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with as himself, in to persist, in the to call
him
wherein he was resolved
this cause,
same place
in
which
to the defence of it."
was put
his resolution
Nottingham were,
to
for the
affected to the Parliament,
It
it had pleased God was not long before
The
the proof.
most
part, in their hearts, dis-
and consequently on the
out for an opportunity to betray the
them, an alderman, when
it
•
citizens of
was
castle.
his turn to
look-
One of command
town the governor Newark, with a troop of six hundred men. Their entrance was effected so secretly, that no alarm was given the watch, took occasion to let into the
of
to the castle
and, in the morning, Colonel Hutchinson
;
found himself shut up in his diers lodging in the oners,)
Happily he was enabled to hold out
station as
Derbyto
the town.
till
hostile
many
of his solpris-
army.
to despatch
desire succors
;
messengers
to
and, determining
their arrival, he endeavored to render his
annoying as he could
On
(for
town at night had been taken
and surrounded by a
Leicester and
with a garri-
little fortress,
son of no more than eighty men,
the third day, he
in St. Nicholas' Church,
to
was
those
who
occupied
invited to a parley
which he gallantly answered
by hoisting a red flag from his own tower, and firing a piece of cannon or two at the steeple. During the siege, Mrs. Hutchinson supplied the place of surgeon, there being none in the garrison and on this occasion it was that she experienced the full value of the practical knowledge of medicine which her mother had imparted to her.* Her treatment was very successful, for most of the wounded who fell into her hands recov;
* Lady Apsley had acquired a knowledge of medicine herfrom Sir Walter Raleigh, to whom she used to convey materials for those experiments carried on while in the Tower, of which her husband was governor. self