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BEGINNING OF CIVIL WAR. 257 the inhabitants ; that is, to put them in a condition for war. Such a muster substantially resembled the modern militia. In the year 1641 remonstrances and protestations of Parliament on the one hand, and declarations and protes- tations of the King on the other, were published throughout the kingdom, and, as events grew, every effort was used by both parties to infuriate the people. Under such circum- stances it may be assumed that even the King's commissions of array were some- times held by gentle- men who sided with the Parliament; others by those who sided with the King; and that the ordinances of the Parliament to or- ganize the inhabitants were as readily obeyed as the King's com- missions. We are not intend- ing to write a history of these unhappy times. That history has been already written by Lord Clarendon and others. Our observations are designed chiefly to introduce some local incidents now first offered to the public. From fragments of Borough accounts relating to this period, written on loose pieces of paper of various sizes, it is evident that the Crown had, for awhile, neglected its direct control over the sequestered [separated] juris- S OLD VIEW AND PLAN OF THE CASTLE AND KEEP COURT.