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A74431	An act for setting apart Friday the four and twentieth day of October, one thousand six hundred fifty one, for a day of publique thanksgiving: together with a narrative declaring the grounds and reasons thereof. Friday the 26th of September, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act and narrative be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Thomason E1061_57; ESTC R209324	6,863	13

AN ACT FOR Setting apart Friday the Four and twentieth Day of October One thousand six hundred fifty one For a Day of Publique Thanksgiving Together with a NARRATIVE DECLARING The Grounds and Reasons thereof Friday the 26th of September 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act and Narrative be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1651. AN ACT For setting apart Friday the Four and twentieth Day of October 1651. FOR A Day of Publike Thanksgiving Together with a NARRATIVE DECLARING The Grounds and Reasons thereof THe Works of Providence by which the Lord hath pleaded the Cause of this Parliament and Commonwealth in the sight of the Nations round about are Glorious and will be sought out by all those that have pleasure in them and therefore must not pass under the common Title of Events and Chances of War The Lord having so done this marvellous Work for Time and Place with a Concurrence of all other remarkable Circumstances That it ought to be had in Everlasting Remembrance both by our Selves and by the Generations which shall be born as will eminently and convincingly appear by this brief ensuing Narrative AFter the Lord the Great and Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth was pleased so Signally to bear Witness to the Justice and Necessity of our Armies marching into Scotland by giving Sentence when Solemn Appeals were made unto him by both Parties on our side in that glorious Victory vouchsafed unto our Army the Third day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty against the Scots near Dunbar The same Divine Providence led on our Forces there to the gaining of many Towns and Garisons and in particular Leith Edinburgh and not long after the Castle there though in the Esteem of the Enemy impregnable But the Enemy not resting in that decision did reinforce themselves and relying on the advantage of the Town and Pass at Sterling and other Intrenchments would by no Provocation or Endeavors on our part used be drawn forth to an Engagement though our Forces faced them up to their Works when the Scots as some of themselves have since confessed were Twenty seven thousand and ours nothing near that number suffering a strong Garison of theirs to be stormed and taken within the view of their Camp without once offering to relieve it The Consideration hereof and of the Charge and Difficulties of a Winters War which the Enemy seemed chiefly to Design and might the better effect whiles they had Sterling and thereby the Command of the rich Country of Fife at hand to Quarter their Forces in and by means of St. Johnstons a second Pass the whole North of Scotland to furnish them with Recruits of Men and Supplies of all Provisions and likewise many Sea Ports to let in Forreign Assistance produced a Resolution to put over a Force into Fife notwithstanding all Hazards to straiten their Quarters and hinder their Supplies Which Attempt the Lord was pleased to Crown not onely by giving us speedy and happy Footing but a notable Victory to that part of our Army commanded by the Major General over the Forces of the Enemy whereof the greatest number were a commanded Party of their choice Men out of their whole Army In which Defeat near One thousand five hundred were taken Prisoners together with Sir John Brown their Commander in Chief and the greatest part of the residue slain Forty two Colours taken and all this which made the Mercy the more remarkable with the loss onely of Four of our Men slain on the place and some wounded About this very time the General marched up near Sterling to engage the Enemy who having quitted their Camp at Torwood were march'd through Sterling Sixteen Miles toward our Forces in Fife And finding the Enemy would not Engage having disposed on this side the River such Force as could well be spared to hinder the Enemies Levies and Provisions or if they should Advance for England to be upon our Borders and to joyn with other Parties there in Readiness to retard their March The General Remarch'd to the South-Ferry and Landed the Residue of his Army in Fife upon which the strong Castle of Enisgarvy in the Middle of the River with Sixteen Pieces of Canon and Brunt-Island were Surrendred and the Army marcht forthwith towards St. Johnstons The Enemy being thereby awakened sent a Party of about One thousand Foot with a Governor into St. Johnstons who arrived there Two hours before the General sate down with the Army And finding by this Interposition his Northern Supplies cut off marcht directly for England with an Army of Sixteen thousand Horse and Foot and a Light Train of Artillery being come near Carlile their King caused himself to be Proclaimed King of England and sending out his Declarations full of fair Promises to all that should come in to him or not oppose him marched forward being attended in his Motions by some of our Horse The General St. Johnstons being Surrendred leaving a Garison there and about Seven thousand Horse and Foot under the Command of the Lieutenant General of the Ordinance for reducing the Castle of Sterling and other Garisons and preventing any Levies by the Enemy with the rest of the Army came back for Lieth and the same day sent away Five Regiments of Horse and Dragoons to fall into the Rear of the Enemy whiles himself with the rest of his Horse his Body of Foot and Train of Artillery Advanced after with all possible speed towards England The Enemy being come to Warrington and attempting the Pass there our Forces who a day or two before were joyned and got into his Van thought not fit long to Dispute it in respect the River was in many places Fordable the Lands and Inclosures inconvenient for the Horse and the Foot whom they found at the Bridge though full of Courage and desirous to Engage no way proportionable to the Enemies great numbers the General also being at that time about Four days March off them but marched off to Knotsford Heath where in the way the Enemy twice Charging our Rear-gard was beaten back with the loss of about Thirty of theirs slain and taken Prisoners we not losing above Three or four in the March and at the Pass On that Heath our Forces drew up in a Posture to receive and fight the Enemy but he declined it and marcht to Nantwich In their passage through Lancashire the Enemy had left the Earl of Derby with Three hundred Foot and a Troop of Horse which he brought from the Isle of Man together with Sir William Widderington Sir William Throckmorton Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh Major General Sir Thomas Tildsey Colonel Boynton with many Commanders and other Gentlemen of quality to raise Six thousand Foot and One thousand five hundred Horse in that County as an Additional Strength to their Army Major General Massey being also left with him to assist that Work

River Severn with Musqueteers to oppose our Advance The General commanded some Forces over Severn towards the Enemy whiles others were sent over Teame to the same ground the Enemies Foot with some difficulty were beaten from the Hedges which they for some time disputed and were at length driven back to the Body of their Horse and Foot which was then drawn up in Wickfield near Poyick Bridge being the same Field where the late king first engaged the Forces of the Parliament in the same moneth of September One thousand six hundred forty two Our horse and Foot marched up with great resolution to the Enemies Body and came to push of Pike with them and through the Goodness of God drove back and wholly routed them killing many upon the place and pursuing the rest to the Draw-bridge and Gate of the City Whiles this was in action some Horse and Dragoons sent to a Pass over Teame about two Miles above Poyck Bridge which the Enemy had broken down gained that Ford where our Horse passed over and pursued such of the Enemies Horse as could not get into the Town and secured that Bridge at the West-gate that none might escape that way The greatest part of our Army was now drawn over to the west of Severn where it was conceived the Stress of the Battel would be which the Enemy perceiving and supposing them too far engaged to get back over the Bridge of Boats that night he poured forth at the several Gates of the City all his Horse and Foot upon that part of our Forces left on the East side of the River which being seasonably discovered our General himself hastened back to that part of the Army which the Enemy presently charged with good Resolution yet through the good hand of our God upon that part of the Army after about two hours sharp Dispute they were beaten back into the Town and our men passing by their great Fort and Canon entred the Town with the Enemy whiles others of our Forces ran up and stormed the Royal Fort it self possessed themselves of it turning the Canon upon the Enemy The Scotch King having in vain used all Endeavors to make the Horse and Foot in the Town face about for Defence thereof fled away and about Three thousand Horse and some High-land Foot leaving the rest in the Town fled towards Bewdley whether the General sent the day before One thousand Horse and Dragoons to secure that Pass who took more Prisoners then themselves were in number and many of those who escaped them and the Horse sent in their Pursuit were met with by other of the Army and Countrey Forces Expresses being the same night the Battel was fought sent into all the Northern Counties and Scotland giving notice of the Successes so as they were gathered up by Hundreds and Fifties that very few of those who fled from Worcester escaped Thus was our gracious God pleased to appear as The Lord of Hosts which was our Word in this and the Battel at Dunbar with and for his People in destroying this desperate and insolent Enemy and working a glorious salvation for us Of the Enemy which were about Sixteen thousand Horse and Foot there were slain in and about Worcester and in the Pursuit about Three thousand The Prisoners taken in the Town and in their Flight about Twelve thousand amongst whom were Duke Hamilton the Earls of Derby Cleveland Rothes Lauderdale Kinmore the Lords Montgomery Peasly Cranston Grandison with many other persons of quality as also David Lesley Lieutenant General of their Army Lieutenant General Middleton Major General Massey and divers other General Officers besides Seven hundred other Officers above an hundred Colours with all their Arms Artillery Bag and Baggage and all this with the loss of about Two hundred of our men whereof but Three Commission Officers and about Three hundred of our Soldiers wounded THe Parliament taking the Premises into their serious consideration and being exceedingly affected with the glorious Appearances of God for them and for all the good People throughout England Ireland and Scotland in vouchsafing these wonderful and unparalled Successes and Victories to their Armies and Forces wherein the forwardness of the Counties to send out their respective Militia's and the Courage and Resolution of their Soldiers expressed in this Service by owning this Cause and present Government against the Common Enemy is a Mercy greatly to be acknowledged by us and receive a lasting Memorial Have thought fit to Enact and Ordain and be it Enacted and Ordained That Friday the Four and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred fifty one be observed and kept as a day of Publique and Holy Rejoycing and Thanksgiving unto the Lord in all the Churches and Chappels and Places of Divine Worship within England and also in Ireland and Scotland And that the Ministers of the respective Parishes and Places within this Commonwealth be and are hereby required and enjoyned to give notice on the Lords-day next preceding the said Four and twentieth day of October of the day so to be observed to the end the People may more Generally and Diligently attend the Publique Exercises of Gods Worship to be Dispensed upon that occasion at which time that the People may be the more particularly and fully informed of this great Mercy The said Ministers are hereby required and enjoyned to publish and reade this present Act and Declaration and for the better Observation of the day The Parliament doth hereby inhibit and forbid the holding and use of all Fairs Markets and servile works of mens ordinary Callings upon that day and all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Constables and other Officers be and are hereby enioyned to take special care of the due Observation of the said day of Thanksgiving accordingly Friday the 26th of September 1651. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act and Narrative be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti