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under any of the Officers of the Field ; yet nevertheless the 

 General ordered that troop as he had formerly directed. 

 Whereupon, my Lord thinking it unfit at that time to dispute 

 the business, immediately commanded his Cornet 1 to take 

 off the Prince's colours from his staff, and so marched in the 

 place appointed, choosing rather to march without his colours 

 flying, than to lessen his master's dignity by the command of 

 any subject 2 . 



Immediately after the return from that expedition to his 

 Majesty's leaguer, the General made a complaint thereof to 

 his Majesty ; who being truly informed of the business, com- 

 mended my Lord's discretion for it, and from that time 

 ordered that troop to be commanded by none but himself. 

 Thus they remained upon duty, without receiving any pay- 

 ment or allowance from his Majesty 3 , until his Majesty had 

 reduced his rebellious subjects, and then my Lord returned 

 with honour to his charge, viz. the government of the Prince. 



At last when the whole army was disbanded, then, and not 

 before, my Lord thought it a fit time to exact an account 

 from the said General for, the affront he passed upon him, and 

 sent him a challenge ; the place and hour being appointed by 

 both their consents, where and when to meet, my Lord ap- 

 peared there with his second 4 , but found not his opposite. 

 After some while his opposite's second came all alone, by 

 whom my Lord perceived that their design had been discov- 

 ered to the King by some of his opposite's friends, who pre- 

 sently caused them both to be confined until he had made 

 their peace 5 . 



My Lord having hitherto attended the Prince, his master, 

 with all faithfulness and duty befitting so great an employ- 

 ment, for the space of three years, in the beginning of that 



1 Mr. Gray, brother to the Lord Gray of the North. 



2 This incident took place on the march to Dunse, May 31, 1639. Accounts of the 

 dispute confirming that given by the Duchess are printed in the Report on the MSS. of 

 the Duke of Rutland, i, 512, 517, and in Warner's Epistolary Curiosities, i, 201. 



3 The words in italic have been carefully obliterated with ink. 



4 Francis Palmes. 



5 This General of the Horse was the Earl of Holland. Clarendon's account of this 

 incident is very similar to that given in the text, and was very probably derived from 

 the Duke himself. As soon as the army was disbanded, says Clarendon, Newcastle 

 ' sent a challenge to the Earl of Holland, by a gentleman very punctual and well acquainted 

 with those errands ; who took a proper season to mention it to him, without a possi- 

 bility of suspicion. The Earl of Holland was never suspected to want courage, yet 

 in this occasion he showed not that alacrity, but that the delay exposed it to notice ; 

 and so by the King's authority the matter was composed.' — History of the Rebellion, 

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