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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41282	Colonell Fiennes letter to my lord general concerning Bristol	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing F874; ESTC R628	15,613	25

House yet when they came into that House they were very eagerly opposed and the House continued sitting untill nine at night in hope such men as durst declare themselves to be well-affected would be wearied with their long debates and they of the malignant faction might there carry matters upon that advantage as they had done formerly But finding that they sate it out and carried it for the Propositions by the major part they had no other way to effect the businesse then to returne againe to their former practices and bring downe their City Club-men to awe the Members of both Houses and repeale those Votes And so accordingly they did For the next day being Sunday last they had so fashioned and prepared their partie in the City of London that printed Bills were set up on the Church dores and somewhat you must think was done in the Pulpits too a copie whereof wee here offer you All such as desire there may be a generall raising of the people against those Irish Rebels and blood thirsty Papists now in Armes fully purposing to destroy us our Religion Lawes and Liberties are desired to meet at Westminster Hall to morrow morning by nine of the clocke being the seventh day of this instant August to move the Parliament that this may be put in speedy execution Twenty thousand Irish Rebels are appointed to come over against us According to which intimation the Rabble came in such multitudes and with so great clamour that such of the Lords and Commons who had favoured the Propositions were forced to take boate and make hast towards Kingston where the Earle of Essex then lay with that part of his Forces which Gods hand and the Kings sword had left alive conceiving that the declaring of themselves in favour of him of which you heard at full before had beene sufficient to oblige him fast unto their partie But contrary to their hopes and expectation they found him so resolved for the other side as they were faine to dispose otherwise of themselves And it is said that notwithstanding those indignities which have beene offered to him by the City faction he is so much inclined that way that upon notice sent unto him that the women had made an uproare in demand of peace he sent some Troops of Horse amongst them and killed three of them for which and some other former courtesies that sex will ever honour him and his posterity On Wednesday last a partee of Horse about fifty were sent out from Banbury towards Towceter commanded by Captaine James Chamberlaine twenty of this number divided and went towards Northampton the other thirty within lesse then a mile of Towceter met with the Rebels Forces in number about one hundred and twenty commanded by Captaine Lawson which though they had so great advantage in number yet Captaine Chamberlaine very valiantly charged through them with part of his men his Rere falling off from him and with that small strength maintained a sharpe fight with them above halfe an hower wherein he received many wounds and at last was shot dead through the head and one of his men also Of the Rebels there are at least 20 sore wounded as by intelligence from Northampton where they are is certified and five were carried away behind them dead from the place one left on the ground and Captain Lawson himselfe wounded This gentleman was the youngest brother to Sir Thomas Chamberlaine now high Shriffe of this County and was in most of the principall Fights at Worcester Keynion Brainsford c. where his valour was eminently manifested and by this last action wherein he lost his life hath added further to the honour of that worthy and loyall Family FRIDAY August 11. This day wee were certified by Letters from Yorke that about foure hundred of the Rebels of Lancashire came stealing into Yorkshire hoping to have surprized some of His Majesties horse quarters about Halifax which being timely perceived by Sir Francis Mackworth he fell upon them and routed them killed above forty in the place and tooke fifty the rest as they were taught ran away and escaped by the advantage of the place At Coventry they pull downe many houses of the Suburbs and tell the people that the Kings Army is marching towards them with twenty pieces of Ordnance and they had some reason for this day we received an expresse that his Majesty yesterday sate downe before Gloucester and sent in a most Gracious Summons to the City in these very words Out of our tender Compassion to Our City of Glocester and that it may not receive Prejudice by Our Army which We cannot prevent if We be compelled to assault it We are personally come before it to require the same and are graciously pleased to let all the Inhabitants of and all other Persons within that City as well Souldiers as others know That if they shall immediatly submit themselves and deliver this our City to Vs we are contented freely and absolutely to pardon every one of them without exception And doe assure them in the word of a KING that they nor any of them shall receive the least Dammage or Prejudice by our Army in their Persons or Estates But that we will appoint such a Governour and a moderate Garrison to reside there as shall be both for the ease and security of that City and that whole County But if they shall neglect this Profer of Grace and Favour and compell Vs by the Power of Our Army to reduce that place which by the helpe of God We doubt not We shall be easily and shortly able to do they must thank themselves for all the Calamities and Miseries must befall them To this Message We expect a cleere and positive Answere within two houres after the publishing hereof And by these presents doe give leave to any Persons safely to repaire to and returne from Vs whom that City shall desire to imploy unto Vs in that businesse And doe require all the Officers and Souldiers of Our Army quietly to suffer them to passe accordingly But this Rebellious City answered that they would obey His Majesties commands as they were signified by the two Houses of Parliament And now let the world judge if His Majestie could have sent a more Gracious Message to His most Loyall Subjects and whether these desperate Rebels deserve any mercy who after so many offers do still refuse a pardon But since their returning this Rebellious Answer they have set their owne Suburbs on fire which surely is not to keepe the City either for the KING or Parliament Yet His Majesties Forces quenched the fire and in spight of the Rebells entred the Suburbs where still they are and have already raised Mounts and digged trenches so neare the City wall that I dare promise you God willing a very speedy account of the siege of Gloucester SATURDAY August 12. This day newes was brought to Town of Sir William Waller's extraordinary progresse in raising the great Army intended

August 19. 1643. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament assembled That this Ordinance bee forthwith printed and published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. COLONELL FIENNES LETTER TO MY LORD GENERAL CONCERNING BRISTOL This is licenced and entred according to Order LONDON Printed by T. P. and M. S. for Thomas Vnderhill 1643. COLONELL FYNES Letter to my Lord Generall concerning BRISTOLL May it please your Excellencie SInce the surrender of Bristoll of which I desire to give an account before a Councell of War I could not get any means to send to your Excellencie and I would not have written at this time but have my selfe waited upon your Excellencie but that I finde it necessary for me to stay here a day or two to cleare my selfe of such aspersions as are most unworthily laid upon me in this Citie when I kept the Town so farre beyond the enemies expectation that they began to beleeve we had gotten some fresh forces into the Citie and held a solemne counsell of warre the results whereof I have being found in Colonell Burkes pocket whom we slew amongst divers other Colonels and Officers of qualitie whether they should proceed to fall upon the town by way of assault or by way of approach My Lord I held that large Town with a handful of men against a greater Armie then ever yet the King had together foure dayes being continually almost assaulted both by day and by night and stormed by them in eight or nine places together in so furious manner as the like was never yet done in England and the losse that they have received doth testifie as much For there are neere a thousand of them slain and maimed besides a great many of their chiefe Officers amongst the rest Coll-Lunsford Coll. Buck Coll. Trevanian Sir Nicholas Slaning and divers others and yet we lost not above eight men in service and none of quality The enemy was provided with all sorts of Fire-works as Granadoes Fire-pikes and the like and with Waines full of Faggots and broad Scaling Ladders whereon foure or six might climb up on a breast and they made use of all those in a most desperate way driving their wains of faggots into the ditches and climbing up with their Fire pikes and granadoes in their hands to the very portalls of our great Ordnance yet they were beaten back in 8 or 9 places together and entred only in one place where the works were not perfected there being no ditch as yet made nor any foot-bank within side the breastworks notwithstanding all this and that they had entred the suburbs and drawn the whole body of their foot to that place yet our Souldiers sallied out both Horse and Foot upon them as they lay in the suburbs and beat them back from street to street an hour and halfe together but being overlaid with fresh companies one seconding another wherein we were not able to answer them though they beat the enemy back most courageously at the first insomuch that many of them ran away threw down their Arms and cried for quarter yet being long overborn with fresh men which the enemy still drew down upon them they were forced to retreat into the town and then and not till then the Souldiers began to be disheartned and whether out of wearinesse or being discouraged having been 5 dayes nights together constantly upon duty and in fight without any reliefe for we could make no reserves they began to slink away from their Colours and Guards and get into houses do what their Officers could so that of 14. Companies I could not make 120 men although I proclaimed that all those that were upon the Guards should repaire to their Guards and those that were not should repaire to the Marsh and that there they should receive both money and victuals but I could not get them to their Colours or Guards although the enemy lay ready on the other side of the Key which at low water which then it began to be may be waded over to fall over into the Town and no doubt in that condition that our guards were then in both upon the Key and in the Marsh they might in lesse then halfe an houre have fallen into the Town by force and used their pleasures both upon the Souldiers and upon the Citizens Finding our selves in this condition I called a councell of warre at which also Sir John Horner Mr. Stevens and other Gentlemen of the Countrey were present I proposed to them our condition and besides laid open to them what store we had of Ammunition that we had not of powder above 25 French barrels and of match for above a dayes space that the Castle it selfe the works not being finished was not tenable above a day or two for that the maine wall would be battered in two severall places and that we had no expectation of reliefe against such a potent Army wherewith we were besieged in one two or three workes At the same instant Mr. Major and the Sheriffes did earnestly intreat us that seeing we could not keep the place we would not ruine so famous a Citie to no purpose nor expose so many mens persons and estates to violence and plundering Vpon all these considerations it was unanimously resolved that we should entertain a treaty with the enemy and that if we could have reasonable conditions that it were far better to save so many Commanders and Souldiers both of Horse and Foot and so many honest mens persons and estates as well of our friends in the Citie as of Gentlemen and others that came out of the countries adjacent then to expose them all to destruction by attempting in a furious and mad way to defend the towne or Castle for two or three dayes if we could have held it so long without any hope of holding them any longer for I will put it upon that issue and without any hope or expectation of any reliefe within that time or a longer time after Vpon the treaty all things almost which we demanded we obtained excepting the Arms of the common Souldiers and our Colours which being poynts of honour I was resolved to have insisted upon and so we brake off for a while But upon the earnest suit of the Major and Citizens and others called together my Officers and fell into a serious debate concerning it And when I was very resolute not to quit the point very many of my Captains came in and told us that they could not get six of their Companies together and that they ran away apace to the enemy over the Key it being now low water whereby they not only shewed to the enemy that our men were disheartned and that they should have found but slender opposition but also they shewed them the way how they might readily fall over into the Towne so soon as the treaty should break off which undoubtedly they had done and given us little leave to retreat into the Castle or anywhere else I must confesse this