Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... notes. abbreviatioss. L. J. Lords' Journals. C. J. Commons' Journals. C. R. Corporation Records. S. A. Stewards' and Treasurers' Accounts. Notk I. Life of Baxter, Part I. pp. 30. 31. Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, p. 81. 4to. Sanderson. Reign of King Charles, p. 543. 2. Fosbrooke. History of Gloucester, pp. 63. 64. There had also been a dispute between the city and'county about the same levy, as appears by this entry in the accounts of the city: "Item payd Mr. John Price for three gallons of wine that was-v "sente to the lord bysshoppe when the busmesse was in the hearing I "about the levy of the ship money betwixt the city and the county, f o g "Mr. Maior and divers of the comon counsell being at the pallacej "at dynner same time." Corporation Records, ms. a. 1635-1636. Temp. Will. Hill et Joh. Brown. The bishop was Dr. Goodman: he seems to have been always upon good terms with them; and kept up some communication with Gloucester many years after his ejection; for in a letter to the corporation, so late as in 1649, he compliments them upon their defence of the city against the king. ms. Furney. 3 C. R. ms. vol. Y. 4. f. 5. to 30 inclusive. "A booke for entering of "letters sent from the lords of the councelland lord lieutenant." The first letters upon this subject are dated in March 1040, from the Earl of Northampton, addressed to the mayor and the rest of the deputv lieutenants, ordering fifteen hundred men to be levied out of the trained bands for the defence of the kingdom, which, with fifty strong and able horses for the train of artillery and seventeen carters, are to be ready at Newcastle upon Tyne, on the fifteenth of June ensuing. The men are to be exercised weekly in companies of a hundred, "with false ffier or noe..."
