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<P>An Exact and True RELATION OF A BLOODY FIGHT, Performed again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> and his Forces before <HI>Todca&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Selby</HI> in York|&s;hire, in his march towards LONDON:</P>
<P><HI>BY</HI> The Lo: Fairfax, Sir Chr: Wray, Sir Henry Foulis, Capt: Hotham, Capt: Hatcher, Capt: Rhodes, and Capt: Ander|&s;on, with their Troops.</P>
<P>With the number of Souldiers that were &s;lain.</P>
<P>Sent in a Letter from <HI>Selby,</HI> by Sir HENRY FOULIS Baronet, to Mr. T. CHALONER E&s;quire, dwelling in Drury-lane, LONDON.</P>
<P>With a Li&s;t of the Names of all the Commanders and other Gentlemen of note that were taken pri&s;oners in the late Battell at <HI>WINCHESTER.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for JOHN FRANK. Decem. 21. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>An Exact and true Relation of a Bloody Fight, performed again&s;t the Earl of Newca&s;tle and his Forces before Todca&s;ter in York&s;hire, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear Cou&s;in,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IF I have not performed my promi&s;e in weekly writing to you, pray lay not the blame on me, but (where it is due) on the troubles of our Country, what we do here I &s;hall tell you. Cleave|land is turned a Wilderne&s;&s;e, my wife and children &s;ole Governours, not one el&s;e left ei|ther through fear or malignanty: my goods at Hull, my &s;elf with a Troop of hor&s;e here; as for my Re|giment of foot, it lyes &s;o under the walls of York, that it is yet impo&s;&s;ible to rai&s;e it, be&s;ides if I had them up, one Mu&s;quets report would make them run away, witne&s;&s;e <HI>Cleaveland.</HI> Regiment under the Command of Sir <HI>Mathew Boynton,</HI> when he (with all the help of his friends) had at Yarum 500 of his Re|giment, the enemy giving us but one Alarum, they all ran away &s;ave 200, and tho&s;e are now run to 80. As for my part I intend to rai&s;e Voluntiers, for I may do either by my Commi&s;&s;ion, I thanke God for it in this &s;even, weeks &s;ervice I have not any hurt of my Troop but one, and that was at Kanues|brough
<PB N="4" REF="3">as we entred the town, where we lo&s;t &s;ome men and Officers, yet lay there three dayes to re|fre&s;h our men, not being able to walke in the &s;treets without danger from the Ca&s;tle, and all we lo&s;t was one common &s;ouldier, one Serjeant, one En|gine hurt, and &s;ome &s;ix common &s;ouldiers, what hurt we did them, we know not. When Captaine <HI>Hotham</HI> and I (though we met fir&s;t at Yarum, and beat up with our Troops the enemies-Quarters at Darneton) joyned together with Cleavland foot, it was at North-Allerton upon &s;unday was a &s;evnight; that &s;ame night that <HI>Ever Gallant Hotham</HI> beat up their Quarters again, &s;lew 4. men, one Lieutenant, and took 7 pri&s;oners, we lo&s;t but one in that &s;ervice, who wilfully ca&s;t him&s;elf away, falling into the e|nemies hands, thinking they had been his friends. On Munday the Earl of Newca&s;tle pa&s;&s;ed the Tees with all his Army, and 14 peeces of Ordnance, and lay that night at Smeeton &s;ome four miles from Al|lerton; &s;ome &s;ix Alarums we had that night, and were perpetually in arms on both &s;ides, our Scouts giving fire on one another, and on each Quarters; we by our Scouts di&s;covered their lodging, which was the foot, being lea&s;t regarded in the open fields, the hor&s;e we &s;uppo&s;e in the Towne, except tho&s;e that alarum'd us. We were then but 300 foot and four Troops of hor&s;e, &s;o held it wi&s;dom to retreat to my Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> now (in the ab&s;ence of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI>) our Generall. On Tue&s;day at two a clock in the morning we marched from Allerton with bag and baggage, lay that night at Topcliff, the next day
<PB N="5" REF="3">the &s;ame time marched away to Knausbrough, where we received the lo&s;&s;e before mentioned; and to &s;a|tisfie the &s;ouldiers gave them free qurrter, or at lea&s;t they took it Believes me if ever God enable us to have a revenge, that Town and Ca&s;tle &s;hall &s;uffer dearly, for they &s;hot nothing but &s;hawed bullets.</P>
<P>From thence we came to Wetherby where we lay, expecting whether my Lord of Newca&s;tle would make his pa&s;&s;e that way to his Maje&s;ty, or by Todca&s;ter where my Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> lay; but he bent his cour&s;e for Todca&s;ter, and &s;ummoned all the country to be there on. Wedne&s;day la&s;t, with their carriages and draughts to convey his Ammunition and Ordnance. On Tue&s;day the Earl &s;hewed him|&s;elf before Todca&s;ter and retreated; then did my Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> &s;end for Captain <HI>Hotham</HI> and us from Wetherby, to be at Todca&s;ter before day on Wedne&s;day; we obeyed and marched all night with our Ordnance; when we came to Todca&s;ter we re|fre&s;ht your &s;elves for an hour, then we had notice that the Enemy was upon the Moor &s;ome a mile from the Town, pre&s;ently part of the hor&s;e which were Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Wrays</HI> Troop, Sir <HI>Thomas Fair fax's</HI> Troop and my own Troop; drew into the field neere the Moore, and remained there till towards 12 a clock, the enemy keeping them&s;elves on the further part of the moore among the Fenns, and a ditch between them and us; They advanced not towards us, nor we towards them, but &s;tood at gaze then my Lord <HI>Fairefax</HI> commanded us on this &s;ide the River with the re&s;t of the hor&s;e, Captaine <HI>Ho|thams</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="4">Troope, Captaine <HI>Hatchers</HI> Troope, Cap|taine <HI>Rhodes</HI> Troope, Captaine <HI>Arder&s;ons</HI> Troope to &s;ecure the forces. When we retired the enemy pre&s;ently fell on: the fight began about one of the clocke, and continued till after foure; you cannot immagine how hot &s;ervice it was, for I dare well &s;ay one both &s;ides above 40000. &s;hot pa&s;t, be&s;ides Ordinance, which were played as occa&s;ion &s;erved. Upon us they played with 5. Culverin, we had but one. Demy Culverin which never &s;hot but once, but our Drakes &s;hot notably, and did good &s;ervice; their Ordinance did little hurt, onely killed one man, the re&s;t flew into our hor&s;e Troops, but did no hurt becau&s;e they were &s;pent before they came at us, one &s;hot of 18. pound fell between Hothams Troope and mine within 3. yards of my &s;elfe, and another in the reare of my troope, and ju&s;t before Sir Chri&s;topher Wray, the bullet was above 19. l. weight.</P>
<P>On our &s;ide there was &s;laine but 4.3. Common Souldiers, and one who&s;e memory &s;halbe ever fa|mous, Colonell Li&s;ter; My Lord Fairefax with the re&s;t of the Commanders laide him in his Grave at Todca&s;ter on Thur&s;day morning, and pre&s;ently marched away hither; for the truth is, though my Lord of Newca&s;tle was before Todca&s;ter him&s;elfe in per&s;on with all his force; and that we beate him off, yet we were not able to keepe the Towne, be|cau&s;e we wanted victuall and ammunition, for I dare well &s;ay that in 48. hours not a Commande|r cate a bit, march le&s;&s;e a Common Souldier; &s;ome
<PB N="7" REF="4">Sacke we had, but that was not for the poore Soul|diers. What hurt we did the enemy we know not, for we found not above 30. killed, and &s;ome 20. taken pri&s;oners, but when on <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hor&s;e went out in the night to di&s;cover the fields were full of lamentable groans of dying people, yet in a galantry New-Ca&s;tle lay with his men in the fields all that night, and as we are informed &s;ome 500. rann from him; We are now and all our Forces at Cawood and Sel|by, as well to &s;ecure our &s;elves, as refre&s;h our men, we came hither the la&s;t night, and if New-Ca&s;tle advance, we &s;hall fall upon him, though Sir <HI>Hugh Cholmely</HI> and Colonell <HI>Francis Boynton</HI> come not to us; both which we have not yet &s;een, though of|ten &s;ent to: And you may beleeve that their Regi|ments with the foure Troops of Hor&s;e they have, would be a good recrute to our wearied Forces.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Selby, <DATE>this 17. of <HI>December.</HI></DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Your affectionate Cou&s;in to &s;erve you <HI>Henry Foullis.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Li&s;t of the Names of all the Commanders, and other Gentl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">men of note that were taken Pri&s;oners in the late Battell at <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> as it was pre&s;ented to his Excellency the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> at <HI>Wind&s;or, Decem. 17.</HI> And &s;ent by Coronet <HI>Sterly</HI> to Sergeant Major <HI>Alexander,</HI> one of the Comman|ders under his Excellency.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Was in pre&s;ence when the news came to my Lord Gene|rall concerning the fight at Winche&s;ter; And therefore thought good to give you the &s;ame intelligence of it that that was delivered to him. There &s;allyed out two Regiments of foote, which were of the Kings life guard upon us, which were all, or the mo&s;t part of them cut off: Be&s;ides the foote forces, there al&s;o &s;allyed out a Brigade of hor&s;e; but they al|&s;o finding they were notable to with&s;tand us, retreated in|to the Ca&s;tle, then we &s;caled the walls, they de&s;ired quarter, which we gave them, onely detaining their Commanders, and Officers, who&s;e names are here underwriten; And for the re&s;t of their forces we &s;tripped and &s;ent them away. The Inhabitants of the Town of Winche&s;ter offers 2000l. to &s;ave them&s;elves from being pillaged by our Regiment.</P>
<P>And thus I re&s;t your Servant to command</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>John Sterly,</HI> Cornett.</SIGNED>
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<ITEM><HI>Col.</HI> L. <HI>Grandi&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Garret</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Col. Bennet</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir R. Willis</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Honywood</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Col. Savage</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir J. Smite</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Barty</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Liev. William&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Booth</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Livet. Rogers</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Maj, Hayborne</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Brangling</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Wren</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Beckonhead</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Livet. Elverton</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Co. Ruddry.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lievt. Rodham</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lievt. Booth</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cor. Gwyn</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cor. Bradlines</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Names of the Gentlemen of that County that were ta|ken Pri&s;oners with the Cavaliers.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Sir J. Mills</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir Tho. Philips</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir Fra. Powre</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir H. Knowles</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr. Ranford</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr. Saunders</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr. Griffin</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>M. Foyl</HI> and his &s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>M. Powlet</HI> &amp; his &s;on.</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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