later Sir Hugh tells us that in preparation for the king’s march against the Scots, he had much business in mustering and training the soldiers of the Train-bands, and many journeys to York to consult with the Vice-President and other Deputy-Lieutenants.  “About June the king sent down his army into Yorkshire, and himself came to it in August.  The Earl of Northumberland was General from whom I had a commission.  Divers of the colonels of the Train-bands, with their regiments, were called to march with the king into Northumberland; amongst which I had been one, but at that time I had caught cold and a dangerous sickness, in raising and training my whole regiment together on Paxton-Moor near Thornton, where one Hallden, a stubborn fellow of Pickering, not obeying his captain, and giving me some unhandsome language, I struck him with my cane, and felled him to the ground.  The cane was tipped with silver, and hitting just under the ear, had greater operation than I intended.  But either the man was ill or else counterfeited so, to be freed from service; which I willingly granted, and glad when he was well:  but it was a good monition not to be hasty in the like or any other provocation, for passion doth not only blind the judgement but produceth other ill effects.”

[Footnote 1:  Thomas Hinderwell, “History of Scarborough,” 1811, p. 350.]

In 1640, when Sir Hugh (as a burgess for Scarborough) was attending the Short Parliament in London, his regiment was commanded to march to the Scottish Border.  His brother Henry Cholmley, being Lieut.-Colonel, went with it, but at Durham they were ordered back.

In November 1641 Sir Hugh was again attending Parliament, and at that time he feared the advance of the Scots into Yorkshire, “which,” he says, “did not a little disquiet my mind and thoughts for my dear wife and children; the snow being so great, I could not possibly remove them so soon as I desired”; “but at the latter end of February, as soon as the ways were passable, I had her and all my family in London.”  It must have been an unusually prolonged period of snow to keep Sir Hugh and his family apart for two or three months.  Roxby Castle was his birthplace, and his account of his early years there includes an accident which might have had fatal results.

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[1] John Cholmley of Cheshire.

[2]
Sir Richard,
Lt.-Gov. of the Tower in the time of King
Henry VIII.; d. without issue; m.  Elizabeth,
one of the daus. of ——­ Nevill of Thornton
Bridge; probably bought land there.