"James Stanhope, Esq., one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and Principal Secretary of State.
"These are in his Majesty's name, to authorise and require you, taking a constable to your assistance, forthwith to make strict and diligent search in such places as you shall have notice, for the Right Honourable James, Earl of Derwentwater; and him having found, you are to seize and apprehend for suspicion of Treason, and to bring him, together with his papers, before me to be examined concerning the Premisses, and to be further dealt with according to law: for the due execution whereof, all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and all his Majesty's officers, Civil and Military, and loving subjects whom it may concern, are to be aiding and assisting to you as there shall be occasion. And for so doing, this shall be your warrant.
"Given at Whitehall the two-and-twentieth day of September, 1715.
"James Stanhope."
"To Richard Shorman, John Hutching, and John
Turner, three of his Majesty's Messengers
in Ordinary."
[187] His pension was raised for his services from fifty to eighty pounds per annum.—See Caledonian Mercury, 1722.
[188] Patten, p. 19.
[189] Hutchinson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 131.
[190] State Papers. Domestic, No. 4, 1716.
[191] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 15.