d Sir Edward Nicholas calls him Earl of
Norwich.

Burke, in his _Dormant and Extinct Peerages_, vol. iii., makes the mistake
of giving to the father the son's proceedings at Portsmouth at the
beginning of the Civil War.

Lord Goring the son, then Colonel Goring, commanding a regiment in the Low
Countries, was, at the siege of Breda, September, 1637, severely wounded in
the leg, and had a narrow escape of losing it. Sir William Boswell, the
English ambassador at the Hague, writes to Bramhall, then Bishop of Derry,
and afterwards Archbishop of Armagh:--

"Colonel Goring having the guard of the English in the approaches, was
shot so dangerously cross the shin of his leg, a little above his
ankle, as the chirurgion at first resolved to cut off his leg to save
his life; but upon second thoughts, and some opposition by one of them
against four, they forebare; and now, thanks be to God, he is gotten
out of danger of losing life or leg this bout: his excellent merits
caused a great sorrow at his misfortune, and now as great comfort in
the hope of his recovery"--(_Rawdon Papers_, p. 39.)

That the son was already married to Lady Letitia Boyle at Christmas, 1641,
appears from a letter of the Earl of Cork, the lady's father, to the Earl
of Norwich (at that time Lord Goring), in Lord Orrery's _State Letters_
(vol. i. p. 5. Dublin edition):--

"I have scarce time to present my service to you and your lady, and to
George and my poor Letitia, whom God bless."

In Carte's _Collection of Letters_ (vol. i. p. 359.) {66} is a letter from
Lord Byron, dated "Beauvois, March 1-11, 1650," to the Marquis of Ormond,
stating that Lord Goring the son has come to Beauvois, and is on his way to
Spain, about the settlement of a pension which had been promised him there,
and also to endeavour to get arms and money for the King's service in
Ireland; and that, having settled his business in Spain, he desires nothing
better than to serve as a volunteer under Ormond for King Charles. Lord
Byron strongly recommends Ormond to avail himself of Goring's services:--

"I am confident my Lord Goring may be serviceable to your Excellence in
many respects, and therefore have rather encouraged him in this his
resolution, than any ways dehorted him from it; and especially because
he is to pass by the Spanish Court, where he hath such habitudes, by
reason of the service both his father and he hath don