[273] Lister's Autobiography, 7. The places named are on the great highway from South Lancashire to Halifax.
[274] Calamy's Ejected Ministers, i. 45.
[275] Nalson, ii. 647-688. Cogan (servant to some one addressed by Nicholas as Rt. Honble.) in a letter dated Charing Cross, November 18, 1641, after relating the story told by the tailor of White Cross Street, continues—"he went with all speed to the House of Commons, unto whom being with great importunity admitted, he at large related all the aforesaid passages, and withal shewed in how many places of his cloak and clothes he was run through; and after long examination of him they sent him up unto the Lords, who in like manner questioned him a long time, and ever since there hath been a great coil about the finding out of this matter, by searching of Recusants' houses, as my Lord of Worcester's in the Strand, St. Basil Brooke's, and others. Now, whether this be a truth or an imposture, time will resolve."
[276] Nalson, ii. 673. Dering's subsequent history does not belong to our pages. It is enough to say he was expelled the House, his published speeches were burnt by the hangman, he joined the King, and served in the army; and then, after all, made his peace with the Parliament.
[277] Clarendon, 433.
[278] Macaulay's Essays, i. 160.
[279] Quoted in Forster's Grand Remonstrance, 172.
[280] As to Royalists of the mean and selfish class, see Brodie, iii. 344-354.
[281] Parl. Hist., ii. 990.
[282] Nalson, ii. 673.