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<P>A TRVE RELATION Of all the SKIRMISHES between Our Forces and the Cavaliers AT OWLNY.</P>
<P>Sent in a Letter From Captaine <HI>GEORGE PAINE,</HI> (one of the Captaines of the Red Regiment) who was an Eye-witne&s;&s;e of every &s;everall con|flict, to a Deare friend of his in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Wherein Each Particular is exactly &s;et downe, for the &s;atisfaction of &s;uch as are de&s;irous to know the Truth; and ro &s;top the mouth of bla&s;phemous Malignants.</P>
<P>This is Licenced and Entred into the Hall Booke according to Order.</P>
<P>London, Printed by <HI>E.G.</HI> 17 Novemb. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A True Relation of all the Proceedings betweene the Parliaments Forces and the Cavaliers at <HI>Oulney,</HI> &s;ent in a Letter from a Captaine of the red Regiment, to a deare Friend at <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Promi&s;ed in my la&s;t, to give you a more full Relation of the Enemies beating up the quarters of our City Hor&s;e at <HI>Oulny</HI> on Saturday morning la&s;t, about &s;even or eight of the clocke in the morning there came newes of an alarm, and that a|bout five hundred of the Enemies Hor&s;e were hard by the Towne. Colonel <HI>Harvey</HI> &s;uppo&s;ing that ac|cording to the report there was no more, made all the &s;peed hee could, and got out &s;ome troopes to face the Enemy neare the Towne&s;ide, which proved much to our di&s;advantage; for if his information had
<PB N="2" REF="3">not beene fal&s;e, he would have quit the Towne up|on the approach of the Enemy, and have drawne all his Hor&s;e on this &s;ide the Bridge, and then the foot to maintaine the Bridge: which, they might have done again&s;t both the Armies, had they been ioyned together. But when he came forth, he found contra|ry to his information, above two thou&s;and Hor&s;e, foure hundred dragoneers, and a commanded party of mu&s;quetiers, ready to charge tho&s;e few that were drawne out: which &s;trucke &s;uch a terrour in &s;ome of our newmounted Hor&s;e men, that they faced about and ranne away as fa&s;t as they could with &s;uch con|fu&s;ion, that notwith&s;tanding all that their Colonels and Captaines could doe or &s;ay to &s;top them that thus di&s;ordered our foot, and carryed away our men in a throng over the Bridge, and thru&s;t &s;ome of them off from the Bridge (for the Bridge and Cau&s;ey was as long as a man might hardly fling a &s;tone from end to end) without any railes or wals on either &s;ide: Colonel <HI>Harvey</HI> and Major <HI>Manwaring</HI> did what they could to &s;tay them, in&s;omuch that (as I heard) Colonel <HI>Harvey</HI> fired upon &s;ome of our owne men: the Major broke his Pi&s;toll about their heads, but &s;uch was the &s;pirit of feare that had po&s;|&s;e&s;t them that nothing might prevaile. The Caval|liers pur&s;ued them into the Towne, where
<PB N="3" REF="3">our poore red coates were put to their &s;hifts, being broken before all to pieces by our owne Hor&s;e, that they had no wayes nor meanes to be gotten toge|ther againe. Captaine <HI>May</HI> was among&s;t them in the Towne, and they tooke him for one of their owne men, and &s;eeing him once neare &s;ome of our forces, warned him to take heed of the Roundheads: Cap|taine <HI>Locke</HI> comming over the Bridge, was thru&s;t off into the water, and the Cavaliers came &s;o clo&s;e after that they fired upon him, and he to &s;ave him&s;elfe got under one of the arches of the Bridge, and &s;tayed there untill he heard the Cavaliers come powdering backe againe over the Bridge, and thinking hee had heard Captaine <HI>Langham</HI> he came forth, but was no &s;ooner up in the way, but was demanded who hee was; he an&s;wered, for King and Parliament, they pre&s;ently took him, and one bid prick him forward: he &s;miled upon uhem, &s;uppo&s;ing they had beene our owne men, in the meane time Colonel <HI>Harvy</HI> having got together &s;ome of the &s;cattered troopes, made a charge upon them with &s;uch violence, that hee for|ced them off the Bridge againe. And comming up where Captaine <HI>Locke</HI> was, one of tho&s;e that had ta|ken him was &s;hot, the other ha&s;ted away, and left Captaine <HI>Locke</HI> to thanke Colonel <HI>Harvey</HI> for his liberty, and &s;o got away.</P>
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All this while Colonel <HI>Turner,</HI> Captaine <HI>Norwood,</HI> Captaine <HI>Tomp&s;on,</HI> &amp;c. were &s;uppo&s;ed to be lo&s;t, and indeed were in much danger, having not above twelve or fifteene men, yet bravely made charge up|on three Colours of the Enemy, and forced them out of the market place: Colonel <HI>Harvy</HI> came up and cleared the Towne of them, with about forty or fifty Hor&s;e with him: yet the Enemy forced them all backe againe out of the Towne, and drave them all over the Bridge againe, and began to draw up in in the meadow on this &s;ide the Bridge, where Colo|nel <HI>Turner</HI> and &s;ome few of our men were mixed a|mong them upon the Bridge, and dur&s;t not di&s;cover either to other who they were: for though their fin|gers itched to be doing one with another, yet dur&s;t not &s;tirre for feare of falling off the Bridge: at la&s;t Colonel <HI>Turner</HI> came cleare off without any harme. By this time Colonel <HI>Harvy</HI> had againe gained &s;ome of his forces, and charged tho&s;e that were drawn o|ver the Bridg &s;o violently, that they (to make ha&s;te) fell &s;ome of them be&s;ides. The Colonel pur&s;ued them and clean&s;ed the Towne and kept it. In this &s;ervice, both the Colonels, Captaine <HI>Norwood,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Towp&s;on</HI> performed bravely: but Colonel <HI>Turner</HI> was &s;o much troubled to &s;ee his troopes make &s;uch a long wheele, as never all day to come backe
<PB N="5" REF="4">being lead by his Cornet; that after, neither his owne Cornet, nor any of the Yellow Colours were &s;cene in the field, which much di&s;couraged him. In the mean time our poore men paid for it, divers of them being &s;orely wounded, &s;ome taken, I cannot heare of above three or foure &s;laine En&s;igne <HI>Bartlett</HI> is mi&s;|&s;ing, we doubt, taken. Major <HI>Manwaring</HI> through the negligence of his &s;ervant lo&s;t foure brave Hor&s;es of his owne, and his &s;umpters, yet his boy &s;aved his mo|ny and &s;ome clothes: there were &s;laine on both &s;ides about twenty &s;ix: &s;laine of Colonel <HI>Harveyes</HI> troope, one, and wounded eight: about twenty five or twenty &s;ix of our red-coates wounded: &s;even or eight of Captaine <HI>Norwoods</HI> &s;laine. I beleeve the E|nemy hath little cau&s;e to boa&s;t of their gaine, which will not make good their lo&s;&s;e: many of them be|ing &s;orely wounded, above twenty of them were dre&s;t at a hou&s;e about a mile off, fifteene or&s;ixteene taken, and about as many &s;laine.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Paine.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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