38 Records of the Rising tm the West, A.D. 1655. 
Shrewsbury, lord Menport, Sir Vincent Corbett, sir H. Thin,* sir Tho. Hares 
&c. Midland counties, lord Will. Parham, [ Willoughby, of Parham] sir William 
Compton, sir Robert Willis, sir Thomas Littleton, sir M. Hubevairt, sir Richard 
Payne, sent over to them, sir Thomas Mackworth, earle of Oxford, earle of 
Northampton,. County of Worcester, Coventrie, Sam. Sands, Packington, sir 
Talbot Hendring, Touthet, Counts [indecipherable], &o. 
Kent, lord Tufton, sir James Peyton, Thornill, sir Ja. Many Brochman, . 
Washington, Judge Heath's sonn,s, Hales, and scarce one out. 
Cressett rm fs of Armourer, mr. Philips of Willmott, you must be in appre- 
hending as n m y In st mr. Davison I forgott, and let all be mentioned in the 
seisure ; burn all for a good reason, which for my oath I cannot tell you. 
There is one Fowle in Feversham, the searcher at Devon, corresponding with 
captain Pain at Bolein [Boulogne], conveys your enemyes to and fro. 
Letters are sent often in covers to mr. Booth at Calais, mr. Boove in Zealand, 
Shannes and Hawkes here.”’ 
Plenty of danger to my Lord Protector here. Many of those men- 
tioned in the above letter were arrested, including Lord Willoughby, 
but Wilmot (Earl of Rochester) escaped, as was his wont. 
And one other—the most interesting of all in conclusion—Some 
notes of Thurloe’s on the Rising, and his reasons for advising the 
appointment of the Major-Generals :— 
‘* Secretary Thurloe’s memorandums of the plot in March 1654, and reasons 
for erecting a new standing militia in all the counties of England.t+ 
Their designe was a generall insurrection through the whole land at once for 
destroying the present power, and to restore againe the late kinge’s sonne. 
To effect this, 
1. They excuse to their Kinge, that they came not into hym at his march to 
Worcester. 
2. They settle a counsell here, and appoint agents, who might sollicit all their 
partye, and acquaint them with their motions; and soe ordered it, that all 
might knowe, and yet never above 2 of them speake together. 
3. They raise and collect severall great summes of money, as well for the 
maintenance of C. S., | Charles Stewart] as carryeinge on the warre, and letters of 
privy seale were sent, &c. 
4. They buy and provide great stoare of armes; some were layd upina 
magazine here, and others sent up and downe in the countrye. 
5. They labour to divide the armye, and to blowe up the discontent of all 
parties ; wherein they imploy notable instruments, which doe their worke soe 
well, that a great part of the army should have mutinyed in Scotland, and beene 
* Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, whose wife is mentioned above with 
Lady Shannon. He was the father of Sir Thomas Thynne, the first Baron Thynne of Warminster 
and Viscount Weymouth, who succeded to Longleat on the murder of his relative “* Tom of the 
ten thousand,” 
: + 4 Th., p. 132, November, 1655. 

