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Parliament for repairing the town's wall. On August 1 1, 1648, 

 Lieutenant- Colonel Henry Lilburn, the deputy governor of 

 Tynemouth Castle, declared for King Charles ; on which Sir 

 Arthur despatched a brigade of foot'and a hundred dragoons, 

 under Lieutenant-Colonel Ashfield and Major Cobham, with 

 orders to storm the castle instantly. This was gallantly 

 effected ; and Lilburn being slain, his head was cut off, and 

 set upon a pole. Coals this year rose to an exorbitant price, 

 when the governor of Newcastle was blamed for laying a tax 

 of 4^-. per chaldron on coals, which was estimated to produce 

 ^^"5000 per annum. In 1649 he was admitted a burgess of 

 Newcastle. When Oliver Cromwell was inaugurated Lord 

 Protector, he signed a new instrument of Government, whereby 

 three members were assigned for the county of Northumber- 

 land, and but one for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In pursuance of 

 this plan. Sir Arthur Haselrigg was chosen to represent New- 

 castle in the Parliament that met September 3, 1654. Previous 

 to the meeting of this Parliament, the Protector created him 

 a lord, and called him up to the House of Peers ; but he chose 

 rather to take his seat in the House of Commons. But though 

 Cromwell honoured and employed him, yet he was well known 

 to be one of his most inveterate enemies, and in Parliament 

 headed the opposition to his government. When Lambert 

 opposed the sword to the authority of Parliament, Sir Arthur 

 boldly moved his impeachment in the House of Commons ; 

 and while the former was assembling his forces in Newcastle 

 to oppose Monk, in the latter end of 1659, Sir Arthur Hasel- 

 rigg, accompanied by Morley, took possession of Portsmouth, 

 and declared for the Parliament. When the ships of war in 

 the Thames joined to oppose the military usurper. Sir Arthur 

 returned to London, where he was actively employed in 

 inducing several regiments to revolt again to the side of 

 constitutional authority. But the ascendency acquired by 

 Monk was too great for the power of the Commons ; and when 

 Sir Arthur saw that the restoration of the king was certain, 

 he offered to deliver up to the successful traitor his two 

 regiments, as to the governorships of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 Tynemouth, and Berwick, which he then held, on condition 



