rom Arthur Trevor to Ormond, and dated
Launceston, August 18, 1645.

"Mr. Goring's army is broken and all his men in disorder. He
hates the council here, and I find plainly there is no love
lost; they fear he will seize on the Prince, and he, that they
will take him: what will follow hereupon may be foretold,
without the aid of the wise woman on the bank. Sir John
Colepeper was at Court lately to remove him, to the discontent
of many. In short, the war is at an end in the West; each one
looks for a ship, and nothing more.

"Lord Digby and Mr. Goring are not friends; Prince Rupert yet
goes with Mr. Goring, but how long that will hold, I dare not
undertake, knowing both their constitutions."

It will be observed that the writer of the letter, though a cavalier,
here calls him _Mr. Goring_, when as his father was created Earl of
Norwich in the previous year, he was _Lord Goring_ in cavalier
acceptation.

He is indiscriminately called Mr. Goring and Lord Goring in passages of
letters by cavaliers relating to the campaign in the West of 1645, which
occur in Carte's _Collection of Letters_ (vol. i. pp. 59, 60. 81. 86.).

A number of letters about the son, Lord Goring's proceedings in the West
in 1645 are printed in the third volume of Mr. Lister's _Life of Lord
Clarendon_.

The Earl of Norwich's second son, Charles, who afterwards succeeded as
second earl, commanded a {87} brigade under his brother in the West in
1645. (Bulstrode's _Memoirs_, p. 142.; Carte's _Letters_, i. 116. 121.)

Some account of the father, Earl of Norwich's operations against the
parliament in Essex in 1648, is given in a curious autobiography of
Arthur Wilson, the author of the _History of James I_., which is printed
in Peck's _Desiderata Curiosa_, book xi. part 5. Wilson was living at
the time in Essex.

An interesting fragment of a letter from Goring the son to the Earl of
Dorset, written apparently as he was on the point of retiring into
France, and dated Pondesfred, January 26, 1646, is printed in Mr. Eliot
Warburton's _Memoirs of Prince Rupert_, iii. 215.

Mr. Warburton, by the way, clearly confounds the father with the son
when he speaks of the Earl of Norwich's trial and reprieve (iii. 408.).
Three letters printed in Mr. W.'s second volume (pp. 172. 181, 182.),
and signed "Goring", are probably letters of the father's, but given by
Mr. Warburton to the son.

I perceive also that Mr. Bell,