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nittee with having Some arms for the King, and 

 .1 rim- was paid lor his delinquent \ \: the luttle of 

 Worcester we find Mr. Howard of N.i worth righting 

 stoutly .is i.iptam of the life guards to his e\ielletuy 

 Oliver. Me was a Member of Parliament in the 

 Parliament of Barebonc, one ot the Comn.il of State, 

 atul of the Lord Protector's I louse of Peers. In 

 165*), he tried to save Ruhan.' Cromwell's Pi 

 torate, offering, with Ixml 

 Broghill, to strike a coup 

 </'</<// against the insubor- 

 ilinatc generals if Oliver's 

 weak-kneed son autho- 

 rised them to do so within 

 twenty-four hours. Their 

 offer being rejected, they 

 reconsidered their posi- 

 tion, and eventually joined 

 Monk and the Northern 

 Army. In the interval 

 he was twice imprisoned ; 

 but these passing mis- 

 fortunes do but show 

 that he was tacking 

 about with the times. 

 Such a man must 

 needs prosper at the 

 Restoration. King Charles 

 made him Ixrd l)acrc of 

 dillesland, Viscount 

 Howard of Morpeth, and 

 Earl of Carlisle, no more 

 being said of Oliver's 

 peerages, and Oliver's late 

 life guardsman rode in 

 Prince Rupert's troop of 

 horse, and became at last 

 I.irutcnant-Gcneral of the 

 Forces. He was Ambas- 

 sador to the Czar or 

 Muscovy and to the King 

 of Sweden, Govcrnor-in- 

 Chief of Jamaica, and was 

 carried to York Minster 

 in 1685. 



From his time on- 

 ward the history of the 

 Larls of Carlisle is the 

 history of great Whig 

 peers and landowners, 

 politicians holding most 

 of the high offices of State, 

 men of letters and 

 patrons of art, loving a 

 (reek urn and a well- 

 trimmed sonnet. The 

 third Karl is a type or 

 the rest. He was 

 . crnor of Carlisle 

 Castle, Lord-Lieutenant 

 ot Cumberland and Westmorland, and Vice-Admiral 

 of Cumberland ; Governor of Windsor Castle and 

 Warden of the Forest ; Constable of the Tower of 

 London and I-ord-I.icutcnant of the Tower Hamlets. 

 He was a Privy Councillor, First Ix>rd of the 

 Treasury, a Commissioner for the Union cf Scotland, 

 and a Ix>rd Justice of Great Britain at the death of 

 Queen Anne. He was Deputy F.arl Marshal, and 

 he was Master of the Foxhounds. Above all, he 



w.ts the patron of Nr John Vanbrugh and the builder 

 of Castle I toward. 



Ic Howard is no i.istlc, but a palate. It 

 was built, as the founder's obelisk declares, 

 where stood the old Castle of Hindcrskelf, and 

 it is in Bulmcr parish, a do/en miles from York. 

 For an anhiteit it ha.i that strange man <>t' 

 many par's, Sir John Vanbrugh. 



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dilles van Brugge migrated to London from 

 Ghent, in West ! landers, and had a son, who left 

 London tor Chester, being one ot those su^ar bakers 

 of foreign Mood at whom the Knglish made their 

 mock from King James's day to Thackeray's. Given 

 a prosperous sugar baker in sleepy Chester, the 

 wildest palmist or crystal-gazer would hardly promise 

 his son such a life as John Vanbrugh's. 1-irst he 

 must be a soldier, and the town knew him as Captain 



