He would willingly give bond for his good behaviour to the amount of twenty thousand pounds sterling.

But he was in communication with the government now established in England.

He was in hourly expectation of important despatches from that government; and, till they arrived, he should not feel himself justified in resigning his command.

These excuses were not admitted.

Heralds and trumpeters were sent to summon the Castle in form, and to denounce the penalties of high treason against those who should continue to occupy that fortress in defiance of the authority of the Estates.