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14 To Me Howry Illingwood 30. to Me)

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Size of original, 7 in. by 113 in.
Thoresby Society's Miscellanea, Vol. xi, Part ii, p. 147.

28.

To Major Abbott for Charges in going post to
the Isle of Wight

...

...

17. To Mr. Henry Collingwood 30s to Mr. Wm
Hobson 20s to English Tirrell 26s 6d ob. &
to Mr. Rushworth for sevrall disbursements
£8
To Major General Lambert for Contingencies.
in the North ...

31.

...

400 00 00 45 IO 00 100 00 00

To Mr. Cadwell for severall disbursements
To Mr. Rushworth for severall disbursements
To Mr. Wealey etc. for spetiall service...
To Lt. Coll. Shambrooke for the Tower
[To the Agitators towards their charges at Putney 096 00 00]

Ex. E. Grosvener.

200

005 00 00 00 00

According to your Excellencies order of the 24th of June wee have perused this Account, and Mr. Clarke hath produced before us the severall warrants under your Excellencies hand for the Respective somes heerin specified and the Receipts theruppon which wee submitt unto your Excellency for approbacon & Allowance therof.

24.

E. Grosvener. 'Jo. Barkstead.

Jo. Rushworth.

An Account for monyes laid out for Contingencyes from

Dec. 28 to Feb. 1, 1646.

To Richard Hare for the use of the prisoners

To Mr. Brett the Trumpeter for summoning
Ragland & severall other Messages

29. To Capt. Wykes for severall particulars as by

his Bill

30. To Beniamin Ridley for severall journeys as by his bill...

To Mr. Tarrant for severall Messages by his
man as by bill

1 Governor of the Tower.

2 Marshall-general of foot.

January 1646.

2. To Jacob Hanaky for goeing severall Journyes More to him for the 6 waggon horses at 4d ye

night for 14 nights from Dec. 28

...

7. To 'Capt: Lawrence Marshall Generall for charges in apprhending "Col. Graves men in Lincolnshire & severall Journeys about it... To Mr. Tarrant for Journeys of his man as by bill 16. To Beniamin Ridley for the 6 waggon horses at 4d a night-14 nights from Jan. 2 and 2 & 6d for a bushell & a peck of oates

12.

Jan. 20.

...

Jo. Barkstead.

E. Grosvener.

...

Given by his Excellencies Command to one for
shewing the workes at Northhampton
To a Messenger that roade post from
Stamford to Northhampton with an extra.
packett from Yorke to his Excellencie...
For writing of 14 of the large orders for
payment of Quarters sent to severall
regts and Committees [?]

Jan. 21.

...

...

...

23. To Mary Dunham a poore woman whoe had
her grounds overflowed in Lincolnshire
To Mr. John Rushworth for his extra charges
in goeing to Yorke Newcastle etc....
To Wm Milles a souldyer in Maior Genrall
Skippons regt. to carry him to his colors ...
26. To a Messenger that went to Stamford for the
Yorke lettres by the post

...

...

...

27. To Andrew Allen a souldyer in Col. Herbert's regt left sick behind his colors

...

To Mary Popeley whoe was plundred in Ireland.

and her children slaine by the Rebells

06

000

...

ΟΙ 00 00

1 Marshall-general of Horse.

2 An adherent of the Presbyterians, and in command at Holmby House, where in Dec., 1646, the Commons voted that Charles should be sent.

3 Major-general of the New Model and chief adviser of Fairfax. In Dec., 1646, Skippon was made Governor of Newcastle, and in April, 1647, he was appointed to command the intended expedition to Ireland. He tried to mediate in the struggle between Parliament and the army.

30.

20.

SOME CIVIL WAR ACCOUNTS.

To John Wolstone Constable for buriall of one
of Col. Herbert's [regt] souldyers
To Mr. Mosse for extra service...

...

...

...

...

28

E. Grosvener.

Jo. Barkstead.

Feb. 1646.

Feb. 3.

II.

IO.

18.

To severall guides for his Excellencie from
Northhampton three severall daies march

...

for 'Pyoneers
for Anne Wallis a poore widdow of Nottingham
To Mr. Millard for charges for Maior Genrall
Masseyes horse that were bought at the
Devizes as by his Bill

To Beniamin Barnes one of Marshall Genrall
Lawrence his men for extra charges in
Sussex Essex Kent etc.

16. To Blisse a Troop in Maior Genrall Shippon's
troope whoe had his horse taken from him
by Mr. Norton a Receiver of the King's
Revenue in Nottinghamshire
To Mr. Bret the Trumpeter for goeing from
Northampton to Yeelding in Bedfordshire...
To Anne Strange a poore woman in Sutton
Bonnyngton whoe had her horse taken from
her by one Spence in Capt. Bethells troope
To the widdow Alsupp by the Generalls
command

chesters army ........

...

...

00 05 00

1 The Pioneers marched before or with the army with spades, etc., to clear the way or dig entrenchments. Fortescue (History of the British Army, I, p. 219) says they were in the seventeenth century the scum of the army, and degradation to be an abject pioneer was the regular punishment for hardened offenders.

2 In the early part of the Civil War, Massey played an important part in the campaign in the West. In Oct., 1646, his troops were disbanded by order of the House. He was a staunch Presbyterian and one of the leaders of the city against the army. In June, 1647, he was impeached for designing to raise a new civil war, and fled to Holland. In 1649 he took service under the king.

3 Given the command of the army of the Eastern Association by Parliament in 1643. He did useful service early in the war, but soon became fatally lethargic and half-hearted in its prosecution. Cromwell accused him before the House of neglect and incompetence, and in April, 1645, the day before the passing of the Self Denying Ordinance (forbidding members of either House to serve in the army), he resigned his commission,

20.

25.

To Mr. Sharpe for extra service in the Army
by the Generalls special Command
To Mr. Richardson for goeing from Leicester to
Yorke with lettres to the lord Fairfax after
Naseby & soe to London and thence to
Bridgewater 370 miles

...

...

To Mary Tullye Maior Tullyes wife whose
husband was slaine in Ireland
To Mr. Margaretts which he disburst in pen
Inke & paper for the Counsell of Warre ...
To the Postmaster of Stamford for the lost
packet of lettres to Northampton

E. Grosvener.

...

Jo. Barkstead.

March 1646.

8. To a guide from Huntington to Cambridge For Paper upon the march

II.

...

...

To Mr. Curteis the Messenger for severall
Messages as by his bill

To Edward Wattes the Messenger for severall
Journeys as by bill ...

00 ΟΙ 00

To Mr. Tarrant the Messenger for severall
Journeys [Messages] as by bill

15. To Anne Roberts a woman whose husband was
slaine in Ireland

17.

19.

To Capt. Evans by his Excellencies Command
Given at Cambridge by his Excellencies Command
To David Arther one of the Marshall Generalls
men for his extra charges in goeing downe
to Newcastle ...

5.

To a guide for the Generall from Nottingham
to Melton Mowbray

To one from Malton to Stamfort

6. To one from Stamfort to Huntington

19.

To one from Cambridge to Walden

To Mr. Cadwell the Messenger for severall
Journeys and his daily pay from the first of
Jan. to the 25 March as by bill

1 Battle of Naseby, June 14th, 1645.