life or leg this bout: his excellent merits caused a great sorrow at
his misfortune, and now as great comfort in the hope of his
recovery"--(Rawdon Papers, p. 39.)
That the son was already married to Lady Letitia Boyle at Christmas,
1641, appears from a letter of the Earl of Cork, the lady's father, to the
Earl of Norwich (at that time Lord Goring), in Lord Orrery's State
Letters (vol. i. p. 5. Dublin edition):--
"I have scarce time to present my service to you and your lady, and to
George and my poor Letitia, whom God bless."
In Carte's Collection of Letters (vol. i. p. 359.) {66} is a letter from
Lord Byron, dated "Beauvois, March 1-11, 1650," to the Marquis of
Ormond, stating that Lord Goring the son has come to Beauvois, and is
on his way to Spain, about the settlement of a pension which had been
promised him there, and also to endeavour to get arms and money for
the King's service in Ireland; and that, having settled his business in
Spain, he desires nothing better than to serve as a volunteer under
Ormond for King Charles. Lord Byron strongly recommends Ormond
to avail himself of Goring's services:--
"I am confident my Lord Goring may be serviceable to your Excellence
in many respects, and therefore have rather encouraged him in this his
resolution, than any ways dehorted him from it; and especially because
he is to pass by the Spanish Court, where he hath such habitudes, by
reason of the service both his father and he hath done that crown."
In an intercepted letter of a parliamentarian, dated Jan. 8, 1649, which
is in Carte's Letters (vol. i. p. 201.), is the following mention of the Earl
of Norwich, then under sentence of death by the High Court of
Justice:--
"Our great minds say, Thursday the King shall die, and two or three
great Lords with him, Capel and Loughborough being two of them.
Goring hath gotten Ireton to friend, who excuses him yet."
Sir E. Nicholas writes, April 8, 1649, to the Marquis of Ormond, that
the Earl of Norwich (as he styles him) has been reprieved at the suit of
the Spanish and Dutch ambassadors. (Carte's Letters, vol. i. p. 247.)
In the following passage of a speech, in the discussions about the
House of Lords in Richard Cromwell's Parliament, there is no doubt
that the Earl of Norwich is referred to as Lord Goring: and I should
infer that George Lord Goring the son was then dead, as he had
unquestionably done more than enough to forfeit his privileges in the
view of Commonwealth men:--
"What hath the son of Lord Goring or Lord Capel done to forfeit their
right?"--(Burton's Diary, iii. 421. Feb. 22. 1659.)
George Lord Goring the son is referred to in another speech preserved
in Burton's Diary, and is there called "young Lord Goring." (iii. 206.)
Pepys mentions the return of "Lord Goring" from France, April 11,
1660 (vol. i. p. 54.). Lord Braybrooke's note says that this was "Charles,
who succeeded his father as second Earl of Norwich." Is it certain that
this was not the old Earl of Norwich himself?
The death of the old Earl of Norwich is thus chronicled in Peck's
Desiderata Curiosa, p. 542.:--
"Jan. 6. 1662-3, died Lord Goring on his passage by land from
Hampton Court to London, at Brainford, about eighty years of age: he
was Earl of Norwich."
CH.
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MSS. OF BISHOP RIDLEY: A "NOTE" AND A "QUERY."
A "Note" in the Original Letters relative to the English Reformation,
published by the Parker Society, p. 91., mentions the existence of an
important MS. treatise by Bishop Ridley, which had been unknown
when the works of that prelate were collected and published by the
Parker Society in 1841. It seems to be desirable that the fact should be
placed on record in your most useful publication: the "Note" is as
follows:--
"A copy of Bishop Ridley's 'Conference by writing with M. Hoper,
exhibited up to the council in the time of King Edward the Sixth,' was
in the possession of Archbishop Whitgift: see his Defence of the
Answer to the Admonition, A.D. 1574, p. 25. But its existence was
unknown (see Ridley's Life of Bishop Ridley, Lond. 1763, p. 315.) in
later years, till a copy, slightly imperfect, was discovered in 1844, in
the extensive collection of MSS. belonging to Sir Thomas Phillips,
Bart."
There is another MS. treatise by Bishop Ridley, that has been missing
for nearly three centuries, respecting which I should be glad to offer a
"Query:" I allude to Ridley's Treatise on Election and Predestination.
The evidence that such a piece ever existed is, that Ridley, in answer
both to a communication from prison, signed
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