[306] "Some Special Passages from Warwickshire." King's Pamphlets, Brit. Mus. Acts and Orders, i. 124.
[307] King's Pamphlets, Brit. Mus. Acts and Orders, ii. 124.
[308] Rushworth, iv. 783.
[309] These were commenced by Mr. Case, of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, and afterwards circulated from church to church for the convenience of the citizens.—Neal, ii. 592.
[310] Letter of Nehemiah Wharton, dated Aylesbury, August the 16th, 1642. Addressed to his much honoured friend, Mr. George Willingham, Merchant, at the Golden Anchor, Swithin Lane.—State Papers, Chas. I., Dom.
[311] In a letter, dated September 7, Wharton says of Northampton, for situation, circuit, stateliness of buildings, it exceeds Coventry, but the walls are miserably ruined though the country abounds in mines of stone. He also complains of certain soldiers of his regiment who discovered their base ends by declaring they would surrender their arms unless they received five shillings a man, which they said was promised them monthly by the committee. He alludes further to dissensions between foot and horse soldiers. In another letter he mentions a soldier's winter suit made for him, "edged with gold and silver lace," which he hoped he should never stain but in the blood of a cavalier.
[312] Letter of William Harrison, Berwick, dated 7th Sept., 1642, to his good friend Mr. Thomas Davison, at London.—State Papers, Chas. I., Dom.
[313] Whitelocke's Memorials, 65.
[314] Rushworth, v. 35. Baxter's Life and Times, part i. 43.
[315] Parl. Hist., ii. 1495-1504.