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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77400	A briefe and true relation of the seige [sic] and surrendering of Kings Lyn to the Earle of Manchester.		1643 (1643)	Wing B4536; Thomason E67_28; ESTC R1949	6,856	9

night would not permit but in the morning it should be done which satisfied the Colonell for we saw they vvere perfectly subdued and their spirits as to opposition quite gone If it shall be further enquired why or vvhat should be the reason this towne of so great strength should yeeld to so small a power it is answred first the inhabitants vvere such as had not been asccustomed to vvar and were much frighted by the Granadoes though to speake truth there vvas some defect in them so that they did little only falling among a timerous people Secondly they had no souldiers but inhabitants and of them not many fighters but chiefely for this reason they knew my Lord was noble made up of love and meeknesse that conditions vvould be performed their trade and markets open a garrison vvould spend money among them and if they held out they should it was like lose many of their lives and be blockt up by sea and land if not taken and their estates at last become a prey to the conquerour there is one other question or rather an exception to be answered vvhich as vve understood in the Army vvas that the Londoners tooke exceptions that my Lord sate downe before the Towne For answer to this though it be a sad thing that accounts must be given to those that understand not the affaires of War nor vvhom it so much concerned as the associated Counties yet thus much may be said my Lord thought action vvould have pleased them because they complaine so for want of action and besides to reduce a towne to obedience that they traded vvith and the holding out of it so much prejudice to them should rather have put them upon his encouragement then finding fault Besides he hopes shortly to be in Lincolnshire and to drive the enemy out thence vvhich he could not have done that towne not secured and if God prosper his honour as vvell there as in this late action he shall cleare the Countries make way for the Londoners increase of trade and accommodation vvith provisions for the City Lincolnshire being one of their best magazines for the belly We thus possest of the Towne the next morning about nine of the clock his Lordship marched from his head quarter with his life guard a brave Troope commanded by that valiant Gentleman Captaine Rich and divers Knights and Gentlemen being come into the Towne be repaired to the Sermon where one of his Chaplaines preached to give God thankes for his happy and peaceable entry the Ministers both in fore and afternoone bonding their discourses that way and indeed God was seen exceedingly in the businesse and so much the more as the arme of flesh was weak they laboured also to possesse the people of a blessing to them and to that purpose gave many cleer instances too large to be here inserted whether the people thought so or not did not appear but they will suddenly finde it so my Lord hath his Quarter at Alderman Tolls a Member of the House of Commons who was so roughly dealt with in the time of the Siege that he was constrained to make an escape out at a window into the arme of the sea his house being guarded in all parts else by Musketiers many others returned that had fled out of the Towne who were hapily again possest of their dwellings though with great diminution of their estates which to repaire it were good some course were taken for there is nothing more reasonable then that those that forsake all for the Cause should be satisfied in point of dammage Colonell Waltor hath for the present the Government of the towne thus we see how providence orders he that was lately lockt up for three daies and three nights at Oxford in a poore chamber without food is now Govern our of as great and strong a towne as Oxford in which service he will doubtlesse behave himselfe so well that the towne shall not have cause to complaine and will be able to say that at the delivery of his charge which was said by Master Ash at the evening Sermon after the entring the towne that he was confident notwithstanding the entrance was in the dead of the night yet a halfe penny worth of wrong had not been done to any in the towne The first resolution taken for the better and more orderly government of the Souldiers and content of the people was to have every morning at eight a clocke a Sermon which was to be performed by the Ministers of the Towne and my Lords Chaplaines which will undoubtedly keepe a good Harmony betweene them And thus briefely you have the most materiall passages past in the Service the next thing to be done is the dismissing the Gentlemen Strangers seizing of Armes and what by Articles was to be delivered setling the Garrison that so the place being secured his Lordship may advance Take one observation more the Towne of Lyn may be made as strong a place as any in the world with a little charge and so there is a retiring place for the fearfull that have thoughts of departing the Kingdome it were not amisse to call all that are gone thither and let them pay excise there towards our war rather then the wars of others Let all who apprehend the gaining this Towne a good piece of service to the State give the noble Earle of Manchester his due praise and God the glory This is Licenced and Entered into the Hall Booke according to Order Printed by G. Bishop and R. White