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<P>TRUE, But Sad and Dolefull Newes <HI>FROM</HI> SHREWSBVRY.</P>
<P>Expre&s;&s;ed in two &s;everall LETTERS: Whereof, The one was written to a Gentleman of the <HI>Inner-Temple: The other,</HI> To a friend in <HI>London,</HI> relating at large the &s;eve|rall Pa&s;&s;ages of the late skirmi&s;h at or near <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> between a Party of each Army, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>&V;nder the Command of</HI> Prince <HI>Robert</HI> on the one &s;ide, and of Colonell <HI>Sands</HI> on the other.</P>
<P>Confirmed by a Letter &s;ent from Prince <HI>Robert</HI> to His MAIESTIE. <HI>Septemb.</HI> 24.</P>
<P>With divers other Circum&s;tances of &s;everall Pa&s;&s;ages at that time. With the Cornets <HI>Mottoes.</HI></P>
<P>Octob. 10. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD><Q LANG="lat">IN DOMINO CONFIDO</Q></HEAD>
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<P>Imprinted at <HI>Yorke,</HI> and now re-printed in <HI>London.</HI> <ADD>Octo 19^t^h</ADD>1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>Sad and dolefull Newes from SHREWSBVRY.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The first Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Doe beleeve you have heard of the flight between His Maje&s;ties Forces and my Lord of E&s;&s;exes; but yet I thinke you have not heard the truth, or any true relations thereof; for we have them in print here with us from Lon|don: Your Diurnall &s;ayes Prince <HI>Ro|bert</HI> is dead, and his brother dangerou|&s;ly hurt, and mo&s;t of the Cavaliers cut off, nay that thanks are given to God for it, but beleeve it not: For now even their friends begin to be a&s;hamed of their lyes. And there|fore I will relate the very truth of it.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Byron</HI> was in Worce&s;ter with two Troops of Hor&s;e and &s;ome Foot, Prince <HI>Robert</HI> marcht away from his Maje&s;ty with 8 Troops of Hor&s;e, and came to Worce&s;ter upon Fryday, about foure of the clocke in the afternoone; and as he was marching through the Towne, Newes came that about 12 Troops of Hor&s;e, and about 500 Dragoneers were marching to the Towne: Whereupon, Prince <HI>Robert</HI> &s;ent Sir <HI>Iohn Byron</HI> with two Troops of Hor&s;e to view
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the Enemy, and the Prince in the meane time &s;et his men in a Battalia, and Sir <HI>Iohn Byron</HI> retreating back to the Prince, they marcht towards the Enemy and met them, upon the Top of a Hill they &s;tood looking about halfe an houre one on another. At length, they comming nearer together, Sir <HI>Alexander Douglas</HI> di&s;charged his Pi&s;toll again&s;t Serje|ant Major <HI>Byron,</HI> but mi&s;t him, for it was about &s;even yards di&s;tance; but Prince <HI>Robert</HI> commanded ours not to charge the enemy ju&s;t untill they came to their Brea&s;ts, the which they did well ob&s;erve; For the Front of the Parli|ament Troops di&s;charging at too uncertaine a di&s;tance, did no execution; but the Front of Prince <HI>Roberts</HI> Troops com|ming on, di&s;charged ju&s;t at their brea&s;ts, and quite cut off the Front: Serjeant Major <HI>Byron</HI> &s;hot a bullet into <HI>Doug|las</HI> belly; Prince <HI>Robert</HI> his Brother, and Sir <HI>Lewis Dives</HI> &s;lew each a man; Colonell <HI>Wilmot</HI> &s;ingled out Colonell <HI>Sandys,</HI> and gave him his deaths-wound, though he like a va|liant Commander fought while he had one drop of bloud. The Parliaments forces endured two &s;hots well, but at the third they were routed, and the Prince had them in cha&s;e halfe a mile. The Parliaments 500 Dragoneers were pla|ced upon a Bridge, about a quarter of a mile off; but their Hor&s;e being routed, came to the Bridge to get over, &s;o that then the Dragoneers all fled, but with their making too much ha&s;te, there were about 60 drowned; which fell over the Bridge. There were about 350 &s;laine and drowned, di|vers common Troopers taken pri&s;oners; but their Hor&s;e and Armes taken from them, they were &s;et free againe, be|cau&s;e they were not worth their breed.</P>
<P>We have here pri&s;oner one Captaine <HI>Wingate,</HI> Burge&s;&s;e for Saint Albans, and he fought valiantly. We lo&s;t but foure men; the one was a Cornet to Ma&s;ter <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> Troop,
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and brother to my Lord <HI>Beaumond.</HI> Prince <HI>Robert</HI> is very well; though he ventured as far as any Trooper of them all; Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> is wounded in the head, but no danger; Sir <HI>Lewis Dives</HI> was &s;hot through the Arme, Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>Wilmot</HI> cut in the backe, but all of them were with the King abroad the next or within two dayes after the fight.</P>
<P>When the Marque&s;&s;e of Hartford is come, and my Lord <HI>Strange</HI> we &s;hall march forward; We expect them on Mun|day at night; My Lord <HI>Strange</HI> would have been here before this, but only that he is talking with Manche&s;ter, and then we make no que&s;tion but we &s;hall be able to march through England.</P>
<P>Colonell <HI>Sandys</HI> behaved him&s;elfe like a Gentleman and a &s;oldier, for he charged upon us valiantly, and at the houre of his death, &s;aid, That we had cut off the flower of their chivalry and dyed very penitently. Prince <HI>Robert</HI> &s;ent his Chaplaine. Doctor <HI>Wats</HI> to him, to whom he confe&s;t his di&s;loyalty to the King and the Church, praying God and the King to forgive him. I pray you remember my love to our friends at Moregate, and tell them I am very well, and hope to be with them within the&s;e three weeks. So with my love to your &s;elfe, &amp;c. I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Shrewsbury, <DATE>Septemb. 30.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Yours, <HI>B. H.</HI></SIGNED>
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<HEAD>Post&s;cript.</HEAD>
<P>Captaine <HI>Browne,</HI> Colonell of the Dragoneers ran away at the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>The Wel&s;h-men come in apace.</P>
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<HEAD>The Second <HI>LETTER.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Have written to you the la&s;t weeke, which I pre&s;ume you have received, whereby I informed you of my &s;afe arrivall here. Since that time I have been in &s;ome part of Wales, and am la&s;t night returned here: Where the King is with his Army, the Earle of E&s;&s;ex is al&s;o at Worce&s;ter: Where for his fir&s;t entertainment, the vant carryers of his Army were &s;hrewd|ly handled by Prince <HI>Robert,</HI> who with 8 Troops of Hor&s;e routed a thou&s;and of the Parliaments forces, killed 300 in the place, brought &s;ix Cornets with him here, taken in the field, and one Parliament man taken; Colonell <HI>Sands</HI> and other Commanders were &s;laine, and the re&s;t taken or drow|ned in the river, and all this only with the lo&s;&s;e of foure men on the Kings &s;ide, and Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> &s;leightly hurt with a &s;word in the head, with &s;ome others, but without danger of death. The King is here very &s;trong, and they flocke to him in multitudes. There is at Bridgenorth &s;ome two or three Regiments of the King, where la&s;t night &s;ome of his Excel|lencies Army came and made a bravado, and valiantly ran the &s;ame way they came. It is expected that in a &s;hort time there will be a Battell, the King hath already defied the Earle, and it is expected, &s;ome twelve dayes will decide the quarrell.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farwell.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A True Copy of a Letter &s;ent by Prince <HI>Robert</HI> to his MAIESTIE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Bearer will with all your Circum&s;tances tell your Maje&s;ty our Proceedings at Worce&s;ter, I &s;hall only &s;ay this, That upon your Maje&s;ties Commands to &s;uccour the Towne, we went thither with our Forces, and found the Rebels on both &s;ides of the Towne, no Amunition, nor nothing fitting to entertaine &s;o great a Force as the Lord of E&s;&s;ex would have brought that Night. But all things in &s;o great a di&s;order, that certainly we had all been lo&s;t, had we not by a great chance met with ten Troops of their Hor&s;e, and five of their Dragoneers, which we did entirely rout, and killed mo&s;t of their chiefe&s;t Officers. The Manner and the Names I leave for the &s;aid Bearer to tell you. Your Maje&s;ty will be plea&s;ed to accept this as a beginning of your Officers and my Duty; and I doubt not, as (cer|tainly) they behaved them&s;elves all very bravely and gallantly, that hereafter Your Maje&s;ty &s;hall finde the &s;ame behaviour again&s;t a more con&s;iderable number. Of this Your Maje&s;ty may be very con|fident, as al&s;o of the endeavours of</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Majesties Mo&s;t obedient Nephew, and humble Servant, <HI>ROBERT.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From <HI>Bodfort</HI> <DATE>this 24. of <HI>Sept.</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>This Gentleman hath behaved him&s;elfe &s;o gallantly, That I mu&s;t needs humbly de&s;ire your Maie&s;ty to knight him; which will encourage him and all others to continue the Affection for your Service.</P>
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<HEAD>The Circum&s;tances related by Ma&s;ter <HI>Crane,</HI> who is knighted. He is (I heare) Prince <HI>Roberts</HI> Cornet.</HEAD>
<P>_THat at the fir&s;t Charge, Prince <HI>Robert,</HI> Prince <HI>Maurice,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Foxe,</HI> and two more, charged and defeated a Troop, whom they knew not to be enemies till they were upon them, by their Orange colour Scarfes.</P>
<P>That &s;even Cornets are taken &s;ome I &s;aw.</P>
<P>That &s;everall Officers are kill'd on their &s;ide, particularly, <HI>Doug|las</HI> and <HI>Sandys;</HI> that the la&s;t repented before his Death, for having borne Armes again&s;t the King.</P>
<P>That &s;everall men are taken, as Captaine <HI>Wingat</HI> of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and others.</P>
<P>That we have but three kil'd in all.</P>
<P>That but three of ours of qual<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ty have been hurt; Ma&s;ter <HI>Wilmot</HI> in the back, and the wor&s;t of any, but yet he marches in a Coach and is merry Sir <HI>Lewis Dives</HI> through the &s;houlder; M. <HI>Byron</HI> (a brother of Sir <HI>Iohns</HI>) over the face. I heard he hath &s;aid, that Prince Maurice is a little hurt, but I under&s;tood him but tho&s;e three.</P>
<P>That Captaine <HI>Browne,</HI> who commanded in chiefe as Colonell of the Dragoneers, was one of the fir&s;t that ran away.</P>
<P>That our men are very hearty with the victory, and the &s;poiles of the killed (as Hor&s;es, Armes, Buff-coats, Money in their pockets) and the Enemy (as they heare) much di&s;heartened, and not likely to make &s;o great ha&s;te from about Worce&s;ter as they meant.</P>
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<HEAD>The Cornets MOTTOES.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><Q LANG="lat">PRo Rege &amp; Regno.</Q></ITEM>
<ITEM><Q LANG="lat">Exurgat &amp; Di&s;cipabuntur.</Q></ITEM>
<ITEM><Q LANG="lat">Pro Rege &amp; Religione.</Q></ITEM>
<ITEM><Q LANG="lat">Si pro Patria Merior, non Moror.</Q></ITEM>
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<P>The re&s;t were &s;o torne, the <HI>Mottoes</HI> could not be read.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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