cp The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



commission), if some of the contrary party had not quitted 

 him, in hopes to gain him on their side. 



3. After his Majesty had sent my Lord to Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, to take upon him the government of that place, and 

 he had raised there, of friends and tenants, a troop of horse 

 and regiment of foot, which he ordered to convey some arms 

 and ammunition to his Majesty, sent by the Queen out of 

 Holland ; his Majesty was pleased to keep the same convoy 

 with him to increase his own forces, which, although it was 

 but of a small number, yet at that present time it would have 

 been very serviceable to my Lord, he having then but begun 

 to raise forces, 



4. When her Majesty, the now Queen Mother, after her 

 arrival out of Holland to York, had a purpose to convey some 

 arms to his Majesty, my Lord ordered a party of 1500 to con- 

 duct the same, which his Majesty was pleased to keep with him 

 for his own service. 



5. After her Majesty had taken a resolution to go from York 

 to Oxford, where the King then was, my Lord for her safer 

 conduct quitted 7,000 men Of his army, with a convenient 

 train of artillery, which likewise never returned to my Lord. 



6. When the Earl of Montrose was going into Scotland, he 

 went to my Lord at Durham, and desired of him a supply 

 of some forces for his Majesty's service ; when my Lord gave 

 him 200 horse and dragoons, even at such a time when he stood 

 most in need of a supply himself, and thought every day to 

 encounter the Scottish army *. 



7. When my Lord out of the northern parts went into 

 Lincoln- and Derby- shires with his army, to order and reduce 

 them to their allegiance and duty to his Majesty, and from 

 thence resolved to march into the Associate Counties (where 

 in all probability he would have made an happy end of the war), 

 he was so importuned by those he left behind him, and par- 

 ticularly the Commander-in-Chief, to return into Yorkshire 

 (alleging the enemy grew strong and would ruin them all 

 if he came not speedily to succour and assist them), that 

 in honour and duty he could do no otherwise but grant their 

 requests ; when as yet being returned into those parts, he 

 found them secure and safe enough from the enemy's attempts. 



1 See p. 35. 



2 See p. 30. Slingsby says Lord Newcastle marched in Lincolnshire, took Gains- 

 borough, ' and had done greater matters in that county had he not been too hastily 



