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ficcrs and soldiers : upon the deli- 

 very of which it was received with 

 much indignation ; and, for my own 

 particular, I declared I thought wee 

 ought every man to die in the place, 

 rather than yield to such conditions. 

 Whereupon colonel James jNIorgan 

 came from the place where he stood, 

 and, taking me by the hand, swore 

 a grcate oath he would die at my 

 foote. I perceaved not any man of 

 another opinion ; but then it was 

 moved that it might be debated, 

 what was fitt to bee done; and it was 

 concluded that the treaters should 

 goe back, to know if these were the 

 best conditions they would give us. 

 Upon theire second returne. nothing 

 was brought in Writing, but the 

 treaters told us nmch of their rigour 

 "would be abated, and thereupon 

 drew up in writing,, such other ar- 

 ticles as they perceaved would be 

 agreed to, which, what they were 

 in particular, I cannot possibly re- 

 member, only that they were much 

 more reasonable than the former ; 

 but, when they went backc with 

 thsse, the enemy, saveing the free- 

 dom of the church and town in per- 

 sons and goods, stoode upon as high 

 terms in respcft of the souldiers as 

 before, which was again generally 

 disliked of. But then, it being 

 againc resumed into debate, sevcrall 

 queres were made (but none by me) 

 if these demands should not be 

 yielded to, how wee should be able 

 to make our defence, and preserve 

 the towne ; whereunto every man 

 severally replied, not one excepted, 

 that in his opinion the towne, as 

 things then stoode, could not be de- 

 fended or saved ; and I, for my 

 owno part, was of that opinion, 

 though I was none of the firs-t to de- 

 clare it. Secondly, it was demand- 

 ed, since this was the opinion of us 



all, to what end should wee sacrifice 

 the soldiers, together with the citti- 

 Zf ns, his majesty's good subjects, to 

 the fury of the prevailing enemy ? 

 Whereunto it was answered and 

 agreed, that rather than do2 soe, w« 

 ought to accept of such conditions 

 as were oifercd, if wee could obtaine 

 no better. Thereupon the treaters 

 went backe^and the souldiers and of- 

 ficers, having a hint of this treaty, 

 conveyed themselves out of the 

 towne with all their colours, and 

 left not fifty armes behinde them, 

 for aught I could learn before my 

 coming away from thence ; and then 

 the treaters returned with such arti- 

 cles as engaged us to purchase the 

 lives of the souldiers. and the freedom 

 of the towne, with the losse of our 

 own liberty ; which articles were 

 first signed by sir Willam Waller, 

 and afterwards by the governor of 

 the towne, who desired and had of 

 us an acknowledgment, under our 

 hands, of our consent to what he 

 had signed. 



Thereupon the enemy enters the 

 towne ; and forthwith the lord Scu- 

 damore, and the rest of the gentle- 

 men, wereconfined to their lodgings, 

 from M-hcnce, the third night, by the 

 hclpc of the alderman's sonnc, in 

 whose house I lay, I made my 

 escape over the towne wall, and 

 through the mote, which was not 

 over my bootcs, intending, as sooa 

 as I could, to make my ropairc to 

 Oxford ; whither I came the day 

 after, to give an account to his ma- 

 jestic of the unfortunate event of 

 this action ; and it may bee Ihave 

 suffered in the opinion of the world 

 for my open and ingenuoHS expres- 

 sions of myself. 



I must not omitlc one pai'sagc 

 concerning the behaviour of some 

 of the towncsnien, towards the 



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