Subscribed by Hugh Hurst, Matthew Brown, John Roper, William
Doegood, John Bishop, and thirty more of Commissary General Iretons
own Troop.
By William Panck, William Orpin, John Cantloe, and 33 more
of Captain Hutchinsons Troop in Commissary General Iretons Regiment.
By 33 of Captain Pritties Troop in the same Regiment. And
so likewise by John Wilkinson, Thomas Atkins, James Steel, and fourty
and one more of Colonel Scroops own Troop.
It were too prolix to set down the names of all the Subscribers,
the whole number of about 340.having either subscribed with their
own hands, or for dispatch sake, that it might be hasted to the General,
desired others to subscribe the same for them.
Munday, May 21.
This day the House received a Leuer from his Excellency the Lord General
from Oxford, of the surprizing of a party of Horse under the Command of Captain
Thompson in Northampton; the manner thus, Colonel Roynolds hearing
of Thompsons being in Northampton with this party, and of his scizing upon
the Magazine there, and of the Excise mony ; and also that he had gotten some
few of the inferior sort of the Town to joyn with him, promising them that he
would distribute all the Excise mony amongst them, and restore them to their
former Liberties. Colonel Roynolds thereupon sent out Major Butler with a sespect
parry of Horle to fall upon Thompson in his Quarters, he being removed
out of Northampton into a Village neer Wellingbrook, where all Thomsons
party were surprized ; Thompson himself escaped into a Wood neer adjoyning,
Major Butler having intelligence of it, beset the Wood, and sent a party into the
Wood, where they found Tomson wel mounted riding up to our party without asking
Quarter, discharged his pstals and there a Corner and fought valiantly for
a while, but Major Rulleys Corporal with a Carbine charged with seven bullets
gave Thompson his deaths wound. Thus the principal Ringleaders of these mutiniers
fell;and as he loved blood, so he dyed in the same.
This day also the House ordered that the Lord Commissioners of the great
Seal should islue out a Commission of Dyer and Terminer, under the great seal
of England, for the tryal such as are in custody in Oxfordshire and Northauptonshire.
An Act for the sale of all Ecglesustical promotions in the gift of the Crown,
great Seal, &c. which was twice read and committed.
The Act for aing the Account of the Souldiery in the Nation to be reported
Thursday next; The Act for the draining the great Level in Lincoln shire,
Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Ely, &c. read the third time, and past,
and a committee appointed to consider what loss particular persons have thereby
and what the advantage there of will be to the State; The Act for setling
the Milltia of the Hamblets afed unto four hundred pounds per annum sallery
allowed to Dr Gordon as Oversees of the Mint: