warre was set up at Yorke, whereof Coil. Picrrepont, by his brothe1ls procurement, was appoynted one, and pretty well satisfied, as think- , ing himselfe againe se tt above CoiL Hutchinson, because all the northerne garrisons were to receive orders from that committee: but the governor, heeding not other men's exaltations or depressions, only attended his owne du tie. About the latter end of this .sumrner Poyntz came to Nottingham with all -the horse that could be gather'd in the neighbouring counties. He had before marcht with them and the Nottingham regiment in Cheshire, and brought several! gentlemen prisoners into the garrison of Nottingham, who had . bene taken in divers encounters. ·when he marcht out, Palmer the priest, not daring to venture himselfe in the field, layd downc his commission, when he saw that there was now no connivance to be found at disobeying commands.. By reason of the rout at Naseby, and the surrender of Carlisle to the Scotts, and several! other garrisons, the broken· forces of the cavaliers had all wpayr'd to Newark, and that was now become the strongest and best fortified garrison the king had, and Poyntz was order'd to. quarter his horse about it, till the Scotts should come on the other side -and besiege it. At that time alsoe the king himselfe was there.' The governor having inform'd Poynlz how preiudiciall it would be to his designe to suffer those little ganisons in the vale at Shelford and vViverton to remaine, it was agreed that all the forces.should take them.in their way. But the governor having obtein'd. permission.of Poyntz, through a respect be had to the famely, sent to Coli: Phillip Stanhope, governor of Shelford, a letter to persuade him to surrender the place he could not hold, and to offer him to obteine honorable termes for him, if he would harken , Having come hi ther from \-Vales with ft: body of three thousand men; he staid till fe~rin g to be besieg'd by the Scots, who were approaching,_he went away. by night to Oxford, Nov . 6, 1645.
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