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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	house_n	john_n	sir_n	15,272	5	5.9960	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39080	An Expresse relation of the passages and proceedings of His Majesties armie vnder the command of His Excellence the Earle of Newcastle : against the rebels, under the command of the Lord Fairfax and his adherents.		1643 (1643)	Wing E3893; ESTC R31482	2,044	8

AN EXPRESSE RELATION OF THE PASSAGES AND PROCEEDINGS OF HIS Majesties Armie Vnder the Command of his Excellence the Earle of NEWCASTLE Against the Rebels under the Command of the Lord Fairfax and his Adherents Printed in the Yeare M.DC.XLIII AN EXPRESSE RELATION OF THE PASSAGES AND PROCEEDINGS OF HIS MAJESTIES ARMY VNDER THE COMMAND of His Excellence the Earle of Newcastle against the Rebels under the Command of the Lord Fairfax and his Adherents WEE marched from Pomfret towards Bradford and in our way thither we summoned Sir Iohn Savile Commander of Howley to deliver up that House and lay down his Armes so unjustly taken up who returned an uncivill Answer and that he would keep it maugre our Forces whereupon we planted our Cannon against that House and environed it upon Wednesday the 21 of Iune in the afternoon and next morning took it by affault and in it the said Commander in Chiefe and all his Officers and Souldiers about 245 some few whereof were slain the rest taken Prisoners where by the unseasonablenesse of the weather we were enforced to remain till Friday the 30th of Iune from whence we marched early towards Bradford and when we had marched two miles or thereabouts we found a great Bodie of men a greater number of Foot than we and almost all Musquetiers and some twenty Troopes of Horse and had possessed a place called Adderton moore and taken the most advantageous places thereof and lined severall hedges with Musquetiers and played so fiercely upon us and that before the whole Bodie of our Foot could be drawn up and their Horse likewise possessing a plain Field and a great Ditch betwixt us lined with Musquetiers and keeping our Horse in a ground full of pits that for the space of two houres or thereabouts we were forced to give ground though very little but when our Cannon was well placed and our Foot once drawne up within halfe an houre we put their Foot on the right Wing of the Battaile to retire and pursued them so hotly that they presently were put into a disorderly retreat whereupon part of our Horse fell in upon that Wing and the Cannon playing upon the Bodie of their Horse killed many and routed them together with our Horse charging at that time so we pursued them killing and taking them to Bradford Town end which was more than two miles in which Chase was slain as is supposed about 500 of the Enemies and about 1400 taken Prisoners amongst which many Officers together with three field-Pieces and all their Ammunition there which was not much We had many Souldiers hurt two Colonels of Horse slain Heron and Howard and some Officers hurt as Colonell Throckmorton Colonell Carnabie and Captain Maison all recoverable and not above twenty common Souldiers slain That night we came before Bradford a strong Town and ill approaching to it yet we made our approaches that night the next day we had placed our Cannon and made places of Batteries very neare the Town and Church where they had two Drakes upon the top of the steeple and lined the steeple with wool-packes yet our Cannon dismounted their Drakes upon the top of the steeple and battered the steeple so as none could stay on it where they had many Musquetiers and so we got both the ends of the Town before Sunday night and in the night time Sir Thomas Fairfax Governour of the Town his Ladie Major Gifford and Sir Henry Fowlis escaped out of the Town and upon a moor was forced to charge with their partee a partee of our Horse where his Ladie and his Corner were taken Prisoners but he and the other two being well horsed escaped though pursued very neare Leedes which was above five miles and that morning our men entered the Town took Prisoners 1. Colonell Malliver 2. Sergeant Maior Wiltshire 3. Captain Mudd 4. Captain Rogers 5. Captain Bland 6. Captain Oneal 7. Captain VVhite 8. Captain Smith 9. Captain Dent. 10. Captain Stanley 11. Captain Feure 12. Lieutenant Popler 13. Lieutenant Loveday 14. Lieutenant Moore 15. Lieutenant Sad. Sergeant Floyd Sergeant Brabant VVilliam VVarden Nathaniel Gosse Gunners With all or most of the common Souldiers which are in number 300 or thereabouts besides the enlarging of 200 Prisoners of ours there and taking of Armes which are yet uncertain in number That very day within three houres after came a Captain of ours who among divers other Prisoners at Leedes finding that my Lord Fairfax and his son were inclined to leave the Town as they did attended with three or foure Troops of Horse 200 Dragooners and 300 Foot broke out of Prison possessed themselves of the Magazine took all the Armes which were 1500 at least eight Barrels of Powder and twelve Pieces of Ordnance with a very great proportion of Match and Ball and so kept the Town till I sent Forces into it besides the enlarging of seven hundred Prisoners there The Lord Fairfax and his Son marched towards Selby in which march his three hundred Foot ran away from him and his Forces left being discovered by our Forces at the Garrison of Cawood were charged by them and they fled into the Town of Selby our Forces being too weak for them were forced to retire so my Lord his son Sir Thomas Maior Gifford Sir Henry Fowlis and Sir Thomas Mauliverer took a boat and passed themselves therein and swimming their Horses over the River and as their men were passing over some of them were drowned with crowding the Boates and so they fled we conceive to Hull or to Nottingham but to which is not certain The same day newes was brought us from Hallifax that all the Forces were run from thence and have taken with them all our Prisoners that remained there and so we are possessed of that Town as also of Denton house my Lord Fairfax his house wherein there was a small Garrison two Drakes and two hundred men and Armes FINIS