Note 6 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,

Henry, Lord Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, was the son and heir of John, first Earl of Peterborough, who died in 1642. He raised a regiment, at his own expense, in behalf of King Charles I.; was wounded at the battle of Newbury on the 27th of October, 1644, and in 1648 was concerned, with the Earl of Holland, in an attempt to rescue the King from his imprisonment:—the Earl of Holland was taken, and was beheaded in February, 1649; the Earl of Peterborough, and his brother John, (who was created Lord Mordaunt and Viscount Avelon on the 10th of July, 1659,) escaped, and were voted traitors to the Commonwealth, and their estates were sequestered.

The services of the Earl of Peterborough, in support of the royal cause, during the civil wars, entitled him to the favour of King Charles II. at the Restoration; and the Colonelcy of the Queen's regiment of foot, and the governorship of Tangier, were deservedly conferred upon a nobleman who, under the severest trials of his fortitude and consistency, had shown himself a constant and zealous supporter of monarchical government. He was employed in several important situations of trust in the service of King James II., and on the 20th of June, 1685, he was appointed colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Horse, (now the 2nd Dragoon Guards,) from which he was removed at the Revolution in 1688. His lordship died on the 19th of June, 1697, and was succeeded in his titles, &c. by his nephew, Charles, third Earl of Peterborough, so celebrated in the wars in Spain in the reign of Queen Anne.