THE EARL OF NORWICH AND HIS SON GEORGE LORD GORING

As in small matters accuracy is of vital consequence, let me correct a mistake which I made, writing in a hurry, in my last communication about the two Gorings (Vol. ii., p. 65.). The Earl of Norwich was not under sentence of death, as is there stated, on January 8, 1649. He was then a prisoner: he was not tried and sentenced till March.[2] The following notice of the son's quarrels with his brother cavaliers occurs in a letter printed in Carte's bulky appendix to his bulky *Life of the Duke of Ormond*. As this is an unread book, you may think it worth while to print the passage, which is only…