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<P>An Exact and full RELATION OF THE LAST FIGHT, Between the KINGS Forces and Sir WILLIAM WALLER. Sent in a Letter from an Officer in the Army to his friend in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Printed to prevent mi&s;-information.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed for <HI>Ben. Allen,</HI> in Popes-Head-Alley.</P>
<P><HI>July</HI> 5. 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>AN EXACT AND FVLL RELATION OF THE LAST FIGHT between the KINGS Forces and Sir WILLIAM WALLER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>From <HI>Borton</HI> the place of our Randevous <DATE>the <HI>30^t^h</HI> of June, <HI>1644.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE have thought good to give you the be&s;t and true&s;t Relation of our late pa&s;&s;ages, and Gods providence towards us. After &s;eve|rall dayes marching; on thur&s;day night la&s;t about &s;even of the Clock wee faced the Kings body at Cropready bridge neare Ban|bury, and all day, the next day, and ye&s;terday till noone being Saturday, about ten of the clock in the forenoone wee di&s;covered their Army to be upon the march towards <HI>Daintry:</HI> and as &s;ome (who were &s;ince taken pri&s;oners) affirme, their entent was from thence to <HI>York:</HI> Whereup|on command was given to &s;ome particular per&s;ons to ad|vance after them, and fall in their Reere: But it proved the middle of their whole body.</P>
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According to the order, our Regiment of Hor&s;e and Collonell <HI>Vandro&s;&s;es,</HI> advanced under the Command of Lievtenant Generall <HI>Middleton,</HI> and Captain <HI>Butler,</HI> Adju|tant Generall, and foure Companies of <HI>Farnbam</HI> foote, and five Companies of Sir <HI>Williams</HI> owne Regiment, un|der the Command of Lievtenant Collonell <HI>Baines,</HI> (&s;ome|time a Brewer in <HI>London)</HI> Quarter-Ma&s;ter Generall to the foote.</P>
<P>They had placed a Guard to &s;ecure <HI>Cropready</HI>-bridge, which wee readily beat off, and made the bridge our owne by a partie of Dragoons, and pa&s;t over the River between us and <HI>Banbury,</HI> (for till then we were on the one &s;ide of the River, and they on the other) being over the River, through mi&s;-information, wee too &s;peedily pur&s;ued the enemy, (being enformed that their whole bodie was marched away, when as a third part of them were left be|hinde unknowne to us. Wee pur&s;ued them above a mile, till we came to a bridge, where their Foot made a &s;tand, drew up and fac'd us; wee being within Musket &s;hot of them, onely our foure elde&s;t Troops, <HI>(viz.)</HI> Sir <HI>Arthurs,</HI> Captaine <HI>Okees;</HI> Captaine <HI>Foleyes,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Gard|ners:</HI> They overthrew a Carriage to barricado the bridge, and planted it with Muskettiers. This occa&s;ioned our Re|treat back againe, being unwilling too farre to engage our &s;elves, having no Foot within above halfe a mile of us, and di&s;covering their Army behind us, upon our retreat wee di&s;covered the party of Foot (drawne over with us) by an unre&s;i&s;table body of the enemies Hor&s;e, of &s;ome thirty Troops, and two regiments of Foot put to di&s;orderly re|treat, which ha&s;tened our march back againe, and comming back we found the way to the bridge within a quarter of a mile, &s;topt with the enemies Hor&s;e and Foot, who were got between our Foot and the bridge: For who&s;e reliefe (al|though our way backe lay on the right hand, we advanced up to their body on the left hand up the hill, and with our foure Troops charged the Kings owne Regiment, and put
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them to a retreat; but the other Troop commming downe upon us, (there being of them in all &s;ome three Regiments) with whom we were in no ca&s;e able to deale, we were nece&s;|&s;itated to retreat very di&s;orderly, having put their body of Hor&s;e into a combu&s;tion, having &s;lain three Colonels, wher|of one was Sir <HI>William Butler,</HI> a Papi&s;t of <HI>Kent,</HI> Lieutenant generall of Hor&s;e <HI>(viz.) Wilmut</HI> was &s;ore wounded, and his Lieutenant Generall taken pri&s;oner, and committed to the cu&s;tody of two Souldiers, who in our di&s;orderly re|treat lo&s;t him againe: We &s;lue divers other of their Officers both in our charge and in our retreat, the way being fil|led with their foot and hor&s;e, many whereof were woun|ded &s;orely, &s;lew others, and took &s;ome pri&s;oners. Com|ming back to the Bridge, the Hamblets very honoura|bly and &s;toutly made good the Bridge, kept back the ene|my, and recovered three peeces of our Ordnance, which we had lo&s;t; we having lo&s;t &s;ome half a dozen &s;mall peeces be&s;ides, which were unadvi&s;edly drawne over before the Foot were ready to march along with them, and the men running a way with the hor&s;e, we could not draw them back again: being over th bridge, we rallied together, and drew our body toward anoher place of the river, where the enemy made &s;hew of comming over, but we kept them on the o|ther &s;ide; although we could not attain what we attempted, yet we hereby bravely cau&s;ed them to draw back their whol body from their march onward toward <HI>Daintry,</HI> w^c^h mu&s;t retard their journy to <HI>York.</HI> Having faced them &s;everal hours together, towards evening the King &s;ent his trumpeter to our General, w^t^h a me&s;&s;age to this effect, that if our General plea|&s;ed, he would &s;end a Herald of Armes, which at the head of our Army &s;hould proclaim a gracious Me&s;&s;age. The an&s;wer from our Generall was returned thus, That he had no com|mi&s;&s;ion to treat with his Maje&s;tie concerning peace; but if he plea&s;ed to &s;end to the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, wee &s;hould remain his faithfull &s;ubjects. In the time of our facing wee exchanged &s;everall Cannon &s;hot, as we conceive fourty &s;hot apiece, but through Gods mercy, all their Cannon &s;hot gave
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us but the lo&s;&s;e of one hor&s;e, not one man; but our &s;hot, the Lord &s;o ordering it, cau&s;ed them to draw backe their body out of our reach, where they abode all night. Wee tooke in the fight two Hor&s;e Colours of theirs, and we lo&s;t three Foot Colours, we have lo&s;t Lievtenant Colonell <HI>Baines,</HI> who as we heare, would not take quarter, we have lo&s;t Col. <HI>Wembs,</HI> Collonell of our Artillery, and Lievtenant Collonell <HI>Ba|ker,</HI> Lievtenant Collonell to Sir <HI>Williams</HI> Regiment of foote.</P>
<P>Wee have lo&s;t of ours, and taken pri&s;oners neare upon one hundred, or &s;ix &s;core. Captaine <HI>Okes</HI> has lo&s;t &s;ome ten men, whereof one Ma&s;ter <HI>Cre&s;ey</HI> it one: Captain <HI>Gard|ner</HI> hath lo&s;t neer as many: Captain <HI>Foleys</HI> foure, and three wounded, whereof one <HI>Thomas Steme,</HI> an apprenti&s;e for|merly to Ma&s;ter <HI>Lloyd,</HI> who lived in Watling-&s;treet is one, being &s;hot into the thigh, the thigh-bone broke, and run through both buttocks with a tuck: We this day &s;ent him and another, one <HI>John Nicklis</HI> to <HI>Warwicke,</HI> there to be care|fully provided for. We have lo&s;t but one Officer in all our Regiment, prai&s;ed be God, and that is Captain <HI>Perries</HI> Cor|net.</P>
<P>It was an infinite mercy of God we had not been all lo&s;t, which we de&s;ire may bee taken notice of, with &s;olemne thankes to God almightie, who was our onely helper: as al|&s;o for the double good effect it wrought; <HI>viz.</HI> it drew their body back from marching toward <HI>York;</HI> and wee relieved &s;ome &s;ix hundred hor&s;e that were comming to joyne with us, whom the enemy had faced above a quarter of an houre, comming from <HI>Northampton,</HI> who had not wee take this cour&s;e, in all probabilitie they had been all cut off. Wee have taken a Major of the Kings owne Regiment, his name is <HI>Webbe,</HI> he is mortally wounded, not likely to recover: Our Officers and Souldiers are very well, and very cheerefull, willingly content to goe on with the work, if we can but be &s;upplyed with bread and water, our lodging having for &s;everall nights been, and &s;till is, on Gods cold earth, over-&s;haddowed with the Canopie of
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heavens &s;weet Firmament, and God in much mercy hath afforded us &s;weet temperate weather; nothing hath been &s;o &s;hort with us as Bread for men, the earth afford ng gra&s;&s;e for our hor&s;es. Wee &s;till continue facing one ano|ther, the River between us, wee maintain <HI>Cropready-bridge,</HI> and hinder their pa&s;&s;age over to us, waiting what they will do, and expecting further &s;upplyes, either from Col. <HI>Brown,</HI> Lord <HI>Gray,</HI> Collonel <HI>Murey,</HI> or the Earle of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> whom it plea&s;es God to &s;end. They have a far larger bo|dy of hor&s;e then wee, but for foot wee dare incounter, being no ways fearfull to deal with their hor&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee de&s;ire not to bury the mercies of God in obli|vion, but to tell of his loving kindne&s;&s;e, and de&s;ire that all our friends may be acquainted with his goodne&s;&s;e to us in this delivery, that they may be the better &s;tirred up, both in publique and private to ble&s;&s;e God, and re|joyce with us.</P>
<P>We de&s;ire your prayers for our good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and that is the greate&s;t comfort that under God wee have, that wee have a &s;tock of prayers &s;till going on among all Gods people. His Maje&s;ty was under a tree in the field not above Pi&s;toll&punc;&s;hot where wee charged his hor&s;e, as &s;ome of our own men, and &s;ome of their pri&s;oners af|firm. Wee have about 80. of theirs pri&s;oners; there is now another Trumpeter come from his Maje&s;ty, but for what we know not, it is &s;ure no parley, for our Cannon playes at them. My Capt. man, <HI>Henry Philips</HI> the Barbar is taken pri&s;oner: my man <HI>Thomas Suger</HI> charged with mee, and came off, ble&s;&s;ed be God, &s;afe and well, and did good &s;ervice.</P>
<P>All our Officers and Souldiers in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e beha|ved them&s;elves very &s;toutly. Lievtenant Generall <HI>Middle|ton,</HI> and Adjutant Generall <HI>Butler,</HI> charged with us very gallantly; Lievtenant Generall <HI>Middleton</HI> was acciden|tally di&s;mounted, and one of Captain <HI>Okes</HI> his men di&s;|mounted, and mounted him on his hor&s;e, and after brought off the Lievetenant Generalls owne hor&s;e and pi&s;tols,
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for which the Lievtenant Generall hath made him a Cap|tain Lievtenant, and he &s;hall be his childe &s;o long as he lives. I fear the Po&s;t will be gone, I take leave, a thou|&s;and times farewell, the Lord pre&s;erve you and us all, which is the de&s;ire of thy truly loving Brother till death,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho. Ellis.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>THe Trumpeter from his Maje&s;ty, as I hear, brings this me&s;&s;age: that the King will give our Generall leave to march away with his foot and hor&s;e, provided he will leave his Artillery and Ammunition behind him, but ble&s;&s;ed be our God, we are not in that &s;trait as yet; were wee, wee would rather choo&s;e to leave &s;ome of our blood to doe him good. Severall friends I know will &s;end to &s;ee this Letter, therefore I pray thee be&s;tow a dozen of points thereon,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Vale.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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