~60 <rhilc they were persuing their worke. The governor of Shelford, after all his brm·adoes, came but meanely of: 'tis sayd he sate in his chamber, wrapt up in his cloake, and came not forth that clay; but that avaircl him not, for how, or by whom, it is not known, but he was wonncled and stript, and flung upon a dunghill. The · lieftcnant-collonell, after the house was master'cl, seeing the disorder by which our men were readie to nrurtber one another: upon the command Poy ntz had issued to giYe no quarter, desir'd PoY._ntz to cause the slaughter to cease, which was presently obey'd, and about seven score prisoners sav'd. 'Vhile he was thtls busied, enquiring what was beeome of the governor, he was shewn him naked upon the dunghill; whereupon the liefi:enant-collonell call'd. for his owne cloake and cast it over him, and sent him to a bed in his owne quarters, and 'procur'd him a surgeon. Upon his desire he had a · little priest, who had 'bene his father's chaplaine, and was one of the committee faction; but the man was such a pittifull comforter, that the governor, who was ·come to visitt him, was fore' cl to undertake that office: but though he had all the supplies they could all \vayes give him , he died the next day.' The house which bclong'd r Thoroton, in his History of Notts, says, a Shelford-house was a garrison for u the king, and commanded by Col. Phi lip Stanhope, son of the first Earl of CheSter- " field, which being taken by storm, he and many of his soldiers were therein slain, u and the house afterwards burned; his brother Ferdinando Stanhope was slain some "time before Oy a parliament soldie r at Dridgford." This 1ast happened in that skirmish \vit b the 'bridge soldiers recited in ·page 239, where he is said oni,Y to be made prisoner.--Lady Catharine Hutchinson, who attested the remark to Col. Hutchinson her son-in-law's disadvantage, page 14.7, \Vas the sister of th~ Earl of Chesterfield, and of course aunt of Col. Stanho,p~, ·and as she takes no exception to it, we may safely g ive credit to this story of the storming of Shdford with all its circumstances; a very in teresting one it certai nly is, and told .i n the most unaffected, and therefore most affecting, manner; the scene with which it finishes is surely as striking and as singular as ~ny that story or imagination can furuish, not excepting the death of Le Fevre in the Sentimental Journey.
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