[246] "The Earl of Derby's Speech on the Scaffold, etc." ("C.W.T.," p. 320). The best account of the Earl's last hours is naturally given by Seacome, who quotes Bagguley's "Narrative" (pp. 120-127), "Discourse," pp. 82-85: "The Earl was no good Orator, and the tumult put him out of speaking what he intended; he was much afraid of being reviled by the people of the town, but they rather pitied his condition."
[247] "The Earl of Darby was a man of unquestionable loyalty to the King, and gave clear testimony of it before he received any obligations from the Court, and when he thought himself disobliged by it.... He was a man of great honour and clear courage; and all his defects and misfortunes proceeded from his having lived so little time among his equals, that he knew not how to treat his inferiors: which was the source of all the ill that befell him, having thereby drawn such a prejudice from the persons of inferior quality, who yet thought themselves too good to be contemned, against him, that they pursued him to death." ("Clarendon," Macray, Vol. 5, p. 184, bk. 13, par. 68).
Allen, Rev. Isaac, Rector of Prestwich, 41.
Alport Lodge, 42. ---- burnt down, 42_n_. ---- demolished, 55.
Amounderness Hundred, 54, 58, 67, 131, 188. ---- Royalist collectors for, 58. ---- Parliamentarian captains in, 93.
Anderton, Christopher, of Lostock, 137. ---- Hugh, 188. ---- James, 58, 188.
Array, Commissions of, 11, 13, 14. ---- voted illegal by Parliament, 11.
Ashhurst, Henry, 35_n_, 172. ---- Captain John (afterwards Major), 34, 161, 186. ---- ---- at Bolton, 69-70. ---- ---- at Lathom, 103. ---- ---- appointed Governor of Liverpool, 137. ---- ---- his negotiations with Lord Derby, 138. ---- William, M.P. for Newton, 30. ---- ---- notice of, 34-5.
Ashton Hall, Lancaster, Charles II. at, 182.
Assheton, Radcliffe, royalist collector in Blackburn Hundred, 58, 59_n_. ---- Ralph, of Downham, 32. ---- ---- of Whalley, M.P. for Clitheroe, 30, 32. ---- ---- of Middleton, M.P. for Lancashire, Colonel and Major-General, 20_n_, 30, 54, 171_n_. ---- ---- secures the magazine at Manchester, 14. ---- ---- notice of, 31-2, 32_n_. ---- ---- his tenants at the siege of Manchester, 43, 46. ---- ---- commands at first defence of Bolton, 69. ---- ---- relieves Lancaster, 76. ---- ---- retreats to Whalley, 77. ---- ---- sacks Wigan, 79. ---- ---- victory in the Fylde, 86. ---- ---- takes Hornby and Thurland Castle, 88. ---- ---- at Adwalton Moor, 89. ---- ---- defeated at Booth Lane, near Sandbach, 97. ---- ---- at the siege of Lathom House, 101-2. ---- ---- at York, 126. ---- ---- serves at siege of Chester, 149. ---- ---- Commander-in-Chief in Lancashire in 1648, 162. ---- ---- takes Bentham House, Westmoreland, 163. ---- ---- at battle of Preston, 167. ---- ---- takes Appleby Castle, 172. ---- ---- ordered to disperse Lancashire Militia, 175. ---- ---- dismissed from his command, 175.