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<P>Certaine and true NEWS From Somer&s;et-&s;hire; with the be&s;ieging of Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> Hou&s;e, together with the valiant and manfully performed cou|rage of Mr. <HI>Arnold Hyward</HI> Gentleman, Soul|dier, and Lieutenant to the Troope of young Captaine <HI>Pym,</HI> Son to that worthy and well de&s;erving Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons <HI>Iohn Pym</HI> E&s;q.</P>
<P>Commanded to be printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e the manner of ta|king Sir <HI>Edward Rodney,</HI> Sir <HI>Ed|ward Berkley,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Dugdale</HI> pri&s;o|ners, and are now in the Counter in London til further examination.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a true relation of the &s;ad and unfortunate mi&s;|chance which befell our hopeful Prince <HI>Charles,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> by Wild fire, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Printed at London for <HI>I. Vnderwood.</HI> 1642. <HI>October</HI> 15.</P>
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<HEAD>Certaine and true Newes from Somer&s;et&s;hire, with the be&s;ei|ging of &s;ir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> hou&s;e, together with the valiant and manfully performed courage of Mr. <HI>Arnold Hyward</HI> Gentleman, Souldier and Lieutenant to the troope of young Captaine <HI>Pym,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_SInce the di&s;tractions of the&s;e times began, by the evill and unchri&s;tianable incendia|ries of the &s;ame, who like Spunges de&s;ire to be filled with their owne naturall bloud which n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> le&s;&s;e appeares in their Coun&s;ells, hath not onely poy&s;oned the cleare head of the Spring, but like|wi&s;e labours to &s;poyle the Ocean, in going to un&s;luce the Rivers into it, which God I hope at his good time will &s;top, and point out with his &s;inger their &s;hames and puni&s;hments that thus began in the di&s;|joynting peace to open Warres full gap, which lets in nought but red de&s;truction on us, hand again&s;t hand, and one eye again&s;t another to &s;hake and ruine all the bodies Fabrick, which we could wi&s;h might &s;top, and that his Maje&s;ties good thoughts would open to re&s;cue our future good intents towards him, his i&s;&s;ue, and his future &s;afety, and that this po&s;ture of
<PB N="2" REF="3">fence we &s;tand in, is for his Royall &s;afety, the protecti|on of his I&s;&s;ue, his Parliament and his Land, both a|gain&s;t forraigne and our home-bred Papi&s;ts, the wor&s;t of wor&s;ts that can be, in who&s;e oppo&s;ition hath a|mong&s;t the re&s;t his Maje&s;ties We&s;terne parts, as name|ly Wilt&s;hire, Summer&s;et, Dor&s;et, and Devon&s;hire, harbour re&s;olved &s;pirits, will maintaine tho&s;e parts both for the King and Parliament; Likewi&s;e tho&s;e Cities with their adherent and adjacent Townes, well fortified and Gari&s;on'd with men, are by their brave Commanders well in&s;tructed, and fitted for the pre|&s;ent entertainement, either for &s;iege in managing of Forts, Ports, walls or Breaches, or meeting in Battalia face to face in the open field their daring enemy, as now I am to expre&s;&s;e with duty to his Prince and both the honourable Hou&s;es the ever re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dy, re&s;olved, prepared and undaunted <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">urage of Mr. <HI>Arnold Hy|ward</HI> both a Gentleman and a S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">uld<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er, Leiutenant un|to the troope of Captaine <HI>Pym</HI> who h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ving certaine intelligence that at one &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> hou&s;e were a couple of Knights, the one named &s;ir <HI>Edward Rod|ney,</HI> the other &s;ir <HI>Edward Berkeley,</HI> with a Mini&s;ter named Ma&s;ter <HI>Dugdale,</HI> Chaplaine to the Mar|que&s;&s;e of <HI>Hartford,</HI> who were not onely great up|holders of the Malignant party, or Cavalliero rout, but were them&s;elves the &s;ame, &s;educing and combining thereunto a larger linke of power to knit again&s;t us, and with their friends, their Ten<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nts and Free-hol|ders did therewith fortifie and &s;trongly guard the hou&s;e or Ca&s;tle of the afore&s;aid &s;ir <HI>Ralph Hoptons,</HI> which being a&s;&s;aulted by &s;ome part of our Troope, they very hotly began to oppo&s;e us, and &s;ent us &s;hot for &s;hot, and well they might &s;tand upon daring
<PB N="3" REF="3">termes, being immur'd in &s;tone, knit with fa&s;t lime &amp; haire, yet thanks be unto God, their labour &s;pent on us wa&s;ted them&s;elves and their mun<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ion with it, and they that time not onely wa&s;ht the Ae<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hiop, but ba|thed them&s;elves in the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r owne fruitele&s;&s;e &s;weate; This skirmi&s;h yet continued, at leng<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h with a com|mand I left my Troope that they &s;hould follow and maintain the fight, who very carefull were in the o|beying, I e&s;pied their hor&s;emen mounted, which were the Knights and Prie&s;t I did formerly mention but how or which way they could from the Ca&s;tle make e&s;cape, out&s;trips my imagination, in a &s;hort &s;pace my willing hor&s;e and I oretook them, the which when I perceived the one to be Sir <HI>Edward Rodney,</HI> &amp; the other Sir <HI>Edward Berkley,</HI> I bid them yeeld, and I would give them quarter, which they in a dre&s;t care|le&s;&s;e &s;light di&s;dainfull manner &s;eeing no more but I and my &s;mall Artillery, askt where I were a &s;ouldier, who returned them yes, I was, and wi&s;ht them to yeeld with<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ut any more treate of words, who&s;e an|&s;wer thus to mee &s;traight returned, who&s;e &s;ouldier are you that with &s;o hot a courage puts on confidence to talk of yeelding being 3 again&s;t one, my an&s;wer was, I am under Capt Pym, and wi&s;ht them not to dre&s;&s;e the time out in di&s;cour&s;e, for I re&s;olved was for to &s;et on them and winne them for my pri&s;oners, or fall in the attempt of my ambition, they then being confi|dent my re&s;olve was them, or death, wi&s;ht me to call my Captain, and they would yeeld to him, which &s;o the more enflamed my wrath again&s;t them, that I &s;aid they &s;hould yeeld them&s;elves to me, with that une&s;pied by me, the one of them a pi&s;toll &s;trook a|gain&s;t
<PB N="4" REF="4">me, but the fire took not, for which I recom|mended them a token from my Carbine being ready in my hand, but had the luck to mi&s;&s;e, the other at me let flie, and I at both of them, the par&s;on &s;tood Neuter) and &s;o began a skirmi&s;h pretty hot, in the meane time, my &s;ouldiers at the Ca&s;tle did make a breach through a &s;mal po&s;tern door, which they with|in perceiving their &s;urpri&s;all, more than halfe killed with fear, for quarter cryed, which &s;oon was gran|ted them, and &s;trait were &s;eiz'd their arms with al the Ca&s;tles other Ammunition, which &s;oon in Carts from them was borne away. The other Knights that I held combat with, which I confe&s;&s;e were Gentlemen of courage, were both con&s;trained to call to mee for quarter, and crownd me Conquerour of both their fortunes, which fini&s;ht; I taking leave of Captaine <HI>Pym,</HI> brought my three pri&s;oners to the Parliament, the Knights and Mini&s;ter along with mee, where ha|ving welcome love and encouragement to follow my future fortunes in the defence of the King and them, my p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;oners now remaine in the Counter, and I a|gaine preparing to my Captaine and my Charge.</P>
<P><HI>Witne&s;&s;e the Pri&s;oners hands, and my owne te&s;tifica|tion as hereafter follow.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE Manner of the taking of Sir Edward Rodney, Sir Edward Berkeley, and Ma&s;ter Dugdale.</HEAD>
<P>WHen I <HI>Arnold Hyward</HI> found them, I bid them yeeld and I would give them quarter, they demanded whether I were a Souldier, and who was my Captaine; I told them I was a Souldier under Captaine <HI>Pym,</HI> they de&s;ired me to call my Captain, and they would yeeld to him; I replyed I cou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d not but would have them yeeld to me: during our di&s;|cour&s;e a pi&s;toll of theirs &s;truck fire but went not off; thereupon I di&s;charged my Carbine at them, then
<PB N="6" REF="5">they a pi&s;toll at me, then I a pi&s;toll at them, and they another at me, and I another Carbine at them.</P>
<P>While this was in doing, &s;ome others were brea|king in upon them; whereupon they agreed to yeeld them&s;elves to me, if I would give them quarter, which I did.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>witne&s;&s;e their hands, who are now pri&s;oners in the Counter in Wood-&s;treet, London.</DATELINE>
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<ITEM>Edward Rodney.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Berkley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ja. Dugdale.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A true relation of the &s;ad, and unfortunate mi&s;chance which befell Prince <HI>Charles</HI> and the Duke of York by fire-workes and Gun-powder, neere to Shresbury on thur&s;day night la&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>THe manner of this &s;ad and unfortunate mi&s;|chance was written in a Letter to a Gentleman in London, which for certayne truth was thus.</P>
<P>A French man who is an Enginere to his Maje&s;ty, and a very skilfull contriver of fire-workes, being de|&s;irous to have his skil known, apoynted a convenient time to &s;hew his Art, at which &s;ea&s;on the Prince and his brother <HI>Iames</HI> Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> were pre&s;ent, who &s;tanding by, the Enginere having layd his traynes of powder to perfit his worke, and both the&s;e princes, as it were in the mid&s;t of the traynes of powder, a care|le&s;&s;e fellow running too and fro with a lighted match in his hand, there unfortunately and unluckeyly fell a &s;parke of fire from the coale of the match, and hap|ned among&s;t the traine of powder, fla&s;hing up, fiered the Princes cloaths, burnt his band and his face, and hurt the Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> very &s;hrewdly, in &s;omuch that it is thought he will loo&s;e one of his eyes, to the great griefe of his Maje&s;ty, the whole Court, and Country, and all good &s;ubjects that heares of it.</P>
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