[1] [2] Then followed in order a long list of names, for the number of the gouernors was great, as they that beside the chéefe capteins had chosen out of euerie hundred two, and there were six and twentie hun|dreds. By vertue of such commissions, manie that were of good worship and credit in the countrie, whom the rebels in their rage had condemned,Gentlemen imprisoned. were fetched from their houses, and other places where they might be found, and being brought to the campe, were committed to prison. Also the ditches and hed|ges, wherewith the commons abrode in the countrie were inclosed, were throwne downe, & manie were warned and called foorth from sundrie parts, to come and take part with them in these tumultuous vp|rores. And all these things were doone, the maior, maister Watson, and maister Aldrich not onlie hol|ding their peace and winking thereat, but also some|time after a maner giuing their consent to the same. For to haue resisted them had béene but follie, and the waie to haue put themselues in danger of de|struction, and their countrie too.