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SO called, fled to Woodcroft House, in the parish 

 of Helpson, near Peterborough, in Northamptonshire, 

 about seven miles from Stanford, where Hudson was 

 barbarously killed on the 6th of June. His end is 

 thus described : " After the rebels had entered into the 

 house, and had taken most of the royalists, Hudson, 

 with some of his courageous soldiers, went up to the 

 battlements thereof, where they defended themselves 

 for some time. At length, upon promise of quarter, 

 they yielded, but when the rebels had got in among 

 them they denied quarter : Whereupon Hudson being 

 thrown over the batttlements, he caught hold of a 

 spout or out-stone and hung there ; but his hands 

 being beat or cut off, he fell into the moat underneath, 

 much wounded, and desir'd to come on land to die 

 there. Whereupon one Egborough (servant to Mr. 

 Spinks, the intruder into the parsonage of Castor 

 belonging to the Bishop of Peterborough) knocked 

 him on the head with the butt-end of his musket. 

 Which being done, one Walker a chandler and grocer 

 of Stanford, cut out his tongue and carried it about 

 the country as a trophy. His body for the present 

 was denied burial, yet after the enemy had left that 

 place, he was by some Christians committed to the 

 earth." In August, Hudson's remains were translated 

 to Uffington, near Stanford, in Lincolnshire, where 

 they were solemnly interred. Such was the end, in 

 the thirty-third year of his age, of this reverend 

 " father " of the Turf : famous as a horseman, faithful 

 to his sovereign, when so many proved false, a rouo-h 

 and ready scholar, and a genial plain-dealing English 



