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<HEAD>A true RELATION Of a late Skirmi&s;h at HENLEY upon THAMES: <HI>WHEREIN</HI> A great defeat was given to the <HI>Red|ding</HI> Cavaliers, lately a&s;&s;aulting the afore&s;aid Towne of <HI>HENLEY.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>BEING The true Copy of a Letter &s;ent from one Captaine</HI> Samuel Turner, <HI>then in the &s;aid &s;ervice, to his brother in</HI> LONDON.</P>
<Q><HI>Si Deus nobi&s;cum, Quis contra nos?</HI></Q>
<P>London Printed for <HI>Henry Overton,</HI> and are to &s;old at his Shop in Popes-Head-Alley. <HI>Jan.</HI> 26. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A true RELATION OF A Late Skirmi&s;h at HENLEY upon Thames.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Loving Brother,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I_ Know ere this you expected to have heard from me concerning our wel|come to this Towne of <HI>Henlie,</HI> where now we are, and indeed I had an&s;wer|ed both your expectation, and mine owne de&s;ire before this, could I have heard but of a|ny one that had gone from hence to <HI>London:</HI> I know you have already heard in part what friends came from <HI>Redding</HI> hither to vi&s;it us, within few houres af|ter we came here. But to give you a full and true Re|lation of what my &s;elfe was an eye-witne&s;&s;e of, from
<PB N="2" REF="3">the beginning to the end: About nine of the clock at night we came to this Towne, where before we could get in, by rea&s;on the bridge was not quite laid down, we were enforced to &s;tay an houre and an halfe at the lea&s;t; So &s;oon as we were come in, and our men gone to their quarters, &s;ome of us, among&s;t which my &s;elfe was one, rid round to view the Towne how it lay, which when we had done; we appointed 4. Com|panies to watch that night, one towards <HI>Redding,</HI> and the other at the Bridge, at third at the upper end of the Town, and my &s;elfe having the maine guard, it being mine for that night as I was elde&s;t Captaine of tho&s;e that watched: I divided my Company, and &s;ent my Lieutenant, with about 40. men to guard &s;ome works which the Towne had made on the way to <HI>Oxford,</HI> I having the re&s;t on the maine guard, which was kept in a little round hou&s;e clo&s;e by the Towne Hall, where the 4. wayes divide them&s;elves, having thus ordered our men, and having placed our Ordnance, which were but 3. in all, one of our bigge&s;t pieces towards <HI>Redding</HI> road, and the other, which was our be&s;t, toward <HI>Oxford,</HI> and the third, which was but a Drake, wee planted toward the upper end of the Towne, by that time this was done, it grew neere ele|ven of the Clocke; halfe an houre after, being in com|pany with Captaine <HI>Beton,</HI> it being my place to goe the grand round, he de&s;ired to goe along with mee, we went with 6. Musketiers round about the hills which compa&s;&s;e the Towne, halfe an houre after twelve we came in again, and found all quiet and
<PB N="3" REF="3">well, about two of the Clock in the morning, being in a hou&s;e with the Maior, and mo&s;t of our Gunners, di&s;cour&s;ing together, news was brought that the ene|my was come, and had fired upon our Centinels, which cau&s;ed an Alarme through the Towne, we all (though Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) put on re&s;olutions to with|&s;tand them to the utmo&s;t, they came furiou&s;ly on, with a loud cry, the Towne is ours, and did no way que&s;tion to have broke through all, being mo&s;t of them Troopers, and Dragooneers; the number as we heare by a En&s;igne whom we tooke pri&s;oner, who was mounted for the &s;ervice, was about one thou|&s;and hor&s;e, riding two and two on a hor&s;e; the fir&s;t Centinell who made di&s;covery of them, having gi|ven fire, pre&s;ently ran away to the Court of guard, who pre&s;ently were in a readine&s;&s;e, and came forth and fired upon them, &s;o as that they could not come into the Towne &s;o &s;oon as they made account of, but being all hor&s;e, &s;ave only ten or twelve of their Dra|gooneers which were on foote, at la&s;t they broke their way through, and came along the Lane towards the Towne, the way they came being but narrow, and not above a flights &s;hot, or little more in length, from their fir&s;t entrance, we being in readine&s;&s;e to have fired upon them, dur&s;t not, by rea&s;on they drove our men before them all along the way, our Parlia|ment dog lay ready to fire upon them, which being laden with one great &s;hot, and two ca&s;es of &s;hot, con|taining 120. Musket bullets, at length the way being cleare of our owne men, but full of theirs, we let flie,
<PB N="4" REF="4">my &s;elfe being within a yard or two at mo&s;t when it gave fire, and &s;aw the execution it did; &s;ome of their hor&s;e came &s;o de&s;perately on, that they were even rea|dy to enter upon the mouth of the Canon, as pre|&s;ently after the &s;hot was given appeared, for we found 3. men, and 4. hor&s;e lie dead within le&s;&s;e then a quaites throw off the mouth of the piece, and an En|&s;igne which was found halfe dead, and halfe alive, having his Leg &s;hot &s;hort off, and &s;ome three &s;hots more in his body be&s;ide, yet living, who confe&s;&s;ed the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; I think they were &s;o bit, that they will &s;carce brag of their Victory, or come again in ha&s;t; the number of men which we found of theirs were but 4. which were killed outright, and 5. hor&s;e, one hor&s;e the Gunner tooke alive, and another, which by rea&s;on of their great ha&s;t in running away, as wee conceive, crowding along a narrow way, who &s;hould get fir&s;t away, fell into a muddy ditch, and there was left till morning, where we tooke him out, one of the&s;e 4. men, as our Souldiers were &s;tripping of them, &s;poke a word or two, and &s;o dyed, That he was the fir&s;t Captaine of the Lord <HI>Grandi&s;ons</HI> Regiment, and de&s;ired to be remembred to his Colonell, and dyed immediatly, hee having received above a dozen wounds, another as we heare was a Serjeant Major, and &s;ince we heare of &s;ixe that were found dead in a wood, lying together on a heap, one of them a Cap|taine, and we are informed by &s;ome who came from a place called <HI>Cau&s;ome,</HI> that there are divers lie woun|ded there, be&s;ide our men &s;aw them lift up on their
<PB N="5" REF="4">hor&s;es which they carryed away, &s;ome dead, others wounded, &s;o that we conceive they lo&s;t thirty men at lea&s;t, The whole Skirmi&s;h from the time they entred, to the time they ran away, was not a full quarter of an houre; We lo&s;t of our men but 3. in all, one of which was mine, who was fir&s;t &s;laine, he was &s;hot as he was &s;tanding on the left of my Company as I had drawne them up, with a Musket bullet, which went in at his left brea&s;t, and came through at his back on the right &s;houlder, &s;o as he fell pre&s;ently downe, with his armes &s;pread out, not moving any part of his bo|dy, &s;o that I conceive the &s;hot went through his heart, he was honourably interred the next day, attended with a great number of Souldiers out of every Com|pany, another of my Souldiers, one <HI>Tho: Hyat,</HI> a Fi&s;hmongers man, who lives in your divi&s;ion, was &s;hot through the body with a pi&s;toll &s;hot, as hee was comming from his quater to the Court of guard, hee was forced to make u&s;e of their language to &s;ave him|&s;elfe, and to cry out, where are the&s;e Roundheaded rogues, but they pur&s;uing of him, &s;truck him through the hat with a Pole axe, but mi&s;&s;ed his head, I have great hope of his recovery, he hath told me &s;ince, hee hopes to live to have a revenge on them; Thus as well as I can remember, I have given you a narration of what pa&s;&s;ages hapned: Truly hee is more then blinde which could not &s;ee God mainfe&s;tly in every particular working deliverance for us, and confu&s;ion to our enemies, we may truly &s;ay, never le&s;&s;e of Man &s;een, and more of God, for I had almo&s;t forgot to tell
<PB N="6" REF="5">you that two Troopes of hor&s;e which were ap|pointed to be with us, left us at the Townes end, and went away to their quarters, &s;o that we were left na|ked, onely God fought on our &s;ides: if the enemy had got into the Towne, I believe few of us had been alive at this pre&s;ent, thus fearing to be over-tedious to you, I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your ever loving Brother,</HI> Samuel Turner.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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