88 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1645. 



the &quot; Peter,&quot; bound for Dublin. The circumstance is too 

 interesting to epitomise, and might suffer in graphic 

 description by any attempt to curtail its minute parti 

 culars intended to interest his father and family. 



From this document we learn that the party left 

 Carnarvon for Dublin on the 25th of March, 1645 : 



* u John Bythell his letter to his father Eich: 

 Bythell, in Wyre hall. Wherein the much 

 admired Providence of God is to be observed 

 in commanding the seas, &c. 



&quot; Loving Father and Mother, 



u My duty remembered unto you, and my love 

 to my brother Peter and my sister. These are to 

 certify you that I am in health, but am very sorry that 

 I have such an occasion as this to write to you of. But 

 I pray you be not dismayed nor discouraged, for I trust 

 that that God that hath preserved me from my child 

 hood, and brought me into these troubles, will in his 

 good time deliver me from them again. For when I 

 went into a place into Wales, called Carnarvon, with a 

 small barque laden with corn, intending to go for 

 Dublin, which [where] it was my fortune to stay some 

 six weeks for a wind 5 in the interim there came 

 some great men from Oxford, and pressed the barque 

 for the King s service to carry them to Dublin, and 

 said if I did deny they would throw my corn over 

 board ; and they being of that power forced the barque 

 to go out with them. There was the Lord Herbert, and 

 the Lord John Somerset, the Lord Herbert s brother, 



* Additional Manuscripts, Brit. Museum, 1 1,331, Pint. CLXXIII. E, 3 vols. folio. 

 Lettered &quot; Letter-Book of Sir W. Brereton, 1645.&quot; 3 vols. folio. Vol. I. (old 

 page, 13 ; pencil page, 15.) Indexed &quot;From John Bythell to his father Richard 

 Bythell in Wyrehall, wherein the providence of God, in commanding the seas, is 

 observable.&quot; 



