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<P>A LETTER FROM The Right Honourable FERDINANDO Lord FAIRFAX, TO HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT Earle of ESSEX.</P>
<P>Relating his late pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e again&s;t the popi&s;h Army in the North, his expelling them from their Workes, and forcing them to rai&s;e their &s;iege from before the Towne of <HI>Hull.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o certifying, how the Enemy have fled to <HI>Beverley,</HI> and were forced to leave divers pieces of Ordnance, much Powder and Ammunition behind them.</P>
<P>Being upon the &s;ame day wherein the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> obtained the victory neere <HI>Horn-ca&s;tle</HI> in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>Printed by his Excellencies &s;peciall direction.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Iohn Wright,</HI> in the Old-baily, <HI>Octob.</HI> 18. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from the Right Honourable, FERDINANDO Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> To his Excellency, ROBERT Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SInce the la&s;t Ac|count, I gave your Excellency a few daies &s;ince, of our condition at <HI>Hull,</HI> on the fifth of this in&s;tant Sir <HI>John Meldram,</HI> that gallant Gentleman is happily arrived here, with foure hundred men from the Earle of
<PB N="2" REF="3"><HI>Manchester,</HI> and two hundred and fifty men are &s;ince come come from Sir <HI>William Con&s;table,</HI> but Sir <HI>William</HI> him&s;elfe is not yet here. Some little &s;ervice, I thanke God, we did on Monday morning la&s;t, what time the Enemy a&s;&s;aulted one of our out|workes, but was beaten backe with the lo&s;&s;e of eleven or twelve men, and &s;ome Officers, without the lo&s;&s;e of any of mine. Ye&s;terday, being the eleventh of this in&s;tant, I thought fit to draw forth what &s;trength I could well make, in a &s;alley, to drive the Enemy from a new Worke that in the night hee had encroacht very neere us, on the We&s;t &s;ide of the Towne, and it plea&s;ed God to give a ble&s;&s;ing to the attempt. My men I devided into two bodies, under the com|mand
<PB N="3" REF="3">of Colonell <HI>Lambart,</HI> and Co|lonell <HI>Rainborow,</HI> Captaine of the Lyon, who brought &s;ome Sea-men for our a&s;&s;i&s;tants, and all under the command in chiefe for that &s;ervice of Sir <HI>John Meldram,</HI> who&s;e va|lour and di&s;cretion with the other two Colonels throughout the whole action, I cannot mention without high commendation. A|bout nine of the clocke by an a&s;&s;ault two &s;everall waies, the &s;ervice be|gun; for, the truth is, we could not take that early advantage that I de|&s;ired for &s;uch an interpri&s;e: in a &s;hort time we gained one of their workes, and a&s;&s;aulted them in another; and it was not long ere we were unhap|pily forc't to retreat, and the enemy recovered all againe. But through the goodne&s;&s;e of God my men were
<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;oone rallyed, their &s;pirits recove|red, and they &s;uddenly repo&s;&s;es of the la&s;t worke, beate them out of all the re&s;t in that part, and got po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion of one of their great Bra&s;&s;e demy Cannon. The Enemy thus fled, and the ground ours, we drew that great Gunne out of danger of their repri|&s;all: About two houres after our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of tho&s;e workes, the ene|my had drawne downe a full body of re&s;erves of Hor&s;e, and Foot, from all their Quarters, their numbers we know not, but about 36 Colours &s;ome of our men could tell; with the&s;e they oppo&s;ed our tired men, and that in truth with excellent re|&s;olution, but it plea&s;ed God after two houres &s;harpe encounter, or thereabouts, they left the Field; &s;ince that we have drawne into the Town
<PB N="5" REF="4">their great Demi-Cannon, one De|mi-Culverin, one Sacre, three Drakes, and one ca&s;e of &s;mall Pieces, &s;ome Armes, and a Carriage of great Bullet, be&s;ides &s;ome Powder, which was made u&s;e of again&s;t them. This la&s;t night I finde they have drawne of the re&s;t of their Ordnance from their other Workes, and &s;o are like to be at &s;ome farther di&s;tance from us, though I am informed, they in|tend to keepe a Garri&s;on at <HI>Beverley,</HI> and to rai&s;e &s;ome Works &s;omewhat more remote from us, to keepe us from being &s;o active as they believe vve vvould be, vvhen they cannot make us &s;o pa&s;&s;ive as they vvould have us. However, my Lord, vve heartily and thankfully acknow|ledge the powerfull &amp; vvi&s;e hand of our God in all this, de&s;ire he &s;hould
<PB N="6" REF="5">have the glory of all, and to &s;end his providence &s;till, as occa&s;ion &s;hall be further offered; the event vvhereof your Excellency &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly have an account of, vvith the fir&s;t opportunity, by</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble &s;ervant. <HI>FER. FAIRFAX</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>King&s;ton <HI>&s;uper</HI> Hull, <DATE><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> O<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Octob. 17. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>IT is his Excellencies plea&s;ure this Letter be forthwith printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>John Baldwin,</HI> Secretary to his Excellence.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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