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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>AN EXACT
RELATION
SHEWING,
How the Governour of <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> Ca&s;tle delivered it up
in the name of the King to the Malignant Party.
VVhereupon he thru&s;t out the Prote&s;tants placing ill
affected per&s;ons in their Garri&s;ons.
ALSO
A Terrible Combate
FOVGHT IN
BEDFORDSHIRE
BETWEENE TWO KNIGTS,
The one &s;ent in Commi&s;&s;ion of Array by the King, the
other for the <HI>Militia</HI> by the Parliament
Wherin is declared the mighty overthrow of the Kings
Commis&s;ioner, who with great lo&s;&s;e was
faine to fly for his life.
<HI>LIKEWISE.</HI>
The LORD <HI>Brooke</HI> His Re&s;olution concerning the
Lord of <HI>Northampton.</HI></P>
<P>Iohn, Brow. Cler, Parl.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> 5. Printed for Io <HI>Hundgate,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A TERRIBLE
COMBATE
Fought in Bedford&s;hire betweene
two Knights</HEAD>
<P>_IT is much to bee
wondered that th&ocirc;
our eares are conti|nually
taken up with
har&s;h &s;ounding pa&s;|&s;ages,
yet wee lye
&s;nugging in the fea|ther
bed of thought
&s;ecurity. All is well
or if the State be
extreame &s;ick, it will recover if we be without
Gun-&s;hot; Penny Pamphlets make us pound
fooli&s;h: and if in the forehead of a booke wee
are tickled with joyful News in a trice our herts
begin to Caper within vs, cau&s;e ea&s;y beleife
&s;oone crepes into our brea&s;ts, when matters &s;u|table
to our minds, are acted; and to the plea|&s;ant
Comedy of our de&s;ires archeived, our affec|tions
&s;ing a Plaudite; Nay, &s;o wedded are wee
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to our one fancies, that wee will daunce after
their pipe.</P>
<P>That di&s;cour&s;e that carries alway with it a
&s;ting in the tale, nothing, or &s;omthing, nere kin
to nothing, moues us hopes future beguile v&s;e|full
feares and not what is produced or acted,
terrifies us, but what may be, yet never had ex|i&s;tence
takes up lodging in our brea&s;ts, and as if
what is thought only, is prophecy, the &s;un of
peace wil at a wi&s;h vnmask it &s;elfe to the view
of this benighted I&s;land.</P>
<P>Jf Hul or York &s;peake to us in the languadg
of blood, O then our joy bequeaths it &s;elfe to
&s;orrow which is thru&s;t out of the portall of our
lips only or if it finde intertainment in the&s;e in+ward 
Clo&s;ets of ours yet our Hand mu&s;t not
wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ke for redre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>In Bedford&s;hire were exerci&s;ed in Com|mis&s;ion
of Array two worthies, on it may bee
worthy of pitty rather then prai&s;e, one beares
the name of Dyer the other Lucas; each hono|red
Knighthood, on office only di&s;vnited. No|ti&s;e
indeed had they placed their Contris good
above their owne according to their charg hav|ing
&s;et in po&s;ture their divers minded &s;ouldi|ers,
of fowle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> holding for 
the King the other for the Parliament <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">
then the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">
Whereby <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">
on for the King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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<HEAD>A RELATION CONCERNING THE
giving up of the Ca&s;tle of
Portchmouth</HEAD>
<P>STill fearfull occurrents come dropping
with our, teares and throng together as
if each would be fir&s;t, our &s;afty is built
on Ca&s;tles in the ayre when the Ca&s;tles of our
Kingdome are &s;urpri&s;ed that Port&s;mouth with
the fortre&s;&s;e thereof by the faithle&s;&s;e Gover|nour
thereof, is given up to the King &s;tuft
with flocking Papi&s;ts emptied of true hearted
prote&s;tants.</P>
<P>They who &s;tood for King &amp; Parliament were
vnhou&s;ed; and upon command &s;pewed out, who
leaned to the King &s;olely were imbraced, which
black deed the Bi&s;hop of Winche&s;ter applaud|ing
countenanced it with a Troope of Hor&s;e,
with which he furni&s;hed His Maje&s;ty, a Iadi&s;h
trick again&s;t the renowned Parliament and is
imitated not lamented.</P>
<P>Warwicke Ca&s;tle fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">es &s;ugge&s;ts if not Re|&s;igned,
will bee po&s;&s;e&s;t by the adver&s;e piety, as
appeares by the Letters Patent of di&s;covery.</P>
<P>For con&s;piracies &s;warme in the hive of our
heartle&s;&s;e Country. P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ay God &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ooded,
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> in our Kingle&s;&s;e City.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> tribute to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> it with joy. They fled
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I will not word it thus that they turned fugi|tives
for feare, or in that they faintly undertook
and run through their Charge that their Will
went not with their courrage, or that they di&s;|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">red
through the weakne&s;&s;e of their cau&s;e, but
they v&s;ed their &s;upporters, as the be&s;t Wea|pons,
el&s;e they had all receaued their pre&s;&s;e-tokens
for death; they were not afraid to fight
but they were not a&s;hamed to fly.</P>
<P>It may be they disdained and &s;corned
to paint their Weapons in tho&s;e they were
of ability to di&s;comfit, or el&s;e they &s;hewed on|ly
what they could doe, but would not teach
them their art; however it was there was, a &s;ur|cea&s;e
from Arms.</P>
<P>Now the Parliaments Handful feared not to
follow the Cha&s;e; it forced not for if they had,
For as if they had bin taught their Foot-doctrin
in Ireland among the Rebels, they were little
beholding to the earth, for their light carried
burthens.</P>
<P>And now let us judge of cau&s;es by the effects:
&s;uch events are dangerous, but &s;uccesful, Such
Cau&s;es worke great impatience: but may be|get
a vnion.</P>
<P>Wee cannot bee &s;wallowed up in deepe of
dangers, when Our &s;uppo&s;ed enemies &s;hallow
Cau&s;e gives not heart and hand together in
Marriage.</P>
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<HEAD>THE LORD <HI>BROOKE</HI> HIS
RESOLVTION
AGAINST
The <HI>EARLE</HI> of
Northampton.</HEAD>
<P>BEfore I can take my breath, as if our King+dome
were compa&s;&s;ed with mi&s;eries, I am
overtooke by the Po&s;t af an accident of
the diver&s; colour. The Lord Brook &s;iding with
the ble&s;&s;ed Parliament, proved Loyal in &s;pight
of the enemy.</P>
<P>For after that rage and malice &s;et their feet
on the neck of goodne&s;&s;e, his actions received a
blot from the Lord Northampton, who, rather
to be pittied then prai&s;ed bru&s;ht him with an
vnex&s;pected affront: and would have cru&s;ht his
proceedings to a non entity, which the Lord
Brooke not brooking, Strok not &s;ayle and now
with thou&s;ands more Prote&s;t to be limed and
adhere to the Parliament, mauger Norhamp|tons
forces.</P>
<P>Wherupon there &s;prang a tumult, who for
their quick appearance &s;eemed to be create
onely of the loud Alarum of his well couched
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&s;peech. The Lord Brooks couragiou&s;ly &s;aw
them &s;toop to his Iuges and become the Parli|aments
protectors, but cau&s;e they &s;tarted at his
Proclamations, to know whether he could bee
acquanted with &s;uch loyalty as his, in a &s;weete
phra&s;e he be &s;pake their company that were his
concomitants, that they would welcome the
Morning of the &s;ucceding day, though indeede
mo&s;t neded not have &s;leept and paw&s;ed for a re|&s;olution,
the day as longing to &s;ee &s;uch a con|tract,
glorified that &s;pecticle for in the &s;ea&s;on
pre&s;cribed, many bodies were a&s;&s;embled with
one mind, and both Gentry and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> u|nananimou&s;ly &s;ang a part in the Knights on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">
as if they could &s;peak nothing but for the Par|liament
they bound them&s;elues Prenti&s;es in
their &s;ervice.</P>
<P>The Lords and Commons doe declare, that
a Garri&s;on of Souldiers is at New-Ca&s;tle
Likewi&s;e Earl Rivers being put into the Com|mi&s;&s;ion
of Aray, exerci&s;e it with much of our impri&s;oning
all the that oppo&s;e him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Brown Cler. Parl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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