352 The collonell being of a very compassionate and charitable nature, had entertain'd into his service, some poore people, who on the enemies side had bene ruin'd; and were reduc'd from good estates to seeke that 1·efuge; and who counterfeited, so long as their party was downe, such sobriety, love and gratitude, and sence of tla~ir sins and miscarriages on the other side, that he hoped they had bene converts, but could not believe they would have proov'd such detestable, unthankfull traytors, as afterwards they did. Among these, Lord Biron corrupted a gentleman who waited then on the collonell, as the man after alledg'd; my lord say'd he offdd himselfe: however it were, the plott was Jay'd that fifty men, neere the co!Jonell's house, should be rays'd for him, and he with them should first come to the collonell's house, and take away my lord's arms, with all the rest of the collonell's that they could find. To rayse him these men, certeine neighbours, who us'd to come to the house, were very busie, and especially two parsons, he ·of Plumtre, and he of Bingham; this had an active. proud, pragmaticall curate, who used to come .to this traytor in the collonell's house, and help to manage the treason, and the· cha.plaine, the waiting woman, and two sen·ants more, were drawn into the confederacy. The collonell was then at the parliament house, and only his wife and children at home, when, the night before the insurrection, Ivie (that was the gentleman's name) came to a singing boy who kept the collonell's clothes, and commanded him to deliYer him the collonell's owne arms and buffe coate. The boy was fearcfnll and did not readily obey him, whereupon he threatned immediately to .pistoll him, if he made the least resistance, or discovery of the businesse; so the boy fetcht him the arms, and he put them on, and tooke one of the best horses and went out at midnight, telling the boy, he was a foole to feare, for the next night, before that time, there would come fifty men to fetch away all the arms in the house.
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