NOTES TO THE LETTERS. 263 P. 173. When Sir Will. Croft came to me, he camefrom my Lord Harbert. 25 June 1642.-Lord Herbert was now busy in making levies in the King's cause under the Com- mission of Array. I heare that Sir W. Croft has commanded the beackon nwe furnisched and nwe picheput into it. -Into the beacon which formerly stood near the Beacon-gate, on Croft Ambry. Under authority of the Commission of Array, beacons were to be provided and other necessaries forbetter exercising the people and discovering sudden invasionsand com- motions. P. 176. The Hinge has sent a commistion to 12 of the justices to settele the milica.-The Commission of Array for Leicestershire was issued 11 June, 1642. Rushworth Abridged, vol. iv. p. 401. On the 18th June, Serjeant Wilde reported that the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed to consider of the Commission of Array in Leicestershirewere all of opinion, that it was against the law and against the liberty and property of the subject. The Editor has not met with any copy of the Commission of Array for Herefordshire. Journal of the House of Commons, 21 Sept. 1642, " Awarrant was read under the hands of Wallop Brabazon, Esq. Sir Will. Croft, Fitzwilliam Conningsbye, Thos. Price, Henry Lingen, Will. Rudhall, Esgs. Commissioners of Array for the co. of Hereford, directed to the high sheriff of the said county, requiring him thereby to raise such forces as he shall think fitting for the apprehending of Priamus Davies, who had been summonedby divers warrants from them, and had refused to appear, and for conveying him to his Majesty's gaol. On which, Mr. Davies having been called in and avowing it was a true copy of the warrant, it was Resolved, That Wallop Brabazon, Esq., Sir Wm. Croft, Knt., Fitzw. Conningsbye, Esq., Mr. Thos. Price, Mr. Henry Lingen, and. Will. Rudhall, Esq. be forthwith sent for as delinquents." The name of Priamus Davies occurs in the Register of Brampton Bryan. The militia summoned to meet at Hereford on the 15th July was, no doubt, under the authority of the Commission of Array. P. 180. The captaine of the voluntiers is one Barell.-James Barroll was Mayor of Hereford, 1639. Price's Hist. of Hereford, 1796. P. 182. My cosen Tomkins is as violent as ever, and many thinke that her very words is in the Heariford resolutions. I beleeue it was Mr. Mason's penning. -Mary, the daughter of Sir Herbert Croft, and sister to Sir William Croft, was baptized at Croft, 21 Dec. 1598, and married Richard Tomkyns, of Monnington, in the county of Hereford. Sir Herbert Croft having joined the Roman Catholic church, and taken up his residence at Douay, addressed " letters persuasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the Catholic religion. These letters appear to have been answered, if not by his daughter Mary, in her name, as he afterwards printed a reply to the answer of his daughter M. C., which she made to a paper sent to her concerning the Roman church." Wood's Athenw, vol. ii. 318. By referring to the Appendix, p. 223, it will be seen that the declaration or resolution
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