I40 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IX. 



During his confinement in his " close prison in the 

 Tower," he wrote a curious work, entitled " The Divine 

 Right of Government, (i) Natural and (2) Politique: 

 More Particularly of MonarcJiie ; the only Legitimate 

 and Natural spece of Politique Government. Wherein 

 the Phansyed State- Principles SupereminencingW^/Z^w 

 popiili above the King's Honour," etc. This quaint 

 production — a small octavo containing 191 pages — 

 was published in 1647, and Anthony Wood has been 

 pleased to assert that the author " shews himself to be 

 a scholar, as he before had, by his martial feats, a 

 courageous soldier." 



Early in the ensuing year Hudson again succeeded 

 in making his escape from prison, and got safely into 

 Lincolnshire, where he organized a cavalry regiment 

 for the service of " his most o-racious and dread 

 sovereign," and engaged some of the gentry of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design. On the 7th 

 of June, 1648, intelligence had reached the Parliament 

 " that the malignants were up in Lincolnshire under 

 Colonel Dr. Hudson, and Colonel Stiles;" and on 

 the following day letters were received from Colonel 

 Waite " that he had fallen upon those who had made 

 an Insurrection at Stanford, had killed their Com- 

 mander, Dr. Hudson, and others, and had taken 

 many of them prisoners, but discharged the country- 

 men. The House approved of what he had done, 

 and order him thanks for it, and that the General 

 should send him a commission of Martial Law to 

 try the Prisoners." 



It seems the chief body of these malignants, 



