32 The Duchess of Newcastle 



arrived at Newcastle, laden with some ammunition, 

 armes, regiment pieces, and Danish clubs; which 

 My Lord kept for the furnishing of some forces which 

 he intended to raise for His Majesties service; for he 

 perceiving the flames increase more and more in both 

 Houses of Parliament, then sitting at Westminster, 

 against His Majesties person and government; upon 

 consultation with his friends and allies, and the 

 interest he had in those northern parts, took a resolu- 

 tion to raise an army for His Majesties service, and 

 by an express acquainted His Majesty with his design ; 

 who was so well pleased with it, that he sent him 

 commissions for that purpose, to constitute him 

 general of all the forces raised and to be raised in all 

 the parts of the kingdom, Trent -North, and moreover 

 in the several counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, 

 Lancashire, Cheshire, Leicester, Rutland, Cam- 

 bridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, 

 and commander in chief for the same; as also to 

 impower and authorize him to confer the honour of 

 knighthood upon such persons as he should conceive 

 deserved it, and to coin money and print whensoever 

 he saw occasion for it. Which as it was not onely a 

 great honour, but a great trust and power; so he 

 used it with much discretion and wisdom, onely in 

 such occurrencies, where he found it tending to the 

 advancement of His Majesties service, and conferred 

 the honour of knighthood sparingly, and but on such 

 persons whose valiant and loyal actions did justly 

 deserve it, so that he knighted in all to the number 

 of twelve. 



Within a short time. My Lord formed an army of 

 8000 foot, horse and dragoons, and put them into a 

 condition to march in the beginning of November, 

 1642. No sooner was this effected, but the insurrec- 



