APPENDIX

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Preface	v
CHAPTER I.
Clarendon’s History and the Duchess’s biography—Pepys—Family history—A wonderful grandmother—Boyhood—Hobbes—Wotten—The Court of Savoy—Said to have been disliked by Buckingham—Marriage	1
CHAPTER II.
Raised to the peerage—Purchases of peerages—Correspondence with Buckingham—Cousin Pierrepont—Created Earl of Newcastle—Money-squeezing—Newcastle’s rent-roll—Letters among the Portland MSS.	12
CHAPTER III.
Personality of Newcastle—Charles I goes to Scotland—Dinner to the King at Welbeck—Wentworth made Lord Deputy in Ireland—Correspondence about the post of Governor to the Prince of Wales—The King stays at Welbeck—Newcastle discouraged in London—Letters to his wife	22
CHAPTER IV.
Appointed Governor to the Prince of Wales—His pupil will not take his medicine—Advice of the Governor to the pupil—Resigns the Governorship—Sir Walter Scott on the Prince’s Governors—Hampden, Prynne and others—Expedition against the Scots—Newcastle’s troop of gentlemen—Quarrel with Lord Holland—Letter from Sir John Suckling	34
CHAPTER V.
Fears of civil war—The Short Parliament—Awkward position of Strafford—Conway—The King goes to York—The Long Parliament—Executions of Strafford and Laud—The Queen—Suckling’s plot—Threatened impeachment of the Queen—The five members—The King leaves London—Charles appoints Newcastle Governor of Hull—The Parliament appoints Sir John Hotham Governor of Hull—Newcastle summoned to London by the Parliament—Sir John Hotham—The King goes to Hull—Newcastle appointed to the command of the four northern counties, and made governor of the city of Newcastle	50
CHAPTER VI.
Charles raises his standard at Nottingham—Appointment of Fairfax as Newcastle’s opponent—Sedition in Durham—Newcastle raises an army—Weapons of the period—Supplies sent by the King of Denmark—Army of the North—Insurrection in Yorkshire—Newcastle goes to York—A battle À la Don Quixote—Winter quarters—Newcastle as a General	64
CHAPTER VII.
The General of Infantry—The General of Cavalry—The General of Artillery—Tadcaster—Correspondence with Hotham—Propositions of Parliament—Objections to Catholics in Newcastle’s army—The Parliament specially excepts Newcastle in case of a general amnesty—The coming of the Queen to Yorkshire	75
CHAPTER VIII.
Boynton Hall—The Queen carries off the plate—Sir Hugh Cholmley—Position of the Hothams—Hotham tells Newcastle that he is being traduced at Court—Cholmley’s Memorials of the Hothams	86
CHAPTER IX.
Goring’s victory at Bramham Moor—Goring’s defeat at Wakefield—Newcastle takes Rotherham, Sheffield and Howley House—Newcastle’s great victory at Adderton Moor—Newcastle contemplates going South to the assistance of the King—He is created a Marquess—He besieges Hull—The King wishes him to go to the South—Newcastle raises the siege of Hull	99
CHAPTER X.
Newcastle goes to Chesterfield, and from thence to Bolsover and Welbeck—News of an approaching Scottish invasion—Newcastle encounters it at Newcastle—A battle—Skirmishes—A dispatch of Newcastle’s—Disaster to some of Newcastle’s troops at Selby—He retreats to York—Asks to be relieved of his command—A letter from Charles—Hume on Newcastle	113
CHAPTER XI.
An army comes from Ireland to relieve the Royalists—It relieves their enemies—Newcastle besieged at York—He sends Goring with his cavalry to manoeuvre in the adjoining counties—Attacks, counterattacks, and sallies, at York—Newcastle appeals to the King for reinforcements—Progress of the siege of York—Newcastle asks the conditions of surrender—The army of the Associated Counties—The Earl of Manchester—Oliver Cromwell—State Papers about the proceedings of Goring’s horse—State Papers about the siege of York	124
CHAPTER XII.
Newcastle’s feeling towards Rupert—Rupert reaches York—Problems before each army—Councils of war—Retirement of the enemy—Return of the enemy—Marston Moor—Soldiers refuse to fight until paid—The order of battle—Ill-feeling between Ethyn and Rupert—Psalm-singing and preaching—Rest, a pipe, and a sleep	137
CHAPTER XIII.
Opening of the battle of Marston Moor—Newcastle in the fight—Success of his horse on the left wing—Reports of a Royalist victory spread throughout the country—Success of the Roundhead horse on their own left—Action of Cromwell—Heroism of Newcastle’s Whitecoats—Defeat	148
CHAPTER XIV.
Descendants of Newcastle	281
Index	283