at high noon induce a sudden night As leaves in Autumn from an Oaken Wood Men fall down Dead the field o'reflows with blood Most hideous pitteous cries and groans resound From Dying men laid on that bloody ground Some wounds so wide at once mens bloods do spill Rapiers and Tucks do full as surely kill With smaller pricks the Fauchians broad hew down And cleave men to the middle from the crown Here might you see two ride up close present Give fire then both fall Dead incontinent Of Musketiers whole Bodies you might see Now come to push of Pike fiercely let flee With But end of their peeces at the Head Of one another striking many Dead Even at a blow their brains dispersed were And oft did the survivours face besmear Here might you see a Bullet-galled Horse Through Ranks and Files his bloody way inforce Till on the point of a well-level'd Spear Hee runs himself and there ends his carrear ☞ who le Files of men the Chain-shot cuts in twain With the Plebeians are great Nobles slain Stroud Falkland Morgan Fielding Sunderland Are now by Death sequestred from command ☞ Noble Carnarvans Death was eminent Who now had multitudes before him sent To Charons-boat At length there did him meet An Armed Gallant with fierce blo … 〈…〉 Each other from each stroak the 〈…〉 Doth slye about them both at length retire And then ride up again and bravely tilt At one another up even to the hilt The Enemy did in Carnarvan sheath His bloody Blade nor did the other breath One minute after for in Death more fierce Carna vans sword his very heart did peirce Thus with their swords in one anothers brest They fell and laid on Honour 's bed to rest ☞ A timerous Foot-man laid close on the Earth Amongst the Dead onely for fear of Death Yet peeping up often about him spi'd A fierce Dragoon that him lye quick descri'd In twain his head with a broad Pole-axe slit Freed him from what hee feard by giving it ☞ Andover Peterborough and Carlisle Brave Lucas Darcy Gerrard Ivers Lisle All wounded are led off But Essex lost Here not a Lord though dear his victory cost ☞ The King and Queen as sad spectatour stood And see the effusion of those Seas of Blood That flow'd upon that field and to retire Their well-nigh routed Army did require Shrill sound the Trumpets and the Drums loud beat To some a glad t' others a forc'd retreat ☞ Nor now had Essex any appetite To rally and renew this bloody fight For with Dead Corps having now pav'd his way For London straight hee march'd without all stay And to Westminster did in Triumph bring His dear bought Colours taken from the King ☞ Had but the King this Fatal Seige declin'd And his brave Troops for London then design'd When first hee came Glocester walls before Hee need not sure have foughten any more Essex condition desperate at that time The Londoners assistance did decline To th' Parliament the Lords did all accord To end the Wars the King should bee restor'd The Principallity of all the West Save Glocester the King as then possest But the Errata's wee commit in War By fates Decree irrevocable are Gell Brearton Ridgby Jacson all prepare Bird in his Nest Eccleshal to insnare And take who came first won the Church Town And then those Barns and Stables all burn down That stood the Castle near Their Guns they plant Play at the Walls yet all this cannot daunt Those here besieg'd their hold they do Defend To raise the Siege his Majesty did send Capel and Hasteings who now drawing nigh I' th' Church do the Besiegers fortifie Themselves Bird councels to inforce them thence The Lords cannot with so much time dispence To beat them out so Bird resigns his place Hopeless indeed as in the present case To Captain Abel and away hee went With the Releif the Siege incontinent Renewed was and Abel thus confin'd After a while to Gell the place resign'd ☞ Arundel-Castle Waller came to take Assaults most furious many did he make Yet with great loss was bravely still repel'd After a month or more they out had held They yeild In it was a full years provision Wondrous well man'd of Arms and Ammunition Abundance who can value this rich prize Which made the most that knew it to surmise Waller with Golden Cannons here had plai'd And so this last and greatest Battery made ☞ For Winchester Waller doth march the Town Hopton possest and doth to Bramdean Down Draw out his men resolv'd Waller to fight Waller comes on the Armies now in sight Each of the other with loud shouts they rent The very Clouds a Dareing complement Of thundring Cannons is the first salute Waller the Hill had gain'd the first Dispute Was him to dispossess but dear it cost And many a life on both parts for it lost This dear-gain'd Hill Stout Lisle guarded that night During which both parts did desist to fight Another Hill more advantagious farr Waller had found hither his Foot drawn are The hedges lin'd his Horse themselves display All in the Van. No sooner had the Day Lightned the World but Hopton on doth press Waller of his new-ground to dispossess Balfore wheels off as though hee seem'd to fly The Ambuscado's of their Infrantry Are now discri'd Yet no time to retire In Vollies thick from th' hedges they give fire Bullets like hail-stones fly that bloody ground Is covered with Dead Corps Ruthen a wound Received here Lord Stuart here was slain And that brave Smith that erewhile did regain The Royal Standard at Edge-Hill Stout Scot Apleford Mannings Sandies all Collonels shot Most violent and bloody was the fight Sulphureous Powder-clouds obscure the light And fiery flashes through them blinde mens eyes Clashing of Armour tumult dolorous cryes Of dying men resound in every place Wallers Commanders also fall apace The Stout Dalbier had many a wound here got A Cannon Bullet Thompsons thigh off shot And numbers more lay bleeding on the ground ☞ Hopton at length a forc'd retreat doth sound His men disordered well-nigh to a rout To Basing-house from hence he wheels about Winchester left Waller doth follow near Winchester yeilds when once his men appear Before the Town Waller's successeful fate Prince Griffith doth indeed so animate To undertake North-Wales obedient To bring by force unto the Parliament From Lonoon in a most heroick guise They set him forward to his enterprize His silver Trumpets Sumpters brave attyre Even of his Troopers make the most admire His first design is Rupert to seek out They meet This Pseudo-Prince is put to rout His men dispers'd all driven into holes His golden Mountains thus do prove but Moles Like Phaeton now fallen from the sky Of all command his vaunts and gallantry Lye buryed now in scorn his means spent all Debauch'd he lives Pride needs must have a fall ☞ Newark against Meldrum close siedge had laid And many waies the Town to
to stop did first design And therefore did their thick-set-hedges line With numerous companies of Musketiers But Washington of these the coast soon clears Charging them in their flanks making them flee Into the Town in whose pursute even hee Entred putting some hundreds to the Sword Leverpoole to surrender doth accord And off from Latham the Besiegers run Hearing what Rupert had at Stopwash done ☞ Though thus the Princ's numerous Troops affright The most yet Bolton dare oppose his might In their more bold affront they dare assay His Quarters up to beat and men to slay But to correct their prouder insolence The Prince can with so much of time dispence To storm the Town and cause them to lament Thus to provoak a Princes discontent For full three hundred Widdows here are left Which were of husbands in this storm bereft And not the Towns men only here are slain But hundreds more of souldiers that maintain The town against us All which town as prize The Prince unto his souldiers doth demize From hence to Skipton Rupert's Army come But by the way they Thornton-Hall had wonne Which down unto the ground they burne with fire That Rebells thither may no more retire From hence to York the Prince's marches were Directed But when the Besiegers hear His near approach they raise their siege in haste Leaving their Cabins Hutts and Trenches waste And their three Generals those their forces all To Randezvow immediately do call Where they consult both where and how to fight The Princes Army marching off that night Towards Long-Marston where a spacious Plain From Hessom or Long-Marston bearing name Doth lye in some places full thick beset With whin-bushes and Marshes deep and wet Least these Disorder should their Horse they take A field well grown with Corn their camp to make The onely and most advantagious ground That round about that spacious Moore was found Here they their murthering Cannons plant and then In order good Imbattaile do their men Of intermixed English-Scottish bands Their main battallia stood Crawford commands And leads on these On the left wing and side Cromwel with his Manchestrian Troopes doth ride The right wing was Sir Thomas Fairfax care To whom the Scottish troops conjoyned are Which David Lesley leads the Generals find A place the main Battallions close behind To lodge their Tents Thus these three Armies large Stand Marshal'd to expect the Prince's charge ☞ By this New-Castle a brave party had Of Foot in white-Coats uniformely clad Led out from York some Gentry Voluntiers Attend the General and his Souldiers Well mounted we near Popleton do meet The Prince's Army and imbrace and greet Our old acquaintance for the fates decree That these the last imbraces now shall be Of thousands of us Ouse having o're past The Prince the Army marshal'd all in hast But some Commanders thought by wise delay He might have famish'd and made run away Even without blood the numerous enemy Pomfret York Knaisborough Garrisons had we Environing the foe which might have staid Provisions from their Camp and doubtlesse made Them to remove fresh Quarters to have sought And so for us a fair advantage wrought But Ruperts purpose nothing can disswade But even that night their Campe he will invade And to our disadvantage make them fight ☞ Goring our left wing leads Byron the right In the main battail do our white Coats stand With others the word 's given and straight command To fall on Thus on our own Ruine bent Our souldiers all couragiously on went ☞ With equal fury now both Armies meet And with their Cannon-Rhetorick loudly greet Bullets begin at distance the dispute Till their thick flights Sword Logick could refute The Horse Rang'd in battalia's proudly prance While fire oblickely through their eyes doth glance From thundering Guns like lightning from the sky Whose fiery balls thicker than hail-stones flyes Shrill Trumpets sounding with loud beating Dr … Clashing of Armour with great roaring guns Rattleing of Pikes Powl-Axes naked Swords From different minds different effects affords These sights the Valorous more do animate But Cow-heart timerous-courage quite abate And if dismay should not diminish fear Such would fall dead before they wounded were The empty air is fill'd with dolorous crys The ground with bodies of the men that dyes Whole Ranks and Files by Cannon fiery balls Asunder cut upon the ground there falls Here without head there without leggs or thighs In blood dismembred bodies wallowing lyes And that pale Death may potently fulfil Her pleasure she most barbarously doth kill The Living with those Limbs dasht off the Dead Here flyes an Arm there flies a souldiers head Which strike their fellows down even to the ground Thus friends by friends a way to kill Death found The smaller shot clouded bright Phocbus light Darkning the Ayre with their far thicker flight Whose whistling fury quickly did assaile The strong'st brest-peeces and best Coats of male And through the strongest armour passage found To death even brave Commanders for to wound But where no armour did their fury stay Theough many bodies they inforce their way 〈…〉 them gasping on that bloody ground 〈…〉 … om the nigh Vallies and the Woods re-sound T … doleful occhoes of their dying cryes But most of all the Sword doth Tyrannize And glut it self with the expence of blood Which now like to an over-spreading flood Ran under our Horse feet for every sword By this time had some breast or other goar'd And issues made by which their souls had left Their bodys now of blood and life bereft These several streams of blood from several wounds Winding along those Vallies lower grounds Thy lesser waters Nid do multiply Thy streams discolour with their crimson Dye Thou into Ouse dis-burthenest the same Who swiftly down to York with tydings came And to the Citizens did soon discry In bloody colours this dire tragedy But still most furiously both sides maintain The fight though thousands on the ground lye slain Here might you see a strong couragious Horse Whose wounds add fury to his former force His livelesse Rider thrown through friends through foes Through ranks through files make way and where he goes Doth men by scores of their last breath deprive Whose falls himself doth not so long survive Till on the point of a well level'd Spear To'th'he art himself he runs in his carear And falling with his heels about him lies Till strength and blood expended there he dies Here might you see a wounded Rider thrown There others from their horse come tumbling down Hang by the stirrops dasht against pikes and swords Thus fate to one more deaths than one affords For with the fall the frollick horse afright Through thickest Ranks takes his enforced flight Tossing about his hanging Riders head Killing the living often with the dead A timerous foot-man did himself immure Amongst dead corps thinking to bee secure From flying shot where closely as he lay Some Troops of Horse design'd to charge
by The Centinels the Kings approach descry Th' Allarum's given Hotham doth then decree That all the water-sluces drawn shall bee The Country 's drown'd men walls and Seas combine To frustrate this his Majesties design ☞ Meldrum a Souldier of no small repute But yet a Scot the Parliament depute Hotham's assistant who a party takes Of the most hardy Townsmen and out-makes A sudden sally where the King he beats Who with some loss to Beverly retreats But not long after this the Parliament A party strong for Hull from London sent Meldrum incourag'd by this new supply Will of a second bout the fortune try His choicest men hee soon together calls And issuing out on the Kings Leagure falls Whereof some scores in their new trenches dy The rest in haste disordered much do fly A hot pursuit after whom Meldrum makes At Aulaby the Kings Magazin hee takes Some barns and houses there this Scotch Knight fires And then for Hull his worship back retires ☞ The King perceiving all attempts in vain Against the Town of Hull for York again Retreats But O! who can his thoughts express How can hee now though milde passion suppress What shall hee do what will bee the event Of these beginings thus malevolent Reflects his looks no reverential awe Upon Spectators Dare his Subjects draw Their Swords against their Prince shall he dispence Further with their Rebellious insolence ☞ But whilest the King is in this self-dispute A Noble person did him thus salute By Traitors shall your patience be abus'd Your commands sleighted your demands refus'd Courage take Sir Divine and humane laws Loudly proclaim the justice of your cause See what a train of Lords do here attend In your behalf their dearest blood to spend the Parliament us Traitors doth proclaim Because to your assistance thus we came And though they speak not out their acts declare They are intent upon you for to Warre Why raise they Armies what is your intent Us and your self to such a Parliament Thus to expose our Swords must us defend Or farewell life and fortunes Strafford's end Wee may expect Traitors let 's them declare And make provision for defensive Warre A thousand lives who would not rather lose Then see such Rebels you and yours depose To see rapacious Harpies ruinate This flourish of our peace Religion State Are you so credulous these not to fear When Treason 't is to you for to adhere Review the Actions of those Monarches brave That as your Predecessors Reigned have See how the proudest of their foes did quake Even at their frowns which did whole Kingdomes shake Whose very names their Subjects did adore Reputing them not men but somewhat more Then such Heroicks courage now assume Let Traitors know they do too much presume Upon your Lenity Sir make them fear And know the Lion in your armes can tear ☞ At this the London Juncto Parliament Traitours proclaimed are The King 's intent Is for the South-west parts to take his way Posting before Commissions of Array Commanding quick attendance from all those In Arms that would not bee reputed foes Newcastle's General for the North design'd Whose influence on those parts soon combin'd An Army Gallant Thus to Civil War Fully resolved now both parties are But so my Muse with Morpheus power possest Take's Leave would England could do so to rest Finis Libri Primi THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK II. The Contents A short dis-swasive from this Civil Warr The King sets up his Standard doth declare Of his defensive Arms the Innocence Londons Zeal for the Parliaments pretence Essex his Force to Coventry doth bring Worcester Fight The Battail at Edge-hill ROuze up brave Martial Muse prepare for fight Let Mars desist the Cyprian Courts delight Bellona's Trumpets cals our Troops to field Pallas advanceth arm'd with Spear and Shield Combates not Councels Muse thou must rehearse Warr Blood and Death are subjects of my Verse England O England do not thou distain This flourish of thy Peace with Blood refrain These Civil Wars whose sad effects wee see In self-divided ruin'd Germany Did Scotland tremble did the Irish flee Was France once Tributary unto thee Renowned England did victorious Fame From India unto India post thy name From cold Arcturus to th' Antartick Sands Thy admiration England fill'd all Lands Whilst Providence and valour forreign foes Vanquish'd shall home-bred discord work thy woes No Councell nor yet Rhetorick can asswage Uncivil Civil Warrs tumultuous rage The furious Sword scorns to obey the Gown Some with the State some with the imperial Crown Take part known Ensigns Ensigns do defie And English blood Englands Cross red must die If Warr wee must why do wee not assay On Asian ground our Colours to display Mahomet's dam'd Impostures to expell To their curs'd Author down to Pluto's cell Why do wee not out of the Seginor's hand Regain our Title to the Holy-Land What might wee not with lesser bloods expence Have quel'd the Turkes aspiring insolence Raz'd Constantinople's world-commanding Towers With her Seraglio Aegypt might bee ours And all the treasures of the spacious East By our victorious Armies bee possest As that brave Tartar lets our Force ingage Bajacet-like into an Iron cage Earths greatest Monarch 's captiv'd power to bring Or let 's advance against the Spanish King His Eighty eight's Armado's curs'd designe To vindicate our Forces let 's combine Heaven can but grosper such a brave attempt Heaven that from Spain's Invasion did exempt This Island for to bee Spain's dreadfull scourge Till all those Martyrs bloods shee shall disgorge Suck'd in by inquisition-Butchery Or let 's goe set the inslav'd Indians free Sail thither may wee with the tide and flood Of vengeance-crying murthered Indians blood Why march wee not to curbe that Prelates pride Whose Scarlet vestments in the blood are died Of Martyr'd Christians doubtless wee may fear His influence is too too powerfull here These sad incitements to this Civil Warr Hatch'd surely by his Romish Locusts are That Sweed Heroick to his high renown Vow'd to devest him of his triple-Crown And from his chair-infallible by force That Beast so much admir'd for to divorce And but that death too cruel did prevent Doubtless hee had accomplish'd his intent England O England Civil Wars decline And prosecute that noble Sweeds designe Hoise up thy Sailes for the Italian shore The airy Alpes resolve for to march o're Fall down like Thunder into Italy Th' affrighted-Scarlet Conclave let 's make flye And these high Walls wherein the Beast doth trust Let 's rase and level with that bloody dust Whereon they stand in blood they founded were Ruddy with blood their cement doth appear Rape Superstition Fraud Idolatry Polythism Murther Theft Theomachy Hypocrisie Pride Witchcraft Fornication Adultery Sodoms-lov'd-Abomination Are their curs'd Superstructures Powers divine Except propitious unto this designe Vengeance divine our Cannons best will bee Upon those Walls t' inforce a Battery Needs must wee conquer in so just a Warr Where
facing of the same Till Herbert with his Horse came up they fire Kill some on both parts and then both retire Near Tedbury Massie also dissipates All Cary's Horse Beverston on thy gates Massie's bold Foot do fasten their Pittard But their audatiousness thou didst reward Beating them off with loss To Wotton then Massie still active next led up his men Skirmishing there a while with those within Now landed Leger and bold Collonel Min At Bristol with more Irish These design With Herbert Digby Winter to combine And Block up Glocester Massie suppress Skirmishes oft indifferent for success Hapned amongst them scarce a Town was free Of any strength but garrison'd must bee In that impoverish'd County Wretched are The Seats of most uncivil Civil War ☞ Worcesters Earl with his most noble Son To Glocester with their Welch Forces come Encamp at Higham and demand the Town Near Monmoth as this Army late came down Burrows they beat with his new Regiments ☞ Massie from their Demands in scorn Dissents Telling them plain hee Rupert had deni'd And soon would curbe their Insolence and Pride Could a Welch Army think that to regain Which Rupert did Demand but all in vain Glory not that you Winter did defeat Slew Lunley and did Burrows Forces beat Late in the Forrest shortly you shall feel And know our sword 's of better-tempered steel ☞ Now while these Forces here incamped lye Against the Town from Bristol a supply Came unto Massie Malmsbury now wone Even Waller too did with his Army come To joyn with Massie The Welch they assail Even in their Camp and do so far prevail That in the place some hundreds there they kill The rest take Glocester against their will ☞ To Hereford from hence then Waller goes Scudamore and his Roy allifts oppose And keep the Town Waller against the gates His Guns doth play the first shot perforates The boards though strong and did the Gate behind Strike off a Captains head some were design'd Upon another side assault to make Which boldly Captain Grey did undertake The Town distress'd un-mand not fortifi'd Yeilded most of the Souldiers undiscri'd Over Wy-bridge away for Wales do pass Whilst Waller busied in the Parley was Nor yet did Waller keep the Town thus gain'd Though after for the King it was retain'd ☞ Monmoth before when Waller first appears It is deserted by the Cavalliers Waller it leaves and toward England came Yet for the King Lane after kept the same Till Stovens by Trechery did the same surprize That Lane betraid it some indeed surmize Waller from Wales for Glocester intent To intercept and fight him Morice went Who ere the Princes Horse could him Descry Beat up their Quarters and so marched by Morice alarm'd thus falls in his rear And for a while ingag'd both parties were And then do both retire Massie had heard How Wallers passage Morice had debar'd And marching out to meet him did him finde Near Teuxbury and their Forces now combin'd They do resolve upon that Town to fall And on they go the Guard surprized all Sleeping indeed over secure they were Dreading no danger Morice now so near The Town they enter break up doors inquire For Cavalliers Muskets and Pistols fire In at the windows Carew's men some dye Some Prisoners tane some hide them others flye Next day some of the Prince's Horse appear In Ripple-fields the rest embattel'd were Near Upton-bridge Waller came doth them view But fighting did decline and off-ward drew With his Dragoons thinking to guard his Rear The Prince advancing chargeth all in fear Through their own foot upon the Bridge they fly Whose heels could not them save there Pistol'd lye Hasleridge comes up with a fresh recrute And for a while retards this hot pursute But Morice presseth on with his bold Horse And soon to flight them all doth re-inforce Many of Wallers in this flight do dye But at Mitch-hill again a fresh supply Of Foot them meet The Prince there makes a stand And then an orderly retreat command ☞ From London with his forces came Lord Brook And Stafford-Avon first his Lordship took Defeating Crooker Wagstaff and stout Twist Nor could brave Leichfield then his powers resist The Town first wonne his zealous Ordinance Play ' gainst the Close But mark what fatal chance Befel this Zealot whilst he did espy Out at a loop-hole even into the eye A bullet peirc'd him and down dead fell hee Thus from a Church the Church's enemy By the Son of a Church-man here lay slain His men went on and did the fight maintain Winning the Close a noble sacrifice Of Cavalliers unto his Ghost here dyes ☞ But stout North-Hampton Leichfield to regain Against the Close doth a close fiedge maintain Until his Scouts came in and do him tell Of the approach of Brearton and old Gell. At this with his Horse and Dragoons he goes Boldly to meet his near approaching foes Where soon his unexpected charge and sight Puts all Gell's Horse to a disordered flight And then the foot threw down their Arms and yeeld Num'rous the Prisoners were tane on the field Yet dear too dear alas this victory cost For brave North-Hampton's life for it was lost Who charging in the front his Horse first shot Dismounted there his mortal wound he got But gallant 't is on honours bed to lye And thus victorious Loyally to dye ☞ Prince Rupert too at Leichfield now arriv'd His mines the Close for to re-gain contriv'd Which sprung the valorous Souldiers on do go But were repulsed stoutly by the foe After an hours respite though in vain With greater courage on they went again For with great slaughter they repulsed were Ruddy with blood the Moats do all appear And of dead Corpse in every place do lye Great heaps the Breaches and the Ladders by Yet to the Souldiers no discouragement Was this for on the third time now they went And bravely enter Russells then retreats Unto the Church and there a parley beats Rupert that they in warlike equipage Should all march off his honour doth ingage ☞ This while had General Essex Force sate down Reading before playing upon the Towne With his great Ordinance then did assay To scale the works and by main-force his way To make into the Town but off was beat And in despight was forced to retreat After some daies again they do assail The Town and did some of the out-works gain Though with much losse The King sent a supply Of Ammunition Men Artillery Which safe arrived there in Essex sight But this his Lordship did so much dispight That he commands the Souldiers to prepare Now for a third assault his Ladders are Provided walls and works his Cannons beate All down before them his Granadoes great Blow up whole houses and in furious guise His souldiers do attempt the Enterprize Aston made brave resistance for that while He could do service for a ponderous Tyle Which from a house a Cannon bullet rent So brus'd his
before we fought a while had stay'd Perhaps some fair advantage to our aid Conspired had Seldome the Powers Divine Do give successe unto a rash design ☞ This night strange thoughts New-Castle's head possest At length in passion he these words exprest O! resolution strange of adverse Fate How am I thrown from a most prosperous state Into mis-fortunes nethermost abyss Yet this the honour of my sufferings is And that which seasons all my sorrows well That with and for my Soveraigns cause I fell Where shall I fly where shall I be secure Within what walls shall I my self immure Did forty thousand Souldiers once appear Under my Colours did the Rebels fear My numerous forces and their Dreadful Powers Were all the Towns 'twixt Trent and Tweed then ours Excepting Hull And now behold even I Where to secure my self whether to flye Am dubious had I Hulls siege declin'd And to th' associate Countys then design'd My marches sure our cause had gain'd thereby Or if the first time we the Scots did eye We had them fought no doubt but then we might Have put those ragged Ruffians all to flight But time with fair advantages now past Are not to be recall'd With this in haste He Posts to Scarborough where both King and he The Seas do take intent for Germany ☞ Gleman of York the government doth take And for a Siege the best provision make That time would then admit Scorning to yeild The City yet though we had lost the field ☞ By this all their Three Generals that had fled The field return'd and up to York they led Their men The City to besiege again Each General his old station did retain Having their Cannons planted night and day Most furiously against the walls they play They vow the work by storm for to effect Nor age nor sex their Swords shall then respect But Gleman doth their prouder vaunts defie Yet at the length Provision's scarcity Prevails On tearms they do capitulate York's yielded Gleman marcheth out in state And Martial gallantry To Carlile where We leave him for a while The Scots appeare By this before New-Castle on the wall Make furious batteries while their Miners fall To work which work they to perfection bring And trains now laid their several Mines they spring As great sulphurious globes of stone and fire From Aetna's hideous Jaws the clouds aspire Whence falling all the neighbouring Vales they spread With Coals adust the fire extinct and dead Even so the trembling earth was heard to roar Which with those walls and Towers the Powder tore Up with great violence and lightly threw Into the ayre here like a Comet flew A souldiers head all on a flame and there Whole guards in those sad Ruines buryed were Up at the breaches flye the Scottish Foot Though the Defendants made resistance stout And bravely did from street to street maintain The fight till numbers of both parts were slain And Tines augmented Tide discoloured With the great influx of the blood here shed Entred now were also the Scottish Horse Which Marley to the Castle doth inforce Upon the which they forthwith Batteries make But good Conditions while they might pertake Surrender's made Then did the Scots sit down Carlile before boldly demand the Town Thinking perhaps the New-Castilian Fate The valiant Gleman could Disannimate At his Defiance furiously they play Their battering shot by Mineing to assay To make their entrance Ladders they provide But the Defendants bravely curbe their pride By frequent sallies killing multitudes Which the Scots high presumptions all excludes Of taking Carlile by arm'd violence Therefore most strongly they themseves intrench Knowing what force could not that famine will Effect Provisions fail Horses they kill Within those walls their Horses all up eat Dogs Cats old shooes Mice Rats nay Froggs are meat Yet Gleman e're to yeild he will consent To know the pleasure of the King had sent Phillipson bravely mounted through their guards Had charg'd and now rides post to Oxford wards At Borrow-Bridge some English Horse him tooke But a close friend by chance in that same Troope Secur'd his Horse and Armes till he could make From York which soon he did his wish'd escape Near Ferry-Bridge the place his friend assign'd Thither now got on foot he safe did find His Horse and Armes hence to the King he went To whom he Gleman's Letters did Present In Oxford whence he with the Kings reply Return'd and now to Carlile drawing nigh Quite through the Scottish Troopes he bravely rode But famine will not suffer their aboad Longer within those walls which to the Foes Surrendred are Gleman to Oxford goes With a small traine lean naked hunger-pin'd And the Scots are for Hereford design'd E're Fairfax was made Generalissimo A party strong he Hemsley led unto VVhere while in Leagure with his men he laid One from the wall so dexterously had play'd A shot that three inch lower had debar'd Him from what victories he got afterward But he recovers and the place doth take Though Skiptoniers it to relieve did make A brave attempt Scarborough was battered sore The greatest Tower whereof asunder tore Half standing half into the Sea down fell Upon the top there stood a Sentinel Who in the renting to the standing side Had leap'd and sav'd his life But to abide Longer within those walls famine forbad And Chamley yeilds what he possessed had Devoid of any grounded hopes of aid Scroop of his Bolton had surrender made Not long on Knaisborough had their Cannons plaid E're breaches wide in those old walls were made Which Croft though valiant did necessitate Now to submit to a surrenderers Fate VVith Horse and Foot Pomfret they do surround Some Towers whereof were battered to the ground And the Defendants much distress'd when wee VVith a brave party from the South do flee Langdale commands in cheef swifter then flame On the besiegers with our Troopes wee came After a short Dispute few slain we take Of Prisoners store Pomfret releiv'd we make A quick return To Melton-Mowberry near VVith Rossiter we skirmish'd had and there Were valiant Girlington and Gascoin slain As we came down Pomfret's besieg'd again And though with frequent Sallies they assaile The enemy yet Famine doth prevaile Which Lowder doth on tearms to yeild compel The Sandalliers had plaid their parts full well And made the enemies full often feel Their swords were made of the best temper'd Steel Yet famine's leane Pittard enforc'd the Gates A passage for the Foe this perforates To enter and for the besieg'd away To march ' Gainst Latham the besiegers lay A year what Art or Force could do to win This House was done but bravely those within Not onely their own Interest did maintain But hundreds of the enemie had slain Resolv'd the gallant Countesse was to try All straits e're Rebels she will gratifie By a surrender but alas compel'd To yeild what she so stoutly had with-held By famine this Virago noble is Though Greenay
Worcester wee came a Seige hard by Wee rais'd into a Church some Rebels fly Leaving some Cannons which wee soon possest The Church wee enter earnestly request Those in the Steeple Quarter for to take But they refusing under them wee make A mighty fire and leave them there to burn Or break their necks to Bramiard wee return And so do march about but our Design Was with some Horse our selves for to combine At Farrington and so an Army make At length our marches thither-ward wee take ☞ Morgan and Brearton follow in our Rear Whom for to fight at Stow inforc'd wee were For having Skirmish'd with them there that night When the swift houres induce the morning light Of Horse and Foot their Bodies wee Discry Our General said Souldiers let 's nobly Dye Or Conquer now 't is base to turn and fly This will bring shame or else Captivity The other fame the Kings condition 's low To raise it let 's our hands and lives bestow Suppose his Majesty stood you before And did your utmost courage now implore Suppose as Forlorn Prisoners now of Warr Led all wee were by the proud Conquerer To nasty Gaols there scorn'd and Hunger starv'd And might from all these miseries bee preserv'd By Valour nay suppose they should Decree That wee should hang'd bee for our Loyalty For they of Loyalty can Treason make If wee bee vanquish'd rather courage take And these by a more noble Death prevent This said with resolution on wee went As scorning wounds and death up to the face Of th' Enemy Pistols are fir'd a pace Some of their Bodies soon wee put to rout Nor with less Gallantry on went our Foot Levelling their thick-vollied shot so well That numbers of the Enemy there fell Indeed both Horse and Foot had here exprest Such bravery as the Enemy confest Their number not their Valour won the Day Lucas did here there Vaughan did assay Fresh parties while that these wee Dissipate Hydra-like shee new Heads repullulate At length our Foot the Enemy surround Our Horse ore-power'd inforc'd are to give ground And after to inlarge to open flight Some fifteen hundred tane were in this fight ' Mongst whom our General who aloud did say Your work 's now done put up your swords play For now no Army had the King on field Dennington to the Foe stout Bloys doth yeild This while Barnstable also they possest Ruthen and Woodstock too Now from the West Comes Fairfax before Oxford doth sit down Which hitherto block'd up had been by Brown To take the King Fairfax did think to have The Glory but the King doth him deceive Who in disguise Oxford alas forsook And to the Scots at Newark Siege betook Himself the Scots having receiv'd the King From Newark rise him to New-Castle bring Five months ' gainst Newark had the siege now laid Fiercely the Town oft times had been assai'd Sand-fort the Scots had now some time possest Th' English and they in their attempts contest Who should most active bee Granado's store Shot on the Town their thundering Cannons roar Against the Castle Houses down are burn'd Sinite and Trent are from their Channels turn'd And nothing unattempted for to win The Town No whit less active those within Make many sallies bold upon the Foe The Quarters of the Scots sometimes into They fall with fire and sword sometimes they try Rossiter Pointz or Copley's Gallantry At every sally slain are more or less Each enterprize was Growned with success On the Defendants part but Fatal still Th' Assaillants to his Majesty doth will Bellas to yeild And Tearms concluded are Then to the North the King and Scots repair Where ah good King with this perfideous crew Wee leave him Southern actions to review Finis Libri Septimi THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK VIII The Contents The Royal Garisons distress'd much are The Scots the King do sell The second Warr. Horton doth Poyer and Lang-horn both defeat The London and the Kentish Forces beat Barwick and Carlisle Langdale doth surprize Duke Hamilton ' s succesless enterprize The Kirk late Cromwels Foes with him now side Colchester tane Cromwels curs'd Regicide WEe that from Stow routed of late had fled In diverse Holds are now beleagured With Sieges close the Enemies distrest Even all those Garrisons that wee possest Dudley against Brearton a while had laid Many Granado's on the Castle plaid Of mines and batteries too use hee did make When none of these nor yet them all would take Levison doubting of releif doth yeild ☞ Not yet our hopes on no grounds did we build Wee did presume that the Kings presence might The Scots into an understanding right Of these late bloody differences induce Wee did presume the Irish might take Truce With one another and their Forces bring England into for to assist the King Some hopes wee had too of Domestick Jarrs 'Twixt Independents and the Presbyters But all our hopes and expectations fail'd With fire and sword the Enemy assail'd Bridg-north this while not one house i' th high town Except in rocks but burned were all down The town or rather now no town thus won The least part of their work they had not done For from the Castle oft wee sallied out One Colour took and put whole Guards to rout Scarce Pistol shot a barn stood from the wall In which a Guard they kept on this wee fall Kill some beat out the rest and then return But first the Barn down to the ground wee burn The Church th' Assailants made their Magazin For Powder while Alarm'd they pressed in A spark that from a lighted match did fly Their Powder fir'd which sacralegiously Rent off the Church the timber and the Lead Some scores blown blind some scores stricken quite dead Here of their men those that had burn'd the Town Burn'd were i' th Church and to the clouds up blown Like fiery meteors down their bodies came Their cloaths and hair all in a smoaking flame Five hundred of their battering shot each day Fiercely against our walls th' Assaillants play Of great Granado's too full many a flight They sent into these walls us to afright And in those Rocks their miners did imploy Us in a blast Sulphureous to destroy As many of themselves i' th Church late were But our Provisions to an end grow near On tearms wee yeild which tearms they falsifi'd Those march on foot who promise had to ride No Martial Law th' insulting Foes regard Of recompence they think us quite debar'd Hence to the Scots many of us repair Who gave us words made promises full fair But their performances their mindes discry'd 'T is bad to trust such as wee have not try'd This wee may say their dealing was with us Their words full fair their acts perfideous ☞ Though many a futious Battery Bloody bout Couragiously Banberry had stood out Her Foes and famine now grow prevalent Needs must shee yeild though much shee it resent The Valiant Byron was again