xxii INTRODUCTION. carried a bullet in his body to his death. He was ordered with his 1s. C. H. 643. men to Plymouth in Nov: 1643,a made Governor of Monmouth 1644, Whitelocke. and of Canon Frome, a garrison near Hereford, in 1645, and quar- teredwith the Major- General at Marston, near Oxford, in May 1646. On the disabling of Humphrey Coningsby, member for the county b 11 Sept. 1646. of Hereford, he was chosen member .b He was at this time warmly Cobbett's Par- liamentary His- affected to the Presbyterian cause, which his father had so zealously to ' vol. ,,. p. espoused; but notwithstanding his devotion to that party, and the spirit with which his family was regarded by the Royalists, when the faction in the army began to form the scheme of a military government, he was among the first to perceive the intrigues of Ibid. Cromwell and Fairfax, and afterwards openly to oppose them in the House of Commons, for which, with Denzell Holles and others, he was impeached by the army of high treason, " for that by their power the ordinance for disbanding the army did pass." He was now dis- 29 Jan. abled by an order of the House c which was afterwards revoked,d 1647-8. and joining with his father in December following,e as before noticed, d 8 June, 1648. g g 7 Dec. 1648. in favour of the King, they were by the army made prisoners. Henceforth he was an object of suspicion to Cromwell, and in 1650, on grounds of disaffection to the government, was summoned by letter ` Letter in Ap- from Major Winthrop at Leominster,' to appear at Hereford before pendix, pp. 233-236. the Commissioners of the Militia. This summons was followed by a visit from soldiers, who searched and read his papers, and carriedhim and Mr. Clogie, the minister of Wigmore, to Hereford; both his brother Robert then M.P. for Radnor, and his brother Thomas, being at this time prisoners at Bristol. Refusing a bond urged upon him at Hereford for his appearance in London, he gave a promise to be there at his father's house from 18 Aug: to 1st of Sept: following, which, g Appendix, under authority of a pass from Wroth Rogers,g of the city of Here- p. 235. ford, he was enabled to keep. What proceedings were then taken do not appear, but he was not permitted a residence in Herefordshire for ten years.
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