169 miles of from it, apd cheated the country of pay for I know not how many hundred men: for which, if he had not stollen away in the · night, he had bene stoned ; and as his wife past through the townes, she was in danger of her life, the weomen flinging scalding water after her. But before this, he came to Nottingham at the time the governor rays'd his regiment, and coming up to the castle behaving himselfe somewhat insolently, and casting out misterious words of his authority; the governor sett on a person' to find out his meaning, to whom he shew'd a commission he had privately obtain'd some foure months before, for himselfe and Coli. Pierrepont to be ioynt governors of the· county, towne, and castle; but neither now did he declare this to any of the committee, bnt only made some privalebraggs in the towne, that he would shortly come and take order for the safety of the place, and so went out of towne againe. The governor acquainted the committee with this, who seem'd to have greate indignation at it, and writt immediately to Mr. Millington, J:mrgesse of the towne of Nottingham, to have the government of the castle confirm'd on CoiL Hntchinson by anthority of parliament. lVIr. Salisbury, their secretary, had alsoe put in the government of the towne, but Coli. Hutchinson caus'd him to put it out, and the. governor, being inform'd that Col!. Pierrepon~, at London, was labouring to obteine a regiment, and to be sent downe as governor of the towne, for the more speedy dispatch, sent his owne chaplaine with the committee's letters to London, and sent other letters of his owne to Sr. Tlwmas Fairfax, to acquaint him how Chadwick had abus'd my lord, his father, in the surreptitious procurement of this dormant commission, which, during all the time of danger, had layne asleepe in his pockett, and now was mention'd, as a thing, whereby he might, when he would, take that place out of Coli. · Hutchinson's hands, which he had with so many labours and dangers preserv'd, by God's blessing, for the parliament's service; he therefore desil;'d. a commission for the castle only.
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