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<HEAD>A briefe and true RELATION OF THE Seige and Surrendering of Kings <HI>Lyn</HI> To the Earle of <HI>MANCHESTER.</HI></HEAD>
<P>KIngs <HI>Lyn</HI> is &s;eated upon an arme of the &s;ea which wa&s;hes one &s;ide of its, it hath &s;urrounding the other &s;ide, one &s;mall part excepted, a large wa|ter fed from the afore&s;aid arme; its of an indifferent height, the parts about being commanded by it, being rich Mar&s;hes, through which pa&s;&s;eth at the tides the &s;alt water: It had been for a good while cunningly Fortifying it &s;elfe under pretence of Neutrality, and when at any time the Parliament upon their mi&s;cariages que&s;tioned them, or required any thing to be done by them, they &s;till refu&s;ed, and by degrees appeared more and more for the other party again&s;t the Parliament: The Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> being made Major Generall of the A&s;&s;ociated Counties, thought it mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to &s;ecure that back-doore, which being &s;o convenient an inlet to the enemy, might divert him when he &s;hould advance with his powers towards the North, for the freeing of Lincolne&s;hire and other parts from the mi&s;eries they &s;uffer by the enemy: it was much di&s;puted whether it were not better to pro|ceed by blocking up, rather then to take it by force; the Towne being of that &s;trength that no ordinary power could take it, had they that which was fit for defence, but it was at la&s;t re&s;olved to attempt it by force, and for that purpo&s;e it was thought good to &s;eize the Towne of old <HI>Lyn,</HI> which is in Mar&s;hland, which by a party of my Lords Forces was accordingly done, and Ordnance planted, which kept the Towne in continuall Alarmes, and did &s;o terrifie the people with their &s;hot and Granadoes, that they dur&s;t hardly abide in any of their hou&s;es that were towards that &s;ide, the &s;hot flying daily into the hou&s;es
<PB N="2" REF="2">in the Tue&s;day market place, and other places, the Towne was approched in &s;everall other places, two of which were on the &s;ide next to the mote, the one by the Cau&s;ey that leades to the South, the other to the Ea&s;t gate: The enemy at the fir&s;t &s;allied out with much courage, e&s;pecially from the Ea&s;t gate and at once fired two hou&s;es in <HI>Gauwood,</HI> intending to have done &s;o to the whole Towne, that our forces might not Quarter in there, but the party that &s;allied out was well beaten, and the re&s;t of the towne pre&s;erved, though the inhabitants were not worthy of &s;uch a favour, who fled all away up on the ap|proach of our Forces; all things being put in order we called in pioneers from all parts round, and fell to breaking ground, and by degrees bad brought our approaches within halfe Musket &s;hot, yet were we little the neerer the gaining the towne thereby, onely the better inabled to batter their walls, gates and Forts; a little before the towne was yeilded we di&s;covered a hill of firme ground that was neer to that end of the towne next the &s;ea, which we had be|gun to forme into a battery, which would have &s;o annoyed them, that they would not have knowne where to have been &s;ecure, and by which a breach might have been made; but this al&s;o gave us no great hopes of entrance, they making up as fa&s;t, as we &s;hould have beaten downe, therefore we re|called in many Boats, with which we intended to attache it by water, and many cart loads of Ladders, which we intended for the land &s;ide: during this hot &s;ervice we lo&s;t about four men, one a Canoneer, who was &s;hot through the &s;ide with a drake bullet, he was not dead when the Towne was taken, but it was no likelyhood but he would, he was a good Canoneer, and a man right to his party, we had one &s;hot with a buller through the &s;houlder, neer the necke: and one Lieutenant had his arme &s;hot off, on which he died &s;uddenly after, it was with a Cannon &s;hot through a Port-hole, &s;o skilfull were they, that they would &s;hoot three times together into one Port-hole: In this violent playing with Cannon and &s;mall &s;hot we beleeve above eighty lo&s;t their lives on both &s;ides, which is the rather added, becau&s;e people en|quire u&s;ually how many were killed, as if they loved to heare of killing of men; and al&s;o to rectifie the Judgements of men, who will be apt to credit a &s;tory of three, four or five thou&s;and men &s;laine at &s;uch a Siege, and &s;uch a Siege; its true, &s;torming and entring breaches u&s;ually wa&s;t men, but we were not come to this; when it was re&s;olved and declared on <HI>Saturday</HI> morning to &s;torme, we hapily received a letter the Friday morning, importing a vil|lingne&s;&s;e in the Towne to capitulate, which they &s;aid, and its like truly, they did not &s;end as fearing the taking the Town, but to avoid the effu&s;ion of
<PB N="3" REF="2">bloud: My Lord having before advi&s;ed them to &s;end their women and chil|dren out of the Towne; which he did for the &s;ame rea&s;on: This Treaty was accepted, and eight per&s;ons for the Towne, and eight for my Lord appoin|ed to Treat at <HI>Ganwood</HI> at the Quarter of that valiant and pious Scot Serjeant Major <HI>Hoames,</HI> and to begin at five of the clocke on Friday night, which be|ing done, order was given upon paine of death, that none &s;hould &s;hoot a &s;hot, or worke upon their Works during the time of the Treaty; which was in|violably kept on my Lords part.</P>
<P>The Commi&s;&s;ioners for my Lord <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> were Sir <HI>John Pagrave,</HI> Colonell <HI>Ru&s;&s;ell,</HI> Colonell <HI>Walton,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Philip Calthrop,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>John Pic|kering,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Gregory Go&s;&s;et,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>John Spilman,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>William Good.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e for the Towne, were Sir <HI>Hammon le Strange,</HI> Sir <HI>Richard Hovill,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Clinch,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Dearham,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Pallet</HI> Recorder, Ma&s;ter <HI>Hud&s;on,</HI> he Mayor elect, Ma&s;ter <HI>Leeke,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>kerbie;</HI> when they were come they had no power to treat, nor to determine, which being demanded the rea&s;on of, they an&s;wered, that they intended onely to draw things to a head, and to have them ratified by the Mayor at a Common-Hall; as for a Commi&s;&s;ion from his Maje&s;tie, inabling any to be Governour, or to fortifie the Towne, there was none produced, it was beleeved one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners had one, but he did not &s;hew it; there was therefore a di&s;patch made to the Mayor, who gave it them.</P>
<P>The Demands of the&s;e Gentlemen was to this effect; That in regard the Towne of Kings <HI>Lyn</HI> had a government by Charter, from the Kings of Eng|land, and was not an offender in any thing, they therefore de&s;ired to be left in their former &s;tate, onely fortifications demoli&s;hed, and to have free egre&s;&s;e and regre&s;&s;e as formerly: They de&s;ired al&s;o, that all hou&s;es, lands and e&s;tates, be left to pay taxes by di&s;tre&s;&s;e, onely where it was to be had, and per&s;ons of men to be free, that the &s;hips, goods, and per&s;onal le&s;tates taken to be re&s;to|red, or &s;atisfaction that all &s;trangers come into the towne, be &s;et at liberty, that the a&s;per&s;ion of Delinquencie or Malignancie be aboli&s;hed, and that the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> grant Protections to them that de&s;ire them. My Lord <HI>Manche&s;ters</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners replied, That they had offended, for they had not paid in the &s;econd part of the 400000. pounds, they have made no a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ement of the fifth, and twentieth part, not &s;ent in hor&s;e; and on the con|trary, refu&s;ed to &s;end up Delinquents &s;ent for by the Parliament, pretended to hold the towne for King and Parliament, and yet refu&s;e to deliver the towne, or give enterance to the Earle, who demands it for King and Parlia|ment;
<PB N="4" REF="3">and have received the di&s;-affected into the towne, and di&s;-armed the well affected; impri&s;oned Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and &s;ome of the Committee, they have imployed armes incru&s;ted with them for the A&s;&s;ociation, again&s;t them; money gathered for the&s;e vice of the Parliament, they have made u&s;e of to defend the towne again&s;t the Parliament and A&s;&s;o|ciation, and many of the goods of the well-affected they have taken and im|ployed for the defence of the towne; therefore they appeared to be great of|fenders: Yet to prevent effu&s;ion of bloud, if they will deliver the towne by Saturday nine in the morning, they &s;hall have priviledge and freedome; as for freedome from Ordinances of Parliament, they mu&s;t expect no &s;uch thing; as for &s;atisfaction, their defection hath beene the cau&s;e of allo their &s;uf|ferings, and &s;o cannot be &s;atisfied, but the contrary is expected &amp; required, not onely for the former, but al&s;o for the time &s;pent in reducing to obedience the town, &amp; a moneths pay to the &s;ouldiers; for their per&s;ons &amp; e&s;tates they &s;hall not be mole&s;ted for any thing done &s;ince the Earls coming; but for Hor&s;e and Arms that were in the town they mu&s;t be delivered to the Earl at his entrance.</P>
<P>After much debate upon the Particulars, which held from &s;even at night untill eight the next night, a dinner time onely excepted, it was agreed in &s;ub&s;tance as followes: </P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, That Kings</HI> Lyn, <HI>with the Ordnance, Armes and Ammunition in the Towne, be delivered to the Earle, and the Earle to enter the Town.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly, That the Gentlemen &s;trangers in the Towne &s;hould have liberty to depart with every man a Hor&s;e, Sword, and Pi&s;tols.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly, That the Towne&s;men &s;hull enioy all undoubted Rites and Priviledges appertaining to them, with free trading to their advantage, &s;o far as may con&s;i&s;t with Law.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fourthly, That all Pri&s;oners on both &s;ides be re&s;tored and &s;ot at liberty.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fiftly, That the Earles Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall &s;ignifie to the Parliament, and to the Earle of</HI> Warwick, <HI>the de&s;ire of the towne of</HI> Lyn, <HI>concerning the &s;hips taken by the Parliaments &s;hips, and to that they can give no other an&s;wer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sixtly, That neither the per&s;on nor e&s;tates of any Inhabitants, Gentry, or Strangers, now re&s;iding in</HI> Lyn, <HI>&s;hall be hereafter noble&s;ted for any thing pa&s;t, or done by them, &s;ince the Earle of</HI> Manche&s;ters <HI>comming into the&s;e parts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Seventhly, That for preventing of plundering, ten &s;tillings a man herai&s;ed for all foot &s;ouldiers under the Earles Command, and a fort night pay for all Officers under the degree of a Captaine, and this is to be levied upon the Towne.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Eightly, That Sir</HI> Hammon le Strange, <HI>Sir</HI> Richard Hovill, <HI>Captaine</HI> Clinch, <HI>Ma&s;ter Recorder, Ma&s;ter</HI> Dearing, <HI>and Ma&s;ter</HI> William Leeke, <HI>be left as Ho&s;tages untill Condiitons be performed agreed upon.</HI></P>
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<P>That which is ob&s;ervable duting this Treaty, is, that the Towne, or rather the unrulie &s;ouldiers &s;hot at our men, contrary to accord, and fell to work upon their workes, and as it is conceived, with intent to cut ditches at the &s;pring-tides, to drowne our workes, which we di&s;covering, made u&s;e of, to hold them up to our termes, otherwayes they were all pri&s;oners, if we &s;tood upon it. This agreement being carryed to the Mayor and Aldermen, &amp;c. there were &s;ome explainary exceptions, as that it was not expre&s;t in the pre|amble, that the Towne be delivered for King and Parliament; that &s;ome|what was not expre&s;t infavour or vindication of the Mayor, that any &s;hould be exempt from bearing part of that rai&s;ed to content the &s;ouldiers, or to that effect, which my Lord by a Letter, or &s;hort Declaration &s;atisfied them in, and then one of their Commi&s;&s;ioners returned with the la&s;t and full re&s;o|lution, that the Gates &s;hould be opened, and we enter: During this latter bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, we mi&s;t u&s;ting they would faulter, we drew all our hor&s;e and foote into meadowes, which we put into &s;uch a po&s;ture as might be mo&s;t terrible to the enemy, making a large front, when God knowes what deptha they &s;tood, then beating the Drums, and founding the Trumpets, as if we had been pre|fently to march into the Towne: Col. <HI>Ru&s;&s;ell,</HI> that noble and valiant Gen|tleman had the Van, and Col. <HI>Walton</HI> the Reete: Colonell <HI>Ru&s;&s;ell</HI> marched on foot towards the Ea&s;t-gate, when he came within Mu&s;quet &s;hot, the Com|mi&s;&s;ioner that was imployed to make way came backe, and told the Colo|nell, that the &s;ea&s;on of the night would not permit to open the great Gate, they mu&s;t therefore be content to march one by one at the Wicket, if any &s;hall que&s;tion our di&s;cretion in entring in at a Wicket, and at twelve a clock at night, let them know, that we did not know what alterations might be by morning, nor how the ruder part might take courage and deny us entrance; we thought it be&s;t the refore to take the pre&s;ent time, be&s;ides out men were the next morning to have &s;tormed it, otherway the &s;pring ride would have &s;poiled us; but when the Wicket was open, and we going to enter, the Commi&s;&s;ioner againe returned, and told us there was a rude multitude of a|bout forty or fifty, that &s;wore none &s;hould enter there, and if any did, they would be the death of them, which they might have made good to five hun|dred, if we had &s;tood to it: they had there a parley of neere two houres, &s;ome &s;aying Articles mu&s;t be performed: others, that they would not conde&s;cend nor obey, nor &s;hould the Mayor and Commi&s;&s;ioners acts binde them, Cry|ing &s;hoote, &s;hoote, and one Canoneere they turned out, becau&s;e he would not give fire upon us, as him&s;elfe &s;aid: at la&s;t one of them cryed, give fire, which being in the dead of the night, made &s;ome of the forward Countrey
<PB N="6" REF="4">men and others on hor&s;e backe, who rid by the &s;ide of the foote that march|ed, to fall off their hor&s;es, and &s;ome into the ditch, &s;o terrible was the word, Give fire: but at la&s;t this multitude was pacified and departed, which to &s;peake truth was from heaven, for had they continued ob&s;tinate, wee could not have gained the towne: they di&s;per&s;t, the Colonell entred, and his &s;oul|diers, who marched to their quarters at the South-gate according to order; in our a&s;&s;age through the towne, not one man appeared, only the women, who for the generall cryed, God ble&s;&s;e us, whether for feare or love, you may gue&s;&s;e. Thus being po&s;&s;e&s;t of the Towne, and having drawne a party into the Tue&s;day market place both of hor&s;e and foote, and &s;et &s;trong watches at every place, the Mayor came to the Colonell, of whom we demanded why the Armes of the Towne, according to the agreement was not brought into the market place, he replyed, that the &s;ea&s;on of the night would not per|mit, but in the morning it &s;hould be done, which &s;atisfied the Colonell, for we &s;aw they vvere perfectly &s;ubdued; and their &s;pirits as to oppo&s;ition quite gone. If it &s;hall be further enquired, why, or vvhat &s;hould be the rea&s;on this towne of &s;o great &s;trength &s;hould yeeld to &s;o &s;mall a power; it is an&s;wred, fir&s;t the inhabitants vvere &s;uch as had not been asccu&s;tomed to vvar, and were much frighted by the Granadoes, though to &s;peake truth, there vvas &s;ome defect in them, &s;o that they did little, only falling among a timerous people. Secondly, they had no &s;ouldiers, but inhabitants, and of them not many fighters; but chiefely for this rea&s;on, they knew my Lord was noble, made up of love and meekne&s;&s;e, that conditions vvould be performed, their trade and markets open, a garri&s;on vvould &s;pend money among them, and if they held out, they &s;hould it was like lo&s;e many of their lives, and be blockt up by &s;ea and land, if not taken, and their e&s;tates at la&s;t become a prey to the con|querour: there is one other que&s;tion, or rather an exception to be an&s;wered, vvhich as vve under&s;tood in the Army, vvas that the Londoners tooke ex|ceptions that my Lord &s;ate downe before the Towne; For an&s;wer to this, though it be a &s;ad thing that accounts mu&s;t be given to tho&s;e that under&s;tand not the affaires of War, nor vvhom it &s;o much concerned as the a&s;&s;ociated Counties, yet thus much may be &s;aid, my Lord thought action vvould have plea&s;ed them, becau&s;e they complaine &s;o for want of action, and be&s;ides to reduce a towne to obedience that they traded vvith, and the holding out of it &s;o much prejudice to them, &s;hould rather have put them upon his encourage|ment, then finding fault: Be&s;ides, he hopes &s;hortly to be in Lincoln&s;hire, and to drive the enemy out thence, vvhich he could not have done, that towne not &s;ecured, and if God pro&s;per his honour as vvell there, as in this late acti|on,
<PB N="7" REF="4">he &s;hall cleare the Countries, make way for the Londoners increa&s;e of trade and accommodation vvith provi&s;ions for the City, Lincoln&s;hire being one of their be&s;t magazines for the belly.</P>
<P>We thus po&s;&s;e&s;t of the Towne the next morning about nine of the clock his Lord&s;hip marched from his head quarter, with his life guard, a brave Troope commanded by that valiant Gentleman Captaine <HI>Rich,</HI> and divers Knights and Gentlemen being come into the Towne, be repaired to the Sermon, where one of his Chaplaines preached, to give God thankes for his happy and peaceable entry, the Mini&s;ters both in fore and afternoone bond|ing their di&s;cour&s;es that way, and indeed God was &s;een exceedingly in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and &s;o much the more as the arme of fle&s;h was weak, they laboured al&s;o to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the people of a ble&s;&s;ing to them, and to that purpo&s;e gave ma|ny cleer in&s;tances, too large to be here in&s;erted, whether the people thought &s;o or not did not appear, but they will &s;uddenly finde it &s;o; my Lord hath his Quarter at Alderman <HI>Tolls</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, who was &s;o roughly dealt with, in the time of the Siege, that he was con&s;trained to make an e&s;cape out at a window into the arme of the &s;ea, his hou&s;e being guarded in all parts el&s;e by Musketiers; many others returned that had fled out of the Towne, who were hapily again po&s;&s;e&s;t of their dwellings, though with great diminution of their e&s;tates, which to repaire, it were good &s;ome cour&s;e were taken, for there is nothing more rea&s;onable, then that tho&s;e that for&s;ake all for the Cau&s;e, &s;hould be &s;atisfied in point of dammage; Colonell <HI>Waltor</HI> hath for the pre&s;ent the Government of the towne; thus we &s;ee how providence orders, he that was lately lockt up for three daies and three nights at <HI>Oxford</HI> in a poore chamber without food, is now Govern our of as great and &s;trong a towne as <HI>Oxford;</HI> in which &s;ervice he will doubtle&s;&s;e behave him|&s;elfe &s;o well that the towne &s;hall not have cau&s;e to complaine, and will be able to &s;ay that at the delivery of his charge, which was &s;aid by Ma&s;ter <HI>A&s;h</HI> at the evening Sermon after the entring the towne, that he was confident notwith|&s;tanding the entrance was in the dead of the night, yet a halfe penny worth of wrong had not been done to any in the towne. The fir&s;t re&s;olution taken for the better and more orderly government of the Souldiers, and content of the people was to have every morning at eight a clocke a Sermon, which was to be performed by the Mini&s;ters of the Towne, and my Lords Chaplaines, which will undoubtedly keepe a good Harmony betweene them: And thus briefely you have the mo&s;t materiall pa&s;&s;ages pa&s;t in the Service; the next thing to be done is the di&s;mi&s;&s;ing the Gentlemen Strangers, &s;eizing of Armes, and what by Articles was to be delivered, &s;etling the Gar|ri&s;on, that &s;o the place being &s;ecured his Lord&s;hip may advance,</P>
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<P>Take one ob&s;ervation more, the Towne of Lyn may be made as &s;trong a place as any in the world with a little charge, and &s;o there is a retiring place, for the fearfull that have thoughts of departing the Kingdome; it were not ami&s;&s;e to call all that are gone thither; and let them pay exci&s;e there towards our war ra|ther then the wars of others.</P>
<P>Let all who apprehend the gaining this Towne a good piece of &s;ervice to the State, give the noble Earle of Manche&s;ter his due prai&s;e, and God the glory.</P>
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