Antiquity of the family of Dick

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created him a Baronet, by patent to his
heirs male whatever. Some time after,
there was a bill drawn upon him by or-
der of Parliament, for no less than
twenty thousand pounds sterling, which
he was obliged to pay, and got the go-
vernment's security for it, along with that
of many of the nobility. He was one of
the Committee of Parliament in 1644,
one of the Committee of Estates in 1645,
and again in 1646. But as soon as he per-
ceived the rifling faction at the time were
likely to drive matters to extremities, he
withdrew from public business, (for
which he was classed among the Malig-
nants, an epithet then given to all the
loyalists), and they extorted from him at
different times no less than sixty-four
thousand nine hundred and thirty-four
pounds sterling, as appears by a print-
ed statment thereof laid before the Par-
liament, for which he obtained all the
security the government could give.