and me the favour [and me _sic_] to send to his friends, being at Namptwich, and the same messing [messenger?] to come down from thence to you with my letter for fear [if] ours were sent before [they] should miscarry, so we sent letters by the Colonel’s directions to Namptwich from hence on Wednesday, being the first of April; my letters were inclosed in Mr. Collour’s letters, and he desired his father-in-law, Lieut.-Col. Jones, Sir Wm. Brereton, Lieut. Coa, that as soon as his letters came to his hands, to send my letters down to you. But for fear these should miscarry, we have sent the bearer to you with this letter. I had all my money taken from me, therefore I pray you to make shift to procure me four or five pounds, for I have not a penny but what I do borrow. I pray you to send a shirt and two or three bands, for I have none left me. I hope my brother Peter will not fail to come and to bring these things along with him, that I have written for; so desiring you to remember my love to all our friends, especially to Mr. Glegg and Mrs. Gregg, to Capt. Edw. and Capt. John Glegg, and to Capt. Robert, and to Mr. Wm. and Mrs. Elizabeth and Miss Jones, and all the rest; so desiring a happy meeting, I rest, “Your loving and obedient son, till death, “JO. BYTHELL. “Lancaster, 6 April, 1645. “I pray you give the bearer hereof, Mary Goadfine, 2_s_ and 6_d_, and make much of her. But let her make what haste she can back again to me.” We have next:--[M] “A list of their names that were aboard the ‘Peter,’ bound for Dublin and distressed by storms, and cast upon the coast of Lancashire, and [who] afterwards escaped to Skipton Castle.” (The name of the Prisoners taken at Lancaster, 1st April, 1645.) The Earl of Glamorgan, the Lord Herbert. The Lord John his brother. Sir Brian, uncle of Sir Francis Edmonds. Sir Charles Hayward, the Duke of Norfolk’s grandchild. Lieut. Vivian Mouelex, a man who was very decrepid. Col. Cave, Col. Mitchell (Irish). Mr. F. Flemmia, a Lancashire man. Captain Mulbrian, Captain Bacon. Mr. Peters, the Lord Peters’ brother, Mr. Poynes. Mr. Hutton, Col. Pristoe, Captain Butler. “Some two or three more whose names are not known to any passenger, but they were men of ordinary quality. “The Protestants that are now prisoners at Lancaster, and went of their own voluntary will, and not taken by force, and hired horses. “Mr. Collham, Mr. Jones, James Hambleton, Jo. Bythell, Mr. Rob. Noterfield, his wife and children and three servants; not siding with the papists, Mr. Argent a gentleman, his daughter, and Boyes, and his maid; Mr. Barker, Mr. Floyde, a minister. “Two of the Lord Herbert’s men who were taken in their escape after their Lordship; two poor sailors.”