44 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



shire ; besides many of my Lord's and their servants. In the 

 other ship was the Earl of Ethyn, Lieutenant General of my 

 Lord's Army, and the Lord Cornworth *. But before my Lord 

 landed at Hamburgh, his eldest "son Charles, Lord Mansfield, 

 fell sick of the smallpox ; and not long after his younger son, 

 Henry, now Earl of Ogle, fell likewise dangerously ill of the 

 measles ; but it pleased God that they both happily recovered. 



My Lord, finding his company and charge very great, al- 

 though he sent several of his servants back again into England, 

 and having no means left to maintain him, was forced to seek 

 for credit ; where at last he got so much as would in part 

 relieve his necessities ; and whereas heretofore he had been 

 contented, for want of a coach, to make use of a waggon, when 

 his occasions drew him abroad, he was now able (with the credit 

 he had got) to buy a coach and nine horses of an Holsatian 

 breed ; for which horses he paid £160, and was afterwards 

 offered for one of them an hundred pistoles at Paris, but he 

 refused the money, and presented seven of them to her Majesty 

 the Queen-Mother of England, and kept two for his own use. 



After my Lord had stayed in Hamburgh from July 1644, till 

 February 1645 2 , he being resolved to go into France, went 

 by sea from Hamburgh to Amsterdam, and from thence to 

 Rotterdam, where he sent one of his servants with a compli- 

 ment and tender of his humble service to her Highness the 

 then Princess Royal, the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess 



1 At Sherborne, on October 15, 1645, Colonel Copley defeated Lord Digby and Sir 

 Marmaduke Langdale on their way from Newark to join Montrose in Scotland. Colonel 

 Sir Francis Carnaby is in the list of slain given by Vicars (Burning Bush, 299). Lord 

 Widdrington, before mentioned in this Memoir, p. 29, was slain in Lord Derby's defeat 

 at Bolton in 165 1. Clarendon speaks of him thus : ' The Lord Widdrington was one 

 of the most goodly persons of that age, being near the head higher than most tall men, 

 and a gentleman of the best and most ancient extraction of the county of Northumber- 

 land, and of a very fair fortune, and one of the four which, the last king made choice 

 of to be about the person of his son the prince, as gentleman of his privy-chamber, when 

 he first erected his family. . . As soon as the war broke out, he was of the first who 

 raised both horse and foot at his own charge, and served eminently with them under 

 the Marquis of Newcastle, from whom he had a very particular and entire friendship, 

 as he was very nearly allied to him ; and by his testimony that he had performed many 

 signal services, he was, about the middle of the war, made a peer of the realm.' — Re- 

 bellion, xiii, 68. Clarendon concludes by saying ' He was a man of great courage and 

 choler '. 



Lord Cornworth, or rather Robert Dalzell, second Earl of Carnwath, was the Scottish 

 peer who seized the King's bridle rein at Naseby, and prevented him heading a last 

 charge. — Clarendon, Rebellion, ix. 40. 



2 While at Hamburg Newcastle wrote to his old pupil Prince Charles, then nominally 

 commanding the royal army in the west of England, congratulating him on being made 

 a general. ' It is no small comfort,' he said, ' to me and mine, that we have lived to see 

 you a man : and could I see but peace in our Israel, truly then I care not how soon 

 death closes my eyes ' — Portland MSS., ii, 134. 



