which should be first admitted within the Castle of Martindale, but
matter of serious apprehension to Lady Peveril and Major Bridgenorth,
lest, if they were to approach by the same avenue and entrance, a
quarrel might take place betwixt them, and proceed to extremities,
even before they reached the place of entertainment. The lady believed
she had discovered an admirable expedient for preventing the
possibility of such interference, by directing that the Cavaliers
should be admitted by the principal entrance, while the Roundheads
should enter the Castle through a great breach which had been made in
the course of the siege, and across which there had been made a sort
of by-path to drive the cattle down to their pasture in the wood. By
this contrivance the Lady Peveril imagined she had altogether avoided
the various risks which might occur from two such parties encountering
each other, and disputing for precedence. Several other circumstances
of less importance were adjusted at the same time, and apparently so
much to the satisfaction of the Presbyterian teacher, that, in a long
lecture on the subject of the Marriage Garment, he was at the pains to
explain to his hearers, that outward apparel was not alone meant by
that scriptural expression, but also a suitable frame of mind for
enjoyment of peaceful festivity; and therefore he exhorted the
brethren, that whatever might be the errors of the poor blinded
malignants, with whom they were in some sort to eat and drink upon the
morrow they ought not on this occasion to show any evil will against
them, lest they should therein become troublers of the peace of
Israel.

Honest Doctor Dummerar, the elected Episcopal Vicar of Martindale
/cum/ Moultrassie, preached to the Cavaliers on the same subject. He
had served the cure before the breaking out of the rebellion, and was
in high favour with Sir Geoffrey, not merely on account of his sound