Drunken Colonel Poyer, Major-General Laughern and certain others, ‘persons excepted,‘ have had to surrender at mercy; a great many more on terms: Pembroke happily is down; and the Welsh War is ended.[1] Cromwell hurries northward: by Gloucester, Warwick; gets ‘3,000 pairs of shoes’ at Leicester; leaves his prisoners at Nottingham (with Mrs. Hutchinson and her Colonel, in the Castle there); joins Lambert among the hills of Yorkshire,[2] where his presence is much needed now.
July 27th. In these tumultuous months the Fleet too, as we heard at Pembroke once[3], has partially revolted; ‘set Colonel Admiral Rainsborough ashore,‘ in the end of May last. The Earl of Warwick, hastily sent thither, has brought part of it to order again; other part of it has fled to Holland, to the Young Prince of Wales. The Young Prince goes hopefully on board, steers for the coast of England; emits his summons and manifesto from Yarmouth Roads, on the 27th of this month. Getting nothing at Yarmouth, he appears next week in the Downs; orders London to join him, or at least to lend him 20,000l.[4]
It all depends on Hamilton and Cromwell now. His Majesty from Carisbrook Castle, the revolted Mariners, the London Presbyterians, the Besieged in Colchester, and all men, are waiting anxiously what they Two now will make of it when they meet.
- ↑ Order, ‘12th July 1648’ (the day after Pembroke), for demolishing the Castle of Haverfordwest: in Appendix, No. 11.
- ↑ At Barnard Castle, on the 27th July, his horse’ joined (Rushworth, vii. 1211); he himself not till a fortnight after, at Wetherby farther south.
- ↑ Antea, p. 322.
- ↑ Rushworth, vii.; 29th May, p. 1131; 8th June, 11th June, pp. 1145, 1151: 27th July, pp. 1207, 1215, etc.
