jo The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



at several times supply my Lord, his father, with such moneys 

 as he had partly obtained upon credit, and partly made by 

 his marriage. 



After my Lord had begun to view those ruins that were 

 nearest, and tried the law to keep or recover what formerly 

 was his (which certainly showed no favour to him, besides 

 that the Act of Oblivion proved a great hindrance and obstruc- 

 tion to those his designs, as it did no less to all the royal 

 party), and had settled so much of his estate as possibly he 

 could, he cast up the sum of his debts, and set out several 

 parts of land for the payment of them, or of some of them 

 (for some of his lands could not be easily sold, being entailed) 

 and some he sold in Derbyshire to buy the Castle of Notting- 

 ham, which, although it is quite ruined and demolished, yet, 

 it being a seat which had pleased his father very much, he 

 would not leave it since it was offered to be sold 1 . 



His two houses Welbeck and Bolsover he found much out 

 of repair, and this later half pulled down ; 2 no furniture or 

 any necessary goods were left in them, but some few hangings 

 and pictures, which had been saved by the care and industry 

 of his eldest daughter the Lady Cheiny, and were bought 

 over again after the death of his eldest son Charles, Lord 

 Mansfield. For they being given to him, and he leaving some 

 debts to be paid after his death, my Lord sent to his other 

 son Henry, now Earl of Ogle, to endeavour for so much credit, 

 that the said hangings and pictures (which my Lord esteemed 

 very much, the pictures being drawn by Van Dyke) might 

 be saved 3 ; which he also did, and my Lord hath paid the 

 debt since his return. 



Of eight parks, which my Lord had before the wars, there 

 was but one left that was not quite destroyed, viz. Welbeck 



1 After the restoration, George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, having claimed 

 the Castle of Nottingham in right of his mother, the sole daughter and heiress of Francis 

 Earl of Rutland, to whom it had been granted by James I, sold it to the Duke of New- 

 castle in 1674. Bailey, Annals of Nottinghamshire, vol. ii, p. 971. 



2 On June 23 the Council of State ordered Bolsover to be made untenable. On July 

 2, 1649, the Council of State wrote to the Committee of Derbyshire : ' To avoid the 

 charge of a garrison in Bolsover Castle, and yet to prevent danger if it should be surprised 

 and kept by an enemy, we refer it to your care to do it so as the house itself, as it re- 

 lates to private habitation, may be as little prejudiced as may be ; but let the out- 

 works abroad, and garden walls, with the turrets and walls of the frontier court that 

 are of strength be demolished, and all the doors of the house be taken away, and slight 

 ones set in their place ; as also the iron bars of the windows, and the materials of the 

 walls that are taken down be improved to the best, and the charge of demolishing de- 

 frayed out of the revenue thereof.' — Calendar of Domestic State Papers, 1649, p. 217. 



3 A letter written by Newcastle to Van Dyke in February 1637 shows that he was 

 on very friendly terms with the painter. — Portland MSS., ii, 131, 143. 



