14 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



business could possibly permit ; and after he had fortified 

 the town of Newcastle, Tynmouth Castle, Hartlepool (a haven 

 town), and some other necessary garrisons in those parts, and 

 manned, victualled, and ordered their constant supply, he 

 thought it fit in the first place, before he did march, to mani- 

 fest to the world, by a Declaration in print, the reasons and 

 grounds of his undertaking that design 1 ; which were in 

 general, for the preservation of his Majesty's person and 

 government, and the defence of the orthodox Church of 

 England ; where he also satisfied those that murmured for 

 my Lord's receiving into his army such as were of the Catholic 

 religion, and then he presently marched with his army into 

 Yorkshire to their assistance, and within the time agreed 

 upon, came to York, notwithstanding the enemy's forces gave 

 him all the interruption they possibly could, at several passes. 

 Whereof the chief was at Piercebridge, at the entering into 

 Yorkshire, where 1500 of the enemy's forces, commanded in 

 chief by Colonel Hotham, were ready to interrupt my Lord's 

 forces, sent thither to secure that pass, consisting of a regiment 

 of dragoons, commanded by Colonel Thomas Howard, and a 

 regiment of foot, commanded by Sir William Lambton, which 

 they performed with so much courage, that they routed the 

 enemy, and put them to flight, although the said Colonel 

 Howard in that charge lost his life by an unfortunate shot 2 . 



The enemy thus missing of their design, fled until they met 

 with a conjunction of their whole forces at Tadcaster, some 

 eight miles distant from York, and my Lord went on without 

 any other considerable interruption. Being come to York, 

 he drew up his whole army before the time, both horse and 

 foot, where the Commander-in-Chief, the then Earl of Cumber- 

 land, together with the gentry of the country, came to wait 

 on my Lord, and the then Governor of- York, Sir Thomas 

 Glenham, presented him with the keys of the city 3 . 



1 ' A Declaration made by the Earl of Newcastle for his resolution of marching into 

 Yorkshire, as also a just vindication of himself from that unjust aspersion laid upon him 

 for entertaining some Popish recusants in his service.' — Rushworth, III, ii, 78-81. 



The Earl had been not merely permitted, but instructed by the King to employ Catho- 

 lics who offered their services. See the King's letter to Newcastle (Ellis, Original Letters, 

 series I, vol. iii, p. 291, quoted also in the Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson, vol. i, p. 215) : 

 ' Therefore, I do not only permit, but command you to make use of all my loving sub- 

 jects' services, without examining their consciences (more than their loyalty to me) 

 as you shall find most to conduce to the upholding of my just regal power.' 



2 A brief account of this action is contained in Rushworth, III, ii, 77. It is there 

 said to have taken place on December 1, 1642. 



3 According to Drake's Eboracum, Newcastle arrived at York on November 30. It 

 cannot be denied ', says Clarendon, ' that the Earl of Newcastle, by his quick march 



