144 and the publick interest so hi ghly , as they would doe, to take upon them the defence of the castle, except they could be con tent to Jay downe their Jives and all their interests in it. The souldi.ers were none of them terrifi ed at the dangers which threat'ned their undertaking; but at the latter end of August, tookc, upon the solemne fast day, the na tional! covenant, and besides it, a par ti cular, mutuall covenant, betweene them and the governor, to be fa ithfnll to each other, and to hold out the place to the death, without entertaining any parlee, or accepting any termes from the enemie: and this the governor was lorc'd to doe, to confirme them, for he had his exercise, not only by the ungodly and ill-aftected, but even the godly themselves, who thought it scarce possible for any one to con tinue a gentleman, and firme to a godly interes t, and therefore repay'd all his vigilancy and labours for them with a very uniust iealousie.' Tbe governor of Newark was his cousin germane, to whom he was fo re'cl , against his na ture, to be more uncivill then to any other that were governors in that place. ·whither it were that the di ssention of brethren is allwayes most spitefully persued, or that Sr. Richard Biron, as 'twas reporteJ , suffer' cl under -the same suspitions on his side, it is true they were to each other the most uncivill enemi es that can be imagined. After this summons, my Lord Newcastle came not, accm·ding to their bravadoes, but di verted his armie to Hull, to besiege my Lord :Fai rfax there; they of Newark having gotten hin1 to send this summons, npon confidence, knowing the condi tion of the place, that it won ld have bene yeifded to a peice of paper. The governor immediately se tt upon the forti!"ication of hi s castle, made a worke behinde it, another to the Line side, turn'd the Dove Coate into a platforme, and made a court of guard in Mortimer' s Hole. k It passes for a saying of Charles the Second, thn.t the presbyteri an mi ght be a very good reli g ion, but it was not the reli gion of a gentleman; these good folks seem to h·ave been of the same mind. Th'e French have taken care not to fall short in imitating th is malicious prejudice, but stamped with the hated name of Aristocrat every person at all elevated above the vul gar, th011gh ever so generous a fri end of liberty.
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