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Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



Shrewsbury, lord Monport, Sir Vincent Corbett, sir H. Thin,* sir Tho. Hares 

 &c. Midland counties, lord Will. Parham, [Willoughby, of Parham] sir William 

 Compton, sir Robert Willis, sir Thomas Littleton, sir M. Hubevairt, sir Richard 

 Payne, sent over to them, sir Thomas Mackworth, earle of Oxford, earleof 

 Northampton,. County of Worcester, Coventrie, Sam. Sands, Packington, sir 

 Talbot Hendring, Touthet, Counts [indecipherable], &o. 



Kent, lord Tufton, sir James Peyton, Thornill, sir Ja, Many Brochman, 

 Washington, Judge Heath's sonn,s, Hales, and scarce one out. 



Cressett r m f s of Armourer, mr. Philips of Willmott, you must be in appre- 

 hending as n m y In st mr. Davison T forgott, and let all be mentioned in the 

 seisure ; burn all for a good reason, which for my oath I cannot tell you. 



There is one Fowle in Feversham, the searcher at Devon, corresponding with 

 captain Pain at Bolein [Boulogne], conveys your enemyes to and fro. 



Letters are sent often in covers to mr. Booth, at Calais, mr. Boove in Zealand, 

 Shannes and Hawkes here." 



Plenty of danger to my Lord Protector here. Many of those men- 

 tioned in the above letter were arrested, including Lord Willoughby, 

 but Wilmot (Earl of Rochester) escaped, as was his wont. 



And one other — the most interesting of all in conclusion — Some 

 notes of Thurloe's on the Rising, and his reasons for advising the 

 appointment of the Major- Generals : — 



" Secretary Thurloe's memorandums of the plot in March 165g 5 , and reasons 

 for erecting a new standing militia in all the counties of England, f 



Their designe was a generall insurrection through the whole land at once for 

 destroying the present power, and to restore againe the late kinge's sonne. 



To effect this, 



1. They excuse to their Kinge, that they came not into hym at his march to 

 Worcester. 



2. They settle a counsell here, and appoint agents, who might sollicit all their 

 partye, and acquaint them with their motions ; and soe ordered it, that all 

 might knowe, and yet never above 2 of them speake together. 



3 . They raise and collect severall great summes of money, as well for the 

 maintenance of C. S., [Charles Stewart] as carryeinge on the warre, and letters of 

 privy seale were sent, &c. 



4. They buy and provide great stoare of armes ; some were layd up in a 

 magazine here, and others sent up and downe in the countrye. 



5. They labour to divide the armye, and to bio we up the discontent of all 

 parties ; wherein they imploy notable instruments, which doe their worke soe 

 well, that a great part of the army should have mutinyedin Scotland, and beene 



* Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire,whose wife is mentioned above with 

 Lady Shannon. He was the father of Sir Thomas Thynne, the first Baron Thynne of Warminster 

 and Viscount Weymouth, who succeded to Longleat on the murder of his relative " Tom of the 

 ten thousand," 



t 4 Th., p. 132, November, 1655. 



