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A82041 A declaration and manifestation of the proceedings of both armies, also a true relation of the remarkable passages that have happened since Saturday, from the beginning of the fight to this present seventeenth of November. Together with their plundering of certaine west-countrey waines, and the retteat [sic] of Ais [sic] Majesties forces, as also of the death of certaine noble and eminent personages of His Majesties army: and how His Majesty sent a herald of armes concerning a treaty of peace, and while the paper was reading, a cannon vvas shot off, and the bullet whizzed by his excellencies eare. Also the manner of His Majesties armies retreat from Brainford to Kingstone upon Thames, and to Gilford, His Majesty being now at Oatlands: with the resolution of the Parliaments forces to pursue them. 1642 (1642) Wing D531; Thomason E127_24; ESTC R14227 4,757 10

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