Oliver Cromwell And His Times Social Religious And Political Life in the Seve
Oliver Cromwell And His Times Social Religious And Political Life in the Seve
Pike Godfrey Holden
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' A month later the lost fort was retaken. After the Royalist defeat at Naseby, Newark became one of their chief strong- holds ; and the aim was not only to reduce it, but one by one to capture lesser places which still held out. One of these was Shelf ord House, where Colonel Philip Stan- hope was in command, and who, when called on to surrender, ' returned a very scornful, huffling reply, ' adding that he intended to 188 IN THE DAYS OF OLIVER CROMWELL 1 lay Nottingham Castle as flat as a panc...ake, and such other bravadoes. ' In the buff coat of a Puritan soldier, having laid aside his musket-proof armour because it was ' so heavy that it heated him, ' Hutchinson actually led the storming party, and went through a rough and dangerous experience before the citadel could be taken. The references which Mrs. Hutchinson makes to poor young Philip Stanhope enable us to picture in our minds the heroic acts and tragic calamities of that eventful day : ' It is said he sat in his chamber, wrapt up in his cloak, and came not forth that day ; but that availed him not, for how, or by whom, it is not known, but he was wounded and stripped, and flung upon a dunghill.
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