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A80929	A letter from the Lord General Cromwel from Dunbar; containing a true relation of the proceedings of the Parliament army under his command in Scotland; and the success God was pleased to give them against the Scots Army, in a battle at Dunbar the 3 of September. 1650. Together with a list of the Scotish officers then taken. Die Martis, 10. September. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that the Lord Generals letter, and the list of names herewith sent, be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7097; Thomason E612_11; ESTC R206487	6,503	17

A LETTER FROM The Lord General Cromwel FROM DUNBAR CONTAINING A true Relation of the Proceedings OF THE Parliament Army Under his Command in SCOTLAND And the Success God was pleased to give them against the Scots Army in a Battle at Dunbar the 3 of September 1650. Together with a LIST of the Scotish Officers then taken Die Martis 10. September 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That the Lord Generals Letter and the List of names therewith sent be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. For the Honorable William Lenthal Esquire Speaker of the Parliament of England SIR I Hope it is not ill taken that I make no more frequent Addresses to the Parliament things that are of trouble in point of Provision for your Army and of ordinary direction I have as I could often presented to the Councel of State together with such Occurrences as have happened who I am sure as they have not been wanting in their extraordinary care and provision for us so neither what they judge fit and necessary to represent the same to you and this I thought to be a sufficient discharge or my duty on that behalf It hath now pleased God to bestow a mercy upon you worthy your knowledge and of the utmost praise and thanks of all that fear and love his Name yea the Mercy is far above all praise which that you may the better perceive I shall take the boldness to tender unto you some circumstances accompanying this great Business which will manifest the greatness and seasonableness of this Mercy We having tryed what we could to engage the enemy three or four miles West of Edinburgh that proving ineffectual and our victual failing we marched towards our Ships for a recruit of our want the enemy did not at all trouble us in our Rear but marched the direct way towards Edinburgh and partly in the night and morning slips through his whole Army and Quarters himself in a posture easie to interpose between us and our victual but the Lord made him lose the opportunity and the morning proving exceeding wet and dark we recovered by that time it was light into a ground where they could not hinder us from our victual which was a high act of the Lords Providence to us We being come into the said ground the Enemy marched into the grounds we were last upon having no minde either to strive to interpose between us and our victual or to fight being indeed upon this lock Hoping that the sickness of your Army would render their work more easie by the gaining of time whereupon we marched to Muscleburgh to victual and to ship away our sick men where we sent aboard near Five hundred sick and wounded Soldiers And upon serious consideration finding our weakness so to increase and the Enemy lying upon his advantages at a General Councel it was thought fit to march to Dunbar and there to fortifie the Town which we thought if any thing would provoke them to engage as also that the having of a Garison there would furnish us with accommodation for our sick men would be a place for a good Magazin which we exceedingly wanted being put to depend upon the uncertainty of weather for landing Provisions which many times cannot be done though the Being of the whole Army lay upon it all the Coasts from Leith to Berwick not having one good Harbor as also to lie more conveniently to receive our recruits of Horse and Foot from Berwick Having these considerations upon Saturday the thirtieth of August we marched from Muscleburgh to Heddington where by that time we had got the Van-Brigade of our Horse our Foot and Train into their Quarters the Enemy was marched with that exceeding expedition that they fell upon the Rere-Forlorn of our Horse and put it in some disorder and indeed had like to have engaged our Rere-Brigade of Horse with their whole Army had not the Lord by his Providence put a cloud over the Moon thereby giving us opportunity to draw off those Horse to the rest of the Army which accordingly was done without any loss save of three or four of our aforementioned Forlorn wherein the Enemy as we beleeve received more loss The Army being put into a reasonable secure posture towards midnight the Enemy attempted our Quarters on the Westend of Heddington but through the goodness of God we repulsed them The next morning we drew into an open field on the Southside of Heddington we not judging it safe for us to draw to the Enemy upon his own ground he being prepossessed thereof but rather drew back to give him way to come to us if he had so thought fit And having waited about the space of four or five hours to see if he would come to us and not finding any inclination in the Enemy so to do we resolved to go according to our first intendment to Dunbar By that time we had marched three or four miles we saw some Bodies of the Enemies Horse draw out of their Quarters and by that time our Carriages were gotten neer Dunbar their whole Army was upon their march after us and indeed our drawing back in this maner with the addition of three new Regiments added to them did much heighten their Confidence if not Presumption and Arrogancy The Enemy that night we perceived gathered towards the Hills laboring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick and having in this posture a great advantage through his better knowledg of the Country which he effected by sending a considerable Party to the strait Pass at Copperspeth where ten men to hinder are better then forty to make their way And truly this was an exigent to us wherewith the Enemy reproached us with that condition the Parliaments Army was in when it made its hard conditions with the King in Cornwal by some Reports that have come to us they had disposed of us and of their business in sufficient revenge and wrath towards our persons and had swallowed up the poor Interest of England believing that their Army and their King would have marched to London without any interruption it being told us we know not how truly by a prisoner we took the night before the fight That their King was very suddenly to come amongst them with those English they allowed to be about him but in what they were thus lifted up the Lord was above them The Enemy lying in the posture before mentioned having those advantages we lay very neer him being sensible of our disadvantage having some weakness of flesh but yet consolation and support from the Lord himself to our poor weak Faith wherein I beleeve not a few amongst us shared That because of their Numbers because of their Advantages because of their Confidence because of our Weakness because of our Strait we were in the Mount and in the Mount the Lord would be