Category: History - British

Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century

Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 11,065 words

Dr. _Chillingworth_, had provided certain Engines, after the manner of the Roman _Testudines cum Pluteis_, wherewith they intended to Assault the City between the South and West Gates; They ran upon Cart-Wheels, with a _Blind_ of Planks Musquet-proof, and holes for four Musque...

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1. Part III, vol. ii, p. 290: 'The King's Forces, by the Directions of

Dr. _Chillingworth_, had provided certain Engines, after the manner of the Roman _Testudines cum Pluteis_, wherewith they intended to Assault the City between the South and West...

2. Part I, l. 211. As W.D. Christie pointed out, it is a reminiscence

'The portrait of this Duke has been drawn by four masterly hands: Burnet has hewn it out with his rough chissel; Count Hamilton touched it with that slight delicacy, that finish...