88 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



Gainsborough, Colonel St. George. 

 Bullingbrook Castle, Lieutenant-Colonel Chester. 

 Belvoir Castle, Sir Gervas Lucas. 



In Derbyshire 1 



Bolsover Castle, Colonel Muschamp. 

 Wingfield Manor, Colonel Roger Molyneux. 

 Staveley House, the now Lord Fretchvile. 



A List of the General Officers of the Army 



i. The Lord-General, the now Duke of Newcastle, the noble sub- 

 ject of this book. 



2. The Lieutenant-General of the Army ; first the Earl of New- 



port, afterwards the Lord Eythin. 



3. The General of the Ordnance, Charles, Viscount Mansfield. 



4. The General of the Horse, Lord Goring. 



5. The Colonel-General of the Army, Sir Thomas Glenham. 



6. The Major-General of the Army, Sir Francis Mackworth. 



7. The Lieutenant-General of the Horse, first Mr. Charles Cavendish, 



after him Sir Charles Lucas. 



8. Commissary-General of Horse, first Colonel Windham, after 



him Sir William Throckmorton, and after him Mr. George 

 Porter. 



9. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, Sir William Davenant. 



10. Treasurer of the Army, Sir William Carnaby. 



11. Advocate-General of the Army, Dr. Liddal. 



12. Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mr. Ralph Errington. 



13. Providore-General 2 of the Army, Mr. Gervas Nevil, and after 



Mr. Smith. 



14. Scout-Master-General of the Army, Mr. Hudson 3 . 



15. Wagon-Master General-of the Army, Baptist Johnson. 



relief of Newark ; reoccupied by the Cavaliers, and taken again by Manchester, May 

 6, 1644. Rushworth, III, ii, 621. Gainsborough was taken the same October 1643. 



Bullingbrook Castle is mentioned as captured in The Scottish Dove, October 27 to 

 November 3, 1643. 



Belvoir, surrendered January 31, 1646. Peck's Desiderata Ciiriosa, p. 345. 



1 Bolsover Castle, August 12, 1644. 

 Wingfield Manor, August 14, 1644. 



Staveley House, August 21, 1644. These three houses were all taken by Major- 

 General Crawford with a detachment of Manchester's army, after the battle of Marston 

 Moor. Rushworth, III, ii, 644. 



2 The precise duties of these officers can best be gathered from Markham's Five De- 

 cades of Epistles of War. Providore-General is what he calls Victual Master, Provant- 

 Master, or Purveyor. 



3 Michael Hudson, D.D., of Queen's College, Oxford, the King's guide and companion 

 in his flight from Oxford. He was killed at the capture of Woodcroft House in North- 

 amptonshire, June 6, 1648. See the numerous documents relating to him in Peck's 

 Desiderata Curiosa, pp. 347, 379 ; and also Portland MSS., i, 368-84. 



