80 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



estate, since (as I often mentioned) it cannot be exactly- 

 known ; I shall not endeavour to set down the particulars 

 thereof, only in general give you a note of what partly they 

 are: 



i. The pulling down of several of his dwelling or manor- 

 houses. 



2. The disfurnishing of them, of which the furniture at 

 Bolsover and Welbeck was very noble and rich. Out of his 

 London house at Clerkenwell, there were taken, amongst 

 other goods, suits of linen, viz. table-cloths, sideboard- 

 cloths, napkins, &c, whereof one suit cost £160 ; they being 

 bought for an entertainment which my Lord made for their 

 Majesties, King Charles the First, and the Queen, at Bolsover 

 Castle; and of 150 suits of hangings of all sorts in all his 

 houses, there were not above ten or twelve saved. 



Of silver plate, my Lord had so much as came to the value 

 of /3800, besides several curiosities of cabinets, cups, and 

 other things, which after my Lord was gone out of England, 

 were taken out of his manor-house, Welbeck, by a garrison 

 of the King's party that lay therein 1 . whereof he recovered 

 only £1100, which money was sent him beyond the seas; 

 the rest was lost. 



As for pewter, brass, bedding, linen, and other household 

 stuff, there was nothing else left but some few old feather- 

 beds, and those all spoiled, and fit for no use. 



3. My Lord's stock of corn, cattle, &c, was very great 

 before the wars, by reason of the largeness and capacity of 

 those grounds, and the great number of granges he kept for 

 his own use ; as, for example, Barlow, Carcolston, Gleadthorp, 

 Welbeck, and several more, which were all well manured and 

 stocked. But all this stock was lost, besides his race of horses 



l Welbeck was captured by the Earl of Manchester about August 2, 1644 (Rush- 

 worth, III, ii, 64 : Manchester's letter of August 6, in a volume published by the Cam- 

 den Society under the title Manchester's Quarrel with Cromwell, p. 5). An account of 

 some of the spoils found there is given in Mrs. Hutchinson's Alemoirs, vol. ii, p. 24. 

 Welbeck was retaken by the Royalists on July 16, 1645 (Mercurius Belgicus). Symonds 

 gives the following account of its capture : ' Welbeck was surprised by Newark horse 

 under the command of Sir Richard Willis, about three weeks since. In a wood near 

 the port stood his horse in ambush, and when the trevall was beat, and they let down 

 their bridge for their scouts, our horse, under the command of Major Jarnot, a French- 

 man, rid hard, and though they pulled up the bridge a foot high yet they got in and 

 took it. They disputed every yard, and our men alighted and with their pistols scaled 

 and got in.' — Symonds, p. 224. Major Jarnot, more properly (as in the Life of Colonel 

 Hutchinson) Jammot, was a Walloon. Welbeck was finally disgarrisoned, by arrange- 

 ment between the two parties, in November 1645. 



