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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...regard to the side they were of; had, on one occasion, 'turned two pieces of ordnance against Colonel Cromwell;' nay, once, when Lord Grey's quartermaster was in some huff with Lord Grey 'about oats,' had privily offered to the said quartermaster that they two should draw out their men, and have a fight for it with Lord Grey;--not to speak of frequent correspondences with Newark, with Newcastle, and the Queen now come back from Holland: wherefore he is arrested there in Nottingham, and locked up for trial. Morant's History of Colchester, book i. p. 56. 14 iii. 138. This was on the Wednesday, this report of Pym's: and, alas, while Pym reads it, John Hampden, mortally wounded four days ago in a skirmish at Chalgrove Field, lies dying at Thame;--died on the Saturday following! LETTERS XII.--XV. 'on Thursday July the 27th,' on, or shortly before that day, 'news 'reach London' that Colonel Cromwell has taken Stamford,--retaken it, I think; at all events taken it. Whereupon the Cavaliers from Newark and Belvoir Castle came hovering about him: he drove them into Burleigh House, Burleigh on the Hill in Rutlandshire, and laid siege to the same; 'at three in the morning,' battered it with all his shot, and stormed it at last.1 Which is 'a good help we have had this week.' On the other hand, at Gainsborough we are suffering siege; indisputably the Newarkers threaten to got the upper hand in that quarter of the County. Here is Cromwell's Letter,--happily now the original itself;--concerning Lord Willoughby of Parham, and the relief of Gainsborough 'with powder and match.' LETTER XII. In Rushworth and the old Newspaper copies of this Letter, along with certain insignificant, perhaps involuntary variations, there are two noticeable omissions; the whole of the first parag...