Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"After they had both alighted & secured their horses, & walked some
small way into the wood, Lindsey began to turn pale, & to be seiz'd
with horrour, from some unknown cause; upon wch Cromwell askt him how
he did, or how he felt himself. He answered, that he was in such a
trembling & consternation that he never felt y^e like in all y^e
conflicts and battles he had been engaged in: But wether it proceeded
from the gloomyness of y^e place, or y^e temperament of his body, he
knew not. 'How now?' said Cromwell. 'What! trowbled with vapours? Come
forward, man.' They had not gon above 20 yards before Lindsey on a
sudden stood still and cry'd out, by all that's good he was seized with
such unaccountable terrours & astonishment that it was impossible for
him to stir one step further. Upon which Cromwell call'd him
faint-hearted fool, & bid him stand there & observe or be witness: and
then advancing to some distance from him, he met with a grave elderly
man, with a roll of parchment in his hand, who deliver'd it to
Cromwell, who eagerly perused it. Lindsey, a little recover'd from his
fear, heard severall loud words betwixt them: particularly Cromwell
said, 'This is but for seven year. I was to have it for 21, and it must
and shall be so.' The other told him positively it could not be for
above seven; upon which Cromwell cry'd with a great fierceness, it shd
be, however, for 14 year; but the other person plorily declared it
could not possibly be for any longer time: and if he woud not take it
so, there was others that woud accept of it: Upon which Cromwell at
last took y^e parchment, and returning to Lindsey with great joy in his
countenance, he cry'd, 'Now, Lindsey, the battle's our own: I long to
be engag'd.' Returning out of the wood, they rode to y^e army. Cromwell
with a resolution to engage as soon as possible, & y^e other with a
design of leaving y^e army as soon. After y^e first charge Lindsey
deserted his post, and rode away with all possible speed, day and
night, till he came into y^e county of Norfolk, to y^e house of an
intimate friend, and minister of that parish: Cromwell, as soon as he
mist him, sent all ways after him, with a promise of a great reward to
any that w'd bring him alive or dead.
"Thus far y^e narrative of Lindsey himself; but something further is to
be remembered to complete & confirm y^e story.
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