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 POLITICAL HISTORY Noel was taken to London and lodged in Lord Petre's house as a prisoner, where he remained for more than four months, petitioning Parliament for release and for the restoration of his estates. But though his ' woods in Lincolnshire ' were ordered to be protected against spoil, his estate was sequestrated in June, and on 4 July the Commons sternly ordered him to be kept a prisoner ' in such manner as he may not go abroad with a keeper or otherwise.' This harsh treatment brought his life to an end, and on 19 July the Lords gave permission for his body to be taken to Campden, Gloucester- shire, for burial.^" Before the attack on LufFenham House Viscount Campden had attempted to gain protection for himself and his sons by sending ^^50 to Lord Grey, who replied that he must subscribe a sum 'answerable to his honour and estate.' On the capture of his son he was vainly summoned to attend the house of Lords, and was rated at _^2,ooo, one twentieth of his estate." But he soon passed beyond these troubles, for he died at Oxford on 8 March." Lord Grey took a serious view of the necessity for swift action to counteract the Royalist activity of the Noels. ' I found the coals kindle so fast,' he wrote, ' in that Country that had I not suddenly quenched them the whole Country would have been on a Flame. The Malignants fiocked so fast, that had I not entered Rutlandshire at that Nick of Time, I am confident in One Week the whole County would have been drawn into a Body against the Parliament.' " Hence it is not surprising that he suggested to the Earl of Manchester the seizure of the rents of 'the young Lord Campden,'" Baptist Noel, who was now engaged in various operations on behalf of the Royalists. In March 1643 his servants removed Captain Stephen Tory from Oakham to Belvoir Castle, where he was charged before the governor with betraying the Oakham magazine to the enemy and resisting Campden's attempt to raise 300 horse for the king ; and he remained a prisoner there till August, losing as he alleged jT 1,000 by plunder. ^^ In June Lord Campden plundered Sir William Armyn's house at Osgodby in Lincolnshire,^^ and Sir Thomas Trollope valued at _^2,ooo the stock, corn, &c., taken from his lands by Campden's troops during the summer." On 19 July he was reported as intending to ' set before ' Peterborough and to have ' a far greater force come in Stamford [which is] fortifying there.''*' In 1645 he was imprisoned in London, but was released on recognizances, and obtained in September 1646 a pass to visit Rutland.^' The head quarters of the Parliamentary forces in Rutland were fixed at Burley on the Hill. The order of September 1643, already mentioned, was 'especially recommended to Mr. Thomas Wayte to put into execution.' Waite, who was said by Royalist writers to be the son of a tavern-keeper at Market Overton, but more probably belonged to Leicestershire,*" was in charge of the arrangements for raising money and horses in the county, and "" Lords' Journ. v, 645, 647, 686 ; vi, 136 ; Commons' Joum. ii, 989 ; iii, 85, 132, 135, 154. " Lords' Journ. v, 629, 631. " Diet. Nat. Biog. xli, 91. " Lords' Journ. v, 631. " Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. viii, App. ii, 59. " Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 940. " Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii, App. I ; cf. as to Sir William Armyn, Diet. Nat. Biog. vi, 8. " Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 939. '* Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii, App. 555a. '' Lords' Journ. viii, 460, 477 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vi, App. 133 ; cf. Diet. Nat. Biog. xli, 88, 89. «» Diet. Nat. Biog. 191