WAREHAM : ITS INVASIONS AND BATTLES. Ill 



being near, they were obliged to yield on quarter. They carried 

 the governor and two committee men into Corfe Castle " with other 

 prisoners. "When Wareham was regained the King's horse 

 escaped thence by favour of night through the guards into the 

 Castle. Butler afterwards escaped hence with Colonel Lawrence, 

 who came over to the Parliament." "June 20th, 1645, Captain 

 Butler marched from Wareham with a party of horse and foot; the 

 horse faced the Castle (Corfe), the foot entered the town, beat the 

 garrison into the Castle, and kept them in play whilst the horse 

 brought away from the walls 160 cattle and horses to Wareham." 

 " Dec. 16th, 1645, Fairfax sent a regiment of horse and two of foot 

 to take Corfe." The following year, 1646, " March 4th, a vote 

 was passed to slight it, a garrison here (Wareham) being no longer 

 of any service, as Corfe Castle was taken, to which it was a check. 

 The Governor's accounts extend from August 19th, 1644, to April 

 30th, 1646 ; his disbursements amounted to 4,717 10s. 3d., besides 

 .329 12s. 6d. due to him for raising and arming his company ; his 

 receipts amounted to 3,478 16s. 7d., besides which he received 

 out of Blandford division 1,329 13s. 4d., all of which was 

 disbursed." 



During these wars, besides being shot in the head with a fowling 

 piece by the governor of the town, the rector of Wareham was 

 imprisoned 19 times. Major Sydenham committed him to 

 Dorchester Gaol ; then, after his release, he retired to Sherborne 

 Castle, which, according to Hume, was built by the then Bishop of 

 Salisbury during the wars between King Stephen and the Empress 

 Maud, at the taking of which he was made prisoner, and, 

 curiously enough, being at Corfe Castle when that succumbed to 

 treachery, was again made prisoner. His son William "dis- 

 tinguished himself in the royal cause. He was eighteen times a 

 prisoner, twice condemned to be hanged, and saved the first time 

 by an uncle in the Parliamentary interest, and the second by articles 

 he made with Captain Crook." " Mr. William Wake, father to the 

 Archbishop, was carried very young into the King's army and 

 suffered much for the royal cause, more than the rest of his quality 



