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3. Then Custos Rotulorum of the County of Nottingham. 



4. And Custos Rotulorum of the County of Northumberland. 



Then if please God his Majesty come to his throne, which I make no 

 doubt of, certainly all my land that the rebels have possessed themselves 

 of I may lawfully take possession of without troubling his Majesty ; but 

 whereas my traitorous servant hath sold any land to any of those rebels, 

 that I may have my land again, since it was but in trust, which the law will 

 give me. But I speak of it only in this case, that any of the rebels that the 

 King might give to any courtier or others, if they have any of my land I 

 shall have great trouble with them, though justly they cannot possess it ; 

 and therefore I humbly desire his Majesty there may be an exception made 

 in my particular and in acquainting his Majesty with these particulars you 

 will oblige me very much, — Your most faithful servant, 



W. Newcastle. 



Antwerp, the 15th of August 1654 

 To Sir Ed. Nicholas 



{Domestic State Papers. Record Office.) 



Noble Sir, — I received yours of the 22d, and give you many hearty 

 thanks for the favour, for I assure you there could nothing rejoice me more 

 in the whole world than the King and the Duke of York to be so kind, and 

 my daily prayers shall be that it may ever continue. Now I will give 

 you my intelligence. I hear my friend and neighbour, Sir Gervase Clifton, 

 who at least is seventy years old, hath lately married, as I take it her 

 name is the Lady Alice Hastings, sister I believe to the Lord Loughborough, 

 with £4000 portion, Sir Gervase his second wife, so that off the next wife 

 he comes eight, and then I believe the mark will be out of his mouth. I 

 speak like an experienced horseman. This lady, I believe, is in years 

 for a maid, and a pretty tough hen for this Lent without eggs. I am so 

 tormented about my book of horsemanship as you cannot believe, with a 

 hundred several trades, I think, and the printing will cost above £1300, 

 which I could never have done but for my good friends Sir H. Cartwright 

 and Mr. Loving ; and I hope they shall lose nothing by it, and I am sure 

 they hope the like. I hope this next summer I may be so happy as to see 

 you, and believe me, — I am affectionately our most faithful servant, 



W. Newcastle. 



Antwerp, the 15th of Feb. 1656 



{Domestic State Papers. Reqord Office). 



Noble Sir, — I received the favour of yours of the 22d, and you have 

 obliged me very much, not only by your own letter, but by sending that 

 of Sir Henry Bennet. I beseech you put his Majesty in mind of his gracious 

 promise to me, in giving Sir Henry Bennet thanks for his favours to me. 

 I hope by your news that the Swede will go down, We have it here very 

 confidently reported, that the peace between the two crowns is very far 

 advanced (and truly I am not so wise as not to believe it, for all things con- 

 sidered, methinks it is very'probable), and then I hope the King cannot fail 

 of their aid. There are many noblemen, or at least lords, that are corned 

 over to Paris it is true, but those lords that can take such sudden appre- 

 hensions of fears so far off, I doubt will hardly have the courage to help 



