241 fo rc'd to send tor the governor. He came downe and found While in high rage, who gave him all the vile terms and opprobrious language he could invent, to provoke him to some anger upon which he might have taken his advantage: but the governor only !aught a t his fogue, • and would not lett him goe till he shew'd a warrant fi·om the conncell of warre at London, and then he permitted him, after Wh ite had told him that he would not be commanded by him, and a thousand such mutinous speeches. As he went towards London he mett the horse coming home· from Cole-orton, whom he told such li es of the governor's usage of him, that they were frighted from coming into the garrison, bnt that Coli. 'l'hornhagh prevailed with them to take his engagement, that the go,·er!fOr should give them no ill usage. So they came back, and that weeke their collonell fell into the enemie's quarters with them and tooke eighty horse, two horse colours, a maior and some other officers. The bridge troope alsoe met with Coli..Stanhope, governor of Shelford,' who had two parties, each as many as they; his, where himselfe was, they routed, and he ran away, while the other party charg'd them in the reare, upon whom they turned, routed and chased them out of the fi eld, tooke Lieftenant-collonell Stanhope and his ensigne, and many other prisoners, with many horse and arms. In the absence of the governor and his brother, the committee had done all they could to discourage and dissipate this troope, and would neither give them money nor provisions, yet, npon hopes of their captaine's returne, b French-Fougue. c Here, viz. in the end of the year 1644, Shelford clearly appears to be a garrison fo r the king; yet Whitelock, p. 96, says that in July 1644, Lord Grey of Groby and Sir John Gell had the thanks of the parliament fOr taking it: this is an evident .inaccuracy of \Vhitelock's, or a very successful pufF of Sir John' s. To put it out of doubt, Sprigge, in his Anglia Rediviva, counts it among the king's garrisons, May 1645; and Col. Hutchinson, supported by Rossitei'J took it in person and by storm a year after that. ·
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