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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>Major Gen: <HI>Poyntz</HI>'s LETTER TO The Honorable <HI>William Lenthal</HI> E&s;q; Speaker of
the Honorable Hou&s;e of COMMONS: OR, A true Relation of the Storming and taking of all the Works
and Stables of BELVOYR-CASTLE.</P>
<P>Together with a Letter from Adjutant Gen: <HI>Sandys,</HI> concerning the &s;ame Fight, wherein
the Enemy had no Quarter granted them.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the&s;e Letters be forthwith printed
and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>Edw. Husband,</HI> Printer to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons, and are
to be &s;old at his Shop at the Sign of the Golden Dragon in Fleet&s;treet, neer the Inner-Temple,
<HI>November</HI> 25. 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Honorable, <HI>VV: Lenthall</HI> E&s;q; Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe la&s;t night I drew up the&s;e Forces with me be|fore <HI>Belvoyre</HI> Ca&s;tle, and
&s;ending in a Summons, the Governour returned me this An|&s;wer; Sir, I am no le&s;&s;e
di&s;tru&s;tfull of Providence then you are: and return you An&s;wer, That I was not placed here by
the King to &s;urrender to Re|bells; And for the effu&s;ion of blood you mention, the crime will be
your own, not mine; Therefore I will not give one inch of ground I am able to maintain with my
&s;word, again&s;t all your attempts made again&s;t this place, and your Servant <HI>Jervace
Lucas;</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">whereupon my men being in readi|ne&s;&s;e, we &s;tormed their
works in four &s;everall places, and after an hours di&s;|pute entred, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed our
&s;elves of all their VVorks and Stables, &s;o that in a &s;hort time I hope to return you a good
accompt of that place: I cannot as yet, hear any thing of the Foot or|dered to me out of the
Ea&s;tern Garri|&s;ons, &s;o that my going again&s;t <HI>Newark</HI> is much retarded thereby, and
out of <HI>York</HI> there is neither hor&s;e nor foot as yet appears: I &s;hall, according to the
tru&s;t repofed in me, u&s;e my be&s;t en|deavour for the Publique, and ever remain, Sir,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithfull and humble Servant, <HI>Sednham Poyntz.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Botsford,</HI>
<DATE>21. Nov.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Am extremely tired with the la&s;t nights &s;torming, and being a&s;&s;ured that you will
have a more par|ticular Relation from others, but I &s;hall &s;ay thus much, the VVorks were the
&s;tronge&s;t I have &s;eene in England, and gallantly defended, and our men at fir&s;t
di&s;couraged &s;o much, that the Generall, my &s;elf, and &s;ome other Officers were fain to keep
the men at the VVorks with our &s;words: we had one Major and two Captains wounded, and two
En&s;ignes killed; the number of Souldiers lo&s;t I yet
<PB N="6" REF="4">know not, they had no more quarter then their bold an&s;wer
to our Sum|mons de&s;erved: wee have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed our &s;elves of the Spring that &s;upplyes
them with water, and doubt not but fuddenly to reduce it. I am in ha&s;te, and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servant, <HI>Richard Sandys.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Botsford,</HI>
<DATE>21. Nov. 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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