Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	captain_n	horse_n	troop_n	1,277	5	9.0912	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35112	Severall letters from Scotland relating to the proceedings of the army there read in Parliament the sixth day of September, one thousand six hundred and fifty.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; G. D.; C. F.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7168; ESTC R29660	3,703	10

if they intended to have stood us but as they observed us wheeling to the Westward to come upon them they remooved from their ground and gained a passe where there was a boggy ground of each side Our men were drawn on with all possible speed not knowing the ground to bee such and were in a short time set in order Never more resolution and willingnesse knowne to have engaged an Enemy then was in our men at that time but when we should have fallen on neither wing was able to come at them and then we perceived that notwithstanding all their bravadoes the day before by Sir Jo. Browne by whom they sent us word they were resolved to give us a faire meeting Yet their haste towards us was not to engage us but to stop us from comming at them Wee stood in Battalia that afternoone and next morning the Cannons playing hotly on both sides and though we were much the fairer mark standing upon the pitch of a rising ground yet it pleased God our losse was much the lesse we had onely about foure that dyed upon the place and about 18. or 19. wounded and of the Enemy about 100. wounded and killed one Col. Mennes and a Captain and a Lieutenant of Horse and an Ensigne killed of theirs We have lost since our comming into Scotland by the Enemy onely one Commission Officer viz. Col. Lilburnes Cornet who was killed at the charge at Muscleborough There was severall strange shot one was at Major Hobsons Troopes which was drawne close together to prayer and just as the Amen was said there came in a great shot among them and touched neither Horse nor man The next morning having but two daies provision left and seeing we could not in that place engage them we drew back to our old quarters on Penckland hills and the Enemy drew between Edenburgh and Leith as if they would that night have attempted our Garisons on the East side of Edenburgh and have interposed between us and our bread cheese The 29 instant we marched to the Eastward of Edenburgh and seeing the Enemy drawn up from Arthurs Hill to the Sea side we possessed our selves of the next ground to them within Canon shot resolving there to have endevoured to engage them but they very gallantly drew away between Arthurs Hill and Cragmiller a Garison of theirs Our Canons some of them reaching them and doing as we understand notable execution upon them Thus from time to time they avoyded fighting neither is it possible as long as they are thus minded to ingage them so that to follow them up down is but to loose time and weaken our selves methinks this people deale with my Lord as did the Irish Army so that as his work was to take in garisons Ours it s humbly conceived wil be to make a considerable Garison or two spoiling what of their Country we canot get under our power I suppose you wil have a full account hereof This day we march I think if ever there was an unworthy jugling which the Lord will witnesse against it s among those with whom we have to do Straughan at a conference since my last being asked seriously by one what he thought of their King and whether he conceived him any whit the better since his signing the late Declaration replied that he thought him as wicked as ever and designing both their and our destruction and that of the two he thought his hatred towards them was the more implacable Your Honors humble Servant G. D. Muscleborough 31 Aug. 1650. FINIS