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citadel or accede to his demands, and he was obliged
to retire. Archbishop Williams had by this time taken
up his abode at Cawood Castle, one of the residences
attached to the see. Shortly after the king's abortive
attempt to obtain possession of Hull, warning was
given to the Archbishop, late one night, by Ur. Feme,
that the younger Hotham had laid plans for attacking
the Castle, and had vowed to take his grace's life in
revenge for the language he was said to have used
with reference to his father and himself and the refusal
of the former to admit the king within the gates of
Hull. Cawood was not provisioned for a siege, it was
in bad repair and althogether incapable of defence.
The Archbishop thought discretion the better part of
valour, hastily gathered some of his baggage together,
and, guarded by a few horsemen, was out of the place
before midnight. He fled into Wales, as to a temporary
refuge, " until," as his biographer Hacket might
have applied the words, " this tyranny were overpast"
But he never saw his diocese more.^ He died at
Glothaeth, in Carnarvonshire, on the 25th March.
1650, and was buried at Llandegay, near Bangor.
To attempt any account of the great civil war which
was now imminent, is beyond the province of this
work, and would be inconsistent with its object and
limits, although York, and the great county of which
it is the capital, had no unimportant share in its history.
Most of the great houses of Yorkshire's nobility
and gentry, with a few exceptions, were on the side of
the king. Many of the vtoyeti gentry, especially those
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Racket's "Life of Archbishop Williams," part ii. pp.
186, 187.