would please to effect it accordingly. Wherein you shall do a favour will be owned by your affectionate friend and servant,
Dudley Wyatt, Scholar of Trinity College, 25th April 1628; B.A., 1631; Fellow, 4th October 1633; vanishes from the Bursar’s Books in 1645: no notice of him farther, or of any effect produced by the Lieutenant-General’s Letter on his behalf, is found in the College records. Indeed, directly after this Letter, the young gentleman, of a roving turn at any rate, appears to have discovered that there was new war and mischief in the wind, and better hope at Court than at College for a youth of spirit. He went to France to the Queen (as we may gather); went and came; developed himself into a busy spy and intriguer;—attained to Knighthood, to be the ‘Sir Dudley Wyatt’ of Clarendon’s History;[2] whom, and not us, he shall henceforth concern.
Robert Hammond, Governor of the Isle of Wight, who has for the present become so important to England, is a young man ‘of good parts and principles’: a Colonel of Foot; served formerly as Captain under Massey in Gloucester;—where, in October 1644, he had the misfortune to kill a brother Officer, one Major Gray, in sudden duel, ‘for giving him the lie’; he was tried, but acquitted, the provocation being great. He has since risen to be Colonel, and become
- ↑ ‘Muniment Room, Trinity College, Cambridge (Collection entitled Papers relating to Trinity Coll., vol. 3): a Transcript, Original now not forthcoming,—docketed in the hand of one Porter, Clerk to Thomas Parne, about 1724, L. P. Cromwell’s Letter concerning Sir Dudley Wyatt’ (Communicated by the Rev. J. Edleston, Fellow of Trinity, March 1849.)—Harl. mss. no. 7053, f. 153 b.: printed, from the latter, in Hartshorne’s Book Rarities in the University of Cambridge (London, 1829), p. 277. The Harl. mss. copy adds: ‘N. B. Upon this Letter Sir Dudley Wyatt was readmitted,’—but did not stay, as would appear.
- ↑ ii, 959, iii. 22, etc.
