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inconsiderable party in the town of Derby, which they had 

 fortified, not worth the labour to reduce it. 



About this time the report came, that a great army out 

 of Scotland was upon their inarch towards the northern parts 

 of England, to assist the enemy against his Majesty \ which 

 forced the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire to invite my Lord 

 back again into those parts, with promise to raise for his 

 service an army of 10,000 men. My Lord (not upon this 

 proffer, which had already heretofore deceived him, but out 

 of his loyalty and duty to preserve those parts which were 

 committed to his care and protection) returned in the middle of 

 January 1643. And when he came there, he found not one 

 man raised to assist him against so powerful an army, nor an 

 intention of raising any. Wherefore he was necessitated 

 to raise himself, out of the country, what forces he could get ; 

 and when he had settled the affairs in Yorkshire, as well as 

 time and his present condition would permit, and consti- 

 tuted an honourable person 2 Governor of York and Com- 

 mander-in-Chief of a very considerable party of horse and 

 foot for the defence of the county (for Sir Thomas Glemham 

 was then made Colonel-General, and marched into the field 

 with the army), he took his march to Newcastle in the begin- 

 ning of February 1643, to give a stop to the Scots army 3 . 



Presently after his coming thither with some of his troops, 

 before his whole army was come up, he received intelligence 

 of the Scots army's near approach, whereupon he sent forth a 

 party of horse to view them, who found them very strong, to 

 the number of 22,000 horse and foot, well armed and com- 

 manded. They marched up towards the town with such con- 

 fidence, as if the gates had been opened for their reception ; 



1 According to Warwick, the Marquis had some time before received notice from 

 the Marquis of Hamilton, that the Scots were at last going to march into England, with 

 the recommendation to seize and garrison Carlisle and Berwick. He replied that this 

 would be against the treaty, and waited for instructions from Oxford. Whilst he waited, 

 Berwick was occupied for the Parliament (Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick, p. 267). 

 This statement is confirmed by Burnet, Lives of the Hamiltons, ed. 1852, p. 310. These 

 events apparently took place in August and September 1643. 



2 Colonel John Bellasis (or Bellasyse), created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby Lines, 

 on 22 Jan. 164*. There is a Briefe Relation of the Life and Memories of John Lord Bela- 

 syse, written by his secretary Joshua Moone, which is printed in the Report on the MSS. 

 of the Marquis of Ormonde at Kilkenny. It contains an account of his services as Governor 

 of York (vol. ii, pp. 383-4). 



3 A full account of the progress of the Scotch army is given in Rushworth III, ii, 

 612 et seq. The Scots arrived before the town of Newcastle on February 3 ; the Mar- 

 quis entered the town the day before. A good account of all this fighting round New- 

 castle is contained in Professor C. S. Terry; Life of Alexander Leslie, 1899, pp. 185- 

 214. 



