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A85339	Good and ioyfull nevves out of Buckinghamshire, being an exact and true relation of a battell, stricken betwixt Prince Robert and Sir William Balfore; lievtenant generall to his Excellency, the Earle of Essex, neer Alisbury in that county on Tuesday last, the first of November, wherein the said Sir William obtain'd a happy and glorious victory.		1642 (1642)	Wing G1035; Thomason E126_9; ESTC R20013	3,470	9

Good and Ioyfull Nevves OVT OF BVCKINGHAMSHIRE Being an exact and true Relation of a Battell stricken betwixt Prince ROBERT and Sir William Balfore Lievtenant Generall to his Excellency the Earle of Essex neer Alisbury in that County on Tuesday last the first of November wherein the said Sir William obtain'd a happy and glorious Victory London Printed for Francis Wright 1642. HUmane nature is covetous of novelties never had that Axiome so pregnant proofes as in these dayes never were the people so appetitious of newes never were their desires so answered with diversity of Narrations and to say truth never were there broacht so many false and improbable relations every man speaking according to his fancie and wishes and divers sons of audacity and impudence confidently committing many illegitimate conceptions of their owne to the publike view which have no more affinity with truth then the opinions of Copernicus of the motion of the earth or that relation of our Countryman of the new world in the Moon or of Domingo Gonzales and his flight thither upon the wings of his Ganzas But this abs●re good wine needs no bush veritas non quarit angulos our present discourse needs no preface to excuse it being a positive and confirm'd truth on Tuesday last All-Saints day destined for holier uses Prince Robert with his well beaten troops after they were routed in the late knowne battaile by the Parliaments forces wearied with their flight and bleeding with the wounds they had received there sought to refresh themselves in the pleasant and plenteous County of Buckingham in which all things exuberate that might please their appetites or satisfie their wants that Country being most odious to them cause most faithfull to the Parliament they left no expressions of their hostility and rapine unperformed souldiers especially wanting ones wishing no better place for plunder then a ●ich and fertile Province till they arrived at Ailesbu●● a towne one of the most signall and wealthy of that Shire where Prince Robert with some ten thousand horse and foote on T●●sd●y morning about six of the clock entered to the great amazement and feare of the honest inhabitans who little expecting such a sudden greeting from the Enemy were unprovided for defence the faithfull M … of that good towne being unable to make resistance against such a multitude of halfe desperate men made a vertue of necessity and gave them a free entertainment the chiefe Magistrates there knowing it was Prudemiae multum dissimulare affording them good words and to give the Divell his due there they remained in indifferent peaceble disposition till some of Prince Roberts scouts or horse centinels upon the spurre came in and with a sudden alarme gave a speedy and dreadfull notice to their Generall that there were great and formidable forces approaching the body of an Army as their feares made them conjecture of at least six thousand men when as since it was certainly knowne and credibly astirmed they were not above fifteen hundred men or thereabouts under the command of the valiant Sir William Belfore sometimes Lievtenant of the Tower and now Lievtenant Generall of the present forces for the defence of the kingdome under his Excellency the Earle of Ess●x who after the late battell were sent by the said Earles carefull directions to advance through the neighbouring Counties and to secure their safeties there being nothing so requisite and full of commendation in generall as to consider distant dangers of his friends and confederates with the same eye hee lookes upon those which are present and threatning himselfe for that end therefore was Sir William Bels●re sent forth who investigating the Enemies passages had certaine intelligence that Prince Robert with some of the prosligated troopes was returned into Bucking hamshire and had sixt their place of rendezvous at Al●sbury whither with all convenient speed the said Sir William made knowing that delaies in affaires military as in all other actions beget dangers with his fifteen hundred men being six horse troops and the foot part of Colonell Hampdens and part of Colonell Granthams Regiments which were the army of six thousand foot and horse which the Centinels gave information to the Prince were then invading him at not halfe an houres march distance with which alarme not affrighted but a little troubled hee prepared not for his defence but to give them the bein or the mal venu take it as you please to Alasbury leaving lest the townes-men whom he durst not confide in should fall upon his rear a troope of horse and two companies of foot there in perada to secure the inhabitants where when they heard of their friends approaches were all unmindfull to act their parts on that Theatre of war for their owne safeties active spirits forces young men like Lapwings to run out of their nest part of the shell ye● sticking to their temples so it has done with this Prince Robert whose fiery soule has rendred him too great a stickler in this kingdomes quarrels but he having drawne forth his Companies into one entire body without the towne hee espied within a quarter of a mile the Parliaments forces which were as ready to charge him as the Prince was them but their wise and prudent Chiefe Sir William Belfore knowing that hasty attempts beget dangerous and uncertaine successes kept them in facing the Prince with a narrow body of horse-men his troope being drawne out like a Pyramid sharpe at the top and broad by degrees in the grosse Prince Robert with his owne troope the flo●er of the Cavalry charging through Sir Will. Belfore his front and thinking to make us find as easie passage through the rest Was bid to a bloody dinner in the heart of his squadrons The florsemen there being at least ten broad in rank thundring death from those engines of destruction their Carabines and petronels into the bosome of the Princes Souldiers who neither knew well to advance nor to retreat Another Troope if I mistake not young Master Pyms the hopefull Son of an excellent father charging them hotly in their right flanks so that Prince Roberts mauger his native courage was at his non plus ultra till Sir Lewis Dives a man of as much acrimony and spleen as any of the malignants against the Parliament fell in pell mell to the princes rescues having behinde each of his horsemen a musketier who being at competent distance alighted and diffus'd their dreadfull and death bearing bullets through our squadrons which then began to totter from their order some ten or fourteene falling in that furious charge till Captaine Herbert Blanchard Captaine of the Earle of Peterborromes Troope came in with much courage to the aid of Sir William Balfores Troope and the foot forces on our side having gained both wind and sun sent cheerfull vollyes of fire smoak and bullets on the left flanke of the Princes squadrons the horses gald with the shot overthrowing their riders And the Souldiers of our foot taking fire from their resolv'd Captaines animating each other to an assur'd conquest Commissary Willmot who all this while had stood as a reserve to the Princes Forces then falling into this game of blood and slaughter reduced the Conflict to an equall scale killing some threescore of our men when Sir William Balfore who leaving his owne Troops to the charge of his Lievtenant had retir'd into the rear of his horse and brought them up to the face of the Enemie our foot in the interim wheeling about came in upon theirs with a full charge beating them from their stations and disordering their rankes They sent at least two hundred of their men to salute the earth never more to rise thence The Prince all this while made good the fight against Sir William with his horse till Commissary Wilmot receiving a shot into the shoulder They began to shock together and as it were to retreat when the flight of their foot who began to use the vertue of their legs drive them spight of Prince Roberts fury to beare them Company and outstrip them at their owne exercise of running away that Troope and those two foot companies advancing forth of the towne to the reliefe of their companions were undertaken by Captaine Ascoughs Troop and some foot forces till the Townes-men neere being rid of their unwelcome guests to the number of two hundred wel arm'd charg'd them upon the backs then they fell into an appatent rout following their flying fellowes our horsemen having them in the chace they did execution on their foot fon the space of a miles riding killing in the chace and the fight to the number of six hundred men most of which were the infantery their Cavalry escaping by the benefit of their Horses found the Proverb verified one paire of legs is worth two paire of hands Prisoners of the common sort there were taken two hundred of note not any but one Dudley Smith a young gentleman of much courage who died some houres after of his wounds received in the battell of our part there fell about fourscore and ten persons too great a number to be lost yet gloriously they did being as it were their Countryes Martyrs Sir William Balfore after his victory marching to Alisbury spent the rest of that day in prayers and thanksgiving for his good successe to that great God of battels in whose dispose is Conquest and by whose almighty and and out sirecched arme this victory arriv'd to his servants Prince Robert with his flying Troopes as it were in revenge of that overthrow burning the poore Country villages in his retreat towards Oxford where it is reported hee is and whence shortly it is hoped hee and all those perverse malignants will be brought to condigne punishment Thus it hath pleased the Lord of Hosts to give victory to the Parliaments Forces by an handfull if compar'd with the Enemies numbers In his power it is to fave with few as well as with multitudes To him therefore wee ought to ascribe all praise trusting that hee will deliver us from all our enemice Amen FINIS