285 partly because Coli. Gilbert Biron had commanded not io disturbt; them, if he were not there, and partly because they were so closely pursued by the Lincolnshire troopes, that they could not stay to take, nor would burthen themselves with plunder, now they saw it unlikely to gett of without fighting. This they did the next day att Willoughby within three miles of Owthorpe, and wei·e there totally routed, kill'd, and taken, by a party under Coli. Rossiter's command, by whom Coil. Biron was carried prisoner to Beli'Oir Castle. There being in distresse, although he was an enemie, and had dealt unhandsomely with Coli. Hutchinson, in endeavouring to corrupt one for whom he was engag'd, yett the collonell sent him a summe of mony for his present reliefe, and after procur'd him a release and composition with the parliament. The greatest of all these dangers seem'd now to be in the north, where Duke Hamilton's faction being prevalent in Scotland, he had rays'd an armie, and was march'd into England. Sr. Marmaduke Langdale and Glenham, having already rays'd some men in those parts, whom Lambert, with the assistance of some Lincolnesbire forces, ioyn'd to his Yorkshire brigade, kept in play : but they resery'd themselves to ioyne with Hamilton. Argyle, and others of the kirk party, protested against him, and many of the ministers curs'd his attempt, but were silenc'd for it, although God heard them. The presbiterians in London secretly pray'd for his successe, and hardly could the house of lords be brought to ioyne with the house of cotmiJons, in voting all the English traytors, that should ioyne with the Scotts, which yet at the last they did. CoU. Hutchinson having !:>ene about this time atLondon, and wanting a minister for the place where he lived, and for .which he had procur'd an augmentation, repair'd to some eminent ministers in London/ to· recommend a worthy person to him for the place. ; This entirely contradicts the opinion so generally propagated and believed, that all the Independents were so fanatical as to decry and lay aside all regular ministry, and
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