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Updated: June 29, 2025
'Ride over to Sir Stephen Timewell and tell him to join his men to ours. Apart we shall be broken together we may stand another charge. Setting spurs to Covenant I rode over to our companions and delivered the message.
Very sure I am that were the Lord-General with us now he would counsel us to venture some such attack. 'It is a bold thing with raw peasants to attack old soldiers, quoth Sir Stephen Timewell. 'Yet if it is to be done, I know well that there is not a man born within sound of the bells of St. Mary Magdalene who will flinch from it. 'You say well, Sir Stephen, said Monmouth.
'It is worthy Doctor Ferguson, said Sir Stephen Timewell, who had just come up. 'He is as one inspired, powerfully borne onwards in his discourse. Verily he is even as one of the prophets of old. He has chosen for his text, "The Lord God of gods he knoweth and Israel he shall know. If it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the Lord, save us not this day."
Master Stephen Timewell had busied himself in these preparations, but he had borne in mind at the same time that the most welcome sight which he could present to Monmouth's eyes was the large body of armed men who were prepared to follow his fortunes. There were sixteen hundred in the town, two hundred of which were horse, mostly well armed and equipped.
'His name is Derrick, one time chief apprentice to Master Timewell at Taunton, and now an officer in the Taunton foot. 'What, the young springald who had his eye upon pretty Mistress Ruth! Now, out on love, if it is to turn a true man into a traitor! But methought he was one of the elect? I have heard him hold forth to the pikemen.
Grey, Wade, Ferguson, and others had contrived also to save themselves, while Stephen Timewell lay in the midst of a stern ring of his hard-faced burghers, dying as he had lived, a gallant Puritan Englishman. All this we learned afterwards.
There were halberds, battle-axes, morning stars, brown bills, maces, and ancient coats of chain mail, which might even now save a man from sword stroke or pike thrust. In the midst of the coming and the going stood Master Timewell, the Mayor, ordering all things like a skilful and provident commander.
He hath died like a man and a Christian, leaving all his worldly goods, together with his cloth-works and household property, to the carrying on of the war. Of the other slain there are not more than ten of Taunton birth. Two gallant young brothers have been cut off, Oliver and Ephraim Hollis, whose poor mother 'Grieve not for me, good Master Timewell, cried a female voice from the crowd.
'In any case, as your Majesty remembers, said Saxon, 'we had determined to march Bristolwards and attempt the town. 'The works are being strengthened, said I, 'and there are five thousand of the Gloucestershire train-bands assembled within. I saw the labourers at work upon the ramparts as I passed. 'If we gain Beaufort we shall gain the town, quoth Sir Stephen Timewell.
'And to right good fare, too, quoth Saxon, glancing down the table. 'Salmon, ribs of beef, loin of mutton, veal, pasties what could man wish for more? Plenty of good home-brewed, too, to wash it down. If worthy Master Timewell can arrange that the army be victualled after the same fashion, I for one shell be beholden to him.
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