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Description: | He has attended the Lord Chancellor to Cornbery (Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire) who was received highly in the county, most of the gentlemen came to wait on him, four separate feasts at Oxford, by Magdalen, St. John's, All Souls, Christchurch, afterwards at Lord Falklands, Sir Henry Lea's & Sir William Walter's, With an entertainment in the afternoon at Sir William Fleetwood's. On their return received at Sir Richard Powell's house 3 miles from Maidenhead and the last by Lord Mordaunt at Windsor. The General (? Monck) pretty well upon his legs again & enquiring after Lord Lindsey. The writer goes on to describe a notable encounter last Monday between the ambassadors of Spain & France, both being asked to send their coaches to fetch the newly arrived Swedish ambassador and for some reason deciding to fight each other for the honour. The King would have liked to hinder this meeting but not being able to do so sent horse and foot to hold the ring and give no assistance to either side. The French ambassador M. Le Strade sent his coach with a company of gentlemen armed with pistols etc. and some foot. The Spaniard, ? Battevill, has only 12 servants & 8 gentlemen armed only with rapiers but owing to superior strategy the Spaniards won, although the French could have eaten them up. There were twenty hurt and eight killed: His Lord thanks the Earl of Lindsey for some venison.
The Sotheby Catalogue dating c. 1627 does not seem to fit. The Lord Chancellor associated with 'Cornbery' was Edward Hyde, later Lord Clarendon, 1658-67. Lord Mordaunt was Governor of Windsor Castle 1660-68 (The Complete Peerage, G.E.C.) and finally the Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1661-62 p. 100 has 1661, 30 Sept. Relation of a dangerous dispute & bloody conflict between the Spaniards & the French at Tower Wharf & Hill, on the landing of the Swedish Ambassador, in which the former were deservedly triumphant, printed.
The writer may be presumed to be Edward Penruddock, brother of Col. John who was beheaded in 1655 for his part in an insurrection in favour of King Charles II. The recipient was Montagu second Earl of Lindsey. The widow of Sir Roger Bertie, his brother, married George Penruddick of Broad Chalk, Wiltshire (The Complete Peerage G.E.C. vol. 8 p. 18 - note). | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 1 Oct 1661 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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