Desiderata curiosa = or A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history ... . led, fled to Woodcroft-houfe in theparilh of Hclpefton [reHius Ettoit] about feven miles diftantfrom Stanford, where Hudfon wasbarbaroudy killed, on the 6. of JuneM,DC,XLVIII. ihe manner briefly thus. * 6. After the rebels had cntred into the houfe, & had taken mofl: of the royaliflis, Hudfon,.with fome of his courageous foldiers, went up to the battlements thereof, they defendedthemfclvcs for fome time. At length, upon promife cf quarter, they yielded; but, when
Desiderata curiosa = or A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history ... . led, fled to Woodcroft-houfe in theparilh of Hclpefton [reHius Ettoit] about feven miles diftantfrom Stanford, where Hudfon wasbarbaroudy killed, on the 6. of JuneM,DC,XLVIII. ihe manner briefly thus. * 6. After the rebels had cntred into the houfe, & had taken mofl: of the royaliflis, Hudfon,.with fome of his courageous foldiers, went up to the battlements thereof, they defendedthemfclvcs for fome time. At length, upon promife cf quarter, they yielded; but, when therebels got in among them, they denied to make it good. Whereupon Hudfon, being thrownover the battlements, iiold of a fpoutor outftone, and there hung ; but, his hands beingbrat or cut off, he rdl into the moat underneath, much wounded, 8: defircd to come on land todie there. Whereupon one Lgborough (fervant to Mr. Spinks, the intruder into the parfon-agc of Caflor, belonging to the Bp. ot Peterborough) knocked him on the head, with the but- J. Memoirs, p. 6^4, 3. , Vol. II. col. 114, * end TN 11. il Lib. IX. D E S I D E R A T A C U R I O S A. J79 end of his mufket. Which being done, one Walker a chandler or grocer in Stanford, cut * out his tongue and carried it about the country, as a trophy. His body, for the prefcnt, was denied burial; yet, after the enemy had left that place, he was, by fome Chriftians, com- « mitccd to tiie earth. 7. Mr Lloyd relates the particulars of Dr. Hudfons death thus. * Being thrown down, * when his head was cloven alunder, into a mote, he caught hold of a fpout, to fave himfelf * as he was falling, & a halbtrtier cut off his fingers j as others (now he was fallen into the * water, fwimming with one half of his head over his eyes, and begging to die at land) knocked * him on the head ; cutting off his tongue & teeth, and carrying them about the country (as * trophies of their own fliame and his immortal honour.) Dr. Hudlon (be
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