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A75350	Lancashires valley of Achor, is Englands doore of hope: set wide open, in a brief history, of the wise, good, and powerfull hand of divine providence, ordering and managing the militia of Lancashire; not onely to the preservation, but exaltation of a poor, and praying people, in two hundreds; against, and above a considerable armie, of popish, and ill-affected persons in foure hundreds: Wherein the strift [sic] of piety and providence, with impiety and humane strength, in the weaknesse of means, unto graduall, and compleate victory, is laid out; to advance gods praise, and advantage Englands faith. By a well-wisher to the peace of the land, and piety of the church.	Angier, John, 1605-1677.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3165; Thomason E67_39; ESTC R12056	22,269	43

of this County in other part of re-payment of the said moneys so l●avied by them And whereas the Sheriff of this County and some others have lately seiz●d into their hands and possession the said Powder Match and Ammunition in the Towns of Preston and Leverpoole and have threatned and attempted to do the like in Manchester without givi●g any account either by what Authority or for what us● they did and do the same We therefore tendering our own inter●st and poss ssion of this small remainder left at Manchester have thought good to take it into our hands for the defence of the King both Houses of Parliament and this County of Lancaster Thus wisdom and honesty in a way of manifest authoritie got the leading of subtiltie and injustice the Snare at last is broken and a Seed of defence happily sowne But if Manchester will not be cheated of their Magazine they shall be forcibly dispoiled Forces are summoned to Bury for that end but the confluence of the well-affected to Manchester for defence did them the favour of disinission for that time And lest this businesse should appear in its own colours it is coloured over by a meeting of the Array at Wigan the sleeping Magazen is adjudged to travell part to Bury part to Ratchdale and part to lie in Manchester upon an order from the King published at Manchester Crosse to that purpose Under this new colour the Lord Strange returns with his Forces to Bury calls a second Muster some of the Towne of Manchester and thereabouts more forward in this than forecited attend his Honour think to make all well by ingaging themselves to buy so much Powder and lay it in the empty place and to sweeten and sink all former bitter and clogging passages they invite him to a Banquet upon condition that he come peaceably with his own attendance they unhappily forgetting or not considering that it was not a little Powder that was sought or the submission of a few fearfull men but a Town and not a Town onely but a County nor that onely but the honourable rule and government of it things out of the teach of their arm but hopefully within the compasse of his own power According to this desire not according to the condition was the march for Manchester ordered his Honour came attended with many Horse they entred the Towne in an Hostile and insulting manner with cocked Pistols and shouts that the town was their own their own The Sheriffe reade the Commission of Array which evidenced a composition for War not for Peace Some wise and well affected foreseeing what others did not beleeve till they sadly saw had laid in some Musquetteers and Pikemen against such a time resolving to lie hid if not forced out of Peace But the unconditioned carriage of these in-comers beats the Drum to bring our men in sight onely to put them in remembrance of the conditions agreed on They will not remember but forcibly ride upon our men give them course language strive to disarm them sorely wound one and cruelly slay another and had not God mercifully sent water from heaven to quench this fire and moved them to be the Peace-keepers which were not the peace-conluders they that have since sought our blood had themselves been satisfied with blood But blessed be God that heaven and earth did concurre to quiet this dangerous Commotion Let Manchester and the neighbourhood never forget how their hands were blest from blood whilest the hands of those that strove with them were imbrued therein By this time the Array had gotten enough done the unappeasable crie of blood is against them seconded by the bitter crie of some truly pious in the Town who were in extreme danger to be pulled in pieces they and their houses by the part-taking and incensed Rascalitie the admirers and adorers of greatnesse being feasted with the Crummes that fall from their Tables God fore-appointing the hour of Temptation and resolving in a course of ordinary though to us unusuall means to shew us his salvation sent a man before a skilfull and faithfull Engineer to be ready to concur with our necessitie and desire to take course for our own defence which now will admit neither dispute nor delay This prepared and provided instrument is entertained fals to artificiall and restlesse motion till the Mud-wals at the severall passages were finished when God gave an Alarum from the plundering disarming Array in Cheshire Sept. 13. being Tuesday to heighten the spirits of the well-affected in the Town above the opposition of the male-content that the opposed stoopes might be set down and the chaines coupling the Works compleated he well-knowing they had almost as much work to do as time to do it in All this time that God was contriving our preservation in a way of probable meanes Satan in a contrary course was plotting our subjection or desolation and when the door of our defence was once shut not before oh the waking watchull providence of God! but presently after the floodgates of our opposition were opened for it was about Friday night Sept. 23. ere the Works were finished and the Lord appeared on Sabbath-day morning and it was Friday night if not Saturday night ere the defendants were anchored against windes and waves Thus we are come to Manchester Seige of which I will not give a full and particular account because it is already performed by severall good hands onely observe three things 1. The time in which it fell out 2. The severall temptations in it with their Issues 3. And some remarkable passages THe time when it began was September the five and twentieth the Sabbath day about nine of the Clock Church-time God was fo●ced as sometimes Paul Galath 4.20 to change his voice to awaken and enliven his sleepie and dead-hearted people Sabbath-dayes Alarums of all Alarums are never to be forgotten Severall Battels have been fought and severall Assaults made in severall places on the Sabbath day let England study the meaning Our Saviour tels us there is an affliction in the time Mat. 24.20 Pray that your flight be not on the Sabbath day God hath a controversie with the people for their Sabbath dayes services Yet observe the breath of the enemie Saul breathed threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord The enemies mocked at their Sabbaths Their breath blasteth holy persons times actions The Episcopall breath fetch him out of the Pulpit scatters the people suspend him suspend the place This Seige-week was unskilfully joyn'd with the Nationall Fast-week for thus succours came into Manchester from all parts of the Kingdom Armies of Prayers Legions of Angels The enemies Lot so warily cast fell not unlike to Hamans Lot Esther 9.1 The enemies of the Jewes hoped to have power over them but it was turned to the contrary that the Jewes had rule over them that hated them The severall Temptations that straightned this Siege with their present and proper Issues were The

had appeared unto him twice 1 Kings 11.9 pray God it prove not Boltons case This Starre appearing promised day to succeed our night as it did in the taking of Wigan April 1. that impregnable piece the Enemies pride and presumption our fear and despaire of which we sometimes said It was not possible to take it by assault or not without much blood though indeed the sinfulnesse of the place did render it the weakest of all others Though our Horse made a retreating onset before our Foot came up though two Souldiers were slain with a Cannon Bullet in their marching up yet so venterous and daring was the stirring resolution of our Souldiers that they were suddenly ingaged so farre that they must go on or lose their lives They goe on and enter whil●st the Enemy opens a backe doore to go out that the Towne might be free A bright beam of this shining victory was This was the Nationall Fast-week that God by a mercifull recompence gave it into the hands of Bolton Souldiers who had beene twice infested from Wigan an evidence that Gods side will prosper bee the disproportion what it will poore Bolton shall abide a double storm when GOD is with it proud a●d powerfull Wigan shall fall at once and with ease when GOD is departed from it This glorious victory found us not gracious enough it was too much for us well to mannage it was not so gloriously atchieved as obscur●ly left it was turned into mourning by the too-impressive report of the Earls returning upon us The Town that strong and advantagious Towne was left that ●ight But I love not to rake into and gaze upon the infirmities of men taken at advantage in generall I conceive the case was that of Barak Judg●s 4.8 9. the worke was undertaken in unbeliefe so that though we g●t the day yet we lost the honour Had wee beene soaring upon the wing of Faith we had not fallen so low in feare Warringtons first Assault IN great unpreparednesse in debt for Wigan in neglect of meanes of reconciliation in disorder and considence of our Souldiers we assaulted Warrington the fift day of April about four of the Clock till the might tooke us off Thither wee came to leave our dead to distresse the well-affected in the Towne to shame our cou●age and in all to suffer the punishment of former miscarriages wherein Cheshire deeply shared with us Now we had the greatest strength abroad partly our own and partly borrowed But God delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy Psal 147.10 11. Wigan thought impregnable proved easie Warrington thought easie proved now impregnable This seasonable check chode us to duty to publike thanksgiving for Wigan-mercy the eleventh of April to humiliation under Warrington-displeasure the thirteenth of April The day of thanksgiving was made joyfull by the in-coming of Ammunition the day of humiliation was delivered of that wonder or confluence of wonders about Padiham The rise of Blackburne THe Earle accompanied with 2000 ●s is judged came to Rihchester over night to VVhalley by eight of the clocke to a Green not far from Padiham Our side had but two or three hundred Fire-men and fourscore or a hundred Horse so that in means there was no possibility of safety When we went out first to meet them there was not above an hundred Fire-men yet such resolution God gave them above and against all sense and reason that they would needs let flie at them and God suddenly turned them to flight Our encouraged Souldiers pursued them to Whalley where their two or three shots of Powder all they at first had to accomplish so great a work were well encreased by their enemies store from thence to the Sands thence to Lango Green thence to Rible side called Salsbury Boat The Horse and Foot took Rible many of the Foot wading to the chin In all this Chase being about five miles in length they often turned their faces but as often turned their backs and hasted away till they had quit the Hundred and no more infested it Thus God remembred us in our low estate he chose the w●ak things of the world to confound the things that are migh●y that no flesh should glory in his presence O my soul thou hast trodden down strength God hath delivered Sisera into he hand of a woman H●ve they not sped have they not divided the prey they boasted in the morning what they would do and directed their Warrants to the Countrey to come in the day following to compound with the Earl for their lib●rty So let all thine enemies perish O God but let them that love thee be as the Sun when he goeth forth in hi● might rising higher and higher till he come to a Noon-day V●ctory Lancaster Voyage OUr desire to secure our Garrisons to relieve Warrington which we had occasionally oppressed and to improve those new Talents lent us by God and sent us by Sea made us thinke upon a Voyage to Lancaster the fairnesse of the weather and drinesse of the way were strong encouragements We began our March the eight and twentieth day of April the presence of God was fought for safe Convoy and so terrible was the presence that accompanied our March what else c●n it be imputed to that our Forces passed safely thorow Wigan though the enemy found his former nest after we had taken it Prescot Ormeskirk where we marred an intended Muster and Preston that recovered Preston Whence hearing our friends in Lancashire were in some danger though it was nothing but the Earls hasting into Yorke-shire and the rest of the Forces speeding to Hornby Castle we stretched our march to Lancaster In all this way as we moved so the enemy removed we saw nothing remarkable in them but cruelty and cowardice For some Troops of Horse meeting a poor boy unarmed which out-went his company clave his head and barbarously mangled him Also thereabouts the enemy ●fter a sl●ight skirmish overcame by flight Our arrive at Lancaster was welcomed with the safety of the Castle the good posture of the Garrison their comfortable provision and the well nigh preparednesse of the Carriage And after we had refreshed our Army a few days with the sight of Tburland Castle and the report of our forraigners against Hornby Castle we advanced homeward the ninth day of May and under the former gracious Conduct came safe home though laden with the weight of twelve whole Pieces and two broken ones the rest fortifying the Castle all which we acknowledged in solemne thanksgiving in Manchester the fixteenth of May. Warrington Siege ALl this while the cry of oppressed Warrington importuned heaven and compassion wrought in us and having this far-fetched terrifying assistance we entred upon a new and prosperous Voyage the twentieth day of May The three and twentieth of May was designed for