257 to propositions. . Stanhope return'd a very sc(')rnefull, buffing rcplie, in which one of his expressions ~vas that he shou.Jd lay Nollingham castle as fiatl as a pancake, and such ·other bravadoes, which had bene !esse amisse, -if he had done .aniething to make them good . · Hereupon the whole force marcht against the place, and the several! posts were assign'd to the severall collonells. The governor, according t(') his owne desire, had that which seem'J most difficult assign'd to him, and his quarters that night appoynted in Shelford towne. When he came thither, a few of Shelford souldiers were gotten -into the steeple of the church, a11d from thence so play'd upon the governor's men that they could not quietly take up their quarters. There was a trap doore that went into the bellfrie, and they had made it fast, and drawne up the ladder and the bell-ropes, and regarded not the governor's threat'ning them to have no quat'ter if they came not downe, so that he was forc'd to send for straw and fire it, and smother them out. Hereupon they came downe, and among them there was a boy who had marcht out with the governor's company, when he went first against Newark, and carried himselfe so stoutly that Capt. Wray begg'd him for a footeboy, and when his troope was once taken by the enemie this boy, being taken among them, became one of their souldiers. The governor making him believe he should be hang'd immediately for changing his party, and for holding out to their disturbance, where he could not hope for reliefe, the boy begg'd he might be spar'd, and offcr'd to lead them on to a place, where only they could enter, where the palisadoe was unfinisht. The goYernor, without trusting to him, consider'd the probabillity of his information, kep t him und er guard, 'ancl sett him in the front of his men, and he accordingly proov'd to have told them truth in all that he had sayd, and d id excellent good service, behaving himselfe most stoutly. The gm-ernor being arm'd, and ready to begin the assault, when the res t "-ere alsoe ready, Capt. White came to him, and, notwiLhstanding all his
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