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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92379	A relation of the taking of Cicester in the county of Glocester, on Thursday, Febru. 2. 1642. By 7000. of the cavaliers, under the command of Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, the Earles of Northampton, Carnarvon, Denbigh, and Cleveland, the Lord Digby, Lord Andevour, Lord Wentworth, Lord Taffe, Lord Dillon, Lieutenant Generall Willmot, Sir John Byron, Colonell Gerrard, Colonell Kyrke, Colonell Dutton, and Captaine Legge, and divers others. Sent to a friend in London, by one who was present at, and some dayes after the taking of it. Published because of the many false reports that were in print concerning that businesse.	One who was present at, and some dayes after the taking of it.	1643 (1643)	Wing R875; Thomason E90_7; ESTC R19910	5,969	8

A RELATION OF THE TAKING OF CICESTER IN THE COVNTY OF GLOCESTER On Thursday Febru 2. 1642. By 7000. of the Cavaliers under the command of Prince Rupert Prince Maurice the Earles of Northampton Carnarvon Denbigh and Cleveland the Lord Digby Lord Andevour Lord Wentworth Lord Taffe Lord Dillon Lieutenant Generall Willmot Sir John Byron Colonell Gerrard Colonell Kyrke Colonell Dutton and Captaine Legge and divers others Sent to a friend in London by one who was present at and some dayes after the taking of it Published because of the many false reports that were in Print concerning that businesse Feb 20th Printed at London 1642. A Realtion of the taking of CICESTER in the County of GLOCESTER on Thursday February 2. 1642. SIR I Shall indeavour to give you a birefe and true account of the state of the miserable Towne of Cicester in the County of Glocester from the first troubles to the taking of it and doe request you to acquaint those Parliament men you have interest in what we have suffered for desiring to stand and fall with them not doubting but they will so resent our sufferings that they will expedite such succours into our County as may relieve Glocester and procure some little refreshment to the poore Towne of Cicester and our wasted County adjoyning Our greatest enemies from the first have beene our owne Countreymen our first troubles beganne about August last when the Lord Chandoys having accepted from the Parliament the charge of being Lord Lieutenant of our County and betraying both his Countrey and his trust attempted to execute the Commission of Array and to that purpose summoned all the Gentry of our County to meete his Lordship at Cicester but what entertainment he and his Array-men had there I presume you know having heard how the Lord Chandoys hardly escaped from being taken prisoner by the Countrey that rose in Armes to resist his illegall Commission and how the next morning after his escape the surious people hewed his Lordships Coach in peeces which he had left behinde him so much they abhorred to be betraied to slavery by one of their owne Countrey Hereupon Cicester though the Townsmen were a meanes to save the Lord Chandoys life who else might have beene torne in peeces by some of the inraged Countrey people was much threatned with fire and sword and indeed so was the whole Countrey for resisting the Commission of Array and it was thought fit by the Deputy Lieutenants of our County that a Garrison should be kept in Cicester it being alwayes feared that that Towne would be the first attempted in the County of Glocester Thus we continued in Armes not doing or suffering much till January onely the Cavaliers when they came within twelve miles of us to Burford were twice beaten out of their Quarters there by some parties that went out from our Garrison of Cicester we being very impatient of such bad neighbours On Saturday the last of December the Lord Marquesse Hartford with his Welsh Regiments and Sir John Beaumont with his forces came up from Worcester to the Towne of Stow in our County and on Tuesday following marched thence to Burford where finding his entertainment scanty his Lordship presently repaired to the King at Oxford and there advised his Majesty that unlesse he might have contribution and Quarter for his Army in Glocestershire and Wiltshire which he affirmed would never be had till the Town of Cicester was taken they could not long subsist the stores of all places where they were masters being neare spent and exhausted His Lordship also with much confidence offered his Majesty that he would take the Towne if he might be assisted with some great horse and Dragoones hereupon as he desired a Commission was granted to him and Prince Rupert with two Regiments of horse and one of Dragoones and Prince Maurice with all his horse and Dragoones was sent to aid him In pursuance whereof his Lordship with his Army as some of their owne reported to the number of 6000. horse and foote upon Saturday the seventh of January about noone drew up his Forces almost round about the Towne and where they made their first stand they made a pause for above two houres in which time they onely sent out scouts to view our Guards then summoned those in the Town in the name of Marquesse Hartford Lord Generall of those Forces by a Trumpet to deliver up the Towne and Armes to his Lordship upon promise of his Majesties free pardon for all by-gone offences with assurance of safety of their persons and estates which if it were refused no mercy might be expected Before the first Trumpet was dispatched a second came in the name of Prince Rupert with the same message in effect adding onely That they came to vindicate and maintaine the Kings Rights and Prerogative The answer returned to both was the same and in substance this We doe heartily acknowledge and professe our selves to be his Majesties loyall and faithfull Subjects and shall be ever as ready with our lives and fortunes to maintaine his just Rights and Prerogatives as they were or the best of his Majesties Subjects and as we are so we ought likewise to enjoy his Majesties peace and the just Rights and Liberties of the Subjects of England according to the Lawes of the Land in defence whereof and the true Protestant Religion onely we stand to our Armes and are resolved with Gods assistance to defend them with our estates and lives This answer being returned the enemy kept their stand on all sides untill it beganne to grow darke and then it pleased God of his meere mercy so to discourage them that they all retreated to their night Quarters in the Villages round about where they did eate up all the provision of victuall and spoyled much Corne and Hay The next morning they onely shewed themselves before the Towne and so departed without making one shot at it Prince Rupert and his Troopes to Oxford Prince Maurice to his Quarters at Farrington and Marquesse Hartford and his Forces to Burford and the Villages adjoyning While they lay before the Towne our Forces tooke Master John Villiers prisoner who was Brother to the Lord Grandison and Captaine of a company of Dragoones and is still in prison at Gloeester when they went away they tooke with them all the horses of the Villages round about us and did threaten a sudden returne with more force and as much fury and revenge as they could send to us with the best Cannon they could bring So we waited a fortnight for the returne of the enemy who we heard was marched into Northamptonshire and in the meane time our Garrison was increased and the Towne better fortified on all sides and we had foure great Iron peeces sent from Bristoll besides two Brasse peeces we had before from Glocester On Thursday January 26. a party from Cicester of some foure or five hundred great horse and Dragoones who were to meete with more