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20 brought to Whitehall, was examined before committee, and divers queſtions put to him concerning his late engagement with Charles Stewart and whether he accompanied the Scottiſh King for the furtherance of his eſcape, to which he anſwered, that he never ſaw the King ſince the fight at Worceſter, neither knew he of his getting off the field: but was glad he had made ſo happy a eſcape: after examination, he was ordered to be ſent priſoner to the Gate-houſe till the next day. So the next day he was brought from thence in a coach with iron bolts on his legs. Captain Campton, and two other meſſengers belonging to the state, guarding him; and about two o'clock in the afternoon, he was put into Newgate, where he lay till next ſeſſions.

N Friday the 12th of December, 1651, Captain Hynd was brought to the Seſſion-houſe in Old Bailie, where divers queſtions was proponed to him, concerning his life and converſation: He anſwered, what he confeſſed before the Council of State, the life he acknowledged to that honourable court, proteſting his innocency in any matter of fact or crime ſince the year 1649, within any of the parliaments dominions: ſo he was diſmiſt from that place, and on Monday the first of March 1651, he was carried in a coach from Newgate to Reading, whereupon the Wedneſday following, he was arraigned before the right honourable Judge Wetherton, for killing one Pool