74 JOURNAL OF JOHN ASTON, 1639 



Sir Alexander Davison, 20 a salter by trade ; and the towne 

 clarke, Sir Thomas Riddall. 



This night after the king had supped, Mr Richard Egerton 

 presented himselfe and Mr Tho. Egei^ton, his brother, in 

 cuirassier's armes on horseback, and six horsemen in buffe 

 coates and carbines. 



This same day Sir Wm. Savill's regiment, Yorke-shire men, 

 beeing 900 very able fellows, passed through the towne, and 

 the king came downe to the court gate to see them march. 



[May] 10. The 10, beeing Friday, 70 horse which came 

 out of Norfolke at their owne chardge conducted by Sir Wm. 

 Drui-y, and intended for the service of my lord generall, were 

 in requitall of the affeccion his countrey-men showed him, 

 honoured with the company of the lord generall him-selfe and 

 divers noblemen, and his own company fetched them in to 

 towne. 



And the same day 5,000 men marched through the towne 

 belonging to the lord generall, lord lieutenant generall, and 

 the master of the ordinance. 



[May] 11. The 11, beeing Saturday, was the first generall 

 muster of the privy chamber men and others of his maiestie's 

 neerest servants. Then our captains were chosen and wee 

 afterwards were disciplined. 



The Lord Chamberline was colonell or captain general]. 



The Lord Carnarvon, lieutenant colonell. 



Sir Fluke Huncks, serjeant major. 



Sir Henry Hungett,^! quartermaster. 



Mr Bevill Greenevill,^^ captain lieutenant to the Lord 

 Chamber laine's company. 



Mr Fretzwell, cornet. 



Captain Barker, one corporall. Quere the other. 



^^ Sir Alexander Davison, merchant adventnrer, mayor of Newcastle 

 1626 and 1638, was mortally wounded at the siege of Newcastle on 

 the 19th October 1644, and was buried in the church of St. Nicholas 

 on the 29th of the same month. Of. Welford, Men of Mark. New 

 History of Northumherland, Vol. viii., p. 298, note 3. 



21 Sir Henry H ungate was knighted 20th April 1619. 



^ This name is altered from Sir Frederick ConwalHs. Sir Bevjl 

 Grenville was knighted 23rd June 1639. 



