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in Derbyshire, he ordered some part of his army to 

 march before a strong house and garison of the 

 enemies, called Wingfield Mannor, which in a short 

 time they took by storm. And when My Lord had 

 raised in that county as many forces, horse and foot, 

 as were supposed to be sufficient to preserve it from 

 the fury of the enemy, he armed them, and con- 

 stituted an honourable person Commander-in-Chief 

 of all the forces of that county, and of Leicestershire ; 

 and so leaving it in that condition, marched in 

 December 1643, from Chesterfield to Bolsover in the 

 same county, and from thence to Welbeck in Notting- 

 hamshire, to his own house and garison, in which 

 parts he staid some time, both to refresh his army, 

 and to settle and reform some disorders he found 

 there, leaving no visible enemy behind him in Derby- 

 shire, save onely an inconsiderable party in the town 

 of Derby, which they had fortified, not worth the 

 labour to reduce it. 



About this time the report came, that a great army 

 out of Scotland, was upon their march towards the 

 northern parts of England, to assist the enemy against 

 His Majesty, which forced the nobihty and gentry of 

 Yorkshire to invite My Lord back again into those 

 parts, with promise to raise for his service an army of 

 10,000 men; My Lord (not upon this proffer, which 

 had already heretofore deceived him, but out of his 

 loyalty and duty to preserve those parts which were 

 committed to his care and protection) returned in the 

 middle of January 1643. And when he came there, 

 he found not one man raised to assist him against so 

 powerful an army, nor an intention of raising any; 

 wherefore he was necessitated to raise himself, out 

 of the countrey, what forces he could get, and when 

 he had settled the affairs in Yorkshire as well as 



