fhould have five hundred pounds out of the Exchequer for the time I had served, and I had a patent given mee under the great feale to be her Warden of the Eaft March. And thus was I preserved by a pretty jeaft, when wise men 68 thought I had wrought my own. wracke. For out of weakneffe God can fhew strength, and his goodnesse was never wanting to me in any extremity. With grace and favour I retourned to my charge againe : yet before my retourne the Queene was pleased to renew my grant of 69 Norham, with the life of both my fonnes, and the longer liver of us. I was not long fettled in 68 The men here hinted at, had more wifdom than fincerity. 69 One of the caftles in Northumberland, built to defend the marches against the invaders from Scotland. Some crown lands were granted with it. my my office, but there fell out a new occafion to remove mee; which was, that my Lord of 7° Willoughby (who was newly come from travaile) was made Gouvernour of " Barwicke, and 70 Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Erefby. He had made a confiderable figure in the wars of the Low Countries, and in France, where he had paffed through all the offices of a commander. He was a military nobleman of a very bright character. He died in the year 1601. "The laft town in England: the barrier between the two British kingdoms. Often taken, retaken, fold, pawned, and exchanged both by the English and Scots. From the time of Edward IV. entirely in the hands of the English. Queen Elizabeth, ever jealous of her Scottish neighbours, reduced the town to a lefs fize, and augmented the fortifications."Be it alfo remembered (fays Campden in his Britannia). "that the Governor of "this place was always a person of the greatest eminence among the English nobility, and was alfo Warden of thefe Eaftern "marches." -See Dr. Gibfon's Campden's Britannia, vol. 2. page 1099. the the Eaft March did properly belong to the Gouvernour there. Hee came down with full commiffion for both places, fo that I was now to feek what course of life to take. Being at liberty up came I to court, where long I did not stay; but new occafion was offered mee to continue a Northerne man ftill. Sir John 72 Fofter, who had been an active and valiant man, and had done great good fervice in the Middle March (of which place he had been long Warden) grew at length to that weakneffe by reafon of his age, that the borderers knowing it, grew infolent, and by reafon of their many excurfions and open roades, the inhabitants of that March 7 A knight of confiderable poffeffions in Northumberland. The family, according to Campden, were originally of Berkshire. were were much weakened and impoverished, fo that they were no longer able to fubfift without prefent help. The Queene and Counfaile were informed thereof. To remedy this inconvenience they made choice of a worthy nobleman, my Lord 73 Euers, to fupply Sir John Foster's place; and to inable him the better, he was allowed one hundred horsemen out of York-fhire, to be difpofed of at his pleafure, for the better quieting of the country. He came into his office with great joy and comfort for the poor inhabitants of the March, and to the terror and fear of the malefactours, expecting their utter ruin. But, it oft falls out that feldome comes a better for although his Lord 73 The son of Sir William Eure, who was created an English Baron by King Henry VIII, The family is extinct. Ralph Lord Eure, the laft of the title, died in 1707, ship did carefully employ his whole endeavour for the good of the March, and the destroying of malefactours, yet by trusting too much to men that hee thought honest and faithful to him, he was deceived and abufed: for, for all his hundred horsemen, and his defire to have the country well governed, yet hee had not long beene there, but the theeves were freed of their fear, and the poor inhabitants in worfe cafe than ever. And to be fhort, the whole five years that hee remained there, 74 Every circumftance of this kind, let it happen where, or when it will, puts us in mind of the unfortunate and great Lord Bacon, whofe fervants by their iniquities, were one chief cause of his ruin. During his tryal, a parcel of them were fitting in his hall: and when he paffed by, They arofe to fhew him obeifance. "Pray gentlemen," said his Lordfhip in the punning ftyle of those times, "fit ftill, for your rife has been my fall." every |