Letter in the Perfect Diurnal

Letter in the Perfect Diurnal 1–8 October (1649)
by Anonymous

References

Lingard, John (1854), The history of England, from the first invasion by the Romans to the accession of William and Mary in 1688, vol. 7–8 (6 ed.), C. Dolman, pp. 316. cites Perfect Diurnal from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8.
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1903), History of the commonwealth and protectorate, 1649-1656, London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., pp. 118–119. cites Per/. Diurnal, E, 553, 17.

1413941Letter in the Perfect Diurnal 1–8 October1649Anonymous

The [Mill]mount was very strong of itself and manned with 250 of their principal men, Sir Arthur Aston being in it, who was governor of the town;which when they thought it vain to make any further resistance, which, if they had, would have killed some hundreds of our men before we could have taken it. Lieutenant-Colonel Axtell, of Colonel Hewson's regiment, with some twelve of his men, went up to the top of the mount and demanded of the Governor the surrender of it ; who was verystubborn, speaking very big words, but at length was persuaded to go into the windmill on the top of the mount, and as many more of the chiefest of them as it would contain, where they were disarmed, and afterwards all slain.