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A95888	Gods arke overtopping the worlds waves, or The third part of the Parliamentary chronicle. Containing a successive continuation and exact and faithful narration of all the most materiall parliamentary proceedings & memorable mercies wherewith God hath crowned this famous present Parliament and their armies in all the severall parts of the land; ... Collected and published for Gods high honour and the great encouragement of all that are zealous for God and lovers of their country. / By the most unworthy admirer of them, John Vicars.; God in the mount. Part 3	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing V309; Thomason E312_3; ESTC R200473	307,400	332

garrison upon such unequall termes towards night the enemy marched away to their severall Garrisons Col. Cartwright had his horse kild under him with a Cannon bullet they say but I am not certain that he himself is shot That you may know their devillishnes give me leave to acquaint you with their design as it was related to us They were resolved to have surprised us this morning by two of the clocke but the bitterness of the snowie weather which fell hindred so speedy a march of their foot as they expected therefore failing of that their farther designe was to try if they could get the Town which if they could they then resolved to summon the Castle if they could neither winne nor have it delivered up they resolved to plunder and then fire the Town to this purpose and with these threats they had prepared a Letter to send me and when they could finde none that would venture to carry it they seiz'd on Mr Majores and would with many threats have compelled him to carry it to me one clause of it was that if I would not send them the Major Aldermen nor deliver the Castle they would proceed to plunder and fire Before Mr Majores was well out of doores with his Letter there was so quick unexpected an answer sent them by 400 Muskettiers which sallied out upon them that they were in too great hast to take with them the plunder of the Town so that in that respect the Town escaped well and lost nothing of value we must acknowledge it was a wonderfull mercy of God that it escaped firing for they cast a many coals of fire amongst a great deal of hay in Capt. Whites Quarters and laid fire to divers houses and had prepared divers Gorse Bushes to fire and shot muskets and pistols into the thatch of houses as they passed by and into barnes but God preserved us from all these dangers so that though the fire was found halfe an hour after they were gone quick in the hay yet there was not so much as a smoke in the Town The number of these forces were as neer as we could guesse or find out by the prisoners 1500 horse and foot being all the force that could be gathered together from Newark Si● Charles Lucas Col. Fretwell with other forces drawn from Bolsover and Welbeck and Shelford They faced the Bridge on the other side of the Trent with between 2 and 300 horse Dragoons which came from Hastings Belvoir Wiverton By this you may see how we are straitned and how over potent our enemies are and you may imagine how impossible it is for this poor Garrison to subsist without some reliefe of money to encourage our Souldiers and the truth is to make them able to live to do the publique service Therefore Sir I beseech you prosecute my desires in my last Letter to you as the greatest service you can doe your Country and Obligation you can lay on Your loving friend and servant J. H. Nottingham Castle Jan. 16. 1643. In all this dayes service we had not any assistance from the Townsmen besides those which have all this year been in the Castle with me though I had twice summoned them to receive armes for the defence of the Town but could not perswade them to do it but now I am in some hopes that they will by this be brought to concur more cheerfully with me for their own defence and that the Cavaliers though they have no cause to brag of this will more deerly buy their next entrance I heare since that most of the enemies foot are run away which were about five or six hundred all their foot flung their Armes away that they might run the lighter Sir Since I writ this Letter I am certainly informed that there are above a 100 Cavaliers lying dead in Thor●high and Sausom woods and Nottingham Coppice the weather being so sharp that their wounds bled to death and some of them starved with cold and wee have since found many of them dead in the Towne that were wounded and hid themselves in houses and there bled to death they have left many wounded all along the Townes as they dispersed themselves to their severall Garrisons from whence they came The greatness of their loss is more than yet we can discover and what I have related to you is less than what we know to be true we have some prisoners that were in the Parliaments service in Ireland are now taken with the enemy I desire to know the pleasure of the House concerning them whether they shall be tryed by a Councell of war as runawayes or excha●●ed because it may be our fortune to meet with more considerable men of the same kinde Your servant J. H. Nottingham-Castle Jan. 17. 1643. From all these plots then and most desperate and devillish designes of our restless rancourous adversaries wee may clearly see that of the Prophet Esay most eminently verified That it is the Lord alone who is able to create peace and salvation to his people that are a far off to those that are neer evermore to heal and to help them But the wicked as heer wee have seen in all these plots and desperate designes are still like the troubled Sea which cannot rest but is evermore casting up mire and dirt And therefore there is no peace saith my God to the wicked But now to proceed And heer now I have thought fit to acquaint the Reader though a little out of order in respect of the day of the Moneth onely with the most admirable and blessed providence of the Lord in stirring up the hearts of our loving and loyall Brethren of Scotland to such a pitch and highth of Christian sympathizing with us in our present pressing troubles and deep distractions as to leave their own native Country wives children kindred estates yea their all and to bring their lives in their hands to adventure their most precious heart-bloud for us and with us in the godly vindication of our Religion Lawes Liberties to help forward the happy reestablishment of Peace Truth among us which if rightly seriously considered is ought to be most justly esteemed and accounted one of the richest rarest temporall mercies that have from the first or can to the last befall us even a whole Kingdom or Nation unanimously to combine and conjoyne with us in this necessitated holy-war O what sufficient thanks praises is England ever able to retribute repay to Englands good God for it O England England let this so rich so rare a mercy be never forgotten of thee let those our loyall our loving Scottish-Brethren be ever most intimately entirely beloved of thee And now to the matter which I shall succinctly deliver to the Reader in a full relation of our said loving Scottish-Brethrens march from Barwick to Newcastle as it was printed and published by authoritie which was