and was tried for contracting with some officers to deliver up one of the block-houses in that garrison for the service of Charles II. Cromwell, who was informed that the Royalists throughout the kingdom were intent upon a scheme to restore the King, was resolved to intimidate that party by sacrificing Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit. They were brought before the High Court of Justice where Lisle presided; they denied the jurisdiction of the Court, but were condemned without any ceremony. Sir Henry Slingsby was a man of deeds rather than words. He said very little upon his trial, and as little upon the scaffold. He persisted in his loyalty and told the people that he died for being an honest man. Beheaded June 8, 1658. After his execution, the authorities permitted his remains to be removed by his friends, and they were buried in the Slingsby Chapel in Knaresborough Church. (See Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby,' edited by Rev. Daniel Parsons, London, 1836.) SIR WILLIAM VAVASOUR. Son of Sir Thomas Vavasour, of Haslewood in the county of York. Commander-in-chief of the Gloucestershire forces, engaged at Marston Moor, 1644, where his brother Thomas was slain. Being disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battle, he left the King's service and went over to Hamburgh. Afterwards he joined the Swedish service, and was killed under the walls of Copenhagen, 1658 or 1659. SIR THOMAS ASTON. Was created a Baronet by King Charles I., 25th July, 1628, and was subsequently in the Civil Wars a zealous supporter of the Royal cause. He died at Stafford from wounds received in the King's service, 24th May, 1645. SIR ANTHONY MANSEL, Governor of Cardiff, son of Sir Francis Mansel, Bart., of Trimsaren, co. Caermarthen. SIR EDWARD STRADLING. Of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire. This gentleman, who, like his father and uncles, was a zealous royalist, brought a troop of horse to the assistance of the King at Newbury, and after the loss of that day, retired to Oxford, where he died of consumption. Burke's 'Extinct Baronetage.' SIR MICHAEL WODEHOUSE. Governor of Ludlow. He had been sometime page to the Marquis of Hamilton, had served in Ireland; whence returning early in 1643, he was preferred to be SergeantMajor-General of the army of Prince Charles, and to the command of his life-guards. Webb's Civil War in Herefordshire, vol. i, p. 387. SIR JACOB ASTLEY. This stout old commander, more especially referred to in the account of the Second Battle, was father of Sir Bernard Astley. He served in the Netherlands under Prince Maurice and his brother Henry, and afterwards under Christian IV. King of Denmark and Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. He was wounded before Gloucester; and, for his signal services, he was created Baron of Reading, 20, Car. I. The title became extinct on the death of his grandson Jacob. SIR JOHN FRECHVILLE. For the services rendered by Sir John Frechville to the royal cause, and on his petition to the King, a warrant was signed by Charles I. at Oxford, 25th March, 1644, for his creation as a peer by the style of Lord Frechville, of Staveley, Musard, and Fitz-Ralph. The preamble of the patent takes notice of the loyalty of the said Sir John Frechville, and his eminent services against the "rebels," at Kineton, Brentford, Marlborough, Newbury, and many other places, where he had received several wounds. Christian Frechville, daughter to John, Lord Frechville, married Charles, Lord St. John, eldest son to John, Marquis of Winchester and Earl of Wiltshire, 28 Feb., 1651, and departed this life 22 July, 1653, dying in childbed, The following lines in the hand-writing of Sir John Frechville were taken out of a Bible formerly in his possession: "Mownt, mownt my soul, adiewe vaine world, adiewe, under which was written: "Ve misero patri superstiti". which may be translated; "Woe to the unhappy father who survives [his children]." SIR JOHN HURRY, frequently styled "Urry" and "Hurrey," but always "Hurry” in his own signatures, was a Scotchman, who had previously served in Germany under Lord Forth. Col. Hurry deserted from the Parliamentary Army and rode up to the King shortly before the battle of Chalgrove-field, and gave the information which led to the successful attack on the Parliament's troops on that occasion, and to the death of Hampden, in which affair Hurry signally distinguished himself, and was allowed to convey the news to Oxford: for this he was knighted by the King, Col. Hurry's colours were azure or deep blue, with the Thistle of Scotland, as usually represented, leaved, &c., of gold, flowered, proper, around which in letters of gold," NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT;" fringe argent and azure. The motto is that of the Order of St. Andrew, to whose badge, The Thistle, it has reference. MAJ.-GEN. GEORGE PORTER. "Loyal bloud like Harvies, went round the Porters from the highest to the meanest, 26 of the name having eminently suffered for his Majesty." Lloyd's Memoirs, p. 657. COL. ST. JOHN. Edward, third son of Sir John St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wilts. Nephew of Sir Oliver St. John, Viscount Grandison. Sir John had three sons killed in the King's service, viz.-William his second son under Prince Rupert at the taking of Cirencester, Edward above mentioned at Newbury, and John his fifth son in the North. COL. EDWARD VILLIERS. Youngest son of Sir Edward Villiers, kt., by Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir John St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wilts, kt., and younger brother of the Viscount Grandison. He was knighted 7 April, 1680, and the following year, became KnightMarshall of the Royal Household. He died in 1689, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, July 2. See Westminster Abbey Registers,' edited by Col. J. L. Chester, L.L.D., p. 223. COL. WILL. LEGGE. Son of Edward Legge, vice-president of Munster. He eminently distinguished himself by his faithful attachment to the King and his son Charles II. He was engaged in both battles of Newbury, and it is said, that the night after the first action, Col. Legge being in attendance on the King in his bed-chamber, his Majesty presented him with a hanger (a short curved sword) with agate handle set in gold, which he had that day worn, and would have knighted him with it, had he consented. The hanger was kept in Col. Legge's family till the house at Blackheath was robbed in 1693. Col. Legge died in 1672 at his house in the Minories, London, granted him by Charles II., and was buried with great pomp in the adjoining Church of the Holy Trinity. He was the direct ancestor of the Earls of Dartmouth. COLONEL DANIEL O'NEILL. Lieutenant-Colonel of Prince Rupert's regiment of horse; afterwards Groom of the Bedchamber to the King. "The Honourable Col. Oneal, the onely Protestant of his family; its a question whether gaining more honor by his hard service about Gloucester, and in both the Newberries with King Charles the First, or by his assiduous Negotiations and Messages posting from place to place (in Holland, where he was warned to the Countess of Chesterfield, in France, where he was welcome to the best Cavaliers, and Germany) for King Charles the Second, especially in the various Occasions, Opportunities, and Revolutions, 1659, at Fontarabia, Scotland, Flanders, England, &c., that made way for his Majesties' Restoration, who let him to farm the Post Office. He died 1664. Its more to be called an Oneal, than an Emperor in Ireland." Lloyd's Memoirs, pp. 664-5. COLONEL MORGAN, of Weston in Lancashire, who raised a troop of horse for the King at his own charge: his estate was seized by the Parliament and bestowed on the son of 'King Pym.' COLONEL THOMAS EURE. The evidence as to the identity of this officer is conflicting, but, he appears to have been the son of William, 6th Lord Eure. COL. RICHARD PLATT. Among the State Papers, Dom. Series, Vol. lxxxiii. Pub. Record Off., is a petition from Veronica, widow of Col. Richard Platt, to King Charles II. for a portion of the sum allotted for such sufferers. Her husband, she says, spent a fair estate in raising troops for the late King, and was slain at the First Battle of Newbury, and she, a Venetian, is left in great necessity. Shortly after, a warrant authorises £100 to be paid the said Veronica Platt out of the Privy Seal Dormant. There is also a petition, in the same series, from the widow of an artilleryman named Clarke, whom she describes as "gunner to the late King," and states he was slain at Newbury battle, that herself and children had been turned naked out of doors at Weymouth during the Protectorate, whipped out of the town, and her goods worth £300 taken by Col. Sydenham. Mrs. Clarke appears to have found a second martial husband, who, she mentions, "has been a prisoner amongst the Turks," and prays a Tidesman's place for him in the Custom House, and some reparation for her losses and sufferings. COLONEL CHARLES GERARD. Son of Sir Charles Gerard, knt. of Halsall, co. Lancaster. He had been brought up from his youth in the profession of arms upon the usual scene of European warfare, the Netherlands; and joined His Majesty King Charles I. at Shrewsbury soon after he had raised the royal standard, and became eminently distinguished among the Cavaliers :-first, at Kineton or Edgehill, where he received some dangerous wounds, and soon after at the taking of Lichfield, the First Battle of Newbury, and the relief of Newark. General Gerard then accompanied Prince Rupert into Wales and acquired high reputation by his victories at Cardiff, Kidwelly, and Carmarthen, and for his success in taking the Castle of Cardigan and other fortresses, and reducing the strong garrison of Haverfordwest, with the Castles of Picton and Carew. In consequence of such gallant services, he was made by the King Lieutenant-General of his horse, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Gerard,* of Brandon, 8 Oct. 1645. His Lordship after the Restoration was created 21 July, 1679, Viscount Brandon and Earl of Macclesfield; but in the time of James II. he was committed, with the Earl of Stamford and Lord Delamere, to the Tower and condemned to death, but pardoned. He lived to see the Revolution, and in fact to witness, says Banks, "three singular occurrences in the annals of English history (he might have characterised them as the three most singular), 1st, the deposition and decapitation of King Charles I.; 2ndly, the Restoration of his son; and 3rdly, the Revolution and total expulsion of the royal family so recently restored." Besides his Lordship, there were of his family the following persons actively engaged upon the royal side in these unhappy conflicts: His Brothers His Uncles Edward Gerard, a Col. of foot, wounded in the first battle of Newbury. Sir Gilbert Gerard, slain near Ludlow. John, put to death by Cromwell. All in the battle of Kineton. Charles, Earl of (Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 229, 30.) Macclesfield died 9 Jan. 1693-4, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. CAPTAIN THOMAS BAGEHOT. At the Restoration Captain Bagehot applied for re-admission to the place of Groom of the King's Chamber in ordinary, which he held under the late King; and recounts his services at Newbury. (State Papers, Dom. Series, vol. xxii.). CAPTAIN BASIL WOODD. Son of Basil Woodd, LL.D., Chancellor of St. Asaph and Rochester, and High Commissioner. In a petition presented by Capt. Woodd, at the Restoration, he states: "I have received several shots in my head, and one in my arm, which troubles mee many times. Several horses were shott under mee, one at Round-way-down, another at Newbury fight." Two other sons of Dr. Woodd served the King, one of whom fell at Preston; a daughter married the brave Col. Bowles who was killed in Alton Church, 1643. Basil Thomas Woodd, M.P., Conyngham Hall, Knaresborough, great-great-great grandson of Dr. Basil Woodd, has in his possession the Star of the Mantle of the Order of the Garter, traditionally held as the parting memorial given to Capt. Basil Woodd by Charles I. on the morning of his execution. CAPTAIN CLIFTON. Francis Clifton, son of Sir Cuthbert Clifton, of Westby, Lancashire. CAPTAIN NEWMAN. See note, p. 16. His Lordship was first created Earl of Newberry, but the title was changed to Macclesfield. [Col. Chester, LL D., the editor of the Westminster Abbey Registers,' says that he cannot find any authority for this statement made in Burke s Extinct Peerage.' Charles Fitzroy, natural son of Charles II, by the Duchess of Cleveland, was created Baron of Newbury, Duke of Southampton, &c. in 1675, four years before, and it does not seem likely that the title should have been duplicated. It is quite possible, however, that "Earl of Newbury" was the title first selected, and the alteration made before the patent passed the Great Seal.] CAPTAIN GWYNNE. Was a retainer in the household of Charles I. before the commencement of the Civil War, and employed in training the children of that unfortunate monarch to military exercises. He naturally engaged in the royal service, and seems to have distinguished himself by his personal courage and activity. After the execution of the King, he followed the banner of his son (Charles II.) in the most difficult enterprises in which it was displayed. Gwynne was with Montrose in his last unhappy attempt. He afterwards served under the Duke of York in the fight before Dunkirk and other actions in Flanders. At the restoration he appears to have experienced his share of neglect with which Charles II. treated the old cavaliers. HENRY SPENCER. First Earl of Sunderland, son of William 2nd Lord Spencer, of Wormleighton, by Penelope, eldest daughter of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, was born in 1620. After a few days' visit at Oxford, Lord Sunderland joined the army as it was on the point of engaging at Newbury. The Earl having no command in the army attended upon the King's person under the obligation of honour, bringing, according to Lloyd, £15,000 and 1,200 men to his Majesty. He married the beautiful Lady Dorothea, daughter of the Earl of Leicester, by whom he had one son Robert, his successor, lineal ancestor to the Duke of Marlborough and Earl Spencer, and one daughter Dorothy, married to Sir George Savile, Bart., afterwards created Marquis of Halifax. The following letter was written by Lord Sunderland to his wife Lady Dorothea (Waller's Sacharissa) a few days before the battle of Newbury, in which he was killed:-"Since I wrote to you last from Sudley, we had some hopes one day to fight with my Lord Essex's army, we receiving certain intelligence of his being in a field convenient enough, called Ripple Field, towards which we advanced with all possible speed; upon which he retired with the body of his army to Tewkesbury, where, by the advantage of the bridge, he was able to make good his quarter, with 500 men, against 20,000. So that though we were at so near a distance as we could have been with him in two hours: his quarter being so strong, it was resolved on Thursday, that we seeing for the present he would not fight with us, we should endeavour to force him to it by cutting off his provisions; for which purpose, the best way was for the body of our army to go back to Evesholme, and for our horse to distress him: upon which I, and many others, resolved to come for a few days hither, there being no probability of fighting very suddenly, where we arrived late on Thursday night. As soon as I came, I went to your father's, where I found Alibone, with whose face I was better pleased than with any of the ladies here. This expression is so much a bolder thing than charging my Lord Essex, that should this letter miscarry and come to the knowledge of our dames, I should, by having my eyes scratched out, be cleared from coming away from the army for fear: where if I had stayed, it is odds I should not have lost more than one. Last night very good news came to Court, that we, yesterday morning, fell upon a horse quarter of the enemies, and cut off a regiment, and that my Lord of Newcastle hath killed, and taken prisoners, two whole regiments of horse and foot that issued out of Hull; which place he hath great hopes to take ere long. By the same messenger, last night, the King sent the Queen word that he would come hither on Monday or Tuesday; upon one of which days, if he |