gling in the towne, and, upon the
discovery of their approach, shuffling towards the garrison, which the
troopers observing, alighted and ran together with them into the house,
where they tooke about 20 men. Neere unto which guard,
Lieutenant-Colonel Congrave, Governor of Newnham, and one Captain
Wigmore, with a few private souldiers, were surrounded in some houses by
the residue of our horse. These had accepted quarter, ready to render
themselves, when one of their company from the house kils a trooper,
which so enraged the rest, that they broke in upon them, and put them all
to the sword: in which accident, this passage was not to be forgotten
that expressed in one place an extreame contrariety in the spirits of men
under the stroke of death: Congrave died with these words, 'Lord receive
my soule!' and Wigmore cryed nothing but 'Dam me more, dam me more!'
desperately requiring the last stroke, as enraged at divine revenge."
The spot where these officers fell is considered to have been at Dean
Hall, in the dining-room, near the fireplace.

Corbet next goes on to recite how Colonel Massy followed up these
exploits by marching to Newnham the next day, "where," says he, "a strong
party of Sir John Winter's forces kept garrison in the church, and the
fort adjoining," (on a spot which has been turned lately into public
pleasure grounds,) "of considerable strength, who at that instant were
much daunted and distracted by the losse of Congrave, their governor.
Our men were possest of the town without opposition, and recovered the
houses, by which they got nere the workes. The Governour (Massy)
commanded a blind of faggots to be made athwart the street, drew up two
pieces of ordnance within pistoll shot, and observing a place not well
flanked where he might lead up his men to the best advantage, himself
marched before them, and found that part of the work fortified with
double pallisadoes; the souldiers being provided with sawes to cut them
down, and having drawn them close within a dead angle, and secure from
their shot, and drawing the rest of his forces for a storme, the enemy
forthwith desires a parley, and to speake with the governour, which he
refused, and commanded a sudden surrender. In this interim some of the
enemy jumpt over the workes, and so our men broke in upon the rest, who
ranne from the out worke into the churche, hoping to cleare the mount
which we had gained. But our men were too nimble, who had no soone