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Appendix D: A List of the Agitators Elected in 1647.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Page 435 note 1 Tanner MSS., Bodleian Library, vol. lviii., f. 141

Page 436 note 1 Skippon's regiment was quartered at Newcastle, and seems to have been represented solely by Major John Cobbet, v., p. 407.

Page 436 note 2 Should be Stephen Shipman.

Page 436 note 3 See pp. 32,173,180,187, 280, 330, 339. In 1859 John Clarke was Colonel of a foot regiment in Ireland.

Page 436 note 4 “Blewin ” should perhaps be “Blethen,” as the name stands in another list.

Page 436 note 5 Captain, afterwards Major Holmes, was implicated in the Rye House plot, and execnted in 1685 for his share in Monmouth's rising.

Page 436 note 6 Cousin of Richard Deane, the admiral.

Page 437 note 1 Edmund Garner appears as a Lieutenant in Hewson's regiment in November, 1647.

Page 437 note 2 Lieutenant-Colonel Brayfield was cashiered by Henry Cromwell in Ireland in 1657 for sedition. Thurloe, vi., 505, 527, 549, 552, 563, 599 ; Ludlow, Memoirs, ed. 1751, p. 198.

Page 437 note 3 This was originally Colonel Fortescue's regiment; the greater part of it had volunteered for Ireland, hence, probably, its imperfect representation.

Page 437 note 4 Lieutenant-Colonel Lagoe was appointed Adjutant-General of the Irish Army in 1659.

Page 437 note 5 Lieutenant-Colonel John Mason presented the protest of the officers against kingship in 1657, (Ludlow, p. 224). Governor of Jersey in 1659. Cal. State Papers, Bom,. 1658–9, p. 375.

Page 437 note 6 Prentice became an ensign in this regiment in November, 1647.

Page 437 note 7 Nicholas Cowley, or Cowling, see the book of Army Declarations, p. 71. Cowling is officially described as “Commissary-General of Victuals,” and Robinson as “Commissary of the Draught-Horse. Peacock, Army Lists, pp. 101, 106.

Page 437 note 8 The principal instigator of the mutiny of Ingoldsby's regiment at Oxford in September, 1649. See The Moderate, September 11–18, 1649; and a paper in Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society, 1884.

Page 438 note 1 In letter clxii. in Carlyle's Cromwell, Oliyer rebukes Colqnel Hacker for styling Empson a better preacher than fighter. “He is a good man and a good officer,” says Cromwell, “ I would we had no worse.” Earlier in the campaign in Scotland Empson had distinguished himself by rescuing Lambert when the latter was taken prisoner. Ibid., letter cxxxv.

Page 438 note 2 Recommended as Colonel of the regiment late Henry Cromwell's in 1659. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1659–60, p. 13.

Page 438 note 3 Recommended as Colonel of a regiment of horse in Ireland. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1659–60, p. 13.

Page 438 note 4 Sometimes spelt Gethings. He was sentenced to death in February, 1648, for causing a mutiny in this regiment, but the sentence appears to have been remitted.

Page 438 note 5 Horton died in Ireland, in October, 1649. “ He was a person of great integrity and courage,” writes Cromwell, Letter cxii. On his services in 1648, see Phillips Civil War in Wales.

Page 439 note 1 A life of Scroope is in Noble's Lives of the Regicides, 1798. He was executed October 17, 1660.

Page 439 note 2 Matthew Thomlinson, knighted by Henry Cromwell, sat as one of the king's judges, but did not not sign the warrant, escaped at the restoration. See his petition 7th Report of Hist. MS8. Comn., p. 123.

Page 439 note 3 Probably the Captain RaWlins recommended in Cromwell's letter of 4 June, 1645. See Cat. Stale Papers, Dom., 1659–60, 12, 183, 189, 189, 198; also 1644-5, p. 53.

Page 439 note 4 On Merriman, see Rushworth, vii., 1051,1361.

Page 439 note 5 Bridge was knighted at the Restoration, having adhered to Monck and taken part in the seizure of Dublin Castle (Ludlow, Memoirs, ed. 1751, pp. 298, 307). He had succeeded to the command of Okey's regiment in January, 1655, when Okey was cashiered.

Page 439 note 6 Late Colonel Rossiter's regiment, Lords'Journals, ix., 217.

Page 439 note 7 See Col. State Papers, Dom., 1659–60, pp. 299, 591.

Page 439 note 8 On Colonel Francis Thornhaugh, see the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Thornhaugh was killed at Preston in 1648. This was a Nottingham regiment, and not one of the new-model regiments. Rushworth, vi., 623: