Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 | Page 8

January, 1646,--
"Lord Hopton in the meanwhile has been appointed to the command in Cornwall, superseding Goring. Also has been sent off on several negociations to France."
Goring went off to France on his own account; his father was at that time Charles I.'s ambassador at the court of France.
I should like to know the year in which a letter of Goring the son's, printed by Mr. Bell in vol. i. p. 23., was written, if it can be ascertained. As printed, it is dated "Berwick, June 22." Is Berwick right? Is there a bath there? The letter is addressed to Sir Constantine Huygens, and in it is this passage--
"I have now my lameness so much renewed that I cannot come to clear myself; as soon as the bath has restored me to my strength, I shall employ it in his Highness's service, if he please to let me return into the same place of his favour that I thought myself happy in before."
I should expect that this letter was written from France after Goring's abrupt retreat into that country. It is stated that the letter comes from Mr. Bentley's collection.
The Earl of Norwich was in Flanders in November 1569, and accompanied the Dukes of York and Gloucester from Brussels to Breda. (Carte's _Letters_, ii. 282.)
CH.
If the following account of the Goring family given by Banks (_Dormant and Extinct Peerage_, vol. iii. p. 575.) is correct, it will appear that the father and both his sons were styled at different times. "Lord Goring," and that they may very easily be distinguished.
"George Goring, of Hurstpierpont, Sussex, the son of George Goring, and Anne his wife, sister to Edward Lord Denny, afterwards Earl of Norwich, was created Baron Goring in the fourth of Charles I., and in the xx'th of the same reign advanced to the earldom of Norwich, which had become extinct by the death of his maternal uncle above-mentioned, S.P.M.
"He betrayed Portsmouth, of which he was governor, to the king, and rendered him many other signal services. He married Mary, one of the daughters of Edward Nevill, vi'th Baron of Abergavenny, and had issue four daughters, and two sons, the eldest of whom, George, was an eminent commander for Charles I., and best _known as 'General Goring_,' and who, after the loss of the crown to his royal master, retired to the Continent, and served with credit as lieutenant-general to the King of Spain. He married Lettice, daughter of Richard Earl of Cork, and died abroad, S.P., in _the lifetime of his father_, who survived till 1662, and was succeeded by _his only remaining son_, Charles Lord Goring, and second Earl of Norwich, with whom, as he left no issue by his wife, daughter of ---- Leman, and widow of Sir Richard Beker, all his honours became extinct in 1672. He was unquestionably the Lord Goring noticed by Pepys as returning to England in 1660, and not the old peer his father, who, if described by any title, would have been styled 'Earl of Norwich.'"
BRAYBROOKE.
July 1, 1850.
[Footnote 2: Let me also correct a misprint. Banks, the author of the _Dormant and Extinct Perrage_, is misprinted Burke.]
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QUERIES
JAMES CARKASSE'S LUCIDA INTERVALLA, AN ILLUSTRATION OF PEPYS' DIARY.
I met lately with a quarto volume of poems printed at London in 1679, entitled:
"Lucida Intevalla containing divers miscellaneous Poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem, by the Doctor's Patient Extraordinary."
On the title-page was written in an old hand the native of the "patient extraordinary" and author _James Carkasse_, and that of the "doctor" Thomas Allen. A little reading convinced me that the writer was a very fit subject for a lunatic asylum; but at page 5, I met with an allusion to the celebrated Mr. Pepys, which I will beg to quote:--
"Get thee behind me then, dumb devil, begone, The Lord hath eppthatha said to my tongue, Him I must praise who open'd hath my lips, Sent me from Navy, to the Ark, by Pepys; By Mr. Pepys, who hath my rival been For the Duke's[3] favour, more than years thirteen; But I excluded, he high and fortunate, This Secretary I could never mate; {88} But Clerk of th' Acts, if I'm a parson, then I shall prevail, the voice outdoes the pen; Though in a gown, this challenge I may make, And wager win, save if you can, your stake. To th' Admiral I all submit, and vail--"
The book from which I extract is _cropped_, so that the last line is illegible. Can the noble editor of Pepys' _Diary_, or any of your readers, inform me who and what was this Mr. James Carkasse?
W.B.R.
[Footnote 3: The Duke of York, afterwards James II.]
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MINOR QUERIES.
Epigrams on the Universities.--There are two clever epigrams on the circumstance, I believe, of Charles I. sending a