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lord_n	earl_n	london_n	sir_n	15,340	5	6.1424	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74778	Sir VVillam [sic] Balfores letter of March 30. 1644. to His Excellency the Earl of Essex Ld Generall· It is his Exellencies pleasure that this letter be forth-with printed. Jo. Baldwin secretary to his Excellency.	Balfour, William, Sir, d. 1660.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1644 (1644)	Thomason E40_13; ESTC R3423	1,147	8

Sir Willam Balfores LETTER of March 30. 1644. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Earl of Essex L d GENERALL It is his Excellencies pleasure that this Letter be forth-with Printed Jo. Baldwin Secretary to his Excellency LONDON Printed for Laurance Blaiklock 1644. Sir Will. Balfores LETTER of March 30. 1644. To His EXCELLENCY the Earle of Essex Lord GENERALL May it please Your Excellency BEcause of our being constrain'd these nights by past to want sleepe and this last night Horse and Man to lye upon the heath betwixt Alford and Winchester and all this da● in like manner spent upon the fields before Winchester so that being drowsie for want of sleepe I shall beg leave of your Excellency for using a short discourse for the present to let your Excell know That it hath pleased Almighty God to grant us a great Victory over our enemies beyond all expectation VVe having taken a resolution by reason of your Excellencies and the Committee of both Kingdomes commandments to be wary and cautious to engage our selves in a fight with the enemy but upon advantage Yet wee finding them resolved to put us to it on Friday the 29 of this instant by their bringing their whole Army upon us to beate out first some Musquetiers out of the hedges a pretty distance from our quarters and thereafter to Allarm our quarters I caused all our Horse to draw out in a little Heath before our quarters and the Foot to be drawn up in Battell in a large spacious field within our quarters in a Heath The enemy coming towards us were received with such dexterity valor that it pleased Almighty God after a long cumbate all the day long from nine a clock in the morning to night to give us an unexpected great Victory by beating both their Horse and Foote out of the Heath before our quarters and following the victory not onely to their quarters but put them by Alford and followed them within 4. miles of Winchester their whole body of foot which they have beene so long a composing I assure your Excellency totally routed so broken that Hopton cannot make up his Foote Army I am confident most part of this summer their Foote were so dispersed up and downe through all the fields that they sweare they will never serve againe The Lord John brother to the D. of Richmond who commanded their Horse is killed for certain with many Officers as Col. Butler Col. Gray and others Sir John Smith Cary with Stovell dangerously wounded who is also our prisoner Col. Peard and Seamore and 5. or 6. more Commanders prisoners and as many ordinary souldiers as we desired to take Of ours onely Col. Meldrum shot in his arme and wounded in the head but not dangerously or mortall Major Bozwell also wounded in the belly that he cannot live So that all agrees that there was never so great a Victory neither so few slain men the enemies Horse held up the Foot and made them stand to it and fight by force beating and cutting them with their swords VVe are more then obliged to our good God for so great a Victory God make us thankfull for it March 30. at 2. a clock in the morning Your Excellencies most humble Servant W. Balfore Generall Ruthen was in the fight and as is reported wounded