AYD TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I., 1627. 83 



Mrs. Dorothie Okovcr and Ellen Archer, of Snelston, and all 

 the names except Thomas Gilbert, under Spondon. Thomas 

 Woodwarde and Edwarde Ffroste, under Knyveton Ofcoat 

 and Underwood, were marked off with only the upper part of 

 the cross. Unless the assessment in some cases seemed to 

 the Commissioners unjust, it would appear that some refused 

 to pay, and risked the consequences, while others, willing to 

 pay half the sum demanded, were compelled into paying the 

 remainder (of which the lower part of the cross is the mark 

 of payment) under the threat, and possibly the actual 

 experience, of imprisonment. Persuasions, threats, and force 

 were used throughout the country to extort the loan ; and it 

 may be that these men of Derbyshire joined with the great 

 number of men, of whom John Hampden is most conspicuous, 

 in offering resistance to the i/ki^al oppressions of King Charles. 



