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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>A fuller Relation of a great VICTORY OBTAINED Again&s;t the <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> Forces, by Col: <HI>Tho: Horton,</HI> one of the Lord General <HI>Fairfax</HI>'s Colonels; where was taken Three thou&s;and Pri&s;oners, all their Foot-Arms and Ammunition, Major General <HI>Stradling,</HI> many Colours, and many Officers and Soldiers.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>As it was &s;ent in a Letter by Col: <HI>Tho: Horton,</HI> and read in the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AFter many tedious, hungry and wet marches over the &s;teep and craggy Mountains, it plea&s;ed God that we were engaged with the Enemy (who accounted them&s;elves near Eight thou&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot) upon Monday morning the Eighth of this in&s;tant, be|twixt <HI>St. Fagans</HI> and <HI>Peter&s;town;</HI> where after a &s;harp di&s;pute for near two hours, it plea&s;ed the Lord mightily to appear for us, in giving the Enemy a Total Rout; The particulars thereof, I &s;hall within a &s;hort time at large pre&s;ent you with. There are many &s;lain of the Enemy upon the place; and in the pur&s;uit for Seven miles, we cannot yet hear of one of our Officers &s;lain, and but few of the Soldiers, but we lo&s;t many Hor&s;es. I gue&s;s the Pri&s;oners which are taken to be Three thou&s;and; we have taken all their Foot-Arms, and Ammunition, which is good &s;tore: Major General <HI>Stradling</HI> is taken, with many Officers and Gentlemen, and many Colours. It plea&s;ed God wonder|fully to &s;trengthen and rai&s;e up the Spirits of our Officers and Soldiers: Our word was, <HI>God is our Strength;</HI> and truly we found him &s;o to be, and de&s;ire the &s;ole Glory may be given to him, and our &s;elves look'd upon as weak In&s;truments in his hand; and among&s;t whom, as I am, &s;o I de&s;ire to be accounted, who am,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>In the Field, <DATE>May 8. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sir, Your mo&s;t humble and faithful Servant,
Tho: Horton.</SIGNED>
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<P>I have &s;ent Major <HI>Bethel</HI> and Captain <HI>Mercer</HI> to give the Honorable Hou&s;es a more full account of this days mercy.</P>
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<HEAD><DATE>11. Maij, 1648.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Letter be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>Edward Husband,</HI> Printer to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons. <HI>May</HI> 11. 1648&punc;</P>
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