Records of the Churches of Christ, Gathered at Fenstanton, Warboys, and Hexham, 1644-1720 #226889

Saturday, May 19. — This day also came intelligence of the surprisal of the revolted troops about Burford in Oxford shire, they being twelve troops were all taken; very few escaped, some of the chief of which were immediately con demmed to suffer death, viz.: Cornet Tompson and Cornet Den, or as we call him, Parson Den, and two corporals, Church and Perkins; these being found guilty upon the articles of mutiny, are thereupon adjudged to die. Cornet Den, being a man of parts, and one who had been esteemed for piety and honesty, received his sentence with great man liness and fortitude of spirit, yet with so much relenting and acknowledgment of the just hand of God, the justice of the sentence, and his submission thereunto, that he seemed to rejoice with willingness to suffer under so righteous a sen tence, and he professed Openly, that although his heart could not accuse him of an evil meaning, yet was he convinced of the evil of the action and dangerous consequences of it; that if they had but continued three or four days longer, the land had been plunged in misery and ruin, and that the invasion of the Scots, and the insurrections in Wales and other parts of the nation, last year was not so hazardous as this.