The garrison consisted of 300 men, commanded by the Captains Henry Ogle,
Edward Chisnall, Edward Rawsthorne, William Farmer, Mullineux Ratcliffe,
and Richard Fox, assisted in their consultations by William Farrington
of Werden, Esq., who, for executing the commission of array, and
attending her ladyship in these troubles, had suffered the seizure of
all his personal estate and the sequestration of his lands.
There were 150 men each night upon the watch, with the exception of
sixteen select marksmen out of the whole, who all day kept the towers.
The besieger's army was between two and three thousand, divided into
tertias of seven or eight hundred men, who watched every third day and
night. They were commanded by Colonels Egerton, Ashton, Holland, Rigby,
Moore, and Morgan, with their captains and lieutenants.
After many warlike demonstrations, by which they hoped to intimidate the
garrison, and after some days spent in fruitless endeavours to bring her
ladyship, as they said, to a due sense of her condition, they sent one
Captain Ashurst, "a fair and civil gentleman, of good character," with
fresh proposals.
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