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of New-Castle with all most 200 horse was quartered in the 

 towne, and kept watch day and night upon the bound^^ roade 

 a mile or 2 out of towne. 



When the king was at Yorke, the Scotts were suspected 

 to have a plot to surprise Barwick ; soe the earle of Essex, 

 with Sir Jacob Ashley, went speedily downe, and tooke the 

 trained men of the bishoprick, and a regiment of Yorke-shire 

 men, under the command of Sir Charles Vavisour and Sir 

 Wm. Pennyman, and put them into the towne and left Evneley^^ 

 commander over both regiments, lieutenant-colonell to Sir 

 Jacob Ashley. 



The Scotts abjured any such designe intending ever (as they 

 alleadged) noething but their owne defence. 



All theise souldioars in the towne, and the army fast by, 

 inhaunced the price of meate exceedingly, yet there were 12c?. 

 and I8d. ordinaries at first, where was reasonable good pro- 

 vision, but after a little while so much company frequented 

 them, and they were soe sharkd ■^^' upon, they were forced to 

 lay theme downe : and I was constrained to dyett with my 

 landlord at the rate of 9c?. per meale. His name was Burges, 

 a dyer : hee and his wife were very pure, and in their 

 discourse would ever Justifie the Scotts. I believe hee was 

 of their covenant, and soe were most of the toWne, though 

 they durst not openly shew it, there beeing noe reproach 

 soe shamefull as to call them Covenanters. 



They have two preachers in their towne, Mr Dury,^" a 

 Scottshman, and Mr Jemmet,-*^ an Englishman. Mr Dury, 

 by preaching obedience to the higher powers since the 

 beginning of the troubles, had soe irritated his friends and 

 countreymen, that he durst not goe amongst them ; and hee 

 was generally hated in towne, and rebuked as one that 

 sought after a bishoprick, which they abhorred. 



^ Cf. p. 103, post, note 63. 



*^ Sir Michael Ernie. 



^® Shark = to fawn npon for a dinner. Ogilvie's Dictionary. 



*^ Gilbert Dury, vicar of Berwick, 1613, died 1662. 



^^ John Jemmet a native of Reading, Lecturer of Berwick, 1637-1641 ; 

 afterwards vicar of St. Giles, London. He married at Berwick 

 11th Jane 1639 Eliza Barton. Of. Scott, Berwick, p. 336. 

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