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<HEAD>&cross; edward hail<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">tone.</HEAD>
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<P>THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD; OR, A TRUE NARRATION Of the unparalell'd Victory obtained again&s;t the Popi&s;h Army at the taking in of <HI>Wakefield</HI> in <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> by the Lord <HI>Fairfaxe</HI> his Forces, <HI>May</HI> 20. 1643.</P>
<P>As it was &s;ent in a Letter from one in that Army, to his friend here in <HI>London,</HI> not altering it from his native tone, more like <HI>Chaucers</HI> Engli&s;h, then ours here.</P>
<P><HI>Be&s;ides an adverti&s;ement of great Con|cernment.</HI></P>
<P>London Printed in the yeare, 1643.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Pindar of</HI> VVakefield, OR, A true Narration of the unparalelled Victory obtained again&s;t the po|pi&s;h Army, at the taking in of <HI>Wakefield</HI> in <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> by the Lord <HI>Fairfaxe</HI> his Forces, <HI>May</HI> the 20. 1643. <HI>As it was &s;ent in a Letter from one in that Army to his friend here in</HI> London, <HI>not altering it from his native tone, more like</HI> Chaucers <HI>Engli&s;h then ours here.</HI> Be&s;ides an adverti&s;ement of great Concernment.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Barne,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Have had many a Caude heart of my awne, it is &s;ea lang &s;ince I had onny wit of thy being weele, I was &s;are flade thou wert gane from the canny City of <HI>London</HI> to leuke abrade for better warke, whilke I crow will be far war&s;e than to &s;tay at hame: I have been too too jolly &s;ince my entertainment under the guide Lourd <HI>Fairfaxe,</HI> whea loves God, Religion, the King, and his Countries
<PB N="4" REF="4"> guid in his &s;aule, and has nea ends of his awne, God knawes, my Lourd is about to &s;end a fallow of purpo&s;e to the Parliament, of hate warke we have had lately in the taking of <HI>Wakefield,</HI> which I de&s;ire to unfauld to thee, and tell my Neeme <HI>Wully</HI> of it. On Sa|turday la&s;t, being twea dayes &s;ince, my Lourd Generall gave Command that ane thou&s;and of us of the foute, and eight or neene Troopes of hor&s;e, with twea or three companies of Dragoones &s;hould march about Saturday la&s;t tea a place called <HI>Howley,</HI> the Lord <HI>Savils</HI> hou&s;e, where we all met about ane of the clocke at night, and it was varry mirke, and the <HI>Ginny Howlets</HI> cryed &s;are, and we had nea orders whirke way to march, at la&s;t Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfaxe,</HI> wheas Command we were to gange by, asked us if wee wauld follow him, we all cryed ane and all, we would live and dee with him, &s;ea we marched on twea miles, and &s;tumbled on the quarters of our deedly enemies, and gard them run fro us, and we tooke neither mare nor le&s;&s;e then ane and twenty pri&s;oners, and laid foure a&s;leep for evermare: by that time the Larke began to &s;ing, we were within a mile of <HI>Wakefield,</HI> and about foure a Clocke there appeired a body of Hor&s;e advancing with &s;peed towards us, which &s;card us mickle, for we hoped weele to take them napping, but Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfaxe</HI> put life into the Hor&s;e, &amp; tauld them they &s;hould faire nea war&s;e then he did, and our daughty Serjeant Ma|jor &s;aid as mickle to the Foute, and thereupon our hor&s;e charged &s;ea hame, that they enforced the enemy to flee back into the Town: Then I was my &s;ell with tho&s;e under my Command to beate them out of the hedges in ane of the Clo&s;es on the right hand, where after &s;ix times charging we gat the hedges there, as o|thers of our foute did in other places, and we gard them all to their outworkes and trenches in the Towne, but we followed them &s;ea cla&s;e, and plaid &s;ea thick upon them (though they &s;hot bullets out of their great guns as thick as hops again&s;t us) that wee made them run out of their warks, and we lowped up upon them, and turned ane of their greate&s;t bra&s;&s;e gunnes upon them, which made them cry, <HI>Walloway all was tint and gane:</HI> Then Sir <HI>Thomas Fairefaxe</HI> at the tea end of the Towne &s;caured the &s;treets, and Leiutenant <HI>Allured</HI> with his awne hands, tooke
<PB N="5" REF="4"> the Generall of the Queens Hor&s;e pri&s;oner, they call him Colonell <HI>Gooring,</HI> the La&s;&s;es in the Towne did greete &s;are to &s;ee him ledd a|way, it &s;eemes he is mickle beloved of ordinary weemen, as weele as by the great anes: but whea trow you did I let drive at the entrance of the Towne, ene Sir <HI>William Carnaby</HI> our awne Countreyman, or Mr. <HI>Francis Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">aby;</HI> be me&s;&s;e, I is &s;uer it was tane or beath of them, and I hit him hame, but alas, when all was ma&s;t done, whea did oppo&s;e us but a guide freind of ours, <HI>Sir Wil|liam Lambton</HI> with his Regiment, I was wea at harte for him for his pratty Barnes, for he an&s;wered our Trumpeter he &s;corned Quat|ter, but in di&s;charge of the imployment I undertooke. on my &s;aule I knaw it is mare for the guide of my dread Soveraigne, then the Queene and all her Papi&s;ts in her Army doe for him, I let drive at him, and whewed him &s;oundly, and we gard him flee al&s;o, and tooke a number of his Regiment pri&s;oners; when this was done, the Towne was our awne, and my &s;ell among others fell a plunde|ring, but we had like to have been whupt for our paines, for our Commander in Chiefe would not let us doe wrang to the Inhabi|tants, nor &s;trip the common Souldiers, but anely &s;earch their pou|ches for gaude or &s;ilver; Sir <HI>William Fowles</HI> who Commanded another &s;quadron of hor&s;e, came in at the other end of the Town, and &s;topt the flight of the enemy, if he had come titter, our part had been better; &s;ea wee tooke noe mare but fourteen hundred &s;eaventy twea pri&s;oners, be&s;ides the twenty and one in our march, and ilk one of us brought to <HI>Leeds</HI> a pri&s;oner, being between four|teen and fifteen hundred, whereof the Commanders and Officers here inclyned (which I had from my Colonells awne hands) are a parte, wee brought away with us twenty &s;ix or tweney &s;even En|&s;ignes Colors, I wat not weele which, and 3. or 4. Cornets Colours, one of them was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ane from Sir <HI>Marmaduke Wivells &s;onne,</HI> wee brought al&s;o away with us foure bra&s;&s;e greate Gunnes with all their baggage Armes, &amp; ammunition they left in the Towne, with divers hor&s;e al&s;o, and returned (but glory bee to our guid God and not to man for it) with the &s;ame to <HI>Leeds,</HI> and lo&s;t not in the feight Neene men, about &s;ixtie wounded, and not aboue fifty of the enemies were &s;layne, for they dur&s;t not bide to feight: Sir
<PB N="4" REF="5"> <HI>William Carnaby</HI> and Sergeant Major <HI>Hotlby</HI> and Lieutenant Co|lonell <HI>Saier</HI> are &s;aid to be the anely men of no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;laine of the Ene|mies &s;ide; my &s;ell and twenty mare got into the Kirke garth and wee paid them hame with muskett &s;hott from the new<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e of the Kirke and walls about it: The rea&s;on why Sir <HI>Thomas Fairefaxe</HI> would not leave a Garri&s;on in the Towne, was, lea&s;t the Enemy &s;hould get head, and fall upon <HI>Leeds</HI> or <HI>Bradford,</HI> and my Lourds forces are not enough to keepe Garri&s;ons in <HI>Wakefeild, Leedes, Bradford, Hallifaxe,</HI> and <HI>Howley,</HI> and to keepe the Countrey open to bring in provi&s;ion for &s;upply of our Army; we marvell mickle the Parliament will &s;end us nother mony, nor Armes, nor Hor&s;e, which we want ma&s;t, if they did we would (with Gods helpe I &s;ay &s;till) be other ma&s;ter of the Feild or &s;treiten their Quarters, and open the pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Hull,</HI> which would bring in Trade againe to the&s;e Clathing Townes, and monny guide things be&s;ides; I tell you what you may doe weele to doe, to put into the head of &s;ome Parliament man, by way of diver&s;ion, I &s;peake as a young Soul|dier, to &s;end &s;ome Forces by Sea to take <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> where there was not on Tue&s;day la&s;t aboune 300. Souldiers heire, and at <HI>Tin|mouth,</HI> and thou knawe&s;t weele their Commander Sir <HI>T.R.</HI> will lop away at fir&s;t &s;hot. If <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> were tane you &s;hall have bonny fires awe Winter lang, and the Cavaleers that have intere&s;t in the Colliers, and Salt-pans, and Cu&s;tomes, will quickly rai&s;e 60000. pound to defray the charges in taking the Towne; by that little Judgment I have of <HI>London,</HI> I am of opinion there is nothing in the world like the taking in of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> for them: you have but twea wayes to doe it; by your owne &s;els In the South; or by our bretheren beyond <HI>Tweed,</HI> if it bee attempted by either, it will enforce all our country men, <HI>Northumberland,</HI> and Bi&s;hoppricke men to de&s;ert the Queene to defend their owne Country, and then I am &s;ure the <HI>Riddells,</HI> the <HI>Grayes,</HI> the <HI>Lambtons,</HI> the <HI>Widdring|tons</HI> and all the Keele-men will leave the Queene, and then three parts of fower of her Army is gane, and &s;hee will bee then in a <HI>Germaine</HI> condition: what cour&s;e &s;oever you take, doe not take Armes again&s;t the Parliament, for though wavering at fir&s;t, I &s;ee God is on their &s;ide, and doth mare then man.</P>
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<P>Sall I tell you the Story of an awde wife in <HI>Wakef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eld</HI> as &s;he was &s;itting on the midding wringing her hands and greeting after the feight was done, that &s;he had lived &s;ea lang, and &s;he had heard of the <HI>Pindar</HI> of <HI>Wakefield, Geordy Greene,</HI> and <HI>Little John,</HI> but never thought &s;ike doings had beene in the world, and never &s;ince &s;hee was borne did &s;he, and &s;he thinks nene el&s;e in the Towne ob&s;erve the Song of <HI>Geordy Greene</HI> before now, And not &s;hift them&s;elves till Munday, and repeated the&s;e aude Ver&s;es following;
<Q><L>In <HI>Wakefield</HI> on a Greene, upon a Whit&s;unday,</L>
<L>The Maids in <HI>Wakefield</HI> would goe dance, Put on your &s;mocks on Munday.</L></Q> She &s;wore that aude Mother <HI>Shipdon</HI> was a Witch, for &s;he prophe|&s;ied of the&s;e times: the re&s;t of the Letter is matter of privacie, and harder Engli&s;h to under&s;tand.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Leeds this Wit&s;un-Munday,</HI>
<DATE>May 22.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Li&s;t of the Commanders &amp; Of|ficers taken Pri&s;oners, are as followeth:</HEAD>
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<ITEM>GEnerall <HI>Goring.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Tho: Bland,</HI> Lieute|nant Colonel to Sir <HI>George Wentworth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lieutenant Col: St. <HI>George.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Mack|moyler.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Serjeant Major <HI>Car.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Car.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Wildbore.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Rud&s;tone.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Pemberton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Croft.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Ledgard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>La&s;ly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Rally.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captaine <HI>Nuttall.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captain Lieutenant <HI>Ben&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Serjeant Major <HI>Carnaby,</HI> and Captain <HI>Nuttall</HI> left woun|ded in <HI>Wakefield,</HI> upon their engagements to bee true pri&s;oners.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Lieutenants.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Monokton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wheateley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kent.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nichol&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>En&s;ignes.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Squire. Vava&s;our.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Masken. Lumpton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ducket. Stockhald.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Balwin&s;on. Davies.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Car. Gib&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Smaythwait. Ballin&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wat&s;on. Smelt.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Haliburton.</HI> Cornet <HI>Wivell.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>There were in the Towne (he writes) about three thou&s;and foot, eight Troopes of hor&s;e, and Colonell <HI>Lambtons</HI> Regiment, which came al&s;o to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance. There were one thou&s;and five hundred hor&s;e and foote of the Lord <HI>Fairfaxes,</HI> which obtained this glorious Victory again&s;t them.</P>
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