570 APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX E. 



COLONEL CHBISTOPHER COPLEY. 



Sufficient has been said respecting Copley in the &quot;Life, Times, &c.,&quot; 

 pages 214, 215, to give interest to any matter that can afford in 

 formation respecting him. 



We here supply his auto 

 graph, from MSS. in the 

 British Museum, which may 

 be useful to collectors ; and 

 have also to offer the ac- 

 count he gives of himself and his affairs during the Commonwealth, 

 derived from Cole s MSS. also in the British Museum, No. 5832, 

 volume 31, page 209, as follows : 



I. (The following Case, wrote on half a sheet of paper, and was the 

 first draught as seems to me, by the alterations and scratch- 

 ings out of several words, and additions over them. I know 

 not how I came by it.) 



Col. Christopher Copley his Case. 

 Humbly sheweth, 



That the said Colonel Copley did, in the year 1642, at his own 

 charge raise a troop, and in 1644, a regiment of Horse, and supplied 

 the Parliament with Bar-iron and Bullets, which with other things 

 due amounted to the value of 1,843, whereof ^1,500 was granted 

 unto him as by an order of the 19th of July 1656, may at large 

 appear ; but is still unpaid. 



That during the greatest part of the years 1644, and 1645, he had 

 the command and care of several regiments of Horse, and by the 

 blessing of God upon his conduct and resolution, several pieces of 

 service were done, and victories obtained, whereby diverse of the 

 counties of England were settled in peace, to the great advantage of 

 the nation. 



That the Committees of all ridings of the county of York did, in 

 approbation of his service and fidelity, elect him to be Colonel of the 

 West-riding Eegiment of Horse in 1645 ; and the Parliament, by 

 their letter, under the hand of the 3J 4 . hon ble . Mr. Speaker, did 

 also assure him, that they would be ready upon all occasions to 

 testify their sense of his service ; and did after, in 1647, appoint him 



