243· rably distress'd . The Nottingham horse, being in their owne country, and having their famelies in and about Nottingham, were more guilty of stragling then any of the rest, and Captaine ..White's whole: troope having presum'cl to be away one night when they should have. bene upon the guard, the Newarkers beate up our quarters, and. tooke allmost two whole troopes of that regiment. White's lieftenant, without any leave from the eolloncll, thereupon posted up. to London, anJ conlriv'd a complaint against the governor, to make him appcare gnilty of this disorder: but soone after Newark gave them ano ther alarum, and the parliament horse made so slender an. appearance that the officers, thereupon consulti;1g in a councell of warrc, concluded that the designe was not to be prosec uted without mme force, and for the present broke up their quarters. The commillee men that ranne away when the gorernor return'd had taken the treasurer away with them, and left neither any mony, . nor so much as - the rent rolls whereby the governor could be instructed where to fetch in any,' but by the prudence and interest of himselfe and hi s friends, he procur'd a month's pay for the foote, and twenty shillings a man for the horse, ' as soone as be came home, and recruited all the stores, which the committee had pur-- posely wasted in his absence, and fctcht in a small stock of ponder they had lay'd in a.t Salisburie's house. While he was thus indusd Rent rolls of seC]uestercd or forfeited estat s .. e One out of many instances of Col. Hutchinson's generous dc,•otion to the cause, which brought on him that load of debt so oppressive to him in the re\•erse of affairs. In p. 623 and 024 of Rushworth, Thornhagh's Nouinghamshi re horse :;talc thut they had served five years, and received barely six shillings a week in all; and that there was 40,0001 . due to them. Judge from these two corps, Col. Hutchinson's Ueing twelve hundred infantry, and two or three troops of dragoons, Thornhagh's about six hundred horse, what was the general state of the army as to pay! l\1r . Sprigge might well say of the troops as he does, a it was no t their pay that pacified them, for had a they not had more ciYility than money, things had not been so fairly managed."
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