Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850

Notes

GEORGE GORING, EARL OF NORWICH, AND HIS SON GEORGE, LORD GORING

MSS. OF BISHOP RIDLEY: A "NOTE" AND A "QUERY."

LINES WRITTEN DURING THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION

FOLK LORE

NOTE ON A PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS

COFFEE, BLACK BROTH

Queries

QUERIES CONCERNING OLD MSS

Minor Queries

Replies

SIR GEORGE BUC

"A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO."

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellanies

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

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G.'s inquiry (Vol. i., p. 22.) about the two Gorings of the Civil War—a period of our history in which I am much interested—has led me to look into some of the sources of original information for that time, in the hope that I might be enabled to answer his Queries. I regret I cannot yet answer his precise questions, when Lord Goring the son was married, and when and where he died? but I think the following references to notices of the father and the son will be acceptable to him; and I venture to think that the working out in this way of neglected biographies, is one of the many uses to which your excellent periodical may be applied.

Confusion has undoubtedly been made between the father and son by careless compilers. But whoever carefully reads the passages of contemporary writers relating to the two Gorings, and keeps in mind that the title of Earl of Norwich, given by Charles I. in November, 1644, to the father, was not recognised by the parliamentary party, will have no difficulty in distinguishing between the two. Thus it will be seen in two of the passages which I subjoin from Carte's Letters, that in 1649 a parliamentarian calls the father Lord Goring, and Sir Edward Nicholas calls him Earl of Norwich.

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In an intercepted letter of a parliamentarian, dated Jan. 8, 1649, which is in Carte's Letters (vol. i. p. 201.), is the following mention of the Earl of Norwich, then under sentence of death by the High Court of Justice:—

Sir E. Nicholas writes, April 8, 1649, to the Marquis of Ormond, that the Earl of Norwich (as he styles him) has been reprieved at the suit of the Spanish and Dutch ambassadors. (Carte's Letters, vol. i. p. 247.)

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