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[May] 6. The king came to towne on Monday the 6th, 

 was met upon the way about half a mile out of towne with the 

 lord generall's and lord lieutenant generall's troupes of horse, 

 and by many of the servants in their souldier's equipage on 

 horseback, the king himselfe having left his coach and mounted 

 on horse-back, soe entered the towne, and, in the markett place, 

 called Sand-hill, neare the Southgate, hee was attended by the 

 maior and aldermen, and there the towne dark, Mr Thomas 

 RiddelF" (in the recorder's stead, hee beeing then sicke) pro- 

 nounced a gratulatory speech to the king, and in the name of 

 the citty presented him with a purse of gould. Afterwards 

 the king rode up and was lodged at Mr Lyddall's^** house in 

 Pilgrim Streete, one of the alldermen, and the bells and ordinance 

 from the walls, beeing about 26, ecchoed his welcome. 



[May] 5. The Sonday before which was the 5th a pro- 

 clamacion was openly read in time of Divine service in St. 

 Nicholas church, proclaiming pardon to the Scotts, etc., if 

 they would come in within 8 days, if not, they must expect 

 the king's wrath, vid. proclamacion. 



Now began the preparations to bee more warrlike, the 

 numbers of souldiours to encrease, officers to bee chosen and 

 discipline to bee used ; and all sounded now nothing but blood 

 and death ; yet the Scots held their countenance still. 



[May] 9. The 9th, being Thursday, the king and all his 

 servants were feasted at the maior's and some of the allder- 

 men's houses. Wee of the privy chamber (with divers others) 

 at Sir Lyonell Maddison's.^-' And the king for a reward cf 

 their munificence, honoured the maior with knighthood, 



" Sir Thomas Riddell of Fenham became colonel of one of the Foot 

 regiments ; he died in exile and was buried in the church of St. 

 Jaques at Antwerp in April 1652. Cf. new Hiiitory of Northumberland , 

 Vol. II., p. 284; Vol. VIII., pp. 183-188; and Brand, Newcastle, Vol. ii., 

 p. 215n. 



18 jjj, Thomas Liddell of Newcastle, merchant adventurer, created a 

 baronet in 1642. 



^^ Sir Lionel Maddison, merchant adventurer, mayor of Newcastle in 

 1632, died on the 18th of November 1646, and was honoured with a 

 magnificent monument in the church of St. Nicholas. Cf. Welford, 

 Men of Mark, where a memoir may be found, 

 K 



