Earl of Carlisle Castle and Henderskelfe (which later became known as Castle Howard) came into the Howard family. Lord Carlisle had earlier supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Civil War, and is supposed to have been created "Baron Gilsland" and "Viscount Howard of Morpeth" by Oliver Cromwell in 1657 (it is certain that he was summoned to Cromwell's House of Lords the same year as "Lord Viscount Howard"). He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He represented Morpeth, Cumberland and Carlisle in the House of Commons and served as Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland. On his death the titles passed to
HMS Stately (1784) Colnett had a letter of marque, "King George" was a "private man-of-war", and the Navy's Articles of War applied at sea. Had Reid struck Colnett aboard "King George", the charge would have been mutiny, for which the penalty would have been death. The Admiralty had "Stately" converted for use a troopship in 1799. Because "Stately" served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. The Navy reverted her to a fully armed