"_Kelsey, a sneeking Bodice maker a gifted Brother._"
On October 17th, 1645, a "summons to surrender was sent to the Garrison (of Langford House, near Salisbury) and _fair and equal conditions_ were speedily agreed upon, Lieutenant Colonel Hewson and Major Kelsey being deputed to act for Cromwell."--(Godwin's _Civil War in Hampshire_, page 248.) This is probably the individual alluded to.
[Illustration: Seven of Hearts. Nathaniel Fines whereby hangs a tale.]
[Illustration: Seven of Clubs. Harrison the Carpenter cutting down y^e horne of y^e Beast in Daniel]
[Illustration: Seven of Spades. Feek the Seer.]
[Illustration: Seven of Diamonds. Marshall curseing Mevoz.]
"_Nathaniel Fines whereby hangs a tale._"
"Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes, brother of Lord Say and Sele, who had been educated at Winchester College, and had been admitted to a Fellowship at New College, Oxford, in quality of Founder's kin, surrendered Bristol to Prince Rupert on 26 July (1643.) and on the last day of the same month reached Southampton, at the head of 80 horse, each of whom had a woman riding behind him."--(_Mercurius Aulicus_, August 5th, 1643.) This, I presume, is the tale alluded to.
"_Harrison the Carpenter cutting down ye horne of ye beast in Daniel._"
Harrison was the son of a butcher near Nantwich, in Cheshire, and he it was who, with Ireton, succeeded in bringing the King before the High Court of Justice.--(_Clarendon's History of the Rebellion_, vol. iii., page 141.) Of the beast in Daniel, it is said, "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the Saints ... but the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."--(Daniel, chap. vii., verses 21 and 26.)
Feek was one of Cromwell's officers, who at the celebrated meeting at Windsor, in 1648, declared that in a vision the Almighty had appeared to him and announced that Monarchy should never more prevail in England.--(_The Saints Triumph_, 1648, page 3.)
At Edgehill, "the reverend and renowned Master Marshall, Master Ask, Master Mourton, Masters Obadiah and John Sedgwick and Master Wilkins, and divers others, eminently pious and learned pastors rode up and down the army through the thickest dangers and in much personal hazard most faithfully and courageously exhorting and encouraging the soldiers to fight valiantly and not to fly, but now, if ever, to stand to it and fight for their religion and laws."--(_Jehovah Jirah_, by John Vicars, p. 200.)