of pistols, and other arms: I hear, above fifty cases of pistols. The Colonel stayed there Tuesday and Wednesday night. I think Sir John Palgrave and Mr. Smith went yesterday to Berks. It is rumoured Sir Robert Kemp had yielded to Sir John Palgrave; how true it is I know not, for I spoke not Sir John yesterday as he came through Town. I did your message to Captain Sherwood. Not to trouble you further, I crave leave; and am ever your Worship’s at command, John Cory.
‘Postscriptum, 20th March 1642.—Right worthy Sir, The abovesaid, on Friday, was unhappily left behind; for which I am sorry; as also that I utterly forgot to send your plate. On Friday night the Colonel brought in hither with him the prisoners taken at Lowestoff, and Mr. Trott of Beccles. On Saturday night, with one troop, they sent all the prisoners to Cambridge. Sir John Wentworth is come off with the payment of 1000l. On Saturday, Dr. Corbett of Norwich, and Mr. Henry Cooke[1] the Parliament-man, and our old “Alderman” Daniell were taken in Suffolk. Last night, several troops went out; some to Lynn-ward, it’s thought; others to Thetford-ward, it’s supposed,—because they had a prisoner with them. Sir, I am in great haste, and remember nothing else at present. John Cory.’
Cory still adds: ‘Sir Richard Berney sent to me, last night, and showed and gave me the Colonel’s Note to testify he had paid him the 50l.’—a forced contribution levied by the Association Committee upon poor Berney, who had shown himself ‘backward’: let him be quiet henceforth, and study to conform.
This was the last attempt at Royalism in the Association
- ↑ Corbett is or was ‘Chancellor of Norwich Diocese’; Henry Cooke is Son of Coke upon Lyttleton,—has left his place in Parliament, and got into dangerous courses.
