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A34438	Stratologia, or, The history of the English civil vvarrs in English verse : containing a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres, till the martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by an eye-witnesse of many of them, A.C.	Cooper, Andrew, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6049; ESTC R20852	74,138	195

immur'd Within Carnarvan where hee had indur'd A Siege most sharpe by batteries storm and mine To win the place the Enemies design But the Defendants answered each attempt With so much gall antry as did exempt All hopes the place to gain by violence But now provisions fail who can dispence With famine thus stone-walls will penetrate This lean Pittard will break the strongest Gate And make the stoutest Champion condiscend To tearms His Trumpet out doth Byron send With some proposals of delivery Then to surrender next day doth agree Close siege to Worcester this while was laid But Washington dispairing now of aid And for to yeild having the Kings command Not able long the Foe for to withstand Begins on tearms for to Capitulate Then yeilds even Oxford falls under the fate Of all the rest of the Kings Garrisons Here Fairfax self with all his Mirmedons Had laid some months and done what in them laid The place to force Bat●●ries most furious made And many desperate bold attempts to scale Nor could their Mines great Granad's prevail Never was place with greater Gallantry Defended nor assail'd The Enemy Thought it more Honour Oxford to regain By storm than all those Holds they yet had tane Those undertakings great they did reveiw Accomplish'd late how o're the Works they flew At Bristol Basing Dart-mouth and else where And shall their fury bee resisted here What shall this Town not yeild when they command Shall this 'twixt them their grand triumph stand Nay Cromwel knew it was the onely Town That interpos'd betwixt him and a Crown Rather than Oxford shall their hopes defer Rather than Gleman shall protract the War As many Pioneers they swear they 'l bring As Oxford all shall into Isis fling With Spades the City all to fire they vow Man Woman Childe to put the sword unto And e're of sudden Conquest they will fail On one anothers shouldiers mount and scale Not their attempts though bold much less their vants The valiant and resolved Gleman dants Not only Oxford bravely hee Defends But often sallying out some hundreds sends Of these insulting Foes to Erebus The Muses proud to Mars propitious For Schollars now turn'd Souldiers stoutly fought And more by swords then words for honour sought The Gown indeed did love the Royal cause Consisting with Religion and the Laws Which life and limb they venter'd to maintain Most bravely what Oxford by storm bee tane They vow they 'l rather on the works all dye Gleman doth therefore all their powers defie If Oxford yeild hee must conditions good Hee 'l have or with the town resign his blood Shall the Kings Fort Metropolis submit To tearms unworthy not becoming it First to worse straights than e're hee yet indur'd In Carlisle in these walls hee 'l bee immur'd Not onely Mice Cats Horses shall bee meat But Boots and shooes nay Humane flesh they 'l eat These brave resolves inforce the Enemy On noble tearms with Gleman to agree And Oxfords yeilded the two Princes are Rupert and Morice shortly to repair To forraign parts The Duke of York must goe His noble Brother and his Sisters to Now at St. Jameses For the Parliament Had all the Royal Children up there pent Except the Prince who had escap'd their hand From Exeter of late they did command The youngest Daughter thither to bee brought What thei 'l do with them divers things are thought Let Royalists pray and presage the best This absent is a safety to the rest ☞ But whither doth my wandering Muse digress Than Articles the Roundheads nothing less Perform this the Oxfordians fully finde Wallingford is to Fairfax too resign'd Though Blague the place most nobly did defend But who ' gainst swords and famine can contend This place like others must submit to fate ☞ Litchfield the next comes to capitulate On tearms here valiant Tinsley plaid his part Not all their Force not all their Miners art Not all their Batteries and Granado's great Prevail at every storm they off were beat With loss and shame enough the Moats were fil'd With bodies of th' Assailants in them kil'd This place by storm had been twice tane before Which did th' Assailants animate the more To bold attempts but so they answered were That no more Ladders did they dare to Rear But close laid in their trenches and the town But now provisions wonderous scarce are grown Within that Horse-flesh they begin to eat Necessity Tinsley inforc'd to treat With th' Enemy and now to yeild the place ☞ Of all our Garrisons Ragland the Grace And honour had even out the last to hold Nor the Old Marquess this surrender would For all that Morgan with his Force could do Though much hee did Fairfax arriv'd here now The Marquess tels as good tearms hee would give If they shall yeild So none of them shall live Refusing Life and Death stood in his power Expecting answer once within an hour The Marquess to this Summons doth reply In time nor did hee Fairfax quite deny After some intercourse of Letters sent The house is yeilded Out the Souldiers went With Colours flying and their Drums did beat All arm'd in Martial furniture compleat Having some miles march'd in this Gallantry Of Horse and Arms they make delivery To Fairfax the Triumphant Conquerer ☞ The mercenary Scots mony prefer Before their King hee 's sold to th' Parliament And from New-castle first to Holmby sent ☞ The King had not long been here resident Before five hundred Horse the Army sent Which him surprize and then to Hampton-Court Do with their Prize or Prisoner next resort Thus though a King indeed bee in distress 'T is valu'd much his person to possess Here of access though friends admitted were Perhaps their projects that the King might fear The less yet some gave him an intimation ' Gainst him of a resolv'd assassination Therefore in a most dark tempestuous night Hence he 's inforc'd to his life-saving flight Though thus these Harpey's Talents hee evade By th' imprudence alas hee is betraid Of Berkley and Ashburnham to the hands Of Hammond who the Isle of Wight commands Where most of that sad time hee yet surviv'd Hee 's kept of worldly comforts quite depriv'd ☞ But out again most fiercely breaks the War Poyer and Laughorn for the King declare Confessing they Deluded had been long The Cavalliers conjoyn potent and strong They grow at Pembrook Chepstow do surprize Rout and kill Fleming but with fresh supplies Of well arm'd and well ordered Horse and Foot Comes Horton fights them to a total rout Puts these unarm'd scarce Marshall'd Cavalliers Cromwell before Tenby then soon appears And falls to storm indeed so furiously That the Defendants soon for Quarter cry On mercy yeild Pembrook and Chepstow are Surrendred too to this proud Conquerer ☞ The London Mutiners this while are quel'd The General by the Kentish men compel'd After the fight at Maidstone to disband Upon Black-heath nor did the Essexians stand To a field

but fail Hartpury near Some few of Mins Rear-guard surprized were But near to Elderfield their whole Brigade Advance and there their Ambuscado's laid Lining the hedges with their Musketiers Their Horse stand in their Front Massie appears Next morning chargeth Mins Horse soon retire Thinking their Ambuscado's should give fire Upon the now advancing Enemy And so they did but forc'd at length to fly Min with two-hundred on the turfe were slain And near three hundred Prisoners of them tane Wounded and taken Passer was also Slain Min's Brigade as hee came posting to To let them know more Forces were at hand And though those follow under his command Yet their pursuit was vain the feat was done And Massie with his prize and prisoners gone ☞ Rupert Ast-ferry to secure intent Six hundred Horse and Foot thither had sent These for their Guard intrench that neck of land That Wye and Severn's confluence 'twixt did stand Massie this hears and therefore doth Designe Thence to inforce them ere their works and Line Perfected are thither therefore hee went A Squadron of his Musketiers are sent Privately on Ruperts men them discry And at them all their Guards at once let fly In a loud Volly all their shot again Ere they could charge Massie's Forlorn amain Now mount their works then his reserves on came A bloody fight both parts a while maintain But in conclusion Massie got the Day Except whose heels and Boats bore them away All slain and Prisoners are So various are These sad successes of this Civil Warr. Kirle to Massie Monmoth had betrai'd Which to effect thus they their plot had laid Massie to Monmoth first advanceth near Then feigns a Post him to recall they hear In Monmoth Massie's gone Draw out pursue Kirle commands this party who well knew Where Massies Ambuscado's now were laid Thither hee leads his party all betraid And now surrounded yeild to Massie then To Monmoth with a part of Massie's men Kirle returns saying these Prisoners were They on the Gates But behold in the Reat Massie comes up then Kirle and those got in Declare themselves to wound and kill begin The Guard let down the bridge Massie comes ore The Garrison they instantly ore power The Governour advantaged by night With many more escape their hands by flight Broughton intends Godridge to fortifie Hereford Forces his design discry Draw out the first assault they on it make Broughton and all his men they Prisoners take Now Massies Horse to Monmoth quartering near Bravely assaild by valiant Blaxton were Many hee took many of them were slain Yet fresh supplies came up and back again Blaxton inforce with loss Massie also With Gerrard and with Winter had to do Skirmishing oft Massie from Monmoth gone Throgmorton had the Regiment alone And Drawing out on Chepstow to attempt From Ragland and from Godridge some are sent Who in Throgmorton's absence now devise A Stratagem Monmoth again surprize What Treachery lost Policy bravely won These nobly did but Kirle had basely done ☞ Stephens Raudon to releeve flies with his Horse To give him ground doth the besiegers force Whilst hee alights makes merry with his friends Renowned Ashley a strong party sends They block him up who others thought to free From a straight siege besieg'd himself is hee And all together yeild so excellent Such Stratagems was Ashley to invent ☞ Manchester Essex Waller all combine Forces the King for to surround near Spine They randezvow then off their Horse they Draw First to inforce the Royalists from Shaw A hot dispute Prince Morice Horse and they Maintain with loss on both parts all that Day Nor did their thundering Cannons cease the while Some men they kill some houses they untile And with those tiles oft strike some Souldiers Dead Then for a Mill on Kennet next they plead Where many Royallists surpriz'd and slain That Mill and passage the Essexians gain Till noble Ashley with his Valiant Foot Came up the Foes put all to flight and rout And many in the River Drown'd regain'd The Mill and Passage Bennet too maintain'd Waller against a bloody fight Whose Horse For to retire Leggs Chavalry inforce Yet rallying Legg did bravely charge again Routs Essex's Life-guard whose Commander slain By Bennet was The Duke of Yorke's Brigade Led on by Leagure gallant service made Thus on the West of Newberry went the game ☞ But on the East the bold Essexians came With confidence and resolution on And noble Goring pressed sore upon Who did with courage no whit less oppose The numerous and as yet prevailing Foes Till on goes Cleaveland with his own Brigade And those insulting Foes to fly soon made In this same charge was Major Urry slain And Cleaveland's self that Noble Earl was tane ☞ Manchester's men this while on the North-East To Shaw-ward in this bloody fight the least Part had not mannag'd where Renowned Lisle Had bravely kept them Martial play this while Astley and Brown here service brave had done And had some Cannons from the Rebels wone Thus was this fight maintained in a round Till with dead corps that blood-ore-flowing ground Newberry on each side lay thick bespread And Kennets ruddy streams discoloured With several rivulets of crimson blood United and augmented to a flood Nor on the Day alone here did they fight But in loud Vollies fired all the night The Ecchoes of their thundering Guns loud cries In Doleful accents from those woods replies And neighboring vales tumult licentious rage Fills every place here armed Troops ingage There great Battailions of brave Infantry With Death-Defying magnanimity The Earth seem'd for to tremble and rebound Whereon the prauncing Horse did charge a wound Brainford receiv'd i' th' mouth Alford i' th' thigh Leagure and Leak stout Royalists here Dye Their honour lost in Cornwall to regain The Roundheads fight the Kings part to maintain Their Honour got the motives equal were Courage to breed and to exempt all fear ☞ A Cornish Foot man slipt and got a fall As hee was running nigh a Garden wall Even at that time that a thick flight of shot Came whistleing ore his head hee swore by Got That hee was slain and panting there hee said For Saints and Souls Desiring his Comrade Him there to Bury But to search his wound A Surgeon came behold none could be found They bid him rise and fight for nought him ail'd But all their words with him nothing prevail'd Rather said hee Inter mee here alive Then I should in such Dangerous times survive Cold grew his limbs his pulse beat weak his breath Fetch'd thick at length hee Dies for fear of Death ☞ Dubious as yet was victory whom to grace With her triumphant Palms for in one place The King prevails takes Cannon when hard by The like success attends the Enemy Here might you see some fly others pursue Fresh Horse advance those victors late subdue Both sides had Ensigns Cannons Prisoners tane Numbers of both parts on the field lay slain Dubious