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to loose it. I love it soe well, and price it soe highe, that I would doe my best to gain more: you have the assured affection of

Yor most humble & faithfull servant,

28th Sept. 1643.

OLIVER CROMWELL.

P.S.-I understood there were some exceptions taken at a horse that was sent to me, weh was ceized out of the hands of one Mr. Goldsmith of Wilby: if he be not by you judged a malignant, and that you doe not approve of my haveing of the horse, I shall as willingly returne him againe as you shall desire; and therefore I prayou signify yor pleasure to me herein under yo1 hands: not that I would for ten thousand horses have the horse to my owne private benefitt, saving to make use of him for the publique; for I will most gladly returne the vallue of him to the state, if the gentleman stand cleere in yo1 judgments. I beg it as a speciall favour, that, if the gent. be freely willinge to let me have him for my money, let him set his owne price. I shall very justly returne him the money; or, if he be unwilling to pt wth him, but keepes him for his pleasure, be pleased to send me an answeare thereof. I shall instantly returne him his horse, and doe it wth a great deale more satisfaction to myselfe then keepe him: therefore I beg it of you to satisfy my desire in this last request; it shall exceedingly oblige me to you: if you do it not, I shall rest very unsatisfied, and the horse wilbe a burthen to me so long as I shall keep him.

I have placed the subjoined letter, as being without a date, at the end of the series; but I conceive that it ought to precede the foregoing one, and was probably written about the

first of September; for in it Cromwell speaks only by hearsay of the £3000 assigned him out of the Association; whereas in that of the 11th of September from Boston, published by Mr. Carlyle, (see p. 46) he writes, "of the £3000 allotted me, I cannot get the Norfolk part nor the Hertfordshire: it was given away before I had it.” Mr. Carlyle's remark, touching the state of things in the associated counties at the end of August and beginning of September, is quite confirmed by this letter. "Matters go not well: nobody to put on: nobody to push: cash, too, is and remains defective." He adds, "Here, however," (in the letter of Sep. 11) “is a glimpse of the Ironsides, the first specific glimpse, which is something." May we infer that "Mr. Margery's honest men to follow him" are of that number? Who shall answer this question? and who shall tell us who Mr. Margery, so prominent in this letter and in the last, was?

To my noble friends S Willm. Springe, knight and Barronett, and Maurice Barrowe, Esq. etc.

Gentlemen,

present theise.

I have beene nowe two dayes att Cambridge in expectation to heere the fruite of your indeavors in Suffolke towards the publike assistance: believe itt, you will heer of a storme in few dayes: you have no infantrie att all considerable. Hasten your horses: a few howers may undoo you neglected. I beseech you bee carefull what captaines of horse you choose, what men be mounted: a few honest men are better then numbers: some tyme they must have for exercise. If you choose godly honest men to bee captaines of horse, honest men will followe them; and they will be careful to mount such: the Kinge is exceedinge strong in the west. If you bee able to foyle a force att the first cominge of itt, you will have reputation; and that is of

great advantage in our affaires. God hath given itt to our handfull: lett us indeavor to keepe itt. I had rather have a plaine russett-coated captaine, that knowes what Hee fights for, and loves what Hee knowes, then that wch you call a gentleman and is nothing else. I honor a gentleman that is soe indeed. I understand Mr. Margery hath honest men will followe him: if soe, bee pleased to make use of him: it much concernes your good, to have conscientious men; I understand that there is an order for mee to have 3000 out of the Association; and Essex hath sent theire part or neere itt. I assure you wee neede exceedinglye. I hope to finde your favor and respect: I protest if it were for my selfe I would not move you: this is all from

Your faythfull Servant

OLIVER CROMWELL.

P.S.-If you send such men as Essex hath sent, it will be to little purpose: bee pleased to take care of theire march, and that such may come along wth them as wilbe able to bringe them to the mayne body; and then I doubt not but wee shall keepe them, and make good use of them. I beseech you give countenance to Mr Margery: helpe him in raisinge this troupe : lett him nott want your favor in whatsoever is needfull for promoting this worke, and comand your servant: if he can raise the horses from malignants, lett him have your warrant: it wilbe of speciall service.

Autographs

OF

SIR MILES HOBART AND ANTHONY HOBART,

WITH

SOME PARTICULARS RESPECTING THOSE INDIVIDUALS;

IN

A LETTER FROM JAMES COPEMAN, ESQ., OF LODDON,

Local Secretary,

TO DAWSON TURNER, ESQ., V. P.

Loddon, 10th June, 1847.

MY DEAR SIR,

When I had the pleasure to meet you at Yarmouth, a few days since, I told you that I had the autographs of Sir Miles Hobart and of his relative, Anthony Hobart; and I have now the pleasure of sending them. They may possibly inter

may hold good in a general point of view, as those of the phrenologist deduced from the expansive forehead, or of the

physiognomist from the open countenance. The residence. of the latter was at Hales Hall, adjoining Loddon. They were both Norfolk Justices, and in that character signed the enclosed apprenticeship document, dated 1st July, 1628, for the binding of James Shreeffe, till the twenty-fourth year of his age, to Thomas Codd. Miles Hobart is the celebrated personage mentioned in chapter li., by Hume, who does not so precisely relate the particulars of the memorable occurrence in the House of Commons on the 2nd March, 1628, as is done in Baker's Chronicle. "They locked the doors of the House, and gave the keys to Sir Miles Hobarte, one of their Members, to keep, and refused to admit the Usher of the Black Rod." Anthony was the son of Henry Hobart, by Margaret daughter of Thomas Rous, of Henham, Esq. (Blomefield, VIII., p. 19, Hales Parish.)

The third bell of Loddon Church has the following inscription around it: "Anthony Hobart, Esquyre, Churchwarden, Anno dni 1616." You are aware that his ancestor erected this beautiful building. An inscription on stained glass in one of its windows, of which I recovered some fragments, contained the following: "Orate pro āia Jači Hobart militis & attornati dni regis, qui hanc ecclesiam a primis fundamentis condidit in tribus annis cum suis propriis bonis, anno regis Henrici septimi undecimo."

The stables (now a farm-house) formerly of Hales Hall, once the seat of Sir James Hobart, are standing; and the foundation of the outer walls of the mansion were lately pointed out to me in the present stackyard. He died 26th December, 1525, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. His grandson, Sir Henry Hobart, Knight and Baronet, became also Chief Judge of the same court, and Chancellor to Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales. The Burial Register of Loddon records: "Henry Hoberte, Esquier, deceased this lief at Norwich the xxx daie of Aprill, and was buried at this our towne of Loddon the xx day of