“1663, October 9. Keeton (Kiveton). Though I had some former notice of this designe, I was unwilling to trouble your Lordship till my being at Yorke hath confirmed the truth of this inclosed intelligence.... Wee have an account of their principall agents in most countries. One Paumer a silenc’t minister—who is most about Nottingham—is their agent for intelligence in your Lordship’s county, and Collenel Hutchinson, Collenel Wright, and Captain Lockeir—not of Barlbrough—is to head the soldiers, and Hutchinson is thought to have a thousand armes. One Francs of Nottingham is also ingaged with them. Ludlowe is their Generall.”
“(1663), October 14th. Pontefract. I am commanded by my Lord Duke of Buckingham to give your Lordship this intelligence, that his Grace is now at Pomfrett, with 1500 foot, and 500 horse, which consists of trained bands and volunteers, all but the two troops under my command. Sir George Savill, and the rest of the most considerable persons of this country are here, and the confirmed intelligence both from the west and north of Yorkshire gives assurance that a party of rebels are drawing together, and Skipton is one place of their rendezvous, and North Allerton another. These parts are all in arms, and I believe your Lordship will put Nottinghamshire speedily into defence.”
The threatened risings, however, subsided, and Newcastle had leisure to turn his mind to matters of a more domestic nature.
Newcastle’s son seems to have inherited his taste for overspending himself.[148]
[148] Welbeck MSS., p. 145.
“Viscount Mansfield to his father (The Marquis of Newcastle).
(c. 1663). Giving a brief account of how he came to be 8000£. in debt. Among the items are 500£. for his own and his wife’s linen, and 700£. for two coaches and eight Flanders mares.”
Here is a significant entry among the Welbeck manuscripts.