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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78314	A more true and an exacter relation of the battaile of Keynton, then any formerly. Written by T.C. One of the chaplains in the army, and sent to a friend of his, a learned divine in this city, and by him published for the satisfaction of all such as are desirous to be informed in the truth.	T. C., one of the chaplains in the army.	1642 (1642)	Wing C137; Thomason E128_20; ESTC R22151	2,764	7

A MORE TRUE AND An exacter Relation Of the Battaile of KEYNTON Then any formerly Written by T. C. One of the Chaplains in the Army and sent to a friend of his a learned Divine in this City and by him published for the satisfaction of all such as are desirous to be informed in the truth Printed for Edward Blackmore at the Angel in Pauls Churchyard Novem. 26. 1642. An Exacter RELATION Of the battaile of KEYNTON then any formerly Reverend brother I Know as you writ to mee there are severall and sundry relations of that bloody battail neere Kynton some speaking after one maner and some after another respecting their owne particular oblig●tions and ingagements more then the truth or to satisfy the world of the truth And therefore according to your desire I have sent you although a short yet an exact and a true relation of that battell Upon the twenty third of October a day dedicated to the honour of Ignatius Lyola the father and founder of that cruell and cursed order of the Iesuits the Iesuited Papists the last yeere Kindled that horrid and horrible rebellion in Ireland rist robbing burning and murthering all the Brittish Protestants they could ceaze upon Affirming as hath been often deposed that like the sufferings were that day allotted destinated to al the Protestants in England and that they did nothing but what they had commission to doe from England under the great seale And now this yeare upon the same day of that moneth they have by their facinating Charmes clothed with the Specious garments of maintaining the Protestant Religion removed his Majesty hinc illae lachrymae to ingage himselfe in a bloody battell against the Protestants the true professors of the Gospell and their Religion which began on that day being Sunday a goodly Sabbath dayes worke about two of the clock and lasted untill darke night A crueller battel was never fought in the Christian world for the time The Kings Army had the advantage both of the ground and wind and besides those at Windsor and Worcester we wanted the assistance of ten Troops of Horse sixe Companies of Dragooners foure Regiments of Foot eight Peeces of Canon with great store of Ammunition which came not unto us till Sunday at night and Munday lying the nights before at Stratford upon Aven and in severall other parts thereabouts which in all probability and so it was confessed amongst them the Enemie had notice of by Sir Faithfull Fortescue who broke faith and treacherously fled the next day unto them Their Army was about twenty foure thousand Horse and Foot and we had but thirteene Regiments of Foot thirty eight Troops of Horse and about a thousand Dragooners The Enemie came downe Edge-hill where was fought a bloody battell in the raigne of Edward the fourth and there they set in order their battell in a faire Plaine at the foot of the Hill leaving the Hill for a retyring place for their Army as indeed it was and much befriended them Our Army was cast into three Brigades the two wings being slanked with our Horse and placed upon a little round rising hill betwixt them and Keynton In the left wing were five Regiments under the severall commands of the Lord Wharton the Lord Mandevill Collonel Cholmley Collonell Essex and Collonell Fairfax who brought up the rear our horse that flanked us were incountred by Prince Roberts troopes of Cavalliers as they wheeled about the hill to get to our waggons so that they fled disorderly upon our Foot in the left wing routing and making foure Regiments of them to run away to wit my Lord Whartons my Lord Mandevils Colonel Cholmleys and Colonel Essexes Regiments some few Commanders retyring into the maine Body Colonel Fairfax his Regiment then being the onely Regiment remaining of that wing and most of his common souldiers also took example by their fellows trod out their foot-steps and ran too And although their Colonel Sir William Fairfax Lieutenant Colonel Moyneines Sergeant Major Pane with Captaine Willshire Captaine Bland Captain Rogers Captain Laiton and the rest of his Captains and chief Commanders did their utmost indeavour to have stayed them yet they could not stay above an hundred of them with whom Colonel Fairfax his Lieutenant Colonel Major and the Captains with their Officers marched very couragiously with their Colours in the face of the enemy to our Canons and fetched them all off but one and so had done that also had they had horses This Brigade then being thus shattered and routed the first cause being more the cowardize of our Horse then the valour of the enemies The Lord of Hosts shewed his power for our deliverance for then Prince Robert instead of falling upon our right wing fell to plundering our Waggons killing our Waggoners and murthering of poore Countrey women and children So that those which came to be spectators of other mens tragedies acted their owne At which time the severall Regiments under the command of the Lord Generall the Lord Brooks Lord Roberts Colonel Hollis and Sir Iohn Meldrome seconded by the severall Troops of Horse that flanked that Brigade fell on resolutely and made way by dint of sword through the maine Body of the Kings Army where every Commander especially the noble Generall the Earl of Essex shewed the part not onely of a valiant Generall but of a resolute and couragious souldier riding from place to place and encouraging his Army on every side when bullets flew about his ears as thick as haile so that in a short time the Lord Generall of the Kings Army the Lord Willouhby the Lord Aubigny Sir Edward Varney the Standard-bearer Colonel Lunsford Colonel Vavasor Colonel Stradling Colonel Rodney Colonel Iohn Munroe with many other great Commanders and resolute Souldiers were either killed or taken prisoners their whole Regiments consisting of many valiant Souldies most being Papists fighting for their Religion which their Commanders told them was now at the stake were cut off very few escaping to bring news to their Countrey of the rest Which the Welsh and Northerne men that should have made good this breach perceiving they all fled without any command shewing very good footmanship and verifying the Proverbe that One paire of heeles is worth two paire of hands And although His Majesty himselfe rode after them perswading them not to dishonour their Countrey but to stand to it bravely yet they wold not so much as looke back but said they were come not to fight but to convey His Majesty to London for which their Captains promised them the riches of that City and if he would goe with them they would make good their promise so that now all the Enemies Troops and Foot were dispersed two Regiments onely excepted and some of those Troops which had beene plundering our Waggons with Prince Robert who returned through by-wayes and retyred unto Edgehills Then our Army possessed themselves of the ground the enemies had at the first to fight in stood there all night drew back some of the Ordnance the enemy had taken before with some of theirs The next morning very early we drew up our men in order of battel and prepared for another onset which they perceiving flourished upon the hils with some Troops of Horse until they had gotten their Foot Canon and Carriages away and then they all went towards Banbury miserably rifling and pillaging the Countrry as they went and we towards night retired to Warwick to refresh our selves the most of us having had neither meat nor lodging for two dayes and two nights before Thus have you a true relation of that battel of Kynton where were slain above 3000. and what ever may be said yet the King lost foure for one for upon Tuesday my selfe with some friends and neighbours of Kynton and Welsborn viewed the dead then unburyed and where there was one in our quarters there were foure in the enemies I pray God to send peace amongst us that I may never see the like again T. C. FINIS