{12} Sir George Strangways, Bart., according to the marginal note in the original. Another of the name, Sir John Strangways, was taken at the surrender of Sherborne Castle. {13} Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., of Norfolk; Sir Walter Blount, Bart., of Worcester; and Sir Francis Howard, Bart., of the North, were committed to the Tower on the 22nd of January, 1646. {14} The horrible barbarities committed by the Irish rebels had made the Catholics so much abhorred in England, that every English member of that community was suspected of plotting the same massacres in England.—T. W. {15} Sir John Hewet, of Huntingdonshire, was committed to the Tower on the 28th of January, 1645(–6). {16} Sir Thomas Lunsford, Bart., the celebrated Royalist officer, was committed to the Tower on the 22nd of January, 1646. The violence and barbarities which he and his troop were said to have perpetrated led to the popular belief that he was in the habit of eating children. From Fielding and from Vavasour, Both ill-affected men; From Lunsford eke dilver us, That eateth up children. Loyal Songs, ed. 1731, i. 38. T. W. {17} Sir William Lewis, one of the eleven members who had been impeached by the army. {18} Col. Giles Strangwaies, of Dorsetshire, taken with Sir Lewis Dives, at the surrender of Sherborne, was committed to the Tower on the 28th August, 1645. He was member for Bridport in the Long Parliament, and was one of those who attended Charles’s “Mongrel” Parliament at Oxford. {19} Sir Lewis Dives, an active Royalist, was governor of Sherborne Castle for the King, and had been made a prisoner by Fairfax in August, 1645, when that fortress was taken by storm. He was brother-in-law to Lord Digby. {20} Sir John Morley, of Newcastle, committed to the Tower on the 18th of July, 1645. {21} King was a Royalist general, in the north, who was slain July, 1643. {22} Sir William Morton, of Gloucestershire, committed to the Tower on the 17th August, 1644. Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, brought about the marriage between King Henry VII. and the daughter of Edward IV., and thus effected the unison of the rival houses of York and Lancaster. {23} Thomas Coningsby, Esq., of Northmyus in Hertfordshire, committed to the Tower in November, 1642, for reading the King’s commission of array in that county. {24} Sir Wingfield Bodenham, of the county of Rutland, committed to the Tower on the 31st of July, 1643. {25} Sir Henry Vaughan, a Welsh knight, committed to the Tower on the 18th July, 1645.