[338]. Letters from Thos. Smith to Sir John Pennington (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, for 1638–9, pp. 92, 103, 113, 130).
[339]. Order of the Committee of the Council of War (Ibid., p. 166.)
[340]. March 5th, 1638–9. Instructions from the Lord Admiral to Capt. John Mennes of the Victory (Ibid., p. 537).
[341]. Letter, headed “Queen Street,” from Northumberland to the deputy lieutenants of Nottinghamshire (Hist. MSS. Commission, Reports on MSS. in Various Collections, VII., 295).
[342]. Recovery Roll (Common Pleas), 17 Chas. I., Hilary (236).
[343]. After her husband’s death she fell under the displeasure of Parliament, and “endured a long imprisonment ... and had ... been put to death if she had not made her escape to Oxford.” (Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion, Book XI., par. 222.) She afterwards (in 1648) married Sir James Livingstone, who became Earl of Newburgh.
[344]. Close Roll, 17 Chas. I. (3275)—Indenture between Lord Conway, etc., and Countess Rivers.
[345]. John Lucas, etc., “say they carried divers pictures, with frames, others without frames, and some rayles into Mr. Withers House [it will be remembered that Anthony Withers had purchased the house from Newton in 1637–8] in Queen’s Street, now in the possession of Col. Popham, the which goods above said these examiners say are the proper goods of Mr. Withers” (Interregnum Papers, A., 98). Withers was reported as a delinquent in October, 1645 (Domestic Interregnum Committee for Advance of Money (Order Book), A., 4 (295)), and was sequestrated in January, 1646 (Interregnum Papers A., 98 (13)).
[346]. Interregnum Papers G., 17 (704).
[347]. A deed relating to the house, dated 20th May, 1674, refers to it as being “now or late in the tenure ... of the Right Hon. Francis, Lord Viscount Mountague” (Common Pleas Recovery Roll, 26 Chas. II., Trinity, vol. 4 (366)).