14~ others, he was forc'cl to dispend, for the several necessities of the souldiers and garrison; yett were the sonldiers then, and a long time after, kept together as long as they could live, without any pay, and• after pay' cl part in victualls, and the rest run on in arrears.' The townsmen who came into the castle, dispos 'd their famelies into several! villages, in the country, and at .l ength a trumpett was sent, for a safe conduct, for a gentleman, from my Lord Newcas tle, and having it Maior Cartwright came from him, with a summons for the delivery of the towne and castle, to which the committee for the towne, and the governor, for the castle, return' cl a ci vill defiance in writing, about the tenth day of August. Cartwright, having receiv'd it, and being treated with wine by the got'ernor and the rest of the officers, grew bold in the exercise of an abusive witt he had, and told both Mr. Hutchinsons, they were sprightly young men, but when my lord should come with his armie, he should find them in other termes, beseeching my loTd to spare them, as misled young men, and suffer them to march away with a cudgel!, and "then," say'd he, " shall I stand behind my lord's chaire and " laugh." At which the governor being angrie, told him he was much mistaken, for he scorn'd ever to yield on any terms, to a papisticall armie led by an atheistical! general!.' Mr. George Hutchb In all the hi stori es of those times we read so much of the soldi ers' complaints for want of pay, and so much of auditing their officers' accounts, a~, being no way reconcileable to modern practice, makes one suppose the officers fraudul ent, the soldier• mutinous; but this opinion will be corrected by observing what is here recited. Hence we shall likewise conceive a high idea of the virtue of those men, who star ted forth out of every rank of life to devote themselves to the service of God and their country, and persevered through such privations and difficulties; and consider their interference in the settling the constitution of their country, for which they had fou ght, in a tar different light from the tumult and mutiny of mercenary soldiers. ; Charles the First, when accused of retaining papi sts, denied having any in his army, and tried to have it believed that those which the Earl of Newcastle had enlisted were unknown to him, although there is ample proof that it was done by his order:
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