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Williams, Sir Charles (dead '41)
Wilmot, Henry, Esq. (expelled,
Army-plot '41; made Baron '43)
*Wilson, Rowland, Esq. (Alderman
of London; King's judge)
Windebank, Sir Francis, Knight
(Secretary; fled '41)
Wingate, Edward, Esq.
*Winwood, Richard, Esq.
Wise, -, Esq. (died before '41)
Wogan, John, sen. Esq. (dead '44)
*Wogan, Thomas, Esq. (regicide)
Woodhouse, Sir Thomas, Baronet
Worsley, Sir Henry, Baronet
Wray, Sir Christopher, Knight (dead
'45)

Wray, Sir John, Baronet
*Wray, William, Esq.

Wroth, Sir Peter, Knight (dead '44) *Wroth, Sir Thomas, Knight (King's judge)

*Wylde, Edmund, Esq. (King's judge) Wylde, Sergeant John.

Wyndham, Edmund, Esq. (expelled '41, monopolist)

*Wynn, Sir Richard, Knight

Wynn, Sir Richard, Baronet (dead
'49)

Yelverton, Sir Christopher, Knight.
Young, Sir John, Knight

Young, Walter, Esq.

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Monmouthshire.

Tamworth.

Calne.

Corfe Castle.
St. Albans.
New Windsor.
Devonshire.
Pembrokeshire.
Cardigan.
Thetford.
Newport, Wight,
Great Grimsby.
Lincolnshire.
Great Grimsby.
Bridgwater.

Bridgwater.

Droitwich.

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LISTS OF THE EASTERN-ASSOCIATION

COMMITTEES.

*

THE Committee Lists of the Eastern Association are taken from Husband's second Collection, where, in three successive general Acts, dated 1st April 1643, 7th May (and 1st June) 1643, and 3d August 1643,-followed by a few partial amendments and enlargements for specific places, at different dates,

the Committees of all Parliamentary or Anti-Royalist Counties and principal Boroughs, as settled at that stage of the contest, are named. Earlier and earliest Committees are in Husband's First Collection ** and elsewhere; but these, as transient and now abrogated combinations, do not concern us here.

The Committee of April is named for managing the Sequestration of Delinquents' Estates; those of May and August for raising money by other methods, chiefly by Weekly Assessments; and each has its specific Act and instructions; but as the essential business of all these Committees was to carry on the War by furnishing the sinews of war, and as, with trifling variations, the same persons sat on all, it may well be imagined their functions, even to the members themselves, became gradually much blended; and for us they have become inextricably blended, or not worth the huge labour of attempting to extricate and distinguish. Committees, all, essentially of Finance and general Administration; appointed, we may say, to care generally that the Parliamentary Cause suffer no damage by lack of money or otherwise, against whom, and their despotic procedure, rise loud complaints and denunciations in the old Pamphlets of a royalist or neutral stamp. An assiduous hand, searching on my behalf through every corner of these Lists and Supplementary Lists, as they lie in bewildering disorder, scattered over the vast surface of Husband, has pain

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Collection of all the Public Orders, Ordinances &c. of Parliament, from March 1642-3 to December 1646: Printed for Edward Husband (Lon. don, folio, 1646).

**An exact Collection of all Remonstrances, &c. &c. (London, small 4to, 1643): Printed for Edward Husbands (sic.) p. 891 &c.

fully added to each Name an exact note of the several Comittees on which he sat: but, not to encumber the Printer and the Reader with what would little if in any degree profit, I have omitted these specialties at present, all but the following two:

Under date 10th August 1643 (with Supplementary or subsequent Acts, in some cases) is a particular settling and assorting of the Association Committees as a distinct body; with instructions and directions; directing, for one thing, how they are to choose the Central Committee which sits at Cambridge; - indicating to us who they now are, and most probably who they were hitherto, that showed themselves most and took the chief management: these, as in some sort peculiar, I have found good to note: all that sit on this Committee are distinguished by an asterisk (*); those that sit on this only, or are new men at the passing of the Act, have their names printed in italics. And observe here: Among those of the asterisk the "Deputy Lieutenant's," appointed long before and with superior powers, of whom there is sometimes mention in Oliver's Letters and elsewhere, will be found; but not in a distinguishable state: their names as a body, though "read publicly" in 1642, and even ordered to be printed,* do not occur in Husband. This is the first specialty of indication attempted here. Then secondly, under date 15th Feb. 1644-5, on Fairfax's appointment to be Commander-in-chief, there occurs a revision or new-model of Committees, in the Association as everywhere else, for raising assessments to support Fairfax: such men as were added for serving on this Committee, are designated by an (f.). Farther distinctions, as threatening rather to confuse than illuminate the reader, are not given at present.

Our only change from those Lists of Husband's is the arrangement, an important and indispensable one, in alphabetical order; and the correction of what mistakes were palpable, the number and nature of which still testify how hurriedly that old Parliamentary operation, in all stages of it, was done. The spelling especially, with its incessant variations, has been an intricate business, not to be settled sometimes except partly by guess. Our "Esq.," "Gent.," and occasional omission of all Title, are correctly what we find in the old Book.

*Names "read before the House," 17th March 1641-2 (Commons Journals, ii. 483); ordered "to be printed," 6th Oct. following (ib. 797): not given in either case.

Under the given circumstances, Husband's Lists may be taken as substantially correct: but of course those Committees, even for specified objects, were liable, at all times, both to be supplemented and to be sifted down; which renders their exact composition a fluctuating object, dependent on date in some measure.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

Cambridgeshire Committees (Husband, ii.), in 1643: 1st April (with Supplement, 15th September), p. 16, p. 322; - 7th May (with Supplements and Revisals, 21 June, 3d August, 20th September), p. 169, p. 225, p. 6 Appendix, p. 329; Association specially 10th August (and 4th September), p. 284, p. 308. For support of Fairfax in 1644-5, and to the end of the War: 15th February, 1644-5, p. 603.

Those that sat exclusively on this Fairfax Committee have an (7.) appended; those of 10th August (among whom are the Deputy-Lieutenants) are marked with an asterisk (*), and such of them as were then new are in italics: (e.) means, For Ely only; (t.), For Town and University only.

Aldmond, Edward. (t. f.)

#Becket, Thomas, Esq.

*Bendish, Thomas, Esq.
Blackley, James. (t. f.)
*Browne,

Browning, Edward, Esq.
Butler, Henry, Esq.
Butler, Nevill, Esq.
#Castle, Robert, Esq.
*Castle, Thomas, Esq.
Chennery,* John, Esq. (f.)
Clapthorn, George, Esq.
Clark, Edward, Esq.
*Clark, Robert, Esq.

*Clench, Edward, Esq.
Clopton, Walter, Esq.
*Cooke, Thomas, Esq.
*Cromwell, Oliver, Esq.
*Cutts, Sir John, Kt.

Spelt also Chymery.

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Dalton, Michael, jun. Esq.
Dalton, Michael, sen. Esq. (f.)
Desborow, Isaac.

Diamond, Tristram, Gent. (e. f.)
*Ducket, Thomas, Esq.

Eden, Dr. (f.)

Fiennes, Ald. (t. f.)
Fisher, William, Esq.
*Foxton, Richard, Esq.
French, Thomas. (t.)
: *Hobart, John, Esq.
Hynde, Robert.

Janes, William, Esq. (f.)
Leeds, Edward, Esq.
Lowry, John. (i.)

Male, Edmund.

*March, Humberston, Esq.
*Marsh, William, Esq.
*Martin, Sir Thomas, Kt.
*Mayor for the time being. (.)

Sherwood, John. (t.) Smith, Henry,

North, Sir Dudley, Kt.

Parker, Thomas, Esq.

Partridge, Sir Edward, Kt. *Spalding, Samuel. (t.)

(e. f.)

Pepys, Samuel, Esq.

*Pope, Dudley, Esq.

:

Staughton, Robert. Story, Philip, Esq.

Pepys, Talbot, Recorder. (t.) Stone, Richard, M.D. (e. f.)

Raven, John, Esq. (f.)

Reynolds, James, Esq. (f.)
Reynold, Sir James. (f.)
Robson, Robert. (t.)
*Russel, Francis, Esq.
Russel, Killiphet, Esq. (f.)
*Sandys,* Sir Miles, Kt.

Spelt also Sands, Sandes, Sandis.

Symonds, Thomas, Esq.
*Thompson, James, Esq.
Towers, John, Esq.
Walker, Thomas.
*Welbore, John, Esq.
Welbore, William. (t.)
Wendy, Francis, Esq.
Wright, John.

ESSEX.

Essex Committees (Husband, ii.), in 1643: 1st April (with Supplement, 1st June), p. 17, p. 194;-7th May (with Supplements and Revisals, 1st June, 3d August, 20th September), p. 170, p. 194, p. Appendix, p. 328; Association specially, 10th August, p. 284. For support of Fairfax in 1644-5, and to the end of the War: 15th February 1644-5, p. 603.

The (f.) designates the exclusively Fairfax men; the asterisk (*) those of 10th August, the then new ones of whom are in italics; (c.) means, For Colchester.

Adams, Thomas, of Thaxted, Gent.

Allen, Isaac, of Haseley, Esq.
*Alliston,* John, Gent.
*Atwood, John, Esq.
*Atwood, William, Esq.
Aylet, Jeremy, Esq.
Aylett, Thomas, of Kelldon,
Gent.

Bacon, Nathaniel, Esq.
*Barnardiston, Arthur, Esq.
Barrington, Henry, Gent. (c.)
Barrington, Robert, Esq. (f)
Barrington, Sir John, Kt.

* Spelt also Aliston, Eliston &c. &c.

Barrington, Sir Thomas, Bart.
Berkhead, Edward, Esq.
Bourn, Robert, Esq.
Brook, John, Esq.
Burket, John, Esq.
Buxton, Robert, Gent. (c.).
*Calthorp, Robert, Esq.
Cheeke, Sir Thomas, Kt.
Clapton, Thomas, Esq.
Cletheroe, Captain.
Collard, William, Esq..
Cook, William, Ald. (c.)
Cooke, Thomas, Esq.
Cooke, Thomas, Gent.
Crane, Robert, Esq.

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