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A77321	Sir William Breretons letter sent to the Honoble William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Concerning all the passages and treaties of the siege and taking of the city of Chester· And by Mr. Speaker appointed to be printed and published. With a most exact declaration of Chesters enlargement after three yeers bondage, set forth by Nathanael Lancaster, chaplein to the Cheshire forces.	Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.; Lancaster, Nathaniel, 1600 or 1601-1661.	1646 (1646)	Wing B4369; Thomason E325_30; ESTC R200644	32,065	40

army The enemy perceiving their pretences slighted and pincht with their owne necessities applyed themselves to seeke for a parle by this Letter sent to Sir William Brereton Sir at the entreaty of us the Major Noblemen Gent. Alderman and Citizens of Chester the Lord Byron our Governour in whom the sole power of Treaty rests is pleased to give way to a Treaty upon honourable conditions to which if you assent Commissioners to that purpose may be agreed upon by both sides expecting your answer I rest Your servants Charles Walley Major Robers Tatton vic. Comes Chester 15. Jan 1645. To which Sir William Brereton returned this answer When I have so long considered of an answer to your Letter as you the Major and the Lord Byron tooke time to answer my summons you shall heare from me by a Messenger of myne owne in the meane time I rest Your servant William Brereton Chester Suburbes 15. Ian. 1645 To the Major of Chester and Robert Tatton Esquire The day after notwithstanding this Letter was sent into the City Gent. We have prevailed with Sir William Brereton to give us leave to returne this answer to your last Letter that notwithstanding your former rejection of faire honourable conditions and the expence of time and blood which hath bin occasioned by your obstinacy might justly provoake him to refuse any further treaty yet that it may appeare he reteines his wonted desires of the preservation of the City and the lives and estates of the inhabitants if your Governour in whom you say lyes the full power to treat send out reasonable Propositions betwixt this and Munday morning he will take them into consideration and returne such answer as may stand with honor and justice and may prevent the destruction of this ancient City which is desired by Your servants Robert Duckenfield James Louthiane Chester Suburbs 16. Jan. 1645. For the Major of Chester and Robert Tatton Esquire To which Letter this answer was returned Gent. We have acquainted the Lord Byron with your Letter to us directed who is pleased to promise that within the time therein limited a full answer shall be thereto returned we remaine Your servants Charles Walley Robert Tatton Vic. Com. Chester 17. Jan. 1645. For Collonel Duckenfield and adjutant Generall Louthiane Upon Munday about noone they sent a long Letter without the propositions expected the contents whereof was to excuse their not sending in of propositions for want of time fully to deliberate upon things of so great importance Also they nominated 12. men for Commissioners consisting of the Gentry Souldiery Citizens and Clergy because all these had their share in the treaty desiring Sir William also to nominate persons of that number and quality on his part and to designe a place where they might treat Sir William tooke it not well that they sent not the propositions as was expected and approved not of so great a number of Commissioners therefore he required their propositions speedily or to expect no further treaty the next day they sent againe signifying their propositions were ready but they would not send them by Drumme or Trumpet but by Commissioners which they desired might be agreed upon the place designed and their persons protected Answer was made to the Lord Byron that if they sent propositions into the Suburbes by two persons of their choice they should have safe conduct Accordingly they sent 36. propositions upon Thursday Ianuary 22. by Sir Edmund Verney and Major Thropp which were so extreame high that they were ridiculous not fit to burden the Presse or to reade otherwise than to make sport Sir William then tendred to them his owne propositions which they utterly refused to take because they had no such Commission Hereupon Sir William caused divers papers to be dispersed upon the walls that night which the Centries tooke in from our Souldiers in which he signified their unreasonable Demands in their propositions and that they refused to take with them his propositions in which he sought their good and preservation of the City not doubting but this would worke a mutiny and force them to a parlye in a more humble way Their extremities caused them to pretend a desire to continue the parlie whiles new hopes of releife by late intelligence quickned their droopeing spirits to more than ordinary acclamations For upon Friday January 23. they reported to our Guards their great confidence of releife by an army out of Ireland already landed and others to be assistant to them in Wales for joy whereof they shot off their Guns and gave a great shout upon the Walls and within the City which they doubted not would prove effectuall to animate the gasping Citizens and to worke on us to allow them better conditions But to cleare all on our part Gen. Mytton with 800. Horse and 200. Foote and Dragoones Ianuary 25. marched into VVales quartered that night in Ruthen endeavouring to finde out and disipate that body of the enemy what ever it might prove under the command of the Lord Saint Paul Collonel Iones the day after sent a party towards Ruthland Castle hoping thereby to inclose the enemy or interrupt them in the way if they attempted the releife of Chester whiles so great a party of ours was abroad in the Country The enemy not appearing the party sent out by Collonel Iones made a speedy returne with a booty of Horse taken from the enemy who had secured them in Ruthland and good stoare of Catle for restitution of which the Country there payd their arreares of contribution for the Leaguer But Gen. Mytton continued in Ruthen having great hopes of the Castle destitute of the Governour Ammunition and fuell This while the Citizens were more sensible of their desperate condition then the Commanders resolved to feede no longer upon lyes which had brought them a long time to feede upon horesslesh so they forced the Commissioners to treate with us and to make the best conclusion they could but however to conclude Upon Friday January 30. their 12. Commissioners were admitted into the forrest streete which sent the same number of able men to joyne with them they continued late that night in debating the propositions but the worke drew not towards a period Our Commissioners agreed that unlesse they came the next day by 12. a clocke and ended by 6. the treaty should cease they desired to deferre it till Munday which would not be admitted so they all met upon Saturday continued the treaty all night and all the next day Our Commissioners held them so close to it that they yeelded to very hard conditions which because they will be publique and larger then will sute to this short narration shall not burden this paper Betwixt ten and eleven at night they possest us of the royall Fort wee having first sent Col. Bowyer and Col. Massie hostages to Hawarden Castle to secure them of our fidelitie in making good the Conditions on our part upon Tuesday we were possest

Munday night at Wrexham endeavouring to informe our selves of the Kings motion and to follow him as opportunitie might serve Upon Wednesday Octob. 1. the intelligence was that the King marched towards Hereford thereupon Generall Poyntz that day marcht after him from Wrexham to Elesmere and Collonel Iones towards Chester to make good the Leaguer there To hasten the worke of reducing the City we sent a Convoy for the great Guns at Stafford and Salop by them to force a speedy entrie before the King could reinforce himselfe to returne Powder and Ball was altogether wanting for so great a service but the Gentlemen of the County were so forward for the worke that they engaged themselves for foure hundred pounds by which we were furnished with Ammunition from Warrington but such jugling there was to prevent the ball and retard the Guns and by subtill agents that cannot endure the work should prosper in the hands of these instruments who affect the cause as they fancie the Leader that we lost above a weeke for the effecting of this great Designe Upon Munday Octob. 5. the City was so strictly begirt on both sides the River that none could passe in or out for the guards of which Sir Iohn Byron the Governour complained in his Letters to the archbish. of Yorke and his brother sent to them at Conway but intercepted by us that day the Powder and Ball being come we fixt a batterie on Tuesday night on the Northside towards the River and made a breast-worke for Muskettiers on the Welch side which clear'd a good part of the wall on the inside On Wednesday we battered the Bulwarke next the North gate even with the Wall On Thursday the wall it selfe close by the Goblen Tower which proved so thicke and the Ball so brittle that not much more than the battlements was beaten downe whiles the besieged endeavoured to make up the breach by packs feather-beds c. and to lyne the Wall all along Our Cannon on the Welch side made great execution swords armes leggs whole bodies were seene to flye in the ayte cart loads of bodies drawne off and the Horse in the reare driving up men and women to make up the breach That night a little before Sun-sett we storm'd the City upon the new breach the old breach neere the new gate and by scaling betwixt the East gate and the Fenix tower the storme was very hot for neere two houres together some of ours carried it very stoutly fighting in the breach and on the tops of the ladders had they been sutably seconded the Town in all probability had been ours that night In conclusion we made good our retreate in the darke we lost 27 men on the ground of those no Officers but a Serjeant and a Corporall about 60. wounded amongst them Lievtenant-Collonell Venables and Captaine Massy brother to the renowned Massie of Glocester but neither of them dangerously the report from within the City is that their losse was more than ours amongst others Sir William Manwaring was slaine an unlucky Knight to fall the first time he came into the field and a wall betwixt him and danger Upon Saturday Octob. 18 the bridge of Boats a very vsefull piece uniting the Forces on both sides the River was finished the one end fixt within the Workes the other guarded with a Fort whence the line was intended to intrench the Citie on the Welch side to prevent all reliefe The Munday after we had a designe upon Holt in regard of the Enemie drawne thither reported to be 700. which indangered the reliefe of Beston and the beating up of our quarters Thereupon Collonel Iones fellsuddenly upon Holt with above 1000. horse and foot who fell so unexpected on the Enemie that had the Forlorne hope observed the command to keep within Musket shot of the Body in all probabilitie wee had entred the Castle before they had drawne up the Bridges There we had a sharpe skirmish with about 140 horse and the Castle foot for that was all the strength that Fame had made 700. upon whom we fell with such violence that we beat them into the Castle ditch made great execution on them in the fall slew one Major and many other souldiers wounded very many took Lievtenant Coll. Byron the Lord Byrons Brother five more and some good horses our losse was two men slain three wounded not mortally others sleightly wounded fourteene of our Forlorne hope taken whose neglect of commands rendred them prisoners By this atchievement we quite brake that Body secured the Leaguer at Beston and our own quarters Neere about that time Major Sankey with a party of horse fell upon Hawarden towne which would not contribute to the Leaguer layd an Ambuscado within pistoll shot of the Castle drew the rest about to the other end of the Towne at the alarme given the listed Souldiers in the Towne and some others besides hasted to the Castle the ambuscado slew some tooke 12. prisoners fetcht off 42. head of Cattle 50. sheepe of the Governours 14. Horse and a Beare which roared upon the man that layd hold on him for a calfe none of ours either lost or wounded thenceforth the Town contributed and we restored the Cattle this became a good president to the Welch who above 20. miles off follow their example Upon Friday and some dayes after our Cannon played on the enemies mills spoyled 3. of them and battered the water Tower by which water was conveighed into the whole City At this time we had sure intelligence of the enemies advance towards us whereupon the Commanders speeded Letters to all the adjacent parts to hasten all the releife possible that we might be enabled to make good the Leaguer and give Battle to the enemy in the field that so we might loose no ground Hitherto the military affaires of this County were under the charge of Col. Iones adju. Louthiane who discharged that trust in al their undertakings with as much prudence resolution and gallantry as could be expressed from men whose endevours God still crowned with happy successe and the worke in their hands so farre advanc'● that Chester unlesse relieved with an army must necessarily yeeld up themselves and Beston Castle gasping for every thing necessary but aire and water Upon Saturday October the twenty five Sir William Brereton came to Namptwich appointed by the Parliament to Command in cheife to whom the Commanders from the Leaguer signifyed the enemies designe and the preparation already made to entertaine them Sir William approving of that course seconded their Letters to draw in the Auxiliaries who were very forward of themselves to promote this great designe in which they were all so much concerned By this time the enemy in Wales were reported to be potent to the great encouragement of the beleaguerd City and Castle Sir William Brereton however summon'd the Castle hopeing their low condition might incline them to a Parlie but they being confident of help at hand by signalls from