142 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1646. 



Closet Keeper. 



Gentleman of the Chapel, Mr. Davies. 

 Keeper of the Record. 



Master of the Wardrobe. Master of the Armory. 

 Master Groom of the Stables for the war horses, twelve. 



Master of the Hounds. Master Falconer. 



Porter and his Men, two Butchers, two Keepers of the 

 Home Park, two Keepers of the Eed Deer Park, Foot 

 men, Grooms, and other menial servants to the num 

 ber of 150. Some of the footmen were butchers and 

 bakers. 



Out Officers. 



Steward of Raglan, Wm. Jones, Esq. Governor of 

 Chepstow, Sir Mich. Keneys, Bart. Housekeeper of 

 Worcester House in London, James Eedman, Esq. 

 Bailiffs thirteen ; two Counsel for the Bailiffs to have 

 recourse to. Solicitor, Mr. Jos. Smith. 



His Lordship appears to have been very indif 

 ferently informed respecting his son s operations in Ire 

 land. The conveyance of communications of any kind 

 was difficult, hazardous, and uncertain. Of this a rather 

 romantic instance occurs in the relation given of his 

 adventures, by Allen Boteler, in his documentary 

 evidence entitled : &quot; A most true account of my busi 

 ness from his Majesty at Oxford, intended for the most 

 honourable the Marquis of Ormond, it being the last 

 of my [engagements in ?] these employments.&quot; It is a 

 long, prolix account, but sufficiently interesting from the 

 facts it details to be given in extenso. He states : 



&quot; On Friday night being the 22nd of February, 1646, 

 I was conveyed to Abbington by Sir George Lisle, and 

 a party under his command, and from thence near 

 Cisseter, where I parted from them, took a guide and 

 went to Sir William Pooles, from whence by night I 

 was carefully guided to Sir Robert Poyntz s at Acton, 



