158 officers, yet after all this had the impudence to come into the towne of Nottingham; and in all the taverns and alehouses he came into, to belch out abominable scoffes and taunts against the governor and the committee men, before Col!. Thornhagh's face, who commanded him out of the room for it; and upon information of these things to the governor and the committee, he was sent for by some musketeers, and the enemie's protection for himselfe and his goods found about him, for which he was committed prisoner, but there being no good accommodation for him in the castle, the governor, in more civility then he deserv'd, suffer'd him to be in the towne, whence he went with them, and after retir'd to Derby. At the same time, the cavalliers hav ing taken some prisoners upon the parliament's score who liv'd quietly in the country, the committee had fetcht in some gentlemen's sonns of their party, who w~re left at their fathers' houses, whereof one was remaining at the marshaU's house when the cavallier' came into the towne, whom the governor suffer'd to be there upon his parolle, there being no good acconunodation for him in the castle. Him the cavalliers would have had to have gone away with them, but he would not; which handsome behaviour so tooke the governor, that he freely g>wc him his liberty without exchange. • Assoone as the enemie was driven out of the towne the governor brought downe two pieces of ordinance to the markett place, and entrcat~d the souldiers that were come from Leicester and Derby to march with him immediately, to assa ul t them in their fort at the bridges, before they had time to put themselves in order, and recollect their confused soules, after their chase; but the maior of Derby, an old dull-headed Dutchman, sayd ten thousand men x This story resembles some of those recited in the early ::md vir tuous times of the Roman republic. Such anecdotes serve to relieve the mind, fatigued with reading of the crimes and follies of mankind.
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