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<HEAD>A mo&s;t true and &s;uccinct Relation of the late Battell neere KINETON in VVARWICK-SHIRE, Expre&s;sed in a Letter from that Godly and Reverend Divine Ma&s;ter STEPHEN MARSHALL, to his Friend a worthy Member <HI>of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_MY Lord Generall not having time, give me leave to pre&s;ent you with a &s;hort Relation of Gods late merciful di&s;pen&s;ation towards our Army: On Saturday night we came to <HI>Kineton</HI> with twelve Regiments of Foot, and about fourty Troops of Hor&s;e, &s;ome of our Hor&s;e and Foot were behinde to bring on our Traine and Ammunition from <HI>VVorce&s;ter:</HI> On the Lords day morning we had certaine intelligence that the Kings Forces were making towards us; whereupon order was given to draw forth our Forces with as much &s;peed as we could: The Kings Forces came down <HI>Edgworth</HI> Hill about five thou&s;and Hor&s;e and thirteen thou&s;and Foot, as the Lord <HI>VVilloughby,</HI> who is pri&s;oner, &s;aith; they got advantage of Hill and wind; we had not in the Field above thirty Troops of Hor&s;e, the re&s;t being quartered further off came not in; About twelve of the clock the Cannon began to play on both &s;ides, and about an hour after hor&s;e and foot fell to it in earne&s;t: our left wing upon the &s;econd firing fled ba&s;ely, and the right wing of hor&s;e led by Prince <HI>Robert</HI> cha&s;ed them, and it &s;eemes thinking the day their own, fell pre&s;ently to plunder our Waggons, and killing the &s;ervants, even un|to women and children which attended them, but our foot and the re&s;t of the hor&s;e fol|lowed it &s;o clo&s;e, that they wholly cut off the flower of their foot, the Kings red Regi|ment, and two or three other Regiments, be&s;ides many of their hor&s;e; took many of their Colours, the Kings Standard, &s;ome Peeces of their Ordnance, drave them to re|tire up the Hill, &s;lew the Lord <HI>Jo. Steward,</HI> Sir <HI>Edmund Varney,</HI> one of the <HI>Lunsfords,</HI> and other Commanders, Took Pri&s;oners the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> their Generall, who &s;ince is dead, his Sonne the Lord <HI>VVilloughby,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Stradling,</HI> Colonell <HI>Vava&s;our,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Lunsford,</HI> with other Officers. My Lord kept the Field till about three of the clock in the morning, and then retreated to the Towne; Next morning the Kings Army appeared upon the Hill, and we took the Field again, but it &s;eemes they had no minde to receive a Dinner from us, who gave them &s;o bad a Supper: we cannot &s;ay that we lo&s;t above a hundred of our foot, and a few hor&s;e, except the Waggoners and tho&s;e that attended them; I know not how many of the Kings are &s;lain: Colonell <HI>Lunsford</HI> confe&s;&s;ed unto me, that three Regiments were wholly cut off: Sure I am, God hath given us a great Victory, and &s;uch a one (to u&s;e my Lord Generall his own expre&s;|&s;ion) that in as much as ever in any, there appeared little of man and much of God. For a day or two we are refre&s;hing our Army hereabouts, and then, God-willing, we &s;hall be fit for further &s;ervice. VVhat order you &s;hall receive from my Lord will come from a better hand, and I will trouble you no further, but recommend you to God, and write my &s;elfe</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving friend and &s;ervant, STEPHEN MARSHALL.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>Warwick <DATE>Octob. 25. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON.</HI> Printed for <HI>H. S.</HI> Novemb. 3. 1642.</P>
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