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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

by The Centinels the Kings approach descry Th' Allarum's given Hotham doth then decree That all the water-sluces drawn shall bee The Country 's drown'd men walls and Seas combine To frustrate this his Majesties design ☞ Meldrum a Souldier of no small repute But yet a Scot the Parliament depute Hotham's assistant who a party takes Of the most hardy Townsmen and out-makes A sudden sally where the King he beats Who with some loss to Beverly retreats But not long after this the Parliament A party strong for Hull from London sent Meldrum incourag'd by this new supply Will of a second bout the fortune try His choicest men hee soon together calls And issuing out on the Kings Leagure falls Whereof some scores in their new trenches dy The rest in haste disordered much do fly A hot pursuit after whom Meldrum makes At Aulaby the Kings Magazin hee takes Some barns and houses there this Scotch Knight fires And then for Hull his worship back retires ☞ The King perceiving all attempts in vain Against the Town of Hull for York again Retreats But O! who can his thoughts express How can hee now though milde passion suppress What shall hee do what will bee the event Of these beginings thus malevolent Reflects his looks no reverential awe Upon Spectators Dare his Subjects draw Their Swords against their Prince shall he dispence Further with their Rebellious insolence ☞ But whilest the King is in this self-dispute A Noble person did him thus salute By Traitors shall your patience be abus'd Your commands sleighted your demands refus'd Courage take Sir Divine and humane laws Loudly proclaim the justice of your cause See what a train of Lords do here attend In your behalf their dearest blood to spend the Parliament us Traitors doth proclaim Because to your assistance thus we came And though they speak not out their acts declare They are intent upon you for to Warre Why raise they Armies what is your intent Us and your self to such a Parliament Thus to expose our Swords must us defend Or farewell life and fortunes Strafford's end Wee may expect Traitors let 's them declare And make provision for defensive Warre A thousand lives who would not rather lose Then see such Rebels you and yours depose To see rapacious Harpies ruinate This flourish of our peace Religion State Are you so credulous these not to fear When Treason 't is to you for to adhere Review the Actions of those Monarches brave That as your Predecessors Reigned have See how the proudest of their foes did quake Even at their frowns which did whole Kingdomes shake Whose very names their Subjects did adore Reputing them not men but somewhat more Then such Heroicks courage now assume Let Traitors know they do too much presume Upon your Lenity Sir make them fear And know the Lion in your armes can tear ☞ At this the London Juncto Parliament Traitours proclaimed are The King 's intent Is for the South-west parts to take his way Posting before Commissions of Array Commanding quick attendance from all those In Arms that would not bee reputed foes Newcastle's General for the North design'd Whose influence on those parts soon combin'd An Army Gallant Thus to Civil War Fully resolved now both parties are But so my Muse with Morpheus power possest Take's Leave would England could do so to rest Finis Libri Primi THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK II. The Contents A short dis-swasive from this Civil Warr The King sets up his Standard doth declare Of his defensive Arms the Innocence Londons Zeal for the Parliaments pretence Essex his Force to Coventry doth bring Worcester Fight The Battail at Edge-hill ROuze up brave Martial Muse prepare for fight Let Mars desist the Cyprian Courts delight Bellona's Trumpets cals our Troops to field Pallas advanceth arm'd with Spear and Shield Combates not Councels Muse thou must rehearse Warr Blood and Death are subjects of my Verse England O England do not thou distain This flourish of thy Peace with Blood refrain These Civil Wars whose sad effects wee see In self-divided ruin'd Germany Did Scotland tremble did the Irish flee Was France once Tributary unto thee Renowned England did victorious Fame From India unto India post thy name From cold Arcturus to th' Antartick Sands Thy admiration England fill'd all Lands Whilst Providence and valour forreign foes Vanquish'd shall home-bred discord work thy woes No Councell nor yet Rhetorick can asswage Uncivil Civil Warrs tumultuous rage The furious Sword scorns to obey the Gown Some with the State some with the imperial Crown Take part known Ensigns Ensigns do defie And English blood Englands Cross red must die If Warr wee must why do wee not assay On Asian ground our Colours to display Mahomet's dam'd Impostures to expell To their curs'd Author down to Pluto's cell Why do wee not out of the Seginor's hand Regain our Title to the Holy-Land What might wee not with lesser bloods expence Have quel'd the Turkes aspiring insolence Raz'd Constantinople's world-commanding Towers With her Seraglio Aegypt might bee ours And all the treasures of the spacious East By our victorious Armies bee possest As that brave Tartar lets our Force ingage Bajacet-like into an Iron cage Earths greatest Monarch 's captiv'd power to bring Or let 's advance against the Spanish King His Eighty eight's Armado's curs'd designe To vindicate our Forces let 's combine Heaven can but grosper such a brave attempt Heaven that from Spain's Invasion did exempt This Island for to bee Spain's dreadfull scourge Till all those Martyrs bloods shee shall disgorge Suck'd in by inquisition-Butchery Or let 's goe set the inslav'd Indians free Sail thither may wee with the tide and flood Of vengeance-crying murthered Indians blood Why march wee not to curbe that Prelates pride Whose Scarlet vestments in the blood are died Of Martyr'd Christians doubtless wee may fear His influence is too too powerfull here These sad incitements to this Civil Warr Hatch'd surely by his Romish Locusts are That Sweed Heroick to his high renown Vow'd to devest him of his triple-Crown And from his chair-infallible by force That Beast so much admir'd for to divorce And but that death too cruel did prevent Doubtless hee had accomplish'd his intent England O England Civil Wars decline And prosecute that noble Sweeds designe Hoise up thy Sailes for the Italian shore The airy Alpes resolve for to march o're Fall down like Thunder into Italy Th' affrighted-Scarlet Conclave let 's make flye And these high Walls wherein the Beast doth trust Let 's rase and level with that bloody dust Whereon they stand in blood they founded were Ruddy with blood their cement doth appear Rape Superstition Fraud Idolatry Polythism Murther Theft Theomachy Hypocrisie Pride Witchcraft Fornication Adultery Sodoms-lov'd-Abomination Are their curs'd Superstructures Powers divine Except propitious unto this designe Vengeance divine our Cannons best will bee Upon those Walls t' inforce a Battery Needs must wee conquer in so just a Warr Where

to kill Shall we be dared thus by such proud foes And thus our bodies to their Guns expose ☞ To whom the best of Kings sadly reply'd Loath loath I am my Sword should e're be dy'd In civil blood my soul doth much decline These worst of wars are not these people mine If undeceiv'd we suddenly should see Their Arms cast downe they all would come to me ☞ But now more pity fight indeed we must Therefore brave Souldiers that your cause is just I know you are perswaded Loyalty Under your Soveraign's Ensignes here to dye Or conquer doth and did you first ingage How factious Zeal some Sectaries doth inrage Against their King you are not ignorant I hope they 'l see their errours and recant Others that are not such we soon shall see Prove loyal Essex leave and turne to mee Wound not who e're of them before you flies Such are not yours nor yet my enemies And now your magnanimity approve If you your Country or your Soveraigne love See how your King if conquered see no more Your courage utmost valour doth implore They are more numerous let our fortitude Their numbers ballance when they are subdu'd 'T will be our glory that with numbers lesse Wee did their greater conquer on possesse Their Riches Campe Artillery as prize Yonder rich Army I to you demize Win Gold and wear 't my cause 's just intent God now assist as I am innocent The murthering Cannons now began to play VVhos 's so well levell'd bullets made their way Through many a rank heads armes and legs off fly VVhich hit and oft strike dead the standers by The Chain-shot by the middle cuts asunder VVhole Files of men who now in death do wonder How this so wide a passage open stood At once to let out all their vital blood How head and feet leggs and arms in one place By this strange death conjoyn'd should now imbrace From Morterpeeces great Granado's fly VVhich in their fall kill some but to the skye Do in their breath blow up who stand them near From others their dismembred Limbs they tear Others their furious blasts do blow stone-blinde O haplesse men to such sad fates design'd ☞ As a tempestuous Heaven-obscuring shower VVith violence doth Raine or Hail down power VVith Lightnings frequent flashes intermix'd And loud sky-renting Thunder claps betwixt Even so from fire-lock-Pistolls and Carbines The fire like lightning from the sky now shines And fiery Bullets with their thicker flight Obscure the day and antidate the night Sulphurious clouds of smoak toff'd with the winde With fiery flashes glancing through them blinde Both Horse and man so that they cannot see Therefore lesse fear their quick Catastrophy ☞ The King 's Forlorne Dives his Regiment First down the hill couragiously on went Where Major Backstake with his party clears The Hedges lin'd with Essex Musketeers The Royalists then cheerefully discend The hill as bravely Essex doth defend The ground whereon his Army Marshal'd stood Till that red Valley redder became with blood ☞ But like a Lyon greedy of his prey At length their left wing Rupert doth assay VVhose charge most furious and Heroick might Them break and put to a disordered flight Rupert through Keinton in pursute doth ride Then fell to plunder Hurry soon espy'd This fair advantage and with eagernesse Did now on Wilmot and Carnarvan presse Forcing them to give ground Then wheel'd about And fiercely charged on the Royal foot VVhere soon the furious Horse asunder rents Linsey's Bowles Paget's Fieldings Regiments Brave Linsey seeing his in such distresse Rallies a party soon for their redresse And like a Tygar of her whelps depriv'd In thickest Troopes of Armed foes arriv'd Most valliantly thousands doth kill or wound Yet him the numerous foes at length surround ☞ But when his Son renowned Willowby His Father thus encompassed did see He rides up with his Troopes gave such a charge As soon his noble Father did enlarge But wounded soon too soon alas he dy'd A fatal losse unto the Royal side ☞ The Royal Standard Balfores Troopes had tane Varney the Standard-bearer being slain A valiant Gentleman who this espy'd Gallantly through their thickest Ranks did ride And there the new Possessor having slain The Standard Royal bravely did re-gaine For which brave exploit Knight and Barronet The King bedub'd him Balfore hard beset With our fresh Troops most bravely was assail'd And made give ground The Royalists prevail'd Sometimes and sometimes Essex Dubious Was Fortune whom to make victorious ☞ By this that spacious Valley was bespread With heaps of Men and Horses that lay dead From several wounds the several streams of blood Increased to an overspreading Flood Whose stronger currents to the lower ground Drove down some bodys now both kild drownd Thus many deaths poor mortals do attend VVhen one's sufficient to inforce their end Here might you hear the sad laments and moans In doleful accents of their dying groans Some execrating their Nativity Others that Fatal day Reveng'd to bee Some vow'd and with their Swords about them laid Now even in Death Some boldly did upbraid The Parliaments Pretences feign'd some swore And off their heads their hair they fiercely tore Some Pray'd and were exceeding Penitent Such several humours dying men present VVho late against each other boldly fought Their Reconciliation Death had wrought VVhose blood dispended falling in one place Kindly now arm in arm by Death imbrace Here might you see a bullet-galled steed Now of his wounded or dead rider free'd Fiercely run through the field and oft out-tread The bowels of the living and the dead Here might you see two armed Gallants met Their courage sharper than their swords was whet By vow'd revenge much hotter was their ire Than from their clashing swords that sparkling fire Whose courage strength dexterity and art Byinter-courses each did play their part Till blood and strength expended these two foes Upon that bed of honour both repose Whose streaming blood could not be intermix'd Such strong antipathy was them betwixt ☞ A Cockney whom blinde zeal-did much inflame Essex to serve a Volunteer late came Who to his fellows vaunted they should see The wicked none pursuing for to flee Tomkins said true the Cannons 'gan to play Down went his Arms and streight he ran away A flying peece of a Granado-shell Stroke Simpson into th' back who dead down fell Speaking these words then with his latest winde 'T is base and cowardly for to strike behinde ☞ A welsh-man who came as a Volunteer Hur King to serve proudly did dominere Before the fight vowing that hur would slay All Rebell-Round-heads that came in hur way Essex himself should not escape hur hand If that he durst till hur came to him stand Essex might long have stood Taffy was gone Before the fight and so kill'd ne're a one For when he heard the Cannons 'gin to play Down went his Bill and streight he ran away Swearing by got in English he could swear He ne're

Trading had flourish'd rich the Boars late grew Of which no cause but self-desert they knew A deep dissembled verbal sanctity Was their Religion for true piety Truth and good manners had small practise here Bishops and Papists hated of them were Also the Gentry facile to perswade Upon the Account of liberty to aid The Parliament which made them in such swarms Under rebellious Ensignes now bear arms Such is the Town such is the Country too With which our Forces now must have to do Leeds is forsaken before Howley-Hall We then encampe a breach soon in the wall Our thundering Cannons make they yeild then we Bradford towards draw our Artillery Near Atherton a whinny More doth lye Full of old Cole-pits now fill'd up and dry ☞ Fairfax in these his Ambuscado's laid From out of these our Forlorne they invade Put them to rout our seconds also fly Till General King came with a fresh supply Whose words and actions much encouragement Unto our flying Cohorts did present So that they Rally and charge up again Many of both parts on the field lye slain Sharp was the contest desperate fierce and hot Thick flew the vollies of dead wounding shot Loud roar'd our Cannons a tumultuous rage Fill'd every place Bodies of Foot ingage Having their Powder spent at push of Pike And with the But-end of their Muskets strike Out one anothers brains so fierce each stroak As Barrels bow'd and Stocks to shivers broke Leaving their Pans oft fixed in the head Of whom they wounded or had last struck dead Fairfax's Horse advantage had of ground In number ours Haward a mortal wound Receiv'd our Swords Rapiers and Tucks we Dye In one anothers blood Pistols now flie With more than furious angry violence At one anothers heads most brave defence The foe still made though we press on amain So difficult was victory to obtain Hieron and Talbot meet most dexterously At one another let their pistols flie One in the breast the other in the head Shot from their horses on the Turfe fall dead Now victory that of late was dubious Had her tryumphant Palme bestow'd on us The foes before our Troopes victorious flye In this pursute numbers of theirs do dye A zealous Puritan amongst the rest Before the fight did Fairfax thus request ' Beseech your worship let 's no quarter give Pity these wicked Cavalliers should live Their party beat a Cavallier did ride Up to this Zealot who soon quarter cry'd Villain said he no quarter thou shalt have Who will not give pity they should receive ☞ From Hallifax a club-arm'd short-shorne crew Zeal for the cause unto this battel drew Who while the day seem'd on their side to go Pursu'd and cry'd see God doth rout our foe At length the battel sore against them went Their Clubs and Sythes thrown down incontinent They run and cry'd oh God where art thou now These Cavalliers alas will us undo Smalwood had told them Preaching in a tree Ten before one ninety 'fore ten should flee Smalwood was a true Prophet in this case One now might ten and ten might ninety chase A Northren Trooper after Briggs did ride About to strike his club-foot he espy'd Turning his horse he said thus in great fear Alas Comrades is not the foul Fiend here But with the fight the day began to close To several guards our Prisoners we dispose Lousie to grow indeed they need not fear For now of cloaths as thin as hair they were From close crop't heads and long ears preminence The name of Round-heads late they did commence ☞ Next day betimes Bradford we came before Against the Town our thundering Cannons roar Resolv'd the place by storme to force we are But for the on-set while we do prepare Advantag'd by obscurity of night Fairfax with some Commanders take their flight To Selby-ward which when our General knew A party strong are sent them to pursue Fairfax having got start enough arriv'd At Selby safe th' old Lord and he contriv'd That Town to quit and streight for Hull to make To Selby come our Horse some kill some take Ere o're the River they all Boated had ☞ Bradford this while was tane a plunder sad But yet deserv'd it suffer'd Rotheram tane We had before with Sheifield To regain Hull fatal Hull our Army makes addresse Hotham of this by force to dispossesse Fairfax on Gainsborough an assault doth make Enters the Town in it doth Kingston take Who in a Pinnace down the river 's sent To Hull King meets them as they thither went And plays upon them with his Musketeers The noble Earl upon the Deck appears To cry for quarter for his enemies But by a Bullet shot from Shore he dyes Thus by his friends the noble ●earpoint's slain Cavendish marcheth Gainsbrough to regain From Newark and close siege thereto had laid But Cromwel comes to the Defendants aid They fight a many Royalists there dye The rest for safety are inforc'd to flye Not many hours after this fight was done New-Castl's Army to the field up come For Lincolne Cromwel his Retreat doth make And Gainsborough soone New-Castle's Army take Want of Intelligence thus cast away Many brave gallants on this fatal day ☞ Nantwitch before the Siege some while had laid When Monk at Chester-lands and Byron made Both with his own and these receiv'd supplies Them to releeve this following enterprize At his approach off the besiegers drew They meet and fight thick now the Bullets flew Many of both parts on the ground lye slain Fairfax at length is victor Monk's here tane And Byron put to a disordered flight And nigh to Chester walls pursu'd that night ☞ Kingston before our Army late sate down Mounts high were rais'd Cannons against the town Are planted furious batteries many made Many Granadoes on the Town are plaid Great Engins many Ladders frame were Onely perhaps to put the Town in fear For no assault was made the siege throughout With the Defendants many a bloody bout Our Army had the strength of that curst hold Made them in frequent sallies far more bold Their numerous Cannons from the walls they play Beat down our works many Commanders slay One fatal shot Leviston of his head Depriv'd and struck another Captain dead Alutus with many more of Eminence Here lost their lives Witherington led from hence A party brave Boston as some surmise To take but Cromwel meets the enterprize They fight at length the Cavalliers do fly The valiant Hopton and brave Bowles do dye With hundreds more numerous the Prisoners were And great the prize Cromwel obtained here ☞ As with her Traine the Queen late Southward went Bravely she had regain'd Burton on Trent Of Darcy's Blew-Coats some the River wade Whilst that their Collonel had his entrance made Upon the Bridge their Cannon leapt upon This is the Kings said he thence nobly on His men he leads into the very Town Their Rampiers and their Bulworks all thrown down Many of the Defendants