296 Sr. Marmaduke Langdale, after the rout of Hamilton, came with two or three other officers, to a little alehouse, which was upm~ Coli. Hutchinson's land, and there was so circumspect, that some country fellowes, who saw them by chance, suspecting they were no ordinary travellers, acquainted Mr. Widmerpoole, who liv'd within two or three miles, and had bene maior to the collonell in the first war: whereupon he came forth, with some few others, and sent downe to the collonell to acquaint him that some suspicious persons. were at the lodge. The collonell, hearing of it, tooke his servants out, and was approacht near the house, when Maior Widmerpoole, being beforehand in the house, had given Langdale some iealousie that he might be surpriz'd, therefore one of his company went out to fetch out his horses, which were st<)pp'd for the present, and they seeing the collonell comming up towards them, render"d themselves prisoners to MaiorWidmerpoole, and were sent to Nottingham Castle, where they continued some months, till at last Langdale finding an opertunity, corrupted one of the guard, who furnisht liim with a souldier's disguise, and ran away with him. The maior, who had bene baffled by these persons, if the collonell had not come in, had all the booty, which the collonell never tooke share of anie where: but the maior thinking the best of his spoyles iustly due to him, presented him with a case or two of very fine pistolls, which he accepted. About this time, the gentlemen that were commissioners for the king at Newark, fell into disputes one with another; nor only soe, but suites were commenc'd in the chancery upon this occasion. One Atkins, and several other rich men at Newark, when that. ga\Tison began to be fortified for the king, lent certeine summes · of mony, for the carrying on of that worke, to the commissioners of array, for which those gentlemen became bound to the Newarkers. After the taking in of that towne by the parliament, they, as other persons, comming in within the sett time, were admitted to corn- .
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