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A true relation of the severall passages which have happened to our army since it advanced towards Glocester with the manner of the reliefe of the same related in a letter / from a Friend in the Army to an honourable person here in the city ; likewise an abstract of severall remarkable passages which happened at Glocester between the towne and the enemy in the time of the siege collected by an eye witnesse.
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Friend in the Army.
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A true RELATION Of the severall passages which have happened to our Army since it advanced towards GLOCESTER WITH The manner of the reliefe of the same Related in a Letter from a Friend in the Army to an Honourable person here in the City Likewise An Abstract of severall remarkable passages which happened at Glocester between the Towne and the Enemy in the time of the Siege collected by an Eye-witnesse This is Licensed and entred into Stationers Hall Book according to Order LONDON Printed by G. Dexter for Stephen Bowtell at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley Anno 1643. Sept. 14. A true Relation of the severall Passages which have happened to our Army since it advanced towards GLOCESTER SIR COlonell Harvy is for present so busied in serving of you as that he cannot serve you in this way of giving an account of his service and therefore to neglect the City he will not His desire is that by my pen your Honour with the Court of Militia may receive knowledge of the duty hee adventures and spends himselfe in for the Kingdomes good Thus then briefly of the Occurrences in his march from Ockingham to Tame which in the way befell his Cornet who came off from the Enemy by whom he was set upon his last Letter to you gave a sufficient relation what Occurrences since that worthy your knowledge have come to hand shall now offer themselves nakedly to your view Thus therefore from Tame the 31. of August wee advanced to â—usset thorow and in a faire Champian beyond Bâ—siter found the Lord Generall with his whole Army drawne up on a very faire greene where Colonel Manwarings Brigade consisting of the City Trained Bands and Auxiliaries first met the Lord Generall at which meeting there was such expressions of joy the Londoners by their showtings and the Lord Gener ll by his Courteous behaviour Riding with his Hat off bowing to them which would have ravished any heart almost to have seen it And the like to Colonel Harvies Brigade His whole Army being thus drawn up it was indeed a very powerfull strength hee may justly boast it likely enough God succeeding us to compasse great designes by A Trumpeter of the Kings came the day before Thursday I meane pretending his businesse to bee onely the procurement of a passe for some Lady though many presumed his intent might be to view the Army when therefore the London Brigade under Colonell Manwarings command was drawne up the Trumpeter brought blind-folded had leave to take sight of those Companies onely the Lord Generall assuring him these were onely the Londoners added to and no part formerly of his Army and then sent him out of us He was carryed blinded into the field This was all the newes of that day besides that in the evening the Horse under my Colonells command received an Alarme againe neere Somerton where they were to Quarter that night being faced by 2000 of the Kings horse all the hurt we received by this was onely some houres kept from refreshment they not daring to adventure on us and we not able to fall upon them the hill they had being too high for us to charge upon in the night and a strange Country especially from Frithwell two miles off that Somerton the place our foot Quartered in that night wee marched on Saturday morning towards Awtlebury and in a field neare to it found the whole Army drawne up which a while after we had taken our place with our horse were commanded off a little way from us as a reserve to Colonell Middleton who had been ingaged all that day thitherto with a Party of the Kings the same we believe that faced us the night before of which when Colonell Middleton tooke a Lievtenant Colonell Prisoner they wheeled off refusing to Skirmish with us we therefore drew off to Hookenorton where quartering that night wee continued our march on the Sabbath day to Cornewell in Oxford-shire and as wee were on our march the next morning towards Stowe of the Old the enemy appeared in a bottome neare Emlard wee being then upon Adlestrap-hill from whence Colonell Harvy fired his Demi-Culverin three or foure times successively with the first and last shot we conceive we did some execution upon this the Enemy retreated Colonell Middleton pursuing faced them againe within twice musket shot drew out a forlorne hope who at great disadvantage charg'd upon the enemy and with the losse of one shot dead and some sixe or eight taken prisoners came off the Enenemy retreating Two or three houres after about two of the Clock in the afternoon they faced the London Brigado who were that day part of the Van Guard under Colonell Manwaring command but upon the discharge of a great Gun or two they wheeled off and the whole Army therefore held on their march quartering that night in the hilly open fields beyond Stow of the Old Next morning then after a cold lodging without any refreshment for the Souldiers could not the day before in all their hard march get any considerable modicum of bread and beere wee renewed our march and held on our way without any interruption from or indeed newes of the Enemy till towards evening from the top of Prestbury hills two miles short of Chetnam yet within sight of Glocester we discovered in the bottome a mile from us severall bodies of the Kings Horse On the nearest of them my Lord Generall bestowed a demy-Culverin at the noise if not execution thereof that party wheeled anon after we perceived a great smoak and fire near Glocester the sight at first a little troubled some and my Lord Generall at adventure that the Towne might have notice of our approach fired foure of his great Guns at which the other bodies of the Enemy retreated also Our Army being then to march down my Lord Generall himselfe led on the forlorne hope to clear the way for his Army to passe downe the hill and by going downe some steep place sprained his legge this done the Army marched for Quarter to severall Villages adjacent Colonell Harveyes foot the London Redcoats and Kentish Regiment drawing off towards Southam a little Village not farre from the foot of the hill sidewards which when we were within two or three bow-shoots of my Colonell himselfe with Colonel Sir William Springate Major Shepheard and his owne Cornet with my selfe and some few others out-marcht the foot the rather indeed that my Colonell might according to his wonted vigilancy view the Avenues before the darknes of the night should overtake him which while he with Major Shepheard were about Major Bourne and Captain Buller with their Troops mistaking us for Cavaliers dismounted at our Quarter by a Pistol shot before we could make them understand who we were wounded sorely we fear mortally Cornet Flesher and we strongly presume had Pistolled more of us had not my Colonell seasonably returning made knowne himselfe and so rescued us This is all we have to
acquaint you with save that the siege being raised the Kings forces fled toward Bristol we are with the whole Army about Chetnam ready to serve our Countrey as God shall direct us Septemb. 6. 1643. POSTSCRIPT THis night Colonell Manwarings Brigado could not march downe the hill and therefore was forced to quarter that night upon the hill the next morning they marched down the hill into the Vale his Excellencie quartered at Chetnam and the rest of the Armie in the adjacent Parishes The enemie having raised his seige on Tuesday in the afternoon and gone the way that leads to Bristol wee rested the Thursday the next day being Fryday his Excellency marched into Gloucester with so many of his Army as it could containe and the rest of the Armie quartered in the adjacent Parishes An Abstract of severall remarkable passages which happened at Gloucester during the siege collected by an eye-witnesse thereof THe close siege began the tenth of August 1643. and was raised the fifth of September during which time there were between three and foure hundred great Shot and above 20. Granado's and as many fiery Bullets which Granado's and fiery Bullets did no execution save onely that one woman was killed and about three others with the great Shot neither were there any maimed but some few lightly hurt Most that were killed with their Musket-shot was by looking over the Wall at Friars Orchard to see their Workes The whole number that was killed on our part in the City we cannot guesse to be above fourty the losse on their parts we cannot exactly set downe One that dwelt in the Suburbs saw the Last and made report but by their owne relation there was a List of 900 and odde of sicke and maimed Souldiers beside those that were killed which by the report of the Countrey that saw them carried away were many some thousands Many likewise ran away and more would if the Horse had not kept them in These relations are within compasse Reliefe was not heard of untill August 29. that was only this A Messenger of ours saw a Letter at Warwicke which was written from Sir Samuel Luke to the Governour of Warwick-castle dated at Twvverd August 22. to this effect That he should send two Messengers to Glocester to encourage us to stand out and that we should have reliefe very speedily but we perceived none untill we saw their Carriages drawn from the Leaguer then firing their Huts they marched off with their Colours thereupon our Souldiers perceiving the enemies Trenches to bee cleare they got over the Towne wall and spoiled their Gallery and set fire on some of the Cannon baskets A message shot into the City of Gloucester upon an Arrow These are to let you understand your God Waller hath forsaken you hath retired himself to the Tower of London Essex is beaten like a Dog yeeld to the Kings mercy in time otherwise if we enter perforce no Quarter for such Trayterly Rogues The ANSWER VVAller is not our God in that you lie Our God still lives from all Eternity Though Essex beaten be as you doe say Romes Yoke we are resolv'd not to obey But for our Cabbages that you have eaten Be sure ere long you must be soundly beaten Quarter we aske you none if we fall downe King Charles shall lose true Subjects with the Towne So saith your best Friend if you make timely use of him An Epigram upon two Lawyers Bell and Hill who were sent into Glocester to perswade them to yeeld TWo pettifogging Lawyers came of late In love to tell us of our present state And seem'd to be affected with our streights Thinking to worke us out with their deceits One speakes as if he had been soundly feed By the Popes agents and tells us in our need No hope of helpe all passages were block'd We must deliver or be soundly knock'd The other sayes Armies of strength appeare Yet for his life he could not tell us where Storme us they would and that in severall places Although as yet they dare not shew their faces If storming would not doe then famine shall We having Beefe they eating Cabidge all If none of these will perfect their desere Then without question they 'll get all by fire Being sure to doe it by some grand Granado As erst the Spaniard did with his Armado The verdict past amongst the cursed crew Men women children they must taste of rew If we refuse to give them enterance Then all alike after their pipe must dance This was the Message Th' answere thus in short Neighbours as for your love we thanke you for 't But for your bug-beare threats so huge and big If seven-score Cannons can but kill one Pig We then have cause to feare nothing but sin Can make a breach to let such Rebels in We trust in God whose power can make you quaile Although you make so sure for to prevaile Come when you will and enter where you can Be sure wee 'll fight it out to the last man And if for to provaile it be your fate You 'll finde we sold our lives at a deare rate Bell. All know fall well That every Bell Is uselesse till 't be hanged And none I hope Denies a rope To have his sides well banged Hill This Hill was seen In sinner green Fresh faire and flourishing Now Proteus-like 'T is altered quite 'T is fading perishing FINIS