the editor of the lately published
_Fairfax Correspondence_, has not avoided confusion between the father
and son. In the first volume of the correspondence relating to the civil
war (p. 281.), the editor says, under date January, 1646,--

"Lord Hopton in the meanwhile has been appointed to the command
in Cornwall, superseding Goring. Also has been sent off on
several negociations to France."

Goring went off to France on his own account; his father was at that
time Charles I.'s ambassador at the court of France.

I should like to know the year in which a letter of Goring the son's,
printed by Mr. Bell in vol. i. p. 23., was written, if it can be
ascertained. As printed, it is dated "Berwick, June 22." Is _Berwick_
right? Is there a bath there? The letter is addressed to Sir Constantine
Huygens, and in it is this passage--

"I have now my lameness so much renewed that I cannot come to
clear myself; as soon as the bath has restored me to my
strength, I shall employ it in his Highness's service, if he
please to let me return into the same place of his favour that I
thought myself happy in before."

I should expect that this letter was written from France after Goring's
abrupt retreat into that country. It is stated that the letter comes
from Mr. Bentley's collection.

The Earl of Norwich was in Flanders in November 1569, and accompanied
the Dukes of York and Gloucester from Brussels to Breda. (Carte's
_Letters_, ii. 282.)

CH.

If the following account of the Goring family given by Banks (_Dormant
and Extinct Peerage_, vol. iii. p. 575.) is correct, it will appear that
the father and both his sons were styled at different times. "Lord
Goring," and that they may very easily be distinguished.

"George Goring, of Hurstpierpont, Sussex, the son of George
Goring, and Anne his wife, sister to Edward Lord Denny,
afterwards Earl of Norwich, was created Baron Goring in the
fourth of Charles I., and in the xx'th of the same reign
advanced to the earldom of Norwich, which had become extinct by
the death of his maternal uncle above-mentioned, S.P.M.

"He betrayed Portsmouth, of which he was governor, to the king,
and rendered him many other signal services. He married Mary,
one of the daughters of Edward Nevill, vi'th Baron of
Abergavenny, and had issue four daughters, and two sons, the
eldest of whom, George, was an eminent commander for