Communicated hy Mr. James Waylen. 



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to remand my pass) to pay to him those domestic duties that hy my oath I am 

 bound to do. Therefore seeing I ought to be neither examined nor heard before 

 any but the Lords in Parliament, thither I appeal, protesting against any other 

 judicature. My lord, your lordship's most humble servant, 



" Howard of Chaelton." 



Further contumacy being- unavailing, he petitions, 19th July, 

 1649, admitting that he adhered unto and assisted the forces raised 

 against the Parliament ; but he affirms that about the year 1646 he 

 left the King's party and withdrew himself into parts beyond the 

 sea where he still continued. His servants, John Stacey and William 

 Williams, making oath that he was a resident in Exeter within 

 three months before the treaty for the rendition thereof, he is in a 

 position to claim the benefit of the articles of Exeter. As to his 

 estate ; by virtue of a conveyance made to him by his father, the 

 Earl of Berkshire, in 1640, he is seised of a freehold for life, re- 

 mainder to the Lady Dorothy, his wife, and heirs, remainder in fee 

 to the Earl of Berkshire, of and in a moiety of the manor of 

 Hankerton, with lands there and at Charlton and Brokenborough, 

 worth £250 per annum. Fine, £375 ; dated 25th September, 1649. 



The Earl of Berkshire died at a very advanced age, some time 

 after the Restoration, but not before he had received gratifying 

 marks of the royal favour. On the 12th of April, 1662, a grant 

 was made to him of £8000, being £5000 for himself and £3000 

 for his daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Dryden ; to be paid at the rate 

 of £1000 a year by the Receiver for Yorkshire ; but on the discovery 

 that the Yorkshire revenue was mostly settled on the Queen, the 

 liability was transferred to Somerset and Dorset. Eventually, " on 

 account of the great extremity of the Earl's affairs/' it was assigned 

 upon the Receiver-General of rents. As a further solatium a con- 

 firmation was soon after made to him and to his son, Sir Robert 

 Howard, of the Green- Wax fines in the Exchequer for thirty-one 

 years, at £577 rent, and of the Post-fines in the Common Pleas for 

 forty-eight years, at £2276 rent. The personal history of the other 

 members of the Earl's numerous family constitutes a copious chapter 

 in the annals of that period, but in the matter of sequestration there 

 is not much more to say about them. Sir Robert, the sixth son, 



