This resolution was terribly accomplished. Sixteen hundred
of her besiegers lay dead on the place; and twenty-two colours, which
three days before flourished proudly before the house, were presented to
her from his Highness by Sir Richard Crane, as a memorial of her
deliverance, and "a happy remembrance of God's mercy and goodness to her
and her family."
FOOTNOTES:
[43] The name assumed by a body of men who met, during the wars, in
Manchester; and who in energy and power were second only to their London
brethren.
[44] "Hist. of the House of Stanley," p.90.
[45] One of these sons of violence, Bradshaw of Brazen-nose, took
occasion, before his patrons at Wigan, to profane the 14th verse of the
15th chapter of Jeremiah, from thence proving that Lady Derby was the
scarlet whore and the whore of Babylon whose walls he made as flat and
thin as his own discourse.
[46] Plus animi est inferenti quam periculum propulsanti.--_Caes. Com_.
[47] Harleian MSS. 2043.
RAVEN CASTLE.
"He bargained with two ruffians strong,
Which were of furious mood,
That they should take these children young,
And slay them in a wood.
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