coming to a second reading.

of its rejection, for it never

The king was innocent

came before him for his

assent; yet an ill-judged resentment of the son of this nobleman, induced him to place the following inscription on one of the doors of Knowsley:

"James earl of Derby, lord of Man and the Isles, and grandson of James earl of Derby, and of Charlotte daughter of Claude duke de la Tremouille, whose husband James was beheaded at Bolton, 15th Oct. 1652, for strenuously adhering to Charles the second; who refused a bill passed unanimously by both houses of parliament, for restoring to the family the estate lost by their loyalty."

We may allow the family, observes Mr. Pennant 7, to be a little out of humour with its misfortunes; for William earl of Derby used to say, that he never passed by any estate of his in Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, or Wales, but he saw a greater near it, lost by the fidelity of his ancestor to the royal cause.

His lordship's controversial pamphlet has not been met with by the editor; and if it had, would not in all probability have afforded a desirable extract.]

7 Tour to Alston Moor, p. 40.