1642 ] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 51) 



Officers expenses to York . . 1,500 



Besides, by his Majesty s command, victual 

 ling the Tower, Sir John Byron being Lord- 

 Lieutenant, for which purpose, he &quot; sent him 

 in old plate, under pretence of coining it&quot; . 2,500 



And further, obtaining through some pre 

 tence, leave of absence, from the Parliament, 

 he proceeded with their pass to York, carry 

 ing to the King in ready money . . 15,000 

 And in bills and assurances . . 80,500 

 For these his Majesty giving his &quot; note for 

 ninety-five thousand five hundred pounds,&quot; his 

 Lordship returned in two days. 



Raising Sir John Byron s regiment of Horse, 

 the first completed . . . 5,000 



Representing a total of 122,500 



Annexed to the record of this vast outlay, Lord Her 

 bert has left us a short piece of autobiography. u Things 

 being thus set in order, (he says) between his Majesty 

 and me, I fairly took leave of the Parliament, to go 

 down to my father; where I no sooner arrived but 

 there came directed unto me from his Majesty a Com 

 mission of Array ; whereof I presently, by a servant of 

 my own, sent word to the Parliament, with a letter to 

 the House of Lords, which I directed to my Lord of 

 Holland, and to the House of Commons, to Mr. Pym; 

 in both which I offered to intercede to his Majesty, and 

 conceived I should prevail to suspend the Commission 

 of Array, if they should make an Act that their 

 Militia should not come into my country. But they 

 with civil compliments and thanks replied that his 

 Majesty s [proceedings] was so illegal, and theirs for 

 the good of the kingdom so just and necessary, that by 



