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A84193	An exact and true relation of the dangerous and bloody fight, between His Majesties army, and the Parliaments forces, neer Kyneton in the county of Warwick, the 23 of this instant October. Sent in a letter to Iohn Pym Esquire, a member of the House of Commons. Which letter was signed by Denzell Hollis: Ph: Stapleton: Tho: Ballard: William Balfore: Io: Meldrum: Charls Pym: who were then present. Ordered that this relation be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler: Parl: D: Com		1642 (1642)	Wing E3617; Thomason E124_26; ESTC R2150	4,554	8

Colonell Hollis Regiment and 200 out of Colonell Ballards but upon the first charge of the Enemy they wheeled about abandoned their Musquetiers and came running down with the Enemies horse at their heels and amongst them pell mell just upon Colonell Hollis his Regiment and brake through it though Colonell Hollis himself when he saw them come running towards him went and planted himself just in the way and did what possibly he could do to make themstand and at last prevailed with three Troops to wheel a little about and rally but the rest of our horse of that Wing and the Enemies Horse with them brake through and ran to Kineton where most of the Enemy left pursuing them and fell to plundering of our Waggons by which many of us have received very great losse and by name your Servants that now write to you Notwithstanding their breaking through Colonell Hollis his Regiment it was not dismaid but together with th' other Regiments of that Brigado marched up the Hill and so made all the haste they could to come up to fight and got the winde of the Enemy and came on if we may say it our selves but we must do the Souldiers right most gallantly and charged the Enemy who were then in fight with our Van and the right Wing of our Horse and as was said before helpt to defeat the two Regiments forementioned and made all the rest run but two other Regiments which retired orderly and at last made a stand and having the assistance of Canon and a ditch before them held us play very handsomly And by this time it grew so dark and our Powder and Bullet so spent that it was not held sit we should advance upon them but there we stood in very good order drew up all our Forces both Horse and Foot and so stood all the night upon that place where the Enemy before the fight had drawn into Battalio till toward morning that the Enemy was gone and retired up the Hill And then we returned also to a warmer place neer Kineton where we had quartered the night before for we were almost starved with cold in that bitter night our Army being in extreme want of Victualls And about nine or ten of the clock drew out again into Battalio and so stood three or four hours till the Enemy was clean gone from the Hill and then we drew again into our quarter and there have lain this night and purpose this day God willing after we have buryed our dead to march to Warwick to ref●e●● Army which is exceedingly wearved with so many n●g●ts watching and so long a fight which held from noon till dark night Two particulars must not be omitted one of Sir William Balfore who in the beginning of the day broke a Regiment of Foot which had green Colours beat them to their Canon where they threw down their Arms and ran away he laid his hand upon the Canon and called for nails to nail them up especially the two biggest which were Demy-canon but finding none he cut the Ropes belonging to them and his Troopers killed the Canoneers Then he pursued the flyers half a mile upon execution and after returned to Sir Philip Stapleton who in the mean time was charging of the red Regiment where the Kings Standard was and had charged it home to push of Pike with his single Troop and they then together with the help of some of the Foot of our Rear utterly broke it as you had it before The other particular was of Sir Phillip Stapleton who when five Troops of the Enemies horse returned from pursuit of our left Wing and from plundering some of our waggons and passed by the out-side of our Rear upon the left hand went and charged them with his Troop and made them run but they finding a gap in the hedge got away and returned to the rest of their broken Troops where they rallyed and made up a kind of Body again If we had time we could relate unto you many more observable passages but what you have here shall serve you till we meet This onely will we say some of both sides did extreamly well and others did as ill and deserve to be hanged for deserting and betraying as much as lay in them their party but God alone is to be praised who fought with us and for us and made it his own work to give the victory unto his Servants We have lost of note onely Colonell Essex and we feare the Lord Saint-John who was dangerously wounded We here send you a George found in the field by a common Souldier and bought of him for twenty shillings by one Captain Skinner We have promised him he shall have it again we only send it you as one of our Trophees that you may see it we believe you will hear of very many of great quallity slain on the other side The Kings foot are either slain or most of them run away and are now very weak and should have been pursued by us but that we must of pure necessity refresh our men for three or four dayes and then we shall God willing addresse our selves to finish the work In the mean time t is very requisite Letters from the Committee should be writ into the Countries which are Southern to stir them up that they may rise and cut them off or assist us at least against them which hoping you will forth with do We rest Your faithfull and humble Servants Denzell Hollis Ph Stapleton Tho Ballard William Balfore Io Meldrum Charls Pym. Our Lord Generall went last night to Warwick and is there very well and had he been with us we should not have presumed to have given you the first Advertisement His Excellence did gallantly adventure himself that day in the Front against the Enemy exposing himself to more danger then we could have wished FINIS

An Exact and True RELATION OF The DANGEROUS and BLOODY FIGHT Between His Majesties Army and the Parliaments Forces neer Kyneton in the County of Warwick the 23 of this instant OCTOBER Sent in a Letter to IOHN PYM Esquire a Member of the House of COMMONS Which Letter was Signed by Denzell Hollis Ph Stapleton Tho Ballard William Balfore Io Meldrum Charls Pym Who were then present ORdered that this Relation be forthwith Printed and published H Elsynge Cler Parl D Com LONDON Printed by John Field for Edward Husbands and John Franck and are to be sold at their shops in the Middle-Temple and next door to the Kings-head in Fleetstreet October 28. 1642. SIR WE should do our Army a great deal of wrong and not discharge our duty of thankfulnesse towards God if we took not the first occasion to declare his goodnesse in giving so great a blessing as he hath now done to the resolute and unwearyed endeavours of our Souldiers fighting for him in the maintenance of his truth and for themselves and their Country in defence of their Liberties and the Priviledges of PARLIAMENT This makes us give you now a Narration of a blessed Victory which God hath given us upon the Army of the Cavaliers and of those evil persons who upon Sunday the 23 of this instant ingaged His Majestie in a dangerous and bloody fight against His faithfull Subjects in the Army raised by Authority of Parliament for the preservation of His Crown and Kingdom We marched from Worster Wednesday the 19 upon Intelligence that their Army was moved from Shrewsbury and Bridgenorth and bending Southward our Train of Artillery was so unready through want of Draught horses and through other omissions of Monsier du Boys that we were forced to leave it behinde to follow us and with it the Regiments of Colonell Hambden and Colonell Grantham and staying for it we could advance no further then to a little Market-town called Kyneton in Warwickshire six miles from Warwick whether we came the Saturday night with 11 Regiments of Foot 42 Troops of Horse and about 700 Dragoons in all about Ten thousand men there we intended to rest the Sabbath day and the rather that our Arrillery and the Forces left with it might come up to us In the morning when we were going to Church we had News brought us That the Enemy was two miles from us upon a high Hill called Edge-hill Whereupon we presently marched forth into a great broad field under that Hill called the vale of the red horse and made a stand some half a mile from the foot of the Hill and there drew into Battalio where we saw their ●orces come down the Hill and draw likewise into Battell in the bottome a great broad company Their Forces appeared to by much greater then we could possibly have conceived them to b● by the confession of the prisoners we have taken they that say least day Fourteen thousand which is the Earl of Lin … Relation who was their Generall but others say Eighteen thousand and above 4000 horse and Dragoons The winde was much for their advantage and they indeavoured to get it more which to prevent we were inforced to draw out our left Wing t● a great bredth and by that means before the Battell was done gained it wholly from them In our right Wing were three Regiments of horse 〈…〉 Sir John Meldrum and were of his Brigado the Lo●● General 's comanded by Sir Philip Stapl●ton Sir William Balfores and the Lord Fieldings Sir John Mel●rums Brigado had the Van Colonell Essex was in the middle and Colonell Ballards with the Lord Generalls Regiment his own the Lord Brooks and Colonell Hollis in the Rear In the left Wing were 24 Troops of Horse commanded by Sir James Ramsey their Commissary Generall In this posture we stood when th● other Army advanced towards us the strength of their horse were on their right Wing opposit to our left In their left Wing they had but ten Troops but their Foot which appear●d to us divided into nine great Bodies came up all in front and after some playing with the Canon on both sides that part of it which was on their left and towards our right Wing came on very gallantly to the Charge and were as gallantly received and charged by Sir Phillip Stapletons and Sir William Balfore's Regiments of horse assisted with the Lord Roberts and Sir William Constables Regiments of Foot who did it so home thrice together that they forced all the Musquetiers of two of their best Regiments to run in and shrowd themselves within their Pikes not daring to shoot a shot and so stood When our Rear came up and then charging all together especially that part of our Rear which was plac'd upon the right hand and so next unto them which was the Lord Generall 's Regiment and the Lord Brooks led on by Colonell Ballard who commanded that Brigado forced that stand of Pikes and wholly broke those two Regiments and slew and took almost every man of them The Earl of Linsey his Son the Lord Willoughby and some other persons of note are prisoners Sir Edmund Varney who carried the Kings Standard was slain by a Gentleman of the Lord Generalls Troop of horse who did much other good service that day and the Standard taken which was afterwards by the Lord Generall himself delivered unto his Secretary Mr. Chambers with an intention to send it back the next day unto His Majesty but the Secretary after he had carried it long in his hand suffered it to be taken away by some of our Troopers and as yet we cannot learn where it is The other two Regiments of our Rear Colonell Hollis and Colonell Ballard charged those which were before them and then the whole Body of the Kings Foot except two other Regiments ran away by this time it grew so late and dark and to say the truth our Ammunition at this present was all spent that we contented our selves to make good the Field and gave them leave to retire up the Hill in the night But before we come to this we will give you an accompt of what passed in the other parts of our Army before our Rear came up to charge Our Battle at the very first wholly disbanded and ran away without ever striking stroke or so much as being charged by the Enemy though Colonell Essex himself and others that commanded those Regiments in chief did as much as men could do to stay them but Colonell Essex being forsaken by his whole Brigado went himself into the Van where both by his direction and his own execution he did most gallant service till he received a shot in the thigh of which he is since dead Now for our Rear thus it was before it towards the outside of it stood our left Wing of Horse advanced a little forward to the top of a Hill where they stood in a Battalio lined with commanded Musquetiers 400 out of