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A88366	A true experimentall and exact relation upon that famous and renovvned siege of Nevvcastle, the diverse conflicts and occurrances fell out there during the time of ten weeks and odde dayes: and of that mightie and marveilous storming therof, with power, policie, and prudent plots of warre. Together with a succinct commentarie upon the battell of Bowdon Hill, and that victorious battell of York or Marston Moore, never to be forgotten. / By him who was an eye witnesse to the siege of Nevvcastle, William Lithgovv.	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1645 (1645)	Wing L2545; Thomason E292_31; ESTC R200156	18,343	31

for the Armie The Bridge it self being daily guarded with my Lord Kenmoores Regiment at both ends and a strong Centrie set at each of them within two Redoubts had also three watrie guards of Keill boats tyed with cable ropes from banke to banke to secure it from any sudden surprise Now as for the manner of the common Souldiers lying here in their severall Leagures and in all parts about the Towne their Mansions or Domiciles I meane their Houts are composed of Turff Clay Straw and Watles Where their Halls Chambers Kitchines and Cellars are all one And yet the better sort I mean their Officers are overshadowed with circulating Pavillions more ready to receive the blustring winde than the sinking raine Then at last all things being orderly done and their batteries at sundrie advantages erected then I say begun they to play with Cannon and Musket at others faces and often also tempering their naked swords in others bloudy bodies where courage cassieting despair and valour desirous of Honour they exposed themselves unto all hazards and dangerous attempts Neither did they feare death I meane our owne more then an auspicuous fortune for being clad with consorts each provoked another to the uttermost of extremities and some of them esteeming of the good Cause more than of their owne lives reserved the one and lost the other So also the inveterate enemie making now and then diverse sallies from Towne issuing at Posterne gates upon our flanking trenches engadged themselves into great jeopardies and our Souldiers to as desperata defence Where indeed they both often tasted of mutuall fatalitie till in end the Lord Sinclairs Regiment desygned these debording hyrelings a narrower precinct which was to keepe their falling bodies more safely within their sheltring walls which indeed they constrainedly observed For the enemy within were more affrayed of the Lord Sinclairs Souldiers without then of any one Regiment of the Army lying about and they had just reason recogitating seriously their sanguine blowes and fatall rancounters which they disdainfully felt And now before I go any further I thinke it best to shew the unacquainted Reader how the Towne is situate from whence such mortalitie proceeded and thus it standeth mainly upon the devalling face of a continuing hill falling downe steep to the bordering River where one narrow street runneth along from Sandgate to Clossegate The Sandhill from which the Bridge bendeth over to Gateside being the pryme market place whence the two ascending passages court distinctly High street and Pilgrime street the two chiefest streets of the Towne to the bowels of which there bee other three market places annexed Now besides these there are other two back streets with five or six Contrades and a number of narrow devalling lanes The walles about the Town are both high and strong built both within and without with saxo quadrato and maynely fenced with dungeon Towres interlarded also with Turrets and alongst with them a large and defensive battlement having eight sundry ports and four parochiall Churches The which walles the defendants within had marveilously fortifyed rampiering them about at most eminent parts with interlynings and mountaynes of earth The streets that were answerable to their barrocaded Ports and in frequent passages were also casten up with defensive breastworks and planted with Demi-culverines of irone And above all other workes the towne Castle it self was seriously enlarged with diverse curious fortifications besides breastworks Redoubts and terrenniat Demilunes and withall three distinctive Horne-workes two of which exteriourly are strongly pallosaded and of great bounds Nay the very Capstone of the battlements round about the Towne were surged and underpropd with little stones that in case of scalleting they might have tumbled them over upon the Assailants Which indeed for the facility of the action Schoole boyes might have performed Yea and all the gapes of the battlements were shut up with lime and stone having a narrow slit in each of them through which they might murther our Souldiers and secure themselves from a just revenge The graffe about and without was digged deeper and the exteriour root of the walls were steeply lyned with clay-mixt earth to intercept any footing for Leddars or climbing thereon All the Ports about were closed with lyme and stone and strongly barrocaded within having no passage save at little posterne doores where they had their quotidian intercourses The Townes maine constructure rysing upwards divides it selfe in two corners the one North at Weavers Tower the other South west at Hatmakers Tower decyphering two Hornes like unto Calabrian Females with their bogling busks but indeed more like unto the Novacastrians themselves that retrogradingly adorne their Cuckolds frontespices with the large dimension of Acteons monsterous-made hornes Vpon the Townes Northeast side and a little without there was a fortresse erected called Sheiffield Fort standing on a moderate height and Champion-like commanding the fields the modell thus It standeth squarely quadrangled with a foure cornerd Bastion at every angle and all of them thus quadrat they are composed of earth and watles having the North-east side of one bulwarke pallosaded the rest not save along the top of the worke about they had laid Masts of Ships to beat down the assailants with their tumbling force At the entrie whereof there is a wooden draw-bridge and within it two Courts du guard the graffe without is dry and of small importance save onely that repugnancie of the Defendants within which commonly consisted of three hundred men And now to close this Topographicall description the invention policie nor wit of man could have done more than they did within and without for their own safetye either for military discipline or manly prouesses in their owne desperat defence Of whom our owne Countrey-men were the cheeffest actors both for the one and for the other and the onely cause of so much bloodshed and losse of lives as wee sustayned which makes me recall this Italian proverb Iddio miguarda dall ' odio di mei amigi perci●ches● bene ●guardar mistesto dall ' ●di● di mei inimigi The Lord Keep me from the hurt of my Friends for I know well how to keep mee from myne enemyes A thing now adayes so frequent that where all should stand for amoris patriae there many stand now for doloris patriae and declyning from that auncient and native duety Pugne propatria they involue themselves without either honestie or honour to extermine the lyves and libertye of their Patria where strugling with their own strife they often deservingly fall in the extreame madnesse of desperation where now leaving them to their left selves I revert to my purpose The walles here of Newcastle are a great deale stronger than these of Yorke and not unlyke to the walles of Avineon but especialy of Ierusalem Being all three decored about the battlements with litle quadrangled Turrets the advantage resting onely upon Newcastle in regard of seventeen dungeon Towres fixt about the walles and they also

unto the next breaches northwestward which was accordingly done So and at this tyme the aforesaid Brigade having attained to the Sandhill where rancountering the exasperate enemie with a bloodie salutation the rest of our westerne and northern Brigads pursuing hotely these shrinking fugitives from the walles to the choaking Market place where being distressed as it were betweene Scylla and Charibdis they presentlie called for quarters and laying downe their Armes without assurance some were taken some were shaken some stood still and some fled away to hyde their bleeding bodyes in some secret shelter yea some sate downe by their fathers fire syde as though they had caryed no armes Upon this surrender the Major being formerly fled to the Castle with some others of greater and lesser note they caused quickly pull downe the red flag on the Castle tope and set up the whyte flag of peace signifying subjection This done the earle Calendar having formerly entered the Towne with great expedition gave presently order for quiescing of tumults and managing disorders after a considerable way returned that same night to the Gatesyde So as he was the first lay downe before the Towne so he was duely the first that entred it and that to the great comfort of the Inhabitants because of that unspeakable favour and undeserved mercy they then suddenly received far beyond their merit and our expectation Then begun the whole Armie commanded and uncommanded observing King Davids ancient rule that they who stayd with the Baggage and they that fought in the field should share the booties alike to plunder I say for twenty foure houres time being an act of permission although to no great purpose And why because the common souldiers being onely able to plunder the common people although they might have justly stretched their hands further had for the greatest part of them but small benefite excepting only houshold stuff as bed-cloaths linnings Tanned leather calve skins men and womens apparell pans pots and plates and such like common things But our prime Officers I say and others of that nature by infringing the common souldiers infringd themselves and spoyled both their fortunes for they investing themselves in the richest Malignants and papisted houses by way of safeguard had but small compositions for all their protection and compelled Centries where otherwise they might have justly and lawfully seazed upon all their enjoyments But this ancient Proverb holdeth good here That Scottishmen are aye wise behinde the hand and so were they And as they abused their Victorie in storming the Towne with too much undeserved mercy so they as unwisely and imprudently overreached themselves in plundering the towne with an ignorant negligence and carelesse ommission And as they thus defrauded themselves with a whistle in their mouths so they pitifully prejudged by this their inveigled course the common souldiers of their just due and dear bought advantages For by your leave if a souldiers industrie be not quickned and animated with bountifull rewards hee hath lesse will to performe any part of martiall service than a dead coarse hath power to arise out of the grave For what can bee more precious to man than his bloud being the fountaine and nurse of his vitall spirits and the ground of his bodily substance which no free nor ingenious nature will loose for nothing And whosoever shall argument or discourse upon sound reason and infallible experience may easily prove and perceive that these Commanders have ever best prospered which have most liberally maintained and had in singular regard militarie Arts and Souldiers Otherwise the honourable minde would account it a great deale better to have death without life than life without reward Yea and the noble Commander desiring rather to want than to suffer true worth unrecompensed I could instance here many examples of ingratitude in great persons that by their too much wretchednesse to Souldiers have first lost themselves and then their Kingdomes and Principalities but I desist onely lamenting what I saw here the recitation of which amoris patriae I forbear to touch And as the Spaniard saith well Nella bocca serrada non ci entra las muscas that is When the mouth is shut the flees cannot enter in the throat so saith the Italian to this same purpose Assaisa che nòsa chi sia hee knoweth enough that can misknow the thing he knoweth And the Poetick Proverb is thus Dic pauca multa vide disce quam plurima pati Nam multum juvant h●c triasaepe viros Speake little see much learne to suffer more For these three oft help men the world all o're And now closing these comparisons I proceed to my methodicall discourse As for the number of our souldiers that were lost at the storming of this obstinate and unhappie Towne not reckoning the fatalitie of other times they extended to three hundred lacking one of whom there were thirtie eight Officers of six distinctive kindes besides seven or eight hundred that were diverse wayes ill hurt of which wounds some have lately dyed since that time And now I recall that these three sieges of Breda York and now Newcastle were all of one dyet though not at one time and did each of them so nearly sympathize one with another in the computation of ten weekes and odde dayes that they may all three rest now contented to live under the substant shadow of an honest and honourable subjection Yet when I consider here the malicious obstinacie of Newcastle and thereupon the storming of it I am ravished with admiration to behold how in the heat of bloud and goaring slaughter they got so soon mercie and quarters that me thinketh there was not the like mercie showne in such a case since the deluge of the World Nay and alas showne unto an impenitent and pernicious people When contrariwise the lives and goods of man wife and child within that refractarie Towne for their railing ●●d blasphemie dailie abounded were in the power and pleasure of our victorious Armie The which favour I dare avouch may be a paterne to all succeeding ages enduring time for pity pardon and piety And to instance heere the contrary example you shall see and that within these twenty years past how the populous and once famous City of Madenburg in Germany being all Protestants was beleagured with the imperiall forces Whereafter diverse parleyes and subtile drifts the enemie on a sudden stormed the Town where forthwith they slew eleven thousands of men woemen and children and the next morning their divelish despight growing wearie of that murdering slaughter unnaturally and unmercifully threw headlong eighteene thousands of them in the River So that none escaped in the whole City of young or old save onely foure hundred that fled into a Church And striping these starke naked sent them away and plundering all the goods of the Towne at last razed it to the ground By which crueltie this famous Universitie as it was first sacked and then burned with fire so the