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A HISTORY OF RUTLAND county were probably prepared to support Parliament loyally to the last, such as Sir James Harington, already mentioned as one of the members of the Rutland Committee of 1645^"; he was president of the Council of State which in May 1659 wrote to warn General Monk that 'divers dangerous persons of Charles Stuart's party are contriving to rayse new warres within this Commonwealth,' and desiring him ' to watch the carriage and motions of malignants in Scotland.^** On the other hand, the prevaihng sentiment amongst the Rutland troops is shown by the conduct of George Lascelles, quartermaster to Colonel Hackey (? Hackett), who, when left chief officer on the station and ordered by Major-General Lambert to march north, left at Oakham thirteen men of his force, whom he could not trust, and marched instead to join Monk. He was, however, surprised by Lambert's forces at Boroughbridge, and but for the opportune arrival of news that peace had been made between the two generals would have been tried for his life.^*^ Another Rutland Parliamentarian who must have adopted the Royalist cause in this year was Colonel Henry Markham of Ketton, who, as he was one of the pall-bearers at the funeral of the Duke of Albemarle at Westminster on 30 April 1670, must probably have been a personal friend of the latter's."* His name appears in the Parliamentary Army List of 1647 as a captain of horse in Fairfax's army,'** and in 1648 he was authorized to raise sixty foot for the security of Belvoir Castle with the charge of which he was entrusted by the Parliamentarians."" He was appointed one of the leaders of seventeen troops of horse by Lenthall, the Speaker, on 28 December 1659,"' and that he must at this time have been of some service in carrying out Monk's plans seems evident from the following inscription which was formerly on a slab forming part of the floor of the sanctuary of North LufFenham Church : — ' Here lyeth Col. Henry Markham who was very instrumental in the happy restoration of King Charles ye II, and was one of ye 418 Gents of the Privy Chamber of the said King of ever blessed memory.'"* On 26 June 1660 those among 'the nobility and gentry of the county of Rutland ' who had ' never made a publique application to any pretended power ' presented Charles II with an address of ' Humble Congratulations ' on his restoration, in which they express to God their ' thankfuU acknowledg- ment of His goodnesse in so great a Blessing accomplished without effusion of blood ' and assure the king that ' we shall, according to our duty, bear true Allegiance to your Majestic your Heirs and Successors and shall upon all occasions endeavour ourselves to be Your Majestie's most Loyall subjects.' "* These congratulations — presented by Hon. Philip Sherard, to whom the king ' in a very gracious manner was pleased to express his acceptance ' of the address — were signed by the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Exeter, Lord Campden, Lord Ross, Lord Sherard, Philip Sherard, esq., Sir Thomas '" Supra, p. 193. ^*^ Clarke Pap. (ed. C. H. Firth, Camd. Soc), iv, i6. He was, together with Mr. Scott, Berners Samuell and others, ' left out of the New Militia Committee for Westminster appointed at the close of the year because they ' utterly disowned ' its order, and voted that being appointed by Parliament they ought not nor would obey any order from or give account to any but the Parliament or their Council of State ; ibid. 103. '" Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xi, App. vii, 92. '** Rut. Mag. iii, 69. "' Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers (ed. E. A. Peacock, znd ed. 1874), App. 107. "» Rut. Mag. iii, 68. "' Ibid. '" Ibid. '" B.M Pressmark 669. f. 25 (55). 200