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plotters, " an Irish rebell, a native Papist, put a rope about 

 his own neck and hanged himself .... without 

 judgement or execution, doing all upon himself." Then, as 

 regards Mills, the Constable, the report of the council of war 

 states that he died " most desperately," " without any signe 

 or token of sorrow or repentance," and that " when he was 

 upon the Ladder, he most desperately threw himself off, not 

 shewing any signes of humiliation, or calling upon God 

 for mercie on his soul, but, carelessly, in a most desperate 

 manner, died, not so much as praying to God to receive his 

 soul." The hangings took place at the Nothe point, on the 

 Monday morning following the first sitting of the council 

 of war. Peter Ince adds with some bitterness, " There be 

 not many of the villains left, but their sin hath found them 

 out." As to these, the report continues, " Divers of them are 

 slain, Fabian Hodder and others are in Prison at Poole and 

 other places, not yet tried, and some are run away." Syden- 

 ham threatened to make a halter for Fabian Hodder 's neck, 

 he being the chief conspirator, but he contrived to escape and, 

 returning to Melcombe, became, after the Restoration, a 

 member of the Corporate body. 



PUBLIC THANKSGIVING, MARCH 12TH, 1645, &c., 



On the 4th March following, an Order was made by the 

 Lords and Commons in Parliament, for a Public Thanks- 

 giving to be held on the 12th inst. for the success of the 

 Parliament Forces in (inter alia) the regaining of Wey mouth.* 



The following appears in " Mercurius Britanicus " com- 

 municating " the affaires of great Britaine For the better 

 Information of the People, From Monday the 14 of April to 

 Monday the 21 of April, 1645," viz. : " Divers Orders 



* Minutes of Parliament. 



