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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>EXCEEDING True And Happy NEWES FROM POMFRET CASTLE.</P>
<P>Beeing a perfect de&s;cription of a great Battaile, fought by Mr. <HI>Hotham,</HI> Sonne to Sr <HI>Iohn Hotham,</HI> with 300. Hor&s;e and 500. Foote, again&s;t the Lord <HI>Savill,</HI> and Sir <HI>Francis Nevill,</HI> With 1500. Hor&s;e and Foot, before the walls of <HI>Pomfret</HI> Ca&s;tle. oct. 7.</P>
<P>Al&s;o declaring how the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> was wounded and above 200. of his men &s;laine in the fight.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for THO: <HI>Rider Octob.</HI> 11. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>True and happy Newes from <HI>Pom|fret</HI> Ca&s;tle in <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> beeing a per|fect di&s;cription of a great and wonderfull Batrtaile fought by Mr. <HI>Hotham,</HI> &s;onne of Sr. <HI>Iohn Hotham.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe noble and he|roicke Acts that hath oftentimes been performed &amp; put in Execution by that thrice wor|thy and undaunted souldier Sr. <HI>Iohn Hotham,</HI> who&s;e name together with his prowes, is blazed through our wholl King|dome, for performing that charge and tru&s;t which was repo&s;ed in him by the great A&s;&s;embly of Parliament, at <HI>Hull,</HI> when his enemies &s;pleen and invetterate
<PB REF="3">mallice bur&s;t forth, thir&s;ting after his bloud, likewi&s;e that noble and heroicke &s;pi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">it Mr. <HI>Hotham,</HI> &s;onne to Sr. <HI>Iohn Ho|tham</HI> doth follow his fathers Steps, bearing the &s;ame mind and con&s;tant re&s;olution that his Precece&s;&s;ors hath done, for when that he beard &s;ay that the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> and Sr. <HI>Jervis Nevill,</HI> with divers others of their confederates, had taken Sanctuary in <HI>Pomfret</HI> Ca&s;tle, in <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> he humbly de&s;ired his fathers con&s;ent that he might march out of <HI>Hull</HI> with &s;ome certain num|ber of Forces, and to advance toward the &s;aid Ca&s;tle, and after &s;ometime &s;pent in contemplation thereupon, Sr. <HI>John Ho|tham</HI> gave con&s;ent to his Sonnes de&s;ires, and ordered that he &s;hould have 500. Foote, and 300. Hor&s;e and by his command to march again&s;t the di&s;turbers of the peace of the Kingdome, which was immediate|ly performed, and when Mr. <HI>Hotham</HI> was in readine&s;&s;e to &s;et forth, he propounded divers propo&s;itions to his Soldiers, which was as followeth.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>To know whether they were willing to
<PB REF="3">&s;erve under him, and to hazard their lives with him in defence of he true prote&s;tant Reli|gion, the Law<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s of the Land, and liberty of the Subject,</HI> in which he had no &s;ooner expre&s;|&s;ed him&s;elfe, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> they all with loud accla|mations cryed out, and declared unto him that they would loo&s;e their deare&s;t lives with him then Mr. <HI>Hotham</HI> with his com|pany immediatlly marched from <HI>Hull,</HI> ta|king his leave or his Father, towards <HI>Key|wood</HI> Ca&s;tle, not farre from the City of <HI>Yorke,</HI> when after &s;ome &s;hot &s;pent for the &s;pace of two houres, they obtain<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d the &s;ame. Then be &s;et downe his re&s;olution to march towards <HI>Pomfret</HI> Ca&s;tle, where in|deed he found great oppo&s;ition.</P>
<P>For this newes beeing with all ha&s;t and po&s;&s;ible expedition carried to the Lord <HI>Savill,</HI> who was within the &s;aid Ca&s;tle, giving him notice that he would be be&s;ie|ged by the Parliament Forces, if not &s;pee|dily prevented, whereupon be orpered his men, beeing neere upon a thou&s;and, to march forth and to meet the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Ho|tham,</HI> which they did accordingly.</P>
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<P> At their fir&s;t greeting ma&s;ter <HI>Hotham</HI> let &s;ly a me&s;&s;enger to him from one of his Cannons, where upon the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> &s;ent a Herrauld of armes to ma&s;ter <HI>Hotham,</HI> to de&s;ire to know what was the cau&s;e of his comming in that ho&s;tile manner, who im|mediately rendered him an an&s;wer to this or the like effect. That he came to pre|&s;erve the peace of the County, and to ex|ecute the orders of Parliament, and to ap|prehend all &s;uch as are delinquents to ei|ther one or both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>Vpon which an&s;wer the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> pre&s;ently &s;ent to the Earle of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> requiring him to a&s;&s;i&s;t him with all expe|dition, but before that he could come in, Mr <HI>Hotham</HI> joyned battaile with the &s;aid Sr. <HI>John Savill,</HI> playing with his Ordnance with &s;uch furious courage, and al&s;o a&s;&s;aul|ting of him with his Hor&s;e and foot both in the Front and Reare, and wing, in&s;o|much that he was forced &s;oon to retreate, to the Ca&s;tle, but the blades of <HI>Hull</HI> pur|&s;uing them &s;o clo&s;e that they killed 300. of his men before they could get into the
<PB REF="4">Ca&s;tle, and wounded Sr. <HI>Francis Nevill</HI> of <HI>Cheate,</HI> with the lo&s;&s;e of very few men.</P>
<P>But the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> having gotten in|to the Ca&s;tle with his Forces, immediate|ly &s;hut the gates and began to make u&s;e of his Ordnance that were mounted upon the wals of the Ca&s;tle, &s;hooting and di&s;|charging very furiou&s;ly again&s;t Mr. <HI>Ho|thams</HI> men, but lying under &s;hoot, in re|gard they were &s;o neare the walls of the Ca&s;tle, Mr. <HI>Hotham</HI> pre&s;ently commanded two of his greate&s;t pieces of Ordnance to be planted again&s;t the port of the Ca&s;tle, on the south &s;ide, which &s;peedily made entrance for his men, where fourthwith they entered not doing of the lea&s;t injury that night, &s;uch was the care and charge of Mr. <HI>Hotham,</HI> in pre&s;erving mens lives and &s;hedding of blood, untill &s;uch time as the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> with his complices be|gan to oppo&s;e them, which Mr. <HI>Hotham</HI> &s;eting, forthwith commanded all his men to make ready and to give Fire upon them in&s;omuch that Skirmi&s;h in the Ca&s;tle be|gan to grow hot, continuing for the &s;pace
<PB REF="5">of one houre, but at the la&s;t they in the Ca&s;tle began to yeeld to Mr. <HI>Hothams</HI> mer|cy, and &s;ome of them &s;eeking to &s;ave them|&s;elves by flight, al&s;o it is credibly report|ed that the Lord <HI>Savill</HI> is very dangerous|ly wounded, thus hath Mr. <HI>Hotham</HI> wonne the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Pomfret,</HI> which he now hold|eth and maintaineth for the u&s;e of the King and Parliament, cleering the Coa&s;t thereabouts, of all evill affected per&s;ons to both.</P>
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