FOR COLL. BULSTRODE, CAPT. GRENVILLE, 66 CAPT. TYRRELL, AND CAPTAIN WEST, 66 OR ANY OF THEM "I wrote this inclofed letter yesterday, and 66 thought it would have come to you then, but "the messenger had occafion to stay till this "morning. Wee cannot be ready to march till to-morrow, and then I believe wee fhall. I de"fire you would be pleafed to fend me againe, as foon as you can, to the that wee may "know what posture you are in, "will hear which way wee go. army, and then you You fhall do mee a favore to certify mee, what you hear of defcendants being deficient in an account of public money, he was exonerated from the debt due to Government by an Act of Parliament, particularly expreffing that it was for the fervices his illuftrious relation had done to his country that this mark of favour was fhewn to him. * The perfons to whom thefe Letters are addreffed, commanded the Cavalry raised in Bucks for the Parliament. The family of Bulftrode lived at Bulftrode, now the Duke of Portland's, and is long fince extinct. The male lines of the family of Tyrrell, eflablished at Thornton near Buckingham, and at Castle Thorp near Newport Pagnell, are likewife extinct. The family of Weft were eftablished at Long Crendon near Thame, but its property is fold. The prefent refpectable Prefident (1) of the Royal Academy is defcended from this branch. Captain Grenville is the Great-Great-Grandfather of the Marquis of Buckingham. (1) In 1795, BENJ. WEST, Efq. CC 3 << the "the King's forces; for I believe, your intelli "gence is better from Oxford and those parts "than ours can be. "Yo' humble ❝s I. HAMPDEN. "Northampt. " November 1° "1642." "Queen Elizabeth was entertained by Grif "fith Hampden, Efq. of Hampden, the ancestor "of John Hampden, Efq. in her progrefs. For "the more convenient accefs to his houfe, he "cutt a paffage through his woods (which is 66 now called the Queen's Gap). There is an ancient tradition, that King Edward the "Third and the Black Prince were entertained 66 at Hampden, where the Prince and Mr. Hampden exercifing themselves in feats of "chivalry, they difagreed, whereupon Mr. "Hampden ftruck the Prince on the face. "They went away in a great wrath, upon "which came this rhyme : "Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe; "For ftriking of a blow, "Hampden did foregoe, "And glad he could escape fo." From MS. Collections for the County of Bucks, in the Bodleian Library. During During the time in which Mr. Hampden was engaged in the Civil Wars, he wore round his neck an ornament, confifting of a small filver chain, inclosing a plain cornelian stone. Round the filver rim of the ftone was infcribed, "Against my King I never fight, "But for my King and Country's right." This interesting record of the fentiments of that great man has been bequeathed to the Univerfity of Oxford by the late Thomas Knight, Efq. of Godmerfham Park, Kent. A representation of it is here fubjoined; The following Petition from the County of Bucks to Charles the First, in favour of their imprisoned Member, is printed from a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: "TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, cc THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE INHABITcc ANTS OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKS: "SHEWETH, That your Petitioners having, by "virtue of your Highnes writ, cho"fen John Hampden, Efq. Knight. "for your Shire, in whofe loyaltie " and wisdome we his countrymen "and neighbours have ever had "good caufe to confide, however of late, to our no lefs amazement "then grief, we find him, with other "Members of Parliament, accused "of treafon. And having taken to "our ferious confideration the man 66 ner of his impeachment, we can"not but under your Majeftie's fa your conceive, that it doth fo op pugn the rights of Parliaments, to "the maintenance whereof our pro"teftation binds us, that we believe "it is the malice which their zeal to 66 your Majefty's fervice, and the "State have contracted in the ene"mies to your Majefty, the Church, "and Commonweal, which have oc cafioned thofe foul accufations, ra"ther than any defert of theirs, who "do likewife through their fides "wound |