G4 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1643. 



Sir John Winter, despairing of longer subsistence, 

 at length deserted the Forest, after first firing his house 

 at Lidney, and somewhat revenging himself for past 

 disasters by spoiling the Forest itself. 29 



In June, Charles I. addressed the following letter* to 

 the harassed Marquis of Worcester, conveying promises 

 as usual, after a personal interview with his son : 



&quot; WORCESTER, 



u I am very sensible of the miseries and dangers 

 which of late you have been in, and do hope the time 

 will come when I shall be able to requite all my good 

 subjects, and none sooner than you ; concerning the 

 changing of your title, and other particulars, I leave 

 to your son s relation, who knows my mind therein, 

 who will ever remain 



u Your most assured constant friend, 



&quot; CHARLES R.&quot; 



&quot; Oxford, 19th, June, 1643. 



&quot; For the Marquis of Worcester.&quot; 



Lady Harley, writing on the 13th of June, 1643, 

 observes : &quot; My Lord Herbert and Colonel Vavasour, 

 who is to be Governor of Hereford, is gone up into 

 Montgomeryshire to raise soldiers.&quot; 46 



On the 25th of July, 1643, Lord Herbert, having 

 sent a dispatch to Prince Rupert, &quot;f&quot; in which he found 

 he had omitted some important particulars, after 

 wards transmitted the same day by letter, dated from 

 Raglan Castle, to the following effect : 



&quot; MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HlGHNESS, 



&quot; Since my dispatch to you this morning there 

 occurs one thing which I then omitted, which I 



39 Corbet. * From MSS. Badminton. 46 Harley. 



f &quot;Rupert s correspondence, No. 18,980, vol. i. Brit. Mus. 



