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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28914	Manifest truth, or, An inversion of truths manifest containing a narration of the proceedings of the Scottish army, and a vindication of the Parliament and kingdome of England from the false and injurious aspersions cast on them by the author of the said manifest.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3873; ESTC R19508	56,538	84

field became Masters of the Enemies Carriages and Artillery and left more dead bodies then hath been at any Battell since these warres began and had slaine more but that the shelter of night and a neare Garrison hindred pursuit The lot of the body of Foot especially of Scots and my Lord Fairfaxes was so promiscuous some standing some flying that I can give no perfect accompt of it As for the Passage in Truth its manifest concerning Lieutenant Generall Cromwell and their Lieutenant Generall Lesley I should be loth to meddle in it and wish the Author of the Manifest had not but something must be said in the Animadversions Thus was God pleased to use the Scots Army in doing its part to the breaking of the strong Army of the North and the defeating of the Prince who brought into the field that day an Army very strong and well accomplisht Quem dies vidit veniens superbum Hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem If any will make a further enquiry and say who did best I could wish I might be put to no other answer then God did all which is the best way to decide Controversies of this kinde for no man loses when He gaines honour After this happy Victory the discouraged Enemy take severall courses Prince Rupert with his Retinue for his Army was gone marched on Northward to Allerton and so by Richmond back againe the way that he came The Earle of Newcastle with his deare Confidents Widrington and Carnaby went to Scarborough and so beyond Sea and with them Lievtenant Generall King The Government of Yorke by this meanes was devolved upon Sir Thomas Glenham who still undertakes desperate cures Our own Forces after the Generalls had time to meete and the confusion of the fight which lasts longer then the time of it was over and our wounded men provided for fall to work againe and the Fight being on Tuesday Iuly 2. on Thursday or Friday following a Party of Horse were sent under the Command of Lesley and Cromwell to follow the Enemy but they were first gotten into the Dales and became almost uncapable of annoyance The body of the Army returned to the Siege of Yorke which about a fortnight after was surrendred to the Parliament upon Treaty betwixt Commissioners on both parts And thus was God pleased to blesse these united Forces with a Victory and City in which the Scots as they had their part of pains and hazard so deserve their proportionable share of thanks and honour After this my Lord Manchester marched away towards Lincolne his Forces taking some Castles in Yorkshire by the way as Sheffield and Tickhill The Lord Fairfax remained in Yorke and disposed his Forces to the blocking up of some Castles in Yorkshire The Scots Army marched Northward againe And that I may not omit any thing concerning that Army while Generall Leven was imployed in these services about Yorke the Northerne parts and that part of the Scots Army left behind passed some danger and hardship in Northumberland Morpeth Castle held by Lieutenant Collonel Somervill was delivered up with the provisions and goods in it to Collonell Clavering And the Fort at South-Shields though not gotten sine sanguine was lost sine sudore upon a bare Summons from Montrosse and Clavering At this time also Sunderland was faced and outfaced by the mentioned Cavaliers who came to Bishops Wermouth and plundred some of their victualls but the Towne was preserved where amongst others the English Sea-men being much concerned for their ships were then in the harbour well acquitted themselves But the Earle of Callander then comming into England with an additionall Force among whom the Lord Sinclare Montgomery and Levingston dispelled these mysts and before the returne of the Scots Army tooke in Hartlepoole and Stockton upon surrender and placed Garrisons in them as seemed best to him and a little before the returne of the noble Earle of Leven from Yorkshire he had entred Gateshead Town of the South-side of Newcastle parted from it onely by the River by which means the Town of Newcastle was wholly blocked up on the South-side After the returne of the Generall a Bridge was made over the Tyne and he disposed his Army on the Northside and approached close to the Towne with his Foote the Horse being sent Westward towards Cumberland and Westmerland During this Siege which continued above two Moneths the Enemy made frequent and sharpe Sallies and the Generall frequent and faire offers to which the upstart Knight Marlay returned very peremptory and sometimes abusive answers which were reckoned for at last if they be not they may be But at length after much diligence and patience the Generall and the Commanders then resident with the Army resolved upon a Storm and to that end prepared Mines and Batteries and upon October 19th fell on at severall parts of the Towne at the breach made by Cannon there was no entrance and the most losse on the Scots part was there but the Mines taking well especially one at White-Friers Tower they entred and both to our and their benefit tooke that strong and rich Towne Sir Iohn Marly the Governour with the Scottish Earl of Crasurd and others retreated to the Castle expecting thence to make their termes but could get none but those of mercy which considering the persons was too good for them though lesse could not be granted After the entrance there was little bloud shed but the common Souldier betooke himselfe to what he could the Officer almost to what he would For herein the Scots are more orderly then the English Among our Armies commonly the Souldier gets the greatest share of the spoile the Officers generally being not so earnest at the prey and the English Souldiers are not so easily commanded as the Scots in such a case For the Scots Souldiers will very orderly stand Sentinell at the dore they are appointed to and for some small matter preserve a house with its appurtenances for their Commanders so that the Towne was not especially the best houses spoiled in specie but onely purged by a composition which was fortuitous according as the nature of the Chapmen was some good bargaines some ill And thus was Newcastle reduced which to speake as much truth as the Manifest was a very remarkable service being the onely thing of moment wherein that Army hath been engaged apart from other Forces in England these two yeares And to make this good successe compleat that the Passage from the Coale-Indies might be cleare Tynmouth Castle Commanded by Sir Thomas Riddell out of a sympathy betwixt the Towne-Clerke and the Major of Newcastle was surrendred upon Articles and Garrisons placed in both Towne and Castle by order of the Scots Commanders and Generall After these places thus taken and in this manner setled and the businesse of Fines Compositions at Newcastle dispatched it was time to dispose the Scots Army which had been most of the precedent Winter in the fields to their Winter

received Ammunition in good proportion at Newcastle with a particular respect to their march had no considerable occasion to spend it betwixt that and Hereford The second charge is more particular against some Members of the Committee of both Kingdomes who withdrew that so for want of a full Committee Order could not be given for the dispose of some Horse to strengthen the siege which default occasioned the raising of it Sure that man who hindred the continuance of the siege if without greater disadvantage it might be done was as little a friend to the publick Service as to the Scottish Army and it had been well he were named And did not I barre recrimination I could tell you when there hath been no Committee for regulating the Scots Army for the space of three moneths and more for want of Commissioners from Scotland But as for the possibility of sending Horse from the siege at Bristoll he that knowes the very hard duty that Sir Thomas Fairfaxes Horse had there and the great danger in regard of the Enemy in the West and withall considers the great importance of that service both in regard of gaining the City and preserving the Army I beleeve will consent with the Truth rather then the Manifest But I will make a faire motion that all the disputes concerning the carriage of the businesse of Hereford might be ended in that happy Act of oblivion which was done by the vigilance and dexterity of Collonel Morgan and Birch and the gallant adventure of the Lieutenant who surprised the Guard the City is taken and we have all reason to be satisfyed Pag. 111. Upon occasion of the sad newes from Scotland which the Author acknowledges was heartily resented as by divers well affected so especially by the Houses of Parliament who appointed a publick Fast on that behalfe some reproches are cast upon the Independents who are also said to have leaped for joy of the infortune of the Scots It 's answered that revilings need no answer As for what is laid to the charge of Independents because sometimes the Army under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax goes under that notion I must not conceale how earnestly the chiefe Officers of that Army were affected with the ill tydings from Scotland and how heartily they expressed it in a most affectionate Letter sent from the Generall Lieutenant Generall Crumwell and other Commanders which I am confident they will make good in actions if the necessity of that Kingdome should ever so require for they are not so voyd neither of charity nor gratitude as this Author pretends I know no Kingdome that England is behind hand with in reall kindnesse I hope they will not begin with Scotland As for the objection made pag. 112. concerning Lieutenant Generall Lefleyes going into Scotland upon notice of the ill condition of affaires there given by the Chancellor he can best answer it that made it I thinke he wanted respect to the good of both Nations who expressed any unwillingnesse to the reliefe of that Kingdome in such necessity but I cannot but take notice of what is said pag. 114. of the cold comfort yielded by this Kingdome to their Neighbours when things were made knowne To which it is returned that the Parliament of England waited onely for the desires of Scotland to be made knowne to them in that behalfe but the Scots were farre more shye in asking help then the English in affording it We had Commissioners then at Barwick witnesses of their condition to whom indeed some Noble-men and Gentlemen of Scotland made a Proposition for sending for Collonel Poyntz and Rosseter to come to their reliefe and that the Forces about Hereford might march for supplying and securing the Northerne Counties and opposing the attempts of the Enemy there which our Commissioners not having power in speedily represented to those that had by a paper from the Scots Lords as a memoriall of their desires therein for the Scots were no Committees and the next day after upon receipt of Letters from David Lesley there at Bawtry a Nobleman and a Gentleman of that Kingdome and of the Committee were sent to our Commissioners and in the name of the rest receded from their desires in the fore-mentioned paper which put our Commissioners upon a contradiction of their former Intelligence represented to the Parliament and though it was propounded by some of our Commissioners in that time of so great necessity that a considerable number of Scottish Forces might be drawn out of the Towns and Castles in the North of England besides the Towne of Barwick which might be able to make up a competent strength to oppose the Enemy yet that advise was not approved of by the Scots So that it easily appeares where the ground either of delayes or denyals of help were As for the Parliament they readily yielded to the march of the Scots Army Northward for the reliefe of their owne Kingdome notwithstanding their engagements in the South which was as much as was or could be desired So that I suppose the severe intermination that the setting the promise of a small help at the rate was then offered will be blamed by Posterity when it shall be recorded what Scotland hath done and undergone for their Brethren and what thanks the Scots have for their paines might have been left out notwithstanding the particulars which said to be spared till another occasion Pag. 116. I find an unfitting parallel betwixt Cardinall Richelieu and the English Parliament for though the Parliament be not named yet those who are carefull of the English Armies are which must needes be they who are made to agree in this point of Politick unjustice to set men on worke and purposely deny them necessaries that through their miscarriage others might be advanced Certainly though that Cardinall must needs be acknowledged a man of eminent parts and policy of which he hath left a monument that yet stands yet after that this Author had branded him with pride Ambition Tyranny and Atheisme which are no Cardinal vertues me thinkes he might have used more Brotherly kindnesse to the Parliament of England then to make such an unworthy reflection But as for the wants of the Scottish Army if enough have not been already said let me adde this the way not to want in England is to worke and I am confident that had they done the proportion of worke that other Armies have done they would have had the same proportion of wages and if others had done no more they had got as little This page is closed with an injust though not unusuall bitternesse against the once Governour of Bristoll whose returne to sit in Parliament is said to be matter of astonishment to the world The world is wide sir and so are you But why so angry me thinks the taking the City so considerable might have softned your spirit We use to grace solemne occasions with some Acts of favour why not the taking of