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A80929	A letter from the Lord General Cromwel from Dunbar; containing a true relation of the proceedings of the Parliament army under his command in Scotland; and the success God was pleased to give them against the Scots Army, in a battle at Dunbar the 3 of September. 1650. Together with a list of the Scotish officers then taken. Die Martis, 10. September. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that the Lord Generals letter, and the list of names herewith sent, be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7097; Thomason E612_11; ESTC R206487	6,503	17

seen and that he would finde out a way of Deliverance and Salvation for us and indeed we had our Consolations and our Hopes Upon Monday Evening the Enemy whose numbers were very great as we hear about Six thousand Horse and Sixteen thousand Foot at least Ours drawn down as to sound men to about Seven thousand five hundred Foot and Three thousand five hundred Horse the Enemy drew down to their Right Wing about two Thirds of their Left Wing of Horse to the Right Wing shogging also their Foot and Train much to the Right causing their Right Wing of Horse to edge down towards the Sea We could not well imagine but that the Enemy intended to attempt upon us or to place themselves in a more exact condition of interposition Major General and my self coming to the Earl of Roxboroughs House and observing this posture I told him I thought it did give us an opportunity and advantage to attempt upon the Enemy to which he immediately replyed That he had thought to have said the same thing to me so that it pleased the Lord to set this apprehension upon both of our hearts at the same instant we called for Colonel Monk and shewed him the thing and coming to our Quarter at night and demonstrating our apprehensions to some of the Colonels they also chearfully concurred we resolved therefore to put our business into this posture That six Regiments of Horse and three Regiments and an half of Foot should march in the Van and that the Major General the Lieutenant General of the Horse and the Commissary General and Colonel Monk to command the Brigade of Foot should lead on the business And that Colonel Prides Brigade Colonel Overtons Brigade and the remaining two Regiments of Horse should bring up the Canon and Rere the time of falling on to be by break of day but through some delays it proved not to be so till six a clock in the morning The Enemies word was The Covenant which it had been for divers days ours The Lord of Hosts The Major General Lieutenant General Fleetwood and Commissary General Whaley and Colonel Twisletons gave the Onset the Enemy being in very good posture to receive them having the advantage of their Canon and Foot against our Horse before our Foot could come up the enemy made a gallant resistance and there was a very hot dispute at swords point between our Horse and theirs Our first Foot after they had discharged their duty being over-powered with the Enemy received some repulse which they soon recovered but my own Regiment under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Goff and my Major White did come seasonably in and at the push of Pike did repel the stoutest Regiment the Enemy had there meerly with the courage the Lord was pleased to give which proved a great amazement to the residue of their Foot This being the first Action between the Foot the Horse in the mean time did with a great deal of courage and spirit beat back all opposition charging through the Bodies of the Enemies Horse and their Foot who were after the first repulse given made by the Lord of Hosts as stubble to their swords Indeed I believe I may speak it without partiality both your Chief Commanders and others in their several places and Soldiers also were acted with as much courage as ever hath been seen in any Action since this War I know they look not to be named and therefore I forbear particulars The best of the Enemies Horse and Foot being broken through and through in less then an hours dispute their whole Army being put into confusion it became a total Rout our men having the chase and execution of them near eight miles we believe that upon the place and near about it were about Three thousand slain Prisoners taken or their Officers you have this enclosed List of private Soldiers near Ten thousand the whole Baggage and Train taken wherein was good store of Match Powder and Bullet all their Artillery great and small Thirty Guns we are confident they have left behinde them not less then Fifteen thousand Arms I have already brought in to me near Two hundred Colours which I herewith send you what Officers of quality of theirs are killed we yet cannot learn But yet surely divers are and many men of quality are mortally wounded as Colonel Lumsdel the Lord Liberton and others and that which is no small addition I do not believe we have lost twenty men not one Commissioned Officer slain that I hear of save one Cornet and Major Rooksby since dead of his wounds and not many mortally wounded Colonel Whaley onely cut in the Hand-wrist and his Horse twice shot and killed under him but he well recovered another Horse and went on in the Chase Thus you have the prospect of one of the most signal mercies God hath done for England and his People this War And now may it please you to give me the leave of a few Words It is easie to say the Lord hath done this it would do you good to see and hear our poor Foot go up and down making their boast of God but Sir It is in your hands and by these eminent mercies God puts it more into your hands to give glory to him to improve your Power and his Blessings to his praise we that serve you beg of you not to own us but God alone we pray you own his people more and more for they are the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel disown your selves but own your Authority and improve it to curb the proud and the insolent such as would disturb the tranquility of England though under what specious pretences soever relieve the oppressed hear the groans of poor Prisoners in England Be pleased to reform the abuses of all Professions and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich that suits not a Commonwealth If he that strengthens your Servants to Fight pleases to give you hearts to set upon these things in order to his glory and the glory of your Commonwealth besides the benefit England shall feel thereby you shall shine forth to other Nations who shall emulate the glory of such a patern and through the power of God turn into the like These are our desires and that you may have liberty and opportunity to do these things and not be hindred we have been and shall be by Gods assistance willing to venture our lives and not desire you should be precipitated by importunities from your care of Safety and Preservation but that the doing of these good things may have their place amongst those which concern well being and so be wrought in their time and order Since we came in Scotland it hath been our desire and longing to have avoided blood in this business by reason that God hath a people here fearing his Name though deceived and to that end have we offered much love unto such in the bowels of Christ and

A LETTER FROM The Lord General Cromwel FROM DUNBAR CONTAINING A true Relation of the Proceedings OF THE Parliament Army Under his Command in SCOTLAND And the Success God was pleased to give them against the Scots Army in a Battle at Dunbar the 3 of September 1650. Together with a LIST of the Scotish Officers then taken Die Martis 10. September 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That the Lord Generals Letter and the List of names therewith sent be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. For the Honorable William Lenthal Esquire Speaker of the Parliament of England SIR I Hope it is not ill taken that I make no more frequent Addresses to the Parliament things that are of trouble in point of Provision for your Army and of ordinary direction I have as I could often presented to the Councel of State together with such Occurrences as have happened who I am sure as they have not been wanting in their extraordinary care and provision for us so neither what they judge fit and necessary to represent the same to you and this I thought to be a sufficient discharge or my duty on that behalf It hath now pleased God to bestow a mercy upon you worthy your knowledge and of the utmost praise and thanks of all that fear and love his Name yea the Mercy is far above all praise which that you may the better perceive I shall take the boldness to tender unto you some circumstances accompanying this great Business which will manifest the greatness and seasonableness of this Mercy We having tryed what we could to engage the enemy three or four miles West of Edinburgh that proving ineffectual and our victual failing we marched towards our Ships for a recruit of our want the enemy did not at all trouble us in our Rear but marched the direct way towards Edinburgh and partly in the night and morning slips through his whole Army and Quarters himself in a posture easie to interpose between us and our victual but the Lord made him lose the opportunity and the morning proving exceeding wet and dark we recovered by that time it was light into a ground where they could not hinder us from our victual which was a high act of the Lords Providence to us We being come into the said ground the Enemy marched into the grounds we were last upon having no minde either to strive to interpose between us and our victual or to fight being indeed upon this lock Hoping that the sickness of your Army would render their work more easie by the gaining of time whereupon we marched to Muscleburgh to victual and to ship away our sick men where we sent aboard near Five hundred sick and wounded Soldiers And upon serious consideration finding our weakness so to increase and the Enemy lying upon his advantages at a General Councel it was thought fit to march to Dunbar and there to fortifie the Town which we thought if any thing would provoke them to engage as also that the having of a Garison there would furnish us with accommodation for our sick men would be a place for a good Magazin which we exceedingly wanted being put to depend upon the uncertainty of weather for landing Provisions which many times cannot be done though the Being of the whole Army lay upon it all the Coasts from Leith to Berwick not having one good Harbor as also to lie more conveniently to receive our recruits of Horse and Foot from Berwick Having these considerations upon Saturday the thirtieth of August we marched from Muscleburgh to Heddington where by that time we had got the Van-Brigade of our Horse our Foot and Train into their Quarters the Enemy was marched with that exceeding expedition that they fell upon the Rere-Forlorn of our Horse and put it in some disorder and indeed had like to have engaged our Rere-Brigade of Horse with their whole Army had not the Lord by his Providence put a cloud over the Moon thereby giving us opportunity to draw off those Horse to the rest of the Army which accordingly was done without any loss save of three or four of our aforementioned Forlorn wherein the Enemy as we beleeve received more loss The Army being put into a reasonable secure posture towards midnight the Enemy attempted our Quarters on the Westend of Heddington but through the goodness of God we repulsed them The next morning we drew into an open field on the Southside of Heddington we not judging it safe for us to draw to the Enemy upon his own ground he being prepossessed thereof but rather drew back to give him way to come to us if he had so thought fit And having waited about the space of four or five hours to see if he would come to us and not finding any inclination in the Enemy so to do we resolved to go according to our first intendment to Dunbar By that time we had marched three or four miles we saw some Bodies of the Enemies Horse draw out of their Quarters and by that time our Carriages were gotten neer Dunbar their whole Army was upon their march after us and indeed our drawing back in this maner with the addition of three new Regiments added to them did much heighten their Confidence if not Presumption and Arrogancy The Enemy that night we perceived gathered towards the Hills laboring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick and having in this posture a great advantage through his better knowledg of the Country which he effected by sending a considerable Party to the strait Pass at Copperspeth where ten men to hinder are better then forty to make their way And truly this was an exigent to us wherewith the Enemy reproached us with that condition the Parliaments Army was in when it made its hard conditions with the King in Cornwal by some Reports that have come to us they had disposed of us and of their business in sufficient revenge and wrath towards our persons and had swallowed up the poor Interest of England believing that their Army and their King would have marched to London without any interruption it being told us we know not how truly by a prisoner we took the night before the fight That their King was very suddenly to come amongst them with those English they allowed to be about him but in what they were thus lifted up the Lord was above them The Enemy lying in the posture before mentioned having those advantages we lay very neer him being sensible of our disadvantage having some weakness of flesh but yet consolation and support from the Lord himself to our poor weak Faith wherein I beleeve not a few amongst us shared That because of their Numbers because of their Advantages because of their Confidence because of our Weakness because of our Strait we were in the Mount and in the Mount the Lord would be