38 SPRING-TIDE. 



episode of blood and pillage in those strife- 

 ful clays is lost to remembrance. 



S. We may guess the fate of many a 

 happy and innocent family at that period, 

 abandoned to the rage and lust of an in- 

 furiate and licentious soldiery, whose charac- 

 ters may be inferred when we read of the 

 devices borne by their officers. One Mid- 

 dleton, a Parliament man, had for his 

 device an armed figure killing a bishop, 

 with the motto, " Exosus Deo et sanc- 

 tis, : ' and underneath "root and branch." 

 Langrish, another captain, bore a death's 

 head, with a bishop^s mitre, and " Mori 

 potius quam papatus." Nothing, however, 

 can exceed the impiety and indecency of 

 some of the Royalist captains, who adopted 

 devices and mottoes which can neither be 

 described nor written down. But come, 

 Simon waits for us below the bridge ; let 

 us see what sport we are to have this 

 fine morning. 



