[129] Tutor in Geneva to the little Lord Carnarvon.
[130] See Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett (Camden Society).
[131] Birch’s Life, vol. vi. p. 534.
[132] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, March 1646: Birch’s Life.
[133] Broghill seems to have been more anxious to avoid them than Robert Boyle himself. “Strange that so well-armed an head should be fearful!” says Robert Boyle in his letter to Lady Ranelagh.
[134] There is a little touch of sarcasm in this letter, which may well be a sly thrust at Lord Howard of Escrick, in his place among the Divines, as a lay elder of the Westminster Assembly. At Winchester the little party were “as nicely catechised concerning our ways as if we were to be elected in the number of the new lay elders.” Lord Edward Howard’s subsequent career—his expulsion from the House for receiving bribes, and his betrayal of Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, are matters of history.
[135] The Committee of the Two Kingdoms, very active after the organisation of the New Model. It sat in, and issued its orders from, Derby House, Cannon Row, Westminster.
[136] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, March 1646: Birch’s Life.
[137] Early letter, undated, Birch, vol. vi.
[138] It was Essex who had spoken the words that sealed Strafford’s doom: “Stone dead hath no fellow.”