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A74431	An act for setting apart Friday the four and twentieth day of October, one thousand six hundred fifty one, for a day of publique thanksgiving: together with a narrative declaring the grounds and reasons thereof. Friday the 26th of September, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act and narrative be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Thomason E1061_57; ESTC R209324	6,863	13

AN ACT FOR Setting apart Friday the Four and twentieth Day of October One thousand six hundred fifty one For a Day of Publique Thanksgiving Together with a NARRATIVE DECLARING The Grounds and Reasons thereof Friday the 26th of September 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act and Narrative be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1651. AN ACT For setting apart Friday the Four and twentieth Day of October 1651. FOR A Day of Publike Thanksgiving Together with a NARRATIVE DECLARING The Grounds and Reasons thereof THe Works of Providence by which the Lord hath pleaded the Cause of this Parliament and Commonwealth in the sight of the Nations round about are Glorious and will be sought out by all those that have pleasure in them and therefore must not pass under the common Title of Events and Chances of War The Lord having so done this marvellous Work for Time and Place with a Concurrence of all other remarkable Circumstances That it ought to be had in Everlasting Remembrance both by our Selves and by the Generations which shall be born as will eminently and convincingly appear by this brief ensuing Narrative AFter the Lord the Great and Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth was pleased so Signally to bear Witness to the Justice and Necessity of our Armies marching into Scotland by giving Sentence when Solemn Appeals were made unto him by both Parties on our side in that glorious Victory vouchsafed unto our Army the Third day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty against the Scots near Dunbar The same Divine Providence led on our Forces there to the gaining of many Towns and Garisons and in particular Leith Edinburgh and not long after the Castle there though in the Esteem of the Enemy impregnable But the Enemy not resting in that decision did reinforce themselves and relying on the advantage of the Town and Pass at Sterling and other Intrenchments would by no Provocation or Endeavors on our part used be drawn forth to an Engagement though our Forces faced them up to their Works when the Scots as some of themselves have since confessed were Twenty seven thousand and ours nothing near that number suffering a strong Garison of theirs to be stormed and taken within the view of their Camp without once offering to relieve it The Consideration hereof and of the Charge and Difficulties of a Winters War which the Enemy seemed chiefly to Design and might the better effect whiles they had Sterling and thereby the Command of the rich Country of Fife at hand to Quarter their Forces in and by means of St. Johnstons a second Pass the whole North of Scotland to furnish them with Recruits of Men and Supplies of all Provisions and likewise many Sea Ports to let in Forreign Assistance produced a Resolution to put over a Force into Fife notwithstanding all Hazards to straiten their Quarters and hinder their Supplies Which Attempt the Lord was pleased to Crown not onely by giving us speedy and happy Footing but a notable Victory to that part of our Army commanded by the Major General over the Forces of the Enemy whereof the greatest number were a commanded Party of their choice Men out of their whole Army In which Defeat near One thousand five hundred were taken Prisoners together with Sir John Brown their Commander in Chief and the greatest part of the residue slain Forty two Colours taken and all this which made the Mercy the more remarkable with the loss onely of Four of our Men slain on the place and some wounded About this very time the General marched up near Sterling to engage the Enemy who having quitted their Camp at Torwood were march'd through Sterling Sixteen Miles toward our Forces in Fife And finding the Enemy would not Engage having disposed on this side the River such Force as could well be spared to hinder the Enemies Levies and Provisions or if they should Advance for England to be upon our Borders and to joyn with other Parties there in Readiness to retard their March The General Remarch'd to the South-Ferry and Landed the Residue of his Army in Fife upon which the strong Castle of Enisgarvy in the Middle of the River with Sixteen Pieces of Canon and Brunt-Island were Surrendred and the Army marcht forthwith towards St. Johnstons The Enemy being thereby awakened sent a Party of about One thousand Foot with a Governor into St. Johnstons who arrived there Two hours before the General sate down with the Army And finding by this Interposition his Northern Supplies cut off marcht directly for England with an Army of Sixteen thousand Horse and Foot and a Light Train of Artillery being come near Carlile their King caused himself to be Proclaimed King of England and sending out his Declarations full of fair Promises to all that should come in to him or not oppose him marched forward being attended in his Motions by some of our Horse The General St. Johnstons being Surrendred leaving a Garison there and about Seven thousand Horse and Foot under the Command of the Lieutenant General of the Ordinance for reducing the Castle of Sterling and other Garisons and preventing any Levies by the Enemy with the rest of the Army came back for Lieth and the same day sent away Five Regiments of Horse and Dragoons to fall into the Rear of the Enemy whiles himself with the rest of his Horse his Body of Foot and Train of Artillery Advanced after with all possible speed towards England The Enemy being come to Warrington and attempting the Pass there our Forces who a day or two before were joyned and got into his Van thought not fit long to Dispute it in respect the River was in many places Fordable the Lands and Inclosures inconvenient for the Horse and the Foot whom they found at the Bridge though full of Courage and desirous to Engage no way proportionable to the Enemies great numbers the General also being at that time about Four days March off them but marched off to Knotsford Heath where in the way the Enemy twice Charging our Rear-gard was beaten back with the loss of about Thirty of theirs slain and taken Prisoners we not losing above Three or four in the March and at the Pass On that Heath our Forces drew up in a Posture to receive and fight the Enemy but he declined it and marcht to Nantwich In their passage through Lancashire the Enemy had left the Earl of Derby with Three hundred Foot and a Troop of Horse which he brought from the Isle of Man together with Sir William Widderington Sir William Throckmorton Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh Major General Sir Thomas Tildsey Colonel Boynton with many Commanders and other Gentlemen of quality to raise Six thousand Foot and One thousand five hundred Horse in that County as an Additional Strength to their Army Major General Massey being also left with him to assist that Work

whiles the Enemy himself marcht on in a direct course to Worcester in his way summoning Shrewsbury and attempting by Letters and Declarations to gain more assistance but without success The Two and twentieth of August with five hundred Horse and Dragoons about Noon he entred Worcester then which no Place seemed more to answer all his Ends it being a City seated on the Severn within twelve Miles of five Counties near unto Glocester the Forest of Dean and Southwales where Massey who was a little before called off from the Earl of Derby to serve this Design pretended his greatest Interest to be and by gaining that Place the Enemy well knew he should be Master of all the Passes upon Severn from Shrewsbury to Glocester and there not being One hundred of the Parliaments Forces within twenty Miles of him he might lie the more secure for refreshing his wearied men imploy his Interest to get what Additional Strength he could from those Parts or at least make it a winter War and thereby gain time for Forreign Assistance and better opportunity for his Agents to stir up Tumults in England and for the Raising a new Army in Scotland under the Earl of Leven whom he had left General there for that purpose to come also into England Our Forces in Worcester being few and finding the Place untenable though threescore onely of them beat the Enemy twice out of the Town and killed and wounded some of them withdrew in safety to Glocester The General with his Forces which on the Third of August were at St. Johnstons in Scotland upon the Twenty eighth of the same moneth with a continued March except one days Rest took up his Head-quarters within two Miles on the East side of Worcester being from St. Johnstons about three hundred Miles the rest of the Forces which had hitherto attended the Enemy being joyned with him the Lieutenant General with the Forces under him quartered the same day about seven Miles from Worcester near Upton Bridge of which Pass the Enemy was possessed and in Upton Town on the other side the River was Major General Massey with Sixty Dragoons and Two hundred Horse to secure it Whiles a small Party of ours went to view the Bridge without Design or expectation at that time to gain the Pass and finding the Bridge broken down by the Enemy one piece of Timber onely left which reached from one Arch to another twenty Dragoons and dismounted Troopers with Carbines being commanded over to possess the Church near the Bridge crept over the piece of Timber and got to the Church whereupon the Enemy took the Alarm and advanced towards them and offered them quarter and were attempting to fire the door mean while a hundred Dragoons more came up and in like maner got over and beat off the Enemy whose whole Party was now come down upon them in which Action Major General Massey had his horse killed under him himself received several Shots and was wounded and forced to retreat with his Party in disorder towards Worcester The Lord having been pleased thus unexpectedly and happily to give us this Pass the Lieutenant General marched over and lodged part of his Forces that night in Upton Whiles the General was on his March from Scotland he sent off Colonel Lilborn with his Regiment of Horse to wait upon the Enemies Rear who finding the Earl of Derby raising Forces in Lancashire in his endeavoring to prevent him was forced to engage where the Lord was graciously pleased by that Regiment of Horse though harrazed by a tedious March from Scotland and three Companies of Foot to defeat the Earl of Derby's whole Forces being One thousand five hundred Horse and Foot near Wiggon in Lancashire where were slain Sir William Widderington Major General Sir Thomas Tildsey Colonel Boynton sometimes Governor of Scarborough for the Parliament which Place he betrayed to the Enemy and Colonel Trollop and taken Four hundred Prisoners together with Sir William Throckmorton Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh and several Colonels and Commanders of quality The Earl of Derby with about thirty Horse escaping carried the News of his own Defeat to Worcester In which Mercy the Lord was graciously pleased to appear for our small Forces who were engaged upon great Disadvantages of place and number beyond their intentions and that most seasonably in destroying that growing Army and giving in the same as a Pledge of what he would yet do for his People These glad Tidings were followed by the News from Scotland of the Surrender of Sterling Castle in which were many thousand Arms Forty Pieces of Ordnance Six and twenty Barrels of Powder the Publique Records of Scotland the Sword Cloth and Chair of State Not long after this followed the Routing of the New Levies of the Enemy in the West of Scotland taking the Lord Osbarston and others prisoners The gaining Anstruther by Storm with Fifteen Ships in the Harbor the Surprizing the Earl of Leven General of their Forces in Scotland the Earl Craford-Lindsey Lieutenant General the Earl Marshal with four Lords more and divers Knights Ministers and Gentlemen of quality with the scattering and dispersing of Four thousand which at that time were Rendezvouzed at Ellit in Perth to relieve Dundee then besieged by our Forces the taking many Prisoners at Dumfreeze and Dissipating them attempting again new Levies there and the gaining Dundee it self by Storm in which were Forty Pieces of Ordnance Six hundred of the Enemy slain with Major General Lumsden the Governor Colonel Coningham late Governor of Sterling and many others of quality four hundred taken Prisoners great store of Ships and other Vessels found in the Harbor to which was since added the giving up of St. Andrews Montross and Aberdeen On Saturday the Three and twentieth of August the Scotch King with his whole Army marched into Worcester and applied himself to the Fortifying thereof and had soon made up some Works and repaired the Royal Fort on the East side of the City and planted Canon upon it the General being encamped before the Town On the Third of September being the self same Day of the moneth upon which a year before we obtained that Memorable Victory at Dunbar our Forces at Upton under the Command of the Lieutenant General in pursuance of former Councels the Execution whereof Providence had delayed till this day without any such Predetermination on our part advanced towards the Enemy at Worcester but by reason of some hinderances reached not to Teame River which lying on the West side of Severn empties it self thereinto about a Mile beneath Worcester till between two and three of the Clock in the Afternoon Boats also being brought up at the same time two Bridges were made over the Rivers The Enemy taking no Alarm till the Van of our Forces were marcht within the sight of the Town did now draw down his Horse Foot from his Leaguer at St. Jones's lyning all the Hedges from their Pass at Poyick to the