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CIVIL WAR PAPERS
[1649
and Jenkins.1 The printed Papers will shew you something.
Farewell.—Yours, Paul Jenkins.
ffrom your yong Tyrant, the soune of the old little, saue that
he is much prest by the fraternity of Presbiters there. And
they say he inclines to the mock Covenant, that famous Bird
Lauderdaile 2 is reported a principall man with [him\ a Court
well governed where he is prime.
Major Generali Langhorne, Powell, and Poyer,3 and another
of that Anti-christian broode are this 14 of March brought to
Whitehall, where I hope they shall be at least shott at a Post
to terrific others.
[Addressed on the back]
ffor my Christian freind, Andrew Chrichton, Marcht in
Edenbrugh, these.
divine of hot Welsh blood,’ who preached at the Treaty of Uxbridge in 1644
(Carlyle, Cromwell, vol. i. p.150); an ardent Presbyterian, executed on Tower Hill,
Aug. 22d, 1651.—id, vol. ii. p. 287. See a reference to his imprisonment in
Feb. 1644.—Thurloe, vol. i. p. 65.
1 William Jenkyn, pastor of Christ Church. CaAon, Jenkin, Love, and
Watkin were representatives of the ministers of the gospel within the province of
London to Fairfax and the Council of War, Jan. 18, 1648-9.
2 Lauderdale reached Holland, Aug. 7,1649.—Thurloe, vol. i. p. 98 ; Burnet’s
Hamiltons, p. 366 ; Deeds of Montrose (1893), pp. 230, 233 n.
s Major-General Langhorne and Colonels Poyer and Powell, who had done good
service for the Parliament in Wales, being ordered by the Council of the Army to
disband, rose in March 1649 to the number of near 8000, and secured Chepstow,
Tenby, and Pembroke Castle. At the last Poyer held out against Cromwell
till July nth, when the Castle surrendered. The three officers were made to
draw lots. Two lots bore ‘ Life given by the Lord.’ The third was blank. Poyer
drew the blank, and was shot in Covent Garden, against Bedford House wall,
April 25, 1649.—Heath; Clarendon; Carlyle’s Monteith : Indices.
[1649
and Jenkins.1 The printed Papers will shew you something.
Farewell.—Yours, Paul Jenkins.
ffrom your yong Tyrant, the soune of the old little, saue that
he is much prest by the fraternity of Presbiters there. And
they say he inclines to the mock Covenant, that famous Bird
Lauderdaile 2 is reported a principall man with [him\ a Court
well governed where he is prime.
Major Generali Langhorne, Powell, and Poyer,3 and another
of that Anti-christian broode are this 14 of March brought to
Whitehall, where I hope they shall be at least shott at a Post
to terrific others.
[Addressed on the back]
ffor my Christian freind, Andrew Chrichton, Marcht in
Edenbrugh, these.
divine of hot Welsh blood,’ who preached at the Treaty of Uxbridge in 1644
(Carlyle, Cromwell, vol. i. p.150); an ardent Presbyterian, executed on Tower Hill,
Aug. 22d, 1651.—id, vol. ii. p. 287. See a reference to his imprisonment in
Feb. 1644.—Thurloe, vol. i. p. 65.
1 William Jenkyn, pastor of Christ Church. CaAon, Jenkin, Love, and
Watkin were representatives of the ministers of the gospel within the province of
London to Fairfax and the Council of War, Jan. 18, 1648-9.
2 Lauderdale reached Holland, Aug. 7,1649.—Thurloe, vol. i. p. 98 ; Burnet’s
Hamiltons, p. 366 ; Deeds of Montrose (1893), pp. 230, 233 n.
s Major-General Langhorne and Colonels Poyer and Powell, who had done good
service for the Parliament in Wales, being ordered by the Council of the Army to
disband, rose in March 1649 to the number of near 8000, and secured Chepstow,
Tenby, and Pembroke Castle. At the last Poyer held out against Cromwell
till July nth, when the Castle surrendered. The three officers were made to
draw lots. Two lots bore ‘ Life given by the Lord.’ The third was blank. Poyer
drew the blank, and was shot in Covent Garden, against Bedford House wall,
April 25, 1649.—Heath; Clarendon; Carlyle’s Monteith : Indices.
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