• General Notes

  Charles D'Oyly, colonel in the Army, who fought at Naseby, and was progenitor of D'Oyly of Southrope, co. Glouc.
  
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  Charles D'Oyly, Esq., Colonel in the Army, the first who resided at Southrope, was fourth son[414] of Sir Cope D'Oyly of Greenland House, by his wife Martha Quarles, and was baptized at Stadhampton, co. Oxon., in Dec. 1610. he was brought up to a learned profession; is described in 1634 as student of Wadham College, Oxford;[415] and, selecting the law not long after, became a member of Gray's Inn in Feb. 1641; the record of his admittance describing him of Chislehampton.[416] —According to the prevailing custom, however, he soon quitted his profession for the army; became an officer under Cromwell; and through the promotion of his personal friend, the celebrated General Fairfax, annexed to his own merits, attained rank and distinction. The first public notice of this Charles D'Oyly was in Nov. 1644, when a Captain-Lieut.; for, having been shortly before "severely wounded in the Parliament's service," he received payment of part of his arrears, and was soon after appointed successor of Col. Bulstrode, as Governor of Henley and Phyllis Court, co. Oxford.[417] In June 1645 he was at the battle of Naseby, so celebrated for deciding the fate of Charles I., and commanded General Fairfax's own Life Guard on the occasion.[418] Whitelock relates the following incident in this event: -— Fairfax soon having his helmet beaten off his head, rode about the field of battle heedless of danger, to find what advantage might be taken of the enemy. At last, gallopping up to Capt. D'Oyly, the latter, shocked to witness the danger he was exposing himself to, remonstrated with him, and offered him his own helmet, commenting on the risks he ran by riding about bareheaded, while bullets were flying about in all directions. Fairfax thanked him for his solicitude, assuring him he was safe enough; and soon after perceiving a party of the King's foot standing unbroken, he asked D'Oyly whether he had charged that body. D'Oyly told him he had done so twice, but was unable to break them. Fairfax then desired him to charge them once more in the front, while he himself would take a commanded party and beset them in the rear, so that they might meet in the middle. D'Oyly pursued his General's orders; and charging that body together, they threw them into utter confusion, broke them completely, and actually met in the middle, Thereupon Fairfax killed the ensign; but one of D'Oyly's troopers grasping the colours from the dying man, bragged of the service he had done in "slaying the ensign, and taking the chief colours," D'Oyly, indignant at the insult offered to his General, immediately rebuked the man for his boasting and lying, telling him how many persons were eye-witnesses that the General himself slew the ensign; but Fairfax told D'Oyly to let the trooper alone, saying to him, "I have honour enough, let him take that honour to himself."[419]—It was such matters as these that provoked D'Oyly's soldiers at Henley-on-Thames against him; for sure it is that he soon after became so unpopular there, that they would have killed him, dared they.[420] There were symptoms of their dislike of him some time before; and thus on the 8th of June 1645, Sir Thomas Fairfax, his great patron, wrote from Sherrington to his friend Sir Thomas Widdrington, then in Parliament, recommending that the Governorship of Newport Pagnel, in Bucks, should be conferred on Charles D'Oyly; but the matter was delayed till August. On 12th Aug. however, D'Oyly was appointed Governor of Newport Pagnel; but, his removal not taking place at once, Phyllis Court garrison mutinied against him the following day, and would have murdered him, had not Major-General Browne gone down to pacify the soldiers.
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