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bed in his clothes, and wait the event. 

 Thofe who were feized in the night, 

 were to remain in bed, but by no means 

 to ileep.* The most eminent phyficians 

 of the time, were puzzled as to the caufe 

 of this ftrange complaint ; it however 

 feems to have originated among the 

 foreign levies, of the Duke of Rich- 

 mond, which were raked out of hofpi- 

 tals and gaols, buried in filth, and then 

 crowded on board the tranfports, and 

 conveyed hither. 



In the civil wars, Shrewfbury was 

 garrifoned for the King, and Sir Mich- 

 ael Earnly was made Governor. Ge- 

 neral Mytton made two unfuccefsful at- 

 tempts, but in February, 1644, he at- 

 tacked it fo vigoroufly, that it was fur- 

 rendered to him, on condition that the 

 I rim Ihould be given up, and that the 



* Gibfon's Caoiden, p. 547. 



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