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<P>A RELATION MADE In the Hou&s;e of Commons, BY Col: <HI>Nathaniel Fiennes,</HI> CONCERNING The Surrender of the City and Ca&s;tle OF BRISTOLL, <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 5. 1643.</P>
<P>Together with the Tran&s;cripts and Ex|tracts of certain Letters, wherein his care for the pre&s;ervation of the City doth appear.</P>
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<P><HI>Imprimatur,</HI> JOHN WHITE.</P>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>R. D.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. <HI>SPEAKER,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_ALthough both my &s;elfe and the whole Kingdome have cau&s;e to be humbled under the hand of God, which hath lighted heavy upon us, in the late unhappy defeat of Sir <HI>William Wallers</HI> Ar|my neer the <HI>Devi&s;es,</HI> and in con&s;equence there|of, in the lo&s;&s;e of a place of &s;uch importance as is the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> yet I make no doubt but I &s;hall give cleere &s;atisfaction both to this Hou&s;e, and to the whole world; That though I have great cau&s;e to be griev'd at the &s;ucce&s;&s;e, yet I have no cau&s;e at all to be a&s;hamed for any mi&s;-carriage in the di&s;|charge of my duty and tru&s;t, having performed it to the utter|mo&s;t of my power, and beyond what could be expected from me, con&s;idering the condition wherein I was, and in this great unhappines wch hath befallen my &s;elf and the whole kingdom; it is &s;ome ea&s;e to me that I have opportunity to cleere my &s;elfe in this place, from &s;uch a&s;per&s;ions as mo&s;t unworthily and mo&s;t un|ju&s;tly have been layed upon me, by tho&s;e that have condemned me before they heard me, or any other upon who&s;e relation they were able to found a right judgement concerning the carriage of this unhappy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Sir, I wil not trouble you with rehear&s;ing the occa&s;io~ of my fir&s;t undertaking the care &amp; charge of the City, nor with the dangers &amp; difficulties that I have gone through in the managing thereof: only thus much I &s;hall &s;ay, that as I little enjoyed my &s;elf in the employment, having no re&s;t or quiet from continuall care and paines, &s;o I never did affect it, but allwayes declined it, and that not in a way of complement, but really as my private Letters to my Lord Generall, my father, and others, and my expre&s;&s;ions at &s;everall times to my friends in private, may witne&s;&s;e; and the rea&s;on why I did de&s;ire to be taken off that imployment, was this: Becau&s;e I knew that the place was of very great impor|tance to the Kingdom, and the lo&s;&s;e thereof would much reflect upon him that had the charge thereof, though he were not at all in any fault, having not &s;ufficient means to defend it, which I alwayes feared would be the de&s;tiny of that place (as it hath been) by rea&s;on that it would require a great Garri&s;on, and charge to maintain it, which I found would not &s;o &s;oone and &s;o
<PB N="4" REF="3"> ea&s;ily be &s;etled, but that &s;ome misfortune was like to befall it (as it hath done) in the mean time. Notwith&s;tanding, &s;eeing God was plea&s;ed to pitch me there, and that I could not get off this &s;ervice, (although I earne&s;tly endeavoured it) I bethought my &s;elfe, how I might put the place into a po&s;ture of defence, and though it be one of the harde&s;t towns in <HI>England</HI> to be fortified, yet by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance I drew Fortifications round about it, and had almo&s;t brought them to perfection: and knowing that with|out men, arms, and ammunition, all that I had done would be but like a body without a &s;oul, and con&s;idering how hard a thing it would be to have men and maintenance continually from <HI>London,</HI> for the defence of that City; and that it was as impo&s;&s;ible (what conceits &s;oever &s;ome had of the wealth of that City) to maintaine the Garri&s;on, out of the City, without the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the adja|cent Counties: I made certain Propo&s;itions &s;oon after my fir&s;t coming thither, to the Gentlemen of the adjacent counties, for the &s;etling and maintaining of a &s;ufficient Garri&s;on there; which (at length, I got mo&s;t of the Gentlemen to con&s;ent unto, as may appear by Certificates under their hands:) After I &s;ent them to my Lo: Generall, who liked them very well, and wrote a Letter to my father, wherein he did earne&s;tly pre&s;&s;e him to move the Committee for the &s;afety, and the Hou&s;es for to &s;ettle the Garri|&s;on according to tho&s;e Propo&s;itions; accordingly the Committee and the Hou&s;es were moved in it: an Ordinance framed to that purpo&s;e, and Committee appointed to con&s;ider of it, and to bring, it to perfection: and there was never a Po&s;t, but I wrote, earne&s;tly for the expediting of it, and pre&s;&s;ed it, as that which imported no le&s;&s;e then the &s;afety of the City: (all this my Letters to my Lord, Father, and others can te&s;tifie) yet I know not what ob&s;tructions it met with at the Committee, but I am very confident had it been di&s;patched when I fir&s;t &s;ent about it, before the Ar|mies had fallen into the countries round about that City, it had not been in the hands that now it is. In the mean time I did not faile to u&s;e all the care I could, and all the power I had to &s;treng|then that Garri&s;on with men, arms, and ammunition; for where|as I found, there only Colonell <HI>E&s;&s;ex's</HI> and Col. <HI>Pophams</HI> Regi|ments: Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> drew out, Col. <HI>E&s;&s;exs</HI> Regiment, and all the Troops of hor&s;e that were in it, except two for the &s;ervice of the field, in &s;tead whereof, I rai&s;ed and armed as many troops as he drew forth: and without any money allowed from <HI>London</HI> rai|&s;ed,
<PB N="5" REF="3"> armed and coated a Regiment of foot, of 1200. men. After that, when Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> Army, upon the defeat of the Earl of <HI>Stamford,</HI> began to draw down towards Sommer&s;et&s;hire, and Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hartford,</HI> and Prince <HI>Maurice,</HI> endeavoured to joyne their forces with him: Six Companies of Col. <HI>Pophams</HI> Regi|ment were drawn forth to ioyn with the forces of Sommer&s;et to prevent the joyning of the enemies we&s;tern forces; but the&s;e were routed, and lo&s;t all their arms at <HI>Wells.</HI> After that, when Sir <HI>Wil. Waller</HI> came from <HI>Wo&s;ter,</HI> and had his Randevouz at <HI>Bath,</HI> both he and Sir <HI>Arthur Hazelrig,</HI> and all the Gentlemen of the coun|try were very earne&s;t with me to afford him a good &s;trength of foot to his hor&s;e, whereby he might be inabled to encounter with the enemy, and be ma&s;ter of the field, which was pre&s;&s;ed upon me both by him, and others with great earne&s;tne&s;&s;e, as the onely means to pre&s;erve <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and the we&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> (as may ap|pear by a Letter &s;igned by him and &s;ir <HI>Arthur Hazelrig,</HI> (which <HI>I</HI> &s;hall de&s;ire may be read:) Hereupon I advi&s;ed with my Offi|cers, and concluded that if there had been a &s;ufficient Garri&s;on within the City, whereby it might have &s;ub&s;i&s;ted of it &s;elfe with|out the help of an Army in the field, that it would not have bin wi&s;dom in me to &s;uffer &s;o con&s;iderable a place to depend upon the fortune of an Army in the field; but &s;eeing there was not a &s;ufficient Garri&s;on e&s;tabli&s;hed in the town, but that the enemy being ma&s;ter of the field, would in a &s;hort time be ma&s;ter of the City al&s;o: it was held the be&s;t way to make Sir <HI>Wil: Wallers</HI> Ar|my as &s;trong as po&s;&s;ible I could; and &s;eeing the &s;ecurity of the City was to depend upon the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of his Army, to u&s;e all means that might any wayes contribute towards the good &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e thereof; and &s;o I re&s;olved to &s;end him 1200. men out of the towne, which accordingly I did, be&s;ides my Regiment of hor&s;e, which was with him before: After expre&s;&s;ing that I was forced to ca&s;t <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and the fortune thereof upon the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of that Army; But when all Sir <HI>Will. Wallers</HI> Army was routed, and among&s;t them tho&s;e 1200. that I had &s;ent out of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> were all di&s;per&s;ed, and had lo&s;t all their arms; Every body loo|ked upon <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> as a lo&s;t town, and that onely with re&s;pect to the we&s;tern Army, without relation to tho&s;e forces which came from <HI>Oxford</HI> with Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> (which were more then the o|ther:) Hereupon Sir <HI>Wil: Waller</HI> re&s;olved to retire with his hor&s;e (wherein he did wi&s;ely, for otherwi&s;e he would have lo&s;t tho&s;e
<PB N="6" REF="4"> that remained of them, to no purpo&s;e;) and Sir ARTHUR HAZELRIGGE and Colonell BORRGHELL though &s;orely wounded, and divers Gentlemen that had formerly re&s;ided con&s;tantly in <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> thought fit to withdraw them&s;elve, which I do not &s;peak to any other purpo&s;e (many of them having no tye at all to that place) but onely to &s;hew that it was the ge|ner I apprehen&s;ion of the&s;e men, that <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> was lo&s;t when Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> lo&s;t the field, and that they did not hold that either Town or Ca&s;tle was tenable (for that to my knowledge they might have had lodgings in either) all which I am enforced to declare, to &s;atisfie the world, that there were &s;ome be&s;ides my &s;elf and the Councell of War at <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> that were of opinion, that neither the Town nor Ca&s;tle were tenable again&s;t &s;uch For|ces as came again&s;t them. Notwith&s;tanding all this, and that I had but 700 men left in the town, and not a penny of money left to pay th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m, much le&s;&s;e to rai&s;e or arm any more, yet I was not wholly di&s;couraged, but it plea&s;ing God to &s;tir up the heart of Sir <HI>John Horner,</HI> (who hath carryed him&s;elf very nobly in this bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e to the end) and &s;ome other hone&s;t men to lend me &s;ome money, (whom I am confident you will never &s;uffer to be Lo&s;er, for the te&s;tifying of their affection in &s;uch a time of extremity;) by this means I was encouraged to try what &s;trength of Foot <HI>I</HI> could adde to the&s;e I had already, and re&s;olved to make u&s;e of the Arms of the Trained-<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ands of the City, which I did, and by that mean, and by ready money, I procured about One thou&s;and or Eleven hundred Arms, and rai&s;ed &s;o many men in Five dayes &s;pace; which time of re&s;pite the Enemy gave me, &s;taying til the <HI>Oxford</HI> Army under the Conduct of Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> came up on <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> &s;ide the Town. Having gotten together between Seventeen hundred, or Eighteen hundred men (which was no|thing for the manning of tho&s;e Works, that required at lea&s;t twice as many) I re&s;olved to make the be&s;t defence I could, and as long as I could, although when I &s;aw the two Armies drawn upon both &s;ides the town (being as I have been firce informed. Fifteen Regiments of Foot, and Twelve Regiments of Hor&s;e) I did know, that without a miracle, it was impo&s;&s;ible the town &s;hould be maintained again&s;t them for one week, yet neither the &s;ight of their great Army, nor their &s;hort Summons, did cau&s;e us to &s;urrender the place, as &s;ome have reported we did; and the Enemy expected we &s;hould have done (as &s;ome of them
<PB N="7" REF="4"> have expre&s;&s;ed &s;ince the rendring of the town) but we &s;tood it out Four dayes together, wherein they &s;pared not to plye us with &s;mall and great &s;hot, and with their Granadoes, giving our men (who were forced to be con&s;tantly all of them upon duty, and were &s;o Five dayes and nights together) no re&s;t at all, and two &s;harp a&s;&s;aults they made upon us, the one on Munday was &s;even-night at midnight, at which time having given a &s;ignall by three peeces of Ordnance &s;hot off, fir&s;t on the one &s;ide of the water, and then an&s;wered by as many on the other&s;ide, they fell on very de&s;perately on both &s;ides the town at once, but were beaten off with lo&s;&s;e; whereupon on Tue&s;day they entred into a &s;olemn debate, whether they &s;hould proceed to fall upon the town by way of A&s;&s;ault, or by way of Approach; and it was re|&s;olved, that it &s;hould be by way of A&s;&s;ault, as may appear by the Re&s;ult of their Councell of War (which we found in the pocket of Colonell <HI>Buck</HI> (who, with divers other Officers and Gentlemen of quality was &s;lain in that A&s;&s;ault) and accordingly on VVedne&s;day morning at break of the day they made a mo&s;t furious A&s;&s;ault upon all &s;ides of the town in Eight or Nine places at once, with Fire-Pikes and Granadoes in their hands, and with VVains full of Faggots, which they drove into the Ditch|es, that fir&s;t getting upon them, they might after get over the works, and they ran on &s;o de&s;perately, that they got up to the portalls of the Canon, and to the Palli&s;adoes of the Forts, and would not give over till they were knock'd down with Stones and Halberts, and &s;o with the lo&s;&s;e of divers hundreds of their men, (with many Officers and Gentlemen of quality) be&s;ides a multitude that were wounded and maimed, they were beaten off on all &s;ides, and the ground be&s;trewed with their dead bodies in all places where they &s;tormed.</P>
<P>But in one place where the works were not quite perfected, the Ditch being not made without &s;ide, nor the Foot Bank with|in &s;ide the work, they entred the line, there being but a weake Guard in that place, yet as I did in all places where through the want of foot I could not place a Guard &s;trong enough, there were neer a 100. hor&s;e under the command of Major <HI>Langri&s;he,</HI> appointed to &s;econd the Foot there, who were commanded to charge the enemy &s;o &s;oon as they &s;hould enter, but the&s;e hor&s;e did not charge the enemy as they were commanded, though &s;ome of them were mo&s;t earne&s;tly entreated thereunto by my
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Lieutenant Colonell, who had the command of that part; when the enemy fir&s;t began to enter, and our men began to give back; &s;o the enemy falling on in five di&s;tinct bodies, the fir&s;t and the &s;econd got over, and pre&s;ently got to the walls and places of advantage within the line, but as the third body was entring, my troop of hor&s;e, that was &s;et to &s;econd another Guard, hearing of the enemies entrie in this place, came down and fell upon the third Devi&s;ion of the enemy as they were entring, and cut them off; but being a&s;&s;aulted both by tho&s;e that were entring, and tho&s;e that had entered, before they came down firing upon them from the walls (which they had got the advantage of) they were forced to retreat, and then the enemy had free liberty to po&s;&s;e&s;se them&s;elves of the Suburbs by the Colledge Green, and Froom-gate, which they did, and hoping to force their entrie by that gate, they drew off the whole body of their forces to the place; whereupon we al&s;o drew off all our men from off the line into the town, and not &s;taying till they came to the Gates, we o|pened them, and i&s;&s;ued forth upon the enemy both with hor&s;e and foot, and beat them back from &s;treet to &s;treet for an houre and halfe together, in&s;omuch that many of them threw downe their arms and cryed for Quarter, but the enemy drawing down fre&s;h Companies &s;till one after another upon us, and we being not able to an&s;wer them in the like kind, having &s;o few men as we had, our men were forced at length to retreat into the town, and then, and not till then, whether it were out of extream wea|rine&s;&s;e, (having bin upon continuall duty for five nights together) or that they began to be di&s;heartned, the &s;ouldiers began to drop away from their colours, and from their guards, in&s;omuch that (having declared that all &s;ouldiers &s;hould repair into the Mar&s;h unto their colours, and that there they &s;hould receive both vict|ualls and mony:) when I went into the Mar&s;he to &s;ee what com|pany came together, of 12. or 14. Companies there came not a 100. men, and yet the enemy drew down thick upon the back; and it began now to be low water in the <HI>Key,</HI> &s;o that they might wade over at their plea&s;ure, and the guards being &s;o weak, might (if they had attempted it) have forced their entrie into the town in halfe an hour: Hereupon I re&s;olved to call a Coun&s;ell of war, for that now was the time that either we mu&s;t treat or retreat into the Ca&s;tle, if it &s;hould be thought fit &s;o to do, for that the Town could not be kept any longer.</P>
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<P>The Officers of the Gari&s;on being gathered together, and al&s;o the Gentlemen of the adjacent Counties, Sir <HI>Iohn Horner, Edward Sironde,</HI> Mr. <HI>Stevens,</HI> &amp;c. We tooke it into con&s;ideration, whether we &s;hould treate with the enemy or no, or retreat into the Ca&s;tle, firing the Town behind, as we made our retreat, if wee could keep the Town no longer, every body &s;eemed to be of opinion, and as for the retiring in|to the Ca&s;tle before we treated with the enemy, the&s;e con&s;iderations were offered again&s;t it. Fir&s;t, all our Hor&s;e, which were 300. All the Souldiers that could not be contained in the Ca&s;tle (which would have been near halfe of them) all our friends, both Citizens, and tho&s;e that had retired them&s;elves into <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> out of the adjacent Counties, excepting &s;ome few Principall men, mu&s;t have been &s;a|crificed to the furie of the enemy, the Citie was like in great part to be put into a&s;hes, and tho&s;e that &s;hould retire into the Ca&s;tle (if they were not prevented by the enemie) falling upon them on one hand, and the generality of the City on the other, (as I am credibly infor|med, there was &s;uch a de&s;igne) they mu&s;t al&s;o within three or foure daies have been the objects of the enemies cruelty and revenge (who would have given them no conditions) when they had no further re|treat to make conditions in.</P>
<P>A &s;econd con&s;ideration was this, that if we did fall upon the&s;e de&s;perate re&s;olutions, we &s;hould de&s;troy, only that we might de&s;troy without any hope of defending the place above three or foure daies, and without expectation of any relief in three or foure weeks, (nay it is clear, we &s;hould not have had any in &s;ixe or eight weeks. That which made it evident, that wee could not hold the Ca&s;tle above two or three daies, was becau&s;e we had not amunition for a longer time, having only fifty barrells of Powder, and no match at all, and accor|ding to the proportion of powder that we had &s;pent the daies before, this would not have &s;erved us above two daies: And if any blame me for being no better provided with Ammunition, my An&s;wer is, that I found but 45. Barrels of powder in the Town when I fir&s;t entred upon the charge thereof, that I had &s;et all the men I could find a|bout the City, and in the Countrie thereabouts, to make Salt Pet<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">r and Powder, that I had &s;everall times &s;earched all the Ships and Shops in the City, and had brought into the &s;tore all the Powder and Match that could be found, that I had &s;ent to <HI>London</HI> often for Powder, de|claring that want of Powder and men would be the lo&s;&s;e of that Ci|ty, and of the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> that I received only 30. Barrels of Powder from <HI>London,</HI> and that 70. more vvere &s;ent by a Ship (which
<PB N="10" REF="6"> as I under&s;tand &s;ince is ca&s;t away) that unle&s;&s;e I had taken care for more &s;urety to have &s;ome from <HI>France</HI> (from whence I had 126 bar|rels) long ere this both the Town and Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> had bin lo&s;t for want of powder, &amp; I was forced to help Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> with &s;o great a proportion of powder, (about 60 barrels) and &s;o much match, before the Siege of the City, that I could not recover it, the enemy gi|ving meno time to furni&s;h my &s;elf again with match and powder, and if I had not helped Sir <HI>VVilliam VValler</HI> at that time, he having but 6 barrels of powder left him after the fight at <HI>Laun&s;down:</HI> both the lo&s;&s;e of his Army and of the City in con&s;equence thereof, would have been imputed to me, and as I &s;aid before, I held the &s;ecurity of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> to be involved in the &s;ecurity of that Army, and that the de&s;tiny of the one, would bee the fall of the other. Be&s;ides whatever opinion &s;ome may have of the &s;trength of the Ca&s;tle (and indeed I had a grea|ter opinion of it my &s;elfe, till I &s;aw the manner of the Enemies &s;tor|ming and the execution that their peices of batterie did eaven upon our perapets of Earth) I am of the opinion that the enemy was, that they would by battery and &s;torme of hand have entred the Ca&s;tle in two dayes and &s;o they did re&s;olve to have &s;tormed it, being provided with clo&s;e decked boates and galleries to that purpo&s;e; and I doe ve|rily believe that they would have gained it though with the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome men, whereof there would have been after, a great deale more lo&s;&s;e and ma&s;&s;acre on every &s;ide, when they &s;hould have entred in that manner by force, which I am confident in the eye of any judicious man, they would have done, the fortifications about the Ca&s;tle being not perfected as they vvere intended, upon the&s;e Rea&s;ons it was con|cluded by the Coun&s;ell of War that we &s;hould rather treat, &amp; accept of conditions which might pre&s;erve the City to the <HI>Kingdom</HI> and 300 hor&s;e and 1500 Foot to the Parliament, be&s;ides the lives and e&s;tates of many friends to the Parliament; then to expo&s;e al the&s;e to evident ru|ine and de&s;truction for to pre&s;erve the Ca&s;tle 2 or 3 daies vvithout hope of keeping it longer: and vvithout hope of having reliefe in that &s;pace, or in any time it could be imagined the Ca&s;tle could be kept, though we could have kept it 2 mon. as I verily per&s;wade my &s;elf we could not have kept it a daies. When vve novv entred into the Parley, all the conditions that vve de&s;ired all mo&s;t vve had accorded unto us, excepting that of the Ammunition, Souldiers marching out vvith his armes and colours vvheron I intended to have in&s;i&s;ted and &s;hould have done it, but that vvhil&s;t I vvas vvithdravvne to debate it, toge|ther with my Officers. divers of my Captaines, came in and told me,
<PB N="11" REF="6"> that doe what they could, they could not get together above &s;ix a piece of their compainies that many of them did run over the water to the enemy, which not onely &s;hewed the enemy that our men were di&s;heartened, and that they &s;hould find but &s;lender oppo&s;ition, but it al&s;o &s;hewed the enemy how they might with ea&s;e come over the water into the tovvne; vvhich undoubtedly, they vvould have done, vvithall the ea&s;e that might bee, had vve broke off the Treaty vvithout comming to an agreement. It is true, conditions vvere not ob&s;erved (vvhich turned very much to the prejudice of the State) for by that meanes they ruined a Regiment of three hundred hor&s;e and di&s;perced a body of 1200, or 1500 Foot, vvhich if faith had beene kept; I vvould have brought in a body together to this City, and that was a &s;peciall thing that induced me to &s;urrender upon Conditions, e&s;teeming that the pre&s;ervation of &s;o many Hor&s;e and Foot, for the &s;erving the State, together with the lives and E&s;tates of divers hun|dreds of our Friends, was of more con&s;ideration unto the Parliament, then the de&s;perate holding out of a Ca&s;tle for a few dayes to no pur|po&s;e but the di&s;truction of tho&s;e that could not bee drawne into it fir&s;t, and of all tho&s;e al&s;o that were drawne into it afterwards there being no hope of any timely reliefe, but it is time that the fal&s;hood of the Enemy (again&s;t which there is no Fence) hath in great part de|prived us of the fruit of our conditions di&s;mounting our Troopers pil|laging our Souldiers as well Officers as others and by threats and in|ticements drawing off our Souldiers to &s;erve them, or di&s;percing them into their &s;everall Countries, and our convoy u&s;ed us wor&s;t of all, pillaging us all mo&s;t all the way they went with us, and extorting moneyes from us, wherein the Officers for the mo&s;t part were as much to blame as the Common-Souldiers, yet I mu&s;t doe this right to the Princes, Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> and Prince <HI>Maurice,</HI> contrary to what I find in a printed pamphlet, that they were &s;o farre from &s;itting upon their hor&s;es, triumphing and rejoycing at the&s;e di&s;orders that they did ride among&s;t the&s;e plunderers with their &s;words, hacking and &s;la&s;hing them, and Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> did excu&s;e it to me in a very faire way and with expre&s;sions as if he were much troubled at it:</P>
<P>One thing more I &s;hall endeavour to give you &s;atisfaction in and &s;o I &s;hall conclude. It is concerning Sir <HI>William Wallers</HI> leaving of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> which by &s;omething that I have &s;een in Print, as the re&s;olution of a Councell of warre held at <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> is &s;ayed to have been by the im|portunity of mee, and my Officers, at which Councell of Warre, neither I nor any of my Officers were pre&s;ent, nor doe I know that
<PB N="12" REF="7"> Sir <HI>VVilliam VValler</HI> was ever importuned, or &s;o much as moved by mee, or any of my Officers to goe from thence, but finding by many expres&s;ions of his that hee did not intend to bee be&s;ieged with his Hor&s;e in that Towne (as it would not have been wi&s;edome for him to have been) the fir&s;t Speech that I had with him about his &s;tay or departure, was when he drew out his Hor&s;e upon <HI>Bundam Downe,</HI> neere <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> for to take a view of them, at which time I asked him if the Enemy &s;hould advance towards <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> how he would di&s;po&s;e of him&s;elf and his Hor&s;e, whereunto he an&s;wered that he mu&s;t retreat, and thereupon &s;o &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n as I come off the Downe, I called a Councell of Warre, and acquainted them with Sir <HI>VVilliam VVallers</HI> re&s;oluti|on, and thereupon we made certaine propo&s;itions unto him, that if he did leave the Towne, t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">at hee would leave a certain proportion of Hor&s;e with us (which was my Regiment) and that hee would leave all his foot with us, who if vvee could get Arms for them, might be &s;ome help to us, which propo&s;ition he &s;tuck at a while, alleadging that he would take the field againe, and would have his Foot with him, but after he was contented to leave the Foot with us, finding it was not pos&s;ible for him to keepe the field with a fevv unarmed Foot, and a many &s;cattred and di&s;heartned Troopes, which I am confi|dent did not altogether make 500. Hor&s;e when he left <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> yet they were two many to lo&s;e, as I am confident they would all have been lo&s;t had they &s;tayed in <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> or have runne away to the Enemy, as many of them did, and they would have beene of no u&s;e to us for the Defence of the Citie, but have helped to have &s;pent our Provi&s;i|on, and di&s;turbed the Citie quarrelling continually with the Town&s;|men for want of Money to pay their quarters (as they did) and ther|fore it was my opinion and is &s;till that it was be&s;t for the advantage of the &s;ervice that Sir <HI>Villiam VValler</HI> &s;hould draw them out of the Town, and this I might expre&s;&s;ein di&s;cour&s;e, but that I ever moved Sir <HI>VVil|liam VValler</HI> thereunto, much le&s;&s;e importuned him. I doe not re|member, onely ju&s;t as he was going to take Hor&s;e, he de&s;ired me, if it was my opinion, that I would &s;et it under my hands, that I did ap|prove of his re&s;olution therein, which accordingly I did, but I knew nothing of his going to my Lord Generall, but expected rather that he would have gone to <HI>Glo&s;ter</HI> or <HI>Exeter,</HI> and gathered a Body there, to have afforded me &s;ome &s;peedy reliefe, which when he went from me, he told me he would doe, and that he would not be long ere he retur|ned to my reliefe, or to that purpo&s;e, and as it appeareth by a Letter, which he writ to my Lord Generall, the day after he came to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="7"> that he intended not to &s;tay there, but to take the Field againe, &s;o it did appeare to me by many of his expre&s;sions, that he never intended to bee kept up in <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and I never heard that he advi&s;ed with a|ny or my Officers concerning his &s;tay at <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> but &s;uppo&s;ing that he mu&s;t not &s;tay in the Towne, hee advi&s;ed with one of my Offi|cers, whether he had be&s;t to retire to <HI>Glo&s;ter,</HI> or to <HI>Exeter,</HI> who advi|&s;ed Him to goe for <HI>Exeter,</HI> and to take <HI>Do<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">che&s;ter</HI> in the way, and &s;o gathering all the Forces he could to joine with the Earle of <HI>VVarwick,</HI> to rai&s;e the &s;iege of <HI>Exeter,</HI> and after to make a Body to releeve us, which in my opinion had been no ill cour&s;e if it had been followed. Thus having declared unto you all particulars at large, I de&s;ire you would be plea&s;ed to let the truth of what I have affirmed be exami|ned at a Councell of Warre, that I may bee cleared or condemned ac|cording as they &s;hall finde the truth or fal&s;hood of what I have de|clared.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Copy of a Letter written to my Lord <HI>Say,</HI> by Colonell <HI>Nathaniel Fiennes,</HI> and the Gentlemen of <HI>Sommer &s;et</HI> and <HI>Gloce&s;ter-&s;hire</HI> for the &s;etling of a &s;ufficient Gari&s;on in that <HI>City;</HI> they having written another to my Lord Generall to the &s;ame purpo&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>TO Under&s;tand fir&s;t the importance of this City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and next the condition in which we are left to defend it: The enemy hath lately ca&s;t his eye upon it, prompted by the witty malice of our Malignants, to e&s;py his advantage, if he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e this City, hee will reape the&s;e benefits by our lo&s;&s;e. 1. he will get much money, Armes and Amunition in a more cheape and le&s;&s;e hazardous way, then he can have them out of the Low-Countreyes, all which hee will pay for with monopolies and ingro&s;&s;ments of Trade, (things with which the great ones of this Towne have bin well acquainted, and are ther|fore malignant. 2. If he gaine this Town he will &s;oone &s;ubdue <HI>Glo|ce&s;ter,</HI> and become Ma&s;ter of all the Tract betweene <HI>Shrew&s;bury,</HI> and and the <HI>Lizards</HI> point in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> a quarter &s;o plentifull as his plun|dering army yet never &s;aw. 3. He will become ma&s;ter of all the Traf|ficke of that Inland Sea the Severne, and make all the Shipping both of the <HI>VVelch,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Coa&s;ts his owne. 4. His Neighbourhood to Wales: will from time to time &s;upply him with a body of Foot 5. We &s;hall lo&s;e a Port Towne very important for the &s;ervice of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> and fit to give Landing to the Rebels of that place or any other Enemy.</P>
<PB N="14" REF="8">
<P>The di&s;ea&s;ed &s;tate we &s;tand in followeth.</P>
<P>The Enemy hath lately bin before our doores invited by a treach|erous party in this Town: we had then 2 Regiments of foot, Colo|nell <HI>E&s;&s;exes,</HI> and Col. <HI>Pophams,</HI> and almo&s;t a whole Regiment of hor&s;e, yet the extent of this &s;cattering City, commanded by many Hils, and the con&s;piring multitude within it enforced all our men at once to doe duty: &s;o that we had bin undone by watching over our &s;afety, if the enemy had bin able to per&s;i&s;t, &s;ince which time Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> hath beene with us, (and being de&s;irous to take the field) hath taken from us Col. <HI>E&s;lex</HI> whole Regiment of foot, and the mo&s;t part of our hor&s;e. And though we acknowledge a partie in the Field, to bee a good &s;trength to us, yet wee conceive a City of this con&s;equence ought to have an inward &s;trength of his owne, and not to depend wholly upon the uncertaine i&s;&s;ue of warre abroad; con&s;idering how apt the Town is to ri&s;e again&s;t us if the dye of war &s;hould turn again&s;t Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> and the enemy pur&s;ue his victory to the Walls or if a joint party from <HI>Cornwall</HI> and <HI>VVales,</HI> &s;hould pa&s;&s;e through the Country, and take up our malignant in their way, wee cannot pro|mi&s;e to keep the town but to lo&s;e our &s;elves, &s;eeing our whole &s;trength con&s;i&s;ts but of Col. <HI>Pophams</HI> Regiment of Foot not compleat, and of Col. <HI>Fiennes,</HI> and Col. <HI>Coles</HI> Troopes of Hor&s;e.</P>
<P>Wherefore we &s;hall humbly propound the remedy, which is, that we may be enabled to rai&s;e, two other Regiments of foot, one under the command of Col. <HI>Fiennes,</HI> and the other under the command of And that we may have &s;ome &s;upply of money from the Parliament; That the&s;e new rai&s;ed Regiments together with Col. <HI>Pophams</HI> afore&s;aid Regiment, and Col. <HI>Fiennes</HI> Regiment of Hor&s;e be only de&s;tined for defence of this City and Country for twenty miles round about it, out of which territory of 20 miles compa&s;&s;e and this City, if they be left onely to us we hope to pay the &s;aid forces when as they are rai&s;ed, we have written to his Excellency for two or three experienced Commanders to make Sergeant Majors, as many able Gunners, and a skillfull Engineer we be&s;eech your Honour forward our de&s;ires, One adverti&s;ement more we &s;hall trouble your Lord&s;hip withall; which is that our rich Merchants have &s;hipped mo&s;t of their Trea&s;ure, and the Ships lie off at Sea out of our command which &s;eemes to threaten a &s;torme at Land: If the Parliament could &s;pare 2. or 3. good pinnaces to guard this haven and the Seaverne; that no Ships pa&s;&s;e without licence, it would much &s;ecure the&s;e parts, and an|noy Wales, and we conceive the charge may be born by the toll upon
<PB N="15" REF="8"> all merchandize, which tho&s;e malignants de&s;erve to undergoe.</P>
<P>The two Pinnaces &s;ent by the Parliament to <HI>Milford</HI> Haven, are ve&s;&s;els of no force and their commanders of no activity that we heare of. And if we be tru&s;ted to take &s;ome accompt of their endeavours it may perchance quicken them, we have writ to his Excellency, to en|able us by his appointment to proceed with our Treacherous Con&s;pirators, to the utmo&s;t extent of mar&s;hall Law; the wickednes of &s;ome of them de&s;erving to be made an example of utmo&s;t &s;everity, and without which, we &s;hall incurre contempt and lie open to more practi&s;es, we be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip bee the mediator of our humble de&s;ires, and make what u&s;e you plea&s;e of them, to the clo&s;e Commit|tee we have revealed tho&s;e weakne&s;&s;es to your honour, which other|wi&s;e wee de&s;ire to conceale knowing that a bare reputation in matters of War doth many times win the game. We are</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your honours humble<LB> Servants.<LB>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Nathaniel Fiennes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander Popham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ch: Walker.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joh. Seymoure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edw. Stephens.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Bri&s;toll, <DATE>20 March 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<HEAD>A Copie of a Letter written by my Lord Ge|nerall, to the Lord SAY, concerning the &s;etling of a &s;ufficient Gari&s;on at BRISTOLL, according to the Propo&s;itions made by Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> to that purpo&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Under&s;tand there is a Committee of the Hou&s;e of Commons ap|pointed to con&s;ider of the e&s;tabli&s;hing a Gari&s;on in the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI> I am very glad of their care of it, being a place of &s;o great im|portance. I de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip to acquaint the Committee with my re&s;olution concerning the &s;trength of that Gari&s;on, and entreate them that cour&s;e may be taken for a &s;ufficient maintenance for it.</P>
<P>I Thinke it nece&s;&s;ary that that Gari&s;on doe con&s;i&s;t of tho&s;e tvvo Regiments which Col. <HI>Fiennes</HI> hath already rai&s;ed, and of that Regi|ment under Col. <HI>Popham,</HI> of tvvo Troopes of Hor&s;e, and Captaine <HI>Olands</HI> company of Dragoons. This I thinke little enough both in re&s;pect of the importance of that place as being the Key of the We&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> and likewi&s;e becau&s;e by the&s;e forces the Governour will bee able at all times to &s;uppre&s;le any that &s;hall ri&s;e again&s;t us in tho&s;e parts to a&s;si&s;t our friends, as novv is done by Colonell <HI>Pophams</HI> Regi|ment.</P>
<P>My Lord, I againe recommend this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to your care and de|&s;ire you likevvi&s;e, that you vvill let my re&s;olution herein be knowne to the Governour of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and likewi&s;e to the Gentlemen of <HI>Som|mer&s;et-&s;hire, Gloce&s;ter-&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Wilt-&s;hire,</HI> that they may endeavour to &s;ettle &s;ome con&s;tant cour&s;e for the maintenance of this Gari&s;on. My Lord I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips faithfull<LB> Friend and Servant,<LB> ESSEX.</SIGNED><LB>
<DATELINE>Thame, <DATE>Iune, 22.<LB> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="ordinance">
<PB N="17" REF="9">
<HEAD>A Draught of the Ordinance pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e of Commons by the Le: <HI>Say,</HI> for the &s;etling of a &s;ufficient Garri&s;on <HI>AT BRISTOLL,</HI> According to the Propo&s;itions made by Colonell <HI>Fiennes,</HI> and recommended unto his care by my Lord Generall, and the Gentlemen of Somer|&s;et and Glouce&s;ter&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lords and Commons taking into their &s;erious con&s;ide|ration, the great importance of the city of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> to the &s;afe|ty of this Kingdom, and the dangerous attempts that have been made again&s;t it by the late dete&s;table Con&s;piracie, and the great Forces that were brought before it by Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> into who&s;e hands the Con&s;pirators were prepared to have delivered the &s;ame; And that there is great danger that the like attempts may be made hereafter for the &s;urpri&s;all of it, if care be not taken for the preventing thereof,</P>
<P>Do Order and Ordain, That there &s;hall be a Garri&s;on forth|with rai&s;ed by Colonell <HI>Fiennes,</HI> the Governour of the &s;aid City, con&s;i&s;ting of Three Regiments of Foot, one of Twelve hundred men, and another of One thou&s;and, another of Eight hundred men, and Two Troops of Hor&s;e, and One company of Dragoons, to be completely armed and furni&s;hed, and there kept and main|tained in con&s;tant pay, for the defence of the &s;aid city and the cir|cuit thereof; And to be imployed for the defence of the city of
<PB N="18" REF="10"> <HI>Bathe,</HI> and the adjacent counties of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> and <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> as oc|ca&s;ion &s;hall require.</P>
<P>And that one of the &s;aid Regiments for the &s;aid Garri&s;on, con|&s;i&s;ting of Twelve hundred men, &s;hall be maintained by <HI>Barkley</HI> divi&s;ion, in the county of <HI>Glouce&s;t,</HI> another of One thou&s;and, be|ing Colonels <HI>Pophams</HI> Regiment, with the Troops of Hor&s;e, and company of Dragoons, by that part of the Ea&s;tern divi&s;ion in the county of <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> which is next adjoyning to <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bathe.</HI> And the third Regiment of Eight hundred men, together with other incident charges nece&s;&s;ary for their &s;afety, by the &s;aid cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bathe.</HI></P>
<P>And it is likewi&s;e Ordained, That there be Three Regiments more of Trained Bands, or Voluntiers, which upon Summons &s;hall be drawn together from time to time; as often as need &s;hall re|quire, for the defence of the &s;aid cities and counties adjacent; One of which Regiments of the Trained Bands, or Voluntiers, &s;hall be rai&s;ed out of <HI>Barkley</HI> divi&s;ion, in the county of <HI>Glouce&s;t</HI>'; One other out of that part of the Ea&s;tern divi&s;ion of <HI>Somer&s;et|&s;hire,</HI> which is neare&s;t <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bathe;</HI> And the third, out of both the &s;aid cities.</P>
<P>That for the better &s;ettlement of the Garri&s;on in manner a|fore&s;aid, the Deputy-Lieutenants in the counties of <HI>Glouc</HI>' and <HI>Som<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;et,</HI> &s;hall cau&s;e the Regiments of the Trained-Bands of their &s;everall counties to be furni&s;hed again with Arms, tho&s;e of <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> being for the mo&s;t part lo&s;t at <HI>Ciceter;</HI> And tho&s;e of <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire</HI> in the parts next <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> being imployed in Colo|nell <HI>Pophams</HI> Regiment, being one of the Three to be kept in con&s;tant pay as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And that all the Moneys which &s;hall be levyed out of <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">rkley</HI> divi&s;ion in <HI>Glouc</HI>', and out of that par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Ea&s;tern divi&s;ion in <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire</HI> which is ne<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">t adjoyning to <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bathe,</HI> and out of the cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bathe,</HI> by vertue of the &s;everall Ordinances of both Hou&s;es for the weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, the Twentieth part, and the Seque&s;trations of Delinquents E&s;tates; &s;hall be a&s;&s;igned for the u&s;e of the afore&s;aid Garri&s;ons and For|tifications. And that the &s;everall Committees who are appointed to receive or i&s;&s;ue out Monies rai&s;ed by the&s;e Ordinances in the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> or the &s;aid counties adjacent &s;hall pay and defray all the charges of the &s;aid Garri&s;on and Fortifications, being valued and made known to them by the &s;aid Governour
<PB N="19" REF="10"> of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> out of the moneys &s;o to be rai&s;ed by the &s;aid Ordinan+ces, before they do imploy any part thereof to any other u&s;e. And the Warrant and Receit of the &s;aid Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> Gover|nour of the &s;aid city, &s;hall be a &s;ufficient di&s;charge to the &s;aid Committees in that behalf. Provided alwayes, that if there &s;hall not be a &s;ufficient proportion for the u&s;es afore&s;aid, rai&s;ed out of the &s;everall divi&s;ions and places before mentioned, that then it be made up out of the re&s;t of the &s;aid counties re&s;pectively.</P>
<P>And al&s;o that the &s;urplu&s;age (if any be) &s;hall be imployed for the u&s;e of other parts of the adjacent counties, and for &s;uch other u&s;es as &s;hall be directed by both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordained by the Authority above&s;aid, that a&s;well for the maintenance of the &s;aid Garri&s;on, and the charges incident thereunto. As al&s;o, for the making and fini&s;hing of the Fortifications and Works in and about the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> &s;hall pay, and is hereby rated and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed to the Weekly &s;um of Four hundred pounds, to begin the Fir&s;t day of Iuly, 1643. And for the better performance thereof; and ea&s;e of the &s;aid city, It is Ordained by the Lords and Commons, That the Weekly &s;um of Fifty five pounds, formerly a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed up|on the &s;aid city by the late Ordinance of both Hou&s;es of Parl. for the Weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments towards the &s;upply of the Army rai&s;ed by Authority of Parliament, &s;hall go and be accounted as part of the &s;aid Four-hundred pounds weekly for the maintenance of the &s;aid Garri&s;on and Fortifications, and not otherwi&s;e to be required for the u&s;e of the &s;aid Army.</P>
<P>It is further Ordained by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, That the &s;aid Weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment of Four hundred pounds &s;hall be A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed, rated, taxed, and levyed by Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> Governour of the &s;aid Town, Colonell <HI>Popham, Richard Ald&s;worth</HI> Major of the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> Sergeant Major <HI>Iohn Clifton,</HI> Captain <HI>Richard Hippe&s;ley,</HI> Captain <HI>Thomas Hippe&s;ley,</HI> Mr. <HI>Luke Hodges,</HI> Mr. <HI>Henry Gribs,</HI> and Mr <HI>Iames Howell,</HI> who &s;hall have like power and Authority, as other Committees have by the &s;aid &s;e|verall Ordinances; And al&s;o have power and Authority to call unto them &s;uch of the mo&s;t indifferent under&s;tanding, and &s;uffi|cient per&s;ons of every Pari&s;h within the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> as they &s;hall think fit to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance; And &s;hall rate and tax the &s;aid Weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment, charged by this Ordinance upon the Inhabitants, and the owners of goods or other E&s;tate there, in &s;uch
<PB N="20" REF="11"> moderate and proportionable manner as they &s;hall think fit, to and for the maintenance of the &s;aid Garri&s;on and Fortifications; As al&s;o to have like power to levie the &s;ame, and to do all things nece&s;&s;ary for the execution of this pre&s;ent Ordinance, as by the &s;aid former Ordinance for the Weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment is appointed; And that what &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>London</HI> by way of Exci&s;e or new Impo&s;t, upon Wines, Tobacco, or other Commodities, &s;hall be likewi&s;e &s;etled in <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> towards the maintenance of the &s;aid Garri&s;on and Fortifications (there.)</P>
<P>And to the end the Trained Bands or Voluntiers above &s;peci|fied, and the &s;everall divi&s;ion and limits, out of which they &s;hall be rai&s;ed, may be the better able to perform the &s;ervices, and di&s;charge the payments before mentioned, It is further Ordained, That no Taxes or payments &s;halbe levyed or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed upon them, other then &s;uch as are or &s;hall be Ordered by both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>And it is al&s;o Ordained, That by the a&s;&s;ent and Warrant of Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> the Governour of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and Two or more of the Deputy-Lieutenants, or Committees of Parliament, re&s;i|ding in or n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">er the &s;aid divi&s;ions and no other, the Trea&s;urers of the &s;aid Divi&s;ions and cities &s;hall i&s;&s;ue out monies for the u&s;e of the &s;aid Garri&s;on and Fortifications; And that the &s;aid Trained-Bands or Voluntiers &s;hall not be drawn away to other &s;ervices, then what they are by this Ordinance a&s;&s;igned unto, without the like Warrant as afore&s;aid; And that by &s;uch Warrant they may be at any time drawn out into the &s;aid cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> or <HI>Bath</HI> for the defence thereof.</P>
<P>It is further Ordained, That the &s;aid Colonell <HI>Fiennes</HI> Gover|nour of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> &s;hall have power to grant Commi&s;&s;ions for Trained-Bands; As al&s;o for Bands of Voluntiers to be rai&s;ed within the &s;aid cities; And that the &s;ame power which was gran|ted by Ordinance of Parliament to the Apprentices and others of <HI>London,</HI> that &s;hould be willing to undergo the like &s;ervice, &s;hall be extended to the &s;aid city of <HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI></P>
<P>And for the &s;ecuring of the River of <HI>Severn,</HI> and the Seas thereto adjoyning. It is Ordained, That the &s;aid Colonell <HI>Fienn<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Governour of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> &s;hall have power likewi&s;e to grant Com|mi&s;&s;ions to any Merchants or others that will &s;et out &s;hips, to take any Wel&s;h, Corni&s;h, or Iri&s;h Rebells, or any Ve&s;&s;ell that &s;hall be imployed, to afford them or any of them any ayd or a&s;&s;i|&s;tance,
<PB N="21" REF="11"> and to make prizes thereof, paying a third of all, that &s;hall be taken, or &s;uch proportion as &s;hall be thought fit to the u&s;e of the <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly it is ordeyned, That Col. <HI>Nath: Fiennes,</HI> Governour of <HI>Bri&s;toll, Alexander Popham,</HI> Capt. <HI>Iohn Fiennes,</HI> be added to the &s;everall Committees of the weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement, the <HI>Twentieth Part,</HI> and the Committee for Seque&s;trations in the &s;everall Coun|ties of Gloce&s;ter&s;hire and Sommer&s;et&s;hire, and in the Cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Bath.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="approval">
<HEAD>An Approbation of the Ordinance pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e by the Lord <HI>Say,</HI> for the &s;etling of the Garri&s;on of Bri&s;toll, by the prin|cipall Gentlemen of Berkly Devi&s;ion in Gloce&s;ter&s;hire.</HEAD>
<P>VVEe who&s;e names are under written, have &s;eene the draught of an Ordinance of Parliament, for the &s;etling of a Garri&s;on in the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and for the contribution and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the adjacent Counties for the maintenance thereof, which we approve of, and hold very conduceable to the &s;ecurity both of the City and county, only we de&s;ire that a provi&s;ion may be in&s;erted, for the defraying of the charges of the Officers and Souldiers of the Trained-bands and Voluntiers, when they &s;hall be called to do any &s;ervice out of the &s;everall Devi&s;ions out of the which they are rai&s;ed, and that <HI>Berkly</HI> Ca&s;tle may be furni&s;hed with a Garri&s;on &s;ufficient for the defence thereof out of the Gar|ri&s;on of <HI>Bri&s;toll;</HI> or upon the monies to bee rai&s;ed out of <HI>Berkley</HI> Devi&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Seymour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Stephens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joh: Codrington.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>An Extract out of a Letter from Col: <HI>Fiennes</HI> to my Lond Gene|rall, dated March 20. upon occa&s;ion of Sir <HI>Will. Wallers</HI> draw|ing forth Col: <HI>E&s;&s;ex's</HI> Regiment out of Bri&s;toll.</HEAD>
<P>THe drawing forth of Col: <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his whole Regiment may expo&s;e this City to a great deal of danger, there being not &s;o much as one experienced Officer left among the Comparies that remain here, and the number and quality of the Common &s;ouldi|ers
<PB N="22" REF="12"> being much di&s;proportionable to the nece&s;&s;ity and importance of this place, as in a particular Letter which (with the re&s;t of the Gentlemen of <HI>Sommer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Glouc.</HI> I writ to your Excel|lency doth more fully appear:) And as I doubt not, but according to the con&s;tant care your Excellency hath had of this place, an|&s;werable to the importance thereof, your Lord&s;hip will provide a per&s;on for the government thereof that may be fit to be intru|&s;ted with &s;o great a charge; &s;o that your Excellency will al&s;o hold it fit that he may have &s;uch a command over the forces that &s;halbe thought fit for the defence of the place, as that he may be able to give a good accompt thereof. I earne&s;tly expect a di&s;charge from your Excellency of that tru&s;t, which at pre&s;ent is in my hands, that it may not be left at Random in no bodies hand at all: And that it may be repo&s;ed in a hand more fit and able for it; which is the humble de&s;ire of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Excellencies<LB> mo&s;t humble Servant.<LB> Nath: Fiennes.</SIGNED><LB>
<DATELINE>Bri&s;toll.<LB>
<DATE>March 20. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>An Extract of another Letter from Col: <HI>Fiennes</HI> to Col: <HI>Hamb|den,</HI> dated <DATE>March. the 19th.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>I Shall &s;ay onely this in generall, that if there be not &s;ome &s;pee|dy cour&s;e taken that more men may be brought to &s;trengthen the Garri&s;on, and &s;ome expert &s;ouldiers to command them, this Town in all probability will be lo&s;t, and all we that are in it. All that Sir <HI>Wil: VValler</HI> aleadgeth is this; that he being in the Field with a con&s;iderable body, doth &s;tand between us and danger: but &s;uch a city as this &s;hould not be a noun adjective, nor depend upon the fortune or failing of a party in the field, the lo&s;&s;e thereof be|ing of greater con&s;equence then of the whole party in the field; I de&s;ire that either I may have leave to quitt the charge, (which was my earne&s;t &s;uit to Sir <HI>Wil: Waller</HI> that I might do) or that meanes might be afforded unto me to make it good; I &s;hall ap|peal to any man that is a &s;ouldier, whether there be not need of 3000. men at lea&s;t to be an ordinary Garri&s;on for this Town with &s;ome Troops of hor&s;e and Dragoons. <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> is worth the keep|ing, and yet in the judgement of any &s;ouldier not ea&s;ie to be kept, though with a good &s;trength of &s;ouldiers, but impo&s;&s;ible to bee kept with a few; If that it be expected from me to give an ac|compt
<PB N="23" REF="12"> of this place, I de&s;ire my &s;traw may not be taken from me, and yet &s;o great a tale of Brick be required at my hands.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I Am utterly di&s;couraged in the employment I have here, becau&s;e I do not &s;ee a way of &s;ub&s;i&s;tance for the forces that are here, for I doubt I can expect little money from</HI> London, <HI>and all the wayes whereby I got &s;ome heretofore out of Glouce&s;ter&s;hire and Sommer|&s;et&s;hire, will be &s;topped up and diverted towards the maintenance of Sir</HI> Wil: Wallers <HI>Army, and I &s;hall be left to feed upon the bare &s;tones, and yet Sir</HI> Wil: Waller <HI>at his fir&s;t coming to this City, drew</HI> 2000 l. <HI>out of it, which if it might be allowed me till a cour&s;e might be &s;etled for the maintenance of this Garri&s;on, I &s;hould have &s;ome probability of keeping up the hor&s;e and foot that I have, with a great deal of paines rai&s;ed, without one penny allowance from</HI> London, <HI>but if all draw from me and none helpe me; I &s;hould de&s;ire that my Lo: Generall would command me to come to his Army with my Regi|ment of foot and hor&s;e, and that &s;ome body el&s;e may be put to keepe this Town, that can make it keep it &s;elfe, for I confe&s;&s;e I cannot do it without a&s;&s;i&s;tance from the adjacent Counties, or from the Par|liament; That which will ari&s;e out of the Delinquents e&s;tates, will not be con&s;iderable; there are not many of any e&s;tate, that were in the Con&s;piracy, and they have found meanes to conceale the greate&s;t part of their e&s;tates; and what is vi&s;ible will bee little more then what is &s;ufficient to pay their debters; And I perceive the Parlia|ment intendeth to allow the payment of debts out of their e&s;tates, (which is ju&s;t that it &s;hould be done, &s;o there be care that the State be not deceived by pretended debts, or &s;uch as are contracted &s;ince the Con&s;piracy.) My Lord, I cannot long &s;ub&s;i&s;t in this employment un|le&s;&s;e that there be a cour&s;e t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> help me with monies, or that power be given me to help my &s;elf in this City and the adjacent parts.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t obedient<LB> Son, Nath: Fiennes.</SIGNED><LB>
<DATELINE>Bri&s;tol. <DATE>Apr. 22.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>An Extract of a Letter written from Col: <HI>Fiennes</HI> to the Lord <HI>Say</HI> his Father, <DATE><HI>May, 12. 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>I Have layed out here, neer 9000. l. &s;ince I came to this Town, and I never yet had above 4000 l. from the Parliament; as your
<PB N="24" REF="13"> Lord&s;hip be&s;t knows, all the re&s;t I have got up my &s;elfe with great deal of trouble for the pre&s;ervation of this City, which with|out it had undoubtedly fallen into the hands of the enemy.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>An Extract of a Letter from Col: <HI>Fiennes</HI> to the Lord <HI>Say</HI> his Father, dated <DATE><HI>May 13, 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>I Am in that extremity for want of money, that I know not what to do, and all the &s;prings which formerly afforded me &s;up|ply, are dryed up, for Sir <HI>Wil: Waller</HI> expecteth all out of the counties, and the City will not continue their weekly contribu|tion any longer: If the Propo&s;itions of joyning a certain Circuit in Sommer&s;et&s;hire and Gloce&s;ter&s;hire to this Towne, as to the maintenance of this Garri&s;on with money, and men upon occa&s;i|on, might be granted; I &s;hould hope by the grace of God to give a good accompt of this City and the adjacent parts; And I am confident there is no objection again&s;t them, but what ari&s;eth out of particular re&s;pects to the prejudice of the publick intere&s;t, un|le&s;&s;e tho&s;e Propo&s;itions may be admitted, or a continuall &s;upply granted from <HI>London,</HI> (which I cannot expect:) all that I build here is without a foundation, and mu&s;t needs fall to the ground, and this Town into the hands of the enemy.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>An Extract out of a Letter from Col: <HI>Fiennes</HI> to my Lord <HI>Say</HI> his Father, <DATE><HI>June 9: 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>THe Lord deliver me from the condition wherein I am, that I &s;hould have the charge of a Town of &s;uch importance as this is upon me, &amp; neither have men halfe enough to maintain it, nor mony to maintain tho&s;e men I have, nor means afforded me to rai&s;e any mony, I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip di&s;patch unto me by order of the Hou&s;e, a power to rate Malignants and Neutralls at the 20th. part of their e&s;tate; If I had but this I might be able to rai&s;e &s;ome monies (although not &s;ufficient) for the Garri&s;on, unle&s;&s;e the adjacent counties come in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance; and it is all the rea&s;on in the world that Gloce&s;ter&s;hire &s;hould maintaine one Regiment in this City, Sommer&s;et, another, and the City, with the help of Wilt&s;hire another; if &s;ome &s;uch cour&s;e were &s;ettled, I &s;hould have le&s;&s;e recour&s;e to &s;upplies from <HI>London;</HI> till then I mu&s;t, or this Town mu&s;t be lo&s;t, and all that is in it, and all that depend upon it, which will not &s;o &s;oone be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed againe.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<PB N="25" REF="13">
<HEAD>An Extract of another Letter written to the Lord Say, <DATE>June 17. 1643.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>MY Lord I much wonder that any &s;hould conceive the e&s;tates of the Con&s;pirators any thing con&s;ideable, in re&s;pect of the great charge I am con&s;tantly at, being to pay 1500 foot, a Regi|ment of Hor&s;e, and a company of Dragoones, and a hundred Gunners, be&s;ides workmen upon the Fortifications; &s;o that I have beene &s;ometimes at 1300. l. &s;ometimes at 1200. l. &s;eldome under 1000. l. a weeke; and I &s;hall never make 3000. l. from the beginning to the end out of the Con&s;pirators e&s;tates, there being never a rich man among&s;t them; and their Creditors claiming and carrying away the greate&s;t part of what is not abroad con|veyed away, or &s;o concealed that I cannot find it out; and I can a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hip I have already received and &s;pent the mo&s;t of what I am to expect that way, otherwi&s;e I had not beene able to have &s;ub&s;i&s;ted halfe this time: It were folly in me to conceale that which will prove the truth, if out of the conceipt of the riches of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> (which &s;ince the &s;top of trade, and many Malig|nants withdrawing their e&s;tates, is much otherwi&s;e then is con|ceived by &s;ome) I am left to maintaine this Garri&s;on, without a&s;&s;i&s;tance from the Countries or from &s;ome other way, I &s;hall not be able to keepe my men together for a fortnight: for my part I &s;hall de&s;ire to be di&s;charged of the tru&s;t, unle&s;&s;e I may have means to di&s;charge it with honour to my &s;elfe, and &s;afety to the City and countries adjacent; I am confident they are their owne greate&s;t enemies that oppo&s;e my propo&s;itions for the &s;etling this Garri&s;on, and that if they have their wils, they will quickly &s;ee this City fall into the enemies hands, and &s;o have a perpetuall yoke, to the Counties of <HI>Glouce&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Sommer&s;et;</HI> I &s;hall mu&s;ter up all the patience that is in me, but I cannot hold out long in that manner that I have done; Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> hath now a good &s;trength about him, e&s;pecially of Hor&s;e, and for ought that I &s;ee the enemy will fight with him, I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e I doubt the &s;ucce&s;&s;e, unle&s;&s;e it come extraordinarily from God, as formerly it hath done.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<PB N="26" REF="14">
<HEAD>Another Extract of a Letter of <DATE>Iune 24.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>MY Lord I have ever &s;ince I came to this City, beene in a trou|ble&s;ome and very oft in a dangerous condition, but I am like to be put to it now more then ever, and had I not had experience of Gods mercy to me in times of &s;treights, my faith would wel|nigh faile me. I will not write the particulars whereon I ground this apprehen&s;ion of my condition, not knowing into what hands this Letter may come, but only in generall I will &s;ay thus much, That happily the &s;upport that this City and all the re&s;t &s;eemes to relye on (which is Sir <HI>William Wallers</HI> army) may faile us, but God will never faile us. At the la&s;t Rende&s;vouz that Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> had of his hor&s;e, there appeared betweene two and three thou&s;and hor&s;e, a brave body of hor&s;e, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="excerpt of letter">
<HEAD>Another Extract of a Letter of <DATE>July 8. 1643.</DATE> Sent by the &s;ame Col. <HI>Fines</HI> to my Lord <HI>Say</HI> his Father.</HEAD>
<P>I Be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip to cau&s;e my Ordinance for the &s;etling of a garri&s;on at <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> to bee di&s;patched; me thinks there &s;hould be no &s;top of it now that I have &s;ent an approbation there|of, under the hands of all tho&s;e con&s;iderable Gentlemen that live in tho&s;e parts whereon the burthen is principally to lye; your Lord&s;hip cannot imagine what difficulties I am put upon for want of that Ordinance, and if God had not given my Soul|diers and Officers a great deale of patience, we mu&s;t needs have fallen all to pieces by this time; and this day I am in as great ne|ce&s;&s;ity as ever, and do live every day but from hand to mouth. I am &s;ure all my Propo&s;itions have no other aime but the publick good. I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip againe to ha&s;ten the di&s;patch of that Ordinance which is in hand, &amp; in the mean time being a ve|ry beggar, I mu&s;t &s;till beg for &s;upplyes of money.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A Letter written by Sir <HI>W. Waller</HI> and Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigge</HI> to Mr: <HI>John A&s;he,</HI> to ha&s;ten forces out of <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> unto them, Whereupon 1200 was &s;ent.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Good Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SUre you think we have both a lame and a patient enemy, that will be knockt and &s;tay till we be ready to an&s;wer his returne.
<PB N="27" REF="14"> We expected Col. <HI>Fines</HI> Regiment this day, and now I heare that he appointed that Sir <HI>John Seymors</HI> men &s;hould not come to <HI>Bri|&s;toll</HI> before Monday, and then we are to expect ours. Upon Tu&s;e|day we think the Enemy will fall on this night, if not, to morrow morning; and if &s;o, what good will this Regiment do <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> if we peri&s;h. It is a wonder to me to &s;ee our friends delay helpe when there in &s;afety; and I am confident, Honour is wrapt up in our &s;ucce&s;&s;e. It is &s;aid your Captains have not yet ca&s;t lots who &s;hall come forth; I thought they would have petitioned for the imployment. We &s;hall be happy in Col. <HI>Pophams</HI> Regiment, and Col. <HI>Fines</HI> al&s;o; &s;urely a &s;mall guard will keep under the Malig|nants, we being &s;o neare. Let not the we&s;t of <HI>England</HI> be lo&s;t for a little monies, neither &s;end your &s;upplies too late. There is a time which wi&s;e-men do not let &s;lippe. It is &s;trange to me, that the&s;e Forces have not long &s;ince been drawne out. What forces you &s;end us, let us have them with all &s;peed. It grieves our hearts you are no more &s;en&s;ible of our pre&s;ent condition, and the nearne&s;&s;e and &s;trength of the Enemy. We have done our duties, the Lord direct you. We are</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Servants,<LB>
<LIST>
<ITEM>William Waller.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Art. Ha&s;ilrige.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED><LB>
<DATELINE><DATE>July 1. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="document">
<HEAD>A Copie of the Re&s;ult of the Coun|cell of Warre held by the Enemies, concer|ning the A&s;&s;aulting of the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> found in Collonel <HI>Bucks</HI> pocket that was there &s;taine, with divers other Officers and Gentlemen of qualitie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At the Councell of Warre held at <HI>Knowle,</HI> neare <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> Somer&s;et. <DATE>the five and twentieth day of July, 1643</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Their Highne&s;&s;e Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> and Prince <HI>Maurice. Pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Earle of Carnarvon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> John Biron.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Serjeant Major Generall</HI> Wag&s;taffe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Richard Cave.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> William Ogle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Richard Slanning.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Collonell</HI> Buck.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Collonell</HI> Ba&s;&s;et.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lieutenant Col.</HI> A&s;htley.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lieutenant Col.</HI> Oneale.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV2 TYPE="question">
<PB N="28" REF="15">
<HEAD>Que&s;tion.</HEAD>
<P>VVHether it be be&s;t to a&s;&s;ault, or approach the City of <HI>Bri&s;toll?</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="resolution">
<HEAD>Re&s;olution.</HEAD>
<P>It is re&s;olved by the whole Councell of Warre for divers rea&s;ons, that it &s;hall be a&s;&s;aulted by both the Armies on all &s;ides, according to the be&s;t skill and di&s;cretion of the Comman|ders in chiefe that are to fall on.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="orders">
<HEAD>Orders.</HEAD>
<P>It is ordered that the houre appointed for them to fall on, &s;hall be to morrow morning, ju&s;t at the breake of day: The word for the Souldiers to be <HI>Oxford;</HI> and the &s;igne betweene the two Armies, whereby to know each other, to be greene colours, either bowes, or &s;uch like, and that every Officer and Souldier be with|out any band or hand-cherchiefe about his neck.</P>
<P>That the Collonels of the &s;everall Brigads as &s;oone as they &s;hall have entred the Enemies Workes, &s;hall pre&s;ently appoint &s;ome to throw downe the Bre&s;t-workes, and fill up the ditches in &s;everall places where they enter, or other places more convenient for the entrance of our Hor&s;e (if occa&s;ion require.)</P>
<P>That the Commanders in Chiefe of the &s;everall Brigads doe agree between them&s;elves in what manner <HI>Ratcliffe</HI> Church &s;hal be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and if po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, how maintained; and that they ap|point certaine Officers for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>That the Generall of the Ordnance give &s;peciall order, that all the Souldiers be furni&s;hed with all kind of Amunition, and that &s;everall Officers be by him appointed to attend the &s;everall Brigads with Amunition during the A&s;&s;ault, as al&s;o that the Artil|lary, and the Officers thereto belonging, be ordered to be readie upon all Commands.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ex. per Geo. Trym. Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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