264 were far inferior number to the other, and _therefore they all prepar'd themselves as well as they could to defend themselves in their trenches. The governor had then very fine horses at the Leaguer, which he sent home to the ga rri son; but whil e they were in expectation of being thus fallen upon, the king had more mind to be gone, and because the Scot ts knew not how to breakc up their quarters while the towne was not taken , the king sent to my lord Bellasis, the governor of Newa rk, to surrender up the place immediately, which he did upon prettie handsome tenncs, but much discontented that the king should have no more regard to them who had bene so constant to his service.' The governo r with his reg iment was appoynted to receive the towne and the arms, and to quarter in it; where now he went upon the greatest danger of all, for the townc was all over sadly infected with the plague; yet it so pleased God that neither he nor any of these fresh men caught the infec tion, which was so raging there that it allmost desolated the place. ' 'Vhether the king's ill councell or destinie led him, he was very failing in this action, for had he gone strcight up to the parliament and cast himselfe upon them, as he did upon the Scotts, he had in all probabillity ruin'cl them, who were highly devidecl betwecne the Presbiterian and Independent factions: but in putting himselfe into the hands of their mercenary Scotch annie, rather then the parliament of England, he shcw'd such an embitter' cl hate to the English nation, tha t it turn'd many hearts aga'inst him. The Scotts in this bnsinesse were very fal se both to the parliament and the king. .For them to receive and carric away the king's person with them, when they were but a hi red annie, without either the consen t or knowledge of the parli ament, was a very fidse carriage of them; but besides that, wee had ce1'teine evidences that they ivcre prepar'd, and s Among the names of those who signed the capitulation on the part of the parliament (as it appears in Rushworth) are those of Col. Hutchinson and Col. Twissleton.
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