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ters patent was created Baronefs of Ogle. Her fon Sir William Ca- 

 uendi/h, was made Knighjt of the Bath at the creation of Henry 

 Prince of Wales, 8 K.James I, 1610; Baron Ogle, of Ogle, and Vif- 

 count Mansfeld, 1 8th of the fame reign ; Baron Bertram and Bd- 

 fo-uer, and Earl of NeivcafUe, 3 K. Charles I j Marquis of Neivcajlle, 

 i pth of the fame reign ; Earl of Ogle, and Duke of Ne-wcaflle^ \6 

 K. Charles II, 1664 ; to whom he had the honour of being gover- 

 nor, and mewed himfelf worthy of royal favour, and of the 

 friendlhip and confidence of a king. "When fo many were 

 wanting in their duty to his old mailer, K. Charles I, he flood by 

 him with his life and fortune, put Neivcajtle, and the caftle and 

 harbour of Tynemonth, in a date of defence, raifed a regiment in 

 Northumberland at his own charge, confiding of a 1000 men, the 

 officers of the bed families. He engaged and defeated the parlia- 

 ment forces under Lord Fairfax at Atherton-Moor, near Bradford, in 

 YorkJJjire, took all their artillery, 22 cannon, and many colours and 

 ftandards. Which victory fo frightened his majcfly's enemies, that 

 by an embafly they invited and prevailed with the Scots to come 

 into England and join them, in extreme frofty and fnowy weather. 

 At the battle of MarJlon-Moor, he was at the head of his Northum- 

 berland regiment, where he had the mortification to fee it deferted 

 by the horfe, yet fuch was their ardour, fuch their courage and 

 magnanimity, that to a man they difdained either to fly from, 

 or afk quarter of, the parliament-forces, but fufTered themfelves 

 to be cut down by heaps, rank and file, as they flood. Their 

 regimentals were white, which made them to be called, White- 

 Coats. A colour worthy to didinguifh fuch godlike fouls! 



After this battle, the Lord Marquis of Neivcaflle, his two 

 fons, and his brave brother, Sir Charles Ca-vendiftj, who was a 

 man, fays my Lord Clarendon, of the nobleft and largefl mind, 

 though the lead and mod inconvenient body that lived ; General 



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