Rev. R. W. Bosanquet, A.M., on Rock Hall. 65 



perfectly true, as we learn from Rushworth's collections, 

 relating to the year 1648, that on the 2nd of May 

 " came letters " (to the House of Commons) to the effect 

 that Berwick was surprised by Sir Marmaduke Langdale 

 and Sir Charles Lucas with a party of 120 horse, who 

 pretended a commission from the prince of Wales for 

 that purpose. The mayor endeavoured to get strength to 

 oppose them, but could not ; so that they have possession of 

 the whole town." And under date of May 8th, of the same 

 year, we learn from the same authority that " letters from 

 the North signify that Sir M. Langdale has taken Berwick 

 and Sir Thomas Glenham and Sir Phil. Musgrove Carlile." 

 * * * Then a little further on " Langdale pretends to be 

 general (by commission from prince Charles) of the five 

 northern counties, where he is now arming and giving com- 

 missions. Colonel Grey is to be Lieut. -General ; several 

 gentlemen of the county are made Colonels." This is coming 

 pretty near home, and John Salkeld may easily have been 

 made colonel, either by his own merits or by the influence of 

 the new lieut.-general. Rushworth's Collections, 1646 to 

 1648, Vol. VI. p. 387, 389.* 



With regard to these enterprises against the towns of Ber- 

 wick and Carlisle having been a " rise to the warr of '48," I 

 find in a life Cromwell, published in 1725, that the war of 

 1648 was spoken and treated of as " the second civil war," 

 and in speaking of its commencement the following passage 

 soon occurs. " But the fiercest storm threatened from pre- 

 parations in the north, where Sir Marmaduke Langdale and 

 others of the king's party having surprized the strong town 

 of Berwick, and Sir Thomas Glenham that of Carlisle, had 

 raised a considerable body to join with the Scots, were now 

 about to enter England with a powerful army." The Life 

 of Oliver Cromwell, 8fc. collected from the best historians, 

 second edition, London, 1725, see pp. 79-80. 



It may not appear to be a very important question whether 

 this Col. Salkeld, whose epitaph we are considering, was the 

 son or the grandson of that John Salkeld the younger, who 

 bought the estate in 1620, and died in 1629 ; but it so 

 happens that the question bears upon a piece of antiquity of 

 some little interest, viz., the foundation stone of what used 



* These passages from Kushworth and the life of Cromwell, which elucidate 

 the meaning of certain expressions in the epitaph on Col. Salkeld's monument, 

 were brought to my notice by my son, Mr. 0. B. P. Bosanquet. 



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