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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85627	A great victory God hath vouchsafed by the Lord Generall Cromwels forces against the Scots. Certifyed by several letters from Scotland. Relating the entring of part of the English army into Fife. 2000 of the Scots slaine. With a list of the particulars of the great and glorious successe therein. And the taking of Callender house by storme. Together with a letter from the Lord Generall to the Right Honourable William Lenthal Speaker of Parliament. Imprimatur Hen. Scobel Cleric. Parliamenti.		1651 (1651)	Wing G1766; Thomason E638_2; ESTC R30133	4,833	8

❧ A Great Victory GOD Hath Vouchsafed by the Lord Generall CROMWELS Forces against the SCOTS CERTIFYED By several Letters from Scotland RELATING The entring of part of the English Army into Fife 2000 of the Scots slaine With a List of the particulars of the great and glorious Successe therein And the taking of Callender house by storme Together with A Letter from the Lord Generall to the Right Honourable WILLIAM LENTHAL Speaker of the Parliament Imprimatur Hen. Scobel Cleric Parliamenti LONDON Printed for Robert Ibbitson dwelling in Smithfield neere Hosier Lane end 1651. Deer Brother WE now lye close to the Enemy who hath so intrenched himself that it doth not appear to us yet how to attempt him Wee have by the blessing of the Lord on Thursday last landed about 14 or 1500 men at th● North-Ferry in Fife and have drawn a line crosse the Isthmos of the land to which a way is made in 24 houres to transport our Army if it be faire Our men took about 7 ships laden with Salt and Coale upon the place and neer 20 peece of Cannon the Major General is gone thither with about 1600 Foot and 1200 Horse I have sent to him about 1000 Horse and Foot more so that with what he hath there to defend the works I hops besides hee will bee able to take the field with 5000 Horse and Foot Maj. Gen. Harison came up very seasonably with Ingoldsbys Regiment and three Companies more and about 1200 Horse and Dragoons which truly we judge to be a seasonable providence considering we must now divide he being very near Edenburgh that day we tooke the said place We shall consider which way to dispose of the rest of his Forces and I thinke it will be fit the Lord having led by his Providence to follow it close We lost Newarke for want of ships in Dunbarton-Firth they taking it by the help of a ship with her Canon after we had held it three dayes Gen Dean● having Ordered two men of War to go from Leith about Scotland thither our men had good Quarter whiles they were doing this we took Callender house in the view of their whole Army by storme without the losse of above five men Honoured Sir I Received yours of July 12. and communicated to my Lord what was not in yours to him Being returned to our old Quarters neare Falkirke on the fourteenth day of July we battered and then stormed Calander House within two miles of the Enemies whole Camp which was at Torwood five miles from Sterling we twice offered them that kept it mercy to surrender it but they refused they killed us a Captaine who was only a looker on and likewise our Master Gunner we tooke it the same day we began to batter it by storme and our Men put sixty in the House to the Sword some others dyed of Wounds and about sixteen being wounded had their lives the House is very strong with a Moate about it and a great Wood by it It hath devoured many of our men and God hath now requited them their great Army never offered to send man to their releife such stout men are the Scotch Boasters The same day at night we sent a Party in Boates and Ships over the Fryth from Blacknesse to surprize North-ferry on Fife side at the first we sent one thousand four hundred Foot and two hundred Horse and one Troop of Dragoons it pleased the Lord to goe along with them so as within two houres after their landing they tooke the place called North-ferry which is a Peninsula in which was a Fort with five great Guns and in a Bay neare it four ships laden with Coales and Salt in some other Forts neare it we tooke as many Ordnance as made up those five to be seventeen which were planted by the Fyrth side to gall our ships this North-ferry is even against the strong Island of Enisgarvy we have sent over the sixteen and seventeen dayes of July five hundred Foot more and five Troops of Dragoons if by the Lords mercy we can make this place good Enisgarvy must yeeld for want of fresh water and then we have a brave way to possesse our whole Army into Fife if we see occasion I hope the Lord hath now begun to worke for us to purpose the Lord give us humble and beleeving hearts and I feare not but the Lord will soone bring downe the hearts of our proud and cruell Enemies and make a gracious returne to the earnest prayers of his people At Glascoe we found some good people fully owning us and disowning their Lords and Ministers The Ministers that are good are as yet upon a Reserve to see what Game they can play with us after the Malignants be downe thus farre some owned us as they were content to dispute no more about this invasion only they desire a little better to know us as to our Religion I suppose if the Lord please to give our Enemies into our hands we shall have the best Party here not only to joyne with us but to rejoyce with us who finde they have already had too much King The North-ferry is ours against Queenes-ferry neare Blacknesse and Enisgarvy is betwixt them The Lords dispensation against this people is exceeding severe where our Army goeth though we doe what we can to restraine straglers yet very little is lost either within doores or without that were not the people exceeding cruell to us our compassions of their miseries would not suffer our hearts to be any day without pangs of sadnesse who can see nothing but a present and perfect Famine to follow us in two or three dayes we make large Corn fields to become a Heath and the Enemy eats almost as fast as we O that our malignant Capon-eaters were but here to see the price of the Scotch lust after a King and what desolations are like to be the fruit of his entertainment We hope the Lord in mercy will shorten these Wars to preserve food for a Remnant we are now in daily expectation of Gods gracious appearance with us to drive them out of their Holes and to make them fight or fly help us with prayers July 19. from the Camp neare Falkirk Your affectionate Cousen W. G. We lye within a mile and a halfe of the Enemy and view one another every day but can neither come at them nor come betwixt Sterling and them but I hope now we have got a back doore in Fife Truly Honourable YOu must not expect from me an account of passages in the Army having been wholy with that party that entered Fife neither was I able by the last having scarse been master of a moments time to eat or sleepe Truly the Lord is now breaking out of the Clouds in his brightnesse and experimenting us as of his love and continued presence with us so that his time and way of the Discoverie thereof is the best how were we tugging these ten Moneths and still reaped