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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<P>The Scotch OCCURRENCES Impartially relating, The pre&s;ent &s;tate and condition of both Armies; with their &s;everal Actions, De&s;igns, and Motions; and the de&s;perate On&s;ets and victo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ious Atchievme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ts obtained at <HI>Ruthin</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>Likevvi&s;e, the Orders of General MONK to all the Engli&s;h Forces, to march up again&s;t the Highlanders in one in the Body; And the Speech of Gen. <HI>Middleton</HI> to his &s;ouldiers,</P>
<P><HI>Declaring,</HI> That if their Enemies vvere one hundred thou&s;and &s;trong, there were enow to be killed, enow to be taken pri&s;oners and enow to run away.</P>
<P>Together with a Relation of the great and memo|rable Engagement, the event and &s;ucce&s;s thereof, and the particulars of the lo&s;s on both &s;ides.</P>
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>George Horton,</HI> 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>OCCURRENCES From SCOTLAND. Compri&s;ing the pre&s;ent &s;tate and conditi|on of both Armies; with their &s;everal Actions, De&s;ignes, and Motions, and the de&s;perate On&s;ets, and victorious Atchiev|ments.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Highlanders having plaid fa&s;t and loo&s;e with the Engli&s;h for many dayes, and &s;ometimes de&s;cending from the Mountains to the Lowlands, &s;eeking whom they could devour, it was thought expedient by Col. Morgan to put a check to their in&s;olet de|portments;
<PB N="4" REF="3">in pur&s;uance whereof, he marched in per&s;on with a con&s;iderable party of Hor&s;e, Foot, and Dra|goons, to a Pa&s;s where they had intrenched them|&s;elves, where he onely allarum'd them, and &s;o retur|ned; for indeed to little purpo&s;e it would have bin to bav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid, co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;idering that there was no wayes fea&s;ible to engage th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ign b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing (as &s;up|po&s;ed) to divert Action for the Summer &s;ea&s;on, and &s;o to weary out th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Engli&s;h in the Winter: for we are informed, that they are con&s;ident that &s;o cold a Climate will be too hot for the Engli&s;h Spirits: Therefore, we take this ob&s;ervation from their De|portment and Carriage, that they would be in a ve|ry de&s;picable condition, were it not for the extra|ordinary advantage they have by the Hills: Never|thele&s;s, neither odds of Numbers, nor advantage of places whereto we are &s;trangers, will induce them to fight Us. It remaines therefore to deal with them at their own skulking Game, as we can; but we have been nece&s;&s;itated to wait an opportunity for want of gra&s;s, and other nece&s;&s;aries; and great are the extremities of the weather that the Engli&s;h have been expo&s;ed unto: no le&s;s then four dayes toge|ther did it rain extreamly through the Tents of the Souldiery, which much ob&s;tructed the de&s;ign of the
<PB N="5" REF="3">General at pre&s;ent; but his Excellency hath now taken the field, and on the 6 of this in&s;tant June ad|vanced towards St. John&s;tons, where he intends to randevouz, and to &s;tay till the coming up of the Gla&s;cow forces, and Col. Prides Regiment of Foot, and then to march intirely up to the Hills, with a Re&s;olution either to engage the enemy, or di&s;pier&s;e them, if he can.</P>
<P>For, indeed, this may &s;eem dubions, and a work of &s;ome difficulty for a time, con&s;idering that they have &s;o great an advantag on the Mountains, where they have laid great heapes of &s;tones, to tumble down upon our heads when we come into the Val|leys.</P>
<P>Again, we have as &s;tubborn an enemy to deal withall, as Europe can afford; for mo&s;t of their com|manders are experienc'd Souldiers of known worth and policy (was their Cau&s;e but ju&s;t) e&s;pecially. General Middleton, who has led us a notable dance, but yet we cannot harp upon the right &s;tring; one|ly thus much that we have taken &s;ome few of his Pipers, who are now like to change their Tune, and &s;ing with the Iri&s;h,</P>
<Q>O hone, O hone.</Q>
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<P>But I conceive neither parties have as yet much cau&s;e to brag, for the Game is plaid with &s;o great dexterity on both &s;ides, that there is no great Lo&s;ers; onely Capt. Hill Governor of Ruthin Ca&s;tle in Bage|noth writes, that upon a &s;alley forth, he at|tempted a pa&s;s of the enemies, and after a de&s;perate On&s;et, and &s;harp Conflict, he be|came Ma&s;ter, taking no le&s;s then 70 pri&s;o|ners, put as many to the &s;word, and defeat|ed the whole party, which were not above as many more, but not without &s;ome lo&s;s. Nay, this is not all, for 'tis &s;aid, that &s;ince the advance of General Monk toward the Hils, that he hath engaged part of Middle|tons forces, and after a &s;harp conflict rout|ed them and took two pa&s;&s;es. O this is ex|cellent, if the old proverb be not verifyed, Tis too good News to be true. However, thus much we are a&s;certain'd, that the ene|my
<PB N="7" REF="4">flies before us, &amp; declines engagement; but Middleton u&s;eth all po&s;&s;ible meanes to &s;upport their &s;pirits, and (though many are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with a pannick fear, as Henry the fifth King of England was, before the bat|tel of Agincourt, hearing of the great and warlike preparations of the French, was &s;omewhat perplexed: but one Capt. Gam &s;tanding by, &s;aid, That if there were &s;o ma|ny, there were enow to be killed enow to be taken pri&s;oners, and enow to run away: which re&s;olute &s;peech much cheared up his Maje&s;ty) even &s;uch an operation hath the expre&s;&s;ions of the afore&s;aid General, but yet notwith&s;tanding, Glencairn &s;eemes aver&s;e, and doth as Hannibal did before the great battel of Cannae between the Carthagini|ans and Romans, &s;ends his brother Mago to view the number, and countenance of the enemy; and at his return asked him, what
<PB N="8" REF="5">Work they were like to have with the Romans? Work enough, an&s;wered Ma|go, for they are an horrible company: As horrible a company as they be (&s;aid Han|nibal) I will warrant thee there is not one Mago among&s;t them, and therewith all fell a laughing, which his &s;ouldiers took for a certain &s;ign of Victory, which accordingly fell out.</P>
<P>But there is a great contrariety and va&s;t difference between the two Cau&s;es now in di&s;pute: neither do I believe that the Eng|li&s;h Red coats vvill be laught out of their Atchievements by the Highlanders; though they are plea&s;ed to &s;ay, as once vvas &s;aid of the Xerxes Army in Grece; vvho&s;e Arch|ers vvere &s;o many (as it vvas reported) that the flight of the Per&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s Arrows would be &s;o thick as that they would darken the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ght of the Sun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Dieneces a Sparran an&s;wered; I'ts good newes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> then we &s;hall fight in the &s;hade.</P>
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