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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>July 18. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>By the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_IN the whole management of the late Warr, unto which the Parliament was nece&s;&s;itated on the King|doms
behalf for recovering and &s;ecuring their Religion, Lawes, and native Liberties invaded by the
enemies thereof; the great wi&s;dom, mercy, and power of God from time to time appeared in giving
to their Forces many great and &s;ea&s;onable victories, (as pledges of his love in owning their Cau&s;e) untill
the whole power and force of tho&s;e enemies were broken in pieces, and a hopefull door opened for the
&s;ettlement of a wel-grounded and la&s;ting Peace; But the &s;ame common Enemy by &s;ecret contrivances &s;everall ways,
Ob&s;tructed the Parliaments progre&s;s therein, &s;educing the affections of the people, in&s;tigating them to a generall
In &s;urrection; and under pretence of petitioning for Peace, &s;ubtily promoting a new and bloody Warr; by who&s;e
wicked practi&s;es, the Cau&s;e of God and the Kingdom is endangered, and utter ruine threatned to tho&s;e per&s;ons that
yet own and &s;tand &s;um to their fir&s;t principles, and earne&s;tly thir&s;t after the accompli&s;hment of that de&s;irable work
or Reformation in Church and Common-wealth, when many men are &s;tarted a&s;ide therefrom, and encourage that
generall Confu&s;ion endevoured by the enemies of Peace and Truth; And we have ju&s;t cau&s;e to &s;ay, If the Lord had
not been on our &s;ide when men ro&s;e up again&s;t us, they had &s;wallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled
again&s;t us; yea, ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, mighty in Councels and power, who hath not yet given us as a prey unto their
teeth, but by weak means hath wrought great Salvations for his people, by many Signall victories, over them lately
obtained by the Parliament Forces in &s;everall parts of the Kingdom; the which it is our duty briefly to recount be|fore
the people, that their hearts may be enlarged with thankfulne&s;s, and the Lord of Ho&s;ts receive therefore his due
honour and prai&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> That great defeat given to the Enemies forces in <HI>Wales</HI> under <HI>Laughorn,</HI> and the reducing of <HI>Chep&s;tow,</HI> and
other Gari&s;ons there; as al&s;o the reducing of <HI>Appleby</HI> Ca&s;tle, <HI>Brongham,</HI> and other places of &s;trength in the North;
and <HI>Walmer</HI> Ca&s;tle in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> That &s;ea&s;onable mercy and &s;ucce&s;s in <HI>Northwales</HI> again&s;t Sir <HI>John Owen;</HI> the gaining of <HI>Maid&s;ton</HI> in <HI>Kent</HI>
after Four hours hot di&s;pute, a place of very great concernment to the Rebels; in which &s;ervice of the Generall, had
it mi&s;carried, in all probability, and as it appeared by &s;everall Letters then taken, the ill affected per&s;ons in and about
the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Counties adjacent, had, as one man ri&s;en and engaged in the &s;ame Rebellion, to the endan|gering
and ruine of the Parliament, City and Kingdom, which &s;ucce&s;s did allay the di&s;tempers then very high in
&s;ome neighbouring Counties, rai&s;ed through the fal&s;e &s;ugge&s;tions of the Enemies to their peace.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> The &s;urpri&s;all of about 600. Hor&s;e belonging to <HI>Langdale,</HI> and many per&s;ons, &s;ome of quality, by the
Forces under Colonell <HI>Fenwi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">k</HI> and Colonell <HI>Lilborne;</HI> and that without the lo&s;s of any blood on either &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> The utter routing of the <HI>Pomfret</HI>-hor&s;e, and &s;ome Foot at <HI>Willoughby</HI> in <HI>Nottingham</HI>-&s;hire, after a very
&s;harp encounter, by the new rai&s;ed Forces under Colonell <HI>Edward Ro&s;&s;iter,</HI> the Enemies Forces con&s;i&s;ting mo&s;t of
Gentlemen, Officers and Reformadoes; of the Enemie, about 100. &s;lain, their Generall, Lievtenant Generall, and
Major Generall, and many other Gent. Officers, and Souldiers taken, and the number of 500. private Souldiers, be|&s;ides
their Colours, Armes and Ammunition, and Carriages taken: And the wonderfull Mercy of delivering the Citie
of <HI>Norwich</HI> and the wel affected there from imminent and apparent ruine.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> The di&s;&s;ipating the Forces gathered together under the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> Earl of
<HI>Peterborough,</HI> and other men of quality; &s;o that in le&s;s then a week the places of their &s;tanding in Rebellion was not
to be found; who otherwi&s;e (had not God given a &s;odain check to their re&s;olutions and hopes) might have proved
very prejudiciall to the peace of the Kingdom.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly,</HI> The &s;ea&s;onable reducing of <HI>Pembrook</HI> both Town and Ca&s;tle, after a hard &s;iege, upon honorable termes
to the Parliament the 10. of July la&s;t; whereby the Parliament Forces (engaged there) are at liberty to March
North ward for to joyn with the other Forces of the Parliament, for the pre&s;ervation of the peace of the Kingdom
upon all occa&s;ions.</P>
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<P>Read <DATE>18. July, 1648.</DATE> and upon the Que&s;tion a&s;&s;ented unto, and Ordered to be forthwith Printed an
publi&s;hed; And that the Lord Major be de&s;ired to communicate the &s;ame to the re&s;pective Mini&s;te.
within the late Lines of Communication, and Pari&s;hes within the weekly Bills of Mortality.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by Richard Cotes, 1648.</P>
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