Page 114, l. 10. disobligations, on account of his secret marriage with James’s cousin, Arabella Stuart, daughter of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, brother of the Earl of Darnley.  She died a prisoner in the Tower; he escaped to France, but after her death was allowed to return to England in 1616.  He succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Hertford in 1621.  He lived in retirement from the dissolution of Parliament in March 1629 to 1640, when he was made a Privy Councillor.

Page 115, l. 5.  He was appointed Governor to the Prince of Wales in May 1641, in succession to the Earl of Newcastle.  He was then in his fifty-third year.  In the following month he was made a Marquis.  See his life in Lady Theresa Lewis’s Lives of the Friends of Clarendon, vol. ii, pp. 436-42.

Page 116, l. 2. attacque, an unexpected form of ‘attach’ at this time, and perhaps a slip, but ‘attack’ and ‘attach’ are ultimately the same word; cf.  Italian attaccare.  The New English Dictionary gives an instance in 1666 of ‘attach’ in the sense of ‘attack’.

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Clarendon, MS. History, Transcript, vol. iv, pp. 440-2; History, Bk. 
VIII, ed. 1703, vol. ii, pp. 391-3; ed.  Macray, vol. iii, pp. 380-3.

The original manuscript of much of Book VIII is lost.  The text is taken from the transcript that was made for the printers.

This is the portrait of a great English nobleman whose tastes lay in music and poetry and the arts of peace, but was forced by circumstances into the leadership of the Royalist army in the North.  He showed little military talent, though he was far from devoid of personal courage; and he escaped from the conflict, weary and despondent, when other men were content to carry on the unequal struggle.  He modelled himself on the heroes of Romance.  The part he tried to play could not be adjusted to the rude events of the civil war.

His romantic cast of mind is shown in his challenge to Lord Fairfax to follow ’the Examples of our Heroick Ancestors, who used not to spend their time in scratching one another out of holes, but in pitched Fields determined their Doubts’.  Fairfax replied by expressing his readiness to fight but refusing to follow ’the Rules of Amadis de Gaule, or the Knight of the Sun, which the language of the Declaration seems to affect in appointing pitch’d battles’ (Rushworth, Historical Collections, third part, vol. ii, 1692, pp. 138, 141).

Warwick’s short character of Newcastle resembles Clarendon’s:  ’He was a Gentleman of grandeur, generosity, loyalty, and steddy and forward courage; but his edge had too much of the razor in it:  for he had a tincture of a Romantick spirit, and had the misfortune to have somewhat of the Poet in him; so as he chose Sir William Davenant, an eminent good Poet, and loyall Gentleman, to be Lieutenant-Generall of his Ordnance.  This inclination of his own and such kind of witty society (to be modest in the expressions of it) diverted many counsels, and lost many opportunities; which the nature of that affair, this great man had now entred into, required’ (Memoires, pp. 235-6).