Transcriber’s Note: inconsistencies in spelling, etc are left unaltered. THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY, VOLUME THE EIGHTH: containing FOUR LETTERS OF LORD WENTWORTH, AFTERWARDS EARL OF STRAFFORD, WITH A POEM ON HIS ILLNESS. MEMOIR BY MADAME DE MOTTEVILLE ON THE LIFE OF HENRIETTA MARIA. PAPERS RELATING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF LORD SAVILE, 1642-1646. A SECRET NEGOCIATION WITH CHARLES THE FIRST, 1643-1644. A LETTER FROM THE EARL OF MANCHESTER ON THE CONDUCT OF CROMWELL. LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE. ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK 1657-1719. LETTERS OF RICHARD THOMPSON TO HENRY THOMPSON, OF ESCRICK, CO. YORK. [Illustration] PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXXIII. WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. [NEW SERIES XXXI.] COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1882-3. _President_, THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF VERULAM, F.R.G.S. J. J. CARTWRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., _Treasurer_. WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ., F.S.A. F. W. COSENS, ESQ., F.S.A. JAMES E. DOYLE, ESQ. REV. J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH, M.A., F.S.A. JAMES GAIRDNER, ESQ. SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, ESQ., _Director_. J. W. HALES, ESQ., M.A. ALFRED KINGSTON, ESQ., _Secretary_. CHARLES A. J. MASON, ESQ. THE EARL OF POWIS, LL.D. EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ., M.A. (_the late_) REV. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, D.D., F.S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, ESQ., F.S.A. J. R. DANIELL-TYSSEN, ESQ., F.S.A. (_the late_). The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society’s publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK 1657-1719 EDITED BY EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY M.DCCC.LXXXI. PREFACE.