NOTES TO THE LETTERS. 265 hood, and, in returning home, fell in with some of Sir W. Croft's friends about Mortimer's Cross, and was there made prisoner. God has mightily been seen in Hearefordsheere. -In the success attending Sir William Waller's attack upon Hereford, which surrendered to him on quarter, 24 April, 1643. Lord Scudamore, James Scudamore, Esq. M.P. for Hereford, Col. Herbert Price, M.P. for Brecon, Sir Rich. Cave, M.P. for Lichfield, Lieut. -Col. Coningsby, and his son, Hum- phrey Coningsby, M.P. for Herefordshire (five revolted members of the House of Commons), Sir Will. Croft, Sir Walter Pye, Sir Saml. Araby, and Drs. Rogers, Goodwin, and Evans of the cathedral, and many others, were made prisoners, and all carried to Gloucester. May's Hist. of the Long Parliament, p. 315. Within three days, Sir W. Waller surprised Leominster, where he took good prize, and disarmed many of the royal party, and placing a garrison there, scoured the country to the gates of Worcester, where meeting with an unexpected repulse, he withdrew to Reading. Webb's Introduction to Bibliotheca Gloucesteriensis, p. xxxix. P. 199. I have sent you on to be ofyour troope, and have farnisched him with a hors. The hors coost me 8l.-Journ. H. Cora. 22 March, 1642 -3. " Ordered, That the four horses of the Lady Petre, threeof Mr. White's of Bacons, three of Barnard's of Westland, one of Robert Goodyere, be all sent to my Lord General, to be employed for the publick service, but one, which is to be given to Edm. Brasier, who seized them; and that it be recommended unto my Lord General, that Capt. Harley may have the horses for the furnishing of his troop, and that Mr. Pym write a letter to my Lord General to this purpose." P. 202. We are still threatened, some soulders are billeted at Parola.- 5 or 6 miles north of Brampton Bryan. Lef.- Couenell Massey is commanded to be Governor of Gloster. -Soonafter the surrender of Hereford. See Corbet's historical relation of the military government of Gloucester; also, notice of Col. Massie in Notes to Webb's Introduction to the BibliothecaGlouceste- riensis, pp. clxxxix.-cciii. It will be seen by Edward Harley's retrospect on the com- pletion of his fiftieth year, in the Appendix, p. 249, that Sir Edward Massie died in April, 1674. In Lady Frances V. Harcourt's collections is the following letter, which, it is supposed, was written by Col. Massie's wife: the circumstance of his flight into Holland in the spring, 1648, makes it probable that she was left, like others in these sad times, in distress :- " Noble Sir, -I lately receaved a letter from Capt. Blayney, in w<h hee writes mee that hee bath given unto you, for my use, the sums of ffive pounds, wo' ffive pounds I entreate you will bee pleased to sende unto mee by this bearer, my brother's servant, whereby you will oblige, Your friend and servant, " CHRISTIAN MASSIE. " To my honnord ffriend, Collonel Edward Harley, these, at Sr Robert Harley's house, in Tuttle Street, near the New Church, these present." Endorsed, " Mrs. Massie's recept of 51b. 25 Sep. '48." CAMD. SOC. 2 M
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