1 8 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



ordered to be brought from Newcastle. A convoy of horse 

 that were employed to conduct it from thence, under the 

 command of the Lieutenant-General of the Army, the Lord 

 Ethyn, was by the enemy at a pass, called Yarum Bridge, 

 in Yorkshire, fiercely encountered ; in which encounter my 

 Lord's forces totally routed them, slew many, and took many 

 prisoners, and most of their horse colours, consisting of 

 seventeen cornets ; and so marched on to York with their 

 ammunition, without any other interruption K 



My Lord, after he had received this ammunition, put his 

 army into a condition to march, and having intelligence that 

 the Queen was at sea, with intention to land in some part of 

 the East Riding of Yorkshire, he directed his march, in Feb- 

 ruary 1642, into those parts, to be ready to attend her Majesty's 

 landing, who was then daily expected from Holland. Within 

 a short time, after it had pleased God to protect her Majesty 

 both from the fury of wind and waves, there being for 

 several days such a tempest at sea that her Majesty, with all 

 her attendance, was in danger to be cast away every minute, 

 as also from the fury of the rebels, which had the whole 

 naval power of the kingdom then in their hands, she arrived 

 safely at a small port in the East Riding of Yorkshire called 

 Burlington Key. Where her Majesty was no sooner landed, 

 but the enemy at sea made continual shot against her ships 

 in the port, which reached not only her Majesty's landing, 

 but even the house where she lay (though without the least 

 hurt to any), so that she herself, and her attendants, were 

 forced to leave the same, and to seek protection from a hill 

 near that place, under which they retired ; and all that while 

 it was observed that her Majesty showed as much courage 

 as ever any person could do ; for her undaunted and generous 

 spirit was like her royal birth, deriving itself from that unpar- 

 alleled king, her father, whose heroic actions will be in perpetual 

 memory whilst the world hath a being 2 . 



1 This fight at Yarum Bridge took place on February i, 1643. Lord Ethyn (or Eythin) 

 is better known as General King. He had served many years in the Swedish army 

 in Germany and was created a peer of Scotland March 28, 1643. A life of King is given 

 in vol. xxxi of the Dictionary of National Biography (p. 135). 



2 The Queen landed at Burlington on February 22nd. She gives the following account 

 of her adventure (Letters, p. 166) : ' God, who took care of me at sea, was pleased to 

 continue his protection by land, for that night, four of the Parliament ships arrived 

 at Burlington without our knowledge, and in the morning (February 24), about four 

 o'clock, the alarm was given that we should send down to the harbour to secure our 

 ammunition boats, which had not yet been able to be unloaded ; but, about an hour 



