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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74964	A letter from a minister in His Excellence his army, to a brother of his in London, by way of prevention to Mercurius Aulicus and his complices. Dated from my lord generalls quarter before Reading. April 18. 1643.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3872A; Thomason E99_1; ESTC R10436	2,046	8

A LETTER From a Minister in His Excellence His Army To a Brother of his in LONDON By way of prevention to MERCURIUS AULICUS and his Complices Dated from my Lord Generalls Quarter before READING April 18. 1643. London Printed for J. Rothwell and S. Gellibrand April 20. 1643. A Letter from a Minister in the Army to his Brother in LONDON Brother I Know my friends are full of expectation I am not unwilling to take a little pains to fatisfie them But if they will not be satisfied without the storming or taking the Town they cannot yet be satisfied if the truth will give any satisfaction it is this We marched from Windsor to Maydenhead on Thursday after noon from thence to Ockingham on Friday and so to a place on the West of Reading a mile from the Town where my Lord Generalls Quarters at the house of one Sir Iohn Blachgrave with the Souldiers in the fields about On Saturday afternoon toward night we faced the Town in the night Major Gen went up with his Regiment and a Work was made to plant Ordnance on which began to play on Sunday morning early and battered the Fort and Works next them which yet they diligently make up On Sunday night Sir Iohn Meldrum commanded with his own Regiment Sir William Cunstables and Col Barelayes who went on with the Works Last night Col Langham commanded having with him his own Regiment my Lord Generalls and Colonell Hampdens and the Works are now brought within lesse then half a Musket shot of the Town It may be our friends at London expect we should have stormed the Town and entred it before this but they may be mistaken at that distance they have in the Town about 3000 men which they have a liberty of drawing down to that part of the Town next us in regard we have no Forces on the other side my Lord Grey being not yet come to us though we doubt not of him this night or to morrow morning We have had intelligence out of the Town that say we have kill'd and hurt many of their men notwithstanding the advantage of their Works Colonell Bolles as is reported for one and that their Provision is scarce but as yet it is not stopped as were to be wished yet we have taken up Cavesham bridge and left no way to them but by Boat or by Henley We hear of some of the Kings Forces marching down on the other side the water to their relief if it may be I hope they will be prevented At our first approach our Provision was very scant but I hope we shall now have it more plentifully hungry dayes and cold nights would have abated the courage of our Souldiers were they not very hearty in the businesse Let our friends rather strive to have their prayers for us warm as the day then their censures sharp as the night If we be to blame it was for coming hither which yet must not be too soon I know no miscarriage since we came Our losse hath been very little considering our danger working and lying so neer them I think we have not lost above 8 or 10 men in Service two or three have been kill'd through curiosity and some hurt by accident as some of Sir Iohn Meldrums Regiment yesterday by blowing up Powder and this morning three or four slain and some were hurt by the breaking of a Carriage by some Powder fired about through improvidence Sir Anthony Saint-John a Captain of my Lord Generalls Regiment hurt by it it was reported Major Ingolsly was slain and Lievtenant Colonell Barriff hurt but no such matter We have lost no Officer since our sitting down but one Lievtenant Price of the Major Generalls Regiment Though our work be hard yet our Souldiers are hearty but it must not be expected they should overcome impossibilities so as by a bare assault to get over Pallisadoes Ditches very deep and Brest-Works They have in Town ten small Brasse Pieces two bigger of Iron three Troops of Horse As we have not assaulted so neither they sallyed forth to do any thing worth the naming Take heed your desires of storming be not too soon fulfilled if it be not done with all circumspection it will not onely lose many lives but endanger the whole Army and Kingdom for ought I know Adde therefore to your faith patience we could be as willing to change our Quarters as you to have us Me thinks you should be preparing a supply to further the best and to prevent the worst I thought fit to write this not onely for your own satisfaction but to prevent Mercurius Aulicus who I doubt not will tell you strange stories shortly This may serve as a battery upon the refuge of lies which is our enemies strong retreat as some out of the Town tell us they encourage their Souldiers by telling them our Ordnance are broke their supplies at hand they see our men fall in great numbers This night Major Gen commands in the approaches his own Regiment my Lord Roberts and Col Hobornes with three Regiments more as a reserve to them which is the constant course It may be the difference of my profession may make me misse in terms and circumstances but you may take this for the substance and truth of our condition Onely I may further adde for I shall not conceal any thing though to our disadvantage That there is a Supply of strength come into Reading this morning some Muskettiers under the Conduct of Sir Lewis Dyve as I hear who have so much confidence as to bring their Ladies to this Musick I hope to no other purpose then to make our Victory the more considerable I forbear to adde further for the present but that which I need not beg your prayers So I rest E. B. FINIS