a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92115 of text r212258 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.9[46]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92115 wing r2323 thomason 669.f.9[46] estc r212258 99870898 99870898 161144 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92115) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 161144) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f9[46]) a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. lenthall, william, 1591-1662, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : october 23. 1645. signed: i.r., i.e. john rushworth. dated: tiverton, octob. 19. 1645. order to print signed: h:elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. reproduction of the original in the british library (thomason tracts) and the henry e. huntington library and art gallery (early english books). eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. tiverton (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. a92115 r212258 (thomason 669.f.9[46]). civilwar no a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tive rushworth, john 1645 324 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-08 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-08 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire , speaker of the honorable house of commons , concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church . sir , this day ( being the lords-day ) after forenoon sermon , the generall called a councell of vvar , and agreed to storm immediatly ; parties were drawn out to fall on in their severall posts ; and whilest the councell of vvar was sitting , the gunner with round shot brake the draw-bridge , which immediatly fell down ; our souldiers without order , or staying for their ladders , fell on , beat the enemy from their works into the church and castle , who took down their bloody flag , and cryed for quarter : col : talbot , son to sir sherington talbot , major sadler a renegado , and twenty commanders more , and above two hundred common souldiers are prisoners , four piece of ordnance , great store of ammunition : our men gave quarter , though they blew up some of our men in the church . i never see men more resolved then they were at this time : this place is of great use to us ; not onely in order to the straightning of exeter , but to secure any ammunition , &c. that shall be sent us , and keeps the passe open to plimouth . to morrow the army marches ; gorings horse being gone towards plimouth : i am sir , your faithfull servant , i. r. tiverton , octob. 19. 1645. this bearer was an eye-witnesse of our souldiers entring and carriage . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this letter be forthwith printed and published . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , october 23. 1645. a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57923 of text r212258 in the english short title catalog (wing r2323). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57923 wing r2323 estc r212258 99835094 99835094 39747 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57923) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 39747) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2215:10) a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : october 23. 1645. signed: i.r., i.e. john rushworth. dated: tiverton, octob. 19. 1645. reproduction of the original in the british library (thomason tracts) and the henry e. huntington library and art gallery (early english books). eng lenthall, william, 1591-1662 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. tiverton (england) -history -early works to 1800. a57923 r212258 (wing r2323). civilwar no a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons, concerning the miraculous taking of tive rushworth, john 1645 323 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-03 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2003-03 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honorable william lenthall esquire , speaker of the honorable house of commons , concerning the miraculous taking of tiverton-castle with the church . sir , this day ( being the lords-day ) after forenoon sermon , the generall called a councell of vvar , and agreed to storm immediatly ; parties were drawn out to fall on in their severall posts ; and whilest the councell of vvar was sitting , the gunner with round shot brake the draw-bridge , which immediatly fell down ; our souldiers without order , or staying for their ladders , fell on , beat the enemy from their works into the church and castle , who took down their bloody flag , and cryed for quarter : col : talbot , son to sir sherington talbot , major sadler a renegado , and twenty commanders more , and above two hundred common souldiers are prisoners , four piece of ordnance , great store of ammunition : our men gave quarter , though they blew up some of our men in the church . i never see men more resolved then they were at this time : this place is of great use to us ; not onely in order to the straightning of exeter , but to secure any ammunition , &c. that shall be sent us , and keeps the passe open to plimouth . to morrow the army marches ; gorings horse being gone towards plimouth : i am sir , your faithfull servant , i. r. tiverton , octob. 19. 1645. this bearer was an eye-witnesse of our souldiers entring and carriage . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this letter be forthwith printed and published . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , october 23. 1645. a true relation of the surrendring of colchester to his excellency the lord generall fairfax. as it was sent in a letter to the honourable william lenthal, esquire, speaker of the honourable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92128 of text r210877 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.13[7]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92128 wing r2337 thomason 669.f.13[7] estc r210877 99869630 99869630 162902 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92128) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 162902) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 246:669f13[7]) a true relation of the surrendring of colchester to his excellency the lord generall fairfax. as it was sent in a letter to the honourable william lenthal, esquire, speaker of the honourable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. lenthall, william, 1591-1662, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by r.w. for iohn partridge, london : 1648. dated at end: colchester august 28. 1648. signed: iohn rushworth. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng fairfax, thomas fairfax, -baron, 1612-1671 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. colchester (england) -history -siege, 1648 -early works to 1800. a92128 r210877 (thomason 669.f.13[7]). civilwar no a true relation of the surrendring of colchester to his excellency the lord generall fairfax. as it was sent in a letter to the honourable w rushworth, john 1648 388 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-08 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-08 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true relation of the surrendring of colchester to his excellency the lord generall fairfax . as it was sent in a letter to the honourable william lenthal , esquire , speaker of the honourable house of commons . sir , the last night about ten of the clock the articles were signed by the commissioners on both sides , which were to this purpose , that all horses , with furniture , should be delivered this day by ten of the clock , that all private souldiers , and officers under captains shall have fair quarter , and render themselves prisoners . that the lords , and all captains , and superiour officers , and gentlemen be drawn together to the kings-head inne , with their clothes and baggage , by eleven of the clock , and there to render themselves to the mercy of the lord generall . that the enemies guards be drawn off , and guards of this army appointed in their stead : that all ordnance , ammunition , waggons , &c. be delivered to the comptroller . that the sick and wounded be provided for , with accommodation , untill recovered . and accordingly this forenoon col. rainsboroughs regiment , and another regiment entred the town , and the articles in all things else performed : you will very suddenly receive an account from his excellency , of the particulars , of this businesse , as also a list of what persons of quality , officers , and commanders are at mercy , and the number of ordnance , arms , and quantity of ammunition . this morning we rode round about the wall of the town , and finde it to be a very strong place in all parts of it ; where it was weakest , there they made strong works , or strengthened it with earth . it was a sad spectacle to see so many fair houses burnt to ashes , and so many inhabitants made so sickly and weak with living upon horses and dogs . many glad to eat the very draught and graines for preservation of life . i remain , your humble servant , iohn rushworth . cochester august 28. 1648. london printed by r. w. for iohn partridge . 1648. a vindication of the army under the command of his excellency sir thomas fairfax concerning a pamphlet lately printed and published, intituled, heads presented by the army to the kings majesty. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a95951 of text r210516 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.11[38]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a95951 wing v499 thomason 669.f.11[38] estc r210516 99869305 99869305 162687 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a95951) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 162687) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 246:669f11[38]) a vindication of the army under the command of his excellency sir thomas fairfax concerning a pamphlet lately printed and published, intituled, heads presented by the army to the kings majesty. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for john wright at the kings head in the old bayley, london : 1647. the pamphlet "heads presented by the army to the kings majesty" is false scandalous, and injurious to us, and has never been sent by the king -cf. steele. order to print dated: die lunae 2. julii 1647. signed: joh. brown cler. parliamentorum. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng england and wales. -parliament. heads presented by the army to the kings most excellent majestie, on saturday, june the 19. 1647 -early works to 1800. great britain -militia -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a95951 r210516 (thomason 669.f.11[38]). civilwar no a vindication of the army under the command of his excellency sir thomas fairfax, concerning a pamphlet lately printed and published, intitu rushworth, john 1647 445 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a vindication of the army under the command of his excellency sir thomas fairfax , concerning a pamphet lately printed and published , intituled , heads presented by the army to the kings majesty . whereas we finde a pamphlet lately printed and published , bearing the title of , heads presented by the army to the kings majesty , on saturday june the 19. 1647. though we think it will of it selfe appeare such a confused headlesse peece , so surreptitiously crept forth , and in such a pure pamphlet dresse , as we hope it will gaine little beleefe to our prejudice : yet to avoid any jealousies or doubtfull thoughts which it might possible breed in any honest minde , we cannot but take notice of it , and for the vindication of the army doe hereby declare , that the said printed pamphlet is most false , scandalous , and injurious to us and this army : neither hath there beene any such paper presented to his majesty by or from this army . and the same we professe and declare with great detestation , concerning another written paper , whereof we had a copy shewed to us yesterday by the commissioners of the city , intituled , articles agreed upon betweene the king and the army , the 16. of iune . and we desire all that wish well to this army , or the king or parliament , or peace of this kingdome , that they would doe their best to finde out and discover the authors and publisher of the said paper and pamphlet , or any thing else of that nature that may be divulged concerning the army , to interrupt or prejudice the present setling and composure of affaires . and we hope it will not be further needfull or expected from us , that we should give particular answer to every such scandalous paper , which the malice of our enemies may forge against us , but that what we have published to the world in our representation and other papers avowed by us , may serve to cleare our intentions , untill we shall appeare to act something to the contrary . by the appointment of his excellency sir thomas fairfax and his councell of warre . signed john rushworth . wickam iuly 1. 1647. die lunae 2. julii 1647. ordered by the lords assembled in parliament , that this vindication of the army be forthwith printed and published . joh. brown cler. parliamentorum . london printed for john wright at the kings head in the old bayley . 1647. 5 iulii, 11 at night. a letter from the leaguer before colchester, sent to the honorable committee at derby-house, of the great fight between his excellency the lord fairfax, and the forces in colchester. ordered by the said committee, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. gualther frost, secr' rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92113 of text r203407 in the english short title catalog (thomason e451_23). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92113 wing r2321 thomason e451_23 estc r203407 99863370 99863370 115566 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92113) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 115566) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 71:e451[23]) 5 iulii, 11 at night. a letter from the leaguer before colchester, sent to the honorable committee at derby-house, of the great fight between his excellency the lord fairfax, and the forces in colchester. ordered by the said committee, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. gualther frost, secr' rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : july 7. 1648. signed on a3v: j.r., i.e. john rushworth. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. colchester (england) -history -siege, 1648 -early works to 1800. a92113 r203407 (thomason e451_23). civilwar no 5 iulii, 11 at night. a letter from the leaguer before colchester, sent to the honorable committee at derby-house, of the great fight betwee rushworth, john 1648 494 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-04 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2007-04 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion 5 iulii , 11 at night . a letter from the leaguer before colchester , sent to the honorable committee at derby-house , of the great fight between his excellency the lord fairfax , and the forces in colchester . ordered by the said committee , that this letter be forthwith printed and published . gualther frost secr' london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , july 7. 1648. at the leaguer before colchester , july 5. eleven at night . sir , the enemy sallyed forth at east-bridge about eight in the morning , with one thousand foot and three hundred horse , and fell on our guard very suddenly , and surprised some of them being countrey-men , the rest retreated to the main guard : colonel whaley perceiving what advantage the enemy had got , presently advanced with his horse and got between them and home , whilest the tower regiment advanced towards the front , and routed both horse and foot together , and took about one hundred prisoners , the most of them miserably wounded , the soldiers giving them a payment for their poysoned bullets : about twenty of the enemy was slain on the place , most gentlemen , their good apparel and white skins speak no less : lieutenant colonel weston , eldest son to sir richard weston , and two captains more were taken prisoners , they confess they were one thousand foot , besides horse ; and some of the prisoners say , a colonel was slain on the place , where their foot fell ; the retreat was so hasty , that our two drakes which they surprised at east-bridge , they left behinde , so that we gained them , the house and turnpike , where we formerly were : lieut : colonel shambroke was shot in the body , the bullet since taken out , and we finde it poysoned , boyled in copprice ; our soldiers hope to be revenged of them the next engagement for this poysoned bullet : captain moody who commanded a troop of suffolk horse , was taken prisoner , ingaging the enemy very boldly in person ; one soldier had his leg shot off with a great bullet , and some wounded . the enemy was this day so sufficiently beaten , that unless hunger , which breaks stone walls , inforce them to play their last game , they will no more appear . your servant , j. r. postscript . the colonel or person of quality slain , had rings on his finger , which the soldiers cut off before he was dead ; many of them had two shirts on , which would make one believe they intended an escape . one wood a commander of horse , lately a supermerary reformado , vvas slain on their side . finis . a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, of the late fight at colchester, and, how the suburbs of the said town were fired by the lord goring, lord capel, sir charls lucas, and the rest of the enemy. printed by the command of the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92117 of text r203404 in the english short title catalog (thomason e452_42). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92117 wing r2325 thomason e452_42 estc r203404 99863367 99863367 115563 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92117) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 115563) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 72:e452[42]) a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, of the late fight at colchester, and, how the suburbs of the said town were fired by the lord goring, lord capel, sir charls lucas, and the rest of the enemy. printed by the command of the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : july 17. 1648. signed at end: j.r., i.e. john rushworth. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng colchester (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a92117 r203404 (thomason e452_42). civilwar no a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, of the late fight at colchester,: and, how t rushworth, john 1648 595 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-04 celeste ng sampled and proofread 2007-04 celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons , of the late fight at colchester , and , how the suburbs of the said town were fired by the lord goring , lord capel , sir charls lucas , and the rest of the enemy . printed by the command of the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , july 17. 1648. to the honorable , william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , in my last i intimated to you , that we hoped to gain the gate-house , the works about it , & church ; all which the enemy had fortified very strongly , and it pleased god this afternoon about five of the clock to deliver all these places into our hands , the maner was thus ; vve discharged four pieces of canon altogether , vvhich much amazed the enemy in the works , and then discharged four more ; and immediately our musquetiers fell on and storm'd the gate-house with ladders , and threw in hand-granado's : the enemy opposed very stoutly for a while , and threw down several of the ladders , but at last gave back ; some held out their handkerchiefs , others fired very fiercely : yet notwithstanding , our men gained the work , and part of the gate-house , and throwing in a hand-granado , where there was some of the enemy stood to their arms , it hapned to light amongst their magazine , consisting of about four barrels of powder , and blew up about forty of their men : it pleased god that we had but one man hurt with that blow . all this evening our men have been digging , and pulling out the dead bodies of the enemy , finding here and there a leg and an arm by it self . there were in the whole number , as some of the prisoners who had quarter confest sevenscore , and we had about threescore prisoners , not any could escape ( we getting between them and home ) so the rest were put to the sword , and destroyed as aforesaid . i send you herewith some poysoned bullets , that you may see how they still persist in their venemous disposition , to shoot such things as may be sure to rancour and poyson the flesh . the enemy vvas so enraged at this loss ( having totally by this means shut themselves up vvithin the walls , and not having any part of the suburbs ) that they set the suburbs round the town on fire , and at this present there is the sadest spectacle to be seen , that hath fallen out in this age , there being novv burning in a great flame , houses above a mile in length , and with that violence , that it is a wonder to behold it : by this we conceive that they are desperately bent , and will not onely destroy the suburbs , but even burn the town also before they yield . i hope in the lord he will enable us very shortly to gain this place , and to make such destroyers of the nation , examples to posterity . leaguer before colchester , july 15. 12 at night . j. r. finis . a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, of the fight between his excellency's the lord fairfax forces at maidstone, and the kentish forces, june 1. 1648. printed by the command of william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92116 of text r203405 in the english short title catalog (thomason e445_37). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92116 wing r2324 thomason e445_37 estc r203405 99863368 99863368 115564 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92116) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 115564) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 70:e445[37]) a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, of the fight between his excellency's the lord fairfax forces at maidstone, and the kentish forces, june 1. 1648. printed by the command of william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london : june 3. 1648. signed at end: john rushworth. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng fairfax, thomas fairfax, -baron, 1612-1671. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -kent -early works to 1800. maidstone (england) -history -17th century -early works to 1800. a92116 r203405 (thomason e445_37). civilwar no a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons,: of the fight between his excellency's the l rushworth, john 1648 656 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 c the rate of 15 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-04 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2007-04 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons , of the fight between his excellency's the lord fairfax forces at maidstone , and the kentish forces , june 1. 1648. printed by the command of william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons . june 3. 1648. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , the particulars are too many to be related at this time concerning this last nights ingagement with the enemy at maidstone , which in brief was such as never was since these vvars began ; this army strugled with so much difficulty to overcome a stubborn and resolute enemy : the fight begun about seven of the clock at night , about a mile from maidstone , and before we could beat them from hedge to hedge , and get in at the barracado's , it was past nine ; and after we had entred the town , we disputed every street and turning ; they having eight pieces of canon , which they discharged above twenty times upon our men in the streets , and by gods mighty help and assistance we overcame them between twelve and one of the clock at night , being every minute in all that time firing upon their horse and foot , and they upon us , it being extreme wet weather during all this time of ingagement ; we took about four hundred prisoners , and near as many horse , our forlorn-hope of horse gave the red standard of horse as gallant a charge as ever was seen , which is said to be general hales his troop . the reason why the ingagement began so soon , the train and the rear of the army being three miles off ( and not come up ) was , that the forlorn of horse and foot being ingaged in viewing the town before it was dark , came off safe : the enemy being with their whole body of horse and foot within two miles on the top of the hill towards rochester all day long in view of our army , about eight thousand men , who , as they perceived that we did not dispute the pass at alsford , which was very difficult for us to have done ; they sent in a supply of twelve hundred horse and foot to those before in the town of maidstone , who came in just as we ingaged , being seamen , apprentices , and most part commanders and cavaliers that have formerly been in arms against the parliament . there were in all , as we guess , two hundred then slain in and about the town , and captain price a very honest and stout gentleman , col : hewsons captain lieutenant , was also slain , and about thirty more of our men , most falling at the mouth of the canon with ca●e shot ; we took eight pieces , six iron , and two brass , abundance of arms , having been up all night , and want of time cannot send more particulars at present : onely i desire god to let you see how the old quarrel is revived by the same party , with greater violence then at first . you will shortly understand what earls , lords , and other persons of quality appeared in this business . his excellency from the first minute of ingagement to the last , could not be drawn off from a personal and hazzardous attendance on the service , and is much impaired in his health . john rushworth . maidstone , june 2. 1648. 6 in the morning . finis . the taking of tiverton, with the castle, church, and fort, by sir thomas fairfax, on the lords-day last, octob. 19. 1645. wherein was taken colonel sir gilbert talbot, the governour. major sadler, major to col. talbot. 20. officers of note. 200. common souldiers. foure peece of ordnance. 500. armes, with store of ammunition, provision, and treasure. also the severall defeats given to goring, by his excellency, and all gorings forces fled before him. published according to order. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92124 of text r200331 in the english short title catalog (thomason e306_1). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92124 wing r2332 thomason e306_1 estc r200331 99861134 99861134 113262 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92124) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 113262) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 50:e306[1]) the taking of tiverton, with the castle, church, and fort, by sir thomas fairfax, on the lords-day last, octob. 19. 1645. wherein was taken colonel sir gilbert talbot, the governour. major sadler, major to col. talbot. 20. officers of note. 200. common souldiers. foure peece of ordnance. 500. armes, with store of ammunition, provision, and treasure. also the severall defeats given to goring, by his excellency, and all gorings forces fled before him. published according to order. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. [2], 6 p. printed for r.a., london, : octob. 23. 1645. attributed to john rushworth by wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng tiverton (england) -history -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. a92124 r200331 (thomason e306_1). civilwar no the taking of tiverton,: with the castle, church, and fort, by sir thomas fairfax, on the lords-day last, octob. 19. 1645. wherein was take rushworth, john 1645 1102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-02 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-03 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2007-03 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the taking of tiverton , with the castle , church , and fort , by sir thomas fairfax , on the lords-day last , octob. 19. 1645. wherein was taken colonel sir gilbert talbot , the governour . major sadler , major to col. talbot . 20. officers of note . 200. common souldiers . foure peece of ordnance . 500. armes , with store of ammunition , provision , and treasure . also the severall defeats given to goring , by his excellency , and all gorings forces fled before him . published according to order . london , printed for r. a. octob. 23. 1645. the taking of tiverton , castle , towne , church , and fort , by sir thomas fairfax . sir : it hath pleased god still to blesse our endeavours above expectation , all the glorie be given to god . we have taken in tiverton , both the towne , castle , church , and fort , a place of so great strength , that had not the lord done wonderfully for us , wee might rather have admired their strength , than expected to be masters of it ; the manner wherof , together with other passages since my last , i have here enformed you , since our advance from chard untill this present . we advanced on tuesday the 14 of october instant from chard , and marched to honniton ; and gorings horse ( through the carelesnesse of some of our guards ) fell upon our out-quarters , and tooke some fortie dragoones and foot , and those horse of gorings returned presently to their quarters about exeter ; wee quartered that night , and all wednesday , and wednesday night about honniton , and met with some of gorings straglers and others , we have ( divers ) come in to us , and on wednesday the 15. of october instant , we advanced from hunnington and marched that day to columbton , where the lord miller was quartered with two regiments of horse and one of dragoons , the towne being slightly fortified : but immediately upon our advance , they quitted that place and fled ; we had then intelligence , that greenvill was with about two thousand foot that day viz. wednesday octob. 15. instant at bow , and it was supposed that the next day he would be in conjunction with goring , most part of his horses then quartered in the villages on this side of exeter , about cliffe , silverton , stoake , rew , hucksham , and all the parishes thereabouts ; the foot ( which formerly did belong to gerhards brigade of old ) then quartered most of them at broadcliffe . on thursday octob. 16. instant , major-generall massey was ordered to advance to tiverton , and so to quarted beyond the river with his brigade , and there was the good effect of that took in the enemies quarters , and major generall massey did soone possesse himselfe of the town of tiverton , the enemie marched away , onely those who were left in the castle , and the church , to keep those places . it was then conceived hard for us , nay almost impossible for us to hinder the enemies horse from marching eastward , if he do attempt it with the whole strength , except lievtenant-generall cromwell ( with his whole brigade ) come up to us ; and that day wee began to extend our quarters towards broadminch , and so nearer to exeter . on friday the 17. instant , our generall sir thomas fairfax sate downe before tiverton-castle and church , to take them in , and summoned the enemy to deliver them up , of which being denied , we planted our batteries against them , which went forwards that day and the next . on saturday octob. 18. instant , our batteries were finished by the afternoone , and on this day being the lords day octob. 19. instant , the generall caused severall great pieces to be planted on the batteries against the castle verie early , so that they were ready to play by breake of day , and all our cannon began to play about seven a clocke in the morning , against the castle , and the enemie from thence answered us with their pieces , but did no execution upon us . and after many shot that we had made against them , a cannonier by one shot gallantly performed this businesse , for he broke the chaine of the draw-bridge with a bullet , which passeth over to the entrance of the castle , which falling downe , the chaine being so broken , our souldiers fell on without any further order from the generall , they being loth to lose such an opportunitie , and loving rather to fight than to look on when god gives them such occasion , which took good effect , for they soone possessed themselves of all ; they presently entred the castle and church , in which wee had foure men slaine : yet such is the mild and gentle carriage of the generall , and his desire to spare the effusion of bloud , as much as may be , that notwithstanding they took it by storme , yet he himself gave command , that quarter should be given to all those who were alive : wee took in the castle sir gilbert talbot who was governour of the place , 20 other officers , 200 souldiers , four peece of ordnance , good store of armes and ammunition , and abundance of treasure , which was divided amongst the souldiers . the castle was verie strong , and the works all regular . the generall intends to march on munday for the releefe of plymouth , and wee heare that lievtenant-generall cromwell did intend to quarter at dorchester as the last night , and cometh on verie hard marches to joyne with the generall . gorings horse are marched towards plymouth . tiverton , octob. 19. 1645. at nine a clock at night . a list of what was taken at tiverton . colonell sir gilbert talbot , the governour . major sadler , major to col. talbot . 20 officers of note . 200 common souldiers . foure peece of ordnance . 500 armes , with store of ammunition , provision , and treasure . finis . the demands of his excellency tho. lord fairfax and the generall councell of the army, in prosecution of the late remonstrance to the two houses of parliament as also against those persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from scotland, the instigators and encouragers of the late insurrections in this kingdom : with lieutenant generall cromwels letter to his excellency concerning the executing of justice upon all offenders, and the setling of the kingdom upon a du[e], safe, and hopefull succession of parliaments. england and wales. army. council. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a37527 of text r5115 in the english short title catalog (wing d973). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a37527 wing d973 estc r5115 12793900 ocm 12793900 93966 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a37527) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 93966) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 378:11) the demands of his excellency tho. lord fairfax and the generall councell of the army, in prosecution of the late remonstrance to the two houses of parliament as also against those persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from scotland, the instigators and encouragers of the late insurrections in this kingdom : with lieutenant generall cromwels letter to his excellency concerning the executing of justice upon all offenders, and the setling of the kingdom upon a du[e], safe, and hopefull succession of parliaments. england and wales. army. council. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. cromwell, oliver, 1599-1658. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 8 p. printed for r.m., london : 1648. "by the appointment of his excellency the lord fairfax lord generall, and his generall councell of the army. signed, john rushvvorth" reproduction of original in huntington library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a37527 r5115 (wing d973). civilwar no the demands of his excellency tho. lord fairfax. and the generall councell of the army, in prosecution of the late remonstrance to the two h england and wales. army. council 1648 1417 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the demands of his excellency tho. lord fairfax . and the generall councell of the army , in prosecution of the late remonstrance to the two houses of parliament . as also against those persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from scotland , the instigators and encouragers of the late insurrections in this kingdom . with lieutenant generall cromwels letter to his excellency concerning the executing of justice upon all offenders , and the setling of the kingdom upon a due , safe , and hopefull succession of parliaments . by the appointment of his excellency the lord fairfax lord generall , and his generall councell of the army . signed john rushvvorth . london , printed for r. m. 1648. the demands of his excellency the lord fairfax , and the generall councell of the army , in prosecution of the late remonstrance to the two houses of parliament . the incompetency of this parliament , in its present constitution , to give an absolute and conclusive judgment for the whole ( especially to be the sole judges of their own performance , or breach of trust ) doth make the juster way for such an appeal , so indeed we see no other way left for remedy , in regard the present unlimited continuance of this parliament doth exclude the orderly succession of any other more equal formal judicature of men , to which we might hope in due time other ways to appeal . thus then we apprehend our selves in the present case , both necessitated to , and justified in an appeal from this parliament , in the present constitution as it stands , unto the extraordinary judgment of god and good people ; and yet in the prosecution of this appeal , as we shall drive it on , but to the speedy obtaining of a more orderly & equal judicature of men , in a just representative , according to our remonstrance ( wherein to acquiesce ) so in the present procuring of justice with the peoples ease and quiet , and in the setling of the kingdom upon a due , safe and hopefull succession of parliaments : it is our hearts desire , and shall be our endevour , that so much , both of the matter and form of the present parliamentary authority may be preserved , as can be safe , or will be useful to these ends , until a just and full constitution thereof , both for matter and form ( suitable to the publique ends it serves for ) can be introduced . and therefore first , it should be our great rejoycing ( if god saw it good ) that the majority of the present house of commons were become sensible of the evil and destructiveness of their late way , and would resolvedly & vigorously apply themselves to the speedy execution of justice , with the righting and easing of the oppressed people , and to a just and safe settlement of the kingdom upon such foundations as have been propounded by us and others for that purpose , & would for the speedier and surer prosecution of these things , exclude from communication in their councels , all such corrupt and apostatized members as have appeared hitherto , but to obstruct and hinder such matter of justice , safety and publique interest , and to pervert their councels a contrary way , and have therein so shamefully both falsified and forfeited their trust . but however , we shall , secondly , desire , that so many of them as god hath kept upright , and shall touch with a just sense of those things , would by protestation , or otherwise acquit themselves from such breach of trust , and approve their faithfulness , by withdrawing from those that persist in the guilt thereof , and would apply themselves to such a posture , whereby they may speedily and effectually prosecute those necessary and publique ends , without such interruptions , diversions , or depravations of their councels from the rest , to their endless trouble , oppression , and hazard of the kingdom as formerly , and for so many of them , whose hearts god shall stir up thus to do ; we shall therein , in this case of extremity , look upon them as persons having materially the chief trust of the kingdom remaining in them , and though not a formal standing power to be continued in them , or drawn into ordinary presidents ; yet the best and most rightfull that can be had , as the present state and exigence of affairs now stand ; and we shall accordingly own them , adhere to them , and be guided by them in their faithfull prosecution of that trust , in order unto , and until the introducing of a more full and formall power in a just representative to be speedily endevoured . now yet further to take away all jealousies in relation to our selves , which might withhold or discourse any honest members from this courage , as we have the witness of god in our hearts , that in these proceedings we do not seek , but even resolve we will not take advantages to our selves , either in point of profit or power ; and that if god did open unto us a way , wherein with honesty and faithfulness to the publick interest , & good people engaged for us , we might presently discharged , so as we might not in be our present employments look on , and be accessory to , yea supporters of the parliament , in the present corrupt , oppressive and destructive proceedings , we should with rejoycing , and without more ado , embrace such a discharge rather then interpose in these things to our own vast trouble and hazard ; so if we could but obtain a rationall assurance for the effectuall prosecution of these things , we shall give any proportionable assurance on our parts , concerning our laying down of arms , when , and as we should be required : but for the present , as the case stands , we apprehend our selves obliged in duty to god , this kingdom , and good men therein , to improve our utmost abilities in all honest ways , for the avoyding of these great evils we have remonstrated , and for prosecution of the good things we have propounded ; and also that such persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from scotland , the instigaters and incouragers of the late insurrections within this kingdom , and ( those forcible ways failing ) have still pursued the same wicked designs by treacherous and corrupt councels , may be brought to publique justice , according to their severall demerits . for all these ends we are now drawing up with the army to london , there to follow providence as god shall clear our way . by the appointment of his excellency , the lord fairfax , lord generall , and his general councel . signed john rushvvorth , secr ' . for his excellency the lord generall fairfax . my lord , i find a very great sense in the affairs of the regiments of the sufferings and the ruine of this poor kingdom , and in them all a very great zeal to have impartiall iustice done upon offenders ; and i must confess , i do in all , from my heart , concur in them ; and i verily think ; and am perswaded , they are things which god put into our hearts : i shall not need to offer any thing to your excellency , i know god teaches you , and that he hath manifested his presence so to you , as that you will give glory to him in the eyes of all the world . i held it my duty , having received these petitions and letters , and being desired by the framers thereof , to present them to you ; the good lord work his will upon your heart , enabling you to do it ; and the presence of almighty god go along with you . thus prays my lord , your most humble and faithfull servant o. cromvvell . finis . a letter sent to the hono[ra]ble william lenthal esq. speaker of the honorable house of commons : concerning sir thomas fairfax's rovting of the enemy in the west, neer bodman, march 8, 1645 : together with the lord hoptons answer to sir thomas fairfax's summons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57922 of text r35154 in the english short title catalog (wing r2322a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57922 wing r2322a estc r35154 15043342 ocm 15043342 103097 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57922) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 103097) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1578:4) a letter sent to the hono[ra]ble william lenthal esq. speaker of the honorable house of commons : concerning sir thomas fairfax's rovting of the enemy in the west, neer bodman, march 8, 1645 : together with the lord hoptons answer to sir thomas fairfax's summons. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 8 p. printed for edw. husband ... and are to be sold at his shop ..., london : march 12, 1645 [1646] signed at end: j.r. [i.e. john rushworth] reproduction of original in the university of illinois (urbana-champaign campus). library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a57922 r35154 (wing r2322a). civilwar no a letter sent to the hono[ra]ble william lenthal esq. speaker of the honorable house of commons : concerning sir thomas fairfax's rovting of rushworth, john 1646 1503 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honoble william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons : concerning sir thomas fairfax's rovting of the enemy in the west , neer bodman , march 8. 1645. together with the lord hoptons answer to sir thomas fairfax's summons . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this letter be forthwith printed and published . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . march 12. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , by the last messenger , the packet from ireland taken in the vessel at padstow , was sent unto you , which i hope came safe to your hands ; by which original letters under the hand of the earl of glamorgan , you will perceive how ( as yet ) he is imployed for the bringing over of an army , and what private correspondency there is between him , the prince , the lord hopton , and other persons of note ( notwithstanding , he is under the cloud of being accused of high treason ) his being at liberty , and acting the kings commands in bringing over an army of natural irish rebels , and his correspondency with the prince , hopton , &c. is enough to satisfie the world , by whose command he manages that affair . i also acquainted you with a summons sent to the lord hopton ( or rather honorable conditions ) if he would instantly lay down arms , and disband the forces in the west , which being sent unto him upon thursday last , and no answer returned on friday : on saturday the army advanced towards st. cullumb , and being drawn to a rendezvouz four miles from bodman ; the weather proved so extreme wet , that it was not held fit to advance on any further that day ; and so the foot were appointed to quarters in villages thereabouts , and a mile or two forwards : the horse being likewise at the rendezvouz , returned to their quarters ; but some went to quarter neerer the enemy , and to the guards , except a very good party of about eight hundred horse and dragoons , commanded by col. rich , who was sent away with the same , with orders to fall upon the enemies guards or quarters , as he should see it most fit for the service ; and accordingly within two hours of evening , fell upon their out-guards neer st. cullumb , beat them to their main guard : being then drawn up in a body , ours likewise drew into three divisions ; one commanded by colonel rich , another by major fincher , and the third by major scroop : the enemy seeing no way but to fight , the van of them gave a very good charge : major general pert breaking through one division himself : but they were instantly put to the rout , and we had the pursuite of them for three or four miles , killing many , took about an hundred prisoners , whereof major general pert was one , and betwixt two hundred and three hundred horse . this so alarm'd the enemy , that it made them desert the head-quarter for a mile , and caused them to draw all their horse to a rendezvouz at eleven of the clock that night on michel down , and so continued in the wet in a great rain till the next morning , thinking the whole army had been advanced . our party returned to st. cullumb , and this morning brought the prisoners to town . this party of the enemies were of the princes own regiment , most of them reformadoes officers ; they confesse their souldiers are very weary , and that if it were published among them , they might have passes to go home , it was not in the officers power to keep them together : they likewise say , that most of their officers , if they knew they might be accepted into the protection of the parliament , they would desert the service . being askt , if they had heard any propositions were sent unto them from the general , offering honourable conditions both to officers and souldiers , they answered they never heard of any ; so by that we perceive the lord hopt on with some few of his councel keeps the propositions from being published : there are some others come from thence , who say that the french are mighty inquisitive to know whether they might be so far received into savour as to have leave to go beyond seas : laying all these together we are of opinion , that it will not be in hoptons power to hinder a good effect to the propositions sent him ; so soon as the same is published amongst them , which before this , we hope by some means that hath been used is effectually done : this day the generals trumpeter that went with the summons , is returned with a brief answer from the lord hopton to this purpose : that he had taken the letter from the general into consideration , but the suddain advance of our forces gave an interruption to mention at this time any particulars , but by a trumpeter of his own he would send a particular answer : the trumpeter was curteously used and much respected , this evening the lord hoptons trumpeter is come with a letter in answer to the generals propositions , which indeed implies a willingnesse to end the businesse of the west without more blood shed , but yet desires to be satisfied whether the king and parliament be not near a conclusion of a peace ; for being intrusted by the king , it concerns him to support his honour as long as he can ; and yet withal inclines to have some countrey gentleman come unto him to satisfie him of the state of affaires : taking altogether , it argues a coming to us , though it seems yet a distance , or else a way to get time ( which i rather believe , because he invites a cessation ) until some irish do land , which is the thing rumoured abroad in their army , and expected to be there within eight and forty hours ; and indeed a duplicate of that packet we intercepted at padstow , is since arrived with the enemy , whereby its probable they hasten ships unto them , for the bringing over those irish that were intended for chester into these parts : what ever his intention is , the general will not lose a minute of time : all the regiments this day advanced to and beyond cullomb , within three miles of truro with a great part of the horse ; the headquarter is at bodman with one regiment there , which we leave to secure the passe . to morrow the general and lievtenant general advance after the army , and i believe will quarter at truro to morrow at night : this advance as it is like to further a good effect upon the propositions ( if god incline their hearts unto it ) so it will i hope dispatch the businesse before such time as any irish can land : if there be a treaty it must not be such a one as shall take up above one dayes time : therefore a few dayes will decide that businesse , and i hope ( with gods blessing ) much to your advantage and the peace and welfare of this kingdom . major general pert is run through the body , and shot in the body yet not mortal : there was found in his pocket a copy of a letter to the lords , about the prince , either sent , or to be sent by him , advising them , that now was a good time to trear , before our forces advanced further ; declaring , that they feared else their condition would be desperate . the countrey is very forward to assist in the barrocadoing up of all lanes and passes , where probably the enemy ( if they intend to break through ) may attempt to passe by . this being all i have to trouble you with , i rest , your most faithful and humble servant , i. r. bodman , march 8. 1645. past 12 at night . finis . a new declaration presented to the commons of england concerning certain heads or propositions presented to the kings most excellent majesty, for the voting home his royal consort the queen, and restoring of his majesty to his crown and dignity / printed and published, to be communicated to the free-borne subjects within the kingdome of england and principality of wales. gardiner, james. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a42352 of text r41542 in the english short title catalog (wing g226). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a42352 wing g226 estc r41542 31355540 ocm 31355540 110519 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a42352) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 110519) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1739:15) a new declaration presented to the commons of england concerning certain heads or propositions presented to the kings most excellent majesty, for the voting home his royal consort the queen, and restoring of his majesty to his crown and dignity / printed and published, to be communicated to the free-borne subjects within the kingdome of england and principality of wales. gardiner, james. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 8 p. printed for leonard williamson, for the use of all his majesties loving subjects, oxford : 1647. caption title of first letter: new papers from the armie. attributed to james gardiner by wing (2nd ed.) includes two letters signed: john rushworth. imperfect: print show-through. reproduction of original in the worcester college library (university of oxford) eng charles -i, -king of england, 1600-1649. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a42352 r41542 (wing g226). civilwar no a new declaration presented to the commons of england: concerning certain heads or propositions, presented to the kings most excellent majes gardiner, james 1647 1538 4 0 0 0 0 0 26 c the rate of 26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a new declaration presented to the commons of england : concerning certain heads or propositions , presented to the kings most excellent majesty , for the voting home his royall consort the queen , and restoring of his majesty to his crown and dignity . printed and published , to be communicated to the free-borne subjects within the kingdome of england , and principality of wales . oxford , printed for leonard williamson , for the use of all his majesties loving subjects , 1647. new papers from the armie sir , having lately received a printed paper , entituled , certain heads or propositions presented to the kings most excellent maiesty by the army , which propositions , as they are there entituled , goes under the notion of the whole army in general , which ( as i conceive ) hath been fomented and contrived , by some wicked instruments , who desire to make the breach wider , betwixt the parliament and army , rather then to bring it to a happy close and period . therefore , thus much i dare presume to declare , in behalf of all my fellow-souldiers , that the army had not the least thought of contriving or presenting any such papers to his majesty , to desire the stile or title of his army , or sending for his royall consort the queen over , unlesse they conceived it might tend to the common good of the kingdom ; i have ( to the utmost of my power , endeavoured to find out the authors or fomenters of the said paper , but cannot ( in the least ) find any man guilty of such an action . and therefore , it is further declared , that we doe not desire to change that title , which wee have for these 5 or 6 yeares endeavoured to maintain with the losse of our lives , having obtained many renowned victories under the same ; but according to our former engagements , we desire to see the kingdom setled in peace , his majesty stated in his royal palace at westminster , and the priviledges of parliament , and liberty of the subject , fully maintained and confirmed , our only aymes being to obtain a firme peace , and not a new warre . the governour of warwick castle doth not seem to hold correspondency with the army in their late engagement , but doth utterly renounce and declare against the same . his majesty moves according to the motion of the army , but upon his removall from the earl of salisburies house , the chiefe officers of the army , proposed to his majesty certain propositions , concerning his advance from thence , desiring to know what place his maiesty had a desire to reside at the next night . his majesty is very merry and cheerfull , and desires to see london , his majesty received his two chaplains , dr. hammond , & dr. shelden , very courteously , and ( we hear ) they have had a conference together . for other particulars , concerning the army , i refer you to the ensuing papers . but by the next , you shall hear further from your humble servant . james gardiner . watford iune 29. 1647. my lords and gentlemen , in answer to the letters of the house of commons , which we received from you this expressing their readinesse to receive any particulars , and to hear any witnesses against the gentlemen impeached by the armie , we shall be bold to minde you , that the remonstrance sent to you the last night to be presented to the houses , do expresse the desires of the armie to have the members charged to bee suspended from sitting in the house , which if not granted to us ) we know their interest and prevalency is such , that we can expect but small fruit in a further proceeding except the desires of the armie be answered therein ; nor can we hope for good to the kingdome , or settlement of an happy peace , as long as men of their interests and prevalencie have power to justifie themselves and practises ; who , that they may be able to effect it , do endeavour by all means possible ●o enflame this kingdome in a second war ; so which we shall be forced to the utterost of our powers to apply a timely remedie , as being the onely way and means we know of to prevent the involving this nation again in blood , then whith nothing's more odious to us , by the appointment of his e●cellency sir th. fairfax and the councell of war . john rushworth . st. albans , iune 24 , 1647. another message from the army . my lords and gentlemen , in answer to your desire of a reason of the armies motion this day , i thought fit to let you know , that our quaters are more contracted , but not nearer london then they were before , namely , at watford , vxbridge , and the townes about them . we have often said we cannot stand as lookers on to see the kingdom ruined by the obstruction and denial of justice ; and therefore wee desire you to move the parliament we may not● hee holds still in doubt , and put upon the disputes of their commands , to which we shall yield ready obedience , when we see the kingdom in a possibility of settlement , which we think cannot be , unlesse that the fountain of justice be delivered from those that corrupt it . by the appointment of his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and his councell of warre . iohn rushworth . barkhamstead june 25. 1647. to the right honourable , the lord mayor , aldermen , and common councell of the city of london . my lords and gentlemen , we have in all things dealt cleerly and plainly with you , and hope we shall continue still to doe so : as soon as the worthy aldermen , and the other two gentlemen , your commissioners , came the last night to us , we acquainted them with our purpose , to draw the head-quarter to vxbridge , that so we might contract our quarters , which have hitherto lyen scattered ; at which place we hope to receive that which will be satisfaction to the kingdome , and will remove obstructions out of the way of justice , wherein if right were done , we should let you and all the world see , that we would be so far from pressing near your city of london , it should bee indifferent to us , to march not only to the d●stance prescribed , but to any part of the kingdome we should be commanded to by the parl. wee have asked nothing hitherto but right , in the things that are knowne as if they were proved an hundred times before them from whom they have sought them ; which if granted , would not only be a justice to the army , but would let the kingdome see the fountain in a way to be cleared without which nothing of force or power would be a security to any man . we wish the name of priviledges may not lye in the ballance with the safety of a kingdom , and the reallity of a kingdome , and the reallity of doing , justice ; which as wee wee have said so often , wee cannot expect whilest the persons we have accused are the kingdomes and our judges , a little delay will indanger the putting the kingdome into bloud ; notwithstanding , what hath been said , if it be considered , that in wales , besides under-hand workings in your city and other places , men are raised , and that in no small number ; and are not those men in the parliament , who have continued faithful to the principles of common interest from the beginning of this par. to this very day still awed by the concourse of reformado-officers and others to their doores ; expence of time will be their advantage only , who intend to bring evill purposes to passe . we have written this to you for your satisfaction , that so nothing may be done , without giving you a perfect account of our intentions and ends , and still to continue our assurance to you , that should necessity bring us nearer to the city , our former faith given you shall be observed inviolably , there being nothing more ( next to the good of the kingdome ) in our thoughts and desires , then the prosperity of your city . by the appointment of his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and the councell of war . signed , iohn rushworth . barkhamstead , june 25 , finis . a letter sent from the lord goring directed to the lord maior, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of london, and what was agreed upon, at the receipt thereof also rochester surrendred to the lord fairfax, and his further proceedings in kent, and lieutenant generall cromwells comming [sic] up with his forces : as also the lord gorings passing over the river of thames into essex, and the proceedings of the essex men at bow, and other places. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a48142 of text r10170 in the english short title catalog (wing l1609b). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a48142 wing l1609b estc r10170 12330402 ocm 12330402 59644 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a48142) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 59644) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 639:15) a letter sent from the lord goring directed to the lord maior, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of london, and what was agreed upon, at the receipt thereof also rochester surrendred to the lord fairfax, and his further proceedings in kent, and lieutenant generall cromwells comming [sic] up with his forces : as also the lord gorings passing over the river of thames into essex, and the proceedings of the essex men at bow, and other places. i. t. norwich, george goring, earl of, 1583?-1663. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. [2], 6 p. printed by b.a., london : 1648. consists of a letter by john rushworth to the speaker of the house of commons, a letter signed i.t., and an account concerning a letter sent by lord goring to the court of common council, with further information about lord goring. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a48142 r10170 (wing l1609b). civilwar no a letter sent from the lord goring directed to the lord maior, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of london, and what was agreed upou [sic [no entry] 1648 1660 31 0 0 0 0 0 187 f the rate of 187 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the f category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-06 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-06 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent from the lord goring directed to the lord maior , aldermen , and commonalty of the city of london , and what was agreed upon , at the receipt thereof . also rochester surrendred to the lord fairfax , and his further proceedings in kent , and lieutenant generall cromwells comming up with his forces . as also the lord gorings passing over the river of thames into essex , and the proceedings of the essex men at bow , and other places . london , printed by b. a. mdcx·lviii . to the honourable william lenthal esquire , speaker of the house of commons . sir , the particulars are too many to be related at this time concerning this last nights ingagement with the enemy at maidstone , which in brief was such as never was since these wars began : this army strugled with so much difficulty , to overcome a stubborn and resolute enemy : the fight begun about 7 of the clock at night , about a mile from maidstone , and before we could hear them from hedge to hedge , and get in at the barracado's , it was past nine , after we had entred the town , we disputed every street and turning ; they having 8 pieces of canon , which they discharged above 20 times upon our men in the streets , & by gods mighty help and assistance , we overcame them between 12. and one of the clock at night , being every minute in all that time firing upon their horse and foot , and they upon us , we took about 400. prisoners , and near as many horse , our forlorn hope of horse gave the red standard of horse as gallant a charge as ever was seen , which is said to be gen. hales his troop . the reason why the ingagement began so soon , the train and rear of the army being three miles off ( and not come up ) was , that the forlorn of horse and foot being ingaged in viewing the town before it was dark , came off safe , the enemy being with their wh 〈…〉 of horse and foot within two miles on the top of the hill towards rochester●ll day long in view of our army , about 8000. men , who , as ●hey perceived that they 〈…〉 dispute the pass at alsford , which was very difficult for us to have done ; they sent in a suppply of 1200. horse and foot to those before in the town of 〈…〉 sea-men , apprentices , and most part commanders and cavaliers , there were in all , as we guess , 200. then slain in and about the town , and capt. price a very honest and stout gentleman col. hewsons captain lieutenant , was also slain , and about 30. more of our men , most falling at the mouth of the canon with case-shot ; we took 8 pieces , six iron and two brass abundance of arms , having been up all night , and want of time cannot send more particulars at present : only i desire god to let you see , how the old quarrell is revived by the same party , with greater violence then at first . you will shortly understand what earls , lords , and other persons of quality appeared in this businesse . his excellency from the first minute of ingagement to the last ; could not be drawne off from a personall and hazzardous attendance on the service , and is much impaired in his health . maidstone , june 2. 1648. 6 in the morning . iohn rushworth . another letter frm maidstone . sir , in my last le●ter i acquainted you of our marching towards this town according to the advice of a councell of war , which was thought and conceived more facile and better to ingage the enemy then at rochester , or nor●●eet , and when we drew neer maidstone we found the lanes barracado'd with trees and other things which were thrown in the ways , and the hedges loyn'd with musqueteers , yet after some time spent , ( with great difficulty ) we beat them from one place to another , till we had driven them back into the very town , and at the bridge we found little opposition , but the streets were strongest fortified , and the stou●●iest defended of any that i have known in all the late unhappy wars , their ordinance loaded with case shot did us some mischief before we could get under their shot the rain was more disadvantage to us then unto them ; for they shot out of windowes and at doors , but in this service the fire-locks were of great use unto us . from the time we had begun the fight till we had gotten the town was six or seven hours , in the first action i cannot but observe unto you the gallantry of a party of about sixty of our horse , which charged another party of theirs , where ours gave them a through charge , and did that evecution upon them , that it is thought , there was not a man of the enemies party that was not slain or wounded . in this town were above 2000 men , amongst which were few of the kentish country men , but sea-men , water-men , and such as came to them from london , which were chosen out as the only fighting men they had among●● them ; of these we took about 1400 ●risoners , horse and foot , of which you will have a list by the next ; they ar● for the present put into maidstone church : our horse are gone forth in parties towards rochester , to discover the enemies main body ; we hear that all is quiet about dover , and in the wild of kent , and i pray god that all other towns and places may avoid the bringing of that ruine upon themselves , as is befallen upon this town , we are very weary with travel and much watching , therefore i take my leave and rest . your assured friend , i. t. die sabbathi 3 junij 1648. on sat●urday the 3 of this instant iune ne●es was brought to the city of london that the essex men had gotten into a body and placed two drakes on bow bridge , three or four miles from london and stood there in a posture but 〈◊〉 none that passed that w●y , it was said they in●end not to ma●ch out of their county . at the same time it was also certi●i●d that the lord g●uring was in greenwich park with diverse collou●● of hors● a●d foot and about noon he sent a message to the lord major and alder●●● and commonal●y of the city of london , and the●e being at the same time sitting a court of common councell some debate was concerning the supersciption of this letter and it appeareth that it was not directed in the usuall proper stile for that court , it was conceived , that th●re was a consideration betwixt him and those which were so desirous of a common hall which they thought to have gotten this day , and by this letter to breed division and distraction it was therfore agreed by the said common councell that the said letter and the messenger that brought it , should be sent up to the parliament which was done accordingly and the milita took great pains to set the city in good and ready posture . out of kent it was certified that this party which were with the lord goring came from rochester for his excellency the lord fairfax being passed on the oother side of the water at maidstone we bridg the kentish forces fearing that they should be forced to fight or be all pend up suddenly in a corner of th●e county th●se came away on this side the river againe intending thereihereby to get some more to them from london or to draw the a●my back again before the other part of the county be quite ●●●ded or to intercept what should go to his excellency , but he may b● prevented in this for letters came this day that lieutenant generall cromwell with a gallant party of horse is returned ●●t of wales and it was thought that this night his quarters would be about mayden-head wich is but 22. miles london . die solis 4 iunij 1648 this morning we understand that the l. goring with about two or 3000 men fearing the pursuit of the l g. forces , ferried over the river of thames neer greenwich into essex . on sunday the 4 of june 2 drakes were brought up to asgate , and there planted . this day about 12 of the clock letters out of kent certifiing that the kentish men except such as came away with l. goring , which were about rochester side are dispersed , and gone to their homes having layd down their arms , and and the city of rochester is in the possession of the lord generall . about this time col : whaley with a good party of his excellencies horse came back out of kent over one the essex side of the river thames and had his randezvous on miling-green which is between bow and london he sent many prisners which they had taken to guild-hall , and the lord gen : is expected to return suddenly . imprimatur gilbert mabbott . finis . sir thomas fairfax's proceedings in the vvest against the enemy since he advanced to bodman in cornvval sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. wherein is a list of the names of the lord mohuns and divers other persons of quality of that county that are come in to the parliament. together with the cornish petition to sir tho: fairfax, for their acceptance to joyn with him in this cause. also a summons sent to the lord hopton. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this letter and petition be forthwith printed and published. h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57924 of text r220878 in the english short title catalog (wing r2330a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 10 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57924 wing r2330a estc r220878 99832263 99832263 36735 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57924) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 36735) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2057:8) sir thomas fairfax's proceedings in the vvest against the enemy since he advanced to bodman in cornvval sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. wherein is a list of the names of the lord mohuns and divers other persons of quality of that county that are come in to the parliament. together with the cornish petition to sir tho: fairfax, for their acceptance to joyn with him in this cause. also a summons sent to the lord hopton. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this letter and petition be forthwith printed and published. h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. proceedings. 1646-03. 8 p. printed for edw. husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet, neer the inner-temple, london : march 7. 1645. [i.e. 1646] signed on page 7: jo. rushworth. publication year is given according to lady day dating. imperfect; pages have print show-through. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. eng great britain -campaigns -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a57924 r220878 (wing r2330a). civilwar no sir thomas fairfax's proceedings in the vvest against the enemy since he advanced to bodman in cornvval: sent to the honoble william lenthal rushworth, john 1646 1685 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion sir thomas fairfax's proceedings in the vvest against the enemy since he advanced to bodman in cornvval : sent to the honoble william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . wherein is a list of the names of the lord mohuns and divers other persons of quality of that county that are come in to the parliament . together with the cornish petition to sir tho : fairfax , for their acceptance to joyn with him in this cause . also a summons sent to the lord hopton . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this letter and petition be forthwith printed and published . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . march 7. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker to the honorable house of commons . sir , in my last i gave you an accompt of the armies being at bodman , listithiel , and parts thereabouts ; since that time we have not advanced ( it being held fit to spend two or three dayes in securing as far as we are gone , and leaving all safe behinde us ( the businesse of mount edgecomb hath somewhat taken up our time , i hope to good purpose ; for this day came mr. coriton , mr. lower , mr. glanvile , ( all formerly members of the house of commons ) and mr. trevisa to the general from mr. edgecomb , concerning the surrender of this fort , and disbanding of his regiment and the forces thereabouts , which is agreed unto , i hope upon such conditions as will not be unacceptable to the parliament . what influence this , and the coming in of other gentlemen of this county , may have upon the rest of the countrey , you may easily perceive , especially if you consider the quality of the persons of those that are already come in , and desire to live under the protection of the parliament : viz. the lord mohun . sir iohn trelawny . colonel trelawny . sir nicholas lower . thomas lower esq pierce edgecomb esq william scawen esq mr. corriton . william bond esq richard edgecomb esq mr. glanvile esq major nicholas saul . capt. william bond of earth . capt. bourn . capt. william saul . alexander lower esq mr. francis saul . nath : trevanion of tregerthen esq major william trevisa of crokedon esq iohn battersby esq richard spurre esq io : roe of trewurnan esq iohn horndon , col : champernoon . mr. rashly . mr. iohn trevery , governour of foy . mr. bagley . mr. walter hele . lieut. colonel fortescue . major warren . sir richard prideaux , high sheriff of the county , and divers others . also mr. arrundel the papist , a man of power , desires to be under the protection of the parliament . and as a further testimony of the reallity of some others of the inhabitants of this county neer st. columb ( and yet in a manner now in the power of the enemy ) this ensuing petition delivered by the hands of mr. vivian , with the consent of the inhabitants of those parts where he lives , will in some measure shew their affection to the parliament . to the right honourable sir thomas fairfax knight , captain general of the forces , raised by the high court of parliament under his command ; and other the renowned vvorthies of that army . right honourable , wee ( though not an acceptable number of a more unacceptable county ) having by gods blessing , so fair an advantage of giving our due respects to your honour , do with them present our persons also ; which we most unfainedly protest have been hitherto by us , most vnvoluntarily separated , as our former readinesse and frequent indeavours to advance this service ; besides imprisonments , fines , or other most miserable sufferings , the same can evidently testifie : and therefore we first blesse the great lord of hosts , by whose providence you are made such victorious ministers of our diliverance from such intollerable bondage ; and next to our great and wise counsel , by whose publike care and mission , we have the happinesse this day to see you conquerors for the preservation of our religion , so long violated , and restitution of our liberty so long inthralled : neither may we omit a grateful acknowledgement of the unexampled valour and vigilance , which have been so magnanimously exercited for the reducing of this unhappy kingdom from the woful condition of a bloody war , to so fair hopes of an assured and most happy peace : and now since it hath pleased god thus to blesse us ; we presume not to motion through difference your future care of his glory , and the common wealths good ; having so many rare examples of your readinesse to defend both : however , give us leave as a people that is our great grief and misery have so long a time wanted the happy influence and equity of the law to relieve us , to mention our desires of their reparation ; whereby also to distinguish our selves from those which have with an high hand indeavoured to subvert them : and as hitherto you have not wanted our prayers to god for a blessing upon your counsels and actions . so now , your honour shall not want the ready , though weak assistance , so far as the lives and fortunes shall extend of your servants and faithful vocaries . the taking into consideration this petition , and the coming in of the persons afore-mentioned ; as also the rising of the inhabitants at camelford , ginny-hill , and other parts in the east and north of cornwal : for our assistance it was held fit to summon a posse of five or six of the hundreds , to appear at bodman-down to morrow being friday , where some will be fitted with instructions , to impart the generals minde unto them : for to morrow , part of the army advances to s. columbe and other parts ; the enemy is retreated from castle-dennis , and last night had his head-quarter about truro : some part of their forces at s. allens , and kept guard neer s. columb ; as our staying here three dayes will prove to our advantage in setling these eastern parts of the countrey ; so we are confident it will do so for the western ; for gerings horse will sufficiently incline the people to wish the coming of this army for their ease and preservation . the enemy gave out they would plunder truro , because the people there already appear for us ; but it was answered , whether should they go with their plunder when they had it : several of the princes servants have sent unto the general for passes to come in , and to repair to their homes ; which i conceive they now solicite for , in regard the prince is gone to sea : but where he is landed , we yet hear not . last night a vessel out of ireland came into padstow , the townsmen seized upon her , and three other vessels , going out with plundred goods , and sent to our forces at war-bridge for assistance , which was this morning accordingly sent unto him . a spie is just now come from the enemies quarters ; most of their force are north of truro : we shall be very neer truro to morrow night . i beleeve the general after one dayes advance , will send a summons to the lord hopton . i take my leave , and rest your most faithful and humble servant , io. rushworth . bodman , march 5. two in the afternoon . 1645. since the writing of my letter , here is cap. farre come from padstow , who with cap. wogan boarded the irish vessel ; and with the assistance of the towns-men and towns-women put them all to the sword but two , about thirty in all , wicked natural irish . god hath most seasonably brought that vessel thither : it enrages the countrey against the kings party , for bringing in of forraigners . these are but the fore-runners of many thousands speedily to come over , as by their packets of great concernment , appears : indeed , of so great concernment considering from whom they come , that it is not fit to be lightly mentioned : they were thrown into the sea , yet recovered ; an expresse is to come up with them : we have cause to blesse god for such a mercy . several of those letters subscribed by glamorgan , ormond and digby , were this day read to mr. corriton , mr. lower , mr. glanvile , mr. trevisa , &c. and one of the two that had not his throat cut , was brought before them , which hath further satisfied them of the kings intentions , and ready preparations to bring in bloody irish rebels into his kingdom , that they offer , to the hazard of life and estate , in person to oppose them . i will say no more till the letters come : pardon my haste . bodman , march 5 , 1645. six at night . a summons is gone to hopton . the letters bear date the twenty eighth of february last . i beseech you to hasten ships to the irish coasts . finis . a more full and exact relation (being the third letter to the honorable william lenthal esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons) of the several treaties between sir tho. fairfax and sir ralph hopton, and of his coming into the parliament. together with the coming in of the gentry of that county to sir thomas, and the taking of saint mawes, the principle fort of pendennis castle. which letter was read in the house of commons. 17. martii. 1645. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. h. elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a92119 of text r200677 in the english short title catalog (thomason e328_15). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a92119 wing r2327 thomason e328_15 estc r200677 99861356 99861356 113489 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a92119) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 113489) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 53:e328[15]) a more full and exact relation (being the third letter to the honorable william lenthal esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons) of the several treaties between sir tho. fairfax and sir ralph hopton, and of his coming into the parliament. together with the coming in of the gentry of that county to sir thomas, and the taking of saint mawes, the principle fort of pendennis castle. which letter was read in the house of commons. 17. martii. 1645. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. h. elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. 8 p. printed for edw. husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet, neer the inner-temple., london, : march 18. 1645. [i.e. 1646] dated and signed on page 8: truro, march 13. 12 at night. 1645. j.r. [i.e. john rushworth]. wing has publication year 1645[6]; thomason catalogue lists under 1646. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng hopton, ralph hopton, -baron, 1598-1652 -early works to 1800. fairfax, thomas fairfax, -baron, 1612-1671 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -treaties -early works to 1800. a92119 r200677 (thomason e328_15). civilwar no a more full and exact relation (being the third letter to the honorable william lenthal esquire, speaker of the honorable house of commons) rushworth, john 1645 1849 2 0 0 0 0 0 11 c the rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-05 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-05 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a more full and exact relation ( being the third letter to the honorable william lenthal esquire , speaker of the honorable house of commons ) of the several treaties between sir tho. fairfax and sir ralph hopton , and of his coming into the parliament . together with the coming in of the gentry of that county to sir thomas , and the taking of saint mawes , the principle fort of pendennis castle . which letter was read in the house of commons . 17. martii . 1645. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this letter be forthwith printed and published . h. elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband , printed to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . march 18. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker to the honorable house of commons . sir , this is the third i sent unto you since the treaty with the lord hopton ; the time may seem somwhat long since it began ; yet if you will consider the many particulars that are to be insisted upon concerning the disbanding of an army ( though it be sooner disbanded then raised ) you will not think the time too long that hath been spent about the same : it is now finished , subscribed by both generals , and hostages given : they consist of many particulars , and are very long ; and therefore i will not presume to touch upon any of them , lest i do mistake , but leave you to the articles at large when they come up ; onely this ( in general ) the field-force in the west of england is to be dissolved : to morrow at eight of the clock , the first brigade of english ( of horse ) are to be at a rendezvouz , and there every officer to receive his pass , first giving his ingagement never to bear arms against the parliament ( the like ingagement hath not been given on any articles ) and every common trooper to be dismounted , to deliver up his horse and arms , and to receive the promised reward of twenty shillings to bear their charges home ( it being too little for many of them ( my countrey-men ) that have neer five hundred english miles home ) it is not to be credited how much this army is become in their esteem , during this cessation ; and what sorrowful expressions many of them do make ; that they have been thus deluded concerning our carriage ; the most ingenuous of them affirming , the wayes of the court at oxford have never been rightly represented unto them . officers and souldiers unanimously desire imployment for ireland , being willing to take the sacrament-oath , or to give what other obligation shall be thought fit , that as they will never bear arms in england against the parliament , so will they not when they are imployed in ireland by the parliament , desist from pursuing their commands against the irish rebels , upon anp invitations of the kings : they affirming , they have sufficiently smarted for being inticed formerly by him . this i onely offer to your consideration , to make what use of it shall be thought convenient ; and if it shall be thought fit to imploy them into ireland , it is requisite some of the committee of the army for irish affairs , or other chief officer be sent down with all possible speed that may be to salisbury , where these may be met marching to their several homes , and will be ready to hearken to any proposition of imployment that way : likewise some of the horses may be allowed to go upon that service , if it be desired , which is thought better to be granted ( upon a second consideration ) then at the disbanding to permit them , to let them and their horses quarter in a body upon the countrey , and give those disturbances that the other horse of this kinde have done neer basing . i think you may have a thousand officers , souldiers , and reformadoes by the first of april , will be at any rendezvouz upon the sea-coasts to be mounted and transported for ireland . it is now a fit time to take the same into consideration , which is the onely cause of my presumption to mention it unto you , if the wisdom of the parliament shall think fit to imploy them again . every hour more gentlemen of quality do come in : and this day colonel trevanian come from peurin , and some of his officers came to truro with their colours flying , and their men armed , even from the lord hoptons head-quarter . this hath wrought such operation upon the governour at st. mawes ( the principal fort that commands the haven at falmouth , having a greater command thereof , then the castle and fort of pendennis ) that he hath sent to the general to be received into favour , and will deliver up the castle , fort , ordnance , arms and ammunition : and accordingly there is forces sent away this night to take possession thereof . thus you see how god doth work for us , and for the good and welfare of this land ; and let nothing in this great businesse done in this countrey in so short a time , where so little hopes of successe was expected , be attributed unto man , but solely unto god who orders affairs thus so much for the publike good . arundel the governour of pendennis , sent to tempt the governour at st. mawes to come in the castle of pendennis , he refused the same , and as aforesaid craved the aid of this army . there are two great brasse pieces of ordnance in the fort , of about four thousand weight a piece . for the castle of pendennis , i make no doubt as soon as this army is totally disbanded ( which though it begin to morrow , will take too or three dayes before it be ended ) make what speed we can ; we shall finde them tractable ; if not , we shall settle this county in such a posture of security against that place , as will compel them in a short time to hearken to worse propositions then they now might have had , if they persist in a refusal of the summons intended to be sent them . sir john arundel , ( who sent formerly ) sir john meux , sir henry hastings , and many other commanders and gentlemen of quality , have all accepted of passes and protections ; and ( unaminously ) officers and souldiers do all agree , and would be engaged by oath to oppose french , or irish ( though of the kings sending in ) to their utmost : and that which hath wrought upon many of their spirits , and ( especially of the whole county of cornwal ) was , the letter sent from glamorgan ( his majesties principal agent with the irish rebels ) signifying to the prince an intention , to send over irish ( being a duplicate of that packet which we took at padstow . ) thus hath god turned that to the kings , and the bloody irish rebels disadvantage , which he and they had thought to have made their means of continuing the war in england : and i hope god will so order it , that those men they expected here to fight for them , will be as valiant , and as zealous as any against them . to morrow assoon as the first brigade is disbanded , there goeth forces towards pendennis ; and as there is occasion to give you an account of that , or any other businesse , you shall not fail to receive the same . i thought good to send this messenger post with this , lest my former letters did miscarry , or mis-reports should arise by the long continuance of this treaty , desiring you to consider him for the greatnesse of the journey : none should have been more willing to have undertaken it then my self , but that the businesse of the atmy is now greater then ever it hath been , since i had the honour and happinesse to serve therein . this day some of the princes servants who are come to the head-quarters , say that the prince is landed at ceely , that they left him there , that his condition is mean : provisions must be sent from hence , or he , and that poor family with him cannot long subsist . they curse hyde and culpepper , and desire they might have no other executioner then themselves , for the treason committed by them in carrying away the prince , and to be so deceitfull in doing the same , as to publish a declaration in the princes name , the day before he went , that there was no such intention , and that none about him should presume to speak a word to that purpose , and yet the next day on a sudden shipp'd him , and carried him to sea : he was three dayes at sea before he got to ceely , the winde being crosse , and forced him to sayl at a distance . there is such care taken in the army by the general and lieutenant general , that i am confident , not one man that came off upon this treaty , shall be plundered to the value of two pence : so much our souldiers have forgotten former injuries , and inclinable ( i may say it ) and ( beyond expectation ) to requite good for evil . it is late , and i have much businesse more to do this night , in order to the businesse to morrow , and therefore must abruptly break of , and remain , truro , march 13. 12 at night . 1645. your most humble and faithful servant , j. r. this bearer was through the greatest part of h 〈…〉 army , and see their horse ; some good , some bad , about four thousand in all : our men have gotten already choice horses , by exchange , and buying at low rates ▪ and by that means we shall have most of the officers horses ; for they want money as well as the souldiers . finis . a true relation concerning the late fight at torrington between the forces under the command of sir thomas fairfax, and the forces under the command of lord hopton and others : sent in a letter to the honorable william lenthal esq., speaker of the honorable house of commons, and by him appointed to be forthwith printed and published. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57927 of text r25118 in the english short title catalog (wing r2334a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57927 wing r2334a estc r25118 08769391 ocm 08769391 41763 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57927) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 41763) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1268:12) a true relation concerning the late fight at torrington between the forces under the command of sir thomas fairfax, and the forces under the command of lord hopton and others : sent in a letter to the honorable william lenthal esq., speaker of the honorable house of commons, and by him appointed to be forthwith printed and published. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. lenthall, william, 1591-1662. 8 p. printed for edward husband, london : 1645. signed and dated: j.r., feb. 17. reproduction of original in the harvard university library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -sources. a57927 r25118 (wing r2334a). civilwar no a true relation concerning the late fight at torrington, between the forces under the command of sir thomas fairfax, and the forces under th rushworth, john 1646 2084 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 b the rate of 5 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-03 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-03 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true relation concerning the late fight at torrington , between the forces under the command of sir thomas fairfax , and the forces under the command of the lord hopton and others . sent in a letter to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons , and by him appointed to be forthwith printed and published : london : printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons . feb. 20. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , saturday febr. 14. the army marched from crediton and the quarters thereabout to chimleigh , being ten miles , the day very rainy , and the way very deep ; sunday they marched very early to a rendezvouz some two miles in the way to torrington , with intention to have gone on ; but our parties of our horse bringing in some prisoners ▪ by whose examinations we could not certainly learn which way the enemy bent , the certain knowledge whereof would mightily advantage us , by taking the benefit of that side of the river on which they marched ; whereupon another party was sent out of col : butlers troop , the forlorn of which party being twelve , took twelve of the lord gorings life-guard , and twenty four horse , and brought them to the general ; upon their examination it appears , the enemy was ignorant of our motion ; that they were drawn to no rendezvouz ; that the lord hopton was in torrington . presently after there came a spye from torrington , who informed that that morning he left the lord hopton there , that they heard a kinde of an alarm , but no certain intelligence of our motion . and being informed that a party of the enemies horse was at burrington , the general sent a party of horse to meet with them , who accordingly charged the enemy , put them to a rout , shot lieut. colonel dundash through the body , and took several prisoners , and brought dundash three miles on the way , but being mortally wounded , as himself conceived , was inforced to leave him at ringash , a foot quarter of ours . this is the same dundash that ran to the enemy when the earl of essex's army lay about tame : this lieut. colonel commanded the lord of clevelands brigade ; the party of horse that charged dundash , was commanded by captain barry of rutlandshire , who lost never a man ; but only his brother run through the arm , and one mr. needler of captain knights troop shot in the arm ; we sent another party of horse towards the east , who likewise met with their horse , and took three prisoners and some horse , and shot major bret , who being well mounted escaped , those forces confesse that hopton was ignorant of our motion ; by this time the bridge was made up some two miles off chimleigh , the which the enemy had broken down , so that our army might with convenience march over : but the day being so far spent , it was not held fit to march the whole army , so three regiments of horse , and three of foot marched some four milss towards the enemy ; that night the rest returned ro chimleigh with orders to march ; by break of day we did think the several alarms given them this day had so affrighted them , that their resolutions would have been taken before morning , whether to go east or west , the certain knowledge whereof , was the thing we much desired , and would guide us the better to pursue our designes . munday febr. 16. the general with that party of the army that was at chimleigh , marched up to the rest of the army to ringash , and had there a rendezvouz ; and afterwards , upon the moor within five miles of torrington bad a general rendezvouz both of horse and foot , drew them up in battalia , and so marched up towards the enemy . when we came within two miles of torrington , our forlorn hope of horse charged theirs , and put them to a retreat ; whereupon they came on again with a very strong party , and put ours to a stand ; the reserves of our forlorn being come up , and some foot , forced them to their body again . when we came neer squire rolls his house , we had intelligence that there was a party of 200 firelocks and muskettiers left to defend that place ; therefore the army made an halt half a mile in the eastside thereof , till the foot came up ; which the enemy perceiving , as they might easily do , by reason of the hills and clearnesse of the day , quit the house , and drew their forces to torrington : our forlorn of horse and foot advanced to squire rolls his house , half a mile further towards torrington , there being several skirmishes in the narrow lane , between the forlorn hope on both sides , and several prisoners taken on each ; but most by our party . the enemy drew their foot out of the town into the closes about a quarter of a mile : our forlorn hope of foot lined the hedges , and so faced each other for about two hours , within half a musket shot , exchanging course language and bullets , now and then ; after all , the foot and horse were come up , and drawn up in mr. rolls his park : a party of 800 foot was sent to second the forlorn . in case the enemy should endeavour to put any affront upon them also , a regiment was immediately sent to assist them , who were no sooner come up to the rest , but it began to be dark , a councel of war was called , what was fit to be done ; whether to engage before day or not , for that it being dark , the enemy might lay ambuscadoes , they knowing the ground better then we ; whereupon the general , lieutenant general , with the rest of the colonels , deferred a resolution , and rid from mr. rolls his house up to the forlorn hope , to see in what posture our forces were set , and by prisoners to know what the enemy intended while they were there . the tattoo was heard to beat in the town , which assured us the enemy still continued in the town , not flying away as several reports would have made us believe ; but to be certain of the same , six dragooners were commanded to creep under a hedge near the barracadoes , and to give fire , to see if they would answer ; by which we might know whither they stood to defend the town . the enemy received the charge , and answered it with a very sharp volley of shot . our forlorn hope seeing the dragooners engaged , they gave fire ; whereupon the enemy gave fire all along the hedges and works , thereupon the reserve to the forlorn came on to relieve them , and so being engaged , the whole army advanced ; and about eight at night the battel begun some six fields from the town , and so we fought from hedge to hedge , until we beat them into their barracadoes , which they maintained for an hour after very manfully , our men being often repulsed , yet at last got over the barracadoes , and forced the enemy into the town ; whereupon the the horse were let in , who scowring the streets , were received by the enemy , and a hot charge given by both parties ; yet it pleased god at last we drave them out of the barracadoes at the furthest end of the town , and by this time many prisoners were taken , and put into the church : but far more escaped , being dark , over the hedges and by-wayes , which was not possible for us to prevent , throwing down their arms , and every man flying several wayes for life : our forces were no sooner possest of the town , but the enemies magazine which they left in the church was fired ; whether on purpose by the enemy , or by accident , we cannot yet learn : but it proved a terrible blow , not onely blowing up the church with all the wood and lead that was upon it , deforming many houses in the town , but killed some of the prisoners in the church , and some of our men that were in the church yard ; two great webbs of lead fell within twice a horse length of the general ; but it pleased god he escaped , though in imminent danger ; many others being hurt , both with the timber , stones and lead , most of the town was shaken by this blow , being the terriblest that hath been seen in the memory of man , there being neer eighty barrels , of powder blown up together , and one whole barrel which were blown out of the church into the street , which took not fire : the enemy perceiving their magazine to be thus fired , gave one charge more with their horse up to our barracadoes , commanded by sir iohn digby , brother to the lord digby , but our muskettiers gave fire ; whereupon they took their farewel . our horse instantly advanced through the town after them , and begun the pursuite about eleven at night ; and i hope will give a good accompt of the businesse . thus it hath pleased god in an instant to scatter those forces of the lord hoptons , his infantry being taken , slain , and totally routed , his horse , many taken and dispersed , and the rest gone in great disorder toward cornwal , as we hear , where shortly i hope we shall meet with the remnant left of that crew , and put an end to the field enemy in the west of england , they confest they had eight regiments of horse , consisting of two thousand five hundred men ; some other of that their officers that are prisoners say three thousand ; be they more or lesse , they are very resolute men , fought valiantly ; and after they were chased from hedge to hedge , defended their barracadoes and works at push of pike , and with the but-end of their muskets , till our foot got over a hedge , flanckt them , that they were forced to quit it : they were old cornish foot , and all greenviles and gorings old souldiers , english and irish , were engaged in this service , but now are scattered , threw down their arms , and fled for their lives . we have abundance of men wounded , officers and souldiers more then hath been at any storm since the army came forth : for indeed every hedge was it were a bulwark to the enemy ; so strong are the hedges in these parts ; but few slain , we killed many of the enemy , both horse and foot . the particulars of this businesse you will have more fully hereafter ; let the glory be given unto god , i am sir your most faithful servant , i. r. torrington feb. 17. some of their horse we hear are going towards barnstaple ; colonel cook is that way : however , it will be needful colonel whaley quarters near newbery with some of his horse to follow any party that may come to oxford , and not divert our horse that are on so probable a design to further the weal of england . finis . a letter sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons concerning sir tho: fairfax's gallant proceedings in cornwal, since his advance from torrington and launceston to bodman, where they have taken divers prisoners, and prince charls driven into pendennis-castle. appointed by the honorable william lenthal esq; to be forthwith printed and published. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57921 of text r200654 in the english short title catalog (wing r2322). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57921 wing r2322 estc r200654 99834917 99834917 39563 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57921) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 39563) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2215:9) a letter sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons concerning sir tho: fairfax's gallant proceedings in cornwal, since his advance from torrington and launceston to bodman, where they have taken divers prisoners, and prince charls driven into pendennis-castle. appointed by the honorable william lenthal esq; to be forthwith printed and published. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 8 p. printed for edw. husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet, neer the inner-temple, london : march 7. 1645. [i.e. 1646] signed on a3r: j.r. [i.e. john rushworth]. publication year is given according to lady day dating; wing has 1645[6]; thomason catalogue lists under 1646. reproduction of the original in the henry e. huntington library and art gallery (early english books). eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. a57921 r200654 (wing r2322). civilwar no a letter sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. concerning sir tho: fairfax's gallant proceedin rushworth, john 1646 2048 5 0 0 0 0 0 24 c the rate of 24 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-06 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2003-06 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter sent to the honoble william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . concerning sir tho : fairfax's gallant proceedings in cornwal , since his advance from torrington and launceston to bodman , where they have taken divers prisoners , and prince charls driven into pend●nnis-castle . appointed by the honorable william lenthal esq to be forthwith printed and published . london , printed for edw. husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . march 7. 1645. to the honourable w. lenthal esq speaker to the honourable house of commons . sir , in my last i acquainted you with the armies coming to launceston , and of the taking 300 horse neer stratton . by reason of the long marches the foot had taken , and many straglers behinde , the general and the army rested at launceston two dayes ; and on saturday last , the army advanced five or six miles towards bodman . and this day the horse and foot had a general rendezvouz upon the downs within eight miles of bodman ; the forlorn hope being sent out , they met with the enemies scouts , there being eight of them together , which our men took ( not one escaping ) they all confesse they had no intelligence of our coming ; that they belonged to a guard of 300 horse that was kept on a passe within three miles of bodman ; and within two miles where they were taken , the army advancing neer to that place , we discovered a body of the enemies horse , at about two miles distance , who made a stand , and faced us for a while ; but before ever we came neer them , retreated to bodman : a● we were upon the moo●s , intelligence came , that the two companies of dragoons that were sent towards camelford the other and had possest an house , the better to gain intelligence . if the enemy intended to break through eastward , were in some haz●rd by a great body of the enemies horse that were got between them , and the rendezvous , and forced them into a close for their security ; whereupon a thousand horse were sent to relieve them , but before they came , the dragoons themselves had beaten off the enemy , and made good their retreat to a church , without the losse of a man . sir iames smith with his brigade , was the man that had a designe to have surprized them ; but now we are in a manner gotten between him and bodman ; for the army quarters in the field , and all the villages hereabouts , that he can hardly make his retreat , unlesse he took the opportunity before our horse came up . at our coming into cornwal , especially at launceston , we found the people possest with an opinion , that there would be no mercy shewn unto the cornish ; but after a dayes being at launceston , the town seeing the carriage of the souldier so fair , and not one house plundered ( not so much as the governours own house ) and the country being possest with the like opinion of the civil carriage of this army , came into the market , and brought in provisions for supply of our forces ; but in regard gorings forces had plundred the countrey of all their horse , people were glad to bring it in on their backs . and friday being the day for the posse of the whole countrey to appear at bodman ; all the north part of cornwal refused to appear , they positively affirming , they found us friends , and not enemies ; and those that were on the westside of bodman , likewise refused to come in , saying , they had not greater enemies then gorings horse that were among them . a gentleman whom i spake withall this day , who was at their meeting said . the horse onely appeared , the posse foot wholly refused to come in ; and indeed , there cannot be a greater advantage to us , then to drive gorings horse before us ; for there carriages are so barbarous , that they make every mans hand against them where they come : the army had been this night at bodman , but in regard the enemy is numerous in horse , and that we marched much upon the downs , and was like to be late before we could get in , it was held fit to quarter in the fields and villages here abouts , and the next day to march in a close body , horse and foot ; though it be the slower way , yet it is the more secure : the prisoners that were taken this day , told me , they were glad with all their hearts they were taken upon so fair quarter , for they knew they should be all taken at last ( they said ) and that they give themselves already for lost : and indeed , god hath stroken their hearts with a terrour . some gentlemen of quality have sent privately for protections , whose not appearing against us , though not for us , keeps all that part of the countrey in , where they are , and just now we have intelligence , that the lord mo●un is unwilling to obey the l. hoptons commands , and rather stands upon his guard against his forces , then to assist him with any : as far as i can conceive in my poor judgement , we shall drive the enemy to a corner ; and it may please god to bring their horse to accept of conditions , as well as formerly they did bring our foot ; for unlesse this very night they do break through , which they can hardly do , considering how our forces are laid , we have them then before us to the lands end . st. blessenden , march 1. 1645. your most humble servant , i. r. the messenger staying till the next morning , i thought fit to give you this further account of the enemies motion and our proceedings : this morning by break of the day , the army was drawn to a rendezvouz upon the heath within two miles of bodman , a party being sent out to discover if the enemy were in the town , brought intelligence they quit the town last night about ten of the clock , horse and foot , the lord hopton bringing up the rear himself : the most of the foot they had were welchmen , having leeks in their hats , and drunk , and went out disorderly : they march'd toward truro with a good part of their horse ; the rest of their horse we this morning received intelligence marched towards ware-bridge , as if they intended to go eastward ; whereupon lieut. general cromwel who went the night before to relieve our dragoons , was sent unto by the general to desire him to secure the passage at ware-bridge , by placing some dragoons there ; who being there with one thousand horse , and four hundred dragoons , will give a seasonable interruption to the enemies advance that way . we finde the towns-people in bodman no wayes fearful of our coming , rather desiring it : they say they have had no market these two market dayes , by reason that gorings horse rob'd the market people , and take away their horses . there were two regiments of foot and two of horse sent this morning from their rendezvouz about nine of the clock , to assist those forces at ware-bridge , where by we might the better drive the enemy before us into a narrow compasse of land . at this place where we are , we may see the sea on both hands ; if the enemy had had any gallantry left in them , they would have shew'd it upon our approach to bodman , their onely strength consisting in horse , where they had room enough upon the downs to play their game , but they never appeared but once , and that at two miles distance , and retreated . i have spoken with some of the inhabitants of this town , who were at the grand posse at bodman on friday last , and they affirm , that of the whole county of cornwal , there did not appear eighty men ; but gorings horse , and the horse of the county , all appeared in a great body , those foot that were in bodman , were some of the runawayes from torrington , and some welchmen that were left at launceston , and fled hither , and some others of the countrey , in all to the number of four hundred at the most , which is the onely body of infantry they have left that we can yet hear of : the same intelligencer confirmed , that the lord mahone is either restrained or wounded by the lord hopton ; yet the certainty thereof , more then the publique report of the countrey , we cannot yet hear . i doubt it falls out ill we have not a squadron of ships towards falmouth , where no doubt they may have rich booty , and intercept persons of great quality . several letters have been sent unto plymouth , to the commander in chief upon these coasts ; we hope that they will yet come seasonable : the prince is at pendennis , and i believe within two dayes will be in france if the wind hold . the head quarter was this night at bodman ; three regiments marched to listithiel to secure the passage that way : the forlorn hope of horse that went thither , made the enemy quit their guard at listithiel ; and receiving information that four wain-load of ammunition was in the way to go from listithiel to foy , six of the troopers rode after it , and made the convoy desert their charge , and brought back the four load of ammunition this night to bodman , there being ten oxen to every draught : likewise a party being sent out another way , overtook forty two musketiers , who had their matches lighted , and muskets loaden , four troopers rode up unto them , and made them all lay down their arms , and brought them back prisonets to the head quarter . another party was sent towards truro , to discover whether the enemies horse remained in a body , and at castle-dennis discovered a body of about a thousand horse an hour before night , which we conceive onely staid till the darknesse of the night to draw off , after the rest further west ; they are so alarm'd by our parties , that they are forced to keep in bodies , and can hardly go to quarter , which will quickly make them weary and over-watcht , and altogether unfit to break through , if they had any such intention , which i believe now they have not : that we keep strong guards at listhiel , war-bridge , and the fords upon both rivers . sir iohn greenviles lieutenant colonel , and divers others are taken prisoners . bodman , march 2. ten at night . the messenger staying till tuesday morning , march 3. i can onely adde , that our intelligence is , the enemy bends west , onely a party of horse to face us : this day some quarters remove towards st. cullam , the way to truro . the messenger takes pains for so long a journey . finis . two letters sent to the honoble [sic] william lenthal esq., speaker of the honorable house of commons the one, concerning the great victory obtained at cardiffe by the parliaments forces under the command of major general laughorn wherein were slain about two hundred and fifty, eight hundred taken prisoners whereof two lieut. colonels, two majors, ten captains, ten lieutenants, divers ensigns, with other inferior officers : the other, concerning sir tho. fairfax's march into cornwal. laugharne, rowland, d. 1676. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a49559 of text r200626 in the english short title catalog (wing l402a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 12 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a49559 wing l402a estc r200626 12210089 ocm 12210089 56270 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a49559) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56270) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 765:15) two letters sent to the honoble [sic] william lenthal esq., speaker of the honorable house of commons the one, concerning the great victory obtained at cardiffe by the parliaments forces under the command of major general laughorn wherein were slain about two hundred and fifty, eight hundred taken prisoners whereof two lieut. colonels, two majors, ten captains, ten lieutenants, divers ensigns, with other inferior officers : the other, concerning sir tho. fairfax's march into cornwal. laugharne, rowland, d. 1676. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 8 p. printed for edw. husband ..., london : 1645 [i.e. 1646] the first dated feb. 21, 1645 and signed: rowland laughorn; the second dated feb. 22, 1645 and signed: joh. rushworth. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng fairfax, thomas fairfax, -baron, 1612-1671. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a49559 r200626 (wing l402a). civilwar no two letters sent to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. the one, concerning the great victory obtain laugharne, rowland 1646 2291 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 b the rate of 4 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2003-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion two letters sent to the honoble william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . the one , concerning the great victory obtained at cardiffe by the parliaments forces under the command of major general laughorn : wherein were slain about two hundred and fifty , eight hundred taken prisoners , whereof two lieut : colonels , two majors , ten captains , ten lieutenants , divers ensigns , with other inferior officers . t 〈…〉 her , concerning sir tho : fairfax's march into cornwal . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that these letters be forthwith printed and published : h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . march 2. 1645. to the honourable william lenthal esq speaker to the honorable house of commons . mr. speaker , to satisfie the country , and hoping good effect , i drew my guns before aberistwith castle , and spent two hundred shot to assay a battery ; but finding the place so impregnable , and the governor so obstinate , no indifferent conditions would satisfie him : during my engagement there , i received several invitations from the chief gentry of glamorganshire , to desire my assistance against the ragland forces , who ( as they pretended ) daily threatned the invasion of their country ; but perceiving their fear greater then the danger , ( if they were unanimously resolved to defend themselves ) i delayed my motion , expecting further intelligence , and what the issue would be : within few days after i had news brought me of the revolt of the high sheriff , and many other gentry that formerly invited me into these parts ( as you shall finde by their letter inclosed ) calling a general muster of the country under colour of putting themselves in a posture of defence , and thereby endeavoured the surprisal of the governour of cardiffe , and the rest of the gentry who would not comply with their malignancy . the colonel general and some of the gentry were taken , the rest made their escape by the swiftnesse of their horses to the town ; whereupon they presently laid siege to it , publishing a declaration which so fooled the people , that they were resolved to venture their ruine in the prosecution thereof . resenting the dangerous consequence this faction might grow too , if not crop'd in the bud , the welfare or ruine of all south-wales depending thereon . i presently drew off my guns from aberistwith , leaving colonel powel to block it up , who since my departure surpriz'd their boat , a captain , and fifteen souldiers ; marching directly away for the relief of cardiffe , where before i could possibly come , the forces of ragland were joyned with carn and the rest , the town taken , and the governour betaken himself to the castle ; whereupon i made my approach towards the castle , least want of victual or some other necessary might enforce surrender ; & coming within a mile thereof , i found the enemy upon a heath prepared for fight : drawing up my men i presently charged them ; so god blessing our endeavors , routed and dispersed them all , pursuing the rout towards ragland six miles beyond cardiffe , their foot were all killed and taken , and about forty of then horse . my men eager of the victory , after their receipt into the castle , made a sally too soon , before my horse could be brought about ( by reason of the passages ) to second them ; so that being over-power'd with a body of horse that was in the town , there was taken my brother which was my lieutenant colonel , and some few of the souldiers , the rest making their retreat good to the castle ; drawing off my wearied forces for that night to their quarters within a mile of the town , thereby to cut off all accesse of provision . i was next day plyed with continual alarms of the gathering a malignant party to a head in the country , and that they had made good a passage within two miles of the town , resolving to relieve their distressed friends . while i was busied with this alarm , the next day and night strengthning my guards , and having a special eye to the issue , the governor of the castle , and the committee in the interim fell to a parley with those in the town , and articles of agreement were drawn between them , which when brought to me to desire my subscribal , i condescended to as much as concerned my self and my souldiers , as not privy to the draught till the conclusion . but carn and his compliants making breach of the agreement , gave us occasion to do that which we much desired , considering the ill consequence if they had come to joyn with the other party . being demanded their reason of the breach of articles , answered , they would justifie it with their lives ; and thereupon fell to fire on our men , which was quickly answered ; for as soon as they received orders to fall upon them , they did it with that cheerfulnesse that they totally routed them , following the chase for seven miles . there were killed of the enemy in both actions , about two hundred and fifty , and eight hundred taken prisoners , whereof two lieut. colonels , two majors , ten captains , ten lieutenants , and divers ensigns , and other inferior officers . by the next expresse i shall humbly present a a more full relation of each particular . i have sent copies of the declaration and propositions , and their answers ; as also of the occurrences , as they ensue in order to the service of the state , you shall not fail to be certified of by him who is , cardiffe , feb. 21. 1645. your most obliged humble servant rowland laughorn . to the honourable william lenthal esq speaker to the honourable house of commons . sir , the marching with the army into cornwal , being a matter of great importance , much being to be said against it , as well as for it , and notwithstanding great inclination was to march to cornwal ; yet yesterday the general had a full councel of war , of all the field officers that could well be dispensed with from their charge , where the businesse was throughly debated ; and after some time spent came to this resolution , that in their judgements it was advisable to march into cornwal before any attempt be made on barnstable or exeter : to this vote there was not one negative voice , so that i hope in the lord as there is unity in our councels , so we shall finde the fruit of it in our actions , and by the blessing of god settle that county of cornwal in a posture to serve you , and to oppose the landing of any forraign nation , and also break the remaining field force of the enemies : to morrow part of the army marches towards cornwal , the rest comes up on tuesday , there being a thousand horse , and five companies of foot left to block up barnstable : and major harris who is made liev. colonel to col. trevilian , is raising a regiment in these parts of devonshire to assist in the more close blocking up of that place . exeter this while is drawing its last breath , and i hope when we return neither place shall have that to stick with them , which hitherto has done ( point of honour ) upon this ground , that there was a probable signe of relief , otherwise their inclinations are much to save themselves . this day ( as indeed every day ) there came some from the enemy , who inform they are about to draw off from stratton , and all the passes upon the river , having burnt down and broken the bridges : that they were drawing off from salt-ash ; that most of their horse were neer twenty miles in cornwal ; that hopton cannot get his foot together , neither will the trainedbands rise , that their fear is great the army will pursue them . the other day being the market day , master peters preacht unto the country people and souldiers in torrington , ( the church being blown up ) he was forced to preach out of a belcony , where the audience was great ; he made a great impression upon the hearts of the people : he is sent to plymouth to offer things to consideration there in order to our marching into cornwal , and to get all the cornish gentlemen to meet the general in cornwal , to give their assistance in the better setling of that county : and i beseech you hasten such of power and interest in those parts that are above at london : and likewise for devonshire , for i doubt the want of active gentlemen to appear to settle the militia of this county , will make the work to be done , when the army is drawn back , which will not be for your and their service . it is certain the lord hopton received a wound in the side of his head with a pike , some say he is wounded elsewhere ; we took one of their spies coming into our quarters for intelligence , and that he might be the better credited by the person to whom he was sent ; he was to produce a silver meddal with the kings picture , which we took from him , and having committed him to custody , sent one of our spies to the partee ( with that meddal ) who gave credit to the bearer , and informed the good condition of our army , the desperate condition of theirs , by the defeat given them at torrington ; and that they had no way left but to flye to the furthest part of cornwal : all the country hereabouts are spread with their horse and foot , that ran away in the dark that night , and are lurking hereabouts ; there are very many both horse and foot come in unto us , and take up arms , and divers others desire passes to go into their own countries , which they have granted accordingly : all the cornish that were common souldiers are set at liberty , and had two shilling a peece given them to carry them home , which we hope will work the same effect , that an action of the like nature did at the taking of dartmouth , for , as major hooper who was taken prisoner at dartmonth , and sent upon his parole to cornwal , reported at his return , that the overthrow given to hopton at torrington , did not so much move the cornish with the fear of this army , as their carriage in the sending home of those cornish in that civil manner did prevail with them ; who when they came into the country , being required to take up arms , refused the same , and were committed to goal , and now lie in prison for the same ; the country being much affected at their hard usage , and our gentle carriage ; for indeed the cornish were made to believe , and some by reason of their cruel carriage to our forces , when they were in cornwal out of guilt did believe , that nothing but destruction was intended to them : there was directions given by the general to all the field . officers at the councel of war , that they should give a command to the several regiments of horse and foot , that they do in no kinde offer any violence to the cornish nor do any prejudice unto them in their persons or goods : i make no doubt the officers will be very careful to do their duties , though ( truly ) i doubt the souldier ( especially those that were there formerly stript ) will hardly overcome a passionate remembrace of the same : the commissioners of parliament are sent into the several counties to pay the recruits , and to hasten them to the army ; but the four thousand pound sent down hither for that purpose , we are inforced to take into cornwal with us , and have assigned them to take up monies in ready cash at bristol and taunton ; we march with a very fine army both of horse and foot into cornwal , and great care is taken for an orderly and souldierlike march , and carriage of our affairs in this expedition . the general and lieutenant general being much intent upon it : i rest torrington , feb. 22. 1645. 10 at night . your most humble servant . joh. rushworth . finis . an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament, for thursday next to be a day of thanksgiving within the lines of communication. and throughout the whole kingdome the 27. of this instant iune, for the great victory. obtained against the kings forces, nere knasby in northampton-shire the fourteenth of this instant iune. and ordered to be forthwith printed and published. hen. elsynge, cler. parl. dom. com. together with two exact relations of the said victory the one from livtenant generall cromwell to the speaker of the house of commons. the other from a gallant gentleman of publique imployment in that service, who relates all the particulars of the whole day, & what persons on both sides were taken, wounded, and kil'd. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a83291 of text r200108 in the english short title catalog (thomason e288_26). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 13 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a83291 wing e2072 thomason e288_26 estc r200108 99860912 99860912 113039 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a83291) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 113039) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 47:e288[26]) an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament, for thursday next to be a day of thanksgiving within the lines of communication. and throughout the whole kingdome the 27. of this instant iune, for the great victory. obtained against the kings forces, nere knasby in northampton-shire the fourteenth of this instant iune. and ordered to be forthwith printed and published. hen. elsynge, cler. parl. dom. com. together with two exact relations of the said victory the one from livtenant generall cromwell to the speaker of the house of commons. the other from a gallant gentleman of publique imployment in that service, who relates all the particulars of the whole day, & what persons on both sides were taken, wounded, and kil'd. england and wales. parliament. cromwell, oliver, 1599-1658. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. [2], 5, [1] p. printed for ed. husband, london : iune the 17. 1645. "a gallant gentleman of publique imployment" = john rushworth. annotation on thomason copy: on title page: "this is crumwells owne trew letter on ye daye" [thomason was wrong; this is only part of cromwell's letter. see abbott, "writings and speeches of oliver cromwell", v.1, p.360; for complete text see "three letters" (wing f240)]; on page 5: "mr rushworths letter beinge ye secretary to his excellence". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. naseby (england) -history -early works to 1800. a83291 r200108 (thomason e288_26). civilwar no an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament,: for thursday next to be a day of thanksgiving within the lines of communica england and wales. parliament. 1645 2298 10 0 0 0 0 0 44 d the rate of 44 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-04 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-04 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament , for thursday next to be a day of thanksgiving within the lines of communication . and throughout the whole kingdome the 27. of this instant iune , for the great victory . obtained against the kings forces , nere knasby in northampton-shire the fourteenth of this instant iune . and ordered to be forthwith printed and published . hen. elsynge , cler. parl. dom. com. together with two exact relations of the said victory the one from lievtenant generall cromwell to the speaker of the house of commons . the other from a gallant gentleman of publique imployment in that service , who relates all the particulars of the whole day , & what persons on both sides were taken , wounded , and kil'd london printed for ed. husband iune the 17. 1645. sir , being commanded by you to this service , i think my selfe bound to acquaint you with the good hand of god towards us and you , we marched yesterday , after the king , who went before us from daintry to harborough , and quartered about six miles from him , he drew out to meet us , both armies ingaged , wee after three houres fight ( very doubtfull ) at last routed his army , killed and tooke about five thousand , very many officers , but of what quality we yet know not ; we tooke also two hundred carriages , all he had , and all his guns , being twelve in number , whereof two were demy-cannons , two demy-culverins , and i think the rest were sacres . we pursued the enemy from three miles short of harborough to nine beyond , even to the sight of leicester , whether the king fled ; sir , this is no other but the hand of god , to him alone be the glory , wherein none are to share with him . the generall served you with all faithfulnesse and honour , and the best commendation i can give him , is , i dare say he attributes all to god , and had rather perish then assume it to himselfe , which is an honest , and a thriving way , yet as much bravery may be given to him in this action , as to a man . harborough 14 of iune , 1645. o. cromvvell . the copie of a letter sent from a gentleman of publike employment in the late service neere knaseby . both armies were drawne in ba●talia in a great feild neere knaseby by ten in the morning , each wing of both sides charged other , with that eagernesse , that they had not patience to shoot of one peece of ordnance , our dragoones begun the battaile flancking the right wing of the enemies horse as they charged our left wing of horse , the foot charged not each other till they were within twelve paces one of another , and could not charge above twice , but were at push of pike , the enemies foot gave a little backe , and so did some few of ours , and then the right wing of our horse ( wherein the generall was in person ) charged in the flancke of the blew regiment of the enemies foot , who stood to it , till the last man , abundance of them slaine , and all the rest surrounded , wounded , and taken , these ( the hope of their infantry ) being lost , horse and foot gave backe , wee advanced on after them in order our horse flancking ▪ our foot , and after one charge more , became masters of all their infantry , and tooke about three thousand prisoners , the enemies horse ran a pace , but still our horse , though one would have beaten ten , ( such a feare was the enemy possessed with all ) would not pursue in heate but take the foot to flancke them , the king cryed out , face about once and give one charge and recover the day , our men horse and foot came on with that courage , that before ever wee gave fire they faced about and ran clee●e away , and happy was he that was best mounted , and livetenant generall cromwell ; pursued with the horse after them on a curre●●e about twelve or thirteen miles , within two or three miles of leicester , and having taken eight peeces of ordnance in the feild , whereof two were demicannon , one whole culverine , tooke all the rest of their ordnance and their carriages , bag and baggage ▪ aboundance of coaches , and rich plunder , carts with boates and great store of bisket and cheese , ( a seasonable refreshment for our souldiers that had marched so hard , and the night before had not a bit of bread to a regiment for their refreshment , ) the foot and the traine marched this night to harborough ( foure miles ) where our head quarter is . time will not give me leave to enlarge my self on particulers otherwise it were worth your knowledge and fit to be had in memory , i shall not attribute more to one commander then to another , for indeed they did as gallantly , as ever men on earth could doe , and so did the enemies foote , which before the battaile wee least valued , rupert and maurice ( having at least two thousand horse more then ours that charged , were so well received by our men though our left wing gave backe a little as their hearts were broake at the first ▪ that which made our horse so terrible to them , was the thicknes of our reserves and their orderly and timely comming on , not one failing to come on in turne ; about the beginning , the day was doubtfull , but blessed be the name of our god , in one halfe houre the field was woon and the enemy gone , to god alone be the praise , it becomes not me to say any thing of my generalls , major generalls , or livetenant generall cr●mwells carriage in this battaile , i leave it to all men , on the place to relate it , who cannot but admire their valour , and thus hath the lord gone along with this new moulded army , so much contemned by many & left as sheepe to the slaughter by others , but from the beginning i was confident , a blessing from heaven did attend this army , there were in it so many pious men , men of integrity , hating vice , fighting not out of ambitiousnesse or by ends , but ayming at gods glory and the preservation of religion , & liberty , and the destruction of the enemy which was never in so faire a way as now is , if peoples hearts would yet be moved to redeeme themselves from slavery and all ioyne as one man , if this advantage be improved ( as what a wearied out and tyred army is able to doe , will be done ) with the blessing of god , and an addition of some fresh horse , ours being worne off their legs , the enemy in all probability will not this summer get head againe , and i hope in the lord , never more considerable in the field , some observations i had in the time of battell in the carriage of things , that one great incouragement to the common souldier to fall on , was the rich plunder the enemy had ( their purses also being full of money , the plunder of poore leicestershire , god turned to be one meanes of their ruine , and indeed our souldiers got plenty , the irish women prince r●p●rt brought on the field ( wives of the bloody rebels in ireland ( his majesties dearly beloved subjects ) our souldiers would grant no quarter too , about 100 slain of them , and most of the rest of the whores that attended that wicked army are marked in the face or nose , with a slash or cut . i viewed the dead bodies , from the battell to harborough , truly i estimate them not to be above 700 , together with those slaine in the fields running away , but in pursuit between harborough and leicester , and by townes , conceived about 300 more slaine , abundance wounded , persons of great note fell , one with a starre and a red crosse on his coat , conceived to be the d●ke of lenox foure lords came mortally wounded to harborough , but durst not stay , we tooke all the foot colours in the field , the kings owne colours , with the lyon and crowne , with this motto , dieu & mon droit ; the queenes colours , and the princes colours , and the duke of yorkes standard ; we got the plunder of the kings coach , his cabinet , &c. the enemies word was , queen mary , ours . god is our strength , and so he was indeed . they had beane stalkes in their hats , we nothing ; some of ours of their owne accord had white linnen , or paper in their hats . a party of theirs that broke through the left wing of horse , came quite behind the reare to our traine , the leader of them being a person somewhat in habit like the generall , in a red mountero , as the generall had , he came as a friend ; our commander of the guard of the tra●ne went with his hat in his hand , and asked him how the day went thinking it had been the generall ; the cavalier whom we since heard was rupert , asked him and the rest , if they would have quarter , they cryed no , gave fire and instantly beat them off ; it was a happy deliverance , we had slaine on our part none above a captaine i yet heare of , and in all not 250. to my best judgement , and i viewed the ground where the bodies lay , the honest and valiant major generall wounded collonel butler , collonel francis major horton , captaine potter , one of the commons of parliament , collonel ireton , and some other officers of note wounded ; the provost marshall saith , he hath in all about foure thousand prisoners , whereof above 400. are officers , foure collonels , 12 lievtenant collonels , many majors , 60. captaines , besides lievtenants and ensignes . the souldiers have already brought in to the generall , above 40. standards and colours , he gives each man a reward , sir iacob ashley's coach was taken with great store of plunder , also some letter , of nicholas the lyer , wherein he hath this expression in his letter to the king , that the parliament had given particular direction to the generall to kill the king , and to give him no quarter , the rest of his stories are like this ; wee tooke 5000. armes on the field , but the souldiers were so greedy of plunder and pursuing the enemy , that the countrey got some of them . sir iacob ashley was neere taking , we got the cap of his head ; the army is marching toward leicester , and will not give the enemy time to rally ; our horse are close in the reare of them , collonel rossiter came seasonable to the engagement , and charged where the generall was , and is still in pursuit of the enemy , i could say more had i time to sleepe , i rest yours , &c. harborough , iune 15. two in the morning . we tooke one colours of horse , with a paire of horns , come cuckolds , was the motto ; as soone as our men had it in possession , they held the hornes and motto towards the enemy , and so charged them . langdels brigade ran away basely , and lost the king the day . die lunae iunii 16. 1645. ordered by the lords and commons in parliament , that thursday next shall be set apart for a day of publique thanksgiving to almighty god , in all the churches and chappells within the cities of london and westminster , and lines of communication , and weekly bills of mortallity , for the great , & glorious victory obtained by the parliaments army under the command of sir thomas fairfax , against the forces of the king . and m. marshall and m. vines be desired to preach at christ-church , before the parliament . and that the lord mayor , aldermen , and common-councell doe meete the parliament there . and it is further ordered , that friday being the twenty seventh day of this instant iune , be set apart for a publique day of thanksgiving for this victory in all the churches and chappells in the severall counties of the kingdome under the power of the parliament . henry elsyng cler. parl. dom com. finis . sir thomas fairfax letter to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. concerning all the passages of his army since his advance from exeter, and the manner of routing the princes and the lord hoptons forces at torrington, together with all the particulars in that expedition. also another letter from a gentleman of quality, of the whole passages of this great victory. both which were read in the house of commons. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a84825 of text r200618 in the english short title catalog (thomason e324_15). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 20 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a84825 wing f195 thomason e324_15 estc r200618 99861319 99861319 163958 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a84825) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 163958) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 53:e324[15] or 247:e324[15]) sir thomas fairfax letter to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons. concerning all the passages of his army since his advance from exeter, and the manner of routing the princes and the lord hoptons forces at torrington, together with all the particulars in that expedition. also another letter from a gentleman of quality, of the whole passages of this great victory. both which were read in the house of commons. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. england and wales. parliament. [8] p. printed for edw. husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet, neer the inner-temple, london : feb. 24. 1645. [i.e. 1646] the letter from the "gentleman of quality" is dated and signed at end: torrington, feb. 19. twelve at night. j.r. [i.e. john rushworth]. wing has publication year 1645[6]; thomason catalogue lists under 1646. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng torrington (england), battle of, 1646 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. a84825 r200618 (thomason e324_15). civilwar no sir thomas fairfax letter to the honoble william lenthal esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons.: concerning all the passages of hi fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron 1645 3575 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-06 pip willcox sampled and proofread 2007-06 pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion sir thomas fairfax letter to the honoble william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . concerning all the passages of his army since his advance from exeter , and the manner of routing the princes and the lord hoptons forces at torrington , together with all the particulars in that expedition . also another letter from a gentleman of quality , of the whole passages of this great victory . both which were read in the house of commons . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that these letters be forthwith printed and published : h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edw. husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden dragon in fleetstreet , neer the inner-temple . feb. 24. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . mr. speaker , plymouth being set free , and da rtmouth taken , i sent col. hamond with part of the foot to possess certain houses near exeter for the blocking of it upon the west side of the river ( as formerly i had done on the east ) and lay with the rest of the army , so as to countenance both that work , and the raising of some forces in the southams to lie about totness for the securing of that countrey , and to keep the enemy from coming of that side of devonshire again , when the army should remove to the other . these two things , with the continual foul weather at that time , and the absence of col. cook with so many of the horse , ocacsioned my stay thereabouts above a fortnight , in which time the houses being competently fortified , and the forces raising in the southams in good forwardnesse , i drew the army up towards crediton , with purpose to advance into the north of devonshire to dislodge the enemies horse from their quarters thereabouts , and force them into cornwal , and to endeavour the further clearing of that part of devonshire also , either by the taking of barnstable , or by blocking of it up , and raising a force in that well-affected corner to keep it in , so as ( having all clear or made fast behinde me ) i might the better follow the remaining field forces of the enemy into cornwal : and to continue the blocking up of exeter on the east side , i left sir hardres waller with three regiments of foot , and a regiment of horse of this army , and advanced with seven regiments of foot , five regiments of horse , and five troops of dragoons , ( the rest of the horse and dragoons being absent with col : cook in dorsetshire , but then sent for to come up ) when i was resolved upon my advance this way , the enemy at the same time advanced out of cornwal with all the foot they could make to torrington , about which their horse did lie before , and began to fortifie the town . their intentions therein ( as we conceived , and do since further finde ) were by the advantage of this place , and their garrison of barnstaple so near it , to make this part of devonshire more surely theirs , & more difficult for us to come into , and lying so much the nearer to exeter ( against which they supposed this army wholly ingaged ) to take their best advantages : from hence , and from chimleigh , which they meant also to have possessed , to relieve exeter on the north side , or disturb us in the siege ; and 't is probable , they might have a further purpose in their posture here to secure the landing of irish or welch supplies so much the forwarder towards the east . on saturday last , i advanced from crediton to chimleigh , where by many prisoners taken i was informed , that the lord hopton had hereabouts four thousand horse , and three thousand foot ; we believed them to be about two thousand foot or upwards , and three thousand horse . the extreme foulnesse of weather that day and next , occasioned me not to advance from about chimleigh for the next night , save only one foot quarter , and an horse guard advanced to ring-ash , three miles towards the enemy , to secure a rendezvouz so much the nearer to them for the day following : i understood by the best intelligence , that the enemy was resolved to make good their station , and set their rest upon it to fight us there , if we would come up to them : and truly , men in their condition could not hope ( all things considered ) to have more for it . their horse in number superior to what i brought up with me , their foot ( as i finde since ) not much inferior ; and if they could with all their force make good this town , and put us to lie in the field , ( there being no villages near it that could shelter the army ; the wet weather continuing which was then most likely ) would have forc'd us to draw back , and make our fire-arms little useful , either for assault or defence ; and besides , we were like for matter of provisions to be forced to draw off first , they having both by their posture ( with the plentiful countrey of cornwal behinde them , and a river at their backs securing also a good part of devonshire unto them ) and by their strength of horse much advantage for longer subsistence then we ; and we ( by the barrennesse of the place where we must have lien before them , especially for horse-meat , their garrison of barnstaple lying partly behinde us , their horse more numerous then ours . which might with stronger parties cut off our supplies ) had had little possibility to subsist long before them . these considerations we had in our eye to discourage us from going on ( as i believe they had to incourage them to stand ) yet on the other side finding , that by reason of the barrenness and long exhausting of our quarters behinde us , we could neither keep our horie so close together as to lie safe so near the enemy , nor indeed finde subsistence for the army , either where we were , or in any other quarters more backward , ( where we could lye , so as to secure the siege of exeter from relief ) and upon all considerations , conceiving the affairs of the kingdom did require us , and god by all did call us to make a present attempt upon the enemy , we resolved to go on to try what god would do for us , and trust him for weather , subsistence , and all things . accordingly on monday morning i drew out the army to an early rendezvouz at ring-ash ( within six miles of the enemy ) the weather still continued very wet , and so by all signes , was like to hold , till we were advanced from the rendezvouz ; but suddenly when we were upon march , it beyond all expectation grew fair and dry , and so continued , whereas we had scarce seen one fair blast for many dayes before . the enemy ( as we understood by the way ) had all their horse drawn together about torrington , and with their foot prepared to defend the town , which they had fortified with good barracadoes of earth , cast up at every avenue , and a competent line patcht up round about it , their horse standing by to flanck the same , and some within to scowre the streets . our forlorn hope had order to advance to stephenson park ( about a mile from the town ) and there to stay for the drawing up of the army , there being no other place fit for that purpose nearer to the town on that side we came on : but when we came near , we understood the enemy had with two hundred dragoons possest the house in the park , and were fortifying of it , being of it self very strong : but upon our nearer approach , their dragoons quitted the house , and our forlorn hope falling on them , took many prisoners , and pursuing them near the town , were ingaged so far as they could not well draw back to the park , which occasioned the sending up of stronger parties to make them good where they were , or bring them off ; and at last ( there being some fear the enemy would draw about them , and hem them in , col : hamond was sent up with three regiments of foot ( being his own , col : harlows , and mine ) and some more horse to lye for reserves unto them , by which time the night was grown on , so as it was not thought fit , unlesse the enemy appeared to be drawing away to attempt any thing further upon the town till morning , in regard none of us knew the ground nor th'advantages or disadvantages of it ; but about 9. of the clock , there being some apprehension of the enemies drawing away , by reason of their drawing back some out-guards , small parties were sent out towards the towns end , to make a certain discovery , which going very neer their works before the enemy made any firing , but being at last entertained with a great volley of shot , and thereupon supposed to be ingaged ; stronger parties were sent up to relieve them , and after them the three regiments went up for reserves , till at last they fell on in earnest ; after very hot firings , our men coming up to the barracadoes and line , the dispute continued long at push of pike , and with but-ends of muskets , until at last it pleased god to make the enemy flye from their works , and give our men the entrance . after which , our men were twice repulsed by their horse , and almost all driven out again , but col : hamond ( with some other officers & a few souldiers ) made a stop at the barracadoes , and so making good their reentrance , rallyed their men , and went on again ( major stephens with their forlorn of horse coming seasonably up to second them ) the enemies foot ran several wayes , most of them leaving their arms , but most of their officers , with assistance of horse , made good their own retreat out of the town towards the bridge , and taking advantage of strait passages to make often stands against our men , gave time for many of their foot to get away over the bridge . their horse without the town ( after some attempts at other avenues to have broke in again upon us being repulsed , at last went all away over another bridge , and at several other passes of the river , and all fell westward ; the ground , where their horse had stood , and the bridge they went over lying so beyond the town , as our horse could not come at them , but through the town , which ( by reason of strait passage through several barracadoes was very tedious , by means whereof , and of the continued strait lanes the enemy had to retreat by after they were over the river ( as also by th'advantage of the night , and by their perfect knowledge of the country , and of escape , and our utter ignorance therein ) our horse could do little execution upon the pursuit , but parties being sent out several wayes to follow them ( as those disadvantages would admit ) did the best they could , and brought back many prisoners and horses ; we took many prisoners in the town , who being put into the church , where the enemies magazine lay ( of above eighty barrels of powder , as is reported , besides other ammunition ) either purposely by some desperate prisoner , or casually by some souldier , the powder was fired , whereby the church was quite blown up , the prisoners and most of our men that guarded them were killed , and overwhelmed in the ruines , the houses of the town shaken and shattered , and our men all the town over much indangered by the stones , timber and lead , which with the blast were carryed up very high , and scatter'd in great abundance all the town over , and beyond , yet it pleased god that very few of our men were slain or hurt thereby ( save those in the church only ) our losse of men otherwise in this service was small , though many wounded , it being an hotter service then any storm this army hath before been upon , wherein god gave our men great resolution , and col : hamond especially , with other officers engaged with him , behaved themselves with much courage and diligence recovering the ground after their men were twice repulsed ; of prisoners taken in this service , about two hundred were blown up , two hundred have taken up arms with us , and above 200 more common souldiers remain prisoners , besides many officers , gentlemen and servants , not many slain , but their foot so dispersed , as that of about three thousand , ( which the most credible persons do affirm they had here , and we finde by a list taken among the lo : hoptons papers themselves did accompt them more ) we cannot hear of above four hundred that they carried off with them into cornwal , whither their horse also are gone , being much broken and dispersed as well as their foot . by the considerations and circumstances in this businesse which i have here touch'd upon , you will perceive whose hand it was that lead us to it , and gave such successe in it . and truly there were many more evident appearances of the good hand of god therein then i can set forth , let all the honour be to him alone for ever , being desirous ( as god shall see it good , and further enable me ) to improve th'advantage of this successe to the utmost . the next day having sent some regiments of horse and foot to advance unto quarters up towards holsworthy to set the enemy more home into cornwal , and with more terrour upon them : i sent also one regiment of foot with some horse back towards barnstable , to possesse the earl of bathes house at n. tavestock , about a mile from barnstable on this side the river , whereby that garrison will be easily kept in on this side , and i shall further try what may be done upon it other wayes , while the army takes a little rest hereabouts , which the unseasonable marches , miserable quarters , and hard duty both horse and foot for many dayes have been put unto do necessarily require : but i conceive , that so soon as the army can be fitted for the purpose , it would be best to follow the enemy home , and throughly into cornwal , the breaking of that body of horse that 's left there being the likelyest means to prevent or discourage the landing of any forreign forces in these parts , or the raising of any more out of cornwal . in order to which , i must earnestly recommend to your care two things especially , the one , to provide by the disposal of your forces in the midland parts , that by excursions from oxford hitherward i may not be diverted from prosecution of the work in cornwal , to send again that way ; nor the sieges of exeter and barnstable disturbed when i am ingaged further west : the other , that money may be speeded ( if any wayes possible , but for one moneth or six weeks ) to enable the horse as well as foot , to pay quarters in cornwal , whereby th'oppositions that people might make would in all likelyhood be taken off , and their affections or good opinions gained , to make them helpful to us against their present oppressors . there came unto me this day a yong man from about truro , who certifieth me , that sir walter dudley came very lately from france , to let those about the prince know , that if there were an absolute necessity , they could bring over their men from france with a fair wind , to be here by the middle of the next moneth ; expressing , that they had neer eight thousand foot , and a thousand horse in readinesse , and three moneths pay provided for them , besides ten thousand pounds in bullion daily expected , a mint being ready to coyn the same : but yet intimated a conveniency in the giving a little more time for their coming over ; whereupon sir iohn culpeper was to go in all haste for france upon friday last and is supposed on purpose , either to hasten all or a good part of those forces over . i think it will be very good , that as much shipping as may be obtained be hastened to those parts ; i shall upon this information , and the good successe god hath been pleased to give us , so to dispose of the army , as may most effectually conduce to a speedy and thorough settlement of these western parts of the kingdom . therefore i desire you again to have a special care , that the forces about oxford be not permitted to range into these parts , when the army is like to be ingaged so far west , lest it occasion the diversion of our forces , and hinder the accomplishment of that we desire to effect . i remain your most humble servant , t : fairfax . great torrington , feb. 19. 1645. to the honorable william lenthal esq speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , i suppose before the date of this letter , you have received my former letter of the engagement of this army and hoptons at torrington on monday night last , where we took six hundred prisoners , besides officers , near two hundred prisoners blown up with haptons magazine , set on fire by one wate a northern man , for thirty pounds promised him by sir ralph hopton , as he confessed a little before his death : he died this day of the wounds he received by the timber that fell upon him : the rest of the prisoners cast him out for a monster , that would have destroyed all them his friends . all the houses in the town are almost shattered in pieces with the blast . hopton had his horse kill'd under in the street ; and as we understand by those that come to day from cornwal , he is desperately wounded ; all his force are all-ago into cornwall , there they are in great confusion for fear of our armies advance , and an army out of france : we had been there before now , but for setling the businesse of barnstaple , by blocking it up close : one regiment is at the e : of bathes house at tavestock within a mile of barnstaple ; other forces at biddiford and other places . on saturday or sunday we are for cornwal , godwilling . by hoptons papers we perceive the relief of exeter was the principal end of his motion to torrington . the quantities of powder and salt to be left in exeter , we finde in writings . we took eight colours , one hoptons own colours with this motto , i will strive to help my soveraign king . his commission from the king and prince to be general , and digbies to be colonel general of the forces before plymouth , were also taken . two ships are come into biddiford yesterday ; the one will prove prize . j. r. torrington , feb. 19. twelve at night . finis . a declaration from sir thomas fairfax and the army under his command as it was humbly tendered to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament : as also to the honourable the lord mayor, aldermen, and common-councell of the city of london : concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome : with some humble proposals and desires. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a37345 of text r5410 in the english short title catalog (wing d587). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 29 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a37345 wing d587 wing f157_variant_cancelled estc r5410 12259913 ocm 12259913 57840 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a37345) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 57840) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 179:11 or 960:13) a declaration from sir thomas fairfax and the army under his command as it was humbly tendered to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament : as also to the honourable the lord mayor, aldermen, and common-councell of the city of london : concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome : with some humble proposals and desires. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. england and wales. army. [2], 13 p. : port. for l. chapman and l. blacklocke, imprinted at london : 1647. "printed by the speciall appointment of his excellency sir thomas fairfax, and souldiery of the army under his command, st. albons, june 14, 1647, signed by me, john rushvvorth" this item is identified as wing d587 at reel 179:11 and as wing f157 variant (number cancelled in wing (cd-rom, 1996)) at reel 960:13. reproduction of original in cambridge university library. eng great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a37345 r5410 (wing d587). civilwar no a declaration from sir thomas fairfax, and the army under his command. as it was humbly tendered to the right honourable the lords and commo england and wales. army 1647 5428 11 0 0 0 0 0 20 c the rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-03 melanie sanders sampled and proofread 2005-03 melanie sanders text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion his excellence sr. tho : fairfax generall of the , army etc : a declaration from sir thomas fairfax , and the army under his command . as it was humbly tendered to the right honourable the lords and commons assembled in parliament : as also to the honourable the lord mayor , aldermen , and common-councell of the city of london . concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome : with some humble proposals and desires . printed by the speciall appointment of his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and souldiery of the army under his command . st. albons , june 14. 1647. signed by me , john rushvvorth . imprinted at london , for l. chapman , and l. blacklocke . 1647. a declaration from his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and the army under his command , humbly tendered to the parliament , concerning the just and fundamentall rights and liberties of themselves and the kingdome , with some humble proposalls and desires . that we may be no longer the dis-satisfaction of our friends , the subject of our ●●emies malice to worke jealosies and mis-representations upon , and the suspition if not astonishment of many in 〈…〉 ome in our late or present trans-actions and conduc 〈…〉 n●sle , we shall in all faithfulnesse and cleareness pros●sse , and declare unto you those things which have of late portracted and hindered our disbanding , the present grievances which possesse our army and are yet enremedied , with our desire as to the compleat settlement of the liberties and peace of the kingdome , which is that blessing of god then which nothing is more deare to us , or more precious in our thoughts , we having hitherto thought all our present injoyments , whether of life or livelihood , or nearest relations , a price but sufficient to the purchase of so rich a blessing , that we , and all the free-borne people of this nation may sit downe in quiet under our vines , and under the glorious administrations of justice and righteousnesse , and in full possession of those fundamentall rights and liberties without which we can have little hopes as to humane considerations , to enjoy either any comforts of life , or so much as life it selfe , but at the pleasures of men , ruling meerely according to will and power . it cannot be unknowne what hath passed betwixt the parliament and the army as to the service of ireland ; by all which together with the like proceedings against the army , in relation to their petition and grievances , all men may judge what hath hindered the army from a ready ingagement in that service , and without further account or apology as to that partieular , then what those passages and proceedings themselves already made publike doe afford ; we doe appeale to your selves , whether those courses to which the parliament hath by the designes and practice of some been drawne , have rationally tended to induce a cheerefull and unanimous undertaking of the army to that service , or rather breake and pull the army in peeces with discontents and dishonour , and to put such disobligations and provocations upon it as might drive it into distemper , and indeed discourage both this army and other souldiers from any further engagement in the parliaments service : and we wish all men would with us upon the whole carriage seriously consider , whether in the intentions of those who have by false informations , and mis-representations put the parliament upon such wayes : the timely and effectuall reliefe of ireland seeme really to have been intended , or rather ( with the breaking or disbanding of this army ) to draw together or raise such other forces , and of such a temper as might serve to some desperate and destructive designes in england , which ( besides the probable suspitions from their carriage of the businesse , we have before hand , in the transaction thereof , had more then hints of such a designe , by cleare expressions to that purpose , from many of those offiers of the army , that have been perswaded , and appeared most forward to ingage for ireland on the termes proposed . and that such a designe hath all along been driven , seemes now too evident by the present disposing of those forces that have been ingaged for ireland by the indeavour of some to gaine a power from the parliament , of ordering those forces for some service in england , and by the private listings of men for service here , without any publique authority of parliament ; and ( all this ) by the same persons who have all along appeared most active and violent in the late proceedings against the army . as to the just discontents and dis-satisfaction of the army , in relation to their grievances , and their non-complyance to the late orders for souldiers disbanding by peece-meale , before more full and equall satisfaction were given to the whole ; we desire you to looke back to the papers already published of the grievances themselves , the narrative of the officers , and to the latter papers from the generall councell of warre at bury , and the late generall rendezvouze neare newmarket ; and ( we thinke your late resuming the consideration of those things ( as to a further satisfaction ) doth much justifie the defires and proceedings of the army in those past particulars hitherto . and though ( had we ( upon our first addresses ) for our undoubled rights and dues ) found a free and candid reception , with a just consideration , and a reasonable satisfaction , or at least an ingenious answer therein ; we should have been easily satisfiable to have abated or forborne much of our dues , and not to have inquired into , or considered ( so farre as we have ) either the possibilities there are for more present satisfaction of arreares , or the credit of future securities proposed ; yet since upon those former addresses , we have found such hard dealing ( as in the said papers is set forth , and those additionall ( though hitherto but partiall satisfaction ) coming so hardly as they have , we finde no obliging reasons in the least , to decline or recede from what is our due , but rather still to adhere unto our desires of full and equall satisfaction in all the things mentioned in the aforesaid papers , not onely in behalfe of our selves and the army , but also of the whole souldiery thorow out the kingdome , who have concurred , or shall concurre with us in the same desires , and to all our former desires . as souldiers we cannot but adde this , wherein we finde our selves so neerly concerned in point of justice and reputation , that more care , and a stricter course may be taken for good , all articies granted upon surrendors , according to the ture intent and meaning of them ; as also for remedy and reparation , in case of any breach ( and this ) without those delayes which divers have found as prejudiciall to them , or more then if they had been totally denied the performance of them . nor will it now ( we hope ) seeme strange or unseasonable to rationall and honest men , who consider the consequence of our present case , and their own and the kingdoms , as well as our future concernments in point of right , freedome , peace and safety , if from a deepe sence of the high consequence of our present case , both to our selves ( in future ) and all other people , we shall before disbanding proceed in our owne and the kingdoms behalfe to propound , and plead for some provision for our and the kingdoms satisfaction , and future security in relation to those things , especially considering that we were not a meere mercinary army , hired to serve any arbitrary power of estate , but called forth and conjured by the severall declarations of parliament , for the defence of our owne and the peoples rights and liberties , and so we tooke up armes in judgement and conscience to those ends , and have so continued them , and are resolved according to your first just defires in your declarations , and such principles as we have received from your frequent informations , and our owne common sence concerning those our fundamentall rights and liberties , to effect and vindicate the just power and right of this kingdome in parliaments for those common ends promised against all arbitrary power , violence and oppression , and all particular parties or interests whatsoever , the said declarations still directing us to the equitable sence of all lawes and constitutions , as dispensing with the very letters of the same , and being supreame to it , when the safety and preservation of all is concerned , and assuring us that all authority is fundamentally sealed in the office , and but ministerially in the persons ; neither doe , or will these our proceedings ( as we are fully and in conscience perswaded ) amount to any thing not warrantable before god and men , being thus farre much short of the common proceedings in other nations , to things of an higher nature then we have yet appeared to : and we cannot but be sensible of the great complplaints that have been made to us generally in the kingdome , from the people where we march , by petition , and otherwise of arbitrarinesse and injustice to their great and insupportable oppressions . and truly such kingdomes as have according both to the law of nature and nations , appeared to the vindication and defence of their just rights and liberties have proceeded much higher , as our brethren of scotland , who in the first beginning of these late differences , associated in covenant from the very same grounds and principles , having no visible forme either of parliament or king to countenance them , & as they were therein inftituted & protected by their own and this kingdome also , so we justly shall expect to be . we need not mention the state of the nether-lands , the portugalls , and others , all proceeding upon the same principles of right and freedome , and accordingly the parliament hath declared it no resisting of majestracy to side with the just principles , and law of nature and nations , being that law upon which we have assisted you , and that the souldiery may lawsully hold the hands of that generall who will turne his cannon against his army on purpose to destroy them : the seamen , the hands of that pilot who wilfully runs the ship upon the rock ( as our brethren of scotland argued ) and such were the proceedings of our ancestors of famous memory , to the purchasing of such rights and liberties as they have enjoyed through the price of their blood , and we both by that and the latter blood of our dearest friends and fellow souldiers , all the hazard of our owne doe lay claime unto . nor is that supreme end ( the glory of god ) wanting in these cases to set a price upon all such proceedings of righteousnesse and justice , it being one witnesse of god in the world to carry on a testimony against the injustine and unrighteousnesse of men , and against the miscartiages of governments , when corrupted or declining from their primitive and originall glory . these things we mention but to compare proceedings , and to shew that we are so much the more justifiable and warrantable in what we do ; by how much we come short of that height and measure of proceedings , which the people in free kingdomes and nations have formerly practised . now having thus farre cleared our way in this businesse , we shall provide to propound such things as we do humbly desire for the serling and securing of our owne and the kingdomes peace and safety , as followeth : 1. that the houses may be speedily purged of such members , as for their delinquency , or for corruptions or abuse to the state , or undue election , ought not to sit there ; whereof the late election in cornwall , wales , and other parts of the kingdome afford too many examples , to the great prejudice of the peoples freedome , in the said elections . 2. that those persons who have in the late unjust and high proceedings against the army , appeared to have the will , the confidence , credit , and power , to abuse the parliament and the army , and indanger the kingdome in the carrying on such things against us ( while an army ) may be some way speedily disabled from doing the like or worse to us ( who disbanded and dispearst , and in the condition of private men ) or to other the free borne people of england , in the same condition with us : and that ( for that purpose ) the same persons may not continue in the same power ( especially ) as our and the kingdoms iudges in the highest trust , but may be made incapable thereof for futute . and if it be questioned who these are , we thought not fit particularly to name them in this our representation to you , but shall very speedily give in their names , and before long shall offer what we have to say against them to your commissioners : wherein we hope so to carry our selves , as that the world shall see we aim at nothing of private revenge or animosities , but that justice may have a free course , and the kingdom be eased and secured , by disinabling such men at least from places of judicature , who desiring to advantage or set up themselves and their party in a general confusion , have endeavored to put the kingdom into a new flame of war , then which nothing is more abhorrent to us . but because neither the granting of these alone would be sufficient to secure our own and the kingdoms right , liberties and safety , either for the present age or posterity : nor would our proposal of this singly be free from the scandal and appearance of faction or design onely to weaken one party ( under the notion of unjust or tyrannical ) that we may advance another which may be imagined more our own ) we therefore declare , that indeed we cannot but wish that such men , and such onely might be preferred to the great power and trust of the commonwealth , as are approved at least for moral righteousness ; and of such , we cannot but in our wishes prefer those that appear acted thereunto by a principle of conscience and religion in them : and accordingly we do and ever shall bless god for those many such worthies , who through his providence have been chosen into this parliament , and to such mens endeavors under god ) we cannot but attribute that vindication in part of the peoples rights and liberties , and those beginnings of a just reformation , which the first proceedings of this parliament appeared to have driven at and tended to , though of late obstructed , or rather diverted to other ends and interests , by the prevailing of other persons of other principles and conditions . but yet we are so far from designing or complying to have an absolute or arbitrary power fixt or setled for continuance , in any persons what soever , as that ( if we might be sure to obtain it ) we cannot wish to have it so in the persons of any whom we could most confide in , or who should appear most of our own opinions or principles , or whom we might have personal assurance of , or interest in ; but we do and shall much rather wish , that the authority of this kingdom in parliaments rightly constituted ( that is ) freely , equally and successively chosen , according to its original intention , may ever stand and have its course . and therefore we shall apply our desires chiefly to such things , as ( ●y having parliaments setled in such a right constitution ) may give most hopes of justice and righteousness to flow down eqully to all in that its ancient channel , without any overtures tending either to overthrow that foundation of order and government in this kingdom , or to ingross that power for perpetuity into the hands of any particular persons or party whatsoever ; and for that purpose , though as we have found it doubted by many men ( minding sincerely the publique good , but not weighing so fully all consequences of things ) it may , and is not unlike to prove , that upon the ending of this parliament , and the election of new , the constitution of succeeding parliaments ( as to the persons elected ) may prove for the worse many ways ; yet since neither in the present purging of this parliament , nor in the election of new , we cannot promise to our selves or to the kingdom an assurance of justice , or other positive good , from the hands of men , but those who for present appear most righteous and most for common good ( having an unlimited power fixed in them during life or pleasure ) in time may become corrupt , or settle into parties or factions ; or on the other side , in the case of new elections , those that should so succeed may prove as bad or worse then the former : we therefore humbly conceive , that ( of two inconveniences the less being to be chosen ) the main things to be intended in this case ( and beyond which humane providence cannot reach , as to any assurance of positive good ) seems to be this ; viz. to provide , that however unjust or corrupt the persons of parliament-men in present or future may prove , or whatever ill they may do to particular parties , or to the whole in particular things , during their respective terms or periods , yet they shall not have the temptation or advantage of an unlimited power fixt in them during their own pleasures , whereby to perpetuate injustice and oppression upon any without end or remedy , or to advance and uphold any one particular party , faction or interest whatsoever , to the oppression or prejudice of the community , and the inslaving of the kingdom unto all posterity ; but that these people may have an equal hope or possibility ( if they have made an ill choice at one time to amend it in another ) and themselves may be in a capacity to taste of subjection aswel as rule , and may so be inclined to consider of other mens cases , as what may come to be their own . this we speak as in relation to the house of commons , as being intrusted on the peoples behalf for their interest in that great and supreme power of the commonwealth , ( viz. the legislative power ▪ with the power of final judgement ) which being in its own nature so arbitrary , and in a maner unlimited ( unless in point of time ) is most unfit and dangerous , as to the peoples interest , to be sixt in the persons of the same men during life or their own pleasure ; neither by the original constitution of this state was it or ought it to continue so , nor do's it where ever it is and continue so , render that state any better then a meer tyranny , or the people subjected to it any better then vassals ; but in all states where there is any face of common freedom , and particularly in this state of england , as is most evident both by many positive laws ( and ancient constant customs ) the people have a right to new and successive elections unto that great and supreme trast , at certain periods of time , which is so essential and fundamental to their freedom , as it cannot or ought not to be denied them or withheld from their , and without which the house of commons is of very little concernment to the interest of the commons of england : yet in this we would not be misunderstood , in the least to blame those worthies of both houses , whose zeal to vindicate the liberties of this nation , did procure that act for continuance of this parliament , whereby it was secured from being dissolved at the kings pleasure , as former parliaments have been , and reduced to such a certainty as might enable them the better to assert and vindicate the liberties of this nation , immediately before so highly invaded , and then also so much indangered ; and these we take to be the principal ends and grounds for which in that exigency of time and affairs it was promised , and to which we acknowledge it hath happily been made use of : but we cannot think it was by those worthies intended , or ought to be made use of , to the perpetuating of that supreme trust and power in the persons of any during their own pleasures , or to the debarring of the people from their right of elections totally new , when those dangers or exigencies were past , and the affairs and safety of the common-wealth would admit of such a change . having thus cleared our grounds and intentions , as we hope , from all scruples or misunderstandings ; in what follows we shall proceed further to propose , what we humbly desire for the setling and securing of our own and the kingdoms rights and liberties ( through the blessing of god to posterity ) and therefore , upon all the grounds premised , we further humbly desire as followeth : 3. that some determinate period of time may be set , for the continuance of this and future parliaments , beyond which none shall continue , and upon which new writs may of course issue out , and new elections successively take place , according to the intent of the bill for triennial parliaments . and herein we would not be misunderstood , to desire a present or sudden dissolution of this parliament , but onely ( as is expressed before ) that some certain period may be set for the determining of it , so as it may not remain ( as now ) continuable for ever , or during the pleasure of the present members : and we should desire , that the period to be now set for ending this parliament , may be such as may give sufficient time for provision of what is wanting , and necessary to be passed in point of just reformation , and for further securing the rights , liberties , and setling the peace of the kingdom ; in order to which we further humbly offer : 4. that secure provision may be made for the continuance of future parliaments , so as they may not be adjournable or dissolvable at the kings pleasure , or any other ways , then by their own consent , during their respective periods , but at those periods each parliament to determine of course , as before : this we desire may be now provided for ( if it may be ) so as to put it out of all dispute for future , though we think of right it ought not to have been otherwise before . and thus a firm foundation being said in the authority and constitution of parliament , for the hopes at least of common and equal right and freedom to our selves , and all the free-born people of this land ; we shall for our parts freely and cheerfully commit our stock or share of interest in this kingdom into this common botton of parliaments ; and though it may ( for our particulars ) go ill with us in one voyage , yet we shall thus hope ( if right be with us ) to fare better in another : these things we desire may be provided for by bill or ordinance of parliament , to which the royal assent may be desired ; and when his majesty in these things , and what else shall be proposed by the parliament , necessary for securing the rights and liberties of the people , and for setling the militia and peace of the kingdom , shall have given his concurrence , to put them past all dispute ; we shall then desire , that the rights of his majesty and his posterity may be considered of , and setled in all things , so far as may consist with the right and freedom of the subject , and with the security of the same for future . 5. we desire , that the rights and freedom of the people to represent , by way of humble petition to the parliament , their grievances in such things as cannot otherwise be remedied , then by parliament , may be cleared and vindicated : that all such grievances of the people may be freely received and admitted into consideration , and put into an equitable and speedy way to be heard , examined and redressed ( if they appear real ) and that in such things for which men have remedy by law , they may be freely left to the benefit of law , and the regulated course of justice , without interruption or check from the parliament , except in case of things done upon the exigency of war , or for the service and benefit of the parliament and kingdom , in relation to the war , or otherwise , in due pursuance and execution of ordinances or orders of parliament . more particularly under this head we cannot but desire , that all such as are imprisoned for any pretended misdemenor , may be put into a speedy way for a just hearing and tryal , and such as shall appear to have been unjustly and unduly imprisoned , may ( with their liberties ) have some reasonable reparation , according to their sufferings , and the demerit of their oppressors . 6. that the large powers given to committees or deputy lieutenants , during the late times of war and distraction , may be speedily taken into consideration , that such of those powers as appear not necessary to be continued , may be taken away , and such of them as are necessary , be put into a regulated way , and left to as little arbitraryness as the nature and necessity of the things wherein they are conversant will bear . 7. we could wish that the kingdom might both be righted , and publikely satisfied in point of accompts for the vast sums that have been levied and paid , as also in divers other things wherein the commonwealth may be conceived to have been wronged or abused ; but we are loath to press any thing that may tend to lengthen out further disputes or contestations , but rather such as may tend to a speedy and general composure and quieting of mens mindes in order to peace : for which purpose we further propose , 8. that ( pablique justice being first satisfied by some few examples to posterity , out of the worst of excepted persons and other delinquents having past their compositions ) some course may be taken ( by an act of oclivion or otherwise ) whereby the seeds of future war or fewds , either to the present age or posterity may the better be taken away , by easing that sence of present , and satisfying those fears of future ruine or undoing to persons or families , which may drive men into any desperate ways ●or self-preservation or remedy ; and by taking away the private remembrances and distinctions of parties , as far as may stand with safety to the rights and li●erties we have hitherto fought for . there are besides these , many particular things which we could wish to be done , and some to be undone , all in order still to the same ends of common right , freedom , peace and safety : but these proposals aforegoing present , being the principal things we bottom and in●●st upon , we shall ( as we have said before , for out puts ) acquiesce for other particulars to the wisdom and justice of parliament . and whereas it hath been suggested or suspected , that in our late or present proceedings , our design is to overthrow presbytery , or hinder the setlement thereof , and to have the independent government set up , we do clearly disclaim and disavow any such de●gn : we only desire , that according to the declaration ( promising a provision for tender consciences ) there may some effectual course be taken according to the intent thereof , and that such , who upon conscientious grounds may differ from the established forms , may not for that be debarred from the common rights , liberties or benefits belonging equally to all , as men and members of the commonwealth , while they live soberly , honestly , and inoffensively towards others , and peaceably and faithfully towards the state . wee have thus freely and clearly decalred the depth and bottoms of our hearts & desires , in order to the rights , liberties , and peace of the kingdom ; wherein we appeal to all men , whether we seek any thing of advantage to our selves , or any particular party what ever , to the prejudice of the whole ; and whether the things we wish and seek , do not equally concern and conduce to the good of all in common , with our selves : according to the sincerity of our desires and intentions , wherein ( as we have already found the concurrent sence of the people in divers counties , by their petitions to the general , expressing their deep resentment of these things , and pressing us to stand for the interest of the kingdom therein , so ) we shall wish and expect to finde the unanimous concurrence of all others , who are equally concerned with us in these things , and wish well to the publique . and so ( trusting in the mercy and goodness of god , to pass by and help any failings or infirmities of ours , in the carriage or proceedings hereupon ) we shall humbly cast our selves and the business upon his good pleasure , depending only on his presence and blessing for an happy issue , to the peace and good of this poor kingdom : in the accomplishment whereof , we desire and hope , that god will make you blessed instruments . by the appointment of his excellency . sir tho : fairfax , and soldiers of the army under his command . s. albans , june 14. 1647. signed by me john rushworth . finis . an abridgment of the late remonstrance of the army vvith some marginall attestations for the better understanding remembrance and judgement of the people : collected by speciall order for more publique satisfaction, and to undeceive the kingdome as to the false glosses by some put upon the said remonstrance printed. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a23670 of text r6461 in the english short title catalog (wing a107). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 37 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 8 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a23670 wing a107 estc r6461 11966386 ocm 11966386 51717 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a23670) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 51717) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 46:10) an abridgment of the late remonstrance of the army vvith some marginall attestations for the better understanding remembrance and judgement of the people : collected by speciall order for more publique satisfaction, and to undeceive the kingdome as to the false glosses by some put upon the said remonstrance printed. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. 15 p. printed for laurence blaiklocke ..., london : 1648. "by the appointment of the lord generall, and his generall councell of officers. decem. 27, 1648. signed, jo. rushworth" eng england and wales. -army. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a23670 r6461 (wing a107). civilwar no an abridgment of the late remonstrance of the army. vvith some marginall attestations, for the better understanding, remembrance, and judgem england and wales. army. council 1648 6793 21 0 0 0 0 0 31 c the rate of 31 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-06 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-06 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion an abridgment of the late remonstrance of the army . vvith some marginall attestations , for the better understanding , remembrance , and judgement of the people . collected by speciall order for more publique satisfaction , and to undeceive the kingdome as to the false glosses by some put upon the said remonstrance printed . by the appointment of the lord generall , and his generall councell of officers . decem. 27. 1648. signed , jo rushworth . london , printed for laurence blaiklocke , and are to be sold in the old-baily . 1648. an abridgment of the late remonstrance of the army , with some marginall attestations , both for the better understanding , remembrance , and judgment of the people . to the right honourable the commons of england assembled in parliament , the humble remonstrance of his excellency lord generall fairfax , and his generall councell of officers , held at saint albanes , thursday november 16. 1648. ovr tender reguard to the freedome of parliament and the offence taken at our least interposing in any thing of civill consideration to the parliament , have made us attend in silence the councels of parliament . but finding you upon those transactions , whereupon the life or death of all our civill interest doth depend , and a seeing no effectuall helpe from elsewhere to appeare , we cannot be wanting in ought we can honestly say or do to hold off impending ruine b from an honest people and a good cause . we are not ignorant that the rule salus populi suprema lex , is most apt to be misapplyed , some men framing pretences of publike extremity . therefore though we are full of sad apprehensions of the extremity at hand , yet c we shall first with all sobernesse and clearnesse ( as god shall enable us ) remonstrate to you our apprehensions both of the danger at hand and of the remedy with our grounds in both . we must first mind you of your votes once past concerning no more addresses to the king , and our engagement to adhere to you therein . in this none can say you were acted beyond your owne free judgements , we are sure by no impulsion from the army , the juster resolutions of the house did in this reclaime us , it pleased god instantly to lead you into such order , whereby the burthen of free quarter was taken off , supernumerary forces disbanded , the rest put into an established way of pay ; but when the house being called on purpose for a settlement began to entertaine motions tending to the unsettlement of what they had resolved , the minds of men without also became propor●ionably unsetled in expectations which way things would bend , seeing such uncertainty of any end of troubles upon the parliamentary account alone ; then began your enemies to hope and work your trouble , and their owne advantages , and in all the disturbances , so to execute all the other interests pretended , that at last they might set up that of the king and their owne above all others . thus the army which would not be won to disert the parliamentary and publique interest to serve their turnes , was by them rendred the only common enemy , and this new formed party at first professe for a full and free parliament , and to free it from the force of an army , d whereas the latest quarrell against it was that it would not force the parliament to comply with the interest of the king . they likewise pretended to be for the easing of the people of taxes to an army , whereas indeed their workings did necessitate the parliament to continue an army , and taxes for it . they also pretended for the covenant against an army of sectaries , and for all these ends a personall treaty with the king must be held forth as the only soveraigne salve . and thus the people were taught mainly to depend upon the king for all , and to petition for these things , and in pretence of them to levy warre against the parliament on the kings behalfe , and his partie is brought into the manage of it . yet they drive on the whilst the treaty to deceive you by old malignants , and a late discontented party in city and parliament , the lords closeing readily with the desires of them and the prin●e , though in the warre for your and the kingdomes defence , or in declaring with you against the scotch army and others , they would neither lead nor follow . and when in any thing of the treaty concerning the very life of your cause you made som stick , clamorous petitions with menaces come thick upon you , and forces listed daily about you , the city neither taking course , nor suffering their major generall to do it . and thus you were at their mercy whiles your armie was ingaged at distance against your enemies in armes . therefore we cannot conceive that in those resolutions for a treaty , the judgement of parliament was with due and former freedome . and we wish you to consider the evills of this treaty in laying designes for the kings escape , and settling future correspondencies , and further whether it can be just or safe in relation to publique interest . the summe of publique interest of a nation in relation to common right , and in opposition to tyrrany of kings or others , is , that for all matters concerning the whole they have a parliament consisting of deputyes or representers freelly chosen and with as much equality as may be , and that the power of making or altering lawes and of finall judgment be in them , and that it may not be left in the will of the king , or any other particular persons to make voyd their determinations or proceedings . and where the offence is in publique officers against their trust , this same counsell may call to account and punish such offenders either according to the law , or where it hath not provided e according to their own judgment . against these matters of publique interest this king hath all along his raigne opposed to uphold the interest of his and his posterities will , and power : first that there might be no such common councell to restrain him , but that all things of supreame trust concerning safety might rest in his breast alone without limit from any , or account to any on earth . and for this he raised his first and second armes against his people in both kingdomes ; then he fell to play lower that none of those things of supreame and absolute trust might be exercised by any others without him , no not by all the trustees of the , land , nor in any case though never so necessary for releife or saving of the people , and for this he raised his third armes , and when these his other claimes so farre failed , he would make you know that neither parliament nor any power on earth ( what ever ills he had done ) might meddle with his sacred person , no not so much as to secure him from doing more evill ; and for this last part of his interest his fourth armes were raised . there have also fallen in other particulars with these interests , as on the parliaments part to protect religious men , and to give freedome to the gospell and take away those corrupt formes by which snares were laid for such conscientious men ▪ but on the kings part the interest was to doe contrary ▪ so that the parliamentary and publique interests hath been made very much one with the interest of the godly , and the king interest one with their greatest opposites , now wee suppose that where a person trusted f with limited power to rule according to lawes , shall not only pervert that trust but assume also hurtfull powers never committed to him , and take away foundations of liberty and redresse , such a person so doing forfeits all that power and trust he had , and g absolving the people from the bonds betweene him and them , doth set them free to take their best advantage and proceed in judgement against him : much more when hee on these termes shall maintaine a war , and by division within and invasions from abroad lengthen it well to uphold the interest of his will and power against the common interest of his people ; such a person we may justly say is guilty of the highest treason against the h highest law amongst men , now we may conclude that this king hath beene the author and contriver of an unjust warre , and so is guilty of all the blood and mischeife to the kingdome ; and then how can the publike justice of the kingdom be satisfyed , the blood avenged , i the wrath of god for the same appeased without judgment executed against him , and consequently how far can an accomodation with him ( when god hath given him so clearly into your power to do justice ) can be just before god , or good men without somuch as a judiciall tryall or evident remorse for his fault he hath so long in word and practice denyed it , & never k confessed it till all other wayes of force & fraud had failed him , & now confesseth it conditionally so as you satifie him in other things which is great l hypocrisie , and while he thus in word confesseth it yet in m practise he denyes it by continuing commissions to the prince and other english rebells and revolters , yea to ormond and his associate irish . and what publique benefit can be from reunion of such contrary principles of tyranny , and liberty , godlinesse and superstition ? concerning the safety of such an agreement for his restitution especially supposing no reall remorse or change , but the same principles and affections first , how apt are princes in such case to take advantages for a breath , and secondly how easily may they do it after such agreement . for the former how apt it such a prince to doe it when the n bonds once accepted by him with unquestioned freedome at his admission to the throne and the oath of god betwixt him and his people , would not hold him , but of his owne mind have been all violated by him , and to justify the same the law of force set up to the utmost ? how can it be expected that the bonds of new concessions and agreements imposed by force and vincible necessity should be of more power to hold him when an advantage to recover what he lost doth offer it selfe , for the faith keeping of this king his accords with the scottish nation do witnesse for his revengefullnes ; these petty revenges after severall parliaments which were taken against such patriots as had appeared for common liberty against his interest . next for o facillity of princes finding occasion and quarrell after such agreement , and yet with some co●lerable saving to his honour , we know the court maximes concerning some crowne rights which a king cannot give away nor oblige his heirs in ; besides some matters of supreme trust are in the propositions barganed for with and taken as by lease from the king , so as to confirme his claime of right ; but from the force or necessity lying upon the king in this treaty , there is a ground of evasion from the whole agreement as not obligeing him what soever is drawne from him , and this is avowed publikely by the prince and his councell in answer to the earle of warwick , where the prince clearly sayes , the king in truth is still in prison . and consider the prince as heire , it serves to acquit himselfe , and as the next visible head of the kings party , the king being in durance , it may serve on behalfe of the king and his heires and party as a protestation against any conclusion by his treaty ; and the king himself hath insinuated the same sence of the treaty , and that not without grounds to gaine beleef , he being still confined within your garrisons and guards and upon his paroll ; so that if you proceed upon so rotten a foundation and be cousened , ye cousen your selves , and cannot blame him or his . and the king comming in thus may rest secure and wayte his advantage ( having go your hands bound ) till he finding it shall strike the first stroak which 't is like he will make a sure one if he can . to proceed , the king comes thus in with reputation of having long sought peace and that in a personall treaty , which you after a long denyall at last granting are rendred by his freinds as refusers of peace , so long in that the kings way he comes also with the reputation of having granted for peace sake , all that stood you upon , although it will apeare nothing at all to the publick interest . and if after this accomodation to satisfye the people you shall disband your forces , you are at the kings p courtesie still , and are but where you were at first . but the king in much fairer possibility to revi●e the old quarrell and carry it without fighting : for after so much blood and trouble for no thing , t is not like , you 'le find a competent party for the opposing of him ; & if you continue a sufficient strength & taxes they will be the more grevous , because deemed unnecessary , the king having granted what your selves did aske , we might reflect upon his numerous party ingaged by interest , or necessity to serve him , so long as he remaines in possibillity to head them , while hee by his supposed impunity whatsoever he does , hath encouragement to make all possible tryall of them , and they hope if he ever prevaile , he may make them amends : whereas this being once confuted by an example of justice upon him for such attempts , they would not be feared in relation to his posterities heeding of them ; besides these , we cannot but consider the vast possibilities after his restitution to make or use factions amongst your selves , and your adherents , and doe not all men acknowledge him most exquisite at it ? and if he had that faculty to availe at distance , much more in your bosomes , each party will be apt to strive which shall most and first comply with him , of which you and we have seene sad experiences already ; yet we refused ought of private contract or trust with him and his ; and all was with saving for the publike interest ; yet in that degree of our complyance with him , we find matter of acknowledgement before the lord concerning our error therein ; and we blesse him that preserved us from worse ▪ and if from the divisions we have , such complyances have beene with , and such advantages given to the kings party while acknowledged enemies , what worse may we not expect , when by a peace made they shall have the reputation of friends ? to conclude this , wee confesse our feares from the act of this parliaments unlimited continuance . if he forme q a ballancing party in the house of commons for his interest , that which should be our conservative , would be our baine , and yet we should be debarred from change of medicine ; or if a period be set to this parliament , and no provision for certaine succession , and sitting of parliaments , without dependance on the kings wil ; or if no provision for a more due constitution by more equall elections ; then the successe will be lesse hopefull and safe then the present , and you have not in this treaty made any provision for any of these things . but to proceed , to shew the certain insecurity to publike interest , in an accommodation with a restitution of the king . for you the supreame judicatory of the kingdome ( when he is in your power to doe justice upon ) to decline that way , and instead thereof to seek to him your prisoner in way of treaty , what speakes it lesse then that he is indeed above all humane r justice not accountable to or s punishable do any power on earth , what ever he does , & that kings cannot erre or doe wrong , whereas one example in this kind made , would be of more terror and availe then the execution of his whole party , yea then all satisfaction you can imagine . if our king claime by t conquest : god hath given you the same against him to fix your justice first upon the head , and thereby let his successors see what themselves may expect if that they attempt the like . this may hopefully discourage them from heading any more what instruments they might find in the like quarrell ; but to punish only instruments , and let the head go free , leads u to endlesse trouble ; besides it seemes a most unequall w and partiall way of justice ; and the same principles that exempt kings from justice would x absolve their inferiour ministers for what they doe in pursuance of such commands . if any object the covenant as obliging us to perpetuall addresses to the king as being the onely way consistent with the preservation of his person and authority . we answer , the covenant engageth to matters of publike interests , primarily , and absolutely without limitation , and after that to the preservation of the kings person and authority with the restriction to wit , in the preservation of the true religion and liberties of the kingdomes , so that it obligeth thereto no further , nor in any other way then shall be consistent with this restriction , yea this obligation to preserve his person and authority should be fulfilled in the preservation and defence of religion and liberty , otherwise the whole proceedings of both kingdoms in s making warre against him for preservation of religion or liberties , were questionable for breach of covenant since that way of preserving them did tend probably to the destruction , and was not with any safe provision for his person or that authority which is in conjunction with it , also where severall persons joyning in covenant for the good and union of themselves ( who are present and parties to it ) doe withall make a clause to the benefit of another person to the end he might joyne with them in the agreement , and pertake the benefit thereof ; if the absent party doe not accept , but refuse the agreement , as he keepes himselfe free from it , so he excludes himself from claime to any benefit there from . upon all the reasons and considerations aforegoing we propound . first , that it may be expressely declared and provided by you , that notwithstanding any thing concluded in the treaty , the person of the y king may and shall be proceeded against in way of justice for the bloud spilt , and other evils and mischiefes done by him or by his commission or procurement , and in order thereto shall be kept in safe custody as formerly . secondly , that for other delinquents , you would lay aside that particular barganing proposition , and declare that all delinquents shall submit to the judiciall power of the parliament , to be thereby proceeded against according to justice or mercy , as cause shall appeare , and that none shall be exempt therefrom , nor pardonable by any other power then that of the kingdom in parliament . the power of justice and mercy being thus saved , we proceed in order to the actuall dispensing thereof in relation to the late wars , and to peace with god , and quiet amongst men , to propound , as followeth : first , that the z capitall and grand authour of our troubles , the person of the king , by whose procurement , and for whose interest onely of will and power , all our wars have been , may be brought to justice for the treason , bloud , and mischiefe he is therein a guilty of . secondly , that a timely day may be set for the prince of wales and the duke of yorke to come in , by which time if they doe not , that then they may be immediately declared incapable of any government or trust in this kingdom or its dominions , & thence to stand exild for ever as enemies and traytors , to die without mercy if ever after found and taken therein . or if by the time limited they doe render themselves , that then the prince be proceeded with as on his appearance he shall give satisfaction , or not . and the duke as he shall give satisfaction , may be considered as to future trust , or not . but however that the revenue of the crown ( saving necessary allowances for the children , and for servants and creditors to the crown ) be sequestred ; and the costly pompe suspended for a good number of yeeres ; and that this revenue be for that time disposed toward publique charges , debts and dammages , for the easing of the people , so as the estates neither of friends to publique interest , nor alone of inferiour enemies thereto , may bear wholly the burden of that losse and charge , which by and for that family , the kingdome hath been put unto . thirdly , that capitall punishment be speedily executed upon a competent number of his chiefe instruments also , both in former and latter wars ; and that some of both sorts be pitcht upon as are really in your hands or reach . fourthly , that the rest of the delinquents english , may upon rendring themselves to justice have mercy for their lives ; and that onely fines be set upon them , and their persons declared incapable of any publique trust , or having any voyce in elections thereto , at least for a good number of yeers . and that a short day be set by which all such delinquents may come in , and for those who come not in by that day , that their estates be absolutely confiscate and sould to the publique use , and their persons stand exild , as traytors , and to die without mercy if ever found after in the kingdome , or its dominions . fifthly , that the satisfaction of arrears to the souldiery , with other publique debts , and competent reparations of publique dammages may be put into some orderly way . and therefore that the fines and compositions of delinquents be disposed to those uses onely , as also the confiscations of such who shall be excluded from pardon , or not come in by the day assigned . now after publique justice thus far provided for , we proceed in order to the generall satisfaction and setling of the kingdom . first , that you would set some reasonable and certain period to your own power . secondly , that with a period to this parliament , there may be a settlement of the peace and future government of the kingdom . first , that there may be a certain succession of future parliaments , annuall or bienniall , with secure provision , 1. for the certainty of their sitting , meeting , and ending . 2. for equall elections . 3. for the peoples meeting to elect , provided that none engaged in warre against the kingdom may elect , or be elected , nor any other who oppose this settlement . 4. for clearing the future power of parliaments , as supream onely , they may not give away any foundation of common right . 5. for liberty of entring dissents in the said representatives , that the people may know who are not fit for future trust , but without any further penalty for their free judgements . secondly , that no king be hereafter admitted * but upon election of , and as upon trust from the people by such their representatives , not without first disclaiming all pretence to a negative voyce against the determinations of the commons in parliament , and this to be done in some forme more cleare then heretofore in the coronation oath . these matters of generall settlement we propound to be provided by the authority of the commons in this parliament , and to be further established by a generall contract or agreement of the people with their subscriptions thereunto . and that no king be admitted to the crown , nor other person to any office of publique trust , without expresse accord and subscription to the same . for our parts , let but that way of justice be effectually prosecuted , and the settlement of the publique interest be assured to us and the kingdom , we shall desire discharge from our present service , and shall be ready to disband all or part , as shal be thought fit , the arrears of the souldiery being satisfied : we therefore desire that you would leave all private matters , and things of ordinary justice and right to the laws and proper officers , and commit all ordinary matters of state to the mannage of a fit councell of state , and apply your counsels to such things as are the proper work of parliament , to wit , the reformation of evils in present laws and administrations . and in order to such things that you would in time and place consider the petitions of welwishers to publique good . we againe desire that even from henceforth the aforesaid liberty of entring dissents may be admitted amongst you , as in the scotch parliament ; or at least , that such liberty be taken by all honest and faithfull members . by the appointment of his excellency the lord generall , and his generall councell of officers , signed j. rushworth , sce. decemb. 27. 1648. finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a23670e-130 a as in publik fires all must lift up their voice and hands , bringing what ladders , buckets , or other assistanc they can , non expectandus praefectus vigilum si obdormiat , non praefectus urbis si cunctetur ; certatim quisque aquam hauriat tectum s●andat , flammam arceat oportet b as a part of the people in armes , or an army interposed against the standding authority for the life of good ionathan . 1. sam. 14.45 c commanders of the forces of the kingdome have been taken into the councell and execution of important matters , as in the deposing of a tyrant and enthroning a young king upon tearms or agreement . 2. chro. 23.1.14 20. 2. kings 11.1.7 . so in the slaying of ioram and making iehu king. 2. king 1.9 . ●ea david consulted with such in matters of religion . 1. chron. 13.1.15.25.25.1 . trajan the emperour making captain of the praetorian band by the ceremony of giving him a sword , said , use this for me if i raign well , and against me if ill . d as ioseph was accused to his master gen. 39.8 3.17 . e which is the ground of their enacting any law 1639. 1640. 1641. 1648. f rom. 13.3.4 . paul speakes of authority or magistracy in its constitution ( not of a person abusively exercising it ) to be gods instrument of good to every one , and an encourager of good in every man , and an enemy to evill . therefore the kings of the israelites must know the law for a rule , deut. 17. and ioash being 7. yeares old had a crown put upon his head , and the testimony in his hand 2. kings 11 12. that being elder he might remember the rule which david avoucheth to be from heaven as a rule for all rulers 2 sam. 23.3 . he that ruleth among men , must be just ruling in the fear of god . g 2. chron. 21 10 lib●ah which a citty belonging to ( the preists . iosh 21.13 ) revolted ne subjecti esset ei [ iunt ) from all subjection , because he had forsaken the lord god of his fathers . h which is the safety of the people . i numb. 35.4 . hang them up that the fierce anger of the lord may be turned away from israel . deu 19.13 . thine eyes shall not pitty him , but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from israel , that it may go well with thee . 2. sam. 21.3.5.6.14 wherewith shall i make the atonement that ye may blesse the inheritance of the lord , and they answered the man that consumed us , and that devised against us that wee should be destroyed , let 7 men of his sonnes be delivered to us and wee will hang them , & the king said i will give them ; and after that god was intreated for the land . k not so much as acban who yet suffered ios , 7.20 , 25 l iob. 34 30. that the hypocrite raigne not least the people be ensnared . m proverbs 28.13 . divine mercy to confessing and forsaking , but ex. 9.17 34. pharaoh hardened to destruction , though he confesseth , yet when the dreadful thunders are gone his sin returnes . n what other right soever any prince hath , there must be such bonds covenant or agreement between him and his people , besides samuells anointings from god , david had that o iudah , 2. iam. 2.4 . and made a league with all israel before the lord . 2. sam. 5.3 . and afterward they annointed him king over israel . and at the coronation of ioash , 2. k. 11 17. there is a covenant also between the king and people . therefore 1. pet. 2.13 . the particular forme & subject of government is called an humane creature . o dan 8.25 . through his policie shall he cause craft to prosper in his hand , and he shal magnifie himselfe in his heart , and by peace shall destroy many , dan. 11.23.24 . and after the leag●● made wi●h him he shall work deceitfully , hee shall enter peaceably even upon the lat● places of the province and shall do that which his fathers have not done , nor his fathers fathers , p as the sheep dismissing their 〈…〉 with the wolves . and have the english people suffered so many things in vaine . q as he often hath in particular votes . r and lawes which is to be more then man as persian and roman emperors have been flattered to be ; for just lawes being from god ( themis the daughter of iove ) who is not ever under them , ownes not his subjection to god , whereas god hath not put that distance betwixt a king and other men , they are his brethren though his subjects , deut. 17. ult. so david calls his subjects 1 chro. 28.2 . s if any king because a king be unpunishable by men , then all kings are so , and no man may justly punish any king , but when a people to be punished , should spare their king as saul ( the people then admiring haply the persons as well as government of kings ) spared agag , 1 sam. 15.9 . but we find gods instruments fixing more solemne punishment on wicked kings then on their wicked people , iosuah slayes all their kings ios. 11.17 . being thirty one , 12. cap. last , and hangs up some iosh. 10.24.28.30.40 . gideon more solemnely executes the kings of midian then other enemies , iudges 8.1.21 . ebud slayes king eglon , judg. 3.21 . so iehoiadah , and the commanders put athalia to death , 2 chro. 23.14 . and if it be said that these two last princes came to the crown by force & blood , and so were without a title , it may be replyed , that such was the ontrance of the first of the english , french , &c. royall race from whom the present kings claime ; liue further , these two had raigned , and the people been subject to them ( which makes the most usuall title , ) the one for 18. yeares , iudg. 3.14 . the other six yeares , 2 chro. 22.12 . iehu did slay both the kings of israel and iedah 2 kings 9. and asaph psalme 83.11 . prayes that nobles and princes of enemies may be used after former examples . and as this ranke of men is opposing christ in the last times ; so are they by him and his people to be punished psal. 2. psalm . 110.5 . the lord 〈◊〉 right hand shall strike through ( kings in the day of thy wrath psa. 149.8.9 . to bind their kings with chaines , and their nobles with fetters of iron to execute upon them the judgement written rev. 19.17.18 . the fowles invited to eat the flesh of kings and capt. are slaughtered by the lambs as for david sparing saul , it was necessary for david a private person , and under private and personall hate and injury , and therefore could not within his bounds , and without scandalous appearance of revenge or ambition have done otherwise , and it was only declared against the succeeding of his race not the continuance of his person , but the state and people not taking course against saul , did smart in his other way of punishment , as for david , it appears that he forbore him not meerly out of reverence to his authority , for he took up arms to defend himselfe against him and would ( if that part of the people would have joyned ) have maintained kailah against him , 1 sam. 23. now all this was contrary to subjection , and intimates that david , if he had beene put to it , and he could no otherwise have escaped , would have used force against saul , and as for david being spared , who can thence conclude that he should be so ; and if he should be spared then who can conclude the like for every offending king , since there was something speciall in his case not applyable to every case , besides other there was his publik repentance undoubtedly acknowledged by god to be true , also gods declaring how he should be punished himselfe , taking the matter in hand , yet so , that the people shared in his sufferings further , his miscarriage was but an act , and against a person not a cause ( or against a nation . ) t and in no other way will the people yeeld themselves to the discretion of a prince to be distroyed or not . u 2 chr. 23. ul● and the city was quiet afte● they had slaine athaliah with the sword . w num. 25.4 , 5 , 9. the chiefe men guilty were first hang'd , being 1000 ; and then inferiour men slaine , being 23000 as 1 cor. 10.8 . both making 24000. x as for infalliblenesse and superiority to the law would excuse abraham in slaying his sonne , gen. 22. and did the israelites in robbing , exod 12.35 . y even a servant by the civill law may accuse his master as guil●y of treason , ●o , liberti certis le causis p●ssant capitalem accusationem adversus patronos in●●ituere . z god hates all workers of iniquity , psalm 5.5 . and excepteth not the person of princes , nor regards the rich more then the poore , iob 34.19 . and therefore he saith , levit. 19.15 . ye shall doe no unrighteousnesse in judgement , thou shalt not respect the person of the poore , nor honour the person of the mighty ; reformation were better begin at the majorites then the minorites , num. 25.17 . and the 31 &c. midianites ▪ and psalm 140.9 . david prayes against the head of those that compasse him about ; and he gives a generall law for punishment of murderers , gen. 9.6 . and num. 35.33 . so you shall not pollute the land wherein ye are , for blood it defiles the land , and a land cannot be cleansed of blood that is shed therein , but by the blood of him that shed it , 2 chron. 25.27 . now after the time that amaziah did turn from following the lord , they made a conspiracy against him , vajiksher gnalaiv kesher , ligaverunt contra enim ligationem or ligam , some copies of 70 read syndesmos , a combination , league , or confederacy against him ; the words signifies any conjunction , as iob 38.31 . of the pleiades , and nehem. 4.6 . of the wall , and it is of a warrantable combyning of iehu , 2 kings 9.14 . and this against amaziah was in ierusalem the seat of the chiefe state or great councell of the kingdome , and it was done ( as it seems ) by publique authority , for he fled to lachish , and there as iunius . 2 kings 14.21 . lived a private life for eleven yeeres , in the mean while when they so conspired or combined against him , the whole people of iudah made azariah king instead of his father ; yet though they deferred the execution , they did not omit it , but after the said yeers , sent after amaziah to lachish , vbi morte offecerunt eum vamitha hac ethana to sea , they put him to death . so that this was done in an open publique , ( not in a sudden and clandestine , or tumultuous ) way , which it selfe was not afterward punishable , as in this case of amaziahs father , 2 kings 12.10 . & 14 chap. 5. and of wicked ammon , the people slew them servants of his that slew him in his own house , 2 kings 21.23 , 24. a it cannot be unjust to desire justice , and that on , and as a guilty man , and no further . * 2 chro. 23.3 . all the congregation made a covenant with the king , 2 sam. 16.18 , whom the lord and his people and all the men of israel chuse , his will i be . a true relation of the storming bristoll, and the taking the town, castle, forts, ordnance, ammunition and arms, by sir thomas fairfax's army, on thursday the 11. of this instant septemb. 1645. together with severall articles between prince rupert, and generall fairfax, before the delivering up of the castle. sent in severall letters to the honorable william lenthall esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, and read in the said house. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this relation with the articles, beforthwith printed and published: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a57928 of text r200264 in the english short title catalog (wing r2336a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 36 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 13 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a57928 wing r2336a estc r200264 99861070 99861070 113198 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a57928) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 113198) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 49:e301[5]) a true relation of the storming bristoll, and the taking the town, castle, forts, ordnance, ammunition and arms, by sir thomas fairfax's army, on thursday the 11. of this instant septemb. 1645. together with severall articles between prince rupert, and generall fairfax, before the delivering up of the castle. sent in severall letters to the honorable william lenthall esq; speaker of the honorable house of commons, and read in the said house. ordered by the commons assembled in parliament, that this relation with the articles, beforthwith printed and published: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. rupert, prince, count palatine, 1619-1682. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. 24 p. printed for edward husband, printer to the honorable house of commons, london, : sept. 13. 1645. signed on page 3: i.r., i.e. john rushworth. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng bristol (england) -history -siege, 1643 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -campaigns -early works to 1800. a57928 r200264 (wing r2336a). civilwar no a true relation of the storming bristoll, and the taking the town, castle, forts, ordnance, ammunition and arms, by sir thomas fairfax's arm rushworth, john 1645 6725 7 0 0 0 0 0 10 c the rate of 10 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2001-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-06 john latta sampled and proofread 2002-06 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-07 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true relation of the storming bristoll , and the taking the town , castle , forts , ordnance , ammunition and arms , by sir thomas fairfax's army , on thursday the 11. of this instant septemb. 1645. together with severall articles between prince rupert , and generall fairfax , before the delivering up of the castle . sent in severall letters to the honorable william lenthall esq speaker of the honorable house of commons , and read in the said house . ordered by the commons assembled in parliament , that this relation with the articles , be forthwith printed and published : h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honorable house of commons , sept. 13. 1645. a true relation of the storming bristol , and the taking the town , castle , forts , ordnance , ammunition and arms , by sir tho fairfax's army . to the honorable william lenthall esquire , speaker of the honorable house of commons . sir , i send you here inclosed , an account of the last passages about bristol ; i have done it in haste ; i desire it may not be much published till you hear more ( which will not be long ) from your servant , i. r. sept. 7. 12 at night . for his highnesse prince rupert . sir , for the service of the parliament i have brought their army before the city of bristol , and do summon you in their names , to render it with all the forts belonging to the same into my hands , to their use . having used this plain language , as the businesse requires , i wish it may be as effectuall with you , as it is satisfactory to my self , that i do a little expostulate with you about the surrender of the same , which i confesse is a way not common , and which i should not have used , but in respect to such a person ; and to such a place : i take into consideration your royall birth and relation to the crown of england , your honour , courage , the vertues of your person , and the strength of that place , which you may think your self bound , and able to maintain . sir , the crown of england is and will be where it ought to be , we fight to maintain it there ; but the king mis led by evil councellors , or through a seduced heart hath left his parliament , and his people , under god , the best assurance of his crown and family ; the maintaining of this schisme , is the ground of this unhappy war on your part : and what sad effects it hath produced in the three kingdoms , is visible to all men : to maintain the rights of the crown and kingdom , joyntly , ( a principall part whereof , is , that the king in supream acts concerning the whole state , is not to be advised by men of whom the law takes no notice , but by his parliament , the great councell of the kingdom , in whom as much as man is capable of , he hears all his people , as it were at once advising him , and in which multitude of councellors lies his safety , and his peoples interest ) and to set him right in this , hath been the constant and faithfull endeavor of the parliament , and to bring these wicked instruments to justice , that have mis-led him , is a principall ground of our fighting . sir , if god makes this clear to you , as he hath to us , i doubt not but he will give you a heart to deliver this place ; notwithstanding , all the other considerations of honour , courage , fidelity , &c. because of their consistency and use in the present businesse , depends upon the right or wrongfulnesse of this that hath been said : and if upon such conviction you shall surrender it , and save the losse of blood , or hazard of spoyling such a city , it would be an occasion glorious in it self , and joyfull to us , for the restoring of you to the indeared affection to the parliament and people of england , the truest friend to your family it hath in this world . but if this be hid from your eyes , and through your wilfulnesse this so great , so famous and ancient a city , and so full of people , be by your putting us to force the same , exposed to ruine , and the extreamities of war ( which yet we shall in that case as much as possible , endeavour to prevent ) then i appeale to the righteous god , to be iudge between you and us , and to require the wrong : and let all england judge , whether the burning of its towns , ruining its cities , and destroying its people , be a good requitall from a person of your family , which hath had the prayers , tears , purses , and blood of its parliament and people ; and ( if you look on either , as now divided ) hath ever had that same party both in parliaments , and amongst the people most zealous for their assistance and restitution , which you now oppose and seek to destroy , and whose constant grief hath been their desires to serve your family , have been ever hindred or made fruitlesse by that same party about his majesty , whose councell you act , and whose interest you pursue in this unnaturall war . i expect your speedy answer to this summons , with the return of the bearer this evening , and remain your highnesse humble servant , tho: fairfax . sept. 4. 1645. prince ruperts answer . sir , i received yours by your trumpeter : i desire to know , whether you will give me leave to send a messenger to the king , to know his pleasure in it . i rest your servant , rvpert . sept. 5. 1645. sir thomas fairfax's answer to the princes message . sir , your overture of sending to the king to know his pleasure , i cannot give way to , because of delay : i confesse your answer doth intimate your intention , not to surrender without his majesties consent : yet ( because it is but implicite ) i send again to know a more positive answer from your self , which i desire may be such , as may render me capable to approve my self , your highnesse humble servant , tho : fairfax . sept. 5. 1645. september 6. seven in the morning , the trumpet went in , and was detained all that day and night ; every thing was prepared for a storme ; the souldiers had their faggots on their backs , and leaped for joy they might go on : yet about ten at night , it was held fit to give orders to put off the businesse till monday morning two of the clock . lords day , sept. 7. in the forenoon , the trumpet was returned with these propositions from prince rupert , which i send herewith . prince ruperts propositions , to generall sir thomas fairfax . sir , whereas i received your letter for the delivery of the city , forts , and castle of bristol , and being willing to joyn with you for the sparing of blood , and the preserving of his majesties subjects : i have upon those grounds and none other , sent you these following propositions : 1. that my self , all noblemen , commanders , officers , gentlemen , and souldiers of horse and foot , that have served , either his majesty or parliament in england or elswhere : as likewise all persons whatsoever , men or women , now resident in this city of bristoll , castle and forts thereof , shall have free liberty to march away out of the said city , castle and forts , with their arms , flying colours , drums beating , trumpets sounding , pistolls cock'd , swords drawn , matches lighted at both ends , bullets in their mouths , and as much powder and match as they can carry about them ; with all their bag and baggage , horses , arms and other furniture , ten pieces of canon , fifty barrels of powder , match and bullet proportionable . 2. that neither mine own person , nor the person of any nobleman , commander , officer , gentleman or souldier , or any other of mine or of their retinues , be searched , molested or troubled upon what pretence soever , but left to their liberties to depart or stay , as it shall be most convenient for them . 3. that none of your army whatsoever , shall entice or perswade any officer or souldier of mine from their regiments or celours , with any promise of preferment or reward . 4. that all such officers and souldiers that are hurt and sick , and cannot now march out of this city , castle and fort , shall have liberty to stay untill they be recovered , and then have safe conducts to go wheresoever they please , either to any of his majesties armies or garrisons , or their own houses , where they may live quiet , and that in the interim those being sick and hurt , may be protected by you , and have civil usage . 5. that all prisoners taken on both sides since the beginning of this siege , be forthwith set at liberty . 6. that my self , and all those above mentioned , may not be required to march further in a day , then what conveniently we may ; and that a day or two of rest be allowed upon our march , if we shall finde it requisite ; and that we be accommodated with free quarter during our march , and a sufficient convoy to any of the kings armies or garrisons , which i shall name , to secure us in our march from all injury and incivility that shall any wayes be offered unto us : and likewise , that there be one hundred and fifty cariage horses , and forty wains , with sufficient teams provided for cariages of all sorts . 7. that no person here in these articles mentioned , shall be in their march , randevouz , or quarters , searched or plundered , upon any pretence whatsoever : and that two officers be appointed by you ; the one , for accommodation of free quarters for officers , souldiers , and others ; and the other , for providing of horses and carriages for our baggage and train . 8. all noble-men , gentle-men , clergie-men , citizens , resiants , or any other person within this citie , suburbs , and liberties thereof , shall at any time when they please , have free liberty to remove themselves , their goods and families , and to dispose of them at their pleasures , according to the known and enacted laws of the land ; either to live at their own houses , or elsewhere ; and to enjoy their houses , lands , goods , and estate , without any molestation , and to have protection for that purpose ; and this article to extend to all those whose estates are sequestred or not sequestred ; and that they may rest quiet at their abodes , and travell freely and safely upon their occasions : and for their better removall , they may have letters of safe-conduct , with horses and carriages at reasonable rates , upon demand . 9. that all persons above-mentioned may have free liberty to passe to any parts beyond the seas any time within three moneths , as their occasions shall require . 10. that the lines , forts , castle , and other fortifications about or in the citie of bristol , be forthwith slighted , and the city stated in the same condition it was before the beginning of this unnatural war : and that hereafter the parliament , during this war , place no garison in it . 11. that no churches be defaced : that the severall members of the foundation of this cathedral , shall quietly enjoy their houses and revenues belonging to their places ; and that the ministers of this citie may likewise enjoy their benefices without any trouble . 12. that no oathes be imposed upon any person now in this citie , suburbs , and liberties , other then such as are required by the ancient and enacted laws of the land . 13. that the maior , sheriffs , aldermen and citizens within his corporation of the city of bristol , shall be free in their persons and estates , and enjoy all their priviledges , liberties , and immunities , in as full and ample manner as formerly at any time they did , before the beginning of this war ; and that they shall have freedom of trade both by land and sea , paying such duties and customs as formerly they have done , to his majestie : and that no mulct of fine be imposed upon any person mentioned in this article , upon any pretence whatsoever ; or questioned for any act or thing done or committed before the day of our marching forth : that no free quarters shall be put upon them without their own consents . 14. that all other persons whose dwellings are in this citie , and now absent , may have the full benefit of these articles , as if they were present . 15. that all noblemen , gentlemen , and others , who have goods in this citie , and are now present or absent , may have liberty at any time within three moneths to dispose of their goods as they please . 16. that there be no plundering , or taking away of any mans person , or any part of his estate , under what pretence soever ; and that iustice , according to the known laws of the land , be administred to all persons within this citie by the civil magistrates . 17. and for the performance of these articles , i expect such hostages to be given as i shall accept of . and hereunto i desire your speedy answer . sir , by this you may evidently perceive my inclination to peace ; and you may be assured that i shall never desire any thing more then the honour of the king , and safety of the kingdom , and that i may become , sir , your servant , rupert . septemb. 7. 1645. the generalls answer to prince ruperts propositions . sir , i have perused your propositions , wherein some things are doubtfully expressed ; other things inconsistent with the duty i owe to them i serve . notwithstanding , to the end i may give assurance , that i earnestly desire to save effusion of blood , and the ruine of a city and people , that may in time be so serviceable to the crown and kingdom : if it please your highnesse that committees may treat between us , concerning the accommodating of things , i hope to make it evident to the world , that what shall respect the honour of a souldier , due civility to all men , the good and welfare of the people of that city , both in passing by what is past , and restoring them to the priviledges of all other subjects , and to the immunities of their city , will readily be condescended unto by me . and to the end no time may be lost , i have hereinclosed sent you the names of committees , who upon the return of hostages of equall condition unto me , shall attend your highnesse sufficiently instructed , to conclude on my part : provided the said treaty be ●nded by nine of the clock this night . and to this , i desire your answer within the space of an hour , and remain your highnesse's humble servant , t. fairfax . sept. 7. 1645. this answer being returned presently after dinner by the same trumpeter , he was detained till eight at night , and then he brought this answer from the prince , or to this effect , in writing : that he hoped his propositions had been such as need no explanation ; yet , because some doubts were made , he was willing to have the exceptions set down in writing , and his highnesse would return answer . so this night also , though eight men were drawn out and appointed to their severall posts , the storming was put off ; and to morrow a certain hour will be set the prince peremptorily for his positive answer . there can be but two things , in my opinion , induces the prince to offer conditions ; either he is not able to defend the place , and in fear of sir lewis dives conditions , if he be driven for refuge into the fort royall ; or else , he doth it to gain time , till his counter-scarfes and inner-lines be finished , which he is very active in making day and night ; or that he expects aid from the king , or goring , neither of which are moving this way , as our intelligence is ; and therefore ( on that reason ) one dayes time longer is given . no man knows how this businesse may work , especially with the towns-men : if the generals answer be made known to them , or if a treaty be imbraced , the noise of it , and the sight of committees , will make men greedy of conditions , or unwilling to resist , if on the princes part it be broken off . truely , i think , some good will come of the proposition , which i rather wish then by storm ; though by the latter , we shall reduce them to more extremities . god by his providence will order things for the best : i doubt not of good successe , which way soever is taken : for the articles that are point of honour , i beleeve will not be much insisted on , as to grant four peece of ordinance , where ten is desired , and so proportionably of other things ; and all demands of civility . the essentiall articles are : exemption from sequestration : cathedrall men to continue ; against which there is an ordinance : the works to be demolished , and no garison hereafter ; which may be inconvenient : these articles will receive dispute ; if they will agree , the fort and castle may have a reasonable garison , the town perhaps will be exempted . by to morrow night i shall acquaint you more : in the mean time i desire you these may not be too publike , till you hear further from the generall himself , who is so busied he cannot write , neither to your self , nor the committee of both kingdoms . sept. 7. past 12 at night . sir , before i descend to the particulars of bristol , i shall humbly beg leave to offer a word or two , to vindicate the army for coming hither after the taking of sherborn-castle , because some endevours have been , to perswade a belief , that for respect to some particular men , or other self-end , the army was drawn to decline the west , and come hither : me thinks it should be sufficient to convince any ( reasonable ) man , that to adventure naked bodies against an army defended with stone-walls , strong-works , and a castle , and to bring them into apparant danger of being visited with the plague , ( for that they must quarter where the sicknesse was very rife ) was an argument of little self-respect ; and when the city was gained , little could our security be to remain there , where 120 died weekly of the plague . surely sir , it was god that put it into the heart of the generall and his officers to come before this place , and a regard they had unto the publike : and indeed god hath appeared to own our coming hither , in preserving this army from the infection of the plague , considering that the souldiers ( do what we can to prevent it ) run daily into infected houses ; and to this day , not a man in the army dead thereof , that i can hear of , but one . for the reasons inducing this army to come before this place , rather then at that time , to advance further west , had i time , i beleeve i should make it evident unto you , that to come before this city , was most for the service of the kingdom , and the safest and most secure course that could have been taken , to reduce the west to a thorow obedience to the parliament : and this might be laid for a ground , that this army could not ( having a regard to the safety of other parts of the kingdom , on any emergent occasion or accident , and to its own security ) march from sherborne into cornwall , ( as in all probability the army must have done , if the enemy had drawn there together in a body ) leaving bristol a garrison on our backs , and prince rupert at liberty , with neer 1000. horse , and 1000. foot , besides the addition of other forces that might be joyned to his , to range all over wiltshire and dorsetshire , and draw to them the assistance of the ill affected club-men ( we being not able to leave strength to secure bathe , bridgewater , and other garisons , ) and sufficient power to ballance his forces . but this place being reduced , there is no garison in the west of england left behinde us , that can secure or countenance the raising of any considerable force : besides , the reputation in the gaining of this place , may operate so much among men ( that are not void of reason or sense ) as ( perhaps ) without many blows more , to reduce the west of england , and put fair to settle england too , which was once very low when this place was first lost . also , the club-men are hereby engaged , who have declared to assist this army against the enemy . the example whereof , may do much elsewhere , especially in wales , where ( by our gaining of bristol and kings-road ) the people will undoubtedly be our friends . craving pardon for this digression , i now come to the businesse of besieging and storming of bristol . saturday the 23. of august , the army encompassed the city round , both on gloucestershire and somershireside , our horse having been there some dayes before , to prevent the burning of the towns and villages adjacent , whose seasonable coming , saved the burning of stapleton , hanham , and other towns , which the enemy had sent out parties of horse with fire-balls to set them on fire , but that our horse repulsed them ; but bedminster , clifton , and other places , they consumed by fire . from that time , till the 3. of september , the weather was so extreme wet , that both man and horse with hard duty grew weak , and died in the field : during that unseasonable weather , the army was unfit for assault . the weather no sooner changed , but our souldiers ( being refreshed with the warm beams of the sun ) were impatient of falling on , being not out of action the time before , having had severall skirmishes with the enemy , where they took sir barnard ashley , and others ; besides , the taking in of ports-head point fort , and fix peece of ordnance . the generall ( with lievtenant generall cromwell ) having taken , full , and exact views of the line and works , and what places most fit to enter on , called a councell of war ( having first set a day a part for the army to seek god by prayer and fasting , to direct them in what they were to undertake : ) at which councell , it was resolved on , to storm the place , as most necessary to the timely reducing of it , and of having the army timely in a condition to oppose an enemy that should advance towards us : laying this for a ground . that if all the citie and forts were not carryed at first , yet so much would be gained ( by gods blessing ) as a small strength with the assistance of the clubmen , would keepe them in , in a narrow compasse , and the rest of the armie would be at libertie , to meet an enemie ; hereupon , and other weighty ●easons , a summons and friendly advise , was septemb. 4. sent from the generall to prince rupert ( of which i sent you a copie formerly ) and september 5. returned answer , that he desired to know , if the generall would give him leave to send it to the king : who returned answer , he could not , ( because of delay ) give way unto it : and fearing lest the prince intended by this overture of a surrender , to gaine time , rather then otherwise : the manner of storming was agreed on , which was to be after this manner : collonel weldon , with his brigade , consisting of the foure taunton regiments , viz-collonel vveldon , collonel twooldsbies , col. fortescues , and col. herberts regiments , ( whose posts were to make good somersetshire side ) was ordered to storme in three place , viz. two hundred men in the middle , two hundred on each side , ( as forlorne hopes ) to begin the storme , twenty ladders to each place , two men to carry each ladder , and to have five shillings a peece , two serjeants that attend the service of the ladder , to have 20 shillings a man ; each musquettier that follows the ladder , to carry a faggot , a serjeant to command them , and to have the same reward ; 12 files of men , with fire , armes , and pikes , to follow the ladders to each place , where the storme is to be , those to be commanded each by a captaine , and lievtenant ; the lievtenant to goe before with five files , the captaine to second him , with the other seven files : the two hundred men that are appointed to second the storme , to furnish each partie of the , twenty pyoneers , who are to march in their reare . the two hundred men , each to be commanded by a field-officer , and the pioneers each by a serjeant . those pyoners are to throw down the lyne , and make way for the horse : the partie that is to make good the line , to possesse the guns , and turn them . a gentleman of the ordnance , gunners and matrosses , to enter with the parties , the draw-bridge to be let down , two regiments and a halfe of horse , to storme in , ( after the foot ) if way be made : much after this manner was the generalls brigade under col●onel monta●ues command , ( consisting of the generals , col. montagues , col. pickerings , and sir hardresse vvallers regiments ) to storm on both sides of lawfords gate , both to the river avon , and the ( lesser ) river froome . the bridge over froome to be made good against horse with pike , or to break it down . collonel rainsboroughs brigade ( consisting of his own , major generall skippons , col. hamonds , col. birches , and col. barkleys regiments ) to storm on this side the river froome , beginning on the right hand of the sally port , up to pryors fort , and to storm the fort it selfe , as the maine businesse , two hundred of this brigade to goe up in boates with the seaman , to storm vvaterfort , ( if it be to be attempted ) one regiment of foot , and one of horse to be moving up and down in the closes before the royall fort , and to ply hard upon it , to alarum it , with a field officer to command them . the regiment of dragoones with two regiments of horse , to carry ladders with them , and to attempt the lyne and workes , by clifton and vvashingtons breach ; the manner of storme being thus agreed on ( though its probable some more certaine information might change the attempts from some place to another ) the souldiers were drawn out , to try their inclination , in whom more courage , joy , and resolution could not appeare in men . the generall to make good his promise , to reward them for the service at bridgewater , ordered them six shillings a man , which by the care of the commissioners of parliament , was immediatly payd unto them , and put a great obligation upon the souldier . on the last lords day , prince rupert , being prest by the generall for a positive answer to his summons , sent propositions of surrender : the answering of which , and replyes on both sides , spent time til tuesday five in the afternoone , and then the prince appeared in his proper colours , to be a man that pretended one thing , and intended another ; delatorie proceedings , you will the better discerne , by all the letters and answers , which time will not now give me leave to repeat . the prince , noblemen , souldiers , and citizens , being left inexcusable , for refusing such honourable conditions as was offered them , and being guiltie of that blood that should be spilt . the same night , after the treatie broke off , tuesday september 9. at 12 at night , all the armie , horse and foot , round the citie , were set in a posture to fall on ; the signes were to be , to give notice when the storme should begin , by kindling a fire of straw , and shooting off soure great guns . the word during the storme , was david : the word after the lyne was entered , was the lord of hosts : about two of the clock in the morning the storm begun , the souldiers shouted for joy , the service was very hot for a time , especially with collonel rainsboroughs brigade , who with a partie of his force , spent almost three houres in the storming of the pryors fort , a place of great advantage ; which piece of service was as bravely performed , as ever thing was done by man : in re●ard they were put to the utmost , by scaling ladders to win the fort , they cut in pieces most of the forces in the fort , and made the rest unserviceable , they gave no quarter to major price in the fort . this brigade tooke foure great peeces in this fort , and two more in a redoubt ; and collonel montagues brigade tooke sixteen peeces in the severall workes , and halfe moones , which they gained by storming . the other brigade under colonel welden , fell on on s●mmerset-shire side , with a great deale of resolution but when the ladders were sett to the workes , they were to short , the moat being very deepe , so they only alarum'd the enemy : the clubmen they fell on at bedminster , and much terrified the enemy : our losse of men was inconsiderable , not credible almost , i assure you , that in col. rainsboroughs and collonel montagues brigade , not fortie men are lost , our horse entred with the foot . the pyoneers having thrown down the lyne , and beat off the enemies horse , and took col taylor , formerly a member of parliament , being mortally wounded : we had on our part capt. ireton sore wounded , a captain of horse , an honest and stout man , major bethel slightly wounded : major saintleger , and two majors more of the enemie , and divers others are prisoners : we are now planting peeces against the castle , which in 24 houres we hope to have . the enemie hath fired the citie in three places . i am sir your servant i. r. sept. 10. eight in the morning , lawfords gate . sir , since the writing of this inclosed at eight in the morning ; the prince sent out for a parly , which by sixe at night produced these inclosed articles . you see how much god workes for us , beyond expectation . i have writt continually unto you , that i was even well assured of successe upon this place , there is that seeking of god , by our commanders and souldiers , by prayer and fasting , and that unitie of spirit amongst them , and by facile undertaking their dessignes , that a blessing attends their councells and attempts , there is not that striving here , who shall receive most honor , but who is most humble in what successe soever god pleases to give , here is collonel murrey and another knight , come to the generals quarters , as hostages for the performance of the articles , and sir robert pye , and sir hardress waller to go as hostages to the prince , pardon the extreame hast sir of . your most humble servant j. r. september tenth , 1645. eight at night . articles of agreement betweene the commissioners appointed on the behalfe of his highnesse prince rupert , and his excellency sir thomas fairfax for the surrender of the city of bristoll . september the tenth 1645. that his highnesse prince rupert and all noblemen , commanders , officers , gentlemen , and souldiers , and all other persons whatsoever now residing in the citie of bristoll , the castle and forts thereof , shall march out of the said citie , castle , and forts thereof , with colours , pikes , and drummes , bagge and baggage . the prince his hignesse , all noblemen , gentlemen , and officers in commission , with their horse and armes , and their servants with their horses , and swords , and common-souldiers with their swords . the prince his life guard of horse , with their horse and armes , and two hundred and fifty horse besides to bee disposed by the prince , and his life guard of firelocks , with their armes & each of them one pound of powder , and a proportion of bullet let , and that none of the persons who are to march out on this article , shall be plundered , searched , or molested . that such officers and souldiers as shall be left sicke or wounded in the city , castle or forts , shall have lib●rty to stay till their recovery , and then have safe conducts to goe to his majesty , and in the interim to be protected . that the persons above mentioned , who are to march away , shall have a sufficient convoy , provided for them to any such garrison of the kings as the prince shall name , not exceeding fifty miles from bristoll , and shall have eight dayes allowed for their march thither , and shall have free quarter by the way , and shall have two officers to attend them for their accommodation , and twenty waggons for their baggage , if they shall have occasion to use the same . that all the citizens of bristoll , and all noble-men , gentle men , clergie-men , and all other persons , residing in the said city and suburbs of the same , shall be saved from all plunder and violence , and be secured in their persons and estates , from the violence of the souldier , and shall injoy those rights and liberties , which other subjects enjoy under the protection and obedience of the parliament . that in consideration hereof the city of bristoll , with the castle and all other forts and fortifications thereof without any slighting or defacing thereof , and all the ordnance , armes , ammunition , and all other furniture , and provisions of warre . excepting what is before allowed , shall be delivered up to sir thomas fairfax , to morrow being thursday the eleventh day of this instant september by one of the clocke in the afternoone without any deminution or imbezelment , his highnesse prince rupert , then nameing to what army or garrison of the kings be will march . that none of the persons who are to march out on this agreement , shall plunder hurt or spoyle the town , or any person in it , or carry out any thing , but what is property their owne . that upon signing these articles , collonel okey and all persons , now in prison in the city of bristoll , the castle or forts of the same , shall immediatly be set at liberty . that sufficient hostages be given to sir thomas fairfax , such as he shall approve this night , who are to remaine with him , untill the city be delivered . that neither the convoy nor officers , sent with the prince shall receive any injury , in their going or comming back and shall have seven dayes allowance for their returne . that upon the delivering of the towne , sufficient hostages be given for performance of the articles on both parts . signed by us the commissioners on the behalfe of his highnesse prince rupert . io. mynn , w. tillyer , william valuasor . signed by us the commissioners appointed on the behalfe of his excellency sir thomas fairfax , edw. montague , tho. rains-borough , io. pickering . finis . a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax, and the armie under his command concerning their just and clear proceedings hitherto, in the behalfe of the parliament, kingdom, & themselves: and the evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the enemies to their own, and the parliaments and kingdomes peace and freedome. together with their present difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto: and their present resolutions thereupon. with the grounds 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a40541) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 29448) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2145:14) a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax, and the armie under his command concerning their just and clear proceedings hitherto, in the behalfe of the parliament, kingdom, & themselves: and the evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the enemies to their own, and the parliaments and kingdomes peace and freedome. together with their present difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto: and their present resolutions thereupon. with the grounds of all these. by the appointment of his excellency, and the generall councell of his army. signed jo. rushworth, secretarie. england and wales. army. rushworth, john, 1612?-1690. fairfax, thomas fairfax, baron, 1612-1671. [2], 21, [1] p. august 21. london, printed for j. harris, printer to his excellency sir tho fairfax, [london] : 1647. also published in the same year with title: a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax, and the army under his command. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. eng england and wales. -army -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -sources -early works to 1800. a40541 r200594 (wing f227a). civilwar no a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax, and the armie under his command: concerning their just and clear proceedings hitherto england and wales. army 1647 8560 44 0 0 0 0 0 51 d the rate of 51 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-03 ben griffin sampled and proofread 2005-03 ben griffin text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and the armie under his command : concerning their just and clear proceedings hitherto , in the behalfe of the parliament , kingdom , & themselves : and the evill and trecherous dealing they have found from the enemies to their own , and the parliaments and kingdomes peace and freedome . together with their present difficulties and dangers in relation thereunto : and their present resolutions thereupon . with the grounds of all these . by the appointment of his excellency , and the generall councell of his army . signed jo. rushworth , secretarie . august 21. london , printed for j. harris , printer to his excellency sir tho fairfax . 1647. a remonstrance from his excellency sir thomas fairfax , and the armie under his command . when ( by the blessing of god upon the indeavours of this army and other forces of the parliament ) the adverse forces & garrisons within this kingdome were dissipated and reduced , a present quiet and freedom of trade , and all commerce & bussinesse restored to all parts of the kingdome and an hopefull way made for setling of a sound and lasting peace , on good termes , for the interest of the kingdome ; instead of the hoped fruit of our labours and hazzards , and of the kingdomes vast expence ( in the dispensing of justice and righteousnesse and the setling and upholding of common right and freedome to the subjects of this nation ) we found immediately the crosse workings of a strong and prevalent party in the parliament and kingdome , who ( walking under the mask of the parliaments friends , but being in truth men of corrupt and private ends & interests , different from , and destructive to the reall and common interest of the kingdom ) made use of their power to obstruct and pervert justice , to injure , oppresse , and crush the peaceable and well-affected people of the kingdom , to abridge and overthrow all just freedome and liberty , & drive on designes to set up a party and faction in the parliament and kingdom , and ( by the advantage of a perpetuall parliament ) to domineere over , & inslave the kingdom to posterity : and for that end , to make such a peace with the king , if any , as without any just provision for the common and true interest of the people , and the security thereof for future , would serve onely to make up and establish their own greatnesse , and the affected domination of themselves and their partie over all others . to all which ends ( as before this parliament ) the ignominous names of puritan & non-conformist , & the specious pretences for setling of order , decency , and uniformity in religion ▪ were made use of , to the prejudice , trouble , and suppressing of all that appeared , either for the truth and power of religion , or for the rights & liberties of the kingdom , and towards the advancing at once , both of an ecclesistical and civill tyranny , so , ) this generation of men , in the application of the parliaments power , ( succeeding the former in the exercise of the kings ) have made use of the odious names of brownists , anabaptists , independents , hereticks , schismaticks , or sectaries of one sort or other , to blast such men , in whom the truth & power of religion , or a just sense of the common interest of the kingdom hath appeared ; & have held forth the pretences of reformation and uniformity , to colour and counte●…ance their designes of setting up their own irreligious , or pharisaicall and domineering faction , to the oppression of all other people : and herein they have had a great advantage to further their aforesaid designs , by reason of the jealousies which many cōscientious men of the presbyterian judgements have entertained concerning this army , & concerning divers other eminent and worthy instruments of the kingdoms good ( being in places of publik trust & power ) were supposed to be of the independent way in pursuance of their aforesaid disignes , they indevoured , and by their power and influence upon the parliament , and the advantage of such pretences as aforesaid , very much prevailed to put out of all places of power or publike trust the most sober and tonscientious men , and such as had approved themselves faithfull to the pub●…ike interest throughout all the late troubles , and to put in debauched & dissolute men , or such as would for advantage serve their private interests , and for that end ( in cases where they ●…ould not otherwise prevail ) procured such garisons to be sleighted , such powers to be recalled , ( though more necessary to have been continued ) which they found in the hands of persons of the former sort . and such to be continued ( though lesse necessary ) as they found in the hands of the later : and , the better to strengthen themselves in their designes , closing with a very powerfull party in the city of london , they first with much activity endeavoured , and prevailed to new-modell the common councell and forme the fame to their own party ; and then stirred them up to a petition ( amongst other things concurrent to their ends , ) for the alteration of the citymilitia , who by their continuall violent , and pressing importunity at the parliaments doores , wrung from the parliament an ordinance for that purpose , whereby they procured the power of that militia , the speciall influence whereof upon the city and kingdome , and upon the parliament it self , being the onely guard they had for their safe sitting ) is evident to all men , ) to be taken out of those hands in which it had been continued without prejudice , and with great and known security and advantage both to the parliament , city and kingdome , throughout the late troubles , add this without any exception either then or since made against them , and to be put into the hands of such others , as were ( at best ) of doubtfull affections to the interest of the parliament and kingdome : but indeed men given up and ingaged to the private interests and designes of the said factious party , as hath since ' too evidently appeared , and as in the late declaration of the army concerning the grounds of our advance towards london , is more fully remonstrated . and ( finding this army not for their turns ) they made it their main work to disband or break it in pleces , even before the relief of ireland was provided for , or the peace of this kingdome setled . and though all this went under the pre●…ence of easing the present burthens of the kingdome , yet at the same time they designed and went about to put the kingdome to the expence and trouble of raising and forming a new force ( under pretence , as for the service of ireland ) but evidently designned and so fra●…ed as to serve their own ends and purposes aforesaid in england : and ( being many of them filled and acted with personall ●…nvy , and others with malignity of principles and interest against this army , and the work of god by it ) it would not serve their turns to break or disband it , but it must be with all possible dshonour , injury , oppression , and provocation that they could put upon it . and it was too evident , that their endevour was not onely to put it off without the honour or satisfaction due to it for the service it had done , but to disband it on such termes as to subject and expose all ( and even the most faithfull ) servants of the parliament and kingdome , both in the army , and elsewhere , unto oppression or undoing , or to the mercy of their own and such other mens malitious and invenomed spirits which could promise no better . for the more full and particular demonstration of all which we referre all knowing men to the practices and proceedings against this army , unto the times by their procurement ) appointed for the disbanding of it in severall parts , without just and equall satisfaction , which have been in part remonstrated in papers sent from this army , and published before our coming up to s. albans . upon consideration of all this , and upon the resolutions , ( which their own abuses and provocations , put upon the army , had raised in the whole body of it ) not to disband without further satisfaction and security from the like abuses in future ▪ we did in our representation or declaration sent from s. albans . expresse in generall what things we desired ( besides our concernments as souldiers ) to see done or provided for before our disbanding , for setling the peace of the kingdome , and securing the common rights and liberties thereof , which wee were called out to defend and vindicate , and had so long sought for ; and having ( therewithall ) impeached severall members of the ho●…se of commons for their unjust practises and designes , to such purposes as are before expressed , and for indeavouring in prosecution thereof to engage this kingdome in a new warre ; we added some further desires for prevention of that mischief of a new warre to the kingdome , and for our owne present securitie from immediate ruine , while those other things might be treated on or considered . and upon the granting of some of them in part , and hopes given of some others , though we could not obtaine the rest , and especially , not that which wee hold most just equall , and necessary , viz. the positive suspension of those impeached members from sitting in the house as judges in their owne cause , and from their power in committees , whereby they had the advantage to raise warre against us , and to make new disturbances , in the kingdome , yet the said impeached members pretending to withdraw themselves from the parliament untill their causes should be heard and tryed and the house giving con●… thereunto we out of our tendernesse to parliament priviledges , and our earnest desires to yeeld all observance ●…o the parliament , and satisfaction to the citie ( who pretended a full concurrence with us in ou●… declare●… desires ●…or setling the peace and liberties of the kingdome ) did at the parliaments command and the cities request withdraw the army to the desired distance from london , & dispersed it further to several parts of the kingdom for the ease of the country , and proceeded in a peaceable and regular way ▪ to prepare and present more particular charges against the said impeached members , which within a few dayes after we accordingly sent up to the house : and the said impeached members , ( having put in a delatorie answer thereto with a plea and demurrer to divers particulars therein ) pretended that ( to avoid any disturbance or interruption to the present proceedings for setling the publique affaires by the interposall of their private cause ▪ ) they desired leave and passes to travell for some moneths , which accordingly the speaker of the house of commons was ordered or authorized to give them , and we ( presuming on the houses caution for their forth-coming to be tried when the affaires of the kingdome were setled , which upon their first motion of with-drawing we had insisted on , ) did not gainsay , and thereupon we proceeded in a quiet and hopefull way to prepare more particular proposalls in pursuance of our former generall desires , for the present setling of the peace of the kingdome to be tendred to the commissioners of parliament residing with the army for that purpose : but finding that while we were thus peaceably proceeding , the said ●…peached members ( notwithstanding their pretended desires to travell ) did continue in , and about london , very active and busie to raise warre , or make disturbance in the kingdome . and that the committee of militia there , did comply with them therein by daily listing of men , and other preparations towards war , and sheltering to that end , yea , and entertaining into service , those same reformadoes , who ( by ordinance of parliament ) were by them to have been put out of the lines of communication , and finding continuall jealousies and disturbances to our said proceedings bred in the army by the daily reports and alarums thereof from the city , wee made a particular addresse to the parliament for the restoring of the city-militia into those hands in which it was before the ordinance of the fourteenth of may , last ; or last : for the reasonableness of our desires wherein ( supposing that we had such cause to insist on some removall of that power out of the hands into which it was then put up ( as here before is partly exprest ▪ and in our late declaration is more fully set forth ) we dare confidently appeal to all men ( not engaged against us ) whether , for the present safety and quiet of the city upon such a change , and to prevent those dangers or disturbances to or in the city , which the want of a militia during the interval ( betwixt the ceasing of one and new forming of another ) might give occasion and advantage unto ( especially in such a juncture of affairs ) there could be any other way so expedient , as to render that change , but an immediate reverting into those hands in which it was so lately before ( who would make up a militia ready formed to succeed immediately in place of the other , without any considerable intermission or delay ) and whether at a time when jealousies and distrusts were both so rife and hurtful ( as they might occasion no less distraction or interruption to any quiet settlement or proceedings thereunto , then reall attempts of mischief would ) there could be any proposall more reasonable or hopefull to beget a confidence and acquiescence ( as to that point ) both in the parliament , city and army , then to have that power restored ( for the present ) into those hands , of whose fidelity to the common interest , we had all found so ample and unquestioned proof throughout the most dangerous times . upon our address therefore to the parliament for that purpose ( the army being at such distance as aforesaid ) both houses were pleased , on the 23. of july last , to passe an ordinance for returning of the militia into those hands , and repealing the ordinance of the 4. of may , by which it had been changed as before . hereupon , hoping all would quietly succeed to a settlement in this kingdome , we went on securely to finish our proposals for that purpose ( the heads whereof have been since published ) withdrew the head-quarter to a farther distance , dispersed the army to larger quarters , for more ease to the countrey ; and upon a recommendation of the businesse of ireland from the parl. we had , in lesse then a weeks space , prepared and ordered a considerable force ( no lesse then 4000. horse and foot , as sir thomas temple employed from the parliament about that businesse to us can testifie ) for a present reliefe thereunto : but the restlesse and treacherous malice of the enemies to our and the kingdomes peace ( taking their supposed advantage of our distance , and dispersed posture ( which their faire pretence of peaceable intentions had induced us into ) first , they did without all colour of authority , contrive and set on foot in the city , and many of them entred into a mischievous and desperate vow and ingagement , tending to the subversion of the freedome of parliament , and the liberties of this nation , to the frustrating of those just and publicke ends , for which so much blood and treasure hath been spilt , and spent , in the late warres , and to the rising of a new warre against the parliament and their army ( which said ingagement both houses of parliament , did by their declaration of the 23. of july adjudge and declare to be high treason in all that should promote or abet the same ; and within a few dayes after ( to wit , on munday , july 26. ) there was a petition brought to the parliament , by the sheriffes , and some aldermen , and common-councell-men , in the name of the city of london , for the recalling of the said ordinance of the 23. of july , concerning the militia , and the returning of the militia into those hands , in which it was put by the ordinance of the 4. of may , which petition was immediately followed and backed with a tumultuous confluence of apprentices , and other dissolute and desperate persons , who committed most horrid and unheard of violence upon both houses , inforcing them to recall both the said declaration of the three and twenty day of july ( concerthe said engagement . ) and also the said ordinance of the same date , concerning the militia , and compelling the speaker of the house of commons to resume the chaire , after the house was adjourned , and the house to passe such further votes concerning the kings present comming to london , &c. as they the said rioters did please , neither the guard from the city , that then attended the houses , nor the lord mayor , sheriffes , or any authority in the city ( though sent to for that purpose ) taking any course to suppress the said tumult , or relieve the parliament against that violence , though it was continued for the space of eight or ten houres . and the houses having next day adjourned till friday , july 30. there were printed ticekts fixed upon posts , in and about the city the day before , inviting the same persons to the like confluence at westminster , against the houses next meeting . all which hath been more fully and more assuredly made known , by the declaration of the speaker of the house of commons concerning the same . by this meanes the speakers of both houses , together with most of the lords , and a very great number of the most faithfull and unquestioned members of the house of commons , were driven away , so as they could not with safety attend their service in parliament , nor with freedome discharge their trust to the kingdome therein , but were forced to fly to their army for safety , so as there was not , nor could then be , any free meeting or legall proceeding of a parliament . notwithstanding which divers members of both houses , ( who by the carriage and sequell of the businesse , will appeare to be of the same party and confederacy with the aforesaid enemies to our and the kingdomes peace , and with the authors and actors both of the said treasonable engagement , and the tumultuous force upon the parliament . ) taking this opportunity of time , to carry on their designes , when very few were left , but of their own party , did continue to meet in the usuall places in westminster . and ( having under pretence of a necessity for continuing the parliament , by adjournment , drawne in some few well-minded members to sit with them , out of a seruple least the parliament should fall for want of adjournment ) tooke upon them the name of both houses of parliament . and having on friday , july 30. chosen a new speaker , did proceed to vote and act as a parliament , and adjourned from time to time ; but of what party and confederacy the most of them were , and to what ends and interests they acted , will appeare by what they did , whereof we shall for present give a taste in some particulars , hoping that shortly the whose journall of their proceedings may be made publique . for , the said members of the house of commons ( conveening as aforesaid ) immediately voted and called in ( as to the service of the house ) the eleven impeached members . and also those who upon former votes of the house were suspended or under question to be put out for delinquency , and had put in their cales ; with this pretended house of commons thus composed , and foure or five lords of the same modell ( for an house of peers ) they proceed to set up a committee for safety ▪ ( whereof all or most of the said impeached members were a part ) this committee they appointed to joyne with that same pretended committee of the city militia , whose power was obtained onely by the tumultuous force and violence aforesaid : to these committees the most or many of their proceedings referre , and by divers pretended vot●…s , orders and ordinances , procured in the name of one or both houses of parliament , large powers were given to these two committees for raising of forces , appointing chief commanders ▪ and other officers ; and other vast , unlimited , or unusuall powers were given them , all tending to the raising and levying of a new warre within this kingdome ; upon which many forces both of horse and foot , were actually levyed , and other preparations of warre made ; all which , that they were intended and designed in justification , prosecution , and maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable engagement , and of the said force and violence done to the parliament , or of the vere same ends and interests , and to oppose and hinder the restitution of the houses of parliament , to their honour and freedome , and the advance of this their army for that purpose , being then upon a march . besides the consideration of the persons into whose hands these powers were committed . it is abundantly evident many other wayes , but especially by that declaration of the lord mayor , aldermen , and common-councell of london , which was first , by that pretended committee of safety , ordered , and then by the pretended house ( without reading a word of it ) approved to be published in the parish churches , with an exhortation to the people to take up armes , in maintenance of the ends therein expressed , which ( though the pretence were for the defence of the king , parliament and city , then alledged to be in great danger , ( when as indeed none were in danger , but onely the authors , acters , and abe●…tors of the traiterous practises aforesaid , yet ) the true ends thereof appear clearly to be the same with the said treasonable engagement , and tumult against the parliament , all of them concerning ( as in other things , so especially in this ) viz ▪ to have the king brought up to london without delay , or any nearer approach of the army . and to al these , the succeeding votes of the pretended houses , for the same thing did speedily e●…cho the same note : concerning which matter ( not to examin what al●…eration of the case , since both houses , and both kingdomes also ( of england and scotland ) resolved , that it was not safe , the king should come to london , until he had given satisfaction & security to his people , in relation to those publique ends for which so much blood and treasure had been spent ) we shall onely say thus much to these mens intentions and designes in the businesse . that had the king come up to london , ( as they have so oft desired and attempted ) it is apparent they intended and would have made use of it , rather to lay the stronger foundations of a new warre ( upon the ruines of that publique interest contended for in the former , and of all those that had with most candor , clearnesse , and simplicity of heart , appeared and acted for the same ) then any way to settle thereby a safe and well grounded peace . and since they could not rationally expect so easie an obtaining of the kings person to london upon such a pretended vote or declaration of their desire thereof , it is as evident that they could intend nothing thereby , but a more plausible pretence , and foundation of quarrel against this army , whereby to engage or incline to their assistance the kings party , and such others , who might be catcht with the apprehension thereof , as a speedy way to peace ( the thing so generally longed for ) and by such assistance gained the better to ruine this army , and those faithful members of parliament , who were retired to it . for our parts we shall rejoyce as much as any , to see the king brought back to his parliament ( and that ) not so much in place , as in affection and agreement on such sound termes and grounds , as may render both him and the kingdom , safe , quiet , and happy , and shal be as ready as any to bring his majesty to london , when his being there may be likely to produce ( not greater disturbances , but ) a peace indeed . and that such as may not ( with the ship-wrack of the publique interest ) be shaped and moulded onely to the private advantages of a particular party or faction . but bottomed chiefly on grounds of common and publique welfare & security . and if ( without regard to these considerations ) wee would have brought his majesty with us to london in our late advance t●…ither ( which our enemies could not hinder or prejudice us in ) wee had no cause to doubt , but ( as to men ) we might have had all the advantages which our adversaries promised to themselves , thereby added to the strength and interest of the army , and have inverted the disadvantages upon them that they intended against us thereby ; so as his majesties so much deared comming to london might have been much to their prejudice , and our advantage and security , if we had regarded onely our owne particulars . but ( as at present out consciences beare cleare witnesses to our selves , so ) wee hope god will in the issue make ▪ it cleare to others , that we have not minded , nor been acting our owne worke or interests , but the kingdomes , and every honest mans in it . meane while ( to returne to our purpose ) wee thinke it is sufficiently cleared , that the proceedings of those members or the major part of them ( that continued to sit at westminster during the absence of the speakers ) the powers by them given , the forces thereupon levied , and other preparations of warre thereupon made , were all designed and driven on , in prosecution and maintenance of the said treasonable engagement , and of the force done upon the parliament , or for the same ends and interest with them , and to oppose the advance of this army towards london , for restitution of the parliament to honour and freedome , and indeed to raise a new warre in the kingdome against the parliament and their army for the destruction thereof . and the same may ( yet further ) appeare by this that those very apprentices , reformadoes and others about the city who were the chiefe actors in the said engagement and tumult , were afterwards most trusted and imployed , and most active in their preparations for war . by what we have here said , and what hath been declared and published from us , and from the speakers , and aforesaid members of both houses , and by the whole series of our own , and our enemies actions and carriages ( compared together ) it may appeare how tender we have been not onely of the authority and just priviledges of parliament , and of the safety , peace and wel-fare both of the kingdome and the city , but even towards those our enemies themsel●…es ( seeking onely things necessary for the common good of the whole ( and that if possible ) without ruine or hurt to any , and yet how maliciously and unworthily we have that while been dealt withall by those our enemies , and by a factious and powerfull party ( especially ) in the parliament and city combining with them : and what clear cause we have had both for all that we have formerly desired or done in prevention of our owne ruine and the kingdomes disturbance , and also what just grounds for our late advance to london . the good service whereof ( especially ) in restoring the parliament to a condition of safety , honour and freedome , thereby hath been ( without any seeking of ours ) acknowledged by both houses with thanks to us , and publique thanksgiving to the almighty for it : and a further trust hath been thereupon committed to the generall for taking care with his army to safe-guard the parliament . the houses being thus restored to a condition of present safety , honour and freedome : two things seeme clearly remaining to be done ( which our own and most mens expectations are most set upon ) viz. first , to vindicate the honour , freedome , and safety of parliament from the like affronts and violences in future , and the army and kingdome from danger of the like disturbances ( whilst things shall be in a debate or treaty for a settlement ) and then to proceed unto a speedy settlement of the peace of the kingdome . the latter of these is , first in our intentions ( being nearest to the ultimate end . ) and we shall earnestly desire that in order thereunto , the proposals of the army ( whereof the heades are published ) may be speedily considered and brought to a resolution . but considering that the debates of them may take up some time ere they be agreed o all hands , and the framing of them into bils , and perfecting of the same will require much more . something must first be done in the former for a present security to the parliament from like affronts or violence , and to the army and kingdome from the like disturbances to the peace thereof by any farther advantage which the time like to be spent in the setling of peace , may afford to our watchfull , restlesse , and ( we doubt ) implacable enemies . first , therefore to these ends ( unlesse it should be thought fit to secure the parliament by keeping the whole body of the army , or so great a part thereof , to remaine continually in and about london , as might be sure to over-power any future tumults or force that may arise out of the city , which ▪ neither the wel-fare of the city and ease of the parts adjacent , nor the safety of the kingdome , in respect of the present posture of affaires will admit . ) it is absolutely necessary that there be speedy and exemplary justice done upon ( at least ) the chiefe authors or abettors of the said treasonable engagement , and of the said force done to the parliament , and upon the chief actors , in maintenance and prosecution thereof ( whereby men may be deterred from the like in future . and this is also as necessary to the security of the army , and peace of the kingdome , since it is apparent by all that hath been said , and by infinite other evidences ( too many to recount . ) that both the said ingagement and the force done to the parliament , and the power of the city militia thereby gained , & the succeeding votes and orders of the pretended houses , ( but indeed of that faction that are our professed enemies ) in maintenance and prosecution thereof , and the forces thereupon leavyed ( put under the command of major generall massey , and others our professed adversaries ) were all designed and directed to the ruine and destruction of this army , and the raising of a new warre against us in this kingdome . and having had such experience of their restlesse malice and cruel intentions towards us , ( notwithstanding our tendernesse and lenity towards them ) and of their treacherous dealing ( so soone as they thought they had the advantage ) notwithstanding all their semblances of complyance to a composure . what reason is there to expect , but that by our patience and delayes , they apprehend in future the like or other advantage , they will breake out againe into the like or worse attempts of violence and warre , if all escape with impunity for these . but as to this point of security by exemplary justice in an ordinary way , we see our hopes almost frustrated , whilest , ( though our desires and resolutions to that purpose , exprest in our late declaration of our advance towards london , were then seconded with the declared approbation and concurrent resolutions of the speakers and members of both houses , that were driven away to the army , and with their engagement to live and die with us therein . and though in pursuance thereof , the right honourable house of peeres , have since their restitution , begun and proceeded to declare null and void , all that was done in the name of both houses , while they lay under the power of that tumultuous violence ; and to give their more authentique approbation to our said declaration , made in behalf of the said speakers and members , while they were with the army : and in behalfe of the honour and freedome of the parliament , and to give their like approbation to the concurrent declaration and engagement of the said speakers and members , made to us while they were with us , yet ) the house of commons hath not onely not concurred with the lords in any of those things , but rather seeme to have cast them aside . and upon the question concerning those very votes of the said 26th of july . to which the houses were by the said violence inforced [ whether they should b●… declare●… null and void ] it was carried in the negative , that the question should not be put , by the consequences whereof , ( which are many wayes very sad , this poor kingdom , and more then we can recompt ) and by all subsequent proceedings in that house , in relation to the whole busines , we clearly finde , that the members of that house , who ( after the violence done to it , and during the absence of the speaker , and the other members thereby driven away ) proceeding in the name of that house as aforesaid , procured the pretended powers , and did make the pretended votes , orders , and ordinances aforementioned ; and many of them were the factors thereupon for the leavying of war , in prosecution and maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable engagement , and force done to the parliament , and for the opposing , resisting , and destroying of this the parliaments army in its advance to london , for the restitution of the parliament to its honour and freedome , being conscious of their own guilt and danger thereby ; yet presuming on their interest in the house , and the patience and lenity of this army doe continue and intrude themselves , and to sit and vote there , and by their present interest in the house doe use their utmost endeavours , and very much prevaile to obstruct and avoid the bringing of any to justice , who have acted under their pretended authority , ( knowing it to be their owne case and concernment in point of impunity , as well as conducency to their faction and interest ) and for that cause they labour ( as for life ) to uphold the things past and done , and the authorities given by them and their faction ( in their and the apprentices pretended parliament ) yea , even those very votes and authorities , wrested from the parliament , by that palpable force of july the 26th , to be good and valid untill they be repealed ( as if past in a free and legall parliament ; ) in which point , and all questions touching upon it , we finde they presume upon , and are strengthened by the concurrence of divers other members , who having ( perhaps with harmlesse intentions ) continued to sit with them during the speakers absence , as aforesaid ( though they consented not to any of their mischievous votes and orders , or treasonable proceedings afore mentioned ) may yet feare themselves to be involved in the same case and danger by having sate with them ▪ and thus by the concurrence of these two parties in the house ( as to that point ) and the interest which both those parties have with others in the house ( especially upon a matter of saving one another ) and by the partiall respects of some others in the house , for the saving of their friends out of the house , who have acted under the authority , and for the evill ends aforementioned , we find an absolute obstruction to the bringing to justice , or questioning of any ) who have acted in the late leavying of war against us , and against the vindication of the parliaments freedome , or in the said treasonable engagements , yea , or in abetment of the tumultuous violence upon the parliament it selfe ; neither can we find or heare of any one person hitherto brought to justice or question for any of these things , but all seem to be either justified , or at least protected from justice by the power and prevalence of those members in parliament ▪ who are ( many of them , as we can make appeare ) equally guilty of , and ( others ) in some kind obnoxious for the same things ; and thus not onely our just expectations of vindication to the parliament , and security to our selves and the kingdome from the like treasonable and turbulent practises in future , ( by exemplary justice for what hath been so done ) are frustrated , but even the safety and immunity of the speakers , and those faithfull members of both houses that were driven away by the violence aforesaid , and the immunity of the army in advancing to london , to bring them back , and restore the parliament to its honour and freedome ( which hath been acknowledged , with publique thanksgiving to god for it , as aforesaid ) is subjected and exposed to question ( where in theirs and ours , and the kingdomes enemies , obtrude themselves to be the judges●… ) for if those pretended votes , orders and ordinances , whereby warre was leavied against them and us were then good and valid ( though they should now be repealed , yet ) we , with the speakers , and those members aforesaid , in opposing of them while they were of force , must needs remaine transgressors still , and yet god and we are thanked for it [ what a mock is this to god and man . ] but to returne to the more serious consideration of our case , in relation to the security of the parliament , kingdom and our selves , against the like turbulent and treasonable practises in future , since by the meanes aforesaid no security by exemplary justice can at present be had , ( to deterre any from the like ) we wish all men to consider what straights we are in this case put upon ; ( that which is the maine worke of the kingdome , and which we most earnestly thirst for , and attend upon , ( viz. the setling of a peace , and consideration of our proposals in order thereunto ) will ask time to bring it to an issue ; and that done●… the relieving or remedying of the pressing grievances of the kingdome , will take up and require the sitting of the parliament for some further time ( though upon the setling of a peace , a period be set for the certain ending of it ) now for the body of this army , or so great a part of it ( as may serve to over-power any future tumults , or force that may arise in or from the city ) to continue hereabouts so long , the condition of the country hereabouts , and the necessities of the city ( in point of provision ) cannot well beare it , and ( we doubt ) forreigne forces ( that are alre●…dy upon the wing ) and turbulent spirits , that in severall parts of the kingdome , are beginning insurrections , ( if we continue fixed here ) will have such opportunity , and take such encouragement therefrom , as that they may ere long necessarily call us off ; should we now or hereafter ( while the parliament sits ) draw off the army from about the city , without exemplary justice upon some , would not the same or more dangerous tumults and violences probably returne upon the parliament ; and the like or worse pactises of raising a new warre , be revived , ( with more advantage to our enemies , more danger to us and the kingdom , and lesse hopes of appeasing it , so easily and happily as the former ) while the same viol●… and factious spirits , both in the parliament and else where shall continue in the sam●… power and opportunities as for●… 〈◊〉 , and both they , and all others , shall have before their eyes the incouragemen●… of that impunity and protection ( yea rather that justification ) which they have hitherto found from within the parliament it self , in the past practises aforementioned , though as grosly treasonable as any they can hereafter run into ; should we or any others ( for the obtaining of exemplary justice upon some ) proceed to impeach any for their past treasonable practises ; what hopes of justice , or of a timely dispatch therein can we have , while such a prevailing party of new interested and concerned in the same things shall in the house of commons continue to be judges therof , or at least be ready to avow and justifie the offendors therein , as having acted under their pretended authority . in this straight therefore ( though we ever have been , and shall be most tender of all just priviledges of parliament , yet ) finding the root of these and other difficulties to the parliament , kingdome , and our selves , to lye in this , viz. [ that those members of the house of commons , who ( during the forced absence of the speakers of both houses ) continuing to sit and act as a parliament , did procure and consent to the pretended votes , orders , and ordinances aforementioned , for leavying of warre ; and that ( as is before demonstrated ) in direct prosecution or maintenance of the aforesaid treasonable ingagement , and the violence done to the parliament , and for the opposing , resisting , and destroying of this the parliaments army in its advance towards london ( onely to restore the speakers and members of both houses that were driven away , and the houses themselves to their honour and freedome ) and who are thereby , and by their late owning , and avowing of the same , and many of them ( as we can prove ) by acting personally in the said treasonable practises , become parties to the same , do yet take the boldnesse to sit and vote in parliament , especially in the house of commons ] ( we say ) finding the maine root of our difficulties and dangers `lying in this ; first , we appeale to all men , whether 〈◊〉 be just or tolerable , that any priviledge of parliament should ( contrary to the law of nature ) make a man judge in his owne case and concernment ? and we wish those men themselves to consider ( if we had come to an ingagement with the forces raised by vertue of their pretended votes and ordinances , and that thousands had been sl●…ine , and we had made our way by the sword ) whether they would then have expected to have sate as judges upon us therein ? and we are sure it is no thanks to them that it hath beene otherwise ; and had we found those members in armes against us , and subdued and taken them , whether had they not then been in the condition of prisoners of warre ? and ( if so ) then having put armes into the hands of others , against us , and still maintaining it , whether can they in strict justice challenge any better condition from us ? but , that [ contrariwise ] we should suffer , either that those whom by the course of warre [ which they had chose to ingage in against us ] we might justly make our prisoners , should in a course of law , become our masters and commanders ? or that those who the other day did , in an hostile manner , indeavour to have been our executioners , should ( now we have by force tooke their preparations against us ) become our judges , ( we suppose ) no reasonable man , nor themselves ( when they well consider it ) can expect from us . upon all these considerations of the justnesse of the cause , and the necessity of the thing , for the safety of the parliament , kingdome , and this army , ( having no other way left timely to remedy the difficulties we are put upon , or prevent the growing dangers of future violence unto the parliament , and disturbances of the kingdome , or to secure the parliament in a quiet proceeding to settle the peace of the kingdom . and ( in such case ) the safety of the people being the supreame law , we do protest and declare : that , if any of those members , who during the absence of the speakers , and the rest of the members of both houses ( forced away by the tumultuous violence aforesaid ) did sit , and vote in the pretended houses then continued at westminster , that hereafter intrude themselves to sit in parliament , before they shall have given satisfaction to the respective houses whereof they are , concerning the grounds of their said sitting at westminster , during the absence of the said speakers , and shall have acquitted themselves by sufficient evidence , that they did not procure , or give their consent unto any of those pretended votes , orders , or ordinances tending to the raising and leavying of a warre ( as is before declared : or for the kings comming forthwith to london ) we cannot any longer suffer the same , but shall doe that right to the speakers and members of both houses , who were driven away to us , and to our selves with them ( all whom the said other members have endeavoured in an hostile manner most unjustly to destroy ) and also to the kingdome ( which they endeavoured to imbroyl in a new warre ) as to take some speedy and effectual course , whereby to restraine them from being their own , and ours , and the kingdomes judges in those things wherein they have made themselves parties , by this meanes to make war , that both they and ohters that are guilty of , and parties to the aforesaid treasonable and destructive practises and proceedings against the freedome of parliament , and peace of the kingdome , may be brought to condigne punishment ( and that ) at the judgement of a free parliament , consisting ( duly and properly ) of such members of both houses respectively , who stand clear from such apparant and treasonable breach of their trust , as is before expressed . by the appointment of his excellency , and the generall councell of his army . signed , j●… . ru●…worth secretary , at the head-quarter of kingston upon ▪ thames . august 18. 1647. finis .