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III. Statement by An Opponent of Cromwell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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About the middle of December, now allmost two yeares sine, the now Leiuetenant-Generall Cromwell being then captaine of a troope of horse under the command of the Earle of Essex, and 1 well knowinge that he had some part of his estate lyinge in the lie of Ely, and a good part of my owne estate lying in the same He, and I well understood the dayly approch of the enimie upon our bordering counteys, and that the enimie and many of the inhabitants did plott to take that He for theire quarters, and soe to annoy all the adjacent counteys that bounde upon the sayd Ile.
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- Camden New Series , Volume 12: The Quarrel Between the Earl of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell: An Episode of the English Civil War , December 1875 , pp. 71 - 77
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- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1875
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page 072 note a Originally written “peopell,” and altered by another hand.
page 072 note b An officer very much thought of by Cromwell. He was afterwards made an Admiral, but, being discarded by the nayy, he returned to his command of foot, and was shortly after killed at Doncaster by a party from Pontefract who had intended to make him a prisoner.—G.C
page 075 note a Sic.
page 076 note a Whalley.
page 076 note b ? foot— G.C.
page 076 note c This amusing observation probably has much truth in it. The feeling between Presbyterians and Independents was, at this time, yery bitter.—G.C.