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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

counsell as they report of four or five Priests and Jesui●es and other great Papists whom they had at hand in a tythe Barn Till Sun-setting both sides plaid fiercely but then taking advantage of the darknesse they fled in fear and over-run their great Pieces trusting more to the night for protection than to their own courage or strengh The seventh and eight of February were devoted to God in Fasting and Prayer in Manchester to succeed our Forces that were upon their march The first day was spent and gave strength to our men to march all night Preston and to set upon Preston by break of day the next mornidg the second day of fasting when some of our men soon advantaged themselves by taking of Rible-Bridge and with unspeakable courage set upon the Town well fortified and manned which God gave them in two hours as a present return of prayers Such courage was raised in the Souldiers that they dared to take hold of their enemies Musquets put thorow the Loop-holes as if the miracle of mercy had been again revived Psalme 91.19 Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder And when the Pikes kept them off from the Mud-walls yet by breaking thorow an house some twenty entred the Towne which small number drew down a Troop of Horse to take a Prey But Moses Aaron and Hur being on the top of the hill whilest Joshua was fighting in the Valley the Captaine of the horse was killed and the Troop scattered Then came up the rest of our men killed the Major and some others chased the Enemy and commanded the Towne Here Divine Providence took a noble Captain off his feet before the dangerous discharge of a Bullet he stood not to fall but fell to rise We lost few men in this dangerous assault took store of prisoners and Armes and came in the nick of time to relieve the well-affected in Preston and thereabouts upon whom the Array were prepared to impose an Oath and heavy Taxations This prey God plucked out of the teeth of the Lion and paw of the Bear Haughton Tower It was not long after that this glorious victory was clouded by a dark and terrible blow at Haughton Tower where the miscarriages of great and small in the taking of Preston did us more mischief than all our enemies from the entrance of our hostility to that time as sometimes Israels sin thorow Balaams counsell prevailed to punish them more than Warre or Witchcraft Our men going down to take the Tower and finding it prepared for entrance possessed themselves of it till being burdened with the weight of their swearing drunkennesse plundering and wilfull waste at Preston it dispossessed them by the help of Powder to which their disorders laid a Train fired by their neglected Matches or by that great Souldiers Idoll Tobacco However it was sure it is that the place so firmely united chose rather to be torn in pieces then to harbour the possessours O that this thundering Alarm might ever sound in the eares of our Swearing Cursing Drunken Tobacco-abusing Commanders and Souldiers unto unfaigned Repentance For do they think that those upon whom the Tower fell and slew them were sinners above the rest of the Army Let Christ that asked a like question Luke 13.4 5. give the Answer I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish In the day when the Lord visiteth he will visit their sins upon them Exod. 32.34 Though our sinnes thus clouded our Sun in the cleare day yet was not the praise of Gods glorious goodnesse and power to be darkned but to be held forth two severall dayes to hold proportion with the time of our humiliation which if I mistake not was done The latter day of thanksgiving was at Manchester the sixteenth of February the unhappy time that the Earle chose to recover his Prestor-losses in the gaining of poore and pious Bolton which would have been a back-door to Manchester The relation of that businesse stands thus Boltons first assault THe Earles Major Generall with about one thousand Horse and Foot Marched towards Bolton surprized their Scouts in the way and discovered themselves to be within a mile of the Town about nine of the clocke little suspecting that the Bolton Souldiers were that while at Prayer in the Church nor the Souldiers knowing what need they had by Prayer to prepare for Fight Had they presently come down upon the Towne they had taken them unprovided of Ammunition But fetching a compasse that they might come on in a more ominous way by Great-L●aver the Bishops house the Souldiers were furnished to resist The assault was fierce and threatning the Out-works outed our men to entertain the Enemy who stayed not there but followed to the Town fired an house neer the Sentinell wherein the winde served them to carry the smoke upon us But God presently commanded the winde to blow from another point to darken and smother the fire-kindlers Then the Enemy tooke an house that joyned to the Mud-Wall and had Windows above it which gave them advantage to beat our men from the Wall and a Stable that opened into the Street whence they shot the Major through the Arme and had Commission to kill his Horse but to save him This doore they opened to enter but God so faced and feared them by our men that they turned their backs and shut the doore found passage out and place for retreat Whilest the Fight lasted the vapouring Horse prevented assistance so that they compassed the people of God a●out yea They compassed th m about but in the Name of the Lord they did destroy them Psal 118.11 Whilest Gods people at Manch●ster did Sing and Praise the Lord set ambushments against their enemies at Bolton and They were smitten 2. Chron. 20.21 22. Here the Canons roared often but still played childrens play for they mortally bit but one lad r●ported to be of their own side Hither their wittie malice brought a new-invented mischievous Instrument which received this description at Bolton An head about a quarter of a yard long a staffe of two yards long or more put into that head twelve i●on pikes round about and one in the end to stab with This fierce Weapon to double their scorn they called A Round-head But no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Isaiah 54.17 Lancaster THe report of our taking in of Preston flew to Lancaster and prepared the Towne and Castle for our entrance Thither was sent a company of Foot and a Troope of Horse to take possession This new and enlarged possession was inriched honoured and secured by the God of the sea who had provided for our welcome The ship laden with great pieces and Warlike entertainment a Dunkirke Ship a man of War that came from Spain furnished with 21 Peeces of big Brasse and Iron Ordnance fit to supply the Castle and fortifie other Garrisons Desire to see this Forreiner and care to secure this captivity led some