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advanced towards them, and then his purse might bee spared, 

 and none entertained into pay, save onely the principall officers 

 of the feild, whose owne estates might beare the chardge of 

 the journey to Yorke. And had the Scots then come in I 

 beleive none but Sir Jacob Ashley,^ sergeant major generall, 

 and those common foote souldiours and troupes of horse (which 

 were not many) should have received pay for theire march 

 to Yorke. 



In Yorke citty was billited none save onely the king's servants 

 and their retinue, which was done to avoyd disorder which 

 common souldiours are apt to occasion in great townes where 

 there is such meanes to licentiousnesse, and to ingratiate with 

 the people by delivering them from the wicked debauchery of 

 such guests. 



The horse were quarterd at Selbie upon Ouse, some 10 miles 

 distant from Yorke ; and the foote in the adjacent villages, 

 and some of them intermixt with the horse, which bred some 

 disorders and quarrells (yet without bloud-shed) there beeing 

 ever an senmlation betweene the horse and foote for presedency, 

 and therefore not to bee quartered together, the auncient 

 dispute still reviving, especially in their distemper with wine, 

 the foote then not contented that common opinion should bee 

 theire umpire. 



[April] 22. About the 22nd I sent Woollet and the black 

 stoned horse home when I found the chardge of soe many 

 servants burdensome, and the humor of the king's servants 

 not to answere the report of that profuse gallantry and equipage 

 they were divulged -' to carry : besides the expedition, for ought 

 men could then discover, was likely to bee tadious having the 

 ambition of the bishops to foment the quarrell, beeing so zealous 

 in their revenge that episcopacie was rejected in Scotland, as 

 James and John were that theire Lord and Master was not 

 admitted into the village of the Samaritans ; and as if the 

 banishment of bishops out of Scotland had beene oequivalent 



« I.e. Sir Jacob Astley, knighted I7th July 162<i. 



^ Divalge = to proclaim publicly. Of. Shakespeare, Merrxj Wives of 

 Windsor, ni., ii. : " I will divulge Page himself, for a severe and wilful 

 Acteon." 



