Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

172 THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH. [1646.
on his putting himself into the hands of the Scotch army
at Newcastle, should be sent to London, under the care
of an honourable escort, to be placed with his younger
brother and his sister, under the care of the Earl of
Northumberland, at the cost of the parliament.
The Earl of Northumberland accordingly, on the 28th
of July, proceeded to meet the young Duke, with a
sumptuous retinue of coaches and nobles, on his arrival in
the city of London, and conducted him in royal state to
St. James's palace.* A vast crowd of the loving people,
came out to greet and welcome the son of their absent
sovereign, strewed the way with flowers and sweet herbs,
and saluted him with joyful acclamations of love and
loyalty.
There was a truly rapturous meeting between him and
his sister, the Princess Elizabeth, who had not seen each
other's faces for more than rive years.
The Oxford retinue of the young duke, was, however
instantly changed for other officials selected by the Earl
of Northumberland, who were probably not the most
agreeable to his royal highness.
The sore sickness in London, in the month of August,
caused the Earl of Northumberland to apply to the Lords
assembled in parliament, for leave to remove the children
of the King from St. James's palace, to his own house, at
Isleworth, called Sion, to escape the danger of the infec-
tion. His petition was granted, but he was cautioned not
to admit any of the King, their father's party, to speak to
them.t
When the commissioners from the parliament, were
deputed to see and confer with the King at Newcastle, the
Earl of Pembroke was the only one, among them, who took
* Wkitelock's ' Memorials.'
f Clarendon's ' History of the Eebellion.'