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on each side with 2 squadrons of carbines ; and the king was 

 much pleased with the sight, and rode by every troupe, and 

 by him selfe or the captaine's published his pleasing acceptacion 

 of our affeccions to serve him, and to our troupe, the Lord 

 Carnarvon, our commander, delivered the king's contentment 

 to see us in this familiar complement that the king commended 

 his service to us, with thankes, and that hee received soe much 

 delight in viewing us that wee must all meete againe the Wed- 

 nesday following : but I believe his lordshipp delivered the 

 message accordinge to his owne expression, and not from the 

 king's mouth. This battalia of horse of the king's servants 

 and theire attendants, I guesse not to be above 400, for wee 

 were never above 10 in rancke and vi deepe. 



[May] 22. The 22nd oi May, beeing Wednesday, wee were 

 (by command the foi'mer day) to have shewed our horse againe, 

 and beene disciplined, but scjme occurrences chandged those 

 oi'dei's and wee were that day commanded by sound of 

 trumpet to accompany our cornet- and march towards Barwick.'^^ 



The king had heere i-eceived some intelligence of a defeate 

 the Scots had given Marquisse Huntley about Aberdene, that 

 they had surprised 3,000 armes sent to him by the king and 

 some moneys in the towne, and that they had carryed the 

 marquisse prisoner to Edenburgh Castle. This, or some such 

 relation was brought the king to Mr Lyddall's house in New- 

 Castle by a Scottsh gentleman sent by a younger sonne of 

 Marquisse Huntley's, (the eldest beeing taken prisoner with 

 his father) in the disguise of a fidler, and lest this plot should 

 be discovered the marquisse's sonne, who sent him, within 3 



^® In HoUai-'s rare and highly interesting engraving of " The Severall 

 Formes How King Charles his Arnaey enquartered in the feilds being 

 past New Castle on the march toward Scotland, Anno Domini 1638," 

 it is shown that five out of seven regiments of troops lodged on 

 Bockenfield-moor, near Felton, on the 21st of May, that six regiments 

 were quartered on Rock-moor on the 22nd of May, that the whole 

 seven regiments were quartered near Detchant wood, Belford, on the 

 23rd of May, and that they were quartered on Goswick moor from 

 the 24th to the 27th of May, on which latter day " they marcht away 

 to the Grand Leaguer" [between the villages of West Ord and Horn- 

 cliife]. This print is reproduced in the new History of Northumberland, 

 Vol. I., p. 400. 



