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enemy_n	captain_n	horse_n	troop_n	1,277	5	9.0912	5	true

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A75350	Lancashires valley of Achor, is Englands doore of hope: set wide open, in a brief history, of the wise, good, and powerfull hand of divine providence, ordering and managing the militia of Lancashire; not onely to the preservation, but exaltation of a poor, and praying people, in two hundreds; against, and above a considerable armie, of popish, and ill-affected persons in foure hundreds: Wherein the strift [sic] of piety and providence, with impiety and humane strength, in the weaknesse of means, unto graduall, and compleate victory, is laid out; to advance gods praise, and advantage Englands faith. By a well-wisher to the peace of the land, and piety of the church.	Angier, John, 1605-1677.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3165; Thomason E67_39; ESTC R12056	22,269	43

counsell as they report of four or five Priests and Jesui●es and other great Papists whom they had at hand in a tythe Barn Till Sun-setting both sides plaid fiercely but then taking advantage of the darknesse they fled in fear and over-run their great Pieces trusting more to the night for protection than to their own courage or strengh The seventh and eight of February were devoted to God in Fasting and Prayer in Manchester to succeed our Forces that were upon their march The first day was spent and gave strength to our men to march all night Preston and to set upon Preston by break of day the next mornidg the second day of fasting when some of our men soon advantaged themselves by taking of Rible-Bridge and with unspeakable courage set upon the Town well fortified and manned which God gave them in two hours as a present return of prayers Such courage was raised in the Souldiers that they dared to take hold of their enemies Musquets put thorow the Loop-holes as if the miracle of mercy had been again revived Psalme 91.19 Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder And when the Pikes kept them off from the Mud-walls yet by breaking thorow an house some twenty entred the Towne which small number drew down a Troop of Horse to take a Prey But Moses Aaron and Hur being on the top of the hill whilest Joshua was fighting in the Valley the Captaine of the horse was killed and the Troop scattered Then came up the rest of our men killed the Major and some others chased the Enemy and commanded the Towne Here Divine Providence took a noble Captain off his feet before the dangerous discharge of a Bullet he stood not to fall but fell to rise We lost few men in this dangerous assault took store of prisoners and Armes and came in the nick of time to relieve the well-affected in Preston and thereabouts upon whom the Array were prepared to impose an Oath and heavy Taxations This prey God plucked out of the teeth of the Lion and paw of the Bear Haughton Tower It was not long after that this glorious victory was clouded by a dark and terrible blow at Haughton Tower where the miscarriages of great and small in the taking of Preston did us more mischief than all our enemies from the entrance of our hostility to that time as sometimes Israels sin thorow Balaams counsell prevailed to punish them more than Warre or Witchcraft Our men going down to take the Tower and finding it prepared for entrance possessed themselves of it till being burdened with the weight of their swearing drunkennesse plundering and wilfull waste at Preston it dispossessed them by the help of Powder to which their disorders laid a Train fired by their neglected Matches or by that great Souldiers Idoll Tobacco However it was sure it is that the place so firmely united chose rather to be torn in pieces then to harbour the possessours O that this thundering Alarm might ever sound in the eares of our Swearing Cursing Drunken Tobacco-abusing Commanders and Souldiers unto unfaigned Repentance For do they think that those upon whom the Tower fell and slew them were sinners above the rest of the Army Let Christ that asked a like question Luke 13.4 5. give the Answer I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish In the day when the Lord visiteth he will visit their sins upon them Exod. 32.34 Though our sinnes thus clouded our Sun in the cleare day yet was not the praise of Gods glorious goodnesse and power to be darkned but to be held forth two severall dayes to hold proportion with the time of our humiliation which if I mistake not was done The latter day of thanksgiving was at Manchester the sixteenth of February the unhappy time that the Earle chose to recover his Prestor-losses in the gaining of poore and pious Bolton which would have been a back-door to Manchester The relation of that businesse stands thus Boltons first assault THe Earles Major Generall with about one thousand Horse and Foot Marched towards Bolton surprized their Scouts in the way and discovered themselves to be within a mile of the Town about nine of the clocke little suspecting that the Bolton Souldiers were that while at Prayer in the Church nor the Souldiers knowing what need they had by Prayer to prepare for Fight Had they presently come down upon the Towne they had taken them unprovided of Ammunition But fetching a compasse that they might come on in a more ominous way by Great-L●aver the Bishops house the Souldiers were furnished to resist The assault was fierce and threatning the Out-works outed our men to entertain the Enemy who stayed not there but followed to the Town fired an house neer the Sentinell wherein the winde served them to carry the smoke upon us But God presently commanded the winde to blow from another point to darken and smother the fire-kindlers Then the Enemy tooke an house that joyned to the Mud-Wall and had Windows above it which gave them advantage to beat our men from the Wall and a Stable that opened into the Street whence they shot the Major through the Arme and had Commission to kill his Horse but to save him This doore they opened to enter but God so faced and feared them by our men that they turned their backs and shut the doore found passage out and place for retreat Whilest the Fight lasted the vapouring Horse prevented assistance so that they compassed the people of God a●out yea They compassed th m about but in the Name of the Lord they did destroy them Psal 118.11 Whilest Gods people at Manch●ster did Sing and Praise the Lord set ambushments against their enemies at Bolton and They were smitten 2. Chron. 20.21 22. Here the Canons roared often but still played childrens play for they mortally bit but one lad r●ported to be of their own side Hither their wittie malice brought a new-invented mischievous Instrument which received this description at Bolton An head about a quarter of a yard long a staffe of two yards long or more put into that head twelve i●on pikes round about and one in the end to stab with This fierce Weapon to double their scorn they called A Round-head But no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Isaiah 54.17 Lancaster THe report of our taking in of Preston flew to Lancaster and prepared the Towne and Castle for our entrance Thither was sent a company of Foot and a Troope of Horse to take possession This new and enlarged possession was inriched honoured and secured by the God of the sea who had provided for our welcome The ship laden with great pieces and Warlike entertainment a Dunkirke Ship a man of War that came from Spain furnished with 21 Peeces of big Brasse and Iron Ordnance fit to supply the Castle and fortifie other Garrisons Desire to see this Forreiner and care to secure this captivity led some

had appeared unto him twice 1 Kings 11.9 pray God it prove not Boltons case This Starre appearing promised day to succeed our night as it did in the taking of Wigan April 1. that impregnable piece the Enemies pride and presumption our fear and despaire of which we sometimes said It was not possible to take it by assault or not without much blood though indeed the sinfulnesse of the place did render it the weakest of all others Though our Horse made a retreating onset before our Foot came up though two Souldiers were slain with a Cannon Bullet in their marching up yet so venterous and daring was the stirring resolution of our Souldiers that they were suddenly ingaged so farre that they must go on or lose their lives They goe on and enter whil●st the Enemy opens a backe doore to go out that the Towne might be free A bright beam of this shining victory was This was the Nationall Fast-week that God by a mercifull recompence gave it into the hands of Bolton Souldiers who had beene twice infested from Wigan an evidence that Gods side will prosper bee the disproportion what it will poore Bolton shall abide a double storm when GOD is with it proud a●d powerfull Wigan shall fall at once and with ease when GOD is departed from it This glorious victory found us not gracious enough it was too much for us well to mannage it was not so gloriously atchieved as obscur●ly left it was turned into mourning by the too-impressive report of the Earls returning upon us The Town that strong and advantagious Towne was left that ●ight But I love not to rake into and gaze upon the infirmities of men taken at advantage in generall I conceive the case was that of Barak Judg●s 4.8 9. the worke was undertaken in unbeliefe so that though we g●t the day yet we lost the honour Had wee beene soaring upon the wing of Faith we had not fallen so low in feare Warringtons first Assault IN great unpreparednesse in debt for Wigan in neglect of meanes of reconciliation in disorder and considence of our Souldiers we assaulted Warrington the fift day of April about four of the Clock till the might tooke us off Thither wee came to leave our dead to distresse the well-affected in the Towne to shame our cou●age and in all to suffer the punishment of former miscarriages wherein Cheshire deeply shared with us Now we had the greatest strength abroad partly our own and partly borrowed But God delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy Psal 147.10 11. Wigan thought impregnable proved easie Warrington thought easie proved now impregnable This seasonable check chode us to duty to publike thanksgiving for Wigan-mercy the eleventh of April to humiliation under Warrington-displeasure the thirteenth of April The day of thanksgiving was made joyfull by the in-coming of Ammunition the day of humiliation was delivered of that wonder or confluence of wonders about Padiham The rise of Blackburne THe Earle accompanied with 2000 ●s is judged came to Rihchester over night to VVhalley by eight of the clocke to a Green not far from Padiham Our side had but two or three hundred Fire-men and fourscore or a hundred Horse so that in means there was no possibility of safety When we went out first to meet them there was not above an hundred Fire-men yet such resolution God gave them above and against all sense and reason that they would needs let flie at them and God suddenly turned them to flight Our encouraged Souldiers pursued them to Whalley where their two or three shots of Powder all they at first had to accomplish so great a work were well encreased by their enemies store from thence to the Sands thence to Lango Green thence to Rible side called Salsbury Boat The Horse and Foot took Rible many of the Foot wading to the chin In all this Chase being about five miles in length they often turned their faces but as often turned their backs and hasted away till they had quit the Hundred and no more infested it Thus God remembred us in our low estate he chose the w●ak things of the world to confound the things that are migh●y that no flesh should glory in his presence O my soul thou hast trodden down strength God hath delivered Sisera into he hand of a woman H●ve they not sped have they not divided the prey they boasted in the morning what they would do and directed their Warrants to the Countrey to come in the day following to compound with the Earl for their lib●rty So let all thine enemies perish O God but let them that love thee be as the Sun when he goeth forth in hi● might rising higher and higher till he come to a Noon-day V●ctory Lancaster Voyage OUr desire to secure our Garrisons to relieve Warrington which we had occasionally oppressed and to improve those new Talents lent us by God and sent us by Sea made us thinke upon a Voyage to Lancaster the fairnesse of the weather and drinesse of the way were strong encouragements We began our March the eight and twentieth day of April the presence of God was fought for safe Convoy and so terrible was the presence that accompanied our March what else c●n it be imputed to that our Forces passed safely thorow Wigan though the enemy found his former nest after we had taken it Prescot Ormeskirk where we marred an intended Muster and Preston that recovered Preston Whence hearing our friends in Lancashire were in some danger though it was nothing but the Earls hasting into Yorke-shire and the rest of the Forces speeding to Hornby Castle we stretched our march to Lancaster In all this way as we moved so the enemy removed we saw nothing remarkable in them but cruelty and cowardice For some Troops of Horse meeting a poor boy unarmed which out-went his company clave his head and barbarously mangled him Also thereabouts the enemy ●fter a sl●ight skirmish overcame by flight Our arrive at Lancaster was welcomed with the safety of the Castle the good posture of the Garrison their comfortable provision and the well nigh preparednesse of the Carriage And after we had refreshed our Army a few days with the sight of Tburland Castle and the report of our forraigners against Hornby Castle we advanced homeward the ninth day of May and under the former gracious Conduct came safe home though laden with the weight of twelve whole Pieces and two broken ones the rest fortifying the Castle all which we acknowledged in solemne thanksgiving in Manchester the fixteenth of May. Warrington Siege ALl this while the cry of oppressed Warrington importuned heaven and compassion wrought in us and having this far-fetched terrifying assistance we entred upon a new and prosperous Voyage the twentieth day of May The three and twentieth of May was designed for

soon up and marched toward Blackburne about two hundred armed men some companies of Club-men and some Horse-men but without Arms. The want of skill in Souldiers and skilfull Captains to supply that want caused a consultation on Hinfield-Moore which received Determination not from the Discoverie of hidden skill but from the resolute will of these stirring Souldiers to dispossesse those forcible Tenants They speed on with shouting dividing themselves unto the conduct of two chosen Captains and come within sight of the Town about eight of the clock when the Queen of the night that had shined upon their March did discover them to their enemies who soon let flie from the Steeple which ordered one Captain and his companie to the South-side of the Town and the other Captain with his company to the East-end of the Town where they found though not so high yet as hot entertainment out of the Town for the space of two houres But God that varieth his providence according to his peoples occasions and had maintained the passages of Manchester that a rightfull people might not 〈…〉 did now open a difficult passage to let in his friends from whom the Array hasted having disburdened themselves of their Arms and restored what they took from Wh●●ley Now had God added an experience of favourable providence in a new kinde formerly in a way of Defence now in a way of Offence declaring his All-sufficiencie and co●● pleatnesse for Warre to those two united Hundreds giving a Shield to Manchester and a Sword to Blackburne hereby assuring them from heaven That if they would cleave together and be mutually assistant in his Cause they should be variously but suitably and compleatly assisted and saved he would be their All-sufficient God their God indeed and to purpose By this time the Most-High had lifted us aloft that we might through weaknesse of head or neglect of our footing have fallen dangerously had not God as carefully taken us down as he lifted us up which he did about the sixteenth of December The Plundering Array issued out of Wigan to provoke the anger and stirre up the courage of the neighbourhood who to maintain their Protestation in their own defence resolved to be mutually encouraging and assistant but apprehending themselves too weak requested two Captains out of Manchester with their companies to Quarter with them for their security which was granted This new strength was augmented by forces raised thereabouts They wax bold to face Wigan and come off faire They go to Plunder a Papists house neere Wigan The enemy sends a party after them and is advantaged by their securitie But leaving their Plunder and taking to their Armes they redeem their libertie for this time The enemy hath not thus done with them he will be better provided for a second encounter he Warrants the adjacent parts to come in to his help Houghton Common Our Captains and Companies go to plunder another Papists house the Enemy with about a thousand horse and foot makes after them as if they had chosen to relieve their confederate Papists Our Forces will not flie though but about eighty Musquetteers no not from strength though as yet a door was open but having drawn their companies into a Close of ground upon the side of Houghton Common They confidently conflict with the enemy to his great losse towards three hours but lest they should escape as they were nigh to do God fires their Magazine and cools their courage they sound a Parley have quarter given them for their lives but loose their Arms and Libertie three Captains and eightscore souldiers were shut up into the hand of the enemie the first and fowlest blow God gave us in this kinde in the County an humbling blow and lasting warning To this day we halt of this blow though most of our Captains and Souldiers be released blessed be God and well it is if we carry not the marke of this wound when it is healed Upon this sad occasion God made a comfortable appearance that he had not saved Manchester to the intent they should sit still nor had he placed a Garrison there to make their mountain to stand strong but that they might be ready for action at the beat of his Drum which struck up after a reconciliation sought with him by fasting and prayer The project was for Leigh Leigh our marching out as they say caused the Earl to retreat from his purposes and beginnings against Bolton The day of assault the weeping heavens changed their chear for our encouragement looked fair upon our enterprize and triumphant return The doubt of falling first upon the town or some malignant houses the cleering of Cho-Bent in the way made it high Christmas Eve ere our men could fall on an infortunate time for us as the Papists would judge but it quickned resolution and speeded action The Enemie suffered them to come within halfe Musquet shot ere they discharged and then plaid desperately upon our men in a full Body to the present lose of onely one Our men divided themselves that they might clasp hands at a distance and compasse the Town God intending to shut up the enemy into their inclosure which done they parted again and marching up at severall places at the call of the Drum met at the Market-place to receive from the bounty of the God they had sought the repair of their lost Arms and the price of redemption for Captains and Souldies This Victory founded in humiliation was compleated in thanksgiving It is not to be passed by what a change of Christmas was now made in the Countie and Kingdom such a change in the emptinesse of great mens houses in the places and occasions of concourse in mirth and provision in idlenesse and recreation as expressed a people very sinfull and a God very angry to imprint both which there was much in the time if much considered The like Christmas kept our Forces at Blackburne The Militia having in the Towne four hundred armed men and some Club-men the Array came against the Towne on Christmas Eve with five thousand and three field Pieces very early in the morning they shot off their pieces with shouting saying Take heed you Round-heads God took heed for us for we were not afraid of the noise nor hurt once by the eight pound Bullet though directed against us eight and twenty times We called on them in vaine to come within Musquet shot About twelve a Clock they called a parley The pretence was if we would yeeld the Towne and the Arms and submit to the Earl of Darby they would meditate with him to supplicate the King to grant a Pardon The intent was to carry their god the greatest Field-Piece nearer the Towne he was too farre off to doe any harme We Scot-like knew not the meaning of a Pardon professing our selves to be for King and Parliament When we would no Pardon they laboured to punish us having set up their Idoll nearer by the