Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

elected, and a hope the Scotsh would submitt, the king beeing soe
farre advanced towards them, and then his purse might bee spared,
and none entertained into pay, save onely the principall officers of
the feild, whose owne estates might beare the chardge of the journey
to Yorke. And had the Scots then come in I beleive none but Sir
Jacob Ashley,*^ sergeant major generall, and those common foote
souldiours and troupes of horse (which were not many) should have
received pay for theire march to Yorke.
In Yorke citty was billited none save onely the king's servants
and their retinue, which was done to avoyd disorder which common
souldiours are apt to occasion in great townes where there is such
meanes to licentiousnesse, and to ingratiate with the peojsle by
delivering them from the wicked debauchery of such guests.
The horse were quarterd at Selbie upon Ouse, some 10 miles
distant from Yorke, and the foote in the adjacent villages, and some
of them intermixt with the horse, which bred some disorders and
quarrells (yet without bloud-shed), there beeing ever an semulation
betweene the horse and foote for presedency, and therefore not to
bee quartered together, the auncient dispute still reviving, especially
in their distemper with wine, the foote then not contented that
common opinion should bee theire umpire.
[April] 22. About the 22nd I sent Woollet and the black stoned
horse home when I found the chardge of soe many servants burdensome,
and the humor of the king's servants not to answere the report
of that profuse gallantry and equipage they were divulged^ to carry :
besides the expedition, for ought men could then discover, was likely
to bee tadious having the ambition of the bishops to foment the
quarrell, beeing so zealous in their revenge that episcopacie was
rejected in Scotland, as James and John were that theire Lord and
Master was not admitted into the village of the Samaritans ; and as
if the banishment of bishops out of Scotland had beene oequivalent
to the rejection of our Saviour, there was noething now with them
but forthwith to command fire and sword downe from heaven and
consume them, but 'twas happy they were rebuked with Yee know
not what manner of spirritt yee are of.
About this time the king went to Selby to veiw his horse in
battell aray, and they were then (as was reported) about 700 at that
village. At the same time, after the king's departure, there happened
a fatall disaster to one Mr. Dawney,!^ heire to 1,000/. per
» Sir Jacob Astley, knighted 17th July, 1624.
"
Divulge = to proclaim publicly. Cf. Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor,
III. ii. : 'I will divulge Page himself, for a severe and wilful Acteon.'
" Thomas Dawney, eldest son of John Dawney (who was buried at Snaith,
19th April, 1639, in the lifetime of his father), and grandson and heir apparent
of Sir Thomas Dawney of Sessay, knight, who died in 1641. He was baptized
at Snaith, 15th December, 1616, and was buried there 19th April, 16.39.
His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsborougli.
Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed. Clay, vol. ii., p. 334.