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CHA p . The other dismissions must be more concisely related.- I637 ’~ The Duke of Somerset, whose regiment had been taken fromhim some months before, was now turned out of the LordLieutenancy of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The NorthRiding was taken from Viscount Fauconberg, Shropshirefrom Viscount Newark, and Lancashire from the Earl ofDerby, grandson of that gallant Cavalier who had faceddeath so bravely, both on the field of battle and on thescaffold, for the House of Stuart. The Earl of Pembroke,who had recently served the crown with fidelity and spiritagainst Monmouth, was displaced in Wiltshire, the Earl ofRutland in Leicestershire, the Earl of Bridgewater in Buck-inghamshire, the.Earl of Thanet in Cumberland, the Earlof Northampton in Warwickshire, the Earl of Abingdon inOxfordshire, and the Earl of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. Scars-dale was also deprived of a regiment of cavalry, and of anoffice in the household of the Princess of Denmark. Shemade a struggle to retain his services, and yielded only to aperemptory command of her father. The Earl of Gains-borough was ejected, not only' from the Lieutenancy of Hamp-shire, but also from the government of Portsmouth and therangersliip of the New Forest, two places for which he had,only a few months before, given five thousand pounds. *

The King could not find Lords of great note, or indeedProtestant Lords of any sort, who would accept the vacantoffices. It was necessary to assign two shires to Jeffreys, anew man whose landed property was small, and two to Prestonwho was not even an English peer. The other counties whichhad been left without governors were entrusted, with scarcelyan exception, to known Roman Catholics, or to courtierswho had secretly promised the King to declare themselvesRoman Catholics as soon as they could do so with prudence.Questions At length the new machinery was put in action; and soon&a l ?u- lhl> from every corner of the realm arrived the news of complete'rates, an d hopeless failure. The catechism by which the LordsLieutenants had been directed to test the sentiments of the

* Barillon, Dec. A- &• «• 1087 5 Cillers, Dec. A-