367 The boys, sett on by their fathers and inasters, gott drummes and colours, and rnarcht up and downe the towne, and train'd themselves in a millitary posture, and offer'd many affronts to the souldiers of the armie, that were quarler'd there, which were two troopes of Coli. Hacker's regiment. Insomuch that one night there were about forty of the souldiers hurt and wounded with stones, upon the occasion of taking away the drummes, when the youths were gathering together to make bonfires to burn the rump,' as the custorne of those mad dayes was. The souldiers provok'd to rage, shott againe, and kill'd in the scuffie two presbiterians, whereof one was an elder, and an old professor; and one that had bene a greate zealott for the cause, and master of the magazine of Nottingham castle. He was only standing at his owne doore, and whether by chance, or on purpose shott, . or by whom, it is not certeine; but true it is, that at that time, the presbiterians were more inveterately bitter against the fanatiques then even the cavaliers themselves, and they sett on these · boyes. But upon the killing of this man they were hugely enrag'd, and pray'd very seditiously in their pulpitts, and began openly to desire the king; not fm: good will neither to him, but for destruction to all the fanatiques. One of the ministers who were greate leaders of the people, had bene engag'd firmly in Booth's rebellion, and very many of the godly led in, who, by the timely suppression of those who began the insurrection in Nottingham, were prevented from declaring themselves openly. Coli. H utchinson was as mercifull as he could safely be, in not setting on too strict inquisition; but privately admonishing such as were not past hopes of becoming good commonwealth's men, if it were posa The number of the members of the long par1iament havi rig been by seclusion, death, &c. very much reduced, the remainder was compared to the rump of a fowl which was left, all the r_est being eaten; and this coarse emblem was burnt in Qerision by the mob_. to hail and flatter the rising power of the cavaliers. 3D
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