NOTES TO THE LETTERS. 257 rank of colonel, and particularly distinguished himself at the battle of Edge Hill. He was taken prisoner at the surrender of Hereford on April 25th, 1643, but soon afterwards recovered his liberty, and was killed gallantly fighting in the royal cause, in a skirmish near Hopton Castle, or, as others say, near Stokesay Castle in Shropshire, July, 1645, and was buried in the chancel at Croft, where there is a slab to hismemory. See Memoir of Sir James Croft in Southern and Nicolas' Retrospective Review and Historical Magazine, vol. i. p. 496. London. P. 129. Iasa gladmyLord Saye is Master of the Wards.-" 17 May, 1641. The Lord Cottington gave up his place of Master of the Wards, which the Lord Say had conferred on him." Whitelocke's Memorials, p. 44. P. 130. The Protestation was taken on Sabath day last at Brompton, Wigmore, and Lainterdine, with much willingness. I desire to know whether you took it.-This protesta- tion must have been that taken by the House of Commons on the 4th of May. The rea- diness with which it was taken marks the great influence of Sir Robert Harley in these places. It was much objected to and resisted in the country. I have sent you a peace ofangelica rooat, you may carry it in your pocket, and bitesome- times of it. -" A pious and learned schoolmaster, that ventured to stay in London in the Great Plague of 1665, and was much employed, as some friends of mine that knew him and commended him assured me, to visit the sick, and distribute alms and relief to them, went indiscriminately to all sorts of infected, and even dying persons, to the number, as he told me, of nine hundred or a thousand I enquired what antidote he used : he replied, that next the protection of God, which so many sad objects made him the more fervently implore, and a constant fearlessness, the only preservative he used, besides good diet, were, half a spoonful or a spoonful of brandy five or six times a-day, especially when he went into infected places, and the bigness of a small nut, or less, of a root of Spanish angelica, of which he held in his mouth the quantity of a pepper-corn, or somewhat less, as often as he thought there was need." Relation iii. of Strange Reports, Robert Boyle's Works, vol. v. p. 102. P. 131. I amglad that justice is exicuted on my Lord Straford, whoo I thinke dyed like a Seneca, but net like one that had tasted of the mistery of godlyness.-Wednesday, 12 May. " The Earl of Strafford beheaded on Tower hill. Some doubted whether his death had more of the Roman or the Christian, it was so full of both." Laud's Diary. P. 135. Rwit one word how the pasage was of Mr. Harberde Pris his Garage in the parlament,- becaus theare is such various reports of it.-Mr. Herbert Price was burgess for Brecon in both parliaments of 1640. He is noted in Cobbett's Parliamentary History as one who left the Parliament and joined the King at Oxford, and was among the forty-six members who, on the call of the House, 16 June, 1642, were absent, when it was resolved CAMD. SOC. 2 L
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