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104 ; autobiography of the 

 Duchess, being Book XI. 

 of it, 149-178 

 Plays, xxv 

 Orations, xxiv 

 Philosophical Letters, xxvii ; 



quoted, 174 

 Sociable Letters, xxiv, 67 

 Observations upon Experi- 

 mental Philosophy., xxvii 

 Grounds of Natural Philo- 

 sophy, xxvii 

 Her reasons for writing, xxix 

 Her manner of writing, 172 ; 

 accused of plagiarism and 

 imposture, xxxvi, 151; 

 difficulties with her secre- 

 taries, xxxvii 

 Cavendish, Mary, 1 , 118 

 Cavendish, Sir William, grand- 

 father of the Duke of New- 

 castle, 1, 113, ct seq 

 Cavendish, William, Earl of 

 Devonshire, 4, 50, 74 ; family 

 of, 114 

 Cavendish, William, Duke of 

 Newcastle, editions of his 

 Life by the Duchess, v ; 

 criticisms on it, vi ; his services 

 during the Civil War, vii-x ; 

 Clarendon's character of him 

 x-xii ; Warwick's character of 

 him, xiv ; his encouragement 

 of literature, xii-xvii ; his 

 own plays, xvii, 109 ; his 

 poems, xvii, xviii, 109 ; his 

 works on horsemanship, xviii- 

 xx, 206 ; date of his death, 

 xxx ; his epitaph on the 

 Duchess, xxx ; Epistle of 

 the Duchess to him, prefixed 

 to his Life, xxxv ; his orders 

 to the Duchess respecting her 

 Life of himself, xxxix ; letters 

 of Charles I and Charles II 



to him, xli, xlii ; an incom- 

 parable master to his servants, 

 xlvii ; his good management 

 of his estate, xlviii ; his 

 descent, 1, 113 ; made Knight 

 of the Bath, 2 ; his travels, 

 2 ; his first marriage, 3, 20 ; 

 made Viscount Mansfield, 3 ; 

 created Earl of Newcastle, 5 ; 

 appointed Governor to Prince 

 Charles, 5, 183 his advice 

 to the Prince, 184, 187 ; 

 service during the first Scotch 

 war, 6, 74 ; quarrel with 

 Lord Holland, 6 ; resigns his 

 post as Governor to the 

 Prince, 8 ; his share in the 

 Army plot, 8 ; his attempt 

 to obtain possession of Hull 

 for the King, 8,9, 187 made 

 governor of Newcastle and 

 the four Northern Counties, 

 10 ; made General of all the 

 King's forces north of the 

 Trent, 12 ; empowered to 

 make knights, 13 ; invited 

 into Yorkshire, 13 ; enters 

 Yorkshire, 14 ; his Declara- 

 tions, xli, 14 ; attacks Tad- 

 caster, 16 ; sends Sir William 

 Savile into the West Riding, 

 17 ; receives the Queen and 

 conducts her to York, 18, 19 ; 

 gains Scarborough, 19 ; second 

 attack on the West Riding, 

 20 ; takes Rotherham, 2 1 ; 

 takes Sheffield, 22 ; the Queen 

 sent to Oxford with a large 

 army, 23, 90 ; third attack 

 on the West Riding, 23 ; 

 Newcastle takes Howley Hall, 

 23, 24, 215 ; defeats the Fair- 

 faxes at Atherton, 25, 215, 

 216 ; invades Lincolnshire, 26 ; 

 takes Gainsborough, 28 ; takes 



