YJS6 such sawcy provocations, that the governor told him, if it had not bene more in respect to his black coate then his grey, he would have beaten him out of the roome, which for his owne safety, he· aclviz'd him to leave: so he went out very angrie, and going to Capt. White, told him how Mr. Pigott call'd him a whoremaster, Mr. MHlington a drunkard, and Chadwick a knave. White, meeting Mr. Pigott in the hall, challeng'd him of these scandalls. Mr. Pigott, seeing Palrner not farrc off, led White to him, and told him he knew that person had bene his informer, repeating all he had say'd to him, and added, that it was in a desire of their reformation, 'but he would maintainc that all the things he spoke were true. Palmer further, in his rage, putts into the committee a paper of reasons, why he desir'd to be exempted from being under the governor, whereof one was, that he had cowardly and unhandsomely behav'd himselfe in an occasion when Palmer's troope marcht out with him to Elston. The governor sent a copie of this paper downe to Pal- · mer's owne troope, and the lieftenant, coronett, and all the troopers, sent up a certificate, under their hands, of the falsehood of their captaine's accusation. After this Palmer came into the garrison, a.nd made a grievous exclamation all over the towne against the governor and Mr. Pigott for traducing the ministers, Mr. Millington, and the committee; adding a false report, that the governor had throwne a trencher at his head; and abusing the pulpitt to perswade the people to vindicate ~hem: among other things, he misapplied a 'place in Nehemiah, where Nel;emiah says, " I eate not the " governor's bread, because the fem·e of the Lord was upon me," to the governor; that his accepting a publlck table, was a mark of the want of the feare of God: and many other such mallitious wrestings of scripture, did. he and his fellow priests at that time practise. Tlu; - committee of Nottingham, on their side, taking this occasion, call' cl a publick hall in the towne, where two orations were made by Mr. Millington and Coli. Chadwick. Millington began with a large enumeration of Chadwick's worthy actions, (known to no man), where-
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