Index of Gardiner's History of England

Newport, Earl of, 1628 (Montjoy Blount),

• appeals to Laud to procure the punishment of those who had converted Lady Newport,
• bargains with Cardenas for the sale of gunpowder for Oquendo's fleet,
• offers to transport Spanish soldiers to Dunkirk,
• does not fulfil his bargain,
• says that he had voted against the King by mistake,
• is informed by Goring of the Army Plot, and carries the news to Bedford and Mandeville,
• is appointed Constable of the Tower,
• offers to execute Strafford even if Charles refuses his assent to the Bill of Attainder,
• is ordered by Parliament to reside in the Tower,
• protests against the refusal of the Lords to communicate to the Commons their resolution on Divine service,
• is alleged to have spoken of the Queen and her children as hostages,
• is asked by the Commons to reside in the Tower,and is dismissed by Charles from the Constableship,
• accompanies Charles to the City after the attempt on the five members,