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THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY,
VOLUME THE EIGHTH:
containing
FOUR LETTERS OF LORD WENTWORTH, AFTERWARDS EARL OFSTRAFFORD, WITH A POEM ON HIS ILLNESS.
MEMOIR BY MADAME DE MOTTEVILLE ON THE LIFE OF HENRIETTAMARIA.
PAPERS RELATING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF LORD SAVILE,1642-1646.
A SECRET NEGOCIATION WITH CHARLES THE FIRST, 1643-1644.
A LETTER FROM THE EARL OF MANCHESTER ON THE CONDUCTOF CROMWELL.
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.
ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FAMILY OF HADDOCK 1657-1719.
LETTERS OF RICHARD THOMPSON TO HENRY THOMPSON, OFESCRICK, CO. YORK.
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M.DCCC.LXXXIII.
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M.DCCC.LXXXI.
Settled from remote times in the little town of Leigh, in Essex,at the mouth of the Thames, the family of Haddock, we may besure, took early to the sea, as was befitting their name. Thereare traces of Haddocks of Leigh to be found as far back as Edwardthe Third’s days; but we need not search for earlier generationsthan those which sprang from Richard Haddock, a captain in theParliamentary Navy. That the family had followed the sea fromfather to son in bygone times, and had so established a tradition tobe observed by their descendants, might be argued from the regularitywith which the Ha