Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various
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It will be observed that the writer of the letter, though a cavalier, here calls him _Mr. Goring_, when as his father was created Earl of Norwich in the previous year, he was _Lord Goring_ in cavalier acceptation. He is indiscriminately called Mr. Goring and Lord Goring in passages of letters by cavaliers relating to the campaign in the West of 1645, which occur in Carte's _Collection of Letters_ (vol. i. pp. 59, 60. 81. 86.). A number of letters about the son, Lord Goring's proceedings in the West in 1645 are printed in the third volume of Mr. Lister's _Life of Lord Clarendon_. The Earl of Norwich's second son, Charles, who afterwards succeeded as second earl, commanded a {87} brigade under his brother in the West in 1645. (Bulstrode's _Memoirs_, p. 142.; Carte's _Letters_, i. 116. 121.) Some account of the father, Earl of Norwich's operations against the parliament in Essex in 1648, is given in a curious autobiography of Arthur Wilson, the author of the _History of James I_., which is printed in Peck's _Desiderata Curiosa_, book xi. part 5. Wilson was living at the time in Essex. An interesting fragment of a letter from Goring the son to the Earl of Dorset, written apparently as he was on the point of retiring into France, and dated Pondesfred, January 26, 1646, is printed in Mr. Eliot Warburton's _Memoirs of Prince Rupert_, iii. 215. Mr. Warburton, by the way, clearly confounds the father with the son |
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