TC-DL, 9 March. MS: EUL. Hitherto unpbd.

1. TC wrote: “Cromwell's Letters and Speeches ii. 147—of the Duke of Lauderdale and the Carman. / King's Pamphlets small 4to No 507 art. 18. The full Title is: [a long title, written by Espinasse, beginning] ‘The charge and articles of high treason exhibited against the Earl of Derby … London (September 16) 1651. 40—.’” Following this is an extract from the end of the pamphlet. For TC's account of the capture of the royalist commander John Maitland (1616–82), earl (later duke) of Lauderdale, and the remarks of “a Carman,” see Works 7:332–33, which cites the King's Pamphlets. Laing wrote to TC, 12 March, thanking him for the extract about Lauderdale, adding: “Along with the two proclamations formerly mentioned you have inclosed a Letter, in the fourth of the New Statl Account, which does not state when it was copied.” He made some further hasty comments, about the value of “Bishop Russell's Life of Cromwell,” and some details about Strahan mentioned in TC to DL, 6 March.

2. Francis Espinasse (1823–1912), journalist and man of letters, at this time employed in the British Museum; see TC to FEHD, 28 Aug. 1841.