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" Army," directing him to repair to head-quarters, and Colonel Eure to
secure the person of the King (using force if necessary), and to bring the
over the water.
King
Colonel Hammond says that he recognises the authority of the Generals
over him, but he felt that " to the matter of their directions I ought not to
" give obedience to any save the Parliament alone, who had entrusted me,
" and alone had power to do so." He had, therefore, resolved to go to
head-quarters, Colonel Eure accompanying him ;
and in the meantime
acquainted the Speaker " that you may take such further order, in
" of so high concernment, as to your wisdom shall seem best."
The House ordered a letter to the General, acquainting
an affair
him that his
orders and instructions to Colonel Eure were contrary to their resolutions
him to recall the
and instructions given to Colonel Hammond, directing
said orders, and set Colonel Hammond at liberty to return to his charge
in the Isle of Wight. But Cromwell and the Generals paid
little attention
to the Parliamentary order indeed, the plan was carried out before Parliament
could interfere.*
Mr. Davenport Adams, in his White King (vol. i. p. 81), says, quoting
from Cooke's Narrative, that Hammond left three officers, Major Rolfe,
Captain Bowerman, and Captain Hawes, strictly enjoining them to prevent
the King's removal ;
but that in his absence Colonel Cobbett arrived with
a strong body of horse and foot, which so alarmed Colonel Cooke that he
appealed to Rolfe as to their intentions, who professed ignorance, then
to Bowerman, who said that he was no better than a prisoner in his own
that he
garrison, who had already threatened him with death, and that all
could do was to obtain the removal of extra sentinels in the King's very
chamber-door, who was almost suffocated with the smoke of their matches.
Sir Thomas Herbert, who lies buried under the site of St. Crux Church,
in his Memoirs of the last Two Years of the Reign of Charles /., probably
knowing nothing of all this, gives a touching account of the manner in which
it was accomplished. He says that a Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbett came to
Newport with a commanded party of horse, with orders to apprehend
Hammond as " "
too much of a courtier ; but that " he, being premonished,
" evaded
" him, though very narrowly
; and that Cobbett " made an abrupt
" address to the King, letting him know that he had orders to remove him
" from Newport." Herbert gives a graphic account of the poor King's
bewildered reluctance to submit, specially
as Colonel Cobbett declined to
give his authority, or to state "the place he was to remove the King unto."
At length he submitted, and, after a sorrowful parting with the Duke
of Richmond, Lord Hertford, and other members of his Court, entered a
coach with Mr. Mildmay, Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Harrington, though when
* Clarendon's History, vol. iii.
p. 182.