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A38661	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	Most hapy and wellcome newes from His Excellencie The Earle of Essex wherein is declared the true and full relation of two famous victories obtained by the Parliament forces : the first, fought by the Lord of Rochford at Twyford, Ian. 15 where with 700 men, he routed all the Kings army consisting of about 1500 who came to burne the said towne : the second, fought by Collonell Chomley at Hurst, Ian. 17 neere Reading, where with 300 men he gave battle to 2000 of the Kings forces, which sallied out of Reading with a resolution to take and pillage Hurst of all their corne and hay : declaring the manner of their first meeting, and how after 4 or 5 houres fight they fored them to retreat, killing 300 of the cavaliers and taking 60 horse with the losse of twenty three men.	1643.0		.xml	application/xml	1549	48	64	16. 1643 Sent in a Letter from that worthy Commander , N. N. VPon Tuesday night last , about 4. of the clocke in the afternoone Colonell Chomley having drawne about 200. of his men , over a place called about 2 miles from Reading , the enemy sallied out of the towne , with about 1100. men , and there gave our men a charge at their very workes ; insomuch that at the first begining of the battell our men had the worst of it ; and were much daunted , seeing such a strong Army come against them Whereupon Colonell Chomley for the encouragement of all his men , put on his armour , and stood in the front of the battle at least an houre , doing great execution with his sword and halfe-pike , and after some three hours and a halfes fight , the Cavaliers retreated , leaving behind them of their Dammee Bretheren at least 200. and 25. where our men with 200. obtained the victory , taking about 60. and odde of the enemies horse , with the losse of about 23. men . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38661 of text R22219 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3324).	cache/A38661.xml	txt/A38661.txt
