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  [222] Cholmley’s Narrative: English Historical Review, vol. V, p. 348/

  [223] Quoted in Maurice Ashley, England in the Seventeenth Century (London: 1952) 81.

  [224] Cholmley’s Narrative: English Historical Review, vol. V, p. 348.

  [225] BL E 2: op. cit., p. 5.

  [226] Cholmley’s Narrative: English Historical Review, vol. V, p. 348.

  [227] BL E 2: op. cit., p. 6.

  [228] Mercurius Britannicus, Mon. 8 -Mon. 15 July 1644, p. 339.

  [229] Scottish Dove, No. 39,5-13 July 1644, p. 308.

  [230] BL E 2: op. cit., p. 7.

  [231] Ibid. p. 8.

  [232] Ibid. p. 7.

  [233] Quoted in Bence-Jones, The Cavaliers, p. 59.

  [234] BL E 3 (17): A Dogge’s Elegie, or Rupert’s Tears anon. (London: 27 July 1644) p. 5.

  [235] Ibid., p. 3.

  [236] True Informer, No. 38, 6-13 July 1644, p. 275.

  [237] BL SLOANE MS 1519, Plut. XC.G: f.25, Charles I to George Goring (3 March 1644).

  [238] Quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. II, p. 475.

  [239] Ibid. vol. III, p. 8.

  [240] Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion, vol. IV (of VI), p. 482.

  [241] Ibid.

  [242] Warburton, vol. III, p. 10 (fn).

  [243] Charles I to Prince Rupert, from Boconnock, 30 August 1644, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 23.

  [244] Lord Digby to Prince Rupert, from Exeter, 23 September 1644, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 26.

  [245] Prince Rupert to Colonel Will Legge, from Bristol, 16 October 1644, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 28.

  [246] BL E 18 (6): Parliament Scout, No. 73 (London: November 1644) p. 590.

  [247] Prince Rupert’s Diary, 6 November 1644, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 31.

  [248] Clarendon, vol. IV (of VI), p. 554.

  [249] BL E 18 (7): Scottish Dove, No. 57, (November, 1644), p. 448.

  [250] BL E 21 (25): Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer, No. 85 (London: 17 December 1644).

  [251] BL E 21 (23): Mercurius Britannicus, No. 61 (London: December 1644) p. 480.

  [252] Ibid., p. 481.

  [253] BL E 21 (24): London Post, No. 16, printed for G. B. (London: 17 December, 1644) p. 2.

  [254] BL ADD MS 18982: Rupert Correspondence, 1645-1658, f. 386: Letter from Dudley Wyatt to Prince Rupert, from Shropshire, 5 January 1645.

  [255] BL SLOANE MS 1519, Plut. XC.G: Original Letters, 1574-1667, f. 34: Sir John Byron to Prince Rupert, 3 April 1645, written from Chester.

  [256] BL ADD MS 18982: Rupert Correspondence, 1645-1658, f. 706: Letter from Lorentz Gamb to Prince Maurice, 9 March 1645.

  [257] BL E 21 (I5): Parliament Scout, No. 77, London: December 1640) p. 620.

  [258] The Devotions and Formes of Prayer, Daily Used in the King of Sweden’s Army printed for Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne.

  [259] Bishop of Derry, A Sermon, preached in York Minster, Before his Excellence the Marquess of Newcastle, Being then ready to meet the Scotch Army, p. 9.

  [260] BL E 1238 (572): John Cook, Chief Justice of the Province of Munster, Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making, (Westminster: February 1650) p. 115.

  [261] ‘Articles of War’, quoted in South, Royal Castle, Rebel Town, p. 52.

  [262] BL E 288.2 (49): A Perfect Relation of the Taking of Leicester, Mercurius Britannicus, 16-23 June 1645).

  [263] BL E 288.1 (4): A Perfect Relation of the Taking of Leicester pp. 2-3 printed for John Wright (London: 1645) pp. 2-3.

  [264] Ellis’s Collection, vol. IV, p. 243, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 90.

  [265] Prince Rupert to Will Legge, from Daventry, 8 June 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 100.

  [266] BL E 288.1 (7) Moderate Intelligencer, No. 15, anon. (London: June 1645), p. 118.

  [267] BL E 288.2 (22): A True Relation of a Victory obtained over the Kings Forces ..., printed for Robert White (London: June 1645) p. 3.

  [268] King’s Collection (E) No. 212, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 106.

  [269] L E 288.2 (33): Weekly Account, anon. (London: 18 June 1645) p. 2.

  [270] BL E 288.2 (26): An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons, printed for Edward Husband (London: 17 June 1645) p. 4.

  [271] Ibid., p. 5.

  [272] Ibid., p. 2.

  [273] Vicars, Jehovah Jireh, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 108-9.

  [274] Quoted in Bence-Jones The Cavaliers, p. 17.

  [275] BL E 838 (19): A Modest Narrative of Intelligence, No. 16, (London: July 1649) p. 125.

  [276] BL E 353 (3): Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer, No. 163 (London: September 1646) p. 220.

  [277] BL E 288.2 (26): op. cit., p. 4.

  [278] Ibid., p. 3.

  [279] Ibid., p. 5.

  [280] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. III.

  [281] Prince Rupert to Colonel Legge, from Bewdley, 18 June 1645, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, pp. 119-21.

  [282] BL E 21 (15): Parliament Scout, No. 77 (London: December 1644) p. 620.

  [283] Lord Digby to Colonel Legge, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 125-8.

  [284] Colonel Legge to Lord Digby, 3o June 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III. pp. 128-31.

  [285] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 114.

  [286] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 149; and in Wanklyn and Jones, A Military History of the English Civil War, p. 259.

  [287] Charles I to Prince Rupert, Historical Collections, vol. VI, p. 132, ed. J. Rushworth (1721). Also: Part History, p. 95, quoted in Wanklyn and Jones, op. cit., p. 260.

  [288] Prince Rupert to Colonel Legge, from Bristol, 28 July 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 151.

  [289] Charles I to Prince Rupert, from Cardiff, 4 August 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 152.

  [290] Prince Rupert to Colonel Legge, from Bristol, 29 July 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 156.

  [291] BL E 264 (3): Perfect Occurrences of Parliament, No. 37, printed by Jane Coe (London: August 1645) p. 4.

  [292] Ibid.

  [293] Sir John Oglander, A Royalist’s Notebook, ed. Francis Bamford (London: 1936) p. 118.

  [294] Warburton, vol. III, p. 63.

  [295] A Declaration of His Highness Prince Rupert, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 169.

  [296] Ibid.

  [297] BL E 264 (8): A Diary, or an Exact Journall, Faithfully communicating the most remarkable proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, No. 68, printed for Mathew Walbancke (London: September 1645) p.5.

  [298] BL E 264 (7): Perfect Passages of Each Dayes Proceedings in Parliament, (London: September 1645) p. 358.

  [299] BL E 264 (8): op. cit., p. 4.

  [300] BL E 264 (13): Perfect Occurrences of Parliament, No. 38, (London: 1645) ‘A Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax’s Quarters’, p. 6.

  [301] Sir Thomas Fairfax’s Summons, 4 September 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 173.

  [302] Ibid., p. 174.

  [303] BL E 264 (13): op. cit, pp. 6-7.

  [304] BL E 264 (16): A Diary, or an Exact Journall, Faithfully communicating the most remarkable proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, No. 69, printed for Mathew Walbancke (London: September 1645) p. 4.

  [305] BL E (King’s College Pamphlet 226, No. 3), quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 181.

  [306] Moderate Intelligencer, 12 September 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 182-3.

  [307] Nicholas Papers, vol. I, p. 65, quoted in Morrah, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, pp. 195-6.

  [308] Moderate Intelligencer, 12 September 1645, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 182.

  [309] Notes to Prince Rupert’s Diary quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 193-4.

  [310] Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion, vol. IV (of VI), pp. 694-5.

  [311] Perfect Passages of Each Dayes Proceedings in Parliament, 22 September 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 183-4.

  [312] Prince Rupert to Char
les I, September 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 187.

  [313] Clarendon, vol. IV (of VI), p. 715.

  [314] Memoirs of John Evelyn, 1641 to 1705-6, vol. II ed. William Bray (London: 1819) p. 169.

  [315] Prince Rupert’s Diary quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 194.

  [316] BL E 307 (3): Colonel Rossiter, A Letter Concerning a great Victory obtained by Colonel Rossiter, against Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, neer Belvoyr Castle in Leicestershire, (London: October 1645) p. 6,

  [317] Prince Rupert’s Diary, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 194 .

  [318] Ibid. p. 195.

  [319] Mercurius Britannicus, 10 November 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 200.

  [320] BL E 266 1 (I7): Perfect Occurrences of Parliament (14 November 1645) p. 2.

  [321] Oglander, A Royalist’s Notebook, p. 117.

  [322] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 201.

  [323] Newark Court Martial’s verdict, 21 October 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 202.

  [324] Sir Edward Walker, p. 149, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 204.

  [325] Ibid.

  [326] Memoirs of John Evelyn, vol. II, p. 110.

  [327] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 205.

  [328] BL E 313 (29): The Humble Desires of Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, and others their Adherents, To the Kings most Excellent Majestie; To Be tried at a Counsell of War, printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons (London: December 1645) pp. 3-5.

  [329] Clarendon State Papers MSS, Bodleian, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 207.

  [330] BL E 313 (I): Scottish Dove, No. 113 (10-17 December 1645) p. 891.

  [331] Princess Elizabeth to Rene Descartes, winter of 1645, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 151.

  [332] Colonel Henry Osborne to Prince Rupert, 1 November 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 209.

  [333] BL E 313 (3): Moderate Intelligencer, No. 41 (London: i i—i8 December 1645) p. 224.

  [334] Colonel Will Legge to Prince Rupert, 21 November 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 211-2.

  [335] Colonel Will Legge to Prince Rupert, 26 November 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 212.

  [336] BL E 313 (3): op. cit.

  [337] The Earl of Dorset to Prince Rupert, 25 December 1645, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 213.

  [338] The Elector Palatine to Elizabeth of Bohemia, 9 January 1646, in A Collection of Original Royal Letters, p. 136.

  [339] Prince Rupert’s Diary, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 196.

  [340] BL E 313 (3): op. cit. p. 225.

  [341] BL E 307 (2): A Looking-Glasse for the Popish Garrisons, W. W. (London: 24 October 1645) p. 2.

  [342] Oglander, A Royalist’s Notebook, p. 117.

  [343] BL SLOANE MS 1519, Plut. XC.G: Original Letters, 1574-1667,1.64, Commissary Henry Ireton to Sir Thomas Fairfax, 25 April 1645.

  [344] Prince Rupert’s Diary, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 196.

  [345] Ibid. pp. 196-7.

  [346] John Rushworth, Historical Collections, Part IV, vol. I, (1659-1701) pp. 280-1.

  [347] BL SLOANE MS 1519, Plut. XC.G: Original Letters, 1574-1667, f. 64, Prince Rupert to Sir Thomas Fairfax, 9 May 1645.

  [348] Scottish Dove, July 1646, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 230.

  [349] BL E 266 (I): Perfect Occurrences of Parliament (14 November 1645) p. 3.

  [350] BL ADD MS 6208 5A: Prince Rupert’s Logbook, aka Pythouse Papers, vol. V, p. 120 (over page).

  [351] Charles Louis to Elizabeth of Bohemia, 10 July 1646, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, pp. 158-9.

  [352] BL ADD MS 6208 5A: Prince Rupert’s Logbook, aka Pythouse Papers, vol. V, p. 120 (over page).

  [353] Ibid.

  [354] BL E 383 (8): Moderate Intelligencer (London: April 1647) p. 994.

  [355] BL E 372: Mercurius Diutinus (London: 27 January 1647) p. 67.

  [356] Prince Rupert to Sir John Owen, from Paris, 10 April 1647, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 237.

  [357] BL E 372 (15): Moderate Intelligencer (London: January 1646) pp. 875-6.

  [358] BL ADD MS 6208 5A: Prince Rupert’s Logbook, aka Pythouse Papers, vol. V, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 238.

  [359] Ibid.

  [360] Ibid., p. 239.

  [361] Prince Rupert’s Diary, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 240-1.

  [362] BL E 401 (34): Moderate Intelligencer (London: August 1647) p. 1209.

  [363] Ibid.

  [364] BL E 372: Mercurius Diutinus, (London: January 1647) p. 67.

  [365] BL E 401 (34): Moderate Intelligencer (London: August 1647) p. 1208.

  [366] Hamilton Papers, p. 178.

  [367] BL E 400 (14): The Lamentation of the Ruling Lay-Elders (July 1647) p. 7.

  [368] BL E 1186 (7): The Cavaliers Catechism, printed for Richard Burton (London: January 1647).

  [369] BL E 423 (I I): Heads of Chicle Passages in Parliament, anon. (London: January 1648) p. 9.

  [370] BL E 423 OW: Moderate Intelligencer, No. 148 (London: January 1648).

  [371] BL E 423 (20: Mercurius Pragmaticus, No. 19, verse 4.

  [372] Prince Rupert to Charles I, September 1645, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 188.

  [373] Hamilton Papers, p. 234.

  [374] BL E 452 (33): A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament: Concerning the reducing of the late Revolted Ships to the obedience of Parliament, printed for John Wright (London: 14 July 1648) pp. 3-4.

  [375] BL E 452 (32): Prince Charles Sailing from Callice, towards the North of England (London: July 1648) p. 2.

  [376] Prince Rupert’s Papers, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 250.

  [377] Ibid.

  [378] Warburton, vol. III, p. 468.

  [379] BL ADD MS 62085A: Prince Rupert’s Logbook, aka Pythouse Papers, vol. V, p. 114.

  [380] Prince Rupert’s Papers, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 252.

  [381] Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, vol. VI (of VI), p. 155.

  [382] Ibid., p. 193.

  [383] Prince Rupert’s Papers, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 261.

  [384] Quoted in Bence-Jones, The Cavaliers, p. 183.

  [385] Prince Rupert’s Papers, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 264.

  [386] BL E 452 (33): op. cit., p. 4.

  [387] Princess Elizabeth to Charles Louis, autumn of 1648, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, pp. 194-5.

  [388] The Earl of Arundel to Prince Charles Louis and Prince Rupert, 6 February 1633, quoted in David Howarth, Lord Arundel and His Circle (New Haven and London: 1985) p. 201.

  [389] A Collection of Original Royal Letters, p. xiii, quoting Granger, Biographical History of England, vol. II, p. 106.

  [390] Samuel Pepys’s Diary, 5 September 1664.

  [391] Quoted in Bence-Jones, The Cavaliers, p. 70.

  [392] Ibid.

  [393] Prince Rupert’s Papers, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 274.

  [394] Sir Edward Hyde (Clarendon) to Sir R. Fanshaw, 21 January 1649, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 279-80.

  [395] BL ADD MS 63743 (unbound): Thomas Webb to Lord Craven (12 January 1649).

  [396] Quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 258.

  [397] Ibid. p. 275.

  [398] Descartes to Princess Elizabeth of the Rhine, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, pp. 197-8.

  [399] Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion, vol. V (of VI), p. 256.

  [400] Sir Edward Hyde (Clarendon) to Prince Rupert, 28 February 1649, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 283.

  [401] BL E 1217: On the Martyrdom of his late Majesty (March 1649).

  [402] R. Long to Prince Rupert, 1649, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 286.

  [403] ‘Taafe’ to Prince Rupert, 2 February 1649, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 291.

  [404] Prince Rupert’s Diary, quoted in Warburton, vol
. III, p. 293.

  [405] BL E 565 (2) : Perfect Weekly Account (London: July 1649) p. 545.

  [406] BL E 838 (I9): A Modest Narrative of Intelligence: For the Republique of England Ireland, No. 16 (July 1649) p. 124.

  [407] BL E 565 (I 3): A Bloudy Fight in Harordshire, printed for R. W. (1649)

  [408] Quoted in E. T. Page, Robert Blake, Admiral and General At Sea (London: 1900) p. 19.

  [409] Ibid., p. 26.

  [410] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage from Ireland’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 299.

  [411] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Proceedings in Portugal’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 301.

  [412] Newes from Sea, concerning Prince Rupert, Capt. Pluncket, Capt. Munckel. And others: with some Transactions betwixt the King of Portingal, And Them; printed for J. C. (London: 1650) p. 2.

  [413] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Proceedings in Portugal’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 303.

  [414] Ibid. p. 305.

  [415] Ibid. p. 313

  [416] Ibid.

  [417] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage Into the Straits (Michaelmas-Day, 1650, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 317-8.

  [418] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Proceedings at Toulon’, quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 320.

  [419] Ibid., p. 322.

  [420] Ibid., p. 323.

  [421] Ibid., p. 324.

  [422] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage out of the Straits’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 325.

  [423] ‘The Good Sea Captain’, in Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642).

  [424] Letter of Pitts to ‘Sir’ [Mr Carteret?], undated, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 532.

  [425] Ibid.

  [426] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage out of the Straits’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 327.

  [427] Ibid., p. 331.

  [428] Letter of Pitts to ‘Sir’ [Mr Carteret?], undated, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 533.

  [429] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage out of the Straits’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, p. 341.

  [430] Ibid., p. 335.

  [431] Letter of Pitts to ‘Sir’ [Mr Carteret?], undated, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 534-5.

  [432] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Voyage out of the Straits’, quoted in Warburton, vol. III, pp. 335-6.

  [433]

  [434] Prince Rupert’s Diary, ‘The Proceedings at Cape Blanco in Argin’, Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. III, p. 344.

 

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