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respective commanders , with other matters of equal importance . The following cases , which are recorded by Whitlock in his Memorials , may be mentioned to shew the confidence which was reposed in Peters bv the officers of the army and by the Parliament ; and also the zeal and activity which he manifested in the service of the party whose cause he had espoused :
Hugh Peters having been with the Earl of Warwick at the taking of Lynie , was dispatched by thafc noblefnan to London , to give an account of the whole business to the Parliament . *
At another time he was entrusted with letters by Sir Thomas Fairfax from Bridgwater , and brought to the Parliament the first news of the taking of that town . Gn this occasion he was
called into the House , where he made so clear a relation of the particulars respecting that event , that the House voted hiiii the sum of £ 100 . t Tn the tfameyear ( 1645 ) Peters was entrusted
with another embassy from Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Parliament ; when he was again called into the House , and gavetjhem a particular account of the siege of Bristol . At this time he stated the desire of Sir Thomas to
have some recruits sent him , and pressed upon the House the importance a ndi necessity of that measure . J In the month of March , in the same year , Hugh Peters was with the army in Cornwall , encouraging the men to be valiant , and do their duty ; and
when the business was concluded , Sir Thomas Fairfax dispatched him to London to report the result to the Parliament . The original letter , which was printed on the £ 4 th of March , by order of Cromwell ' s Parliament , is a curious document .
At another time letters were brought to the Parliament by Peters , from Lieutenant General Cromwell , concerning the taking of Winchester Castle , when being called into the House , he gave a particular relation
? Whitlock ^ Memorials , folio , London , 1732 , p . 92 . * t Id . p . 163 . Two letters from Bridge water relating-the news are now etftant * The one is dated July 22 , the other July 23 , 1645 , and both were printed by order of Parliament . t Whitlock , p . 171 .
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of the transactions connected with that event . For this service the House voted him £ 50 . * When the town of Dartmouth was taken by storm , in the beginning of this year , Peters was also sent to London to communicate
to the ruling powers the particulars relating to that event ; and we are told , that on this occasion he was also called before the Parliament , and that when he had given an account of the valour and affection of the army , he presented letters , papers , crucifixes , and * other Popish relics which had
been found in the town . f The first news of the taking of Dartmouth was sent by another individual , but on the following day Peters was dispatched to Town with further particulars . Both the original letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax , printed by order of Parliament , are now before me .
" It is plain / ' says Dr . Harris , in allusion to these circumstances , * ' that Peters must have been in favour with the generals , and that he must have made some considerable figure in the transactions of those times . " ±
1 his opinion may , however , in some measure be confirmed by the following relation : When the city of Worcester was besieged in the year 164 G , by the Parliament forces , and the governor had consented to deliver up the town , upon condition that p isses
were given to the soldiers , and to the principal inhabitants , Hugh Peters was the person who was entrusted with that commission . Mr . Habingdon , who wrote a very particular account of this siege , § relates , that on the 23 rd of July 1646 , many gentlemen went to six o ' clock prayers , at
the college in Worcester , to take their last farewell of theChurch-of-Englan < J service , the organs having been taken down three days before ; and that at ten o ' clock in the morning the several regiments marched forth to Rainbowhill , and all the gentlemen with the baggage ; and that at one o ' clock
* Whitlock , p . 175 . f Ibid . p . 189 , J Historical and Critical Account , p . xiii . ^ This g-entleman resided at Heulip House , within four miles of Worcester , and must have written the account at the timey as he died the year tofter the siege , at the ag * e of 87 . See p . 1 . of Dr . ' Nasirs Introduction to his Collections for the History of Worcestershire .
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The Nonconformist . No . XI \ . 531
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/7/
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