July 1643
[10 July, 1643.]
Whereas Thomas Rakes, Mayor of Hull, Sir Mathew Boynton
Knight and Baronet, Sir William St. Quintin Baronet, Sir
Richard Darley Knight, Sir John Bourchier, and Sir William
Allinson, Knights, Lancelott Roper, Nicholas Denman, John
Barnard, and Will. Pople, Aldermen, John Penrose Gentleman,
Robert Johnson Clerk, having received Information that there
was a Design for the betraying of the Town of Hull, which, in
their Opinions, could not be prevented, but by a speedy seizing
of the Block-houses and other Places of Strength in the Town, as
also of the Persons of Sir John Hotham, Sir Edward Rodes, and
Captain Hotham; and whereas accordingly they, with others,
seized on the said Places of Strength for the Preservation of the
said Town, and also of the Persons of the said Sir John Hotham,
Sir Edward Rodes and Captain Hotham, and of the Treasure,
Plate, Trunks, Writings, and other Things, of the said Sir John
Hotham's and Captain Hotham's, to be in safe Custody till
further Directions from the Parliament; and whereas the said
Mayor of Hull, Sir Mathew Boynton, and the rest of the Persons
first abovenamed, did issue out their Warrants and Directions,
commanding Captain Searth to march from Skarborough, with
his Soldiers, Arms, and Ammunition he had there, to Beverley,
for the Defence of that Place, and with the Goods there of
Consequence to be preserved in Beverley till further Directions
from the Parliament, and whereas they did issue out their
Warrants and Directions unto divers other Captains for to march,
with their Soldiers, from Hull to Beverly, for the Defence of that
Place: The Lordsand Commons do Declare, That it was an acceptable Service to the Kingdom and Parliament, in that which the
said Mayor of Hull, Sir Mathew Boynton, and the rest of the
Gentlemen abovenamed, and all others, have done herein; and
that the Lords and Commons will keep them, and all others that
have assisted them therein, indemnified and saved harmless.