119 mand in chiefe, and give out commissions, to the several! commanders of the regiments. Nottinghamshire was put into the association with Leicestershire and other counties, whereof Lord Grey of G rooby, eldest sonne to the Earle of Stamford, was commander in chi de, and from him the gen tlemen of Nottingham tooke their first commissions. . The high sheriffe and the mallignant gentry, finding ai\ opposition they expected not, writt a letter to Mr. Francis Pierrepont, and i\Ir. John Hutchinson, excusing the shcrilfe's force, that he brought with him, and desiring a meeting wi th them, to consult for the peace of the country, security of their es tates, and such like faire pretences; which letter was civilly answer'd them againe, and the treaty kept on foote some fourteen dayes, by letters sign'd by the Lord Chaworth, Sr. Thomas Williamson, Mr. Sutton, Sr. Gervas Eyre, Sr. John Digbie, Sr. Roger Cooper, Mr. Palmer, M r. Johtl Mill ington: at length a meeting was appoynted, att a village in the country, on the fon·est side, where :Mr. Sutton should have mett Mr. John 1-Iutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson came to the place, but found not Mr. Sntton there, only the Lord Chaworth came in and call'd for sack, and treated Mr. Hntchinson very kindly; when Mr. Hutchinson, telling my lord he was come according to appoyntment, to conclude the treaty which had bene, betweene Nottingham and Newark, my lord told him, he knew nothing of it; whereupon, l.VIr. H utchinson being inform'd, that some of my Lord Newcastle's forces were to be in that towne that n ight, and tha t Mr. Sutton was gone to meete them, and conduct them into the country, return'd to Nottingham, where he receiv'd a kind of lame excuse from Mr. Sutton for his ' disappoynting of him, and for their bringing in strange souldiers in to Newark, which they pretended was to save the towne from the plunder of some Lincolneshire forces: but Mr. Hutchinson, seeing all their treaties were but a snare for him, would no longer amuse himselfe about them; but being certainly inform'd, T
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