112 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VIII. 



subject to the oppressions and abuses which had been attempted 

 to be put upon them, while an army, as should be agreed upon 

 by a council, to consist of the general officers of the army, 

 with two commissioned officers for each regiment, and two 

 soldiers to be chosen by the regiments themselves : at the 

 same time adding, that, without such satisfaction and security, 

 they would not willingly disband or divide, nor suffer them- 

 selves to be disbanded or divided. They further disclaimed 

 all purpose or design for the overthrow of the magistracy, the 

 suppression of presbytery, the setting up of independency, or 

 anything else than to promote an establishment of common 

 right and equal freedom of all." — " The History of the Com- 

 monwealth," by William Goodwin. London, 1828, vol. ii., 

 book ii., p. 322.* 



At a meeting of the Council of State, held at Derby House 

 on the nth of April, 1649, the sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and 

 Huntingdonshire were required to cause diligent 

 ^^^^- search to be made in all places within their juris- 

 Newmarket. Miction for the apprehension of " one on horse- 

 back," who fired at and murdered a sailor on 

 Newmarket Heath, when proceeding to London, with others, 

 as volunteers to serve in the Star frigate. The result of this 

 inquiry has not transpired.f 



On the 14th of December, 1650, the council passed a 

 minute (14), " to write to Col. Rich to cause 40 horse to be at 

 Newmarket with all speed, for conveying the 

 judges from thence to Norwich." J 

 We find this body in communication with Lieutenant- 

 General Fleetwood on the 23rd of August, 165 1, 

 relative to Colonel Wharton's regiment, "which was 



* See transcript of this " Solemn Engagement of the Army under the 

 Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, read, assented unto, and 

 Subscribed by all Officers, and Souldiers of the several Regiments, at the 

 general Rendezvous near New-Market, on the 5th of June, 1647," in Rush- 

 vv'orth's " Historical Collections," London, 1701. Part iv., vol. i., p. 510. 

 MS., Calander House of Lords, j?;-^ dato. Hist. MSS., Coss. Report viii. 

 Compare Carlyle's " Cromwell's Letters and Speeches," vol. i., p. 355. 



t State Papers, " Interregnum," vol. xciv., p. 81. 



J Ibid.^ vol. XV., p. 9. 



