And in what way to devise an effectual and good plan for the places in New Netherland regarding the Freedoms and peopling thereof, and, generally, in what manner the aforesaid conquests shall be resorted to and traded with.

Robert Sidney, 2d Earl of Leicester, and brother-in-law of the Earl of Northumberland, was a man of great parts, very conversant in books, and much addicted to the mathematics and though he had been a soldier, and commanded a regiment in ;

the service of the United Provinces, and was afterwards employed in several embassies, as in Denmark and France, was in truth, rather a speculative than a practical man. He was, after the death of the Earl of Strafford, in 1641, called from the embassy in France to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and shortly after lost the King's favor and his office, without having gone to take possession of that government; after which he joined the Parliament, and Cromwell showed his sense of that step by appointing Lord Lisle, his eldest son, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1648. Clarendon. ' Henry Rich, Ist Earl of Holland, K. G., was the second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Warwick, and brother of Robert, mentioned in n preceding note. He was created Knight of the Bath in 1611, and in 1618, Captain of the King's Guard; became Lord Kensington in 1623-4, and Eail of Holland in Lincolnshire, in 1623. He was sent ambassador to France, and afterwards to the United Provinces, in 162.5, in which country he had already made two or three campaigns, and in 1639, on the first insurrection of the Scots, was constituted General of the Horse in the expedition into that country. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, he endeavored to accommodate matters, and with that view, accompanied the Earl of Bedford ( see supra, p. 127.) to the King at Oxford.