406 bave the privelledge of his coach, but be carried up another way, whereupon the collonell sent to Atkinson to desire him he might not be denied that civillity Mr. Leke had allowed him; but he was so peevish and obstinate that the collonell was sending his sonne post to the Marquisse of Newcastle's to complaine of his mallit ious inhumanity, who would have forc'd him on horseback without any accommodation, when he was so ill that he could not have ridden one stage without manifes t hazard of his life: and yet Mr. Cecill Cooper and Mr. Whally, though instices and deputy lieftenants, could not prevaile with him, till he saw the collonell as resolute as himselfe : and then at last, by their mediation, (wherein Mr. Cccill Cooper did soomething redeeme his former causelesse hatred, which made him plunder the house, and deteine the plunder when it was order'd back), the ctJilonell, about sunsett, was sent out of Newark, with those horse that were come in, to stay for the rest at his owne hou·se. Being driven in the night by an unskillfull coachman, the coach was overturn'd and broken; but about 12 of the clock at night they came safe home. Thus the collonell tooke his last leave of Newark, which being a place he had formerly subdued, and replete with so many mallitious enemies to the whole party, and more particularly to him, upon no other account but that he had bene the most formidable protector of the other party in this coun-· try, he expected farre worse treatment from the gen~rallity of the towne; who were so farre fi·om ioyning in ioy of his captivity, that ' when he was forc'd through their streets they gave him very civil! respect, and when he came away civill farewells, and all mutter'd exceedingly at their maior, and say'd he would undoe their towne by such simple illegall proceedings. The collonell regarded all these civillities from the towne, who were generally .much concern'd in his ininries, and from Cooper and others, not as of themselves, but as from God, who at that time overaw' d the hearts of his enemies, as once he did Laban's and Esau's, and was much confirm'd in the
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