In the Bishop’s palace, £1000 of plate, and gold; with twenty barrels of powder, and one hundred muskets, etc., but no Bishop Wren, the bird having flown, as Kilmister said. Four men with the plate, arms, etc, to Holyfen, to guard in the brickworks; and we rode to Cambridge, and there found Capt Cromwell, with the rest of the troop, surrounding St John’s, where a Mr Russell had been attempting to execute the King’s commission of array, that is raise a troop among the Scholars. He in a terrible manner burst into St John’s, and we took prisoners, including several doctors of divinity, and the college masters Beale (St Johns), Martin (Queens), and Stern (Jesus), and sent them in chains to London.

Yesterday and before that the woman Anne watched as I drilled the men in one of Cedric’s meadows, as we rode the ring, and made a great noise. She has the appearance of delicious I spoke briefly to the woman Anne who said that my father is more lucid at the beginning of the month, when he has his Annuity from Sydney, and can purchase needed provisions. When I saw him he slept, uneasily, and woke with the violence of his snoring; and looked at me with the eyes of a babe, or a lunatic, not knowing me, and then knowing me, then forgetting. The woman Anne does her best to keep him clean; she has the most lovely dark eyes a gentle manner with him.

Capt Cromwell said he expects soon our troop will be joined to the army of Essex. The woman Anne can read and write, and I have asked her to keep me advised of my father’s condition.