296 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Srr,— Your motion to Treason I have seen, and detest it; it is below my 
spirit for personal injury (supposed only by an enemy) to take national 
revenge, and for a Punctillio of honour to take advice from Hell, and betray 
my trust. Jam sorry that one so ingenious as your selfe should abuse your 
natural parts only to do mischief. Yet I have no reason to wonder much at 
your persuasion to treacherie, because I have had the experience of the 
indeavours of your Family to corrupt others also. I remember: the 
Gunpowder Plot, * the letter which your brother writ to the Lord Roberts 
in this place for the same purpose; and his Negotiation with General 
Brown at Abington. Surely these Principles came from Spain; but you 
should have told me also that Spanish proverb, To love the Treason; and 
hate the Traytor, &c. Your assured servant, 
20 Dec. JAMES KER. 
The work of strengthening the defences still continued. So late 
as December we find the platforms on the earthworks kept efficient ; 
and even in the following month there was a payment of £42 
19s, 2d. for building a new guard-house and repairing the town 
wall at Frankfort. 
After this period of quiescence the first move was made by the 
garrison resuming the offensive. The besiegers had a small redoubt 
at Kinterbury. This was assailed—I suspect by water as well as 
by land; for there was nothing to prevent boats being sent up 
Hamoaze—and easily taken, with 17 prisoners and store of arms 
and ammunition. From Kinterbury the Roundheads marched to 
St. Budeaux, where the church and tower had again been turned 
into a garrison. After an hour and a half’s hard fighting, the church 
was captured, and in it Major Stucley, 20 other officers, and 100 
soldiers.| Another account puts the number of prisoners at 92, 
and adds that 55 horses with arms and ammunition likewise fell 
into the hands of the victors.{ Ten of the defenders were killed, 
and nine of the Roundheads, including Major Haynes, the officer 
of highest rank slain, so far as we know, on the side of the besieged 
during the whole of the operations. 
And here arises a curious point. All the printed authorities 
agree that the captures of Kinterbury and St. Budeaux took place 
in January. On the faith of the records of the Committee it was 
clearly in December; and I can only account for the discrepancy 
by the assumption that the news reached London in the following 
month, and was by accident attributed to the latter date. There is 
* Sir Everard Digby was one of the conspirators. 
+ Vicars’s “ Parliamentary Chronicle,” vol. iv. pp. 340-1. 
~ WuHITELOOK, p. 193. 
