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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



that it was to be feared he could raise nothing" on it, to aid in settling 

 his fine, and therefore begging* that consideration be shewn him on 

 that account. But on the other hand, and greatly aggravating his 

 case, a long declaration was at the same time made by his brother, 

 Edward, Lord Howard, of Escrick, that standing engaged as he did 

 for sundry debts of the Earl, there had been made over to him by 

 deed, before the war, the whofe of the EarPs personal estate in the 

 two houses at Ewelme and Westminster, a fact admitted by the 

 Earl's wife and eldest son. Tbe House thereupon made an order 

 against either of the two houses being despoiled ; a caution of no 

 efficacy, for Fairfax's soldiers, as above shewn, got possession of the 

 London house, and the mansion of Ewelme fared no better ; the 

 contents were scattered among the neighbourhood or found their 

 way to London for sale ; leaving to Lord Escrick no other remedy 

 than a renewed order from the House to prosecute the plunderers 

 when he could lay hold of them. 



Charles, Lord Howar© op Charlton, Viscount Andover. 

 Eldest son of the above. The Lords' Journals contain several 

 documents relating to this nobleman ; the following will be sufficient 

 to represent his case. In 1645, having obtained from the King 

 license to retire into Holland, he writes from Oxford soliciting from 

 Lord Essex a pass, to convey his servants and horses with him, and 

 on his way to spend a few days at Charlton, in Wilts. The request 

 was refused, but the next year he made a more successful attempt 

 to leave the country ; and the following letter written by him soon 

 after the King's death will carry on his narrative : — 



u To Viscount Rochforty or whomsoever is Speaker of the Lords. 



"Dover Castle, 10 July, 1649. 



11 My Loed. I was yesterday the 10th of this month cast in by a tempest at 

 Broadstreet in the Isle of Thanet, and there apprehended by the country and 

 carried to Margate ; from whence as I hear, they acquainted the deputy 

 lieutenants of Kent with my seizure ; and whilst we expected their orders, 

 Major Carter from Sandwich sent a troop of horse for me, who brought me to 

 Colonel Rich's quarters at Walmar, and he immediately sent me to Dover Castle. 

 At first so many various conjectures were made of my being in those parts, that 

 finding myself both discovered and apprehended too, I thought It every way 

 best neither to deny my person nor my intention, which was, at any rate or 

 hazard, to have gone t© my master the Prince (since your lordships were pleased 



