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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84215	An exact relation of the proceedings of the Cavaleers at Cicester containing a true declaration, of their bloody cruelties, the number of men that were slain on both sides, and what prisoners were taken and carried to Oxford. Also the copie of the oath or protestation which was rendred unto them at Oxford; with many other remarkable passages concerning the said businesse. As also the votes of the parliament, and what is agreed upon in the House of Commons. Concerning the late propositions sent by his Majestie to both houses, for a treaty of peace.		1643 (1643)	Wing E3695A; ESTC R229828	3,085	8

AN EXACT RELATION Of the Proceedings of the Cavaleers AT CICESTER Containing a true Declaration of their bloody Cruelties the number of men that were slain on both sides and what Prisoners were taken and carried to Oxford Also the Copie of the Oath or Protestation which was tendred unto them at Oxford With many other remarkable Passages concerning the said businesse As also the Votes of the Parliament and what is agreed upon in the House of Commons Concerning the late Propositions sent by His Majestie to both Houses for a Treaty of Peace Febr. 14. LONDON Printed for Iohn Damm dwelling in the middle-Rowe in Holborn 1643 An Exact Relation of the Proceedings of the CAVALEERS at CICESTER PRince Ruperts Scouts upon the tenth of this instant February approached near the Town of Cicester in the County of Glocester and newes was brought to the Town that Prince Rupert himself Prince Mawrice the Earl of Carnarvon the Earl of Northampton the Lord Digby and divers other great Commanders with about seven thousand horse and foot were marching towards Cicester with an intent to make an attempt against it which Town at that time was not in so good a posture of defence as formerly it had been for that part of their forces were about Malmesbury and other places which was occasioned by a late assault which was made against Shudly-Castle by the Gloucestershire forces where they took the Lord Shandoys and three hundred men prisoners with their Arms and Ammunition so that there was in Cicester at this time but eleven hundred men and five small Peeces of Ordnance This day there was but little done only three or foure of Prince Ruperts Scouts were taken Prisoners and caried into the Town but the next day Prince Rupert having brought all his forces together before the Town began to make an assault against it whereupon the Townsmen perceiving the great strength that was against them presently sent to Gloucester desiring some ayd and assistance from thence and in the mean time they resolved to oppose the Enemies forces which was valiantly performed by them insomuch that the Enemy could make no entrance all that day although they played very fiercely against the Town with their Ordnance and at last whilest the Ordnance were playing against one end of the Town Prince RVPERT with a party of Horse advanced to the other end and made an assault against it shooting Granadoes to set on fire Barnes and thatched houses which were at that end and fired some of them amongst which was a Stack of Hay the smoke of which fire by reason of the Winde carrying it into the Town did so much annoy the inhabitants of the Town that they could hardly see one another and knew not which way to turn them and and thereupon were suddainly surprised by the Cavaleers who at their first entrance laid about them in that inhumain manner it would grieve the hardest heart to think of for they spared neither woman nor child that they met withall and most cruelly murthered a godly Divine and his whole Family and after quarter was granted those men which escaped with their lives were miserably tortured and us●d with worse cruelty then death for they were stript naked and dragged up and down the street terrifying them with most heavie oathes and curses holding their naked swords and Pistols to their breasts and at last drave them i●to the Church where they were kept in that naked and miserable condition four and twenty houres together without eyther bread or water there being as it is reported about a thousand of them which cruelties are hardly to be paraleld by any stories in our English Chronicles Before I passe any further I should relate the number of such persons as were slain on both sides but in this particuler I shall crave favour to be excused if I do not so exactly relate the very certainty thereof it being a thing of more then ordinary difficulty to give a true definition thereof but herein I must referre my self to the generall brute of the people which in all probability doth not much vary from the truth who say that before the Cavaleers en●red the Town the inhabitants lost not above two hundred men but the enemy lost about fifteen hundred The prisoners which were taken by the Cavaleers were pinioned and coupled together and driven like Cattle to Oxford without shoes or stockins or hats to keep their bare heads from the weather many of them as it is ●eported being glad to make hard shift for a peece of Mat or Straw to tye about them to cover their nakednesse and and at their comming near unto Oxford newes being brought to the town of their neer approach a great number of people came out to meet them the prisoners being tyed together with Cords and Match though most of them were of very good worth and quality and two of them Ministers which were in the like manner drawn through the dirt and mire and so were all caried into the Town and imprisoned in two severall Churches and kept there all night not being allowed either fire bread or water whereupon a poor woman perceiving the miserable condition of these poor distressed prisoners and hearing their lamentable complaint and cry for water went to fetch them some but being seen she was beaten by a Cavaleer yet the poor woman being inwardly moved with these mens miseries said she would fetch them water though she were hanged for it Some of them that were taken at Cicester and thus carried to Oxford by reason of their cruell usage and the wounds they had received not having any meanes to recover them nor any Chirurgeon to come at them are since dead After they had been thus imprisoned all night in the Churches the next day they had an Oath tendred unto them which was as followeth viz. The Oath administred unto all those who were taken Prisoners ly the Cavaleers at Chichester I A. B. resting fully assured of His Majesties Princely truth and goodnesse do freely and from my heart promise vow and protest in the presence of Almighty God that I will to the utmost of my power and with the hazard of my life maintain and defend the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England His Majesties sacred Person his Highnesse and lawfull successors His Majesties just power and priviledge and the just power and priviledge of Parliament against the Forces under the Conduct of the Earl of Essex and against all other Forces whatsoever contrary to His Majesties command I do beleeve that the raising and imploying of forces by His Majestie for the purposes and causes before mentioned to be most just and necessary and I will do my utmost endeavour to procure and re-establish the peace and the quiet of the Kingdome and that herein all His Majesties Subiects may fully enjoy their liberty and property according to the law of the land and I will neither divulge or communicate any thing to the said Earle of Essex his Officers or to any other to hinder or prejudice the designes of His Maiestie in the conduct and imployment of His army and I do beleeve that the Subiects of England are not obliged by any act of State Vote Ordinance or Declaration made or to be made either by the Kings Maiesty solely or by the Lords and Commons singly or joyntly without his Maiesties expresse consent saving such as have or shall be in execution of or according to some known Law-custome of the Realm or Statute enacted by the King or Lords and Commons in Parliament and J do further protest and vow in the presence of Almighty God that I will not take or bear armes but by expresse warrant of His Maiestie or by authority justly derived from His Majesties immediate warrant A Great part of the businesse in Parliament the last week was concerning the propositions lately sent from his Majesty to the Parliament concerning a treaty perticulerly about a Cessation of Arms and the House of Commons conceving it unsafe and a matter of dangerous consequence to the Kingdom that there should be a cessation of arms only during the treaty after long debate of the businesse their being about 200 persons in the House it being put to the Question it was carried by the Major voices that there should be an utter disbanding of all forces both by the King and Parl. which if his Maj. will gratiously be pleased to agree unto the Parl. will make choice of fit and able persons for the managing of the treaty with those which shall be chosen by his Majesty and in the mean time untill things are further agreed upon they wil be ready to propound such a way to give his Majesty satisfaction concrening the propositions made by his Maiesty touching his Forts Castles and Navy as shal be resonable and with safety to the Kingdom FINIS