Identifier: lifeofcolonelhut00hutc (find matches)
Title: Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham castle and town ... with original anecdotes of many of the most distinguished of his contemporaries, and a summary review of public affairs:
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Hutchinson, Lucy, b. 1620 Hutchinson, Julius
Subjects: Hutchinson, John, 1615-1664
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by T. Bensley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ne, l643, receivd an order for that government fromSr. John Meldrum and the whole committee; whereunto CollonellPierrepont subscribd, tliough Avith a secret discontent in his heart,not for any ill opinion or ill affection he had to Mr. Hutchinsonsperson, but for that he resented it as a greate affront that himselfewas past by. It is true that this discontent producd some enviousand malitious practises, secretly in him, against Mr. Hutchinson,who in the end overcame him, with so many good offices, in re-quitall of his bad ones, that he lived and died full of love, andacknowledoment of kindnesse to him. The castle was built upon a rock, and nature had made it ca-pable of very strong fortification, but the buildings Avere very ruinousand unhabitable, neither affording roome to lodge souldiers norprovisions. The castle stands at one end of the toAvne upon suchan eminence as connnands the chiefe streetes of the toAvne. Therehad bene enlargements made to this castle after the first building
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\ \: 133 of it/ There was a strong tower, which they callcl the old tower,built upon the top of all the rock, and this was that place whereQueene Isabell, the mother of King Edward the Third, was sur-prizd with her paramour Mortimer, who by secret windings andholloAvs in the rock came up into her chamber from the meadowslying low under it, through which there ranne a litlle rivolelt, calldthe Line, almost under the castle rock. At the entrance of thisrock there was a spring, Avhich was calld Mortimers Well, and thecaverne Mortimers Hole: the ascent to the top is very high, andnot without some wonder at the top of all the rock there is aspring of Avater; in the-midway to the top of this tOAver there isa little piece of the rock, on Avhich a do\e-coate had bene built,but the governor tooke doAvne the roofe of it, and made it a plat-foniie for two or three pieces of ordinance, Avhich commanded somestreetes and all the meadowes better then the higher tOAver; underthat toAver, Avhich Avas

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