1646.J DR. MICHAEL HUDSON. 133 



was in February, 1642, actually created Doctor of 

 Divinity, and made Chaplin to his Majesty. About 

 that time he being esteemed an understanding and 

 solem person of great fidelity was made Scoutmaster 

 General to the Army in the northern parts of Eng- 

 land, under the command of William Marquis of 

 Newcastle, whereby he did wonderfully advantage 

 himself in the ways and passes of those parts. In 

 that employment he continued for some years, with 

 very good success. At length his Majesty (who 

 usually called him plain dealing Captain, because he 

 told him his mind, when others would, or durst not) 

 having an especial respect for his signal loyalty and 

 courage, entrusted him, and John Ashburnham, one 

 of his Groomes of his Bedchamber, with his person, 

 at the time he left Oxon in disguise April 27, 1646, 

 in order to surrender himself into the hands of the 

 Scots, then beseiging Newark on Trent." * 



Hudson took a very conspicuous part in the king's 

 fatal flight from Oxford to the treacherous Scots, by 

 whom the latter was sold for ^200,000 to the Puritans, 

 and Hudson, as we shall subsequently see, soon 

 after was done to death in the service of his royal 

 master. 



In consequence of the post held by our reverend 

 turfite, of Scoutmaster General to the army, he had 

 been employed for nearly a month, prior to the night of 

 the flight from Oxford, in delicate negotiations between 

 the king on the one part, and Monsieur Montreuil, the 

 French ambassador, and the traitors in command of 



* " Athenae Oxon.," col. 56., ed. genuine. 



