Against this the Parliament hath published a declaration, which is attached to the aforesaid agreement, commencing "fourteen articles of peace." Private letters have also been received from Lancaster stating that six standards have been presented to the King which were taken, in the rencontre above mentioned, from the Parliamentarians and it is reported that some thousands of the latter have been slain. A Parliamentman of quality told me, on Saturday last, that the Earl of Essex was with the army within twelve miles of Shrewsbury ; that place has been fortified by the King, who keeps his main force there. It is believed that My Lord Strange, now Earl of Derby,^ by the

William SETiionE, Earl of Hertford, K. G., succeeded to the title on the death of his grandfather in 1621, and was '

advanced to the dignity of Marquess on the 3d of June, 1640, and constituted Governor of the Prince of Wales. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he was made Lieutenant-General of all the King's forces in the counties of Wilts, Southampton, Dorset, etc., and in 1643 Groom of the Stole. On the Restoration, he succeeded in being acknowledged as Duke of Somerset, which title was forfeited by the attainder of his grandfather, in the reign of Edward VI., and died on the 24th October, 1660. His second wife was sister of the Earl of Essex. ( Supra, p. 127.) Collins. I., pt i., 188. " James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was summoned to Parliament by the title of Lord Strange, 13th February, 1628, and