[39] The tenants on the Ogle property in the North, which he had inherited from his mother.
Clarendon says that Newcastle had no sooner occupied the city of Newcastle, “without the slightest hostility (for that town received him with all possible acknowledgment of the King’s goodness in sending him), but he was impeached by the House of Commons of High Treason”.[40] Although Clarendon states that he entered the town without the slightest hostility, the following entry occurs in the catalogue of the Thomason Tracts. “1642, July 12, Sir John Hotham’s Resolution presented to the King at Beverley. Whereunto is annexed joyful news from Newcastle, wherein is declared how the colliers resisted the Earl of Newcastle.”
[40] Hist., vol. II, part I. book vi.
CHAPTER VI.
On 22 August, 1642, the King formally hoisted his standard at Nottingham, and hostilities became a reality. He made Shrewsbury his head-quarters in September, and from there he wrote:—
“New Castel,
“This is to tell you that this Rebellion is growen to that height, that I must not looke what opinion men ar who at this tyme ar willing and able to serve me.[41] Therfore I doe not only permitt, but command you, to make use of all my loving subjects services, without examining ther Contienses[42] (more than there loyalty to me) as you shall fynde most to conduce to the uphoulding of my just Regall Power. So I rest.
“Your most asseured faithfull
“frend