214 WEYMOUTH AND THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. 



Sydenham, the Governor's brother, an officer greatly esteemed, 

 who died the next day.* The attack on the Nothe Fort is 

 also successful, and once more the Royalist Standard is 

 raised. f The Parliament men, although exposed to the fire of 

 their enemy, and notwithstanding the loss of the forts, 

 manage to remain in Weymouth proper until the evening of 

 the following day.J 



Richard Wiseman, who has been justly called " the Father 

 of English Surgery," was in the Chapel Fort amongst the 

 Royalists, at the time of the surprise, and attended some of 

 the wounded. His " Seven Chirurgical Treatises " show the 

 great advance he made in sound surgical practice. He was 

 appointed surgeon to Charles II. and died 1676. 



ARRIVAL OF SIR LEWIS DYVE, FEBRUARY IOTH, 1645. 



Sir Lewis Dyve had caused serious disappointment to the 

 King's allies, by not arriving so soon as he had promised. 

 Instead of coming on the Sunday, he kept the Royalists in 

 suspense until noon of the following day (Monday). He 

 then arrived with Horse and Foot, and, aiding Hastings, took 



* Major Francis Sydenham took a prominent part in the Civil War in Dorset. 



t "God appearing for the Parliament in sundry late victories, &c. March 10, 

 1644." King's Pamphlets, Vol. I..95, No. 22. 



J Colonel Ralph Weldon, son of Sir Anthony Weldon, Baronet, of Swans- 

 combe, Kent, was in command of one of the Parliamentary regiments in Wey- 

 mouth when the Chapel Fort was surprised by the Royalists. Not long after 

 the raising of the siege of Melcombe, he, as Senior Colonel, commanded a brigade 

 sent to relieve Taunton, then besieged by the Cavaliers. Weldon entered the 

 town and raised the siege. He was a collateral ancestor of the Rev. Canon 

 Weldon, D.D., the esteemed Vicar of Holy Trinity, Weymouth. It is re- 

 markable that the Canon^should now have, as part of his parochial organisation, 

 the noble schools built on the actual site of the fort which his ancestor had 

 defended ! 



Sir Thomas Longman's ''Richard Wiseman," 1891. 



