or, in defect of such Officer, to the Committee or Governor of the next Garrison for the Parliament within the County where they shall be so taken; there to be secured and kept in prison, as shall be found most convenient.
‘And the said Committee, Officer, or Governor respectively, are desired to secure such of the said prisoners as shall be so apprehended and brought unto them, accordingly. And if any of the said Scottish officers or soldiers shall make any resistance, and refuse to be taken or render themselves, all such persons well affected to the service of the Parliament and Kingdom of England, may and are desired to fall upon, fight with, and slay such refusers: but if the said prisoners shall continue and remain within the places and guards assigned for the keeping of them, That then no violence, wrong, nor injury be offered to them by any means.
‘Provided also, and special care is to be taken, That no Scottishman residing within this Kingdom, and not having been a member of the said Army, and also, That none such of the said Scottish prisoners as shall have liberty given them, and sufficient passes to go to any place appointed, may be interrupted or troubled hereby.
‘“Durham,” 8th September 1648.‘
Fairfax is still at Colchester, arranging the ‘ransoms, and confused wrecks of the Siege there; Cromwell has now reached Berwick[2], at least his outposts have,—all the Monroes now fairly across the Tweed. ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Cowell,‘ I conclude, was mortally wounded at Preston Battle; and here has the poor Widow been, soliciting and lamenting.
