235 an alehouse to take a fiirtish girle of sixteen; yett by these noble alliances, they much strengthen'd their faction with all the vaine drunken rogues in the towne against the governor. Now their first plott had, by God's providence, bene detected, they fell upon others, and set on instmments every where, to insinuate all the lies they could, that might render the governor odious to the towne and to t bc horse of the garrison, whom they desir'd to stirre up to p" ti - tion against him, but could not find any considerable number that would freel_v doe it; therefore they us'd all the strong moti ves they could, and toid them tbe go\·ernor sought to exercise an arbitrary power over them, and to have all their booties at his ow11e dispose, and other such like things, by which a t length they pre1·ail'd with many of CoiL 'fhornhagh's n•giment to subscribe a petition that they might be under t he command of the commi ttee, and not of any other -person in the garri>on. This petition was sen t up by Captaine Palmer, and he meeting :Mr. Pigolt at Wes tminster Ha ll, Mr. Pigott, in private discourse with hi.m, began to bewaile the scandalous conversation of certaine persons of the committee, hoping tha t he, being familiar with them, might be ·a means to perswade them to reformation . · After this· the governor, Col!. Thornhagh , Mr._Pigott, and some other, being in a taverne at ·Westmins ter, where they din'd, Capt. l'almer came to the doore, and they bade him come in. Upon discourse, the governor pull'd out of his pockett the articles 'vhich the committee had put in against him, shew'd them Captaine Palmer, and ask'd him whither he thought it possible that he should, after all his toyl cs and services, have bene articled against for such things. Palrner, who had bene from the beginning with the governor and !mew the falsehood of these accusations, profess'd he was amaz'd at them , and that he had not till then heard aniething of them. Conti nui ng in fur ther discourse, the governor mention'd an unchristianlike sermon, wh ich Mr. Goodall had preacht with itwectives against him, in his absence: Palmcr undertooke the iustification of it, with
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