The First Book II 



of foot, and put them under command, and upon duty and 

 exercise in the town of Newcastle ; and with this small begin- 

 ning took the government of that place upon him ; where with 

 the assistance of the townsmen, particularly the Mayor * 

 (whom, by the power of his forces, he continued Mayor for the 

 year following, he being a person of much trust and fidelity, 

 as he approved himself), and the rest of his brethren, within 

 few days he fortified the town, and raised men daily, and put 

 a garrison of soldiers into Tynmouth Castle, standing upon 

 the river Tyne, betwixt Newcastle and the sea, to secure that 

 port, and armed the soldiers as well as he could. And thus 

 he stood upon his guard, and continued them upon duty ; 

 playing his weak game with much prudence, and giving the 

 town and country very great satisfaction by his noble and 

 honourable deportment 2 . 



In the meantime, there happened a great mutiny of the 

 train-band soldiers of the Bishopric at Durham, so that my 

 Lord was forced to remove thither in person, attended with 

 some forces to appease them ; where at his arrival (I mention 

 it by the way, and as a merry passage) a jovial fellow used 

 this expression, that he liked my Lord very well, but not his 

 company (meaning his soldiers). 



After my Lord had reduced them to their obedience and 

 dut}', he took great care of the Church government in the said 

 bishopric (as he did no less in all other places committed to 

 his care and protection, well knowing that schism and faction 

 in religion is the mother of all or most rebellions, wars, and 

 disturbances in a state or government) and constituted that 

 learned and eminent divine the then Dean of Peterborough, 

 now Lord Bishop of Durham 3 , to view all sermons that were 

 to be preached, and suffer nothing in them that in the least 

 reflected against his Majesty's person and government, but 

 to put forth and add whatsoever he thought convenient, and 

 punish those that should trespass against it. In which that 

 worthy person used so much care and industry, that never 



1 Sir John Marlay, Kt. 



2 Our information concerning the Earl's conduct at Newcastle is very scanty. Some- 

 thing, however, may be gathered from a paper amongst the Clarendon State Papers, 

 attributed to Sir John Marlay, No. 2064 : ' An Account of the military proceedings in 

 the North from 1641 to 1645 inclusive, chiefly those in which the Marquis of Newcastle 

 was concerned, and which relate to the town of Newcastle.' 



3 Dr. Cosin ; unfortunately there occurs at this point a gap of five years in the letters 

 of Cosin collected by Mr. Ornsby. 



