conditions that the worst of Rebells could have put upon a Prince which being once confirmed and assented to by him they would be ready to give Battel as the quarrell should then be stated and upon which they might expect a blessing But this wile advantaged not the Kirk but only served as a Directory to Oliver where he should level his Treasonable projects To this Cromwell takes very good occasion to reply and help our their sophistry with some more of his own◠and to let the Scots see of how near affinity the Kirk and the Congregational way were in this respect to the King he permitted nay caused their Declaration to be publiquely read to his Army putting the Scotch-Remonstrants upon these Dilemma's That their professed disowning of Malignants and receiving and assisting their Head and Chief in whom all their hope lies cannot consist in common sence or pradence reciting as evidence thereof the late Popish affairs in Ireland and Prince Ruperts roving at Sea That suppose He the King should give security of his turning it must be some other way then by a few and feigned formal submissions for it is his necessity and his old Complices that connsel him to that Complyance Nor is it possible for the Scots in the way that they are now in to be able to secure themselves or England and concludes that upon this quarrel if they be ready to fight his Army attends there for that purpose and therefore the Scots cannot complain for want of an opportunity These pestilent and alike dangerous Papers which in effect seemed rather an agreement then cause of quarrell between the Antagonists were warily considered by some even of Kirk-men who loved the King as of sudden and desperate consequence to his Majesties Person and Government so highly vilified and disre-garded so that a Declaration to the liking of the Kark was extorted from him that there might no cause of pretence remain either for their obstinate carriage towards him or ready compliance with the Enemy Hereupon the English Army advanced again and though several Bodies of Scotch Horse appeared yet they presently withdrew upon their approach which that it might not be altogether frustrate Cromwell in sight of them caused a Garrison called Red-house within a mile and a half of Edinburgh to be Stormed wherein were taken 60. Foot and the House made tenable and manned by the English while the Scats being necessitated for Provisions and to joyn with some other Forces from Fife and the West had marched two miles beyond Edinburgh having a great Hill on the one side and the City and a River on the other so that it was very hazardous to engage them being drawn up in Battalia the great Cuns playing on both sides In which posture and attendance the Scots and English stood and neither changed ground till Provisions growing scarce Cromwell retreated to Pentland-hills Lambert having had some discourse and conference with Straughan c. about the former equity of their cause de lana caprina and thence with some difficulty by reason of bad weather to Musleborough for Provant and thence a few days after to Dunbar with intention by shipping or any other way to get into England being now closely followed by the Scotch Army in their rear who rightly guessing the English to be weakned with long Marches and want of Victual made cock-sure of a total Victory which snatching at before it was ripe for them fearing nothing more then that they would escape them they saw themselves miserably frustrated and their despairing Enemy a most insulting Conqueror On Sunday at night the first of September the English making at most not above 12000. men came to Dunbar whither the Scots keeping close at their Heels came also and drew up their whole Army consisting of between 20. and 24. thousand men upon a high Hill within a mile of the Town to the great amazement at first of the English but dispair adding resolution to their courage they presently drew out in Battalia in the Corn-field near adjoyning and so stood all night being incamped upon a Neck of Land whose Breadth was not a Mile and a half from Sea to Sea so that they were by Land quite cooped up In considence therefore of an assured Victory David Lashley who Commanded this Kirk Army in chief began to advance as early as the Sun next morning and drew down the Hill fixing at the foot thereof and about 4. a clock in the afternoon brought down his Train there being a great Ditch betwixt both the Armies That night the English by Command placed themselves close to the Ditch and placed their Field-pieces likewise in every Regiment that they might be in a readiness in case the Enemy should attempt any thing upon them who were vainly expecting terms of a rendition boasting that they had them in a worse pound then the King had the Earl of Essex at Lestithiell in Cornwall The Ministers having their voice in the Council of War held by this Kirk Army most earnestly urged the Engagement and fight against those that were of opinion to let the English escape and not venture the fortune of War upon an Enemy made desperate of which there were 〈◊〉 many sad examples saying that God had delivered Agag meaning Cromwell into their power and if they let him go would require him at their hands On Tuesday morning at four of the Clock a Brigade of the English Army drew down to possess themselves of a pass upon the Road between Edenburgh and Berwick which being had they might with the more ease and advantage make their way home and in order thereto pass over so the Enemy to fall upon them This Brigade consisted of three Regiments of Horse of Major General Lamberts Commissary General Whalleys and Collonel Lilburns and two of Foot This gave the Scots a great Alarum and a fore dispute happened about the pass which lasted above an hour the great Guns playing in the mean time against both the bodies At length that stout Brigade gained and possessed the pass much gallantry and bravery being shewed on both sides This pass lay at Copperspeth in the English way homewards to impede which they had drawn off their best Horse upon the right Wing to receive the English weose Word was the Lord of Hosts theirs The Covenant The Enemy charged hereupon with their Lanciers so that that the Horse gave way a little but immediately rallied and the foot advancing to second them the Scots were charged so home that they put them presently to the rout it being about six a Clock in the morning the left Wing of Horse without striking one stroke following the same way The Foot seeing this rout and flight of the Horse and not able in any order by reason thereof to engage were all of a sudden so confused and confounded that without any resistance or offer of Engagement they threvv dovvn their Arms and fled giving the English the full pursuit of them above
was killed by Carbine shot refusing to take quarter at such perfidious peoples hands This Hurly burly being over and ended like a flash the General came to Oxford where he was highly treated and he and Oliver made Doctors of the Civil Law This proved the utter Suppression of that party rendred the Army entirly at his command without any farther dispute of their Leading so that they presently submitted to the Lot which Regiments should be sent to Ireland then almost reduced to the Kings obedience by the M. of Ormond which thus decreed it viz. 11. Regiments One of Dragoons under Col. Abbot Of Horse Iretons Scroops Hortons and Lamberts Of Foot Eures Cooks Hewsons and Deans And three new ones viz. Cromwells Venables and Phayrs Cromwell was ordained Commander in Chief and tituladoed with the Style of Lord Governour of Ireland while Fairfax was lest here to attend the Parliament and passe away his time in the Dotages of his Successe giving him the Honour of subduing that Realm and preparing it to his Usurtion He with a very potent Army was now landed at Dublin Whereupon a strong Garrison of 2500 Foot and 300 horse resolved men under the charge of Sir Arthur Aston was put into Drogheda the nearest Garrison to the late defeat of the Ms of Ormond which Cromwell having refreshed his Army a while at Dublin came to besiege The Town was stormed resolutely thrice and as well defended-Sir Arthur Aston being so confident that he advised the Lord Lieutenant not to precipitate any thing for he should hold them play a while but in the third assault Collonel Wall being unâ—ortuâ— nately killed his dismaid Souldâ—ers listened to thâ— offer of quarter before they had need of it and admitted them upon those terms Cromwell having notice that the Flower of the Irish Army was in his hands gave order to put all in Arms to the Sword where were killed Sir Arthur Asteâ— Sir Edmund Varney Collonel Warren Coll. Dun Finglassâ— Tempest c. with 3000 Souldiers the best in that Kingdome He comes next before Wexford which having resused to accept of a Garrison now the Enemy was under their walls was contented to admit of 500 Men under the command of Sir Edmund Butler and the Lord Lieutenant came also in sighthâ— the Town before whose face Stafford the Governour of the Castle basâ—ly betrayed it to Cromwell together with the Town who there are acheroroâ—fly murthered 2000 more Rosse was the next place whither a Garrison was sent under the command of Luke Taaf with order the Town not being tenable to render upon Conditions which accordingly a breach being made they did and marched away with their Arms. His next attempt was upon Duncannon but the noble Wogan and the English Cavaliers gave him a foyle hence he retreated to Rosseâ— â—ere he made a floating bridge that to having a passage to the other side he might comâ—ell Ormond either to divide his Army to observe his motions or otherwise to get a passage into Munster where he held intelligence with several places that would then Revolt and accordingly for all my Lord Taaff was sent thither before hand to secure them yet Youghall Corke and all the English Towns of Munster openly Revolted and many of my Lord Inchiqueens men allured by Money and Commands in Cromwell's Army ran over to the Enemy and his Excellency the L. Lieutenant having lost the opportunity of Fighting Cromwell by his dislodging from Duncannon by night vvhen the Irish vvere cheaâ—full and earnest to engage vvas never after in a condition fit to venture a battel He therefore passes over his Bridge and so into the County of Kilkenny facing his Enemy and moving up and dovvn after him vvhile his Lieut. G. Jonâ—s with parties took in the Castles and Carrick vvas vvretchedly betrayed to him by Martin that commanded there vvhence 〈◊〉 passes his Army into Munster and takes severall Castles by the appearance onely of his Horse onely at Kilteran he received a repulse but Ballisannon was sold to him Kilkenny was taken next aster a stout defence made the Towns-men complying contrary to the Souldiers knowledge who were driven into the Castle and there conditioned The next enterprize he went in hand with was to take Clonmell kept by Major Generall Hugh Neake who behaved himself so well that the Enemy having lost 2500 Men before it had gone away without it had it not bin that the Gariâ—on wanted Powder so that they got over the River to Waterford in the night leaving the Townsmen to make conditions for themselves which the Enemy not knowing the Souldiers were gone readily granted Soon after Collonel Roch received a brush from my Lord Broghill in the County of Cork vvhere the Bishop of Rosse being taken vvas hanged I have thus briefly discoursed of the War in Ireland that I might hasten to the grand event and from the Camp after another expedition conduct him to the Palace the main consequence of his Life vvhich rendred all his other actions so notable and conspicuous The Irish War thus in a manner ended and the Scotch War ready to Commence the Committee of Estates there having concluded vvith the King at Breda and he upon his Voyage to that Kingdom wheâ—e all correspondence with the English was by Proclamation forbidden and all manner of Provision stopt from carrying into England though the Juncto at Westmiâ—ster had used all Artifices to keep the Scots from closing with Him who were so far disposed thereto that they had barbarously murâ—hered the Great Marquiss of Montross a Hero far surpassing Oliver in Conduct and who was untimely and unfortunately taken away from the rescue of his Country Cromwell like a Fury was ready at hand to take revenge of that Fact For having been seeretly called for over from Ireland to amuse all Parties both the Irish who trembled at his presence and made no considerable resistance against him and his Fortune and the General himself at home who expected not such his sudden â—valship to his Command which gave him no time for mature consideration of the design the Scots who though Alarumed by frequent rumours of an English Invasion yet were not so forward in their Levies as having assurance of Fairfax's dissatisfaction he was now wasted over into England preventing the Letters he had sent to the States to know their express pleasure for his departing that Kingdome On the beginning of June he returned by the way of Bristoll from Ireland to London and was welcomed by Fairfax the General many Members of Parliament and Council of State at Hounsle-heath and more fully complemented at his Lodgings and in Parliament by the Thanks of the House and the like significant Address of the Lord Mayor c. of London being look'd upon as the only Person to the Eccsipse and diminution of the Generals Honour which we shall presently see him paramount in the same supreme Command The World that considered the carriage of this Politique towards his Prince
Gillespy Rutherford c. of Glascow aforesaid concerning the lawfulnesse of his Invasion which he performed as he said in much weakness of both Argument and body seeing there was no drawing the Scot out that way to fight which way they intended for an undisturbed march marched back to Edenburgh by the beginning of May and in his way burned the Lady Kilsithes house for holding intelligence with the King having notice of the Arrival of his Boats at Leith for the transportation of his Army into Fife which was the last remedy the failure of victuals in the Scotch Camp which therefore they should be forced to abandon and march proving a meer delusion Cromwell being at Edinburgh having notice how the King lay encamped at Sterling Leshlys Foot quartering on the Southside and Middletons on the North-side of the Park encompassed with a Stone-wall and that abundance of Provision was brought in daily supposing they would march drew al his remaining forces out of the west with as much care and conduct as could be and encamped likewise in the Fields by Edinburgh in a readinesse for them whither to march or fight But in the mean time he was taken very ill of his Ague so that Doctor Wright and Doctor Bates eminent Physicians were sent down to attend his cure many blith anxious discourses were made concerning his Death as either party wished for he was brought very low but being recovered to some degree of health by these Gentlemen it was presently sounded like a Proclamation and I have therefore thought fit to transcribe a peice of the Letter that the world may see what queer Hypocrites his attendants like himself and his times were by the pious nonsense and most blasphemous flattery of this Apocrypha Epistle If I knew the Secretary or Inditer I would record him for his Pen Truly Sir his Life and Health are exceeding preciouâ— and I account it every day a greater mercy then other that we have his Life observing that every dispensation of God draws him nearer to himself and makes him more heavenly and holy and by consequence more useful for his Generation in the management of that power God bath committed to him c. This Occasion of his Sicknesse minds me of one passage of his Life wherein was a Ray or Specimen of his Humanity He had a Servant a Frenchman one Dury that attended him in his Chamber whom of all his Retainers he best loved and would hardly brook his absence out of his Sight whether for that he could more freely communicate his Privacies to a forraigner who was altogether unconcerned in them and therefore of greater secresie and confidence or for his diligence and care of his person set off with his national fondnesses insinuations This fellow dying not long after Cromwell did passionately grieve thereat and for the memory of this his dear Servant made ample provisions by a Pension for his relations which continued during his Usurpation At last with much ado by the helps of Physick and the especial constant attendance of those Doctors sent him and charged with his preservation by the Parliament Cromwell fully revived to theirs afterwards aswell as the Kingdoms sorrow The English Army in Scotland was now in motion for grass and marched upon their old design of Sterling to Newbridge so to Lithgow from whose Castle Battlements they might espy the Tents of the Scotch Army encamped in Torwood 4 Miles of this side Sterling whither his creature Warreston was now summoned by the Commissioners of the Assembly peremptorily by the third of July having cast up a regular and well fortified line with Bulworks mounted with Guns and having a River behind them which they might passe at pleasure in this posture they awaited the English who coming up and facing them the third of July in the night following the Scots drew up their Cannon and planted them on the brow of the Hill and next morning saluted Cromwell with 50. great Guns but with little Execution which made him quickly draw out of shot and give over his once begun resolution of attaquing them at so much disadvantage The English therefore marched back again Major Generall Lambert being sent from Glascow a week after to view the passes which he reported by reason of the boggy approaches there to be very hazardous Upon their departure from Lithgow to Glasco the Scots removed from Torwood and encamped at Kilsith a place environed with insuperable defences having a bog on one hand and craggy mountains on the other but the English Army having eaten up all at Glasgow and those parts and trod down the Corn standing that the Scots might find no sustenance that way if they should march appearing and marching with great noise on the other side they imagining the English meant to clap in between them and Sterling hastened back again to their old line at Torwood July 13. whither Cromwel followed and to provoke them to an Engagement stormed Calendar House in their view and put all the Defendants except the Governour to the Sword and then seeing there was no possibility of fighting with them but that they were resolved to keep them in play till Winters scarcity of horse-meat should make them give over and depart the Kingdom he encamped himself awaiting the successe of his design by Boat into Fife While Cromwell thus attended the Scots at Torwood within a mile and a half of them at Falkirk at length the long expected sucesse of a transportation into Fife manifested it self for Col. Overton with 1400. foot of his own and Col. Daniels Regiment with four Troops of Horse of Coll. Lydcots having with the losse of a few men gained a place called North Ferry on the other side the Frith on the 17. of July had as the time served intrenched themselves and before the Scotch Army then beyond Sterling could reach them with a sufficient force to drive them out Major General Lambert was passed over to them it being an Arm of the Sea and had defeated Sir John Brown with 4000. men The successe and great consequence of which and the said transportation I wil briefly sum up in Cromwells Letter In pursuance of the providence of God and that blessing lately given to your Forces in Fife and finding that the Enemy being Masters of the Passe at Sterling could not be gotten out there without hindering his Provisions at Saint Johnstons we by general advise thought fit to attempt Saint Johnstons knowing that that would necessitate Him to quit His Passe wherefore leaving with Major General Harrison about 3000. Horse and Dragoons besides those which are with Coll. Rich Coll. Saunders and Coll. Barton upon the Borders we marched to Saint Johnstons and lying one day before it we had it Surrendred to us during which time we had some intelligence of the Enemies marching Southward though with some contradictions as if it had not been so but doubting it might be true leaving a Garrison in Saint Johnstons
and sending Lieutenant Generall Monk with 5 or 6000. to Sterling to reduce that place and by it to put your affairs into a good posture in Scotland We marched with all possible expedition back again and have passed our Foot and many of our Horse over the Frith this day resolving to make what speed we can up to the Enemy who in this desperation and fear and out of inevitable necessity is run to try what he can do this way I do apprehend that if he goes for England being some few dayes march before us it will trouble some mens thoughts and may occasion some inconveniences of which I hope we are as deeply sensible and have and I trust shall be as diligent to prevent as any and indeed this is our comfort that in simplicity of heart as to God we have done to the best of our judgements knowing that if some issue were not put to this businesse it would occasion another Winters War to the ruin of your Souldiery for whom the Winter-dissiculties of this Country are too hard and be under the endlesse expence of the Treasure of England in prosecuting this War It may be supposed we might have kept the Enemy from this by interposing between him and England which truely I believe we might but how to remove Him out of this place without doing what vve have done unlesse we had had a commanding Army on both sides of the River of Frith is not clear to us or hovv to ansvver the inconveniences aforementioned vve understand not vve pray therefore that seeing there is a possibility for the Enemy to put you to some trouble you vvould vvith the same courage grounded upon a confidence in God wherein you have been supported to the great things in which God hath used you heretofore improve the best you can such Forces as you have in readinesse or may on the sudden be got together to give the Enemy some check until we shall be able to reach up to him which we trust in the Lord we shall do our utmost endevour in and indeed we have this comfortable experiment from the Lord that this Enemy is heart-smitten by God and when ever the Lord shall bring us up to them we believe the Lord will make the desperateness of this Councel of theirs to appear and the folly of it also when England was much more unsteady then now and when a much more considerable Army of theirs unfoiled invaded you we had but weak force to make resistance at Preston upon deliberate advice we chose-rather to put our selves between their Army and Scotland and how God succeeded that is not well to be forgotten This is not out of choice on our part but by some kind of necessity and it is to be hoped will have the like issue together with a hopeful end of your work in which it 's good to wait upon the Lord upon the earnest of former experiences and hope of his presence which only is the life of your Cause Major General Harrison with the Horse and Dragoons under him and Colonel Rich and the rest in those parts shall attend the motion of the Enemy and endevour the keeping of them together as also to impede his March and will be ready to be in conjunction with what Forces shall get together for this service to whom Orders have been speeded to that purpose as this enclosed to Major General Harrison will shew Major General Lambert this day marched with a very considerable Body of Horse up towards the Enemies Reer With the rest of the Horse and nine Regiments of Foot most of them of your old Foot and Horse I am hasting up and shall by the Lords help use the utmost diligence I hope I have left a commanding force under Lieutenant General Monk in Scotland This account I thought my duty to speed to you and rest Leith 4. August 1651. Your most humble Servant O. Cromwell This shews what sudden troubled apprehension He had of this well designed March of the Kings and made him repent his obstinacy of Honour in reducing St. Johnstons by which the King got 3 days March of him but however he excused this to the Parliament who were almost in despair and terribly affrighted at the News of it yet they did highly taxe him for his negligence and spoke ill words of him which came to his ears and for which he soon after cried quits with them The King departed from Sterling the last of July and came into England by the way of Carlisle and upon his first footing there was Proclaimed rightful Kin ' of Great Brittain and did thereupon publish his Declaration wherein He offered His free Grace and Pardon to be confirmed by an Act thereafter to all His Subjects of England of what ever nature or crime their offences were excepting Cromwell Bradshaw and Cook the more immediate Murtherers of His Father and therewith prosecuted His March being proclaimed in the same manner through all the Towns he passed On the 22 of August the Van of the Kings Army entred Worcester some resistance being attempted to be made by some new raised Forces under one Colonel James and by the influence of Baron Wilde but the Townsmen saved them the labour of driving them out and most joyfully welcomed these weary Guests and such too as in 1645. had been extremely oppressive and intolerably burdensome at the Siege of Hereford but their gladnesse at the Kings presence and hope of his Restitution obliterated all other considerations and remembrances whatsoever The Mayor and his Brethren at the Kings Intradâ— did Him the customary but most chearful obeysances tendring Him the Keys and the Mace upon their Knees and bidding Him and His Forces welcome to this his Majesties Ancient and Loyal City where the same day with great solemnity He was anew Proclaimed and the tired Soldiers most abundantly provided for being in all Scotch and English some 13000. who had marched 300. miles outright in three weeks In the mean time the Parliament had amassed a numerous Militia in all the Counties of England and glad were the Members that the King stayed for them for nothing was more dreaded then his continued march to London which place would have soon ridded their fears upon an approach of the Kings Army but 30. miles further from Worcester but to prevent that as Essex did before at the beginning of the War whose first efforts took this way Cromwell by long Marches through Newcastle Rippou Ferrybrygs Doncaster Mansfield and Coventry had interposed himself and joyned with his Army at Keynton where a General Council of all his Officers was held and a speedy advance to Worcester resolved on Lieutenant General Fleetwood being dispatch'd to bring up his Forces then on their way at Banbury the gross of all the Forces amounting to above 50000. effective Militia and all By this time Cromwell had surrounded the City of Worcester with his spreading Host in as neer a compass as the Rivers
and Passes would suffer him the Kings Army as yet lying out of the Town a mile in the fields The first pass endevoured to be taken was Vpton-Bridge on Fleetwoods side which Major General Lambert attempted with 500. Horse and Dragoons who unespied crept upon their Bellies on a peice of Timber they had laid over the River which the surprizing Assailants after a brisk dispute wrested from Colonel Massey The Scots lâ—wing thus abandoned the place it was presently possest by a strong Party of Horse and Foot in order to the present advance of the rest of the Army The Scots now drawn closer to Worcester made many Salleys breaking down 2. or 3. Bridges over the River Team and shewing a well ordered and governed courage but September the third that ominous day he drew out from his own Post and having given the signal to the whole Army to fall on began the Fight in this manner Cromwell himself in person about 3. a Clock with hss Life Guard and Colonel Hackers Regiment of Horse with part of his own Regiment and Colonel Ingoldsby's and Fairfax's entire passed over his Bridge of Boats upon the Severn and marched towards the City after him Lieut. Gen. Fleetwood who had been most part of that day marching of 5. miles from Upton to Powick-bridge which the Kings Army had broken down passed with Colonel Goff's and Major General Dean's Regiments and joyntly advanced the Kings Forces encountring them at the Hedges and disputing every field with them in such order and with such gallantry that these already over lest they should not be wholly discouraged with the hotnesse of the service were relieved by reserves and they by others no considerable progress yet made the Highlanders proving excellent Firemen and coming to the But-end at every foot till weary and their Ammunition spent the King being then upon the place Commanded them in some hast into the City and hastned himself to the other side where Colonel Hayns Regiment with Cobbets stood about Powick bridge and were entertained with no less Manhood and Slaughter and though Colonel Mathews was the reserve to the other two Regiments yet did the Scotch Foot fairly drive them from their ground till their little Army being every way engaged and no seconds or supplies to be expected after some wheelings in a careless regard of the Enemy as if they feared not to make which way they pleased they drew likewise into the Town as did that Brigade which opposed the Regiments of the Lord Gray Colonel Blague Gibbons and Marsh But they stayed not long here for as if their pent spirits had broke out with greater fury they sallied out in great bodies upon the Generals side who had now brought the Militia Forces into play the Veterans wisely detrecting to engage first upon the Storm which was then intended but there was yet field matter enough to do In the Head of one of those squadrons the King himself charged with that gallantry which would have become our Admiration in other men and showed he had not forgot the Discipline of War in which he had been brought up from his youth In one of those Charges he made Duke Hamilton a better Soldier and nobler gallanter person then his Brother received a shot on his thigh whereof presently after he dyed The loss that was sustained by the Enemy fell principally upon the Essex Foot and those of Cheshire and Snrrey who returned in thin Troops and Companies to their Counties but fresh and entire Brigades and Regiments in Reserves namely Desborough's Regiment of Horse Cromwell's of Horse Major General Lambert's of Horse WWhaley's Harrison's and Tomlinson's Brigades with other Foot re-inforcing them the Scots by the over-powering multitude were driven into the Town Leshley with 2000. Horse upon what account not known not stirring out of the Town to relieve them when the Enemy entred pell mell with them and gained the Fort Royal about 7. a Clock at night at which time the King left the Town it being dusk and accompanied vvith some 60. Horse of the cheifest and most confident of his Retinue though many more pressed to bear him Company departed out of St. Martins-gate and it was reported that Cobbet very narrowly Mist of him as the King left his lodging whether he first hastned The Enemies Foot was now got into the Town and according to their Order fell a plundering the Town in a most barbarous manner as if Turks were again a Sacking of Constantinople and giving no quarter to any they found in the Streets through this their greedinesse of spoil they kept the Horse out lest they should have shared the better part and to that purpose kept the Gates fast aâ— they were and so favoured as God would have it the Kings escape some Scots who had got into one of the Churches held out till next morning when they obtained quarter for Life by which time there was not an Inhabitant in Worcester friend or foâ— left worth a farthing but the Loyal Inhabitants lost little by the bargain being supplied with fresh wares to their desires from London without any scruple of credit or paiment and their Debts forborn till such time as God should enable them which the Gentry and Inhabitants round about them endevoured to bring to passe by their more then ordinary resort to that Market for all necessaries and upon all occasions The Mayor being Knighted by the King and Aldermen vvere committed to Prison and the Wife of one Guyes vvho for betraying the designs of the King in that Garrison vvas hanged vvas revvarded vvith 200. l. per annum and 200 l. dovvn There were slain in Field and in Town in the last the most and in pursuit some 3000. and some 8000. taken prisoners in several places most of the English escaping by their Shiboleth the principal were Duke Hamilton who presently dyed of his wounds and at Newport the Earl of Lauderdale Earl of Rothes Earl of Carnworth Earl of Kelly Earl of Derby Earl of Cleveland the now Earl of Shrewsbury Sir John Packington Lord Spyne Sir Ralph Clare Sir Charles Cunningham Colonel Graves Mr. Richard Fanshaw Secretary to the King 6 Col. of Horse 13. of Foot 9 Lieutenant Colonels of Horse 8. Lieutenant Colonels of Foot 6. Majors of Horse 13. Majors of Foot 37. Captains of Horse 72 Captains of Foot 55. Quarter-masters 89. Lieutenants there were taken also some General Officers with 76. Cornets of Horse 99. Ensigns of Foot 90. Quartermasters 80. of the Kings Servants with the Kings Standard which he had set up when he summoned the Country the Kings Coach and Horses and Collar of SS but that which was Ten times more worth then all the Kings person they had no power to touch On the 12. of Sept. Cromwell came to London and was met about Acton with the Speaker and the Members and the Lord Mayor and the Recorder Steel who in a set Speech congratulated his great successes and like a false Prophet by a