393 which was a greate damping to the pleasures his father tooke in the place: but he, how eager soever he were in the love of any worldly thing, had that moderation of spiritt that he submitted his will alwayes to God, and endeavoured to give him thankes in all things. This winter, about October and the following months, the papists began to be very high, and a sort of strangers were come into Nottingham, who were observ'd to distingguish themselves by scarlett ribands in their hatts; and one night, in a drunken humor, a papist fired a hay barne in a wood yard in Nottingham, which, if not discover'd and prevented by many providences, might have endanger'd much of the towne: but it did 2001. worth of ·mischiefe; but the matter was shuffled up and compounded, allthough the same night several! other townes were attempted to be fired. A greate papist at Eastwold was knowne to assemble 200 men in armes in the night, and some of the Lord Carrington's tenants, that went to Arundell-house to speake with · their landlord, observ'd very strange suspitious signes of some great businesse on foote among the papists, who, both in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, were so exalted, that the very country . people every where apprehended some insurrection. Among the rest there was a light-headed debosht young knight, that liv'd next towne to Owthoq:ie, who vapour'd beyond all bounds, and had 12 paire of holsters for pistolls at one time of the collonell's sadler, and ride! at that time with half a douzen men armed, up and downe the country, and sent them, and went himselfe to sevemll men who had bene souldiers in the armic, to offer them brave termes to list under him, telling them, they, meaning the papists, should have a day for it. Besides he, with the parson of the parish, and some other men, at an alehouse, began a health to the confusion of all the protestants in England; and one of the collonell's maides going to Colson, to have a sore eie cured by a woman in the towne, heard there that he had vapour'd
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