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A61191	Anglia rediviva Englands recovery being the history of the motions, actions, and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt., Captain-General of all the Parliaments forces in England / compiled for the publique good by Ioshua Sprigge ...	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing S5070; ESTC R18123	234,796	358

done they drew their Ladders after them and got over another Work and the House-wall before they could enter In this Sir Hardresse Waller performing his duty with honour and diligence was shot on the Arm but not dangerous We have had little losse Many of the Enemy our men put to the sword and some Officers of quality most of the rest we have prisoners among which the Marquisse and Sir Robert Peak with divers other Officers whom I have ordered to be sent to you we have taken about ten Peece of Ordnance much Ammunition and our Souldiers a good encouragement I humbly offer to have this Place slighted for these reasons It will ask 800 men to man it It is no Frontier The Country is poor about it The place exceedingly ruined by our Batteries and Mortar-peeces and a Fire which fell upon the place since our taking it If you please to take the garrison of Farnham some out of Chichester and a good part of the Foot which were here under D'Albier and make a strong Quarter at Newbury with three or four Troops of Horse I dare be confident it would not only be a curb to Dennington but a Security and Frontier to all these parts and by lying there will make the Trade most secure between Bristol and London for all Carriages And I believe the Gentlemen of Sussex and Hantshire will with more cheerfulnes contribute to maintain a Garrison on the Frontier then in their bowels which will have lesse safety in it Sir I hope not to delay but march towards the West to morrow and to be as diligent as I may in my Expedition thither I must speak my judgement to you That if you intend to have your work carried on Recruits of Foot must be had and a course taken to pay your Army else believe me Sir it may not be able to answer the work you have for it to do I intreated Col. Hamond to wait upon you who was taken by a mistake whilst we lay before this garrison whom God safely delivered to us to our great joy but to his losse of almost all he had which the Enemy took from him The Lord grant that these mercies may be acknowledged with all thankfulnesse God exceedingly abounds in his goodnesse to us and will not be weary untill Righteousnesse and Peace meet and that He hath brought forth a glorious work for the happinesse of this poor Kingdome Wherein desires to serve GOD and You with a faithfull heart Your most humble Servant Oliver Cromwel Basingstoak Octob. 14. 1645. section 9 Mr. Peters Relation to the House of Commons was as followeth Mr. Peters relation supplying divers particulars That he came into Basing-house some time after the Storm on Tuesday the 14. of October 1645. and took a view first of the Works which were many the circumvallation being above a mile compass the old house had stood as it is reported 2 or 300 years a nest of Idolatry the New house surpassing that in beauty and stateliness and either of them fit to make an Emperours court The Rooms before the storm it seems in both houses were all compleatly furnished Provisions for some years rather then moneths 400 quarters of Wheat Bacon divers rooms full containing hundreds of flitches Cheese proportionable with Oatmeal Beef Pork Beer divers cellars full and that very good A Bed in one room furnished that cost 1300. l. Popish books many with Copes and such Utensils that in truth the House stood in its full pride and the Enemy was perswaded that it would be the last peece of ground that would be taken by the Parliament because they had so often foiled our Forces that had formerly appeared before it In the severall rooms and about the house there were slain 74. and only one woman the daughter of Doctor Griffith who by her railing provoked our Souldiers then in heat into a further passion There lay dead upon the ground Major Cuffle a man of great account amongst them and a notorious Papist slain by the hands of Major Harrison that godly and gallant Gentleman and Robinson the Player who a little before the Storm was known to be mocking and scorning the Parliament our Army Eight or nine Gentlewomen of rank running forth together were entertained by the Common souldiers somewhat coursly yet not uncivilly considering the action in hand the plunder of the souldier continued till Tuesday night one Souldier had 120 peeces in Gold for his share others Plate others Jewels amongst the rest one got 3 bags of silver which he being not able to keep his own counsel grew to be common pillage amongst the rest and the fellow had but one half crown left for himself at last Also the Souldiers sold the Wheat to Country people which they held up at good rates a while but afterwards the Market fell and there was some abatements for haste After that they sold the houshold-stuffe whereof there was good store and the Country loaded away many Carts and continued a great while fetching out all manner of houshold-stuffe till they had fetched out all the Stools Chairs and other Lumber all which they sold to the Country people by peece-meale In all these great houses there was not one Iron bar left in al the windows save only what was in the fire before night And the last work of all was the Lead and by Thursday morning they had hardly left one Gutter about the house And what the Souldiers left the Fire took hold on which made more then ordinary haste leaving nothing but bare wals and chimnies in less then 20 houres being occasioned by the neglect of the Enemy in quenching a Fire-ball of ours at first We know not how to give a just account of the number of persons that were within for we have not three hundred prisoners and it may be an hundred slain whose bodies some being covered with rubbish came not to our view only riding to the house on Tuesday night we heard divers crying in Vaults for quarter but our men could neither come to them nor they to us But amongst those that we saw slain one of their Officers lying on the ground seeming so exceeding tall was measured and from his great toe to his crown was 9 foot in length The Marquis being pressed by Mr. Peters arguing with him broke out and said That if the King had no more ground in England but Bazing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to his uttermost meaning with these Papists comforting himself in this disaster That Bazing-house was called Loyalty But he was soon silenced in the question concerning the King and Parliament only hoping that the King might have a day again And thus the Lord was pleased in a few hours to shew us what mortall seed all earthly glory grows upon and how just and righteous the wayes of God are who takes sinners in their own snares and lifteth up the heads of his dispised people This is now

that when the affairs of this Kingdom will possibly dispence with us the Parliament allowing and you accepting of our assistance We shall be most willing if need so require to help and serve you faithfully in your own Kingdom and to engage our selves to suppresse the Enemy there and to establish you again in peace In the mean time we shall endeavour to help you by our prayers and to wrestle with God for one blessing of God upō both Nations between whom besides many other strong relations and engagements We hope the Vnity of Spirit shall be the surest Bond of Peace And this whatever suggestions or jealousies may have been to the contrary we desire you would believe as you shall ever really find to proceed from integrity of heart a sense of your sufferings and a full purpose to answer any call of God to your assistance as become Your Christian friends and servants in the Lord Thomas Fairfax Oliver Cromwel Thomas Hamond Henry Ireton Edward Montague Richard Fortescue Richard Inglesby Iohn Pickering Hardresse Waller William Herbert Robert Hamond Iames Gray Thomas Pride Robert Pye Thomas Rainsborough Thomas Sheffield Charles Fleetwood Ralph Welden Iohn Raymond Leon Wattson Arthur Evelin Richard Dean Thomas Iackson Iohn Desborough Christopher Bethel The report concerning the storm being made unto the Counsell of War and fully agreed unto the Canon baskets were ordered to be filled Seamen and boats sent for Thursday September 4. The weather that had been so extream wet before that many Souldiers and Horses dyed thereby with extream hard duty in that wet season began to alter to the great reviving of the drooping souldier Our great guns played this day from off the new battery against Pryors for t Summons was also prepared to be sent to Prince Rupert and being agreed unto was sent in accordingly which runs in these words For his Highnesse Prince Rupert Sir for the service of the Parliament I have brought their Army before the City of Bristol and do summon you in their names to render it with all the Forts belonging to the same into my hands for their use Having used this plain language as the business requires I wish it may be as effectuall unto you as it is satisfactory to my self that I do a little expostulate with you about the surrender of the same which I confesse is a way not common and which I should not have used but in respect to such a person and to such a place I take into consideration your royal birth and relation to the Crown of England your honour courage the vertues of your person and the strength of that place which you may think your self bound and able to maintain Sir the Crown of England is and will be where it ought to be we fight to maintain it there But the King misled by evill Counsellours or through a seduced heart hath left his Parliament under God the best assurance of his Crown and Family the maintaining of this Schisme is the ground of this unhappy war on your part and what sad effects it hath produced in the three Kingdomes is visible to all men To maintain the rights of the Crown and Kingdom joyntly a principal part whereof is that the King in supream acts is not to be advised by men of whom the Law takes no notice but by his Parliament the great Counsel of the Kingdom in whom as much as man is capable of he hears all his people as it were at once advising him and in which multitude of Councellours lyes his safety and his peoples interest and to see him right in this hath been the constant and faithfull endeavour of the Parliament and to bring these wicked instruments to justice that have misled him is a principal ground of our fighting Sir if God makes this clear to you as he hath to us I doubt not but he will give you a heart to deliver this place notwithstanding all the other considerations of honour courage fidelity c. because of their constancy and use in the present business depends upon the right or wrongfulness of this that hath been said And if upon such condition you shall surrender it and save the losse of blood or hazard the spoiling of such a City it would be an occasion glorious in it self and joyful to us for restoring of you to the endeared affection to the Parliament and people of England the truest friend to your Family it hath in this World But if this be hid from your eyes and through your wilfulness this so great so famous and ancient a City and so full of people be by your putting us to force the same exposed to ruine and the extremities of war which we yet shall in that case as much as possible endeavour to prevent then I appeal to the righteous God to be judge between you and us and to require the wrong And let all England judge whether the burning of its Towns ruining its Cities and destroying its people be a good requital from a person of your Family which hath had the prayers tears purses and blood of its Parliament and people And if you look on either as now divided hath ever had that same party both in Parliaments and amongst the People most zealous for their assistance and restitution which you now oppose and seek to destroy and whose constant grief hath been their desires to serve your Family have been ever hindred or made fruitless by that same party about his Majesty whose counsel you act and whose interest you pursue in this unnaturall war I expect your speedy answer to this Summons with the return of the Bearer this evening and remain Your Highness humble Servant Thomas Fairfax This day about 2000 well affected countreymen who with many more upon treaty with the Lieutenant-General at the beginning of the siege had engaged their assistance to make good the same marched with some 36 Colours in the face of Bristol had quarters assigned them and kept guards Two pieces of Ordnance also were sent unto them for their encouragement it not a little grieving the Enemy within to see the forwardness of the countrey to come to our assistance for which reason and to lay an effectual caution against their revolt it was held fit to make use of those force● from the countrey rather then for any considerable service could be expected from them The Trumpeter that went in with the Summons was detained all night during which space no sally was made by the Enemy nor no alarm given by us Only the Sea-men and their boats comming up the river to St. Vincents Rock was all the motion this day produced Neither upon Friday September 5. was there any sallying out but all was quiet on both sides and the Trumpeter returned from Prince Rupert with an answer to the Generals Summons in these words Sir I received yours by your Trumpeter I desire to know whether you will give me leave to send a Messenger to the

he attempted it And now we having the Passe at Truro the Lord Hopton drew his Forces to quarter more Westward and the Treaty was adjourned till next Morning and a Cessation observed on both Sides Wednesday the 11. The Commissioners on both sides met againe but could not make any great progresse into the Treaty the Cessation was continued for a day longer about one hundred and twenty Musquetteers came in this day with their Armes and Colours flying being of Colonel Trevanian's Regiment also divers Colonels Knights and Gentlemen of quality sent to the General making knowne their desires to be received into the protection of the Parliament which so disheartned Colonel Trevanian then with his Regiment at Perin that late that evening he sent unto his Excellency desiring he might be included in the Treaty with the Lord Hopton and have the same conditions that other Officers were to have These things so operated with the Governour of Saint Mawes Castle a principall Fort that had a great command of the Haven at Falmouth that he sent to the General to be received into favour And although Arrundell the Governour of Pendennis sent to command him to come into the Castle of Pendennis he fearing some evill intended against him refused and persisted in his former desire whereupon the General sent him conditions with a Summons which were accepted and he agreed to surrender By reason of the Cessation our Troopers mixed with the Enemies and upon this bruit abroad though without ground that the Enemies Troopers should lose their Horses they to make some advantage of them coursed good store of their best Horses to our men By twelve of the clock this night all the materiall poynts of the Treaty were concluded matters of circumstance onely remained which yet were so necessary to be concluded in order to the perfecting of the Treaty that the next day was allowed and the Cessation continued for the finishing thereof When the Treaty was fully ended and Hostages appointed the same day Saint Mawes Castle was surrendred and thirteen pieces of Ordnance in it whereof two great Brasse Pieces of about four thousand weight apiece and our Foot were sent to possesse it The Treaty being thus ended with great joy did the Enemies Officers receive our conditions and wisht they had sooner known our intentions towards them Those that seemed most discontented were the common Troopers that were to be dismounted who therefore to mend their conditions had changed away their best Horses for advantage before the disbanding And it is not to be credited how much our Army did get into the Enemies esteem during the Cessation and what sorrowfull expressions many of them did make that they han been so deluded concerning our carriage ingenuously confessing that the civility of our Army had been ever till now concealed from them Officers and Souldiers unanimously desired imployment for Jreland being willing to take the Sacrament Oath for that they proposed or to enter into what other Obligation should be thought fit That as they would never beare Armes against the Parliament in England so that they would not if they were imployed in Jreland by the Parliament desist from pursuing of their commands against the Jrish Rebels upon any countermand or other invitation of the Kings affirming that they had sufficiently smarted already for being enticed by him Saturday was appointed to be the day of disbanding which yet of very necessity was put off till the next day in the meane time one hundred and twenty more of the Enemies Foot with Colours came in and now all things being agreed the Commissioners of both sides supt this night with the General The next day which was appointed for the Disbanding was the Lords day in which the Army would have been glad to have rested but in regard time was precious and the country suffered so much by the Enemies Forces that lay upon them they by good warrant preferred mercy and necessity before sacrifice and the French Regiment under the command of Monsieur Laplane which was to be the first disbanded was that day brought to the place appointed for Disbanding Their Horses were very poore they having before by private contracts put off the best of them There were about three hundred dismounted but they having made their markets before most of their Horses as was but just were turned back upon their owne hands as not worth the twenty shillings an Horse which they were to receive according to the agreement In the space of five dayes more was the work finished and the whole Field force of the Enemy in the West of England disbanded viz. On Monday two Brigades of Horse Tuesday 17. the two Brigades of the Lord Cleveland's and Major-General Web's Wednesday 18. part of the Lord Wentworth's Colonel Bovile's Brigade Lord Hopton's Life-guard and Sir Richard Greenvil's Life-guar'd Thursday two Brigades more of which the Lord Goring's was one and the Princes Life guard Friday 20. the two last Troops of all the Cornish Horse were disbanded The number of Brigades in all that were disbanded were nine viz. the French Brigade consisting of three Regiments The Lord Wentmorth's Brigade consisting of four Regiments Sir James Smith's Brigade consisting of three Regiments The Lord Cleveland's Brigade consisting of four Regiments Major-General Web's of three Regiments The Lord Hopton's Brigade commanded by Colonel Bovile The Lord Goring's Brigade of five Regiments The Princes Life-guard consisting of nine Troops being seven hundred men armed Sir Richard Greenvil's Reformadoes The men that were dismounted are proper and lusty men To the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire SPEAKER of the Honourable House of COMMONS SIR WHilst I lay at Bodman for the necessary refreshment of the Army and to block up the Passages from Bodman to the North and South Sea I sent a Summons with Propositions to Sir Ralph Hopton and the Army under his command A true Copy whereof I have here inclosed being encouraged thereunto by some of the Enemies Officers and Souldiers who came in to me and informed of their inclinablenesse to Conditions and hoping thereby either to bring them to such termes as should be to your advantage or would distract and weaken them and withall understanding by the intercepted Letters I sent you that an Irish Infantry was ready to be shipt for England I thought fit to try all meanes which in probability might break their Body of Cavalry upon the place When I had dispatched these Propositions to the Enemy J advanced upon Monday with all the Army from Bodman towards Truro being then the Enemies head Quarters and to Tregny where I quartered that night Sir RalphHopton sent a Trumpeter to me with a Letter desiring to have Commissioners apointed on both sides to meet at Tresilian-Bridge the next day with power to treat and conclude which I assented to The Treaty accordingly began the Commissioners meeting about four a clock in the Afternoon and J in the meane time advancing the quarters of the Army to Truro and