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<P>A TRVE RELATION OF <HI>The</HI> SCOTS <HI>taking of</HI> Cocket Iland: Where they have taken
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<ITEM>The Gari&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Governour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>70 Officers and Souldiers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Peeces of Ordnance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All their Ammuni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ion.</ITEM>
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<P>And have placed there a Garri&s;on of their own men.</P>
<P>And of their proceedings at the &s;iege at Newca&s;tle, and their propo&s;itions &s;ent to Col. <HI>Glenham,</HI> to deliver up Newca&s;tle to them, and Col. <HI>Glenhams</HI> an&s;wer to it.</P>
<P>With other pa&s;&s;ages concerning the Sheelds and Tinmouth Ca&s;tle, and other proceedings made known to the Parliament Februarie 12, 1644.</P>
<P>By Col. <HI>Curfet,</HI> Commander in the Scots Armie.</P>
<P>London Prin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ed for <HI>Andrew Coe,</HI> according to order, <HI>MDCXLIV.</HI></P>
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<P>_TO the end that this Rela|tion may not he mista|ken, it is to bee under|&s;tood that Colonel Cur|fet came from Barwick on Sunday the <HI>4</HI> of February, at which time the condition of the Scots Armie was according to this Relation which is here published: &s;ince which time, what they have done, we are not yet certified.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Relation of the Scots taking of Cocket I&s;land: and the Scots taking of Nevvca&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas there are twenty thou&s;and Scots already in England, &amp; there are twelve thou&s;and more mu&s;te|ring in Scotland, they have alrea|dy po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e&s;t them&s;elves of all the Ea&s;t part of Northumberland: and the Forts and Ca&s;tles betweene Barwicke and Tinmouth. They have taken the I&s;le of Cockes and the Garri&s;on thereof, with &s;eventy Commanders and other common Souldiers: &s;even peeces of Ordnance, and all their ammunition, and have placed a Garri&s;on of their owne men therein.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants of that Countie come into them daily, and the more becau&s;e the Centrie of the Countrie join with them and take the Covenant, &s;o that indeed all Northumberland is prettie well redu|ced to the obedience of the King, and Parliament; Newca&s;tle, Tinmouth, and the Sheelds only excep|ted, which it is verie probable by this time are in their hands too, e&s;pecially Newca&s;tle.</P>
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<P>The Scots lie quattered about Morpeth, Seaton, Hepam: Ogle Ca&s;tle; Prude, and tho&s;e parts about Newca&s;tle: and have laid a &s;trong &s;iege about New|ca&s;tle al&s;o: and ly clo&s;e under the verie Walls, the Malignants are for the mo&s;t part all of them gone into Newca&s;tle, when they fir&s;t heard of the Scots approach, whether they carried &s;uch trea&s;ure and o|ther goods as they mo&s;t e&s;teemed: There is no cer|taintie whether Generall King be in Newca&s;tle or not, but the Scots had be&s;ieged it eight days: which is to this time above a fortnight: There are a great number in the Town; but they wi&s;h that all New|ca&s;tles Army was there, that they might make &s;hort work with them, for they did not expect the taking of Newca&s;tle to be much trouble&s;ome to them.</P>
<P>Generall Le&s;ley &s;ent a Me&s;&s;enger to the Towne to the Governour thereof: to require to the delivery there|of to him: for the u&s;e of the King, and Parliament, and that for their &s;o doing, the Town &s;hould be free from plunder, and them&s;elves in per&s;on &s;ecured; with other propo&s;itions as was by the Generall thought fit.</P>
<P>The Me&s;&s;enger having delivered his Me&s;&s;age to Col. Glenham, who received it in the name of the Town, the Town was &s;ummoned, and a parlie was held concerning the &s;ame, and it was agreed upon, that an an&s;wer &s;hould be returned to Gene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ey: to de&s;ire him only to grant five daies re&s;pite, and then a full an&s;wer &s;hould be given him.</P>
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<P>This an&s;wer being brought to Generall Le&s;ley he was very willing to condi&s;cend thereunto, and the more rather becau&s;e hee had not then his murthering pieces ready, by rea&s;on the ilne&s;&s;e of the wayes hindred them, but by that time (at the farthe&s;t) he ex|pected them, re&s;olving that if they would not deliver up the Town the~y would &s;torme it, but it was then believed by the Scots Armie that it would be &s;urrendred to them, &s;o that there is no que&s;tion but that by this time it is in their hands.</P>
<P>And as for the Shields they are not yet ta|ken, but being only but hou&s;es they doe ex|pect that it will bee no great matter to take them, they can doe it when they li&s;t, The greate&s;t matter next unto the taking of New ca&s;tle Town, i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tinmouth Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>They are not yet over Tyne, but in ca&s;e they are forced by any occa&s;ion to &s;tay be|fore Newca&s;tle, they intend to leave a &s;trong &s;iege there and to march into the Bi&s;hoprick of Durham.</P>
<P>They doe carry them&s;elves &s;o &s;ivelly and
<PB REF="4">orderly that the Countrey doe even admire them, taking not the worth of a penny from any man but what they pay fully for, and they are not come unprovided, for every &s;ouldier hath 2 or 3 peeces in his pocket, and there hath thou&s;ands come in to them, and taken the Covenant, and their Army doth exceedingly increa&s;e.</P>
<P>The Ships that were laden in the channel with malignants goods, were &s;topt in by 4 Parliament Ships which the vice Admirall appointed to ly before Tinmouth, but the la&s;t weeke about Thua&s;day and Friday there fell &s;uch &s;tormes that our &s;hips could not ride there, but were forced to &s;ale away from thence for fear of being &s;hipwrackt, at which time they took their oportunity, and &s;aled out of the channell, and have carried away their fraught, it is &s;uppo&s;ed for Holland.</P>
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<HEAD>POST-SCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>COllonel Curfet is very confident that Newca&s;tle is before this time
<PB REF="5">in the hands of the Scots, and that they are in the Town, after which they intend to take the Shields, and &s;o to fall upon Tinmouth Ca&s;tle, without which there is no pa&s;sage for &s;hips to bring us coals: and in the interim to &s;end another party to|wards Durham.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>This is Publi&s;hed according to Order.</HI></P>
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