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A88366	A true experimentall and exact relation upon that famous and renovvned siege of Nevvcastle, the diverse conflicts and occurrances fell out there during the time of ten weeks and odde dayes: and of that mightie and marveilous storming therof, with power, policie, and prudent plots of warre. Together with a succinct commentarie upon the battell of Bowdon Hill, and that victorious battell of York or Marston Moore, never to be forgotten. / By him who was an eye witnesse to the siege of Nevvcastle, William Lithgovv.	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1645 (1645)	Wing L2545; Thomason E292_31; ESTC R200156	18,343	31

manly parts Where Noble Lindesay Earle of Crawfurd now Stood bravely to it made his foes to bow And left no ground nor did his foote remove Such was his courage graft in Iesus love Then here his badge which well his worth may yeeld A Lamb at home a Lyon in the field And so he prov'd where then all happie he Seald up his name in Tymes eternitie So forward Eglintoun he actd his part And fiercely road with a couragious heart To front his foes Where in that conflict he Installd his name 'mongst Peeres of Chivalrie Where his brave sonne behav'd himself so well Some may come near but none his worth excell Which if we had as Romanes wont to have A twofold triumph might their merit crave What should I speak of Baillie but admire How th' heavens his mynde with Noble gifts inspyre For manners manhood wisedome skill and wit Both Mars and Pallas in his bosome sit Their Throne his heart their honour his desert Where judgement raignes there knowledge bears a part And understanding too for now these three Crowne all his gifts with love and modestie For laureat Lumsdale fixt in Bellones camp Procurd what hee deserves became that lamp Which crownes a Chiftayne and his fame to blaze Still as he acts the world may sing his praise There there he stayd and stood so stronglie to it Mongst mortall men no Champion more could do it Then Gallant Leslie leader of our Trowpes Traversd alwhere mad spytete valour stoupes VVhere he adventrous he spurrd up and downe And cleard the field regaynd that Delphian crowne Which courage fought for And what worth allowes A laurell Garland may decore his browes Last here and there the ground with slaughterd Corps Was cled from York to five adjacent Dorps The blood lay on the grasse like shoures of rayne That fill the furres the heapes of them were slaine Like Dunghills were that on the wearie fields Some fought some fled some stood and many yeelds That even me thought the groans of Rome and Spayne Were heard the coast about on shoare and Maine And father falshood swore their Iesuit plots Could not prevail gaynst our triumphant Scots The enemie thus quelld and scatterd round Alwhere about nay some in everie ground In came the Lord of Hostes and he proclaimd The field was his or what more could be nam'd For person place or time for he alone Beat downe that Dagon Babells Idoll Throne And buryed superstition and blynd rites Within the gulf of ever gnashing sprits For which be praise to whom all thanks and power From this time forth and so for evermore Within a few dayes thereafter upon considerable conditions the citie of York yeelding and the Lord Fairfax made governour thereof our most victorious General and his redoubted army with great expedition returned through Yorkshyre and Bishoprick for Newcastle to assist that Noble and judicious Chiftayne of whom now as it is my mayne purpose I begin to discourse of his and their proceedings and as impartially as an honest heart may do without either flatterie or favour In this last springtydes second expedition 1644. for England our Parliament then sitting Iames Earle of Calendar Lord Almond was selected and appoynted by them to be Lord Lieutennant Generall of all our Scottish forces in Scotland and in England Whereupon a considerable Armye being leuyed consisting of six thousand foote and eight hundred horse he advanced for Northumberland and courting Tweed crossd the Tyne at Newburne Where his Armye reposing all night made me call to minde these following lynes I wrote upon that former conflict fought there foure years agoe 1640. Let Conway bragge of Armes and his great horses Let Papists boast of men and their fled Coarses Let Newburne rayle on Tweed and curse their Tyne Let Prelats sweare the fault was thine and mine I 'le tell you newes their Popish drifts and plots Were curbd and crushd by our victorious Scots The day following our aforesaid armie accoasted Lumley Castle where sojourning certaine dayes the Lord Calendar with a number of horse and foot in this time set face for Hatlepoole and Stocktoun Where when come and after a promiscuous parleye seazing upon both townes he left garrisons there and governours to overrule them Whence returning to the residue of his armye lying at Lumleye he set forward to Osworth From which place my Lord Calendar sending some horse and foote to clear the way for the Gatesyde they were rancountred with the enemye at the tope of the wynd mill hill where being prevented by night and theenemye stronger than they they were constrained to turne back Whereupon the next day the Lieutennant Generall himselfe came up with the residue of his armye and fiercelie facing the enemy beat them from the hill chased them downe the Gatesyde and hushing them along the bridge closed them within the towne Hereupon he forthwith commanded the Gatesyde and then the next day he begunne to dispute for the enjoying of the bridge with the fierie service of Cannon and Musket which indeed was manfully invaded and as couragiously defended Yet at last in despight of the enemy he gained the better halfe of the Bridge and with much adoe fortified the same with earthen Rampiers and Artilerie which still so defensively continued untill the Towne was taken in by Storme This being regardfully done he caused to erect five Batteries along the Bankhead and just opposite to the Town from whence the Cannon did continually extreame good service not onely against the walls and batteries but also against particular places and particular persons Besides the frequent shooting of Potpieces and other fireworkes of great importance which daily annoyed the Inhabitants within Towne At the most of which firie imployments the Lord Calendar himself was ever personally directing them to the which dexterity of charge I was often both an eye witnesse and observer By this time or there about his Excellence arryving here from York and accoasting the Tyne he caused immediatly build a Bridge over the River of Keill boats over the which his Armie having safely and peaceably past he caused lay downe their severall quarters with great promptitude and expedition And so beleaguring the West and Northwest parts of the Town they inclosed all that circuit till they joyned with the Lord Sinclairs Regiment Sheeffield Fort belonging to the Town only dividing them And so this rebellious Town was mainly blocked up on all quarters Now and at this time also the Earle Calendar recrossing Tyne tooke presently in Sandgate the one end whereof standing contiguat with the Towne wals Where setting sundrie Regiments there and about that place he forthwith caused to construct a strong Bridge of Keill boats over Tyne and within his quarters for the passing and repassing of his forces to both sides and fixed the same a pretty way below the Glasse-house This advantagious passage became very steedable not onely for the Souldiers but also for the Countrey people that brought in daily provision

wonderfull strong which the other two have not Yet what availeth either Towres walles or Turrets where the force of Armyes command Nay just nothing for indeed these walles with their pendicles were first erected to resist the Scottish invasions and yet in vayne for now we have shaken their foundations and by the same strength they relyed upon we have by the selfe same meane overthrowne them all glorie be to the God of glorie therefore As for the Inhabitants resyding within the richest or better sort of them as seven or eight Common Knights Aldermen Coale Merchants Pudlers and the like creatures are altogether Malignants most of them being Papists and the greater part of all I say irreligious Atheists The vulgar condition being a Masse of silly Ignorants live rather like to the Berdoans in Lybia wanting knowledge conscience honesty than like to wel disposed Christians Plyable to Religion civill order or Church discipline And why because their bruttish desires being onely for libertinous ends Auarice and Voluptuousnesse they have a greater sensualitye in a pretended formalitye than the savage Sabuneks with whom I leave them here engrossed And now forsaking this present introduction I come backe to my continewing discourse The siege growing dayly more and more hotter and hotter at all quarters and in all places as we le in the one side as in the other then and at which tyme I must ingenuously confesse that these indefatigable pains my Lord Calendar took were more than praise worthy for late and early and at all times he was extraordinary carefull paynefull and diligent in overseeing here and there his Mynes in directing his batteryes in managing privat and prudent ends for a publick good in dispatching of messingers and messages and in ordering of his souldiers atchievements by night or by day as they were imployed insomuch that his industrious and vigilant actions became a merveilous amazement to all these that were acquainted with his paynes and for my part to shunne ingratitude worthy of deserved memorie The chief Cannoneirs that were upon his five batteryes in the Gatesyde were William Hunter Captain of the trayne of Artillerie Iames Scot Robert Spense and William Wallace men of singular skill and many moe which I purposely to avoyd prolixitie omit And now from here and hence the Lievtennant Generall traversing hourely the river to his other batteryes and workes at Sandgate being onely two he was ever in a fastidious action One of which batteries beat downe the top face and upmost parts of Carpenters Tower unto the dust The other batterie had been newly erected for repulsing the enemy from intercepting our Mines Yet notwithstanding whereof the Nullifidians within discovered the lowest Myne next to the river syde The which my Lord Calendar perceaving and thrusting a pyke with his own hand through the renting division and to prevent the drowning thereof gave presently order that the next morning it should be sprung Which accordingly done it tumbled over the demi-hornewark dissapointed the enemye and became a shelterage to our encroaching souldiers The other three adjacent Mynes were not as yet reddy neither now to be imployed as after you shall heare About this same time September 29. the Lord Lieutennant generall Baillie upon the Townes north syde and near to St. Andrews Church gave order for their his batterie lay to brash downe a part of the Towne wall which in three hours space was fortunatly accomplished where the wall fell down within half a yard of the roote and so large that ten men might have marched through it in a front This tryall gave indeed a great encouragement to our Armye and why because then our Commanders were assured that if their Mynes should be dissapointed the brashing of the walls should be their last advantage And yet this breach was never pursued in regard the enemie under the shaddow of a blynd of Canvesse reenforced or barrocaded it with trash and timber Vpon Weddinsday following at morne Octo. 3. the enemy discovered and drowned two of our Mynes with watter and the next day ensuing another also Whereat the enemie growing insolent gave order for ringing of bells all night to consolate as it were the distressed mindes of the starving communaltie who rather fed upon violent necessitie than any other kinde of cherishing or comfortable reliefe Being whiles flattered with impossibilities and other whiles tyrannized over by the malicious malignitie of the mercilesse and now miserable Maior For true it is that this Sir Iohn Marley their Governour an oeconomick Polititian more wilfull than skillfull did so inveigle and blindfold the common multitude that these letters which hee sent to our Lord Generall were all read by him in publike to them being too peremptorie and impertinent but for the answer of his Excellence that came to him he concealed them all making them to believe that he would admit of no condition nor grant any safety longer than the revenging sword might overreach their necks All which being falsly and perfidiously spoken was onely to irritate their doubtfull dispositions and to incense their desperate condition with the deceit of a treacherous despaire to make them bolder for their dreadfull defence for indeed there was an order condescended upon by the Committee some five weeks before their ruine approached which was that if they should render in time and prevent the greater effusion of bloud they should have faire and free quarters and all these liberall conditions that people in the like case could either look for or require But all these profers or offers were by the Maior vilified and by him concealed from the people till their day of desolation was declared And now the coppies of these intercoursing letters being lately published to the vulgar world and striving to relinquish unnecessary particulars or any obvious rancounter of small consequence I come to the maine point and thus After ten weeks siege and odde dayes with many disastruous affronts following on all hands there was a parley appointed being Fryday October 18. where in the forenoone our three Commissioners the Lord Humbie the Laird of Wedderburne and Iohn Rutherfurd Provest of Iedbrugh went in the three Hostages from the Towne being formerly come forth ours I say accoasting the Maiors presence there were diverse propositions and answers by both parties delivered but to no purpose nor effect The Maior ever dallying with drifts and delayes to procrastinate time till they had discovered our two chiefe Mines which indeed were very near the point yet neverthelesse in a jeering way our Commissioners being dismissed after five houres conference and their Pledges returned the next morning early the untimely preventing Maior sent forth a Drummer to the Lord Sinclair with two Letters the contents of one was thus My Lord I have received diverse Letters and warrants subscribed by the name of Leven but of late can heare of none that have seen such a man besides there is a strong report hee is dead Therefore to remove