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<P>A Famous VICTORY Obtained before the City of <HI>Exeter,</HI> on Sunday <HI>Ianuary</HI> 1. by Captaine PYM, Again&s;t Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton,</HI> and the <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> CAVALIERS Where after foure houres fight, he obtained a glorious Victory, and &s;lew above a thou&s;and of the Cavaliers, and tooke 38. Pri&s;oners, and 7. pieces of Ordnance, with the lo&s;&s;e of a hundred men at the mo&s;t.</P>
<P>Being the Copie of a Letter, &s;ent from Lievetenant <HI>HYWORD,</HI> To his worthy Friend, inhabiting in the Citie of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Bearing date <HI>January</HI> 2. 1643.</P>
<P><HI>January</HI> 6. Printed for <HI>I. H.</HI> and <HI>T. Finch,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A Famous VICTORY: Obtained by Captain <HI>Pym,</HI> before the Citie of <HI>EXETER.</HI> Again&s;t Sir Ralph Hopton; And the re&s;t of the Corni&s;h Cavaliers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_MY Love to you, having &s;o fit an opportunity (by rea&s;on my Captaine had occa&s;ion to &s;end a Po&s;t to <HI>London,</HI> J did e&s;teeme it a tye of Friend&s;hip, to &s;alute you with this &s;hort Scedule, wherein is
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contained a generall of our Proceedings &s;ince my la&s;t Letter.</P>
<P>On <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> day we had a falce alla|rum, by rea&s;on that &s;ome three Hundred of Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> Troopers had &s;couted out, and were pillaging the Country Vil|ages thereabouts, by which meanes the Country ro&s;e, and we were commanded to leave the Church, and Arme our &s;elves, the Citie being all in an uprore, but be|fore we could quit the City, and arrive at the place where the Cavaliers were, (not|with&s;tanding though the inhabitants had made &s;ome oppo&s;ition, to the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ix men,) yet they were e&s;caped, and got in|to <HI>Kings-bridge,</HI> where <HI>Sir Ralph Hopton</HI> him&s;elfe is quartered, &s;o that for that time we retreated to the City, which at our re|turne we found pretty well appea&s;ed.</P>
<P>All the weeke after we did little, one|ly we &s;ent out parties to di&s;cover whe|ther the Cavaliers made any attempt upon any part of the County, but they lay very clo&s;e not making the lea&s;t attempt, one|ly
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we were informed that <HI>Sir Ralph Hop|ton</HI> called a generall Mu&s;ter, but how ma|ny he mu&s;tered we can by no meanes get certaine knowledge of, but the report is that he is about five thou&s;and &s;trong.</P>
<P>Thus we continued till Sunday mor|ning (being Newyeares-day) about three of the clocke in the morning, J being ri|ding the Round, to di&s;cover whether my Centries did their duty carefully, on a &s;ud|den J di&s;covered neere forty Hor&s;emen &s;tealing upon my Centries, and one of their Pi&s;tols immediately went off by an accident, (as was confe&s;t by one that was afterward taken pri&s;oner) which the Cen|tries hearing, di&s;charged their Carbines, and retreated to the Court of Guard, and in a quarter of an Houre the City was in a po&s;ture of defence, onely the cryes of women and Chilldren did &s;o trouble us, that J profe&s;&s;e J had rather oppo&s;e an E|nemy in the field, though with &s;ome di&s;|advantage. then to endure that torment in a City mo&s;t &s;trongly fortefied.</P>
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During this hurly-burly the day aproch|ed and then we might di&s;cover a mighty &s;trength which had begirt the City on each &s;ide, and planted Ordnance again&s;t our Bulworkes, at which they fired nere thirty times endeavouring to di&s;mount our Ordnance, but did us litle hurt, onely kild five of our metro&s;es, and one Caunonier.</P>
<P>During this time our Cannons played at them, doing indifferent good executi|on, for they lay open to us upon the &s;ide of a hill which lies on the &s;outh &s;ide of the City.</P>
<P>Thus they held us play on every &s;ide for the &s;pace of three houers, in&s;omuch that we were almo&s;t &s;pent and tyred out. e&s;pecially on that part of the City which lyes North-ea&s;t, for by the violence of the Enemy our men was beaten from the workes, and they began to draw &s;o nigh the wall that they began to ca&s;t Grana|does over the wall into the City.</P>
<P>And one remarkeable token of Gods
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mercy to us J cannot omit, one <HI>Thomas Smith</HI> with a bull-hide fell upon &s;ix Gra|nadoes, at &s;everall times and put them out before they broke, and came off unhurt, which other wi&s;e would have done great mi&s;cheife.</P>
<P>The enemy finding that that part of the City began to give way to them drew up their maine forces, to that place lea|ving their Ordnance playing again&s;t us, guarded with &s;ome &s;mall number of men, which my Captaine e&s;pying, drew up part of his men to the number of eight hundred and &s;allied out upon them, and with the lo&s;&s;e of five and twenty men he ceized their Ordnance, and took &s;eventeene Cannoniers Pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>By this time the Contry came in and fell upon Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> Reare, and Cap taine Pym upon his flancke with his owne Ordnance &s;o mauled him that pre|&s;ently he retreated, and having got clere of our forces betooke him&s;elfe to flight, in this battell we &s;lew above a thou&s;and
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of his men, and lo&s;t not above foure&s;core, or a hundred at the mo&s;t, be&s;ides we took<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;even pieces of Artillery. and eigth and thirty pri&s;oners, but none of any Note, and now we are in greater hope then e|ver, that we &s;hall put Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> to a <HI>Non-plus,</HI> fot my Captaine is re&s;olved to pur&s;ue him, and u&s;e all meanes to pre|vent his making Head againe.</P>
<P>This is all that for this time J have to write, onely as occa&s;ion &s;hall offer it &s;elfe I &s;hall give you information of our &s;uture proceedings.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Friend and Servant, <HI>Abell Hyword.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Exeter, <DATE>Ianuary. 2. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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