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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A Copy of a Letter &s;ent from a Gentleman of quality dwelling in <HI>Banbury,</HI> to Mr. <HI>Jennings</HI> of Fan-Church &s;treet in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Being a true Relation of the fight betwixt his Maje&s;ties Soul|diers and his Excellence the Earle of E&s;&s;ex his Forces, on Munday the 24 of <HI>Oct.</HI> beginning at eight of the Clock in the mor|ning, which newes was brought by one <HI>Cripps</HI> a Po&s;t, and aver|red to be true.</P>
<P>Whereunto is adjoyned two Or|ders from the Lords and Commons, Fir&s;t for ordering of Hou&s;es for Courts of Guard, and Po&s;ts, Barres and Chaines be forthwith erected. Se|condly, That all people in London and We&s;tmin|&s;ter, and the Liberties thereof doe forbeare their Tradings and ordinary imployment.</P>
<P>Iohn Brownc Cler. Parliamentorum.</P>
<P><ADD>Octob: 25</ADD></P>
<P>London printed for <HI>T. Smith.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Coppy of a Letter &s;ent from Ban|burie to a Gentleman of quality in <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AFter great expectation of feares, there doth &s;ome|times follow joyfull reports, and when the complexion of divers matters &s;eeme wor&s;t, then doth God &s;hew, a di|vine power in giving encou|ragement unto tho&s;e that tru&s;t in him, &s;ince his power is above the &s;trength of the mightie&s;t Armie, and though great preparation be made, yet he giveth the victory where and when he plea&s;es. Though all the world &s;hould con&s;pire together to &s;up|plant
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the glorious Go&s;pell of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, yet humane wit and policie is nothing if the Iu&s;tice of God doth prevent their Machavilian endea|vours. And though all Ages can give &s;ufficient examples of divers victories, yet &s;uch is our weakne&s;&s;e, that wee cannot chearefully under|take the be&s;t cau&s;e, unle&s;&s;e &s;ome tokens bee gi|ven of divine &s;uccour by the pro&s;perous events of our undertakings. And therefore to make a Declaration that God doth a&s;i&s;t tho&s;e who &s;tand in defence of the true Go&s;pell, it will ap|peare mo&s;t evidently by this following Relation, which &s;hall here be certified to give &s;atisfaction to this Citie, and fill the &s;ad hearts of the peo|ple with a &s;uddaine and unexpected joy. The motive of this rejoycing is this: The King ha|ving drawne up his Armie, &s;ome foure or five miles from <HI>Banburie,</HI> not farre from <HI>Southwell,</HI> thet the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his forces, with full Re&s;olution to trie the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the day in a &s;et Battaile; the Armies that &s;tood there in de|fiance one of another marched up together, both being full of &s;pirit, and de&s;irous to expre&s;&s;e their courages in the open field.</P>
<P>Before the battaile began, the King to give con|ruge and re&s;olution to his &s;ouldiers in mo&s;t royall manner led up the front of his army, and the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> with an undanted mind brought on his Forces within mu&s;quet &s;hot, whether being come, the King and the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> exchanged &s;ome words, but would conclude on nothing but this,
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that they would try out the matter by the doubt|full chance of war, which when the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> under&s;tood, he de&s;ired his Maje&s;ty to withdraw his per&s;on from the danger of the &s;hot, &s;ince his men were de&s;irous to fight and would pre&s;ently fall on, the King replyed that hee de&s;ired not his advice, but that his Army was ready to defend his cau&s;e, the lu&s;tice where of he hoped would have good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and having &s;poke the&s;e words, he wheeled about and left him, when pre&s;ently Prince <HI>Robert,</HI> who brought up the Reare, advand'd for|ward, and comming neere the Earle of E&s;&s;ex his Souldiers mo&s;t v<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">liantly gave them no other lan|guage but what bullets did deliver, &s;hooting three times at them, whereupon in a mo&s;t &s;rerce manner they joyned battell, the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex's</HI> &s;ouldiers maintaining the &s;ight in &s;uch contagious manner &s;o that they cut off one whole flanck of the Kings &s;ouldiers, and &s;lew many more of the Kings Ca|valliers, then they lo&s;t on their own &s;ides, and had not the ground whereon this battell was fought, beene low and wet, &s;o that their ordnance could not bee brought on, the wheeles of the carriage &s;inking deepe into the earth, it is very likely that the Kings army had received a very &s;harp encoun|ter, but how&s;oever from 8. in the morning untill afternoone they made among&s;t them a very bloo|dy &s;laughter, and in the heare of the conflict, it is &s;uppo&s;ed that Prince <HI>Robert</HI> comming on &s;o farre that he could not retreat back again, was by the
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Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his &s;ouldiers taken pri&s;oner, but in a word, the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> appeared in this great a|ction mo&s;t full of valour, encouraging his &s;ouldi|ers, and bringing them on with &s;uch a brave re&s;o|lution, as if he had bin confidence of good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and accordingly hee obtained a mo&s;t pro&s;per out victory, which I doubt not but will bee welcome newes to the Citie of <HI>London,</HI> and therefore you may impart it to your friends for a true relation, which in ha&s;te with my be&s;t wi&s;hes I have &s;ent un|to you the &s;ame information being al&s;o brought up to the Parliament by one <HI>Mrs. Crip&s;e</HI> a me&s;&s;en|ger to the honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t effectionate Friend, Thomas Norwood</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>_IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That hou&s;es for Courts of Guard, and Po&s;ts, and Bars, and claimes be forth with erected, and &s;et <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> in &s;uch places and by Lanes or the pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of St. <HI>Margaret's&punc; We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> St. <HI>Martins</HI> in the fields, (in the confines of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>) St. <HI>Clements Danes&punc;</HI> St. <HI>Mary Savoy,</HI> St. Andrewes Holborn, St. <HI>Giles</HI> in the fields, St. <HI>Coven Garden</HI> St. <HI>John-<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> St. <HI>James</HI> at <HI>Clarkenwell</HI> St. <HI>Giles Cripplegune Shorditch, Whitechappelle, I&s;lington&punc; Mile-end, Southwarke, Lambeth,</HI>
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or any other place or places, as &s;hall be thought nece&s;&s;erie and convenient for the defence und &s;afe guarding of the &s;aid pari&s;hes, places, and by Lanes&punc; the charge there of to bee borne by the inhabitants of the &s;everall pari&s;hes afore&s;aid re&s;pectively, who &s;hall be rated rated and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by &s;uch per&s;ons re&s;pectively, as the Lord-Lieutenant of that Countie, or any two of his Deputies &s;hall nominate for than purpo&s;e. And if any &s;hall refu&s;e to contribute their proportion, then the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o to be named to rate and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e &s;hall en|dite and the names of &s;uch refu&s;ers to the Lord-Lieutenant or any two of his Deputies, who are to acquaint one or both hou&s;es of Parliament there with&punc; that &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> may be taken there as to them &s;hall be thought mo&s;t convenient; And that a competent number of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and Companies of Volunteers in and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ing not the &s;aid Pari&s;hes &s;hall day and night attend <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Armes in or neere the &s;aid Court of Guard <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> power and authority hereby to apprehend <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> all &s;u&s;pitious per&s;ons, Ammunition and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> pa&s;&s;ing thorow the &s;aid Pari&s;hes, places, or by-Lanes, or any part of them, untill either of the &s;aid hou&s;es of Parliament be made acquainted therewith, and their plea&s;ure bee further knowne concerning the &s;ame; And the Captaines and Of|ficers of the Trained-bands and Voluntiers, And the per|&s;ons here under named are required to take care that the premi&s;es be carefully performed accordingly, which per|&s;ons arc to be named by the Lord Licutenant, or any two or more of his Deputy-Lieutenants.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lune 24. October 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>IT is this Day Ordered by the Lords and Com|mons; That all people within the Cities of Lon|don and We&s;tmin&s;ter, and the Priviledged Pl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s Liberties and Suburbs thereof, and in the Borrough of Southwarke be required to &s;hut up their &s;hops, and for beare their Trades and other ordi|narie Imployments, that &s;o they may with the gr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ter, diligence and freedome for the pre&s;ent attend, the de|fence of the &s;aid places and put in Execution and per|forme &s;uch Comments for the defence and &s;afety there of as they &s;hall from time to time receive from both Hou&s;es of Parliament; the Committed for the defence of the Kingdome, or the Lord Generall or the Lord Major and Committee for the <HI>Militia</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. Brown, Cler, Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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