[125] Possibly, as suggested in the Victoria History of Lincolnshire (vol. ii. pp. 284-85), the first password in each case was for Tuesday, the second for Wednesday.

[126] He was younger brother of Ralph, Lord Hopton, the Royalist commander in the West. Cromwell is said to have visited Horncastle after the battle to see that the body of this “brave gentleman,” as he styled him, was fitly interred. It is possible that he owed his life to Hopton’s forbearance at a critical moment.

[127] Scottish Dove, E. 75, 24.

[128] Mr. E. Peacock, F.S.A. (Lincs. Architectural Society’s Reports, vol. viii. p. 265), thinks that no move was made against Gainsborough till after the capture of the fort at Burton-on-Stather on December 18. But the letter of the Essex soldier (below) disproves this; and I suggest that a force from Lincoln invested the place till it was compelled to retire by the severity of the weather.

[129] Barrington MSS. quoted in Kingston’s East Anglia and the Civil War, p. 147.

[130] In Oldfield’s Wainfleet and Candleshoe, Appendix No. 6, pp. 12-16. The list is not complete, for the names of Sir John Monson and others are omitted.

[131] J. A. Gotch, Early Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1625, pp. 69, 70.

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