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<P>THE ROVND-HEADS REMEMBRANCER: OR, A true and particular Relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by His Maje&s;ties good Subjects of the County of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> under the Command of S^r RALPH HOPTON, on <HI>Tue&s;day May</HI> 16. 1643.</P>
<P><HI>Printed in the Yeare</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Relation of the great Defeat given to the Rebels by His Maje&s;ties good Subjects of the County of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> under the Command of S^r RALPH HOPTON. <HI>May</HI> 16. 1643.</HEAD>
<P>_NOthing is more frequent with the Agents in this Rebellion, then to fa&s;ten their Trea&s;ons on <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Religion.</HI> If they plunder and rob a mans hou&s;e, tho&s;e &s;toln goods are pre&s;ently the <HI>gifts of God.</HI> If they fight and are beaten, then either they deny it, and <HI>give thanks for a victory;</HI> or el&s;e confe&s;&s;e &s;ome &s;mall lo&s;&s;e, which God &s;ent to them by his <HI>&s;peciall Providence to draw the Cavaleirs into further de&s;truction.</HI> And if at any time they pro&s;per and pre|vaile over the Kings forces by &s;tealing on them in their beds, by a perfidious Treaty, or &s;ome other wor&s;e meanes, then each thread and particle of their &s;ucce&s;&s;e is the <HI>Wonderfull worke of God.</HI> Thus <HI>Wallers</HI> entring <HI>Hereford</HI> is
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Burrough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> in a Sermon at London</NOTE> &s;til'd <HI>as great a Deliverance as the I&s;ra&euml;lites pa&s;&s;age through the Red &s;ea;</HI> and his <HI>Excellencies</HI> gaining <HI>Reading</HI> they
<NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="foot"><HI>Sedgwick</HI> at <HI>Reading</HI> May. 21.</NOTE> call <HI>no le&s;&s;e a mira|cle then the razing downe the walls of Jericho with pitchers and Rams horns.</HI> Nor is this &s;trange, for they who are come up to that de&s;perate impudence to &s;hoot at the King, and &s;ay it is to &s;ave his life, will likewi&s;e bla&s;pheme <HI>God</HI> to his <HI>honour</HI> and <HI>glory.</HI> And though they know, that we know they are guilty of &s;uch villanies as the <HI>Devill</HI> can &s;carce exceed, yet <HI>God</HI> mu&s;t be the <HI>Father</HI> of what&s;oever they bring forth, and &s;ometimes too before the birth: For on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 16^t^h of this moneth,
<PB N="2" REF="3">when the We&s;terne Rebells received this defeat, on that ve|ry day the holy garri&s;on in <HI>Warwicke</HI> had a &s;olemne <HI>Thanksgi|ving</HI> for a <HI>new great victory over Sir Ralph Hopton;</HI> but whe|ther God hath &s;uffered him&s;elfe to be mocked, let po&s;terity judge.</P>
<P>It is true the Earle of <HI>Stamford</HI> marched out of <HI>Exeter</HI> with almo&s;t as much pomp and vainglory as his <HI>Excellencie,</HI> him|&s;elfe when he fir&s;t advanced through <HI>London</HI> &s;treetes, promi&s;|ing all their party to conquer <HI>Cornwall</HI> at this one blow. And to this purpo&s;e he had &s;ummoned in all the &s;trength he could po&s;&s;ibly make, and by per&s;wa&s;ions and threats got together betwixt five and 6000 foot. The Country people remembred what faire Articles Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> and the Corni&s;h Gentry had made for <HI>Peace,</HI> how often the Committee for the two Hou&s;es had refu&s;ed <HI>Peace,</HI> though them&s;elves had &s;worn to it, and &s;ealed it with the <HI>Sacrament</HI> (which perjury God will one day puni&s;h either here or hereafter, if he have not begun it already) and that nothing but bloud would appea&s;e the Re|bells ambition. The&s;e and the like thoughts retarded the peo|ple from being forward to this Battaile. Yet the Earle of <HI>Stamford</HI> is &s;o noble a Lord, that if it ly in his power, no man &s;hall keepe his <HI>Allegiance,</HI> nor any woman her <HI>cha&s;tity.</HI> Find|ing therefore the Country unwilling to come in to him, he rages horribly on divers who refu&s;ed, plundering them &s;o bare, that Ma&s;ter <HI>Martin</HI> (the Plunderma&s;ter Generall) him|&s;elfe could have gone no higher. Others he &s;mooths and &s;trokes with fine promi&s;es, that <HI>they &s;hould not need to &s;trike a blow, onely appeare and &s;hew their faces, and they &s;hould &s;ee him bring the Rebell Hopton into Exeter dead or alive.</HI> Which was bravely &s;aid (you'l think) and had more truth in it, then his Lord&s;hip imagined, having already brought Sir <HI>Ralph</HI> very neare the very walls of <HI>Exeter.</HI> In the meane time you &s;ee the world is come to a fine pa&s;&s;e, when the mo&s;t groundle&s;&s;e Re|bellion that ever was heard or read of, mu&s;t be Gods owne cau&s;e; and tho&s;e loyall Gentlemen (who love their con&s;cience better then their bloud) mu&s;t be voted for Rebells. Which certainly would be the very top of all their villanies, if the&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="3">Rebells had not now outdone them&s;elves, and (which all good men tremble to think of) accu&s;ed and voted the QUEENS MAJESTY guilty of <HI>High Trea&s;on,</HI> for helping the King (her owne <HI>Lord</HI> and <HI>Hu&s;band</HI>) again&s;t the wor&s;t of Re|bells in his owne Kingdome.</P>
<P>The Rebells having thus gotten their forces together, a|way they advance to <HI>Stratton</HI> in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> a Towne clo&s;e up|on the borders of <HI>Devon&s;hire;</HI> and neare this towne they in|trenched in as &s;trong a Camp, as (them&s;elves confe&s;&s;e) they ever yet beheld. Two dayes before the blow was &s;truck they ordained a &s;olemne <HI>Fa&s;t</HI> (which was held at <HI>Exeter</HI>) for the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this great action; one of the Preachers (as &s;ome that heard him have certified) confidently declared, that <HI>God would manife&s;t the ju&s;tice of the cau&s;e by the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of that dayes worke when ever the two Armies came to joyne.</HI> And now were the&s;e We&s;terne Rebells exactly at the highe&s;t (for when Rebels <HI>fa&s;t</HI> they are commonly mo&s;t confident) for men, Or|dnance, Ammunition, place, Armes, and all other Accommo|dation never &s;o &s;trong before, but &s;tronge&s;t of all in the weak|ne&s;&s;e of their enemy. For indeed Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> was never &s;o low as now, his whole body of foot being not full 3000, and his Ammunition not &s;ufficient for tho&s;e men hee had, as appeared in the event. Yet Sir <HI>Ralph</HI> and tho&s;e other noble Gentlemen, did not only prepare to meet the Rebells in the field, but (to the perpetuall honour of the County of <HI>Corn|wall</HI>) a&s;&s;aulted this great Rebellious body in their &s;trong workes and trenches, fighting bravely with them for full 10 houres, and when the&s;e loyall gentlemen had &s;pent their Am|munition, and had not powder left for one houre longer, they then (with unexpre&s;&s;ible valour) fell upon the Rebels with their &s;words and pikes, and fought it out &s;o manfully, that at la&s;t they wholly routed the Rebels Army, killed many hun|dreds of them dead in the place, wounded many more; tooke 1700 pri&s;oners, whereof above 30 Commanders, as <HI>Chud|leigh</HI> Sergeant Major Generall of their Army, Sr <HI>Robert Wing|field,</HI> with divers other Sergeant Majors and Captaines; and of Common Souldiers more then they know what to doe with.
<PB N="4" REF="4">Among tho&s;e that were &s;laine, one was <HI>Colmaddy</HI> Lieutenant Colonell to the Generall, with many others of be&s;t quality a|mong&s;t them. They tooke likewi&s;e all the Rebels Canon, be|ing 11 peeces of bra&s;&s;e Ordinance, and 1 bra&s;&s;e Mortar for Granadoes, be&s;ides 4 iron peeces and 1 Iron Mortar. In Am|munition they tooke 57 barrels of powder, with a like pro|portionable quantity of bullet, &s;hot, match, and betwixt 2 and 3000 armes, be&s;ides 3000l in ready money. There were kil|led and hurt of the Kings Forces 46 Common &s;ouldiers, but not any one Commander, or Gentleman of quality.</P>
<P>And now let the Reader judge, if ever the Rebels had a more &s;hamefull defeate; and whether the Gentry and Commons of the County of <HI>Cornwall</HI> de&s;erve not to be recorded to all po|&s;terity for mo&s;t loyall and valiant for their <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Country.</HI> What a horrour this hath &s;trucke in the remnant of tho&s;e Re|bels who are now at <HI>Exeter,</HI> you may better di&s;cerne from their owne hands, more particularly by this intercepted Let|ter, which was going to <HI>London</HI> from a Cheife Member of their faction.</P>
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<P><HI>Since your departure, I received only two Let|ters, the one the</HI> 19, <HI>the other the</HI> 20 <HI>of this mo|neth. Sir</HI> Ralph Hopton <HI>is at</HI> Okington, <HI>and its doubted will very &s;peedily di&s;tre&s;&s;e</HI> Exeter; <HI>tho&s;e hor&s;e of ours which e&s;caped are now here, but much wearied out; they came hither from</HI> Bodmin <HI>ye|&s;terday morning. The&s;e inclo&s;ed Letters, were ta|ken from Doctor</HI> Coxe, <HI>who came with a trumpeter
<PB REF="4">with Letters to the Commanders here, offering quarter if we would &s;ubmit; both are yet impri&s;on|ed, and Doctor</HI> Coxe <HI>who came with a Trumpeter when the Lord Generall &s;aid he &s;hould be &s;earched for Letters did &s;wallow a paper, and the Trumpe|ter &s;hewed another in &s;mall peeces: they came in la&s;t even. The Trained Bands refu&s;e to appeare to a&s;si&s;t us, &s;o that wee can hardly hearten on our &s;oul|diers; but in</HI> Exeter <HI>there is a con&s;iderable number of Citizens, and wee have &s;ummoned in all the Armes of the Ea&s;t, lest Sir</HI> Ralph Hopton <HI>take them too with the</HI> Po&s;&s;e. <HI>Wee hope to have &s;peedy a&s;sistance, before which time wee cannot rai&s;e any Force. For now the hearts of Parliaments friends are down, and many daily drop off from us. VVe can do little for want of Armes, which if not &s;peedily &s;ent will do us little good, therefore we be&s;eech you &s;peed them to us. Major</HI> Chudleigh <HI>is turned a|gainst us. The newes you wrote to Ma&s;ter</HI> Cro&s;&s;ing <HI>doth &s;omewhat revive us. The Volunteers will not do the worke I feare; if any experienced religious &s;ouldiers be to be gotten from</HI> London <HI>I wi&s;h we had them &s;peedily &s;ent us. Our men went on re&s;o|lutely at this la&s;t fight at</HI> Stratton, <HI>being a&s;&s;ured that our Hor&s;e would countenance them in the Reare; but when they were charged with the Hor&s;e
<PB REF="5">of the enemy, and ours did not what we expected, we were di&s;couraged, and &s;o the enemy by the help of their Hor&s;e broke in upon our Foot and routed us, taking all our Cannon, and mo&s;t of our Ammuniti|on. VVe hoped this day would have ended the work, and &s;o the</HI> Po&s;&s;e <HI>would have vani&s;hed of it's owne accord But God hath otherwi&s;e determined yet further to humble us. Our confidence on the arme of fle&s;h (which was our &s;trong Army) was too great &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>There's none that con&s;iders the whole progre&s;&s;e of the We&s;terne Affaires from the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Sherborne Ca&s;tle</HI> to this very day, but may clearely &s;ee the reward of Loyalty and &s;courge of Rebellion. And how this one &s;ingle County ha|ving (through its di&s;tance from <HI>Court</HI>) received no &s;upply of Forces from His <HI>Maje&s;tie,</HI> nor any a&s;&s;i&s;tance by influence of the <HI>Kings Coun&s;ell</HI> for better direction in their daily occa|&s;ions, hath yet (by the extraordinary mercy and ble&s;&s;ing of God) maintained an Army for their <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Country,</HI> fight|ing many Battailes, and obtaining many Victories, to the &s;hame and amazement of their numerous Enemies, and the everla&s;ting honour of the County of CORNWALL.</P>
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