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counties with ammunition, and to adminster justice to every 

 one ; for he refused no man's petition, but sent all that came 

 to him, either for relief or justice, away from him fully 

 satisfied K 



Not long after his being made Lieutenant of Nottingham- 

 shire, there was found so great a defect of arms and ammuni- 

 tion in that county, that the Lords of the Council being adver- 

 tised thereof, as the manner then was, his Majesty commanded 

 a levy to be made upon the whole county for the supply thereof. 

 Whereupon the sum of ^500, or thereabout, was accordingly 

 levied for that purpose, and three persons of quality, then 

 Deputy Lieutenants, were desired by my Lord to receive the 

 money, and see it disposed ; which being done accordingly, 

 and a certain account rendered to my Lord, he voluntarily 

 ordered the then Clerk of the Peace of that county, that the 

 same account should be recorded amongst the sessions rolls, 

 and be published in open sessions, to the end that the country 

 might take notice how their monies were disposed of ; for 

 which act of justice my Lord was highly commended. 



Within some few years after, King Charles the First, of 

 blessed memory, his gracious Sovereign, in regard of his true 

 and faithful service to his King and country, was pleased to 

 honour him with the title of Earl of Newcastle, and Baron of 

 Bothal and Heple 2 ; which title he graced so much by his 

 noble actions and deportments, that some seven years after, 

 which was in the year 1638, his Majesty called him up to 

 Court, and thought him the fittest person whom he might 

 intrust with the government of his son Charles, then Prince of 

 Wales, now our most gracious King, and made him withal a 

 a member of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable 

 Privy Council ; which, as it was a great honour and trust, 

 so he spared no care and industry to discharge his duty accord- 

 ingly ; and to that end, left all the care of governing his own 

 family and estate, with all fidelity attending his master, not 

 without considerable charges, and vast expenses of his own 3 . 



1 A letter from the Duke (as Viscount Mansfield) to Strafford is printed in the Strafford 

 correspondence, vol. i, p. 43, vide Appendix. 



2 ' On the 7th day of March in the third year of King Charles I he was further advanced 

 to the dignity of Baron Cavendish of Bolsover and Earl of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.' — 

 Collins, Historical Collections, p. 26. 



3 Newcastle's letters to his wife show that he was seeking for this post as early as 

 April 1636, and had good hopes of success. (Portland MSS., ii, 127). The patent ap- 

 pointing the Earl of Newcastle governor of the Prince is dated June 4, 1638, and has 



