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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63378	A true & exact relation of the several passages at the siege of Manchester between the Lo. Strange his forces and the towne vvherein is evidently seene the wonderfull mercy of God in their deliverance / written by one that was an eie-witnese ... ; also a protestation of Master Hotham and divers other knights and gentlemen against the 14 articles of pacification and neutrality.	One that was an eie-witnesse.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2462; ESTC R22611	9,573	18

pound at least and he that owed it was noted to be a man that did as much as in him lay comply with the Earle of Darby and was so requited by his Cavaliers Severall other remarkable passages might be collected as this afternoone the plunderers coming to an honest mans house intending to slay him got in and cockt his pistoll or peternell ready to discharge at the mans breast but his fellow hitting him on the elbowe as if he had had something to have said to him turned therewith the mussell of his Pistol upon one of his own Company and killed him whereby the poore man had time to make an escape with his life Now the last and greatest project was by fire-bals which as t is credibly spoken twenty pound was spent in the making of them which were accordingly shot and cast at our Town but God be praised could take no effect the Lord had respect to his own cause and to his poore peoples prayers and teares for otherwise certainly they had spoyled us for no meanes for our overthrow was left unattempted Saterday This night past with the like shooting as before the next day being Saterday a parley was moved for exchange of prisoners which was assented unto we had about fourescore of theirs taken and that they might not want a compleat number they had taken divers poore men that were about their severall businesses in the fields And had used our men which they had taken very inhumanely and had threatned to take their lives yet God preserved them Then his Lordship raised his siege and went back with his baggage for the Lord had caused them to return with losse and disgrace Those that were slain by us and those that 〈◊〉 away from him were very many and is not yet known Sunday The Lords day following our men were upon their march and many of them issued out and took much Armes that they had left behind them in divers places The report of their coming on was very terrible to my Lords Companies as t is said Munday Munday being come our men being wearied out went home those of the Villages neare hand promised us to be ready againe at a very short warning The next morning a sudden report was that our Town was again assaulted which was very terrible to us we being naked notice was given and divers came presently to our help but it proved no such matter It is now said that the Earle of Darby with Earle Ryvers are at Armeschurch and at Wiggen and Warrington and in Cheshire and are there raising Forces to come against us againe our good God stand for us we have no other hope nor help but from him the cause concerns the whole County and if the Lord give us over none can then expect to stand all hanging for the most-part the other way We expect aid of horse daily from London with some great Peeces which if the Lord send them us we shall be enabled more powerfully to resist In the meane time with prayers and teares we intreat the help of Gods people by their prayers for this poore Town of Manchester Beleeve my Reports for I am confident that I spare to speake out because I would be within the bounds of modestie and truth My words are as the words of one risen from the grave and sure you will heare him they are my own observations and what I know in great part to be true being an eye witnesse our troubles are so great and fears so many that we can scarcely tell what we do Passe by the manner of my writing for I cannot have time to peruse what I have writ and though this and more be fresh in my memory yet the time and circumstance being different I may omit something in the order I desire that this our deliverance may be had in perpetuall remembrance that the generations to come may heare and know what the Lord God hath done for poore sinfull Manchester We daily looke for assistance from London but our onely trust and safe dependancie is in God The Lord shield his poore people from the rage of the oppressors and give us faith still to depend and pray to God with faithfull hearts that our King may comply his heart to and with the faithfull of the Land I shall ore-run my self if any word or thing be wrong written omitted or left forth let me intreat you to gather the sence of it by what is written before or after if I have committed any fault in writing for I have not time to read it over I pray you pray for us all and the Lord be with you all and keep us all stedfast to the day of his appearance And so I rest your loving Friend Manchester the 8. Octob. 1642. John Hotham Matthew Boynton Henry Fowles Thomas Remington Francis Boynton John Anlaby Arthur Beckwith Phell Saltmerse Jeffery Gaile William Darby John Boucher Tho. Notcliff Francis Lassels John Lister John Dent. Henry Wickermer And foure more Although there is nothing more desireable to us whether we look upon our own particulars or the present distractions and dangers of our Countrey then that all our conclusions may conduce to a quiet and peaceable settlement for the effecting whereof we are not at all insensible how necessary it is for us to hold concurrance with those Gentlemen with whom in all our consultations hitherto we have communicated to the same end yet inasmuch as those Articles hereunto annexed being as we conceive totally against the priviledges of Parliament and the Protestation we have already taken and no way at all tending to the peace but rather to the exposing of us to more insuing dangers being that it is a fundamentall liberty of Parliament to send for Delinquents in such a way as they shall see needfull and we conceive that the eight Article doth directly and plainly oppose it being that now the Delinquents are so strong that they cannot be sent for in an ordinary way of proceeding we therefore hold our selves necessarily obliged as well in discharge of our selves as duty to our Countrey utterly to disavow the said Articles To which end we have published this our Declaration to which we have subscribed our names this 8. of Octob. 1642. FINIS