The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19


 the most important sieges during the civil war" Then there were the Norths, of Huntington, near Newman ket the Russells, of Chippenham, and the Peytons, of Iseham, in the same neghborhood; Sir Samuel Luke, mem Der for Bedford, and the younger branches of noble families throughout Norfolk, Suffold and Essex. Last, but not least, there was that Viscount Man. deville whom Cromwell had opposed be- fore the select committee over the Fen land enclosures, and who, impeached by the king, had by the time the strife be- gan, succeeded the old royalist Earl ot Manchester, and had since become the great Puritan commander of the famous Association Army of East Anglia, in which Cromwell himself was to drill into shape his Invincible Ironsides and prepare for his own military career in those "crowning mercies' of the civil war One of the first acts of local bearing by the young Earl of Manches- ter was that, within three weeks of the old earl's death he was found support ing a petition against MT. Downfall, the minister whose church Cromwell had at tended at St. Ives.
 Simultaneously with the appointment of the young Earl of Manchester to com mand the Association forces of the east ern counties was issued the famous Soldiers Pocket Bible," edited by Ca lamy, which contained the fighting stimulus of the Old Testament. When thou shalt go forth to war against thine enemies, and shall see horses and chari- ots more than thou, be not afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is with thee" "A souldier must erie unto God in the very instant of the battell." Un- der such commanders, and with such faith and stimulus, the troops led by Manchester and Cromwell went forth in something of the spirit of the old Mac cabaeans sustained in the belief that Justice with courage is a thousand men"
 On the ecclesiastical side, too. there was young Stephen Marshall the gloyer's son, of Godmanchester, who became as famous in the pulpit as Cromwell with the sword, and the younger Philip Nye, who, marrying Marshalps daughter, became minister of
  Westminster Assembly of DiVines. But greater than all the friends of Cromwell was Cousin John Hampden, whose death, early in the strife, sent thrill through all the shires of England and compiled even his enemies to own that a great man had fallen In truth, this banding together of the most ear- nest young men of the time either to give up their lives and estates in resist ing oppression at home, or to follow Winthrop and others to a heritage of freedom for themselves and their chil- dren beyond the seas, represents for ua a truer inception of Oliver Cromwell s fighting career than any theory of mis- guided ambition, whatever view we may take of the deeds of Cromwell in the height of his power. The great Puritan revolt against things ecclesiastical was not, therefore, all iconoclasm or even sour-faced discomfort with everything in life but it's own narrow creed, ema- hating from an unlettered section of tho common people. It was not merely that even on the social side, and on the national side, there were in it men who realized the better half of Whittiers Performer" in whom
 The water seemed the builder too.
 Across the seas, out of reach of the strife and confusion of the times in Eng landJ that little band of Cromwells friends and neighbors had got to work at empire building. teaching from the beginning that it is possible to strength en life by church within the state, without embttering it by too much Of the state within the church. William Leeta, of the bishops court, Cam bridge, and Samuel Desborough, Crom- wells near neighbor, with others of the party, having purchased land of the h. dians for a dozen coats, glasses, shoes, hatchets hoes, kettles, knives, porrln- gers, spoons, and so much Wampun, founded thereon the town of Guiiford, Conn. and became respectively town clerk and magistrate, and tGe pillars or the new church they formed there. Cromwell in the midst of all his Hercu- lean labors, with hydra-headed war, took svnypathetic interest from time to time in this pioneer work of his friends and neighbors across the seas, as Leete's let ters still show. Desborough married the daugh, er* of the minister of that little coy9munity, and, returning to England in 1851. became member of parliament for Midlothian, and Keeper of the Great Seal for Scotland until the Restoration, when he returned to his native county, and was buried in the parish church of Ellsworth, close by his native village of Eltisey. Cambridgeshire, he having bought the manor of Ellsworth.
 William Leete became colonial statesman, and when the wheel of for tune turned in England the regicides Whalley and Goffe fled their country to New England and were concealed by I.eGtc in his own store, and fed from his own table Leete became governor of New Haven, and with it's union With Connecticut became the first governor Of the combined colonies, high office which fe held with great distinction un- til his cieath Treasurer Talcotts ac- count book, preserved in the state llbra- " al Hartford, Conn.,. under date April IS, 16S3 contains this significant item of how they buried the great man in the modest burial ground of the first church at Hartford:
 "To il pounds of powder for the Great Guns at Govr leet's funerall."
 Governor Leete has left, scattered over New England states, a genealogy which covers i,C74 descendants bearing the name of Leete, and descendants of the faroiiy left behind in Cambs and Hunts,