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A91816	The rider of the vvhite horse and his army, their late good successe in Yorre-shiere [sic], or, A true and faithfull relation of that famous and wonderfull victory at Bradford, obtained by the club-men there, with all the circumstances thereof. And of the taking of Leeds and Wakefield by the same men under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, with the manner and circumstances thereof from good hands. Seriously commended to the high court of Parliament, and all that are of God's side for their incouragement.		1643 (1643)	Wing R1447; Thomason E88_23; ESTC R22370	8,043	11

THE RIDER OF THE WHITE HORSE And His ARMY Their late good Successe in YORRE-SHIERE OR A true and faithfull Relation of that famous and wonderfull victory at Bradford obtained by the Club-men there with all the circumstances thereof And of the taking of Leeds and Wakefield by the same men under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax with the manner and circumstances thereof from good hands Seriously commended to the High Court of PARLIAMENT and all that are of GODS side for their incouragement LONDON Printed for Thomas Vnderhill 1643. BRADFORDS Deliverance AFter the Lord Fairfax his Excellency had retired from Tadcaster the Lord of New-castle possessed himselfe of Pontefract so making himselfe Master of our Westerne parts block't up all passages betweene us and our strength and then manifested his resolutions to sesse the whole County but to exact extraordinary summes of those who had subscribed the Parliaments Propositions We could expect nothing now but that those Townes should first suffer who had bin most forward to assist the Parliament Leeds Bradford and Halifax were principally aimed at In Leeds the malignant humour being predominant easily converted the Towne into their temper Bradford was the next place in their way the Towne most unable to resist them and indeed who ever considers their dangers weaknesse and discouragements must judge their attempt as worthy admiration as their successe The maine body of the Popish Army was within a dayes march of Bradford some amongst them grievously exasperated by a dishonourable repulse from this Towne not long before So farre were we from expecting help from the Lord Fairfax as we thought it scarce possible to seeke it Our malignant spirits before charmed now appeared breathing forth nothing but threatnings against those who had bin most active for the Parliament and their apparition was so terrible as it affrighted many of the best affected persons out of the Towne and thereupon out goes our Royalists to bring in the Kings Catholick Army Some religious persons in the Parish considering what danger might result both to their consciences and Country from such cowardize and treachery instigated by feare of perjury if they should contribute any assistance against the Parliament and care of their lives and Estates evidently endangered by a bare refusall without resistance resolved to stand upon then guard invited all the well affected in the Parish to assist them and entred the Towne When our Malignants were returned with a Letter from Sir William Savile wherein he manifested an intention to burne and plunder if we did not contribute to the maintenance of the Popish Army To which no other answer was return'd then the apprehension of those who brought it and had subscribed it All couragious attempts yea desperate in the account of many who saw neither wisedome nor strength sufficient to manage them There wanted both the head body and sinewes of warre we had never a Gentleman in the Parish to command us nor would any stranger be perswaded to undertake the charge All our trained Souldiers with their Armes were with the Lord Fairfax and the most of those who were fitted for service as voluntiers Nor could it be expected that the well affected of our poore Parish could pay a Garrison any long time and none would carry one day without pay Our neighbours perceived this and therefore judging our attempt desperate as in the eye of reason it was and fearing the issue would be our ruine refused to helpe us least they should perish with us Nor wanted we discouragements from our own men to instance in no more the very night before the Enemy assaulted us the greatest part of them left us This was on Saturday Decemb 17. The next morning about 9 of the Clock the Enemy was discovered approaching the East end of the Towne They were marshald in two Bodies the Van was commanded by Collonel Evers eldest Sonne to the Lord Evers wherein were 3 Troopes of Horse 2 Companies of Dragooners 100 Foot 20 Pyoni●rs 2 Drakes the traine of Artillery commanded by Major Carew a Dutch man The Re●e was commanded by Sir Francis Howard wherein were his own and Captaine Hiliards Troops 6 Companies of Collonel Eddringtons Dragooners and a 100 Foote Collonel Goring came along with them and some say the Earle of Newport but whether they had any charge or no in this expedition I heare not All these our York-shiere Gentlemen had procured of the Lord of New castle as though Sir William Savils Regiment Sir Marmaduke Langdale Sir Thomas Gleman and Sir Iohn Gothericks Troopes Sir Ingram Hopton Captain Nevill Captaine Batt Captaine Bins Companies had not bin sufficient to have swallowed our despicable Towne I should now shew how our men were marshald but 't is a hard matter to marshall those who had neither Commanders Collours nor distinct Companies The night before we had borrowed a Commander of Hallifax wee had neere upon 40 Musquets and Calievers in Towne about 30 Fowling Birding and smaller Peeces and well nigh twice as many Club men These our Captaine disposed in severall parts of the Towne 10 or 12 of your best marks men upon the Steeple and some in the Church Who being next the Enemy awaited not their warning peece but at the first fight gave fire upon them bravely The Enemy who expected a surrender rather then resistance being herewith something daunted and perceiving how advantagious the Steeple was to us presently possest themselves of some Houses not farre from the Church very convenient for the shelter of their men and planting of their Ordnance and from thence sent out Sir Iohn Gothericks Troope who partly to divert us from hindring them planting their Canon and partly to hinder the Parish from comming in to our aid past through some Parish villages on the one side of the Towne robbed a Woman most cowardly slew two naked Men and so came within fight of our Sentinell at the West end of the Towne Our Musquetiers there discharged at them shot 2 or 3 Horses whereof one of them lightly wounded was brought into Towne and in a short space partly by our shot partly by the approach of some Club-men from Bingley they were forced to retire back to their strength In the meane time their Canons were planted in places most convenient for battering the Steeple which did most annoy them and scowring of Kirkgate downe which our men must upon necessity march to resist them This done Major Carew draws down some Foot and therewith takes two Houses within 30 yards of the Church and this he did without any other impeachment then from the Steeple Wee having not any strength to sally out upon them from these Houses they plaid upon the Church very hotly and the Church upon them Our Steeple had a notable advantage of them which our Musquitiers there especially improved against them for when any Buffe or skarlet Coat appeared they laid 2 or 3 of their Peeces in one hole and discharged at once upon them with good

successe and thereby deterred the rest from relieving their men in the Houses and thus they continued till high-noone about which time there came to our aid from Hallifax some Fire-men and many Clubbs such of these as came to fight were forthwith drawne downe to service some of them were placed in the Church others in Lanes neare the fore-said Houses The Church and Lanes kept the Houses in play and the Steeple hindred the Enemy from relieving the Houses But this was not the way to repell the Enemy The largenesse of the Church windowes and smalnesse of the Houses made their assault secure and our defence dangerous which our men perceiving resolved to win or lose all at once watching an opportunity betwixt the discharge and charge of the Enemy they sallyed out of the Church and being seconded by those in the Lanes rushed in upon the Houses burst open the doores slew those that resisted tooke those who yeelded the rest fled into the next Field whither some few of ours followed the greatest part being employed in conveying the Men and Munition which the Enemy had left behind them and in the Field the skirmish was hotter then ever Our men were too eager to keepe Ranke or File though they had knowne how to keepe it and indeed their disorder was an advantage to us for mixing themselves with the Enemy they fought securely in the mouth of the Enemies Canon and in the eye of one Body of their Forces both placed in the Field above them the Enemy not daring to discharge least with them they should slay their own Men otherwise they having 10 Fire-men for one might have cut us off in an instant nor could ours use their Muskets otherwise then as Clubbs To speake ingeniously their Commanders exasperated by the cowardize of their common Souldiers manifested great courage but they smarted for it our Sythes and Clubbs now and then reaching them and none else did they aime at One amongst the rest in a Scarlet Coate our Club-men had got hold of and he in all probability as some credible reports give us occasion to beleeve was Collonel Goring and were spoiling him Their Horse fearing the losse of such a Man became more couragious then they intended leaped over the hedge and rode full upon our Men forcing them to give a little ground too Much alas that they had known him to lose such a Man but they quickly recovered the ground ' tho they lost the Man doubled their courage would neither give nor take quarter nor was this their cruelty as the Enemy complaines but their ignorance and in the end forced both Man and Horse to leave the Field and yet could not we keepe it for we being separated from theirs the Musketiers had liberty to play upon us and indeed they rained such a shower of lead amongst our men as forced them to retreat for shelter to the next hedge and so hindred them from pursuing till they had removed their Canons Their Ordnance all this time played upon us one of them ranged an 8 pound Bullet yet see the Lords mercy to us that which was planted against the Steeple never hit it another intended for the skouring of Kirhgate ' tho planted in as advantagious a place as they desired ' tho the Street was continually crowded with people yea though many of their Bullets hit the Houses and some the Street yet was no body at all hurt therewith they bored indeed 3 or 4 Houses yet which is observable did most harme to a Malignants and thus the terror of the Lord and of us falling upon them sending their Foot and Artilery formost away they went using their feet better then they used their hands and about 50 of our Clubbs and Muskets after them Which courage in ours did most of all astonish the Enemy who say no 50 Men in the world except they were madd or drunke would have pursued a Thousand Our men indeed shot as they were madd and the Enemy fell as they were drunke and so we will devide it Some discharged 10 some 12 times in the pursuit and having the whole Body of the Enemy for their butt it may easily be imagined what good execution they did in a miles march for so farre they pursued them even to the Moore where fearing to be environed by their Horse they retired some of them so wearied with this 8 houres hot service as they could scarce returne to the Towne One thing I cannot omit a hearty Round-head left by his comrades environed with the Enemies Horse discharged his Musket upon one strooke downe anothers Horse with the thick end of it broke a thirds Sword beating it backe to his throat and put them all to flight which though as the rest wonderfull I dare pawne my credit to be true And thus ended our skirmish wherein there was Slaine of theirs Sir Iohn Harper as one Savile taken at Halifax confesseth Captaine Wray in whose pocket was found good store of gold and a Commission directed to Major Williams which made us thinke him to be the Man and Captaine Bins whom they carried to Leeds scarce dead and buried two daies after and many common Souldiers more I am perswaded then we shall ever know of Of ours I cannot heare of two that perished by the Enemy in the fight Sir Iohn Gothericke got a bastinado had his Horse killed with a Syth and about a 100 common Souldiers were wounded as we are informed from Leeds where they are Billeted Of ours about 12. all curable except one or two Taken of theirs Serjant Major Carew a Man of great account borne in the Low-Countries of English Parents 26 Common Souldiers about 10 Horses 180 weight of Pouder and about 40 Muskets and thus God supplied our wants out of the store giving us as many more Muskets as we had and well-nigh as much Pouder as we spent This was the issue of the fight wherein nothing can be seene but God and the wonderfull effects of his glorious Attributes Let us and our Enemies both see it that they may feare and shame that we may trust and praise our God who hath manifested himselfe to be the Lord of Hosts A true Relation of the passages at Leeds on Munday the 23. of Ianuary 1642. SIR Thomas Fairfax son to the Lord Generall Fairfax marched from Bradford six miles distant from Leeds on Munday morning with 6. Troopes of Horse and 3. Companies of Dragoones under the command of Sir Henry Fowles Knight his Lieutenant Generall of the horse and neare a 1000 musketeers with 2000. Club-men under the command of Sir William Fairfax Colonell and Lieutenant Generall of the Foot One company of these being Dragoones under Capt. Mildmay and about 30 musketiers and 1000 club-men marched on the South-side of the River of Ayr to Hunslet-more above halfe a mile from Leeds on the South-east side towards Wakefield and the rest on the North-side Ayr by Aperley-bridge 20. yards of Christall-bridge being broke downe by