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NOTES AND QUERIES. ii2s.m. JULY, 1917.

In connexion with this extract there must be also read Mr. Sanford Terry's remarks in the Arch. JEliana, vol. xxi. (1898) :

" Tradition has always regarded Anderson Place, the ' Newe House ' of Speed's Map of 1610, as the residence of Charles in 1646-47. Brand mentions a room in it which, about 1789, bore the name of ' the king's bed-chamber.' Sykes, writing in 1833, speaks of a bed, which had been used by Charles, having been sold as lumber by ' an incurious domestic ' during Major Anderson's residence abroad. Gray, in the ' Chorographia ' of 1649, while he describes it as a ' princely house,' gives no hint of its association with Charles. Barnes is equally uncommunicative. It would appear to have been the same house as that which Charles occupied in 1639, from the gates of which he reviewed the troops on their march towards Berwick. That it was not one of the houses in St. John's parish is proved by the fact that the commissioners who were lodged there in January, 1-647, are described as being ' a good distance from the Court.' In the news- letters and pamphlets of 1646-47, it is specifically described as the house or residence of Sir Francis Liddell, and was assigned to Charles by order of Leven and the commissioners. It had, until recently, been the residence of the governor, Sir John Lumsden, and his wife had to provide her self ' otherway,' when on May 6th, orders arrived to prepare it for Charles's reception. Since it is also spoken of as being Leven 's quarters, it is clear that it was utilized as the official hostelry, as it were, for the high guests whom those stirring times called to Newcas'tle. One may venture the suggestion, that the putting of Anderson's mansion to that use dated from Sir Francis Liddell's shrievalty in 1639 ; that he, as sheriff, was called upon to provide a house for that purpose, and that it still retained his name when in 1646 Charles occupied it."

Mr. Sanford Terry's article is of the utmost value, but he may possibly not have seen the above reference to Pilgrim Street from a contemporary tract.

It is of interest to note that there are constant references to Charles's predilection for golf during his stay at Newcastle. Mercurius Diutinus for Jan. 27 Feb. 3, 1647, states :

" there comes with the King to Holdenby, the 9 Commissioners, the 9 Gentlemen appointed by the Parliament to attend his Majesty, and the Convoy of Souldery, and the Country are sum- moned to send in Carriages, and Teames to goe along with them, for carriage of such things as his Majesty appoints to be brought along with him."

They proceeded by short marches " to avoid such inconveniences as might possibly befall us in travelling late in the evening." It was the depth of winter when this journey was taken.

On pp. 4-5 of ' Joyfull Nevves from the King, being a perfect Relation of the Pro- ceedings of the Kings Majesty with the

Commissioners, and their advancing from Durham. . . .towards London,' London, 1647, we read :

" And upon Tuesday last, the King and the Commissioners advanced from Newcastle to Durham, accompanied with many brave gallants.

" His Maiesty saith, that he approves of his Journey, and goes freely, being willing to adhere to his great Councell, for the speedy curing of the old festered Sores within His Dominions.

" It is supposed his Maiesty will be at York by Fryday next, and at Holmby by Fryday following.

" The Gentry of Yorkeshire are making great preparations for the welcomming of the King and the Commissioners. . . .The Scots Com- missioners have gone from hence. ..."

The King did not apparently go to York at all, as hinted at in the above extract.

In Thomas Rud's little-known ' List of the Records at Durham ' there is an item mentioned : ' Notes relative to Persons knighted by Charles the First at York and Newcastle : his reception at Durham,' &c. This, I believe, refers to another visit to the North, and not to this journey. See Rud, p. 429.

' Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, 1634- 1689,' edited by J. J. Cartwright, 1875, p. 22, has :

" As the late unfortunate King Charles the First passed by Kotherham (brought back by the Parliamentary forces when sold by the treacherous Scots), my mother sent me to wait upon him, who said I was the son of an honest man."

On Feb. 11

" Sir Thomas Fairfax rode out of Nottingham to meet the King, who was on his way from Newcastle to Holdenby Hoxise in Northampton- shire, accompanied by the Parliamentary Com- missioners. Charles stopped his horse, and Fairfax alighted and kissed the King's hand. He then mounted, and they rode side by side, conversing, into the town." Markham's ' Life of Fairfax,' London, 1870, p. 276.

1647. " To the ringers when the King came to Leicester, 3s. Od." Nichols's ' Leicester,' vol. i. p. 579.

From ' Gallant Nevves for London. From His Majesties Royall Court at Holmby ; ' &c. [London], 1647 :

" There were great tryumph at Northampton upon Tuesday last, when the tydings were brought, that his Maiesty were neere Holmby, the Bells rang, and the great Guns went of, insomuch, that a gallant eecho made its appeal at Holmby, and the sftund thereof did much reioyce his Maiesties heart ; who little thought, that the joy of his subjects would have beene so great at the arrival! of his- Royal person.

" Multitudes of people resorted to welcome his Maiesty, the Road from Harborow to Holmby being adorned with thousands and thousands of spectators, crying with a loud voyce (God blesse your Maiesty) the King smiling upon them, passed along cheerfully, saying, .he hoped this