to England, he became
famous as a military preacher, preaching exhortatory sermons before
assaults on fortified places, and attracting adherents to the
Parliamentary forces. He also acted as the confidential agent of Fairfax
and Cromwell in dealing with their troops, and chronicled their
victories. He was regarded with great aversion by the Presbyterians, and
by the numerous persons of other sects to whom buffoonery in the pulpit
was distasteful. He upheld the Army against the Parliament, and was
credited with a share in drawing up the Army Remonstrance in 1648. He
was in Ireland in 1649, and was present at the taking of Wexford. He
afterwards continued to occupy an influential position in politics, and
indulged in many unpolitical schemes, particularly the reformation of
the law, of which he knew but little, and the improvement of religious
teaching, both at home and in America. He maintained his influential
position till the Restoration.

[40] In 1648-49, after the taking of Colchester in 1648.

[41] It seems now to be considered fairly certain that Richard Brandon
was the man who actually cut off the King's head. He died the next June,
after having executed Lord Capel and his companions in the rising which
terminated in the siege of Colchester. It is the more curious that Hulet
should have been tried for the offence, because Brandon certainly
incurred the odium attaching to the act at the time of his death; and it
seems that the fact was mentioned on an inscription on his grave. As
far, however, as the evidence given at the trial is concerned, it seems
possible that Hulet was the second masked figure on the scaffold. All
that is known on the subject is set out in the _Dictionary of National
Biography_, under the title 'Brandon.' See too a note by Mr. . G.
Stephens in _Notes and Queries_, 5th series, vol. v. p. 177.

COLONEL TURNER AND OTHERS

The trial of Col. James Turner, John Turner, William Turner, Mary
Turner, and Ely Turner, at the Old Bailey, for Burglary, 1664.

The foregoing persons were all indicted together, the first three for
committing burglary on the 7th of January 1664 at the house of Francis
Tryon, and stealing a quantity of jewellery, some gold, and L1023 in
cash; Mary, who was the wife of James, and Ely for receiving and
comforting John the next day.

They were tried before Lord Chief-Justice Hyde[42] of the King's Bench,
and Lord Chief-Justice Bridgman[43] of the Common Pleas.

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