160 to biing them in to her, and bound up and drcst their wounds alsoc: whi ch while she was doing, Captaine Palmer came in and told her his sou le abhorr'd to see this favonr to the enemi es of God; she replied, she had done nothing but what she thought was her duty, in humanity to them, as fellow-creatures, not as enemies : but he " ·as very ill satisfied with her, and with the g01·crnor presently after, when he came into a large roomc where a ,-ery greate supper was prepared, and more roome and meate then guests, to fill up which, the governor had sent for' one Mr. :Mason, one of the prisoners, a man of good fashion, who had married a rela tion of hi s, and was brought up more in fury, then for any proofe of guilt in him, and I know not whither two or three others, the governor had call 'd to meate with them; fm. which Captaine Palmer bellow' cl lowdly against him, as a favonrer of mallignants and cavaliers. • ·who could have thought this godly, zealons man, who could scarce eate his supper, for griefe to see the enemies of God thus favonr'd, should have after enter'd into a conspiracy, against the govemor, with those very same persons, who now so much provok'd his zeale? But the governor tooke no notice of it, though he sett the very souldiers a muttering against him and his wife, for these poore humanities . The next day the neighbour force> rt'turn'cl hotne. Coil. Thornhagh having lost the most of his troope, went to London to gett another. Captaine ·white stay'd at Nottingham with his, where intelligence being given, that the caval!ers intended to possesse themselves of Broxtowe and vVciollerton, two gentlemen's houses within two miles apiece of Nottingham, Captaine Palmer was sent, with the remainder of his men to keepe Broxtowe house, and the governor's captaine lieftenant, with his company, to Woollerton. The governor, at Nottingham, broke up the Line Bridge to prevent the "Behold a prcsbyterian and a sectary, a Levite and a Samaritan!
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