Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various
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when he speaks of the Earl of Norwich's trial and reprieve (iii. 408.).
Three letters printed in Mr. W.'s second volume (pp. 172. 181, 182.), and signed "Goring", are probably letters of the father's, but given by Mr. Warburton to the son. I perceive also that Mr. Bell, the editor of the lately published _Fairfax Correspondence_, has not avoided confusion between the father and son. In the first volume of the correspondence relating to the civil war (p. 281.), the editor says, under date January, 1646,-- "Lord Hopton in the meanwhile has been appointed to the command in Cornwall, superseding Goring. Also has been sent off on several negociations to France." Goring went off to France on his own account; his father was at that time Charles I.'s ambassador at the court of France. I should like to know the year in which a letter of Goring the son's, printed by Mr. Bell in vol. i. p. 23., was written, if it can be ascertained. As printed, it is dated "Berwick, June 22." Is _Berwick_ right? Is there a bath there? The letter is addressed to Sir Constantine Huygens, and in it is this passage-- "I have now my lameness so much renewed that I cannot come to clear myself; as soon as the bath has restored me to my strength, I shall employ it in his Highness's service, if he please to let me return into the same place of his favour that I thought myself happy in before." I should expect that this letter was written from France after Goring's |
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