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party had not quitted him, in hopes to gain him on 

 their side. 



3. After His Majesty had sent My Lord to New- 

 castle upon Tyne, to take upon him the Government 

 of that place, and he had raised there, of friends and 

 tenants, a troup of horse and regiment of foot, which 

 he ordered to conveigh some arms and ammunition 

 to His Majesty, sent by the Queen out of Holland; 

 His Majesty was pleased to keep the same convoy 

 with him to encrease his own forces, which although 

 it was but of a small number, yet at that present time 

 it would have been very serviceable to My Lord, he 

 having then but begun to raise forces. 



4. When Her Majesty the now Queen-Mother, 

 after her arrival out of Holland to York, had a pur- 

 pose to conveigh some armes to His Majesty, My Lord 

 ordered a party of 1500 to conduct the same, which 

 His Majesty was pleased to keep with him for his own 

 service. 



5. After Her Majesty had taken a resolution to go 

 from York to Oxford, where the King then was ; My 

 Lord for her safer conduct quitted 7000 men of his 

 army, with a convenient train of artillery, which 

 likewise never returned to My Lord. 



6. When the Earl of Montross was going into 

 Scotland, he went to My Lord at Durham, and desired 

 of him a supply of some forces for His Majesties ser- 

 vice ; where My Lord gave him 200 horse and dragoons 

 even at such a time when he stood most in need of a 

 supply himself, and thought every day to encounter 

 the Scottish army. 



7. When My Lord out of the northern parts went 

 into Lincoln and Derbyshires with his army, to order 

 and reduce them to their allegiance and duty to His 

 Majesty, and from thence resolved to march into 



