[329] Clement Walker’s History of Independency, part II. p. 130. Confirmed by Barwick in his Life, p. 163.
[330] The Rev. Mark Noble’s Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell, i. 405.
[331] Clement Walker’s History of Independency, Part II. 173.
[332] Ib., Part I. 160.
[333] Mercurius Rusticus, xii. 115. Barwick’s Life, p. 42.
[334] This actor was a comedian named Robinson, of the Blackfriars Theatre; the performers there being termed “the king’s servants.” In the civil wars most of the young actors, deprived of living by their profession, all theatres being closed by order of the Parliament, went into the king’s army. Robinson was fighting at the siege of Basing House, in Hampshire, October, 1645, when after an obstinate defence his party was defeated, he laid down his arms, suing for quarter, but was shot through the head by Colonel Harrison, as he repeated the words quoted above.
[335] The following account is drawn from Sir William Dugdale’s interleaved Pocket-book for 1648.—“Aug. 17. The Scotch army, under the command of Duke Hamilton, defeated at Preston in Lancashire. 24th. The Moorlanders rose upon the Scots and stript some of them. The Scotch prisoners miserably used; exposed to eat cabbage-leaves in Ridgley (Staffordshire), and carrot-tops in Coleshill (Warwickshire). The soldiers who guarded them sold the victuals which were brought in for them from the country.”
[336] Desodoard’s Histoire Philosophique de la Révolution de France, iv. 5. When Lyons was captured in 1793, the revolutionary army nearly reduced this fine city to a heap of ruins, in obedience to the decree of the Montagne, who had ordered its name to be effaced, that it should henceforth be termed, “Commune affranchie,” and upon its ruins a column erected and inscribed, “Lyon fit la guerre à la liberté; Lyon n’est plus.”
[337] The Moderate, from Tuesday, July 31, to August 7, 1649.