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<P>THE RIDER OF THE WHITE HORSE And His ARMY, Their late good Succe&s;&s;e in YORRE-SHIERE.</P>
<P>OR A true and faithfull Relation of that famous and wonderfull victory at <HI>Bradford,</HI> obtained by the Club-men there, with all the circum|&s;tances thereof.</P>
<P>And of the taking of <HI>Leeds</HI> and <HI>Wakefield</HI> by the &s;ame men under the command of Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> with the man|ner and circum&s;tances thereof from good hands.</P>
<P>Seriou&s;ly commended to the High Court of PARLIAMENT, and all that are of GODS &s;ide for their incouragement.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas &V;nderhill,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>BRADFORDS Deliverance.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> his Excellency had retired from <HI>Tadca&s;ter,</HI> the Lord of <HI>New-ca&s;tle</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of <HI>Pontefract,</HI> &s;o making him&s;elfe Ma&s;ter of our We&s;terne parts, block't up all pa&s;&s;ages be|tweene us and our &s;trength, and then manife&s;ted his re&s;olutions to &s;e&s;&s;e the whole County, but to exact extraordinary &s;ummes of tho&s;e who had &s;ub&s;cribed the Parliaments Propo&s;itions. We could expect nothing now, but that tho&s;e Townes &s;hould fir&s;t &s;uffer, who had bin mo&s;t forward to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Parliament: <HI>Leeds, Bradford</HI> and <HI>Halifax</HI> were principally aimed at. In <HI>Leeds</HI> the malignant humour being predominant, ea&s;ily converted the Towne into their temper. <HI>Bradford</HI> was the next place in their way, the Towne mo&s;t unable to re&s;i&s;t them; and indeed who ever con&s;iders their dangers, weakne&s;&s;e and di&s;|couragements, mu&s;t judge their attempt as worthy admiration as their &s;ucce&s;&s;e. The maine body of the Popi&s;h Army was within a dayes march of <HI>Bradford,</HI> &s;ome among&s;t them grievou&s;ly exa&s;perated by a di&s;honourable repul&s;e from this Towne not long be|fore. So farre were we from expecting help from the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> as we thought it &s;carce po&s;&s;ible to &s;eeke it: Our malignant &s;pirits before charmed, now appeared, brea|thing forth nothing but threatnings again&s;t tho&s;e who had bin mo&s;t active for the Par|liament: and their apparition was &s;o terrible, as it affrighted many of the be&s;t affected per&s;ons out of the Towne; and thereupon, out goes our Royali&s;ts to bring in the Kings Catholick Army. Some religious per&s;ons in the Pari&s;h, con&s;idering what danger might re&s;ult both to their con&s;ciences and Country from &s;uch cowardize and treachery (in|&s;tigated by feare of perjury, if they &s;hould contribute any a&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t the Parlia|ment, and care of their lives and E&s;tates, evidently endangered by a bare refu&s;all with|out re&s;i&s;tance) re&s;olved to &s;tand upon then guard, invited all the well affected in the Pari&s;h to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, and entred the Towne. When our Malignants were returned with a Letter from Sir <HI>William Savile,</HI> wherein he manife&s;ted an intention to burne and plunder, if we did not contribute to the maintenance of the Popi&s;h Army. To which no other an&s;wer was return'd, then the apprehen&s;ion of tho&s;e who brought it, and had &s;ub&s;cribed it; All couragious attempts, yea de&s;perate in the account of many, who &s;aw neither wi&s;edome nor &s;trength &s;ufficient to manage them; There wanted both the head, body and &s;inewes of warre, we had never a Gentleman in the Pari&s;h to command us, nor would any &s;tranger be per&s;waded to undertake the charge. All our trained Souldiers with their Armes, were with the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and the mo&s;t of tho&s;e who were fitted for &s;ervice as voluntiers. Nor could it be expected, that the well affected
<PB N="2" REF="2">of our poore Pari&s;h, could pay a Garri&s;on any long time, and none would carry one day without pay. Our neighbours perceived this, and therefore judging our attempt de&s;|perate (as in the eye of rea&s;on it was) and fearing the i&s;&s;ue would be our ruine, re|fu&s;ed to helpe us, lea&s;t they &s;hould peri&s;h with us. Nor wanted we di&s;couragements from our own men, to in&s;tance in no more; the very night before the Enemy a&s;&s;aulted us, the greate&s;t part of them left us. This was on Saturday, <HI>Decemb:</HI> 17. The next morning about 9 of the Clock the Enemy was di&s;covered, approaching the Ea&s;t end of the Towne: They were mar&s;hald in two Bodies, the Van was commanded by Col|lonel <HI>Evers</HI> (elde&s;t Sonne to the Lord <HI>Evers</HI>) wherein were 3 Troopes of Hor&s;e, 2 Companies of Dragooners, 100 Foot, 20 Pyoni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, 2 Drakes, the traine of Artil|lery, commanded by Major <HI>Carew</HI> a Dutch man. The Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e was commanded by Sir <HI>Francis Howard,</HI> wherein were his own and Captaine <HI>Hiliards</HI> Troops, 6 Companies of Collonel <HI>Eddringtons</HI> Dragooners, and a 100 Foote. Collonel <HI>Goring</HI> came along with them, and &s;ome &s;ay the Earle of <HI>Newport;</HI> but whether they had any charge or no in this expedition I heare not. All the&s;e our <HI>York-&s;hiere</HI> Gentlemen had procured of the Lord of <HI>New ca&s;tle,</HI> as though Sir <HI>William Savils</HI> Regiment, Sir <HI>Marmaduke Lang|dale,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Gleman</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Gothericks</HI> Troopes, Sir <HI>Ingram Hopton,</HI> Captain <HI>Nevill,</HI> Captaine <HI>Batt.</HI> Captaine <HI>Bins</HI> Companies had not bin &s;ufficient to have &s;wal|lowed our de&s;picable Towne: I &s;hould now &s;hew how our men were mar&s;hald, but 'tis a hard matter to mar&s;hall tho&s;e who had neither Commanders, Collours, nor di|&s;tinct Companies. The night before, we had borrowed a Commander of <HI>Hallifax,</HI> wee had neere upon 40 Musquets and Calievers, in Towne about 30 Fowling, Birding and &s;maller Peeces, and well nigh twice as many Club men. The&s;e our Captaine di&s;po&s;ed in &s;everall parts of the Towne, 10 or 12 of your be&s;t marks men upon the Steeple, and &s;ome in the Church; Who being next the Enemy, awaited not their warning peece, but at the fir&s;t fight gave fire upon them bravely. The Enemy who expected a &s;urrender, rather then re&s;i&s;tance, being herewith &s;omething daunted; and perceiving how advan|tagious the Steeple was to us, pre&s;ently po&s;&s;e&s;t them&s;elves of &s;ome Hou&s;es not farre from the Church, very convenient for the &s;helter of their men, and planting of their Ordnance, and from thence &s;ent out Sir <HI>Iohn Gothericks</HI> Troope, who partly to divert us from hindring them planting their Canon, and partly to hinder the Pari&s;h from comming in to our aid, pa&s;t through &s;ome Pari&s;h villages on the one &s;ide of the Towne, robbed a Woman, mo&s;t cowardly &s;lew two naked Men, and &s;o came within fight of our Sentinell at the We&s;t end of the Towne, Our Mu&s;quetiers there di&s;charged at them, &s;hot 2 or 3 Hor&s;es, whereof one of them lightly wounded was brought into Towne; and in a &s;hort &s;pace (partly by our &s;hot, partly by the approach of &s;ome Club-men from <HI>Bingley</HI>) they were forced to retire back to their &s;trength. In the meane time their Canons were planted in places mo&s;t convenient for battering the Steeple, (which did mo&s;t annoy them) and &s;cowring of <HI>Kirkgate,</HI> downe which, our men mu&s;t upon ne|ce&s;&s;ity march to re&s;i&s;t them; This done, Major <HI>Carew</HI> draws down &s;ome Foot, and therewith takes two Hou&s;es within 30 yards of the Church, and this he did without any other impeachment then from the Steeple; Wee having not any &s;trength to &s;ally out upon them, from the&s;e Hou&s;es they plaid upon the Church very hotly, and the Church upon them: Our Steeple had a notable advantage of them, which our Mu&s;|quitiers there e&s;pecially improved again&s;t them, for when any Buffe or skarlet Coat ap|peared, they laid 2 or 3 of their Peeces in one hole, and di&s;charged at once upon them with good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and thereby deterred the re&s;t from relieving their men in the Hou&s;es,
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<PB N="3" REF="4">and thus they continued till high-noone, about which time there came to our aid from <HI>Hallifax</HI> &s;ome Fire-men and many Clubbs, &s;uch of the&s;e as came to fight, were forth|with drawne downe to &s;ervice, &s;ome of them were placed in the Church, others in Lanes neare the fore-&s;aid Hou&s;es; The Church and Lanes kept the Hou&s;es in play, and the Steeple hindred the Enemy from relieving the Hou&s;es. But this was not the way to repell the Enemy. The largene&s;&s;e of the Church windowes, and &s;malne&s;&s;e of the Hou&s;es, made their a&s;&s;ault &s;ecure, and our defence dangerous, which our men perceiving, re&s;olved to win or lo&s;e all at once; watching an opportunity betwixt the di&s;charge and charge of the Enemy, they &s;allyed out of the Church, and being &s;econded by tho&s;e in the Lanes, ru&s;hed in upon the Hou&s;es, bur&s;t open the doores, &s;lew tho&s;e that re&s;i&s;ted, tooke tho&s;e who yeelded; the re&s;t fled into the next Field, whither &s;ome few of ours followed, (the greate&s;t part being employed in conveying the Men and Munition which the Enemy had left behind them) and in the Field the skirmi&s;h was hotter then ever; Our men were too eager to keepe Ranke or File, though they had knowne how to keepe it, and indeed their di&s;order was an advantage to us, for mixing them&s;elves with the Enemy, they fought &s;ecurely in the mouth of the Enemies Canon, and in the eye of one Body of their Forces, both placed in the Field above them; the Enemy not daring to di&s;charge, lea&s;t with them they &s;hould &s;lay their own Men, (otherwi&s;e, they having 10 Fire-men for one, might have cut us off in an in&s;tant) nor could ours u&s;e their Muskets otherwi&s;e then as Clubbs. To &s;peake ingeniou&s;ly, their Commanders exa&s;perated by the cowardize of their common Souldiers, manife&s;ted great courage, but they &s;marted for it; our Sythes and Clubbs now and then reaching them, and none el&s;e did they aime at: One among&s;t the re&s;t in a Scarlet Coate, our Club-men had got hold of (and he in all probability, as &s;ome credible reports give us occa&s;ion to beleeve, was Collonel <HI>Goring</HI>) and were &s;poiling him. Their Hor&s;e fearing the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch a Man, became more couragious then they intended, leaped over the hedge, and rode full upon our Men, forcing them to give a little ground; too Much (alas that they had known him) to lo&s;e &s;uch a Man, but they quickly recovered the ground 'tho they lo&s;t the Man; doubled their courage, would neither give nor take quarter; (nor was this their cruelty, as the Enemy complaines, but their ignorance) and in the end forced both Man and Hor&s;e to leave the Field; and yet could not we keepe it, for we being &s;eparated from theirs, the Musketiers had liberty to play upon us; and indeed they rained &s;uch a &s;hower of lead among&s;t our men, as forced them to retreat for &s;helter to the next hedge, and &s;o hindred them from pur&s;uing, till they had removed their Canons. Their Ordnance all this time played upon us, one of them ranged an 8 pound Bullet; yet &s;ee the Lords mercy to us: that which was planted again&s;t the Steeple never hit it; another intended for the skouring of <HI>Kirhgate,</HI> 'tho planted in as advantagious a place as they de&s;ired, 'tho the Street was continually crowded with people; yea, though many of their Bullets hit the Hou&s;es, and &s;ome the Street, yet was no body at all hurt there|with; they bored indeed 3 or 4 Hou&s;es, yet (which is ob&s;ervable) did mo&s;t harme to a Malignants; and thus the terror of the Lord, and of us falling upon them, &s;ending their Foot and Artilery formo&s;t, away they went. (u&s;ing their feet better then they u&s;ed their hands) and about 50 of our Clubbs and Muskets after them; Which cou|rage in ours, did mo&s;t of all a&s;toni&s;h the Enemy; who &s;ay, no 50 Men in the world, except they were madd or drunke, would have pur&s;ued a Thou&s;and: Our men indeed, &s;hot as they were madd, and the Enemy fell as they were drunke, and &s;o we will devide it. Some di&s;charged 10 &s;ome 12 times in the pur&s;uit; and having the whole Body
<PB N="4" REF="4">of the Enemy for their butt, it may ea&s;ily be imagined what good execution they did in a miles march (for &s;o farre they pur&s;ued them) even to the Moore, where fearing to be environed by their Hor&s;e, they retired, &s;ome of them &s;o wearied with this 8 houres hot &s;ervice, as they could &s;carce returne to the Towne, One thing I cannot omit, a hearty Round-head left by his comrades, environed with the Enemies Hor&s;e, di&s;char|ged his Musket upon one, &s;trooke downe anothers Hor&s;e with the thick end of it, broke a thirds Sword, beating it backe to his throat, and put them all to flight; which (though as the re&s;t wonderfull) I dare pawne my credit to be true. And thus ended our skirmi&s;h; wherein there was</P>
<P>Slaine of theirs, Sir <HI>Iohn Harper,</HI> (as one <HI>Savile</HI> taken at <HI>Halifax</HI> confe&s;&s;eth,) Captaine <HI>Wray</HI> (in who&s;e pocket was found good &s;tore of gold, and a Commi&s;&s;ion directed to Major <HI>Williams,</HI> which made us thinke him to be the Man) and Captaine <HI>Bins</HI> (whom they carried to <HI>Leeds</HI> &s;carce dead, and buried two daies after) and many common Souldiers, more I am per&s;waded then we &s;hall ever know of, Of ours, I can|not heare of two that peri&s;hed by the Enemy in the fight.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Gothericke</HI> got a ba&s;tinado, had his Hor&s;e killed with a Syth, and about a 100 common Souldiers were wounded, as we are informed from <HI>Leeds</HI> where they are Billeted: Of ours, about 12. all curable except one or two.</P>
<P>Taken of theirs, Serjant Major <HI>Carew,</HI> (a Man of great account, borne in the Low-Countries of Engli&s;h Parents) 26 Common Souldiers, about 10 Hor&s;es, 180 weight of Pouder, and about 40 Muskets; and thus God &s;upplied our wants out of the &s;tore, giving us as many more Muskets as we had, and well-nigh as much Pouder as we &s;pent.</P>
<P>This was the i&s;&s;ue of the fight, wherein nothing can be &s;eene but God, and the won|derfull effects of his glorious Attributes: Let us and our Enemies both &s;ee it, that they may feare and &s;hame, that we may tru&s;t and prai&s;e our God, who hath manife&s;ted him|&s;elfe to be the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Relation of the pa&s;&s;ages at <HI>Leeds,</HI> on Munday the 23. of <HI>Ianuary,</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<P>_SIR <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> &s;on to the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> marched from <HI>Bradford</HI> (&s;ix miles di&s;tant from <HI>Leeds</HI>) on Munday morning with 6. Troopes of Hor&s;e, and 3. Companies of Dragoones under the command of Sir <HI>Henry Fowles</HI> Knight, his Lieutenant Generall of the hor&s;e, and neare a 1000 musketeers, with 2000. Club-men, under the command of Sir <HI>William Fairfax</HI> Colonell, and Lieutenant Generall of the Foot. One company of the&s;e being Dragoones under Capt. <HI>Mildmay,</HI> and about 30 musketiers and 1000 club-men, marched on the South-&s;ide of the River of <HI>Ayr</HI> to <HI>Hun&s;let-more</HI> a|bove halfe a mile from <HI>Leeds,</HI> on the South-ea&s;t &s;ide towards <HI>Wakefield:</HI> and the re&s;t on the North-&s;ide Ayr by <HI>Aperley</HI>-bridge (20. yards of <HI>Chri&s;tall</HI>-bridge being broke downe by the enemy) to <HI>Wood hou&s;e-more.</HI> On the we&s;t-&s;ide <HI>Leeds</HI> about a mile thence; where they commending the cau&s;e to God by prayer, Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> di&s;peeded a Trumpeter to Sir <HI>William Savile,</HI> who commanded in chiefe in <HI>Leeds,</HI> requiring in writing that Towne to be delivered him for the King and Parliament; which Sir <HI>William</HI> di&s;dainfully an|&s;wered and &s;aid, he u&s;ed not to give an&s;wer to &s;uch frivolous tickets, being confident (it &s;eems) that with the &s;trength he had he could keepe the Towne, wherein were about 2000. men. <HI>viz.</HI> 1500. foot, and 5. Troops of Hor&s;e and Dragoons and two Demicul|verins.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> approached nearer the South-we&s;t-&s;ide of the Towne with his Forts that came on the North-&s;ide ayre, and coming within view of the Towne with banners di&s;|played (about 36. Colours) &s;ent another Trumpetter to Sir <HI>William,</HI> who &s;hortly after by a Trumpetter a&s;&s;ured him he &s;hould get nothing but by fight, whereupon he drew out of his companies 5. Colours of his experte&s;t Souldiers, and appointed them to march downe with Serjeant Major <HI>Forbes,</HI> Captaines <HI>Briggs, Lee, Francke</HI> and <HI>Palmer,</HI> with his Dragoones on foot, towards the water along the trenches, drawn two yards breadth and height from M. <HI>Harri&s;ons</HI> new Church along the South-&s;ide of the Towne to the wa|ter, an inner trench being devided and drawne on the in-&s;ide that long trench neare the water-&s;ide, compa&s;&s;ed about the declivity of the Hill a little above the water. Neare to and above which about a 100 musketiers were drawn out of the Towne, and about 2 of the clock in the after-noone, gave fire from the in-&s;ide of the works upon Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> his musketiers, who approaching nearer &s;hrowded them&s;elves under a hill at the South head of the great fields before the great long Trench, and let fly at the &s;aid Centry with no lo&s;&s;e at all to either &s;ide, they within the Trenches &s;hooting too high, and the other at
<PB N="6" REF="5">the Trenches; meane while Sir <HI>W^m. Fairfax,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho Norcliffe,</HI> and other Captains lea|ding their Companies to the We&s;t-&s;ide of the new Church, and the Troopes of Hor&s;e at|tending the enemies out-roads in the lanes and fields on the we&s;t, and north parts; and the forts of the &s;outh-&s;ide ayre, approaching the Bridge, forced the Guarders to quit the works at the fir&s;t centry, placed on the out-&s;ide the Hou&s;es towards <HI>Bei&s;ton,</HI> brake through the works, and &s;hot at the other &s;trong centry at the Bridge end, where the Forts di&s;charged upon them without any lo&s;&s;e to either &s;ide, but &s;eeing the very neare approach of the Dragoons, Musketiers and many Club men and fearing the &s;peedy for|cing that place they in&s;tantly fetcht to the bridge the Demiculverin. And after about an hours time &s;pent in vain &s;hooting between the Forts within and without the works on the &s;outh &s;ide of the Town, as afore&s;aid. Serjeant Major <HI>Forbes</HI> mo&s;t bravely leading on his companies in the plain fields before the great Trenches, his Lieutenant <HI>Horsfall</HI> of <HI>Halyfax,</HI> Captaines <HI>Lee, Brigg</HI> and <HI>Francke</HI> contended which &s;hould next follow, and Captain <HI>Chadwicks Lanca&s;hiere</HI> &s;ouldiers accompanied: Th'enemy &s;hot mo&s;t vehement|ly from the Trenches, yet kil'd none.</P>
<P>It vvas perceived by the Forts on the South-&s;ide Ayre, that if they could get &s;ome mu&s;|ketiers over the fields to the water &s;ide without danger by the Cannon, and musket from the bridge, they could force the great Centries from their vvorks on the other &s;ide the river (in regard they had made no other defence again&s;t the &s;outh-&s;ide vvater) and &s;o o|pen an ea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age to Ser-Major <HI>Forbs</HI> &amp; his forces; vvherupon by &s;ingle per&s;ons they got to the vvater-&s;ide, and hid them in a little lane (<HI>Iames Nayler</HI> one of the Dragooners be|ing fir&s;t) vvhither they had no &s;ooner got, then the Demiculverin from the bridge plaid neare them, and about 4. muskets from that little lane, and 2. from under a &s;tump of a tree, a little above by the vvater-&s;ide, di&s;charged among&s;t the Centry, and one man be|ing there &s;lain, the re&s;t perceived their errour, and in conclu&s;ion fled apace out of the low|er Centry, vvhich being e&s;pied by tho&s;e on the &s;outh-&s;ide ayre (Serjeant Major <HI>Forbes</HI> and his company not di&s;cerning them, for the height of their vvorks hindred) a great &s;hout from tho&s;e on the &s;outh-&s;ide of the vvater, di&s;covered it to the Serjeant Major, who with his forces comming downe towards the vvater-&s;ide vvas holpen by Lieutenant <HI>Horsfall,</HI> vvho lending him his &s;houlder to climbe the top of the vvorks, be mo&s;t furviou&s;|ly and boldly entred the works &s;ingle, him his &s;aid Lieutenant (vvading through the river-&s;ide below the vvorke) next followed mo&s;t re&s;olutely, them the re&s;t followed, and M. <HI>Ionathan Scholefield</HI> (the Mini&s;ter at <HI>Cro&s;ton</HI> chappell in <HI>Halifax</HI> Pari&s;h neare <HI>To<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">merdeu</HI>) in their Company begun, and they &s;ung the 1 ver&s;e of the 68 P&s;alm, <HI>Let G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">darife, and then his enemies &s;hall be &s;cattered, and tho&s;e that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> him flee before him.</HI> And in&s;tantly after the great &s;hout on the &s;outh-&s;ide river, &s;till informing of the ene|mies flight from the upper and next Centry (vvhere about a 100 vvere) Serjeant Ma|jor entred that al&s;o, and M. <HI>Scholefield</HI> begun, and they &s;ung another like ver&s;e. So the&s;e vvorks being gained, the enemy fled into the Hou&s;es, and &s;hot again furiou&s;ly at tho&s;e vvho had entred their vvorks, vvho pur&s;uing their victory, vvent up along the in-&s;ide the vvorks to the third centry at the lane neare M. <HI>Metcal&s;es</HI> hou&s;e, vvhere fierce &s;hot be|ing made from a new hou&s;e and all about, two men of Serjeant Major <HI>Forbes</HI> company vvere &s;hot dead, here Captain <HI>Lee</HI> entring that centry from the lane, leading from <HI>Chry|&s;tall</HI>-bridge, vvas &s;hot in the leg above the ankle, &s;ome bones being broken and took out, he is likely &s;hortly to recover. The victory they pur&s;ued, though vvith great diffi|culty; Captain <HI>Briggs</HI> drawing towards the old-church, vvas from an Hou&s;e &s;hot un|der the chin neare the throat, and in the arme, though not mortally, as is hoped. The
<PB N="7" REF="6">Enemy flying along a &s;treet or lane, from the 2. centries neare the vvater into the heart of the Towne, vvhere the other Demiculverin lay to guard that pa&s;&s;age, Sir <HI>William</HI> met them, and enquiring the cau&s;e of their flight, vvas an&s;wered that their vvorkes vvere entred, he called on them, go beat them out, promi&s;ing to lead them, yet they deny|ed: vvhich he &s;eeing, and that 12. musketiers, drawne on both &s;ides that lane by Mr. <HI>Scholefield</HI> had gained that Cannon by killing the Cannoneere (though vvith lo&s;&s;e of a gray cotes, the one vvherof being &s;hot, did fight beyond the &s;trength of a man) he and the re&s;t, perceiving the Towne lo&s;t, about an houre after the fir&s;t centry vvas ente|red) fled away, thinking to get over the bridge towards <HI>Wakefield,</HI> and &s;ome of them (upon occa&s;ion of the club-mens beating backe from that centry by &s;hot from any hou&s;e neare the bridge end) got, to the number of 40, by the &s;outh-&s;ide vvater, downe to|ward <HI>Hun&s;let,</HI> but vvere many of them taken, among&s;t vvhom Captain <HI>Thirlwell</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI> &s;eeing that vvay blockt, vvith many others fled amain back to the old-Church, by the &s;outh-&s;ide vvhereof by fine force they made way through clubs and fouling peeces along the north-&s;ide ayre towards <HI>Pomfret.</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI> being neare drowning in the pa&s;&s;ages. Many Antients, Drums and foot taken, and &s;ome &s;lain here, <HI>viz.</HI> Captain <HI>Widrington, Maud</HI> of <HI>Wake-field, Hun&s;worth</HI> of <HI>Leeds,</HI> and others, captain <HI>Errington</HI> vvas drowned, &s;o vvere M. <HI>Robin&s;on</HI> vicar of <HI>Leeds</HI> and others, <HI>viz</HI> M. <HI>Calvery</HI> of <HI>Calvery,</HI> and M. <HI>Iack&s;on</HI> of <HI>Leeds;</HI> and 460. common &s;ouldiers taken, vvith about 14. barrels of Gun-pouder, great &s;tore of match, 2 cannons and many muskets. So the Towne being taken about 4 a clook, notice hereof came to <HI>Wakefield</HI> about 6, the Garri&s;on there about 12 quitted that place, and the Malignants thereof, M <HI>Nevile, Paulden, Rey&s;er</HI> and the re&s;t conveyed vvhat goods they could to <HI>Pomfret,</HI> vvhence al&s;o the next night they fled a|way with 30. carriages, and all except about 200. vvho keepe the ca&s;tle; and captains <HI>Birkehead</HI> and <HI>Wil&s;on</HI> vvith about 200 muskets and neare 1400. club-men from about <HI>Almurbury,</HI> and 3 Troops from <HI>Leeds,</HI> entred vacant <HI>Wakefield</HI> the &s;ame Tue&s;day, and that night, and captaine <HI>Radcliffe,</HI> and neare as many musketiers and club-men on the next day from <HI>Quick,</HI> &amp;c</P>
<P>As the musketiers and club men retreated from the vvater-&s;ide after the fir&s;t a centries vvere vvon, the cannon from the bridge played among&s;t them, and as they vvent on in the lane, leading to <HI>Bei&s;ton,</HI> it beat downe the barrs of a tenter vvhich flew among&s;t them; and the next &s;hot from it cru&s;ht the top of an hou&s;e, yet did no more harme; The&s;e of <HI>Halifax</HI> Pari&s;h, <HI>viz.</HI> one <HI>Michael Woodhead</HI> was &s;hot upon his tin-buttons, and his dublet bur&s;t neare his heart, and the brui&s;ed bullet fell downe into his breeches and no more hurt; <HI>Iohn Milnes</HI> man, had his coat, dublet, and 2 &s;hirts &s;hot through to his coller bone on his back, whence the bullet rebounded and no hurt, but a little rotting of the fle&s;h &s;ince; one <HI>Lilly,</HI> M. <HI>Tho. Li&s;ters</HI> man, had a bullet &s;hot into the hilt of his &s;word, wherby the hilt was drawn out almo&s;t as &s;mall as wyre where the bullet light and no hurt.</P>
<P>About 20 &s;lain, 10. of Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax</HI> part, wherof Sir <HI>Tho Norcliffe</HI> lo&s;t 2 men, as they entred <HI>Leeds</HI> neare new-church: The works co&s;t about 500 lb The 460. pri&s;o|ners are all di&s;charged (&s;ave about 20) upon oath taken never to &s;erve again&s;t King and Parliament; and <HI>Leeds</HI> and <HI>Wakefield</HI> &s;trongly guarded.</P>
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