Earls of Middleton, Lords of Clermont and of Fettercairn

John Middlcton, First Earl of Middlcton. 125
and all the officers of the soldiers in the town, wait-
ing there for the Duke of York, who they heard was
coming. By-and-by comes my Lord Middleton, well
mounted. He seems a fine soldier, and so everybody
says he is ; and a man like my Lord Teviot, 1 and,
indeed, most of the Scotch gentry, as I observe, of
few words." He thought it a strange thing to see,
that while Lords Douglas and Middleton rode up
and down upon single horses, Lord Brouncker went
up and down with a hackney coach and six horses
at the king's charge.
After the Dutch burned the English ships during
the war with Holland, Commissioner Pett, who had
the care of the yard at Chatham, was committed a
close prisoner to the Tower, it being supposed that
the disaster might have arisen from some negligence
on his part. Sir Philip Howard, 2 however, told Pepys
that " the only fault he believed Pett could have been
guilty of that he was either able or concerned to
amend, was the not carrying up of the ships higher,
but three or four down to Rochester Bridge, which
he boldly declared to be rather the fault of Lord
Middleton, who had the command of the place."
1 Andrew Rutherford, created in 1663 Earl of Teviot. He was
appointed Governor of Tangiers, where he was killed by the Moors in
1664. Pepys thought him a cunning man, inclined to enrich himself at
the king's expense.
2 Sir Philip Howard, seventh son of Thomas Howard, first Earl of
Berkshire, and the direct ancestor of the present Earl of Suffolk.