castle (if you hold to a mind to sell him), for my Son who has Dear Sir, I am a mind to him. 15 is come in. Your Friend, OLIVER CROMWELL. XXXIV. Red coats for the first time! My Correspondent gives the following annotation: "I remember, in Journal, mention of all the East men" (Association men) "wearing red coats, horse and foot, to distinguish them from the King's men; and it being used after by the whole Army. And I think it was after Marston Battle; - but the Journal was full of the rowes of the men, and corporals' cabals.” To Mr. Russell, at his Quarters, Bromley by Bow. Sir, [No date at all] '1644. I learn your Troop refuse the new Coats. Say this: Wear them, or go home. I stand no nonsense from any one. It is a needful thing we be as one in Colour; much ill having been from diversity of clothes, to slaying of friends by friends.' Sir, I pray you heed this. OLIVER CROMWELL. XXXV. Cornet or Auditor Squire, it would appear by my Correspondent's recollections of the lost Journal, was promoted to be Lieutenant for his conduct in Naseby Fight: "he afterwards got wounded in Wales or Cornwall; place named Turo, I think," undoubtedly at Truro in Cornwall, in the ensuing Autumn. Here, next Spring, 1645-6, while the Service is like to be lighter, he decides on quitting the Army altogether. To Lieutenant Squire, at his Quarters, Tavistock: These. - I am In reply to the Letter I got this morning from you, sorry you 'so' resolve; for I had gotten you your Commission as Captain from the Lord General, and waited only your coming to give it you. Think twice of this. For I intended your good; as I hope you know my mind thatwise. But so if you will, I will not hinder you. For, thanks be given to God, I trust now all will be well for this Nation; and an enduring Peace be, to God his glory and our prosperity. Now there is between you and me some reckoning. Now I hope to be in London, say in three weeks, if God speed me in this matter. Call at the Speaker's, and I will pay you all your due. Pray send me a List of the Items, for guide to me [for me to guide]. Let me know what I owe your Brother for the Wines he got me out of Spain to my mind. - Sir, let me once more wish you "would" think over your resolution, that I may serve you. Your Friend, OLIVER CROMWELL. Squire, in his idle moments, has executed on this sheet a rude drawing of a Pen and Sword; very rude indeed; with these words: "Ten to one the Feather beats the Iron:" that is Squire's endorsement on this his last remaining Letter from Oliver; indicating a nascent purpose, on the part of Squire, to quit the Army after all. With which nascent purpose, and last Letter, we should so gladly take our leave of him and his affairs; were it not that there still remain, from the burnt Journal, certain miscellaneous Scraps, transitory jottings of Lists and the like, copied by our Correspondent, which, though generally of the character of mere opaque ashes, may contain here and there some fragment of a burnt bone, once a hero's; and claim to be included in this which may be called the Funeral Urn of the Ironsides, what is left to us of them after the fire. These Scraps too, let us hastily shoot them in, therefore; and so end. Scrap 1. On a Slip of Paper in Squire's hand first, but ending with a line in Oliver's: Ely, this 12tb day of March 1643. Sick: M. Kearnes T. Allen Wounded: 4 horses want new shoes; 14 bridles want repairs [turns the leaf]; 4 greaves want repair. Paid for Hay for Horses 50 shillings. The rest all well. SAML. SQUIRE. My Correspondent says: "These Names are written on a Sheet of Paper, folded and marked, Troops," - probably, as my Correspondent guesses elsewhere, the names of the original Ironside Captains; well worth preserving indeed! Names written on a Paper marked "St. Neot's Troop." Wauton, V. (Valentine, young Russell, John Cromwell, Rd. (idle Richard!) Cromwell, Thos. Montague Halles, Ambrose Andres Scrap 4. On a Sheet in Squire's hand: The Names of those who joined us at Siege of Lynn, and came riding in full armed, and went into our second regiment; and who left us, many of them, after Marston Fight, on fancies of conscience, and turned Quackers (Quakers); and such like left us at Newmarket, and went home with the Eastmen's foot, to garrison Lynn and Yarmouth. Kinge, Philip Myleham, Henry Matthewman, Thomas Mason, Alwyn Mylum, Abraham C Medcalf, Leonard C Mayhew, Hezekiah Neave, Árm Downeing, Saml. Daynes, Danyel Eccles, Thomas (music) Elsegood, Zachary Ellis, John Fuller, Jacob Fydeman, John Fyncham, Saul Fenn, Aaron Goodwyn, Robert Gogney, Simon Greenwood, Japhet Hutcherson, Levi Howard, Timon Jeunes le, Jonathan S Neale, Jacques Northen, Christian Osborn, Zatthu Ransom, Icheil (or Jeheil) Rust, Rose, Selah Read, Price Stephen ["I suppose S and C means Sergeants and Corporals.” – Correspondent.] Allwurd Promise Cladius Batson Mathias Fox Paul Hales (or Halls) No. 2. Peter A. Money Pious Stone Julius Stannard Danl. Staffort Natl. Steele "To these names nothing farther is written, beyond names of their Troops. I have written them alphabetically from my List, which is not so arranged." (Note by my Correspondent.) |