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A76124	The battaile on Hopton-Heath in Staffordshire, betweene His Majesties forces under the Right Honourable the Earle of Northampton, and those of the rebels, March 19. Together with a letter from the Lord Compton now Earle of Northampton.	Northampton, James Compton, Earl of, 1622-1681.	1643 (1643)	Wing B1162; Thomason E99_18; ESTC R20433	4,703	11

THE BATTAILE ON HOPTON-HEATH IN STAFFORDSHIRE Betweene His MAJESTIES Forces under the Right Honourable the Earle of NORTHAMPTON and those of the Rebels March 19. Together with A Letter from the Lord COMPTON now Earle of NORTHAMPTON Printed by H. Hall M.DCXLIII THE BATTAILE ON HOPTON-HEATH IT is too manifest what poore shifts the Authors of this re●llion have used to bring about their designs among whom none have beene more busie then Sir William Brereton and Sir John Gell two that one would think have conspired together to be beaten as often as they unite their mutuall forces Witnesse Ashby de-la-zouch and other places where they shamefully have beene worsted by that noble couragious Colonell Hastings Though I must tell you both Brereton and Gell for their personall valour are as notorious Cowards as any in the saw-pit I confesse indeed Gell dare fight provided his enemy have beene seven yeares dead his valour having lately shewed it selfe against the Coffins and Monuments of some dead men whose living fac●s he durst not looke upon as if his businesse lay like that devil 's in the G●spell among the Tombes and Sepulchres And Brereton is as valiant as hee if lying downe in a ditch standing behind a hay-ricke or riding a full mile from the field may goe for valour of which three performances his owne Souldiers confesse him guilty And yet these two Champions to shew they are perfect Cowards are alwayes raising quarrels and seducing His Majesties subjects to kill one another As in many other so in this battaile on Hopton Heath an impartiall Relation whereof you here have by an expresse from farre better hands From Stafford March 21. 1642. Upon Friday last having intelligence of the Enemies intentions to approach hither we marched towards the way wee conceived they would come and having notice of about two hundred of them quartered in a Towne called Heywood in Staffordshire neare to our passe we fell upon them and after a short skirmish beat them from their hold took and killed above the one halfe of them the rest escaping by by-wayes so that we could not follow them onely quartered there that night Sunday being at Stafford about twelve of the clock we had intelligence of Sr W. Brereton and Sr John Gells being met with all their forces being about 3000 Horse and Foote placed upon a Heath called Hopton Heath neare a Towne called Weston some two miles from Stafford We drew out our Horse and Dragooners being about 900. And the Heath seeming faire resolved to charge them the breadth of it being more then Musket-shot from inclosure on each side As we advanced we discovered Musketeers placed within a walled Close and some Musketeers and drakes in hedges on our right wing Against which we sent some of our Musketeers but those being too few to beat them by order of counsell we advanced with our whole body of Horse leaving onely a Reserve towards their body and upon our advancing their Musketeers ran from the hedges we chargeing their body their Horse presently ran and we forced them to quit their Cannon But our men following the Execution beyond command and our Musketeers not comming up they got some of their Cannon againe yet we brought off 8 peeces And then rallying up our horse againe as soone as we could we charged some other Horse which they had neare their Foot which presently retreated and ran and then Sir Thomas Byron at the head of the Princes Regiment chargeing their Foot broke in among them but they having some Troops of Horse neare their Foot fell upon him and then he received his hurts bleeding so that he was not able to stay in the field But by reason of the night and our Horses being weary we stood about a Musket-shot from them and after a time our men being weary we drew somewhat further off keeping strong parties nearer them The next morning by breake of day we made ready to fall on againe but finding no Enemy we then understood that they had marched away in the night about an hour after our parting with them there we found carriages with Ammunition and other things the fore carriages of their Cannon which makes us beleeve they have throwne the rest of their Cannon into some pooles thereabouts In this fight and in that former skirmish on Friday we took and killed above 300 and wounded at the least 500 more for our Horse charged their Foot which occasioned so many wounded as their owne men confesse whom since we tooke prisoners We have taken above 300 of their Horse 8 peeces of Cannon with a great deal of other Ammunition Gell is certainly hurt but not killed yet they say he was hurt by chance by one of their owne souldiers as they went away in the night and we are apt enough to beleeve it for he is not too forward to come into danger But now we must from the sadnesse of our soules acquaint you with the great losse both His Majestie and the whole kingdome have susteined in this action by the death of a most Loyall and hardly to be equalled Subject the most noble and most valiant Earle of Northampton who upon the first charge with out horse being engaged upon Execution neare their foot his horse was shot so that he was constrained to alight and being encompassed with enemies he fought on foot a long time killing as they themselves confesse a Colonel of foot and striking another Captain into the brest with his Poleax besides other common souldiers whom he wounded and slew untill such time as he was overborne by multitudes and then being knockt downe with a musket and grievously wounded and his head-peece taken off was offered quarter as they say but he answered that he scorned to take quarter from such base rogues Rebels as they were and so fought it out a long while after till such time as he was shine by a blow with a halbert on the hinder part of his head receiving at the same time another deep wound in his face Which done they hurried him away so as we all thought he had been taken prisoner for we could not find his body The sadnesse of this accident would not have left our greatest Victory without misery but yet the grearnesse of his example cannot but make all those that are desirous of honour to follow him in his steps though none can come nearer him then his brave sonnes and especially the Lord Compton In whom we find much gallantry and valour in this last action wherein he received a shot in the legge but no waies dangerous and his horse also shot under him So that should we not say that there is none more fitting or deserving to serve HIS MAJESTY and the Kingdome in those Commands and Honourable imployments which his Father enjoyed then this young Lord wee should both wrong his Lordship and our owne judgements Wee are assured he will be found to be the inheritor of his Fathers Loyalty and Vertues