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there said that no Minister was a true one except he was 
rebaptized, and that our ordinances were false ordinances, 
and the printers have cozened us in printing the scriptures, 
and more tenents they held which now I cannot write; and 
on the 26th day of October they baptised sixe women in a 
Mill-dam about eleven of the clock in the day, which was 
strange to us in these parts.” 
In 1648 the King was beheaded, his adversaries deeming 
his great crime to consist of his adherence to Episcopacy 
and to the Church of England. 
In 1651, on Monday, the 25th of August, the Lord- 
General Cromwell, with his army from the North, was at 
Coventry. They marched from thence to Warwick, from 
thence to Stratford, and so on to Evesham, on their way 
to Worcester. 
In September, 1651, after his defeat at Worcester, 
Charles the Second passed in disguise through Warwickshire, 
and was very near being taken prisoner at Wootton Wawen 
by a troop of horse of Cromwell’s forces. A timely warning 
was, however, given. The King turned out of the main 
road at a place called Bearley Cross, down an old lane, 
which may still be pointed out. He succeeded in crossing 
the river Avon at Stratford, and lodged that night in the 
disguise of a servant, at Long Marston, at the house of 
Mr. Tombs. 
In 1655 was published “A catalogue of the Lords, Knights, 
and Gentlemen that have compounded for their estates. 
London: Printed for Thomas Dring, at the signe of the 
“George,” in Fleet-street, near Clifford’s Inn, 1655.” 
This contains a list of perhaps the greater part of the 
Royalist Nobility and Gentry in the different counties in 
England, with the several sums at which each was assessed. 
