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<P>Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI>'s PROCEEDINGS About the Storming of EXETER: The Majors hou&s;e taken, and four Companies of Foot put into it. A Bridge made over at <HI>Ap&s;em.</HI></P>
<P>The Princes Hor&s;e forced back towards <HI>Barn&s;table.</HI> A Major, and divers Pri&s;oners and Hor&s;e taken. Nine of <HI>Gorings</HI> Life-guard, and many others brought in. Fifty Souldiers ran away out of one Regiment; and all tho&s;e rai&s;ed by the <HI>Po&s;&s;e</HI> gone home; and the Prince and his Forces flying fur|ther into <HI>Cornwall;</HI> and one piece of Ordnance left at the Princes Quarters at <HI>Launce&s;ton;</HI> with the &s;tate of the whole accompt of the We&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>By a Letter brought to the Honorable</HI> William Len|thal <HI>E&s;q Speaker of the Honorable Hou&s;e of Com|mons, commanded to be printed.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON: Printed for <HI>Matthew Walbank,</HI> Febr. 9. 1645.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Found the We&s;t country indeed craggy, and the people and entertainment for the mo&s;t part crabbed, yet I thank God, what is to be had, we have the be&s;t in our quar|ters, being content with the Enemies lea|vings, who hath left very little provi&s;ion for man or hor&s;e in the&s;e parts: For Intelligence at pre|&s;ent what we have is, That we have &s;etled our Quarters about Exeter; Col: <HI>Harlo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Regiment is about Exmin|&s;ter, three companies of Col: <HI>Herberts</HI> Regiment are at Peymouth, and in the lanes between that and Exmin&s;ter are Hor&s;e Sentinels: Another Quarter is at Shellingford hou&s;e, maintained by three companies more of Col: <HI>Her|berts</HI> Regiment: A fourth at Bouvy in Mrs. <HI>Peters</HI> hou&s;e; the other Forces, among&s;t which Col: <HI>Hamonds</HI> Regiment are, about Affington and other places a mile from Exeter, and &s;ome at the Majors hou&s;e at Barley within Mu&s;|quet &s;hot. The Generall hath &s;ent to all the Hundreds hereabouts for Ladders, and we hope to be in Exeter yet before the fir&s;t of March. Col: <HI>Lamberts</HI> Regiment is yet at Dartmouth, Col: <HI>Forte&s;cues</HI> at Totnes, and Col: <HI>Ingols|bies</HI> at Chidley; ye&s;terday we had a rumour here, that the greate&s;t part of the Enemies hor&s;e were come to Chim|leigh, twelve miles from Tiverton (where the Generall then was) and intended to go thence to relieve Dun&s;ter ca&s;tle, and &s;o (if po&s;&s;ible) to joyn with tho&s;e Hor&s;e about Blandford; but this morning we have certain Adverti&s;e|ment, That they plundred in Chimleigh ye&s;terday the
<PB N="4" REF="3">worth of Five hundred pounds, and returned to their quarters, there were not above three or four hundred of them, and they were gone by morning. Bar&s;taple hor&s;e have contracted their Quarters into Newport neer the Town, having left Tanton their former Quarters; for, <HI>Gorings</HI> hor&s;e have advanced their Quarters Ea&s;t, as far as Branton and Bray; they returned ye&s;terday morning into North-Tave&s;tock, Al&s;chot, and keep a Guard at New|bridge over the River <HI>Tau,</HI> three miles on this &s;ide Bar|&s;taple, they have al&s;o placed a Guard at Winckley Beacon; they were (as this day) to receive at Sunbridge and the pari&s;hes adjoyning, &s;ix weeks pay, and afterwards the pro|portion of a weeks pay every day. Tue&s;day la&s;t divers ploughs and hor&s;es, all laden, &s;ome with provi&s;ions, have been &s;ent out of Launce&s;ton We&s;tward; there was al&s;o great &s;tore of Bread baked, the Bread was brought in fla&s;|kets from a Bakehou&s;e in that town, where it was baked by the Princes Baker, and was immediately &s;ent away We&s;tward; &s;ix or &s;even ploughs more were drawn out of Launce&s;ton on Wedne&s;day night We&s;twards, al&s;o further into Cornwall, much of their Lading was Mu&s;|quets, Pikes, and other Ammunition; the re&s;t of the La|ding was Victuals, as poudred Beef and Chee&s;e, with them were about forty hor&s;e, laden with Powder, Match, and Bullets, and Lead which they had taken off from the Ca&s;tle, &s;o that it is all unleaded; much of the Ammuni|tion was loaded out of Guild-hall, which is their main Guard; on Thur&s;day night neer fifty more hor&s;e laden with provi&s;ions, as Bacon, Pork, and &s;uch like, were &s;ent the &s;ame way, all reported to be for the Princes Court, who it &s;eems, perceiving his a&s;&s;uming Title of <HI>Prince of Great Britain</HI> to fail him, is now re&s;olved to content him|&s;elf with the furthe&s;t part of his Dukedom of <HI>Cornwall:</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3">Thur&s;day al&s;o the pri&s;oners in Launce&s;ton were turned over from <HI>Greenviles</HI> Mar&s;hal to the Lord <HI>Hoptons</HI> Mar|&s;hal; fifty Souldiers ran the &s;ame day out of one Regi|ment; tho&s;e that they gather out of the country run away daily: Friday, &s;ix ploughs more were drawn into the ca|&s;tle green to be loaded, with them were forty hor&s;e, with pack Saddles, Crooks and Paniards; the&s;e were all repor|ted to be &s;ent after the re&s;t: That day thirty Hog&s;heads of Syder were brought into Launce&s;ton from Merrington, which were likewi&s;e to be &s;ent We&s;tward for the Prince; and the Mar&s;hal gave order this day, that the pri&s;oners in Launce&s;ton &s;hould be carried to Truro, which is about thirty miles farther into Cornwal: The Enemy endea|voured to rai&s;e the <HI>Po&s;&s;e Comitatus,</HI> &s;ome they got toge|ther, but they &s;taid not, but ran to their own homes; the Trained-Bands of the town of Launce&s;ton get others for money to &s;erve in their rooms; the Trained-Bands fur|ther We&s;t will not ri&s;e at all. There is now but one Iron Gun in Launce&s;ton, which is an Iron piece planted be|tween the Princes Quarters and Guild hal; the poor peo|ple pull down the Works about the town to get away the Wood, none hindring them; the Prince and <HI>Hopton</HI> were Saturday, <HI>Jan.</HI> 31. both in Launce&s;ton: Upon Intelli|gence of a party of the Enemies advancing from Oxford, Farrington and tho&s;e parts, towards Corf-ca&s;tle, the Ge|neral &s;ent Col: <HI>Cook</HI> from Tiverton with three Regiments of hor&s;e to attend their motion, but we now hear they are gone back: The Enemy come daily in unto our Quarters from Cornwal; this day there came a Lieutenant and nine of <HI>Gorings</HI> Life-guard wel mounted, and armed with Pi&s;tols &amp; Carbines, came to Sir <HI>Hardres Waller</HI> who quar|ters at Crediton; our men have this day fini&s;hed the bridge by Ap&s;om neer Exeter; &s;o that now we may have a free
<PB N="6" REF="4">intercrou&s;e; The Ladders come in this afternoon apace. I pray commend me to all our Friends; tell them I am (thanks be to God) in health, and want only two things re&s;pecting my inward and outward condition; the one, a Preacher like Mr. <HI>Stirry,</HI> the other, a cup of <HI>London</HI> Beer. There is a &s;carcity of the former here, and the lat|ter not to be had, only a little &s;owre Syder. If ever I re|turn to <HI>London</HI> again, I &s;hall (through the Grace of God) indeavour to have an higher e&s;teem of tho&s;e precious op|portunities which are there. Thus committing you to the Protection of the Almighty, I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Chidly,</HI> <DATE>Feb. 2. 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>IU&s;t now the General is returned hither from Tiverton. This Afternoon Lieut: General <HI>Cromwel</HI> went to view our Quarters before Exe|ter. We have four Companies of Foot in the Majors hou&s;e, called Barley, which is within le&s;&s;e then Musket &s;hot of the Enemies Works; they daily &s;hoot into the hou&s;e, and we again&s;t them; they can al&s;o talk one to another, they call our men Round-headed Rogues, our men return them an&s;wer. We make it a Garri&s;on for the pre&s;ent: Our Souldiers are very cheerful, and de&s;ire nothing &s;o much as to &s;torm the City. The Enemy come in to us daily from the City,
<PB N="7" REF="4">but their &s;pirits are &s;o daunted that they dare not come out again&s;t us. To morrow the General goes to &s;ettle Po&s;ts at Barley hou&s;e. The Ply|mouth Regiment la&s;t night took a Major and twenty Hor&s;e from the Enemy near Bar&s;taple. The Regiment late Col: <HI>Pickerings,</HI> now Col: <HI>Overtons,</HI> is marching toward this Army from Corfe Ca&s;tle. Clothes are come. A Councel of War &s;ate this la&s;t night. The General, Lieut: Ge|neral, Officers and Souldiers, have great inclina|tions to &s;torm, though the city be very &s;trong, a Line about it, with Barracadoes and a &s;trong Wall.</P>
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<P>Publi&s;hed according to Order.</P>
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