60 HISTORY OF 



Hand and Signet, Ijearing date at Oxford, Au- 

 gust 1, 1643. did, with bars of iron and armed 

 men, break the Locks and Doors, and enter into 

 the said castle, and seize upon the Place, the 

 Victuals, Powder, Arms, and Ammunition, laid 

 in by the said archbishop at his own charge, with- 

 out the least contribution from the king or the 

 country, for the defence of the place, and the ser- 

 vice of the king and the said country. 



2. " That being demanded by the said arch- 

 bishop to suffer two of the said archbishop's men 

 to be there with his rabble of grooms and beggerly 

 people, to see the goods of the country preserved 

 from filching, and the victuals and ammunition 

 from wasting and purloyning. Sir John in a furi- 

 ous manner utterly refused it, though all the com- 

 pany cried upon him to do so for his own dis- 

 charge, yet would he not listen to any reason, but 

 promised the next day to suffer all things to be 

 inventoried, and tlie Lord Archbishop to take 

 away what he would. Sir John acknowledging all 

 the goods and ammunition to be his. 



3. " The next day he receded again from all 

 this, would not permit at the entreaty of the bi- 



