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12. After his return into England, Chief-Justice in Eyre 

 Trent-North r . 



13. He created him Duke of Newcastle and Earl of Ogle. 



7. Of the Entertainments he made for King Charles the First 



Though my Lord hath always been free and noble in his 

 entertainments and feastings, yet he was pleased to show his 

 great affection and duty to his gracious King, Charles the First, 

 and her Majesty the Queen in some particular entertainments 

 which he made of purpose for them before the late wars. 



When his Majesty was going into Scotland to be crowned, 

 he took his way through Nottinghamshire ; and lying at Work- 

 sop Manor, hardly two miles distant from Welbeck, where my 

 Lord then was, my Lord invited his Majesty thither to a dinner, 

 which he was graciously pleased to accept of 2 . This enter- 

 tainment cost my Lord between four and five thousand 

 pounds ; which his Majesty liked so well, that a year after his 

 return out of Scotland, he was pleased to send my Lord word, 

 that her Majesty the Queen was resolved to make a progress 

 into the northern parts, desiring him to prepare the like enter- 

 tainment for her, as he had formerly done for him. Which 

 my Lord did, and endeavoured for it with all possible care and 

 industry, sparing nothing that might add splendour to that 

 feast, which both their Majesties were pleased to honour with 

 their presence : Ben Jonson he employed in fitting such scenes 

 and speeches as he could best devise ; and sent for all the 

 gentry of the country to come and wait on their Majesties ; 

 and, in short, did all that ever he could imagine, to render 

 it great, and worthy of their royal acceptance. 



This entertainment he made at Bolsover Castle in Derby- 

 shire, some five miles distant from Welbeck, and resigned 

 Welbeck for their Majesties' lodging ; it cost him in all between 

 fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds. 



1 July 10, 1661. Doyle, Official Baronage. 



2 Clarendon thus describes these entertainments {Rebellion, i, 167) : ' Both King 

 and court were received and entertained by the Earl of Newcastle, and at his own proper 

 expense, in such a wonderful manner, and in such an excess of feasting, as had never 

 before been known in England ; and would still be thought very prodigious, if the same 

 noble person had not, within a year or two afterwards, made the King and Queen a 

 more stupendous entertainment ; which (God be thanked), though possibly it might 

 too much whet the appetite of others to excess, no man ever after imitated.' 



Jonson's two Masques are entitled The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Notting- 

 hamshire, etc., and Love's Welcome — The King's and Queen's entertainment at Bolsover, 

 the 20th of July 1634. 



