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<P><HI>A TRVE</HI> RELATION OF The great Victory, Obtained by Gods Providence, by the Parliaments Forces in LANCASHIRE, Again&s;t the Forces rai&s;ed by the King, in the counties of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Cumberland;</HI> Where they took Thurland-ca&s;tle, and in the Fight took of the Enemy, Col: <HI>Huddle&s;ton,</HI> 2 Captains, an En&s;igne, 400 Pri&s;oners, 7 Colours, kil'd many, drove many into the Sea, took their Magazine, divers Arms and Hor&s;es and totally routed them.</P>
<P>Sent in a Letter by Colonell <HI>Rigby,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, To the Honorable, <HI>Wil|liam Lenthall E&s;quire,</HI> Speaker of the &s;aid Hou&s;e.</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Re|lation be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: <HI>El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Edward Husbands,</HI> November 20. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Relation of the Great Victory ob|tained by Gods Providence, by the Par|liament Forces, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>That I may give you an account of our pro|ceedings at Thurland, you may under&s;tood that Sir <HI>Iohn Girlington</HI> having drawn <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> into his Ca&s;tle of Thurland, he began to pl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters"> the Countrey, and to commit Robberie and Murthers, and thereupon for the &s;uppre&s;sion of him and his adherents, I repaired thither, and af|ter &s;even weeks &s;traight &s;iege of the Ca&s;tle, it was delivered unto me, to be demoli&s;hed upon agreement, to &s;uffer him and all his in the Ca|&s;tle, to pa&s;&s;e away with their lives, and goods: Du|ring mo&s;t part of the &s;iege, the greate&s;t part of the Forces of We&s;tmerland lay within our view, and daily threatned us; but God confined them to their own County, and every day more,
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and more inclined the hearts of the Commons of We&s;tmerland to decline any Attempt upon us, though we then lay in an Out Angle of our County, far from Sapplies, and while&s;t the&s;e things were in &s;u&s;pence, a De&s;igne was &s;et on foot by all the Malignant Gentry of We&s;tmer|land and Cumberland, and by <HI>Roger Kirby,</HI> and <HI>Alexander Rigby</HI> of the Burghe, two Lanca&s;hire men, to rai&s;e all the Forces of Cartmell and Fournes, part of Lanca&s;hire, to joyn with Cum|berland and We&s;tmerland, to &s;urpri&s;e Lanca&s;ter and Hornby Ca&s;tles, and to a&s;&s;ault us on all &s;ides, and to rai&s;e our Siege, and then to proceed fur|ther into Lanca&s;hire, and (as upon credible in|formation I beleeve) to joyn with <HI>Latham</HI> hou&s;e, and all the ill affected in our County, to our ge|nerall deva&s;tation. And for this end, they drew together part of Cumberland forces into Fournes, and with them the Strength of that place, to a|bout the number of &s;ixteen hundred, intending the next day to March into Cartmell towards us, and there to adde to their forces, and in their way, they took and impri&s;oned divers of the be&s;t affected, and cau&s;ed the re&s;t of them to flie out of the Country, who po&s;ting to us, I forth|with
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took five hundred foot, two Drakes and three &s;mall Troops of Hor&s;e, parcell of my Forces at Thurland, and with them in one day, I Marched almo&s;t thirty miles, over mountaines, and through Sea-&s;ands, and waters, within two miles of the Enemie, and the next morning being the Lords day, we found the Enemy in the Field, &s;tanding with a Body of Hor&s;e, and ano|ther of Foot, in a po&s;ture to receive us, upon a ground cho&s;en for their own advantage: &amp; when we were within half a mile of them, we com|mitted our &s;elves to Gods protection, and began our work with publike prayers for his ble&s;sing upon us: And tho&s;e done, we &s;peeded unto the Enemy, with &s;uch Re&s;olution and Cou|rage in all the Captains, and Common Soul|diers, as by their deportment, I might have rather deemed, that they had made ha&s;t to have &s;aluted their friends, then to have encoun|tred their enemies: the enemie, word was (<HI>In with</HI> Quecn <HI>Mary</HI>) ours was (<HI>God with us</HI>) and at our fir&s;t appearance, God &s;o &s;truck the hearts of the&s;e our enemie, with terrour, that before a blow given, their Hor&s;e begun to retreat, our foot gave a great &s;hout, our Hor&s;e pur&s;ued, theirs fled;
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their foot di&s;per&s;ed, and fled; they all tru&s;ted more to their feet, then their hands; they threw away their Arms and Colours, de&s;erted their ma|gazin drawn with eight oxen, and were totally routed in one quarter of an hours time; our hor&s;e &s;lew &s;ome few of them in the pur&s;uit, and drave many of them into the Sea; wee took their Co|lonel <HI>Hudle&s;ton</HI> of Millam, two Captains, and an En&s;ign, and about foure hundred Pri&s;oners, &s;ix foot Colours, and one hor&s;e Colour; and their Magazin, and &s;ome hor&s;es, and more arms then men: and all this without the lo&s;&s;e of any one man of ours; wee had only one man hurt by the Enemy, and only another hurt by him&s;elfe with his own Pi&s;toll, but neither mortally; upon the clo&s;e of the bu&s;ines, all our men with a great &s;hout cryed out, Glory be to God; and wee all, except one Troop of hor&s;e, and one foot Company, which I left to quiet the Countrey, returned forthwith towards our &s;iege at Thur|land; mo&s;t of our Hor&s;e-men without alight|ing from our hor&s;es, and mo&s;t of us all, without eating or drinking; &s;o that early the next day wee came again to Thurland, where we found our &s;iege continued, within view of more then
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treble forces from We&s;tmerland, this worke in Fournes had that influence upon all the Ca&s;tlers, and all the Gentry of We&s;tmerland, and Cum|berland, who then lay within our fight at Kirby-Loynsdale, that within two dayes after, the Ca|&s;tle was by the Negotiation of Sir <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave,</HI> then commanding in chiefe in We&s;tmerland and Cumberland, agreed to be rendred unto me, to be demoli&s;hed, which is accordingly done: And though I endeavoured to have pre&s;erved all the combu&s;tible materials therin from fire, yet I could not therein prevaile with the common &s;ouldiers without great di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>My humble &s;uit now is, to have the order of the Hou&s;e of Commons for my indemp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ity, for demoli&s;hing of the Ca&s;tle: And becau&s;e Colo|nel <HI>Hudle&s;ton</HI> (who yet hath a Regiment in York|&s;hire, in or neer Hallifax) is as I heare Serjeant Major Generall of Cumberland; and the mo&s;t con&s;iderable man in Cumberland, and our next neighbour to Lanca&s;hire, and one whom with|out further danger to the peace of our countie, I cannot conceive can be kept Pri&s;oner here, I have therefore pre&s;umed to &s;end him uno you, under the care and cu&s;tody of Mr. <HI>Robert Fog,</HI> of
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who&s;e indu&s;try and fidelity, both you and wee here have had much experience: Sir, that God may ble&s;&s;e, and pro&s;per all your de&s;igns, and pro|ceedings for his glory, and the peace of this King|dom, is the daily prayer of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant, ALEX: RIGBY.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Pre&s;ton in Lanca&s;hire, <DATE>this 17 of Octo: 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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