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Sir Edward Lake's Account of his Interviews with Charles I. On being created a Baronet, and receiving an Augmentation to his Arms
Being Created a Baronet, and Receiving an Augmentation to his ARMS.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2010
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From a love of his sovereign, and a full conviction of the justness of his cause, Dr. Edward Lake, laying aside the gown, took up the sword, and followed his royal master to the battle of Edge-hill. In this engagement he received sixteen wounds; and having lost the use of his left hand by a shot, he placed his horse's bridle between his teeth, and held out the combat, fighting with his sword in his right hand, till the armies parted by the coming of night.
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page x note * It may be worth remarking that the arms of Sir Edward Lake (Sable, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchée, argent. Crest, a sea-horse's head, argent, finned or, charged on the neck with three bars gules) were the same as those borne by Edward Lake, D.D. whose Diary was published in the first volume of the Camden Miscellany, 1846, though his degree of relationship to the baronet is not known. Dr. Lake's eldest daughter and coheir was married, in 1695, to the Rev. William Taswell, D.D. whose “Autobiography” was published by the Camden Society in 1852.
page xii note * Dr. Richard Steward was of Magdalen Hall, Oxon. in 1608, and Fellow of All Souls' Coll. in 1613. He had several preferments, and was made Clerk of the Closet about 1634 in the room of Dr. Matthew Wren. While at the university “he was accounted a good poet and orator, and after he had left it a noted divine, eloquent preacher, and a person of a smart fluent style. In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered much for the King's cause, lost all, and at length retiring to France became a great champion for the Protestant cause at Paris. When he lay upon his death-bed at Paris, in November 1651, King Charles II. gave him two visits, being then newly-arrived there from his escape from Worcester fight, and his concealment in England.” For fuller particulars, see Wood's, Athena Oxon. and Hist. of Northamptonshire by Bridges, vol. i. p. 269Google Scholar. Clarendon {Life, p. 124, edit, fol.), describes him as “a very honest and learned gentleman, and most conversant in that learning which vindicated the dignity and authority of the Church, upon which his heart was most entirely set.”
page 14 note * Both sides claimed the victory.
page 14 note † Sir Gilbert Gerard was the son of Hatcliffe Gerard, Esq. of Hatsall, co. Lancaster, (by Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Somerset, K.B. and grand-daughter of Edward Earl of Worcester), and uncle to Charles Gerard, who for his distinguished services to Charles I. was created Baron Gerard on the 8th of Nov. 1645, and after the restoration Earl of Macclesfield.