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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92691	A true and exact relation of the taking of Colchester, sent in a letter from an officer of the Army, (who was present during the siege in that service,) to a Member of the House of Commons. VVith a list of the ordnance, arms, and of 3076. private souldiers there taken: also a list of the names of most of the officers of note, and an account of the cause of giving no quarter to Sir Charles Lucas, and Sir George Lyle.	T. S.	1648 (1648)	Wing S186; Thomason E461_24; ESTC R203705	4,072	8

the Gen. and Counsell of War in a speciall manner left them to the mercy of the Par. that the expectation of the people may be satisfied in the Parl. doing justice upon some a thing they have long look'd for all the rest who have likewise submitted to mercy are likewise left to the mercy of the Parliament if they think fit to proceed against them in a way of justice These men had not come to this sharpe accompt but that God had hardened their hearts which were full of bitterness of spirit against this handfull of men that did besiege them hoping according to Sir Anthony St. Legers Letter to one of the Captaines in Colchester to extirpate and destroy all those that were honest Christians under the notion of Independents c. The Town hath suffered aswell as the men being ruined in its buildings Provisions People Trade what faire streets are here of stately houses now laid in ashes How eminent are their graneries of Corne which before the enemies came exceeded all parts of England And their Cellers and storehouses of Wine and fruit where there was plenty before are empty now they who had houses to live in now live desolate for want of habitation and those who had formerly their tables furnished with variety of dishes besides their usuall dainties of Oysters and Ringo Roots have for a long time fed upon Horses Dogs and Cats Starch Bran and Graines and that with much greediness and many starved to death by hunger The cheife Minister of this place Mr. Harmar that not long before stirred up the people against the Army branding them with the names of Heretiques and Schismaticks and the people of the Towne who affronted and abused our souldiers when they quartered there now both Ministers and people have longed for their deliverance by the hands of those whom they so much dispised before What place in the Kingdome like this drove such a Trade with London in all the former Warres but since they Traded with Cavaliers and admitted them so freely into their Towne what place hath been more debarred thereof Let this be a warning to London how they imbrace those whom God fights against and how they hereafter cast off those whom God ownes If it be asked why the L. Goring c. held out so long it is answered as some of their party have confessed that they did it to the end th● Parliament might be cudgelled with a Reformado party and that the Generall and those Forces with him might be here so engaged as not to be able to resist the Kings friends from risiing in a body in any part of the Kingdome And if it be wondered why we lay so long before that place I can only offer this as my owne observation that we were too few to storm the place they being between five and six thousand when we sate downe before it and we but 1500. foot of the Army besides part of two Regiments of the Essex Trained-bands our strength was better in horse and besides it was held a thing advisable since we had an enemy rather to tempt him to stay at such a distance as this is from London then to follow them and be far off and so unable to helpe the Parlia if they stood in need and besides the souldiers being kept in continuall action in making of works and approaches would keep them more in health and make them better souldiers and our Army now at present is stronger then when we at first sate down before this place The like Line Regular works Fortifications and Approaches have not been made in any part of the Kingdome since the first warres began There were taken in Town 26. pieces of Ordnance great and small about five thousand Arms many of them broken three thousand sixty and seven private souldiers and of Officers above three hundred I am not prepared to give you a particular of the severall persons only of some of the remarkable of them viz. The Earl of Norwich Lord Capell Sir Charles Lucas The Lord Louborough Col. Sir VVilliam Compton Sir George Lyle Col. Sir Bernard Gascoign Sir Abraham Skipman Colonell William Maxey Colonel Sir Hugh Orelie Colonel Farre Colonel Ayloff Colonel Bard. Colonel Hamond Colonel Till Colonel Heath Colonel Tewk Colonel Chester Colonel Gilburt Colonel Culpepper Sir Henry Appleton Sir Richard Mauleverer Sir Lodowick Dyer Colonel Sayer Colonel Slingsbie Colonel Sir Charles Hastings Colonel Lancaster And divers other Knights and Colonels Lieutenant Colonels and Majors Gentlemen of quality and Reformado Officers 183. Colonel Cook Col. Sir William Campion Lieutenant Col. Hatcher Major Sturt and others of quality slain in the fight the first day and during the Siege T. S. FINIS