and Anne his wife, sister to Edward 

 Lord Denny, afterwards Earl of Norwich, was created 

 Baron Goring in tlie fourth of Charles I., and in the 

 xx"* of the same reign advanced to the earldom of 

 Norwich, which had become extinct by the death of his 

 maternal uncle above-mentioned, S. P.M. 



" He betrayed Portsmouth, of which I)e was gover- 

 nor, to the king, and rendered him many other signal 

 services. He married i\Iary, one of the daughters of 

 Edward Nevill, vi"" Baron of Abergavenny, and had 

 issue four daughters, and two sons, the eldest of whom, 

 George, was an eminent commander for Charles I., 

 and best known as ' General Goring,' and who, after the 

 loss of the crown to his roy;d master, retired to the 

 Continent, and served with credit as lieutenant-general 

 to the King of Spain. He married Lettice, daughter 

 of Richard Earl of Cork, and died abroad, S. P., in 

 the lifetime of his father, who survived till 1662, and 

 was succeeded by his only remaining son, Cliarles Lord 

 Goring, and second Earl of Norwich, with whom, as 



he left no issue by his wife, daughter of Leman, 



and widow of Sir Richard Beker, all his honours be- 

 came extinct in 1672. He was unquestionably the 

 Lord Goring noticed by Pejiysas returning lo England 

 in 1660, and not the old peer his father, wlio, if de- 

 fcribfd l)y any title, would have been styled ' Earl of 

 Norwich.' " 



Bkatbrooke. 



July 1. 1850. 



caucririS. 



JAMES CAKKASSE S LUCIDA INTERVALLA, AN ILLUS- 

 TRATION OF TEPYS' DIARY. 



I met lately with a quarto volume of poems 

 printed at London in 1679, entitled: 



" Lucida IntcrvaUa, containing divers miscellaneous 

 Poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem.bythe Doctoi's 

 Patient Extraordinary." 



On tlie tifle-pnge was written in an old hand 

 the name of the "patient extraordinary" and 

 author James Carkasse, and that of the " doctor" 

 Thomas Allen. A little reading convinced nie 

 that the writer was a very fit subject for a lunatic 

 asylum; but at page 5, I met with an allusion to 

 the celebrated jSlr. Pepys, which I will beg to 

 quote : — 



" Get thee behind mc then, dumb devil, begone. 

 The Lord hath eppthatha said to my tongue, 

 Him I must praise who open'd hath my lips. 

 Sent mc from Navy, to tlie Ark, by I'epys ; 

 By Mr. Pepys, who hath my rival been 

 For the Duke's * favour, more tlian years thirteen ; 

 But I excluded, he high and fortunate. 

 This Secretary I could never mate ; 



* The Duke of York, afterwards James II. 



