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A55502 A vindication of Henry Portington Esquire, being unjustly committed to Newgate, upon the information of a mad man Portington, Henry. 1665 (1665) Wing P3000C; ESTC R220476 5,773 15

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to Leiutenant General Kings Quarters At the taking of the Pinnace where my Troop had the guard of two small Guns through the Isle of Axholm in which the Earl of Kingstone and Mr. Nevil was slain At the Seidge of Gainsborough where that Person of honour and gallantry Colonel Cavendish was slain and many others At the Seidge of Hull At Horn Castle twice to little purpose under Lieutenant General Henderson At the fatal Battel of Winsby where Sir Ingram Hopton Major to our Regiment was barbarously murthered after quarter given Captain Vernat Cornet Roe slain and scarce one Officer but dangerously wounded and the first time our Regiment was beaten under the same conduct At taking Leiutenant Colonel Lasseb's and his Foot in the Isle of Axholm with Sir John Mayn Leiutenant Gregory slain Officer to Leiutenant Colonel Robert Portington At Selby where my Lord Belasses was taken and at least 300 Horse out of our Regiment At the taking of Liverpool under his Highness Prince Rupert At Marston Moor Lieutenant Buridge commanding my Troop was slain my self being sent from Liverpool to Westchester being in a very sad condition and not rid of some wounds I had formerly received But recovering I came to Clythro Castle where I was most civilly used by Sir Tho. Danyel which did much add to perfect my full recovery which no sooner perfected I went to Appleby in Westmoreland where I met the Northern Horse with my Lord Langdale missing of my own Troop my Lieutenant who was slain and four of my souldiers Now begins the extremity of the War At Malpas under my Lord Langdale himself wounded Colonel Beton and Cornet Hogson slain then Colonel Tuke had the command of the Horse into South Wales Against Monmouth after it was surprised Sir Will. Blackstone dangerously wounded and my Lieutenant Marsh slain At Ledbury under his Highness Prince Rupert At the taking Salisbury by my Lord Langdale after Ludlow thought to have beat up our Quarters but repulsed by the vigilancy of Sir Francis Anderson Sir Robert Hilliard and Captain Sunderland dangerously wounded Under the Lord Goring with an intent for Portsmouth At Daintrey At Melton Moubray Sir John Girlington Captain Cescoyne of our Regiment Captain Hungate a Reformade in my Troop all slain At the relief of Pontefract Castle where we took 1500 Prisoners Mr. Meltham and Leiutenant Higdon slain all these three engagements in one week performed by the Lord Langdale and made our Retreat without any loss into Cheshire At the relief of Beeston Castle under his Highness Prince Maurice At the relief of Hereford At the relief of Douington Castle where the Northern Horse had the guard of his late Majesty commanded by his Highness Prince Rupert to Oxford where I brought up the rear by Abington without the loss of a man At the taking of Leicester his Majesty present At Naisby Against the peice Army in Wales with my Lord Ashley At the releif of Sir John Winters House with my Lord Langdale and Colonel Russel At Claerwall where the Enemy kept a Garrison under ground under the Lord Langdale and Colonel Russels In the severe march with his Majesty to Doncaster and so to Huntington where I had the guard at Gormanchester took the Maior of Huntington in a Hogstye who endeavoured to keep his Majesty out then into Wales and to Wroughton-Heath many gallant persons slain back into Nottinghamshire where in Worsupp-Park many of us Officers had the happiness to kiss his Majesties hand and then commanded under the Earl of Bristow and Lord Langdale for Scotland to joyn with the Earl of Montross At Sherburn Sir Richard Hutton Colonel Carnaby Captain Godfrey who had the Command of Sir John Gutherwicks Troop in our Regiment all slain Sir Jorden Crofland dangerously wounded after which I had the command of our Regiment into Scotland At Avon in Scotland where Colonel Brown fell into our Quarters At Dumfress where the Earl of Bristow had his Horses stolen out of stables quartering at the Provosts of the Town At Ravenglass there I was commanded by intreaties by the Earl of Bristol and Lord Langdale to return with Sir William Huddlestone and Sir Horatio Cary for the Souldiers of our Regiment mutinied to part with their Officers and would have sunk the Boat which was to convey them to the Isle of Man so I consented to hazard my self to save so many Persons of Quality in our retreat there was not a Colour left flying but my own and in that black night the Enemy fired all the Beacons in the Countrey round to give us light the event of which proved sad At Worton Sands where we repulsed the Enemy Captain Braudling wounded At the Seidge of Skipton and so with Sir William Black-stone Leiutenant Colonel Carr and several of the Garrison to Lichfield At Slowithold my Lord Ashley and Sir Charles Lucas both taken Prisoners and so to Oxford where we were in a sad condition but coming to the Governour Sir Tho. Glenham with whom I had formerly been acquainted did give order for us and the next morning sent for me to attend his late Majesty of ever blessed Memory to whom I gave the best account I could of the Earl of Bristol the Lord Langdale and all the Officers that took Boat and of those that returned out of Scotland to Oxford I knew but five Captain Grimston Captain Braudling Captain Wilson Leiutenant Herman and my self his gracious Majesty did charge the Governor to provide for us and the next day I received five pounds which was all I ever received except one weeks pay for my Troop after the Queen-Mother landed at Burlington and did by the assistance of Sir Thomas Wentworth endure till the Surrender and came out upon the Articles For the second Warr upon the surprise of Pomfret Castle the Enemy sent several Parties to apprehend us but having advice of both the taking of the Castle and the Enemies intention Roger Portington Robert Portington and my self all having real and honourable Commands in the first War raised all the men we could with whom we forced our way to their assistance for which services Roger suffered eleven years Imprisonment and damnified in his estate neer as many thousand pounds and we as much as any that adhered to his Majesty according to our Talent Robert irrecoverably as it was supposed wounded at Willowby and all of us Prisoners at the death of Oliver one at London another at Hull and my self at York Since his Majesties return I have been Lieutenant to Sir Godfrey Copley of a Troop of Volunteers in the Regiment and under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham where all the best of that part of the Countrey are pleased to ride in having 70 of the said Troop within two miles where I live who hath been are and I despair not will be at the sound of a Trumpet having one continually quartered with us at his Majesties service as all the rest is Thus have I briefly run over the sad Scaene of a direful Tragedy wherein it may be easily supposed what miseries I suffered from his Majesties Enemies and the Kingdoms Subverters to be plundered of my whole personal Estate and that considerable my reall sequestred and the greatest part of it sold was no trouble But to have my Wife and Family turn'd into the open streets at Doncaster whom none durst harbour but her own Sister not living farr remote having compassion on her took her home for which charitable act her Husband Mr. Wray was imprisoned and sequestred And at this time the remainder of my Estate ready to follow the first having by reason of the forementioned Calamities contracted so much debt as otherwise I am not able to discharge this is a trouble To be imprisoned perpetually for his Majesty was no trouble but being come home for a while by the Mediation of some Friends to have some Sixteen Gentlemen my neighbours come to visit me all taken Prisoners with me and suffered very much this was a trouble To serve his Majesty faithfully this was no trouble but to be counted disserving this is a great trouble To be arraigned at the Assize at York for serving the King where the Judge wisht me to thank the Jury this was no trouble but to be committed to Newgate and arraigned for disserving these all put together produce heart-breaking troubles And if those persons who have neither been Active nor Passive for his Majesty but Neuters rather and not constant but rather disloyal shall be rewarded and such as my self rejected we must expect recompense in another World where Astrea dwells In the Interim I could wish that every man that intends to share or hath shared in his Majesty's Bounty might make a Narrative of what he hath done or suffered and where he served in the late Warrs And then it is my humble Petition That his Sacred Majesty would be pleased to do Justice rendring to every man impartially to his merit since Justice is the Beam of Princely Ballances As sayes the Old Rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or live without Distress Or dye with happiness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'T is good for them to dye Whom Life brings Infamy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'T is better not to live Than wretchedly not thrive The Names of some of the Officers who were slain and dyed truly Loyal in the Regiment of Sir William Savill none that revolted Sir Ingram Hopton Major Major Robert Portington Capt. Copley Capt. Vernatt Fleetwood Armitage Wentworth Gasguoyne Benson Lieutenants Godfrey Batt Lee Cullier Gregory Burridge Marsh Savill Purdee Batley Cunye Snow Cornets Byrum Townesend Roe Burdett Taylor Bright Smyth Corrington FINIS