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<P>The true Relation of the Entertainment of my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> at NORTHAMPTON.</P>
<P>With the ju&s;t number of hor&s;e and foot that flockt from Neighbouring Countries to a&s;&s;i&s;t His Per&s;on.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Relation of 4. <HI>Holland</HI> Ships that p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">r|po&s;ely arrived thither for to help his Excel|lency in his pretended proceedings: With ju&s;t number of men, Ammunition and money they brought over.</P>
<P>Here is likewi&s;e the true Relation of Captaine <HI>Legs</HI> di&s;coveries, who being taken by our men upon condition of free pardon, did divulge all the Cavaleers projects and intentions.</P>
<P>Shewing how many of them were &s;ent to the Ile of <HI>Wight</HI> and the Ile of <HI>Man,</HI> to take away and &s;eize upon the mony pretended for the reliefe of our poore Brethren in <HI>Ireland.</HI> Al&s;o the manner of my Lord of <HI>Hollands</HI> taking a Semi|nary Prie&s;t among&s;t the Cavaleers, with his Con|fe&s;&s;ion and Examination before my Lord.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> printed for <HI>Tho. Bankes. Septem.</HI> 2r.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account of entertainment">
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<HEAD>The true Relation of the Enter|tainment of my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex at Northampton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_TIs well knowne that my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his undertaking &s;o pious an imployment doth not a lit|tle joy the heart of every good affected Subject Chri&s;tian, yea the whole Kingdome (bearing &s;hare of the benefit) may in like manner, or at lea&s;t wife ought to be a&s;&s;i&s;tants in the &s;ame; <HI>Northamton|&s;hire</HI> men not being ignorant of &s;o great a benefit, having intelligence of my Lords comming thither with about the number of three hundred to meet his Excellencie be&s;ides the Trained Bands, and divers of the Neighbouring people, many for very ha&s;te riding without Saddles, others for joy to be revenged on the Cavaleers (who
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 99 -->had robd and pillaged them of all their goods) brought pre&s;ents for his Excellen|cie, but my Lord refu&s;ed them, &s;aying, That what he intended was for the pub|like good of the King, Kingdome, and Par|liament, and the maintaining of Gods true Religion, and not for any private benefit and gaine of his owne, or any that he expected, alledging that he was &s;orry that &s;uch occa&s;ion &s;hould be given by the Cavaleers, or any other ill-affected per&s;ons, as mu&s;t force him either to draw the Sword, or leave three whole King|domes to peri&s;h in a mutuall blood; his Lord&s;hip being brought to the Towne, gathered together his Forces, to &s;ee his owne &s;trength, which he found to amount (both Hor&s;e and Foot Volunteeres, and tho&s;e that accompanied him from <HI>London</HI>) to the number of fortie thou&s;and and up|ward, to all whom he gave &s;trict charge and command, not to be any way offen|&s;ive in their carriage and behaviour to|wards
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 99 -->any of the Neighbouring people; My Lord is allowed by the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament towards the main|taining of this his Army fiftie hundred pound a day.</P>
<P>On the Twelfth of September both the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament having intelligence how that His Maje|&s;tie with all his Cavaleers were billited at <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> and had there endeavoured to for|tifie the Citie in a readine&s;&s;e to be again&s;t both the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, and for the re&s;i&s;tance of my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and all his Forces, the Cavaleers doing much hurt and &s;poile, to the ter|rour and lo&s;&s;e of that Countrey, there|fore the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment &s;ent unto his Excellencie for to &s;end &s;ome of his Forces thither to &s;till the Cavaleers for the &s;afety of the Countrey, which thing my Lord having intelligence of, went him&s;elfe per&s;onally with mo&s;t of his Armey, onely leaving &s;ome
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 100 -->for guard in &s;uch places as nece&s;&s;ity did require it; Foure <HI>Holland</HI> Shippes are come over with great &s;tore of Ammunition and money for the &s;ervice of the King and Parliament, the men that were in them did amount to five hundred, with five pieces of Ordnance and Armour for two thou&s;and men, three hundred Muskets be&s;ides Pi&s;tolls, Caleevers, Carbines, and Dragoones, with &s;ixteene Barrels of Powder, who being landed, and having intelli|gence of my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Intentions, mar|ched unto him, yeelding their Ammunition and money to his Lord&s;hips di&s;po&s;ing, and them&s;elves unto his Lord&s;hips protection, which being done, my Lord humbly thankt them, and tooke them to his tuition. There were certaine intentions of the Cavaleers di&s;covered by Captaine <HI>Leg,</HI> who being taken in my Lord <HI>Brookes</HI> Regiment, upon condi|tion of pardon did divulge all their Intentions, of which the chiefe were the&s;e particulars:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that &s;ome of the Cavalers that were in <HI>Le|ce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> dib intend to joyne with certaine of <HI>Som|mer&s;er&s;hire</HI> Cavaleers (for there were private Let|ters &s;ent to that purpo&s;e betweene them) for to goe to certaine neighbouring Villages, and to fire and burne the hou&s;es, which things he no &s;ooner divulged but tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> my Lord Brooks &s;ent &s;ome from his owne forces to remain and lye in watch in &s;uch p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ce<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> as were w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ke of them&s;elves, and &s;uch as he thought they might be&s;t attempt upon, and other of their exploi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s was to und<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rmine certaine places
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 100 -->in Southern field, where they thought my Lord Brooks would have come with his forces, which be|ing known by this Captains relation, was avoyded, for my Lord &s;ent thither imediatly to &s;ee the truth of the matter, and found all things as he had &s;aid; and in the &s;aid undermining; was found great &s;tore of powder layd under faggots and billets, and great wedges of Iron, all which my Lord cau&s;ed to be carried away. Al&s;o Captaine <HI>Leg,</HI> related how the Cavaleers kept certaine balls in their pockets to fire hou&s;es and towns withall, and how that many of them went under the Command of Captaine Calliford, (being a &s;ea Commander) towards the I&s;le of Wight and the I&s;le of Man, thinking to lye inwaite to &s;eize upon the money that the honour|able hou&s;e of Parliament pretended for the reliefe of the Iri&s;h Prote&s;tants, but notice thereof was pre&s;ently &s;ent to the Lord of <HI>Warwicke</HI> for the pre|vention of the fame, who &s;ent two or three of his &s;malle&s;t Ve&s;&s;ells to &s;cowre tho&s;e places, Another of their pretended projects for their obtaining of money, was to &s;eaze upon certaine Cloathiers that did deale in tho&s;e parts, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;aid Clothirs being once before robed by tho&s;e Cavaleers, came &s;o well Armed again&s;t them, that at their fir&s;t mee|ting, that the Caveleers were glad to fly, leaving 1. or 2. of their fellowes to be &s;laine in the encoun|ter; newes was brought from my Lord of Holland of the taking among&s;t the Caveleers a Je&s;uiticall Prie&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>The Relation of a late <HI>Con&s;piracie</HI> u&s;ed for the taking of the Magazine of <HI>HULL.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Cavaleers having divers times attempted to take <HI>Hull,</HI> and finding &s;o many repul&s;es by Sir <HI>Iohn Ho|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ham</HI> and his Souldiers, now thinking it be&s;t to make no <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urther attempt upon &s;o unvanqui&s;hable a peece with o|pen a&s;&s;ault but fall to underminings and treachery. There|fore he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ring of certaine labouring men that Sir <HI>John Ho|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">m</HI> had imployed for the better defence of the City to rai&s;e certaine ditche<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the convayance of the Water<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> out of the mar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h grounds, went to them, thinking to have bribed and fee'd them to make certaine &s;luces in the dit|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hes, with &s;uch convayances that being opened the water might <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;h upon the City, thinking that by this Plot Sir <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"></HI> for the &s;afety of his per&s;on, mu&s;t have come out <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> forces to a pitch-field, and there being o|vercom<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; and he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> againe <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, they might have &s;afe <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> the City, the labouring men hearing of this propounded by th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cavaleers Under tooke the perform|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">y they &s;hould be rewarded before hand&punc; which was g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="6+ letters">d unto them, and when they had their full reward, they f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the cleane contrary way to worke, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> that being opened the wa|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> that had determined to be in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of the  Towne in exp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ction <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">&punc; But what they met was a deluge of water that did &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> them&punc; that they were quickly faine to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> like fools as they came, without any fur|ther <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5+ letters">ing the Towne.</P>
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