Note 311 — Chapter XI

In a letter, dated September 7, Wharton says of Northampton, for situation, circuit, stateliness of buildings, it exceeds Coventry, but the walls are miserably ruined though the country abounds in mines of stone. He also complains of certain soldiers of his regiment who discovered their base ends by declaring they would surrender their arms unless they received five shillings a man, which they said was promised them monthly by the committee. He alludes further to dissensions between foot and horse soldiers. In another letter he mentions a soldier's winter suit made for him, "edged with gold and silver lace," which he hoped he should never stain but in the blood of a cavalier.