Earls of Middleton, Lords of Clermont and of Fettercairn

146 The Earls of Middleton.
Middleton went down to the bar and expostulated
with two of these, who were officers in the army —
Colonel John Darcy, son of Lord Conyers, and
Captain James Kendall. The latter was a needy
retainer of the Court, who had been " returned to
Parliament, in obedience to a royal command, by a
picked corporation in Cornwall. To engage him
still more to the king's side, he had lately obtained a
grant of a hundred rebels sentenced to transporta-
tion." " Sir," said Middleton, " have not you a troop
of horse in his Majesty's service?" Kendall seems
to have thought that, his position having lately im-
proved, he had become entitled to an opinion of his
own, and to have been determined to show that he
would not remain so servile a slave of the Court as
he had been. " Yes, my lord," he answered ; " but my
elder brother is just dead, and has left me seven
hundred a year."
Middleton's motion was, after all, only beaten
by one, the Ayes being 182, and the Noes 183. The
Government received a second defeat, November
1 6th, on the amount of the supply to be granted to the
king. James wanted ,£1,400,000, but the ministers
feeling that it would be useless to ask for so large
a sum, the Chancellor of the Exchequer mentioned
£1,200,000. Only £700,000, however, were eventually
granted.