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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P>TRUE INTELLIGENCE FROM THE VVEST: OR A true Relation of the de&s;perate Pro|ceedings of the Rebels, and Cavaliers gathered together at <HI>Angry-Fi&s;herten</HI> in WILT-SHEIRE.</P>
<P>WITH Their Barbarous cruelty exerci&s;ed on the Mini&s;ter, his Wife and Child.</P>
<P>ALSO The manner of their falling upon &s;ome par|ty of the PARLIAMENT forces, &s;ome of them departing wounded.</P>
<P><HI>Written by a Gentleman of good quallity in the &s;aid to was, and Publi&s;hed for &s;atisfaction of all tho&s;e that de&s;ire true information.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Tempe&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>AN EXACT RELATION OF The barbarous Proceedings, of the Rebels in WILT-SHERE.</HEAD>
<P>MAny are the Enemies of this Kingdome, who have continu|ally beene plotting and contri|ving mi&s;che<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> again&s;t this Real <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e; Yet hath it plea&s;ed God in the mid&s;t of all their treachery to fru&s;trate their de&s;igns. And as they have been &s;o do they &s;till per&s;i&s;t in their wicked and barbourous cruelties, as may plainly appeare by this en&s;uing relation.</P>
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<P>On Sunday la&s;t, certain Souldiers by the appointment of the Honourable Committee of Parliament, with a War|rant under their hands, went to the Church of Angry-Fi&s;herton, and deman|ding the Per&s;on of Kent then officiating with their Ma&s;&s;e-Booke; where being a&s;&s;embled a great number of active Ca|valiers, their pre&s;ent an&s;wer was given in a mo&s;t outragious manner with &s;tones and Brick-bats about the Souldiers eares; who by way of entreaty, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ired that wretched rabble to keepe their &s;eates, and no hurt &s;hould in the lea&s;t be done unto them; but they in an in&s;ulting man|ner would not de&s;i&s;t.</P>
<P>Whereupon the Souldiers being con|&s;trained for their own &s;afety, drew their &s;words in their defence, hurting &s;ome of the mo&s;t notorious active varlers, who being much more incen&s;ed the whole multitude in a mo&s;t violent manner fell upon them, and iambling the bels to call more of that bloudy minded crew, (who comming in an in&s;tant well Armed)
<PB N="3" REF="3"> they were con&s;trained to retrea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e out of the Town.</P>
<P>After this, the violent multitud of the&s;e wicked varlots, in a violent manner be|ing &s;till more greedy (as a Lion) of their prey, with cruell rage ranne down to the Hou&s;e of their aged Mini&s;ter, (who then performing tho&s;e duties to God which he could not be Permitted to ex|cerci&s;e in that Church, brake open his doores ru&s;hing in with drawne &s;words, mo&s;t barborou&s;ly, and in cruell manner wounding him, on the head in two or three &s;everall places to the terrour of all hone&s;t people that were in and abou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that Towne.</P>
<P>They likewi&s;e &s;trok down his wife &amp; daughter mo&s;t furiou&s;ly ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing at on with their weapon who through Gods great mercy e&s;caped their cruell rage; then throwing the grave mini&s;ter with his aged wife downe the &s;taires they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">ed them out of doores po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them&s;elves of what he had: and making them&s;elves merry with what they fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d in his hou&s;e.</P>
<P>This was no &s;ooner performed but they began to barricado both ends of the Pari&s;h very &s;trong|ly with timber being provided with armes and
<PB N="4" REF="4"> Ammunition &s;ufficient for &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">|petent time to with&s;tand a con&s;iderable party they being certaine that they &s;hould have a &s;ufficient &s;upply to joy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> with them in this their de&s;igne, (if oc|ca&s;ion required) out of their neigbou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> City.</P>
<P>A while after the Souldiers being ga|thered together, and drawing them&s;elves up in a body&punc; faced them in the field <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> a good &s;pace&punc; and perceiving that they could not for the pre&s;ent draw them forth out of their &s;trengths, they whee|led about and ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ched home ward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> ther way.</P>
<P>No &s;ooner was this performed by this rebellious tumult but &s;till they pro|ceeded forward in this their barbarous de&s;igne, for certaine of the&s;e murderous Rebbels &s;eeing which way the&s;e Sould<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">|ers retreated, cro&s;&s;ing ouer &s;ome Med|dowes by a neere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ath&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ay in A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">+cadoe where they were to pa&s;&s;e and in mo&s;t bloudy manner, furiou&s;ly di&s;charg|ing upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> one of
<PB REF="4"> the Souldier<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in his Legg&punc; which much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 line"> they departed backe againe peace|ably to their owne quarters.</P>
<P>Thus have you this &s;ad relation of the&s;e bloudy minded Cannibals who mo&s;t inhumanly gloryed in this their wicked de&s;igne which I doubt not but will be repayed to &s;ome of them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tice at this next As&s;i&s;es, to which and the Gallowes I leave them, for exam|ple to their po&s;terity that &s;hall come after them.</P>
<P>The&s;e things if they be not taken into con&s;ideration, are like to bring this Kingdome into a &s;ad condition except &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e be ta|ken
<PB N="6" REF="5"> for the timely preventing ther|of; and that &s;uch Offenders may be brought to tryall and puni&s;hed according to their de&s;erts.</P>
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