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A34438	Stratologia, or, The history of the English civil vvarrs in English verse : containing a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres, till the martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by an eye-witnesse of many of them, A.C.	Cooper, Andrew, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6049; ESTC R20852	74,138	195

ΣΤΡΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ OR THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS In English Verse Containing a brief Account of all Fights most Skirmishes Stratagems and Sieges in ENGLAND From the very first Originall of our late Warres till the Martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed Memory By an Eye-Witnesse of many of them A. C. Alta sedent Civiles vulnera Dextrae LONDON Printed for Joseph Cranford at the Castle and Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660 TO THE Right Honourable AND Truly Noble CONYERS DARCY Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers THrice noble Sir pardon this bold addresse In that my soaring Muse pitch'd on no lesse A Patronage than your Renouned Name Imboldned hereto was I ' cause your Fame Recorded is amongst those Hero's who The Royall Cause maintain'd against a Foe Under pretences specious that Rebell'd VVhen yet a Boy your Colours I beheld And Regiment so gallant by you rais'd Even by my Infant-Muse your worth was prais'd An Actor on this Bloody Scene you were And an eye-witnesse of most Fields fought here That blood you lost your valour may declare Your judgement this that no pretence though fair Your intellect could blind your Faithfulness In that you fought till that of Souldiers lesse Under your tattered Colours did appear Then Cinquefoils in your honours Colours were Wounds you receiv'd and much of blood did lose VVhilst on the field your life you did expose To do your Soveraign service Sure that blood Expended in a cause Royally good Your Honour is your wounds then chains of gold Are Ornaments more glorious to behold Your sufferings since the VVarres who hath not known You paid both for your Souldiers and your own Loyalty nor would your brave mind submit To composition till much mov'd to it By your most vertuous Lady's prayers and tears Your name the last in that black Roll appears Except the martyr'd Slingby's none there are Of all your Honour'd House engag'd in VVarre Against your King these things induc'd my Muse You as the fittest person Sir to chuse To patronize these her first rude Essayes Let not oblivion cancel the due praise It 's the Debenters we are like to have Of all those Sons of Mars and Souldiers brave That for their Soveraign fought and suffer'd too In this they live whilst this doth live by you Your Honours most humble and most devoted in all service AN. COOPER THE EPISTLE TO THE READER EXpect not Reader this Book should impart The Flourishes of Rhethorick or of Art Such polite Strains do not indeed become The Camp nor suit the Trumpet or the Drum The more refined Muses have with Mars No intercourse Society commerce Blunt Language doth in truth the best declare The dreadful fury of our Civil Warre Rage blood and death each Page herein they show Of Cities Castles Towns the overthrow Rapine and plunder all those sad effects Wherewith a Civil Warre a Land infects ☞ When first for Oxford fully there intent To study learned Sciences I went Instead of Logicke Physicke School-converse I did attend the armed Troops of Mars Instead of Books I Sword Horse Pistols bought And on the Field I for Degrees then fought My years had not amounted full eighteen Till I on Field wounded three times had been Three times in sieges close had been immur'd Three times imprisonments restraint indur'd In those sad times these Verses rude were writ For Poesie a season most unfit Yet is my subject high the Hystory true Presented in this Book unto thy view Well-nigh each Skirmish Stratagem Siege fight In these late Warres we here present to sight And if thou shalt accept these first Essayes Shortly perchance we may in smoother Layes The second part of our sad Annals sing Till the blest Restauration of our King Who like the Sun after a dismal night Of sad oppression did restore both light And glory to these Nations ruinous Whose Rising and illustrious shine on us Lighted these Lines out from Oblivion's Cell To which they were condemn'd the world to tell That though the Royal Party was Captiv'd The best of Kings of his blest life depriv'd Yet Oceans of Loyall blood was shed Before bold Traytors this accomplished But strange that we were beat lest it be thought Vpon great disadvantages we fought The Parliament the Navy had procur'd With them to side all Armouries secur'd And Magazines usurped the Kings Lands Customes Revenues Rents into their hands With Arms and Coyn their men they could recruit When ours of both indeed were destitute But I transgresse the bounds of my intent And thee from reading these our Warres prevent A. C. THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK I. The Contents See first a good then a bad Parliament The fatal causes of our discontent The two Scotch expeditions causes why Ireland 's Rebellion Strafford's Tragedy London tumultuous The Kings brave intents Ireland for to releive Hotham prevents By Hulls denyall which the King to take Forces combines Meldrum on them doth make Two Sallies bold Some Royalists are slain The King for York from Hull retreats again A noble Persons councell some releife Contributes to the King opprest with grief SEE where our English three Estates do sit In Parliament a Councel onely fit Our Nation to secure from bold abuse To legal forme injustice to reduce To deleate bad just laws to procreate Publick assignes to guide and regulate To act what may conduce to the renown Both of the State Religion and the Crown Englands Epitomie representation My Muse invites excites to admiration Thy noble Senate Rome my wonder was Till this high Court their lustre did surpasse As fair as Cynthia that pale Queene of night Out-shined is by Phoebus glorious light If admiration did thy thoughts transport From Rome's Terrestrial to Heavens glorious Court Much more Fulgentius might thy ravish'd minde From this to Heaven 's a quick transition finde ☞ But what malignity vitious excesse Is this a Parliament cannot redresse The body politick symptomes presents That all these State-Physitians discontents A dolorous Corasive we must indure These sad distempered Nations to recure Whilst head and members do indeed agree A Parliament's a Soveraigne remedy To cure distempers but if these discent Each seemes to move out of their element And such a motion must in the conclusion Being irregular induce confusion The hands of food the belly did deprive As in the fable but how long survive Those most ingrateful members by and by They with the dying belly also dye Our Army 's sad miscarriages must bee At Cades Rochel and the Isle of Rhes All charg'd upon the King when as the State Themselves made those designes unfortunate By not allowing to his Majesty Such supplements of Coin and Souldiery To mannage those most excellent designes Unto some purpose when the State declines The King to second who can then expect That brave attempts should have a wish'd effect Ship-monys Poles Taxes Monopolies Illegal Pressures frequent subsidies They charge the King to have without consent Impos'd on us out of

before such roaring Devils did hear ☞ Another Welsh-man arm'd a cap a pee Upon a Charger fierce mounted was hee His two-edg'd-sword drawn in his hand did shine His Pistols charg'd and also his Carbine To have him heard and seen you would have swore Stout master Morgan would have chas'd a score But when 't came to his turne for to have fought T' have fac'd about and fled Morgan had thought But his fierce Horse that did in War delight Went on indeed in Morgan's hearts despight Morgan with all his might pull'd at the Raign To stop his Horse alas 't was all in vain With pulling and for fear dead men to see Backwards even to his horse taile bowed hee On went the horse The Royalists surpast Amongst the adverse party runs at last ☞ A Cockney that him in this posture spy'd Come fiercely on hold good sir quarter cry'd The Cockney seeing that he made no stay Turn'd's horse about and fairly ran away Morgan more valorous than hee wis'd or wil'd Was throwne at last and under 's horse feet kil'd The Cockney that fled when hee Morgan spi'd Into a Saw-pit broke his neck and died ☞ But now the obscure mantle of the night Each Army vail'd from one anothers sight Only the Musketiers so thick gave fire As yet gave light to both for to retire Neither could either Iö Paean sing Though victory more inclined to the King ☞ Yet both parties claimed the triumphal Baies And noble Palme both parties returned praise For Victory to their Heavenly Deities Both parties had taken Ensigns Prisoners Prize Both parties of Victory Trophies did display And on the field that night both parties lay By those great fires which were the only light Left them in this obscurity of night That night in a black cloud the Sun had set As looking on Edge-Hill with much regret Ravenous beasts Rapacious birds of prey All hovered neer this fatal field that Day Each man the night before in his last sleep Seem'd to lament howle out and sadly weep And by Anticipation to prevent In fancy this curs'd daies doleful event ☞ Titan though late now Thetis lap forsook And either Army might with horrour look Upon each other all the Vale bespread Betwixt them with their intermixed Dead Nor would the Sun bee-clouded that Day yeeld His Rayes should shine upon this bloody field In Warlike posture here both Armies stand Until high noon then Essex gave command For to march off His Briggade's to compleat From hence for London straight hee doth retreat ☞ But when the best of Kings survey'd the slain Hee sigh'd and wep't and wep't and sigh'd again Saying alas alas deceived were Some thousands of these Dead that now lye here Slain in Rebellion wee lament their fate And their Sepulture here wee imperate As well as these that Love and Loyalty Have for our Cause ingaged here to Dye Our gracious Pardon too wee here Proclaim To all that shall or will imbrace the same Before that Cynthia with her borrowed light Shall three times fill her Globe at this he sigh'd And wept again but off the Army went For Loyal Royal Oxford now intent Finis Libri Secundi THE English CIVIL WARRS BOOK III. The Contents Blake hang'd diverse vicessitudes of Warr. Brainford fight Rupert storms Cirincester Lord Brooks his acts his fatal wound and death The fights in Riple-fields On Haopton-heath Litchfield storm'd twice Reading tane had been Chalgrave Landsdown and Roundway fights The Queen At Burlington doth land The King and shee Meet on Edge-Hill Glocester seige Newberry First fight Eccleshal seige Arundel tane Bramdean-heath fight where noble Smith was slain Prince Griffiths gallantry and quick defeat Rupert from Newark seige doth Meldrum beat IN order good the Royalists retire And now at leisure farther do inquire Into their taken papers which discry One Blake a Traitour whom the King to dy Adjudged in a halter would each tree To end the Wars bore but such fruit as hee This Blake the Royal Court belong'd unto Worse is a secret than an open foe To Banbury the Royal Army came Resolv'd by storm for to inforce the same Rochfords and Peterboroughs Regiments All Blew-Coats did lye there Marrow prevents The Kings assault by yielding of the Town Upon Conditions Rupert now sate down Broughton before a House of the Lord Say At the first Peal his Ordinance did play The House is yeilded the King 's next address By dint of Sword was Brainford to possess Nor could the Foes the Kings approach discry By reason of the mist-condenced sky Till them the Cannons thundering language gave A fierce allar'm a while resistance brave Was made by Traiterous Hollis Regiment Couragiously the Royalists on went Inforce the Town whose Streets are pav'd again With numerous bodies of the men there slain The Channels run as after a great flood In stronger currents with their warmer blood ☞ But while the King plaies at this prosperous game Lord Brook's Hamden's regiments on came Maintaining ' gainst the King a bloody fight From Noon till the Obscurity of night Parted the fray Also the Parliament Had numerous Forces out of London sent So That the King almost surrounded was Kingston alone gave way for his repass Then having given the Rebels this defeat Safely for Oxford did the King retreat ☞ Though greater Hoasts in Winter Quarters rest Yet smaller parties sharpely thus contest Nor had the Royalists alone success Massie did Sudeley-Castle much distress Wooll-packs on rowling frames his men had set Under whose covert to the Walls they get Free from the Castle-shot the Barns they fire With Hand-Granado's in the smoak aspire And mount the walls but Bridges thus distres'd A Parley sounds and yeilds what hee possess'd ☞ Prince Rupert taking this in great despight Resolved was the Rebels to require Therefore next day his Force hee did combine Sudeley before yet was his chief design On Cirincester whether when hee came With fire and sword hee did assault the same Of Hand-Granado's a thick flight was sent Into the Town for the first complement Which their Out-houses and their Barns all fir'd With resolution yet to bee admir'd Over the Bul-works then the Foot soon flew In full Divisions then the Horse insue Stamfords whole Regiment were well nigh slain And twice five hundred Prisoners also tane A timerous Footman when the Prince drew near In a Straw-mough had hid himself for fear Burn'd was the Straw in it the Foot-man too Him his presumed safety did undo Apparent danger 's often more secure Then in strong walls our selves for to immure Next day from hence the Prince victorious went To Glocester and in his Summons sent But Massie boldly his Demands deni'd Now did the Prince before the Town reside But marched off and in great triumph came To Oxford with his Prize so lately tane ☞ Some Irish also for the King do land Over which Earnly did in cheife command Massie to Berkley with his Troops now came And for a while stood