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<P>TVVO LETTERS Of great Con&s;equence <HI>To the Hou&s;e of COMMONS:</HI> THE ONE From <HI>Alisbury</HI> in <HI>Buckingham&s;hire&punc;</HI> Dated <HI>March</HI> 22. 1642. And &s;igned by
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<ITEM><HI>Col:</HI> Arthur Goodwyn:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Col: <HI>Bul&s;trode:</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Col: <HI>Hampden: <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho: Terrill: <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
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<P>THE OTHER From Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> to a Member of the Hou&s;e of COMMONS, OF A GREAT VICTORY he obtained the 15. of <HI>March,</HI> at a Town called <HI>Middlewich</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire;</HI> and took pri&s;oners, Col: <HI>Ellis,</HI> Sergeant Major <HI>Gilner,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Mo&s;eley,</HI> with ten Cap|tains, divers Officers, and Five hundred others, with great &s;tore of Ammunition and Ordnance.</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That the&s;e Letters be forth|with printed and publi&s;hed:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cl. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edw. Husbands,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop in the middle Temple. March 24. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> to a Member of the Hou&s;e of COMMONS, <DATE>1642.</DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THis day is de&s;ervedly &s;et apart to be a day of Thank&s;giving for that compleat and great victory which the Lord hath given us on Monday la&s;t, even then when the enemy came out Armed with power (of fle&s;h) and re&s;olution to de&s;troy and over-run all the re&s;t of the Country; In which de&s;igne they were &s;o hopefull and confident, as that they tooke the bouldne&s;&s;e to encampe them&s;elves in Middlewich, a Towne be|tween Namptwich and Northwich, where I was, and where we had begun to fortifie &amp; place our Garri&s;on: we conceive this attempt of mo&s;t dangerous con&s;equence, and therefore thought fit to allow them no re&s;t, nor to give them time to Fortifie. To this end, there was a &s;trong party of Hor&s;e went out from Northwich upon Satturday night la&s;t, upon their fir&s;t comming there, who gave them an Alarm. The next day being the Sabbath, could
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not be ob&s;erved, it being the worke of the whole day to prepare for our defence, and how to annoy our enemy; to|wards whom I went out upon Sunday in the afternoone, with betwixt two and three Troops of hor&s;e, and betwixt two and three Companies of Dragooners, who went neere to Middlewich and gave them an Alarm there; but without any intention to a&s;&s;ault them in their quarters, they being very &s;trong in Foot, and well armed, and we had no Foot at all then there, our greate&s;t care being to pre&s;erve the Country from plundring, and let the enemy know we dur&s;t looke them in the face, and come even to the very doore. This evening, March the 13. being Sun|day, we re&s;olved and concluded to meet the Nampt|wich Forces the next morning, who were appointed to come unto us by &s;ix of the clock in the morning: But we were in skirmi&s;hing and fight neere foure houres before they came in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance; during which time they playd full upon us with their Cannon, but without any &s;ucce&s;&s;e at all, there being onely one or two men hurt, but not mortall. During which time our Mu&s;|queteers (whereof we had not above 200 Mu&s;queteers, our greate&s;t force of Foot being at Namptwich) beha|ved them&s;elves very gallantly, and made good three pa&s;&s;ages, and kept the enemy in play, till the Nampt|wich Forces came in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance, who came on &s;o re&s;olutely, and with &s;uch undauntedne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit, even to the amazement and admiration of the enemy, whom they beat from their works, and from their Cannon. And as they entred one end of the Town, our Souldiers entred the other end with no le&s;&s;e courage and re&s;olution. Colonell <HI>Ellis,</HI> Serjeant Major <HI>Gilner,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Mo&s;eley,</HI> and ten Captains more, be&s;ides all other Officers (a li&s;t
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of who&s;e names you &s;hall finde here inclo&s;ed) who be|took them&s;elves to the Church and &s;teeple, from whence they did much annoy us for &s;ome &s;hort time; but within an hour after, the Lord was plea&s;ed to make us po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the Church and &s;teeple, and of the Commanders and &s;ouldiers that were therein; and of their Ordnance, Ma|gazine, and great &s;tore of Arms, &s;o as I beleeve &s;ince the beginning of this unnaturall war, God hath not given many more compleater victories, nor hath there been ma|ny more Pri&s;oners taken, there being not many fewer than 500 pri&s;oners, and very many of them Comman|ders and con&s;iderable per&s;ons (a li&s;t of who&s;e names is here inclo&s;ed.) I de&s;ire the whole prai&s;e and glory may be attributed to Almighty God, who infu&s;ed courage into them that &s;tood for his Cau&s;e, and &s;trucke the ene|mie with terror and amazement. For farther particulars I mu&s;t referre you to other and further relations.</P>
<P>We hear nothing from London how things go there, but our confidence is in the Lord of heaven; to the pro|tection of who&s;e Providence, I de&s;ire to commend you, and &s;o conclude, and Re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>NAMPTVVICH <DATE>15 <HI>March,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your very faithfull friend
WIL. BRERETON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Letter of great Con&s;equence from <HI>Alisbury</HI> in <HI>Buckingham&s;hire.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE hold it convenient to give you a true Relation of the pa&s;&s;ages concerning the Kings Forces, and their appearing again&s;t the Towne. On Saturday la&s;t they marched from <HI>Oxford</HI> and tho&s;e parts, and on Sun|day the greate&s;t part of them came to <HI>Thame:</HI> on Mun|day all their forces were drawn neer to this Town, with|in one mile and two miles of the place, and &s;hewed as if they would have fallen upon us that day, but they &s;pent that day in viewing of the Town, where to make their be&s;t a&s;&s;ault, and interpo&s;ing betwixt us and the Chiltein parts of our Countrey, to hinder their a&s;&s;i&s;tance of us, where we had &s;everall skirmi&s;hes without any lo&s;&s;e; The Earl of <HI>Carnarvan</HI> commanded a great body of hor&s;e, and marched all Sunday night to <HI>Wendover,</HI> where he hoped to have taken one of our Troops of hor&s;e, which we had drawn thence &s;ome few hours before, but they plundered that Town, and the adjacent towns, and com|mitted many outrages be&s;ides as we are informed. On Munday night the whole forces quartered within a mile or two of this Town, and the next morning their hor&s;e drew towards us, almo&s;t within Cannon-&s;hott, and wee expected every houre when they would fall upon the
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Town, and our hor&s;e drew into the field towards them, and the forlorn hopes fired one upon another often, but they being much too &s;trong in hor&s;e for us, we drew our hor&s;e into the Town, preparing for their a&s;&s;ault, but whil&s;t we looked for their approach, they drew away towards evening on Tue&s;day, and in &s;tead of Souldiers turned Sheep-&s;tealers, for they have plundered all the Towns hereabouts, of all their goods and hou&s;hold|&s;tuff; they have taken and driven away all their Hor&s;es, Bea&s;ts and Sheep, and in this iniquity have herein onely dealt equally, that they have not &s;pared tho&s;e who are accounted their own friends: they &s;poiled and tore in pieces the in&s;ide of divers fair hou&s;es, and be&s;ides the corn they &s;pent upon their Hor&s;es, they &s;poiled and &s;pilt very much upon the ground, and threw it about the fields, and what goods they could not carry away, they cut in pieces, and threw about the fields and high-wayes as they went; they have not onely taken away the Hor|&s;es which &s;hould now plow our grounds for &s;eed, but they have cut in pieces their Hor&s;e-harne&s;&s;es, and things belonging to the plough, as if they meant to bring the Kingdom to de&s;truction in an in&s;tant. And we mu&s;t be bold to &s;ignifie unto you that the&s;e cruelties are not acted by mean ones; for the Commanders herein, as we are informed, were, Generall <HI>Ruthin,</HI> the Princes <HI>Rupert</HI> and <HI>Maurice,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Carnarvan,</HI> Lord <HI>Grandi&s;on,</HI> Lord <HI>Wentworth,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Gerrard,</HI> with many others of their great ones; the Forces they came with, were all they could get together, not leaving men enough to relieve their Guard in <HI>Oxford;</HI> their Forces were, as we collect by all our di&s;coveries, about Six thou&s;and, who had de|voured us in their thoughts before they came neer us;
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but God di&s;couraged them from a&s;&s;aulting us, which if they had done, they would have found it a hot &s;ervice; for our &s;ouldiers and Country-men within the Towne were very bravely re&s;olved to defend the place, though much inferiour to them in number, be&s;ides the great ad|dition of &s;trength &s;ent unto us by his Excellency the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> who&s;e care of us, and con&s;ideration of the State, in &s;ecuring this place, is never to be forgotten; for his Forces came to us much &s;ooner than we could expect; and had the enemy &s;tayed but few hours longer, we had given them battell in the field: But it was not Gods plea|&s;ure the troubles of the time &s;hould &s;o end, as yet we mu&s;t expect his further plea&s;ure. This is all they have to inform you, (and if you &s;hall think fit to impart unto the Hou&s;e) who are</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Alisbury, <DATE>22. of <HI>March,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t faithfull Servants,
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<ITEM>Henry Bul&s;trode.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Hampden.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho: Terrill.</ITEM>
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