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A76124	The battaile on Hopton-Heath in Staffordshire, betweene His Majesties forces under the Right Honourable the Earle of Northampton, and those of the rebels, March 19. Together with a letter from the Lord Compton now Earle of Northampton.	Northampton, James Compton, Earl of, 1622-1681.	1643 (1643)	Wing B1162; Thomason E99_18; ESTC R20433	4,703	11

and endeavour by serving His Maiesty to revenge his fathers death and equall him in glorious actions In which we shall be ready to follow him and are preparing for that purpose We had 25 slayne the cheife whereof were Captaine Harvy of my Lords own Regiment Captain Baker lately a scholler in Oxford Ensigne Bowyer Captain Middleton of Colonel Hastings Regiment Leiutenant Greene Coronet Billing and Coronet Hall who all carried themselves as gallantly as men could do There were about some twenty hurt the most whereof were Officers as Sir Thomas Byron Colonell Stanhope Colonell Wagstaffe Captaine Knotsford Captaine Richard Bagot Captaine Harvey Bagot Captaine John Clarke Captaine Thomas Harwood Master Spencer Lucy Lieutenant Leving Coronet Mettham Coronet Washington and Master Lancaster besides my Lord Compton's shot in the legge not a man of these but expressed admirable valour the service for the time being very hot and the enemies being above three times our number c. There can be little added to this expresse Relation wherein though it pleased God so to defeat the Rebels yet our losse is invaluable in the death of this noble Earle who as he was early up being one of the first defenders of this righteous cause so he continued at such a height of courage and magnanimity as drew all good mens eyes on his honourable actions Whether the Rebels offered him quarter or whether he refused it when it was offered is not certaine for we have it onely from themselves who no doubt will make their best excuse for murthering so incomparable a Lord. Nor is it improbable that he scorned their quarter preferring a present honourable death before that vile wretched unprofitable captivity whereof he was assured were he once their prisoner For as he spent his noble endeavours in defence of his King and Country while he lived so he valued not his life when it would be serviceable to none but Rebels He hath beene often heard to say that If he out-lived these Warres he was certaine never to have so noble a death And had we wholly lost him it would have fill'd us with too much sorrow but that we have such excellent Copies of him in his rare sonnes and chiefly in the gallant young Earle himselfe who hath so much of the father in him that he only wants time and opportunity to make him more like him And this you will partly gather by this ensuing Letter which my Lord writ with his own hand to the noble Countesse his Mother two dayes after his Fathers death Deare Mother ON Sunday last we got the day of the Rebels but our losse especially your Honours and mine is not to be expressed For though it be a generall losse to the Kingdome yet it toucheth us nearest But Madam Casualties in this world will happen in such a cause who would not have ventured both life and fortune pray'e Madam let this be your comfort that it was impossible for any to do braver then he did as appeares by their owne Relation I sent a Trumpeter to know what was become of my Father hee brought me a Letter from Sir Iohn Gell and Sir VVilliam Brereton assuring mee of my Fathers death making strange demand for his body such as were never before heard of in any warre as all their Ammunition Prisoners and Cannon which we had taken I sent them word backe that their demands were unreasonable and against the Lawes of Armes but desired them to give free passage to some Chirurgeons to embalme him or to let their Chirurgeons doe it and I would satisfy them for their paines their last Answer I have sent in Philip VVilloughby's Letter which is that they will neither send the body nor suffer our Chirurgeons to come to embalme it but will see their owne Chirurgeons doe it Their Relation was that He was assaulted by many together and with his owne hand killed the Colonel and others also but was unhorsed by the multitude his horse being shot But his Armour was so good that they could not hurt him till he was downe and had undone his head-peece ' Pray'e Madam be comforted and think no man could more honourably have ended this life fighting for his Religion his King and his Country to be partaker of heavenly joies We must certainely follow him but can hardly hope for so brave a death Thus humbly craving your blessing I shall remaine till death STAFFORD March 22. 1642. Your obedient Sonne NORTHAMPTON Let the Reader now judge if the genius and spirit of the Father be not eminent in the sonne and whether that hand that wrote this Letter doth not promise as great hopes for the good of this Kingdome as any whomsoever of his age and quality Next you may see the Barbarousnesse of these Rebels towards the Corps of the dead who as they have made sale of their Allegiance and Loyalty so now have shaken hands with all common honesty practising those inhumanities the very Turks scorne to descend to For the Mahometans if they kills Commander that is an Enemy doe not only embalme the corps but give it safe convoy to the enemies quarters that the freinds of the dead may give it buriall as the noble Earle of Craford and others that have beene in the warres betwixt the Polonian and the Turke can testify to be true And doubtlesse if the Turkes knew what breach of faith given what robbing stripping naked nay murther after Armes delivered up by composition hath beene committed on His Majesties souldiers it would further harden them against Christianity unlesse they consider that these things were done not as they are Christians but as the worst of Rebels And let them not for shame object that wee loose men of eminencie but they do not lest wee tell the world the reason For as the Commanders of these rebellious Forces are made up of all Religions and Trades so those few men of quality that are on their side are driven by their guilt into ditches and saw-pits any whither out of the reach of danger as not daring to leave the world with all their sinnes about them Therefore were it any cause under Heaven but this that is were not Religion Honour Learning Lawes Nobility Gentry Honesty and all at stake these Noble Lords and Gentlemen would not make their bloud so cheape as to spend it on such unworthy enemies who as they have endeavoured to murther both King and Queene so labour the ruine of every English Gentleman FINIS