405 ber, Mr. Leke, with the marquesses secretary came to him, and found him soe, and acquainted him, that the marquesse had receiv'd expresse orders from the king, to send him up in safe custody to London. Mr. Leke finding him so ill, was so civill to permitt him to goe by his owne house, which was as neere a roade, that he might there take accommodations for his iourney, and be carried up at more ease, in h!s owne coach, Mr. Leke himselfe being necessitated to make more haste then he could have done, if he had stay'd for the party that was to guard the collonell, went away before, and left his orders for sending him away with Mr. Atkinson, who first seiz'd him. The same 27th day, att night, his house at Owthorpe was againe searcht, and he and his wife being a broad, all their boxes and cabinetts broken open, and all their papers rifled, but yet for all thi s they could find nothing to colour their injustice to him. Having bene falsely and ilL·gally imprison'd, from six of the clock on frida y night the 2.'3d of October, till ten of the clock in the morning Oc tober the 28th, he was then, in order to his going to London, brought by Beek the iailor to Twentimans the inne, from whence he was hal'd, to stay there till a commanded party of the county horse came to guard him to London. But one division of the county who had warrants sent them, not comming in, Atkinson sent into that part where the collonell liv'd, and his owne neighbours comming slowly and unwillingly to that service, he was lorc'd to stay there all that day till night in the custody of the iaylor. At night, when he was in bed, the maior being drunke commanded him to be carried back to the iayl e, but the iaylor, weary of his drunken commands, sat up with two souldiers, and guarded him in the inne. The next day the partic not being come in, a meane fellow, that was appoyntcd to command the collonell's guard, one Corporall Willson, .came and told him that he rnust not goe by his owne house, nor
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