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nel Hambden, and Colonel Grantham, and those Troops of Horfe and the Artillery,) and fent to bring them up to him; and about one a Clock at Night or two a Clock, thofe Forces came to my Lord General, and joyned with the reft of the Army; and when the King had drawn his Forces up the Hill, my Lord General drew us a matter of half a Mile or three quarters of a Mile further from the Hill, that he might be out of the Power of the Cannon; there we stood to our Arms all the Night, and in the Morning drew our felves out again into the Fields, but we heard no more News of the other Army, more than we saw some scattering Men, of fome three or four Troops of Horfes on the Top of the Hill, which came to bury the Dead, and take away fome of their Cannon, and fuch things as those were, but they came no more down the Hill, neither that Day nor on Tuesday, tho' there were divers Reports came to us in the Army, and I believe came hither, that there was fighting on Monday and Tuesday, yet there was no fighting, for the King kept on the Top of the Hill, and we came away on Tuesday at four a Clock; fo that we can affure you there was no more Action, than was on the Lord's Day.

Gentlemen,I fhall,after I have declared this Narration to you, fay no more than this, That certainly my Lord General himself hath deferved as much in this Service, for his Pains, and for his Care, and the particular Succefs that was upon it, as truly I think, ever any Gentleman did; and in the next place, that as God of his own immediate Providence did thus declare himself for the owning of his own Canfe, fo you will not forget to apply yourselves to God, to give him the Glory, and to intreat his Bleffing upon the future Succefs.

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Mr. Strode's Speech on the fame Subject.

Entlemen all, as this noble Lord hath told you, my Lord General hath fent him up to give you a clear Information of what was done: He hath given you fo clear a one, that there is little left for me to fay to you, only my Atteftation, and that needs not, had that been all, I fhould have faid nothing but in the Innumeration of those Regiments that did run away, and of his own, I muft needs fay thus much, when they all were away, he ftaid with us in the Service all that Night; this I hold it my Duty to this honourable Perfon, it was Modesty in himself to say nothing.

I fhall crave leave a little further, to make you fome Obfervation, That as God did this Great Work, and we afçribe to him the Honour, fo you will look upon the Perfons by whom he did it: In the first place, You have heard when it was a thoufand to one but that we had loft the Day, by running away of the Troops of Horfe, and the four Regiments, and then the General did draw up his own Regiment, and then did God begin in them to fhew his own Work, and it was not only in them, but by a Regiment raised in Effex, and another Regiment raised in this City, under the Command of Mr. Hollis, and another Regiment of my Lord Brooks, which had the Day upon them; these were the Men that were ignominiously reproached by the Name of Round Heads, and by thefe Round Heads did God fhew himself a moft glorious God: And truly (Gentlemen) they that will report to you the Number of our Dead, farther than we have reported them to you, muft find them many Miles from the Army, and then they were Men that run away fo far, that it was no matter who killed them; for our Men that we could find any where about the Place,

Place, we cannot find in all (nor think) above 300, and you'll fay, they were well lost that run away; the boldest Men of them that stood, were few loft, and they that were fo loft, were loft with a great deal of Honour; and, I believe, you will have them in more Reputation, than they that live and run away: So that truly I can fay no more to you, in fuch a Cause as this is, that you have undertaken with your Purses, and with your Perfons, God hath fhewed himself with us, be you but couragious, and we never need doubt it; and fo we fay all.

The Earl of Pembrook's Speech.

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Y Lord Mayor, and you Gentlemen of the City, I am commanded, and the Reason that makes me trouble you at this time with faying any thing, is by reason of a Letter I have received from the Committee, which I think is a Letter of fome Confequence, and fitting for you to fee; otherwise I am fo ill a Speaker, after fuch a Declaration made to you, I have not the Boldness to fay any thing to you: but truly though I fay little, and have a bad Tongue, yet I ever had fo good a Heart to this Business, that I fhall ever live and die in it.

Gentlemen, You have fhew'd your felves like brave and noble Citizens; you have done it with that Nobleness, with that Alacrity, with that Love to God, King, and Parliament, that none of your Ancestors before you never fhew'd more Love, nor Care, nor Zeal, nor perform'd that you have done better: I have only this to fay to you, If the Times are fuch (not that I think there is any great Peril ing the King's Army now, for they have told you nothing but Truth) yet when you have feen this Letter, you will find there is very good Cause for

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you to Crown this Work, which must be by following it, with the fame Zeal, Love, Care, and Noblenefs, and Alacrity; which if you do, you may well Crown your felves with the Name of a glorious City; and none more.

The LETT e r.

For his Excellency the Earl of Cumberland, Lord-
General of His Majefty's Forces in the North.

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r very good Lord, Your Lordship's of the twentieth of this Month I have received by Stockdale, and have read it to his Majesty, who willed me to fignifie to your Lordship, that he is well pleased with your Lordship's continuing of the Sheriff in his Place, albeit be fent a Writ for his Difcharge: His Majesty takes a Special Notice of your Lordship's Vigilancy and Care, in the Trust he bath repofed in your Lordfhip; as he hath by many very gracious Expreffions declared at feveral times, openly, upon Conference of your Busineß in that County: Your Lordship's Care of my Lady Dutches of Buckingham, is (I affure you) very well taken by his Majesty. Sir Ralph Hopton, and other Gentlemen in the West, have raised ten thousand Horse and Foot, with which they have already difarmed all Perfons in Cornwal, that are difaffected to the King: they have taken Lancefton, and are marching into Devonshire, to difarm the Difaffected there; and fo intend to come to meet the King at London: Here are also in Wales about fix or seven thoufand Men levied for the King, which are to be under Marqueß Hartford, that will be ready upon all Occafions to come to his Majefty; but we hope he will not need their Help, having given the Earl of Effex fuch a Blow, as they will make no hafte again to adventure themselves in that Caufe, against God's Anointed: I shall refer your Lordship to the Relation of the Bearer, for the Particulars. To Morrow his Majesty marcheth towards London, by

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Oxford. I am so full of Bufineß, as I must crave your Lordship's Pardon that I write fo briefly: But I am nevertheless,

Edgefcot, Northampton,
Octob. 24. 1642.

Your Lordship's most humble Servant,

Edward Nicholas.

Sir William Parkins's Speech in Parliament, 1641, against A. B. Lawd, and for Establishing a Church-Government.

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Mr. Speaker,

Stand not up in my own particular Behalf, but in the universal and general Name of the whole Kingdom: Alas, Mr. Speaker, they depend all upon our exemplary Juftice, which if we do fully execute, will not only give great and plenary Satisfaction to our Nation, but will likewife caufe the Land to fmile hereafter with the bleffed Beams of profperous Felicity: But if the leaft Error and fmalleft Deliration be overfeen by us, (Oh! it ftrikes my trembling Mind with Horror to think on it) how will all Things precipitate themselves into Ruine most irrevocable? But I fpeak not this as if any here would omit or extenuate the Supremacy of Justice in the leaft Thought; to admonish you of that Point, were to bid the Moon keep her monthly Courfe, the Sphears to reduce themfelves in their Circumference, or the Sun to fhine upon the Earth: but I fpeak this only to add a Spur unto you, least we should at any time languish in our Heav'n-proceeding Journey. The Cries of the People have come up unto me, the Voice of the whole Nation tingles in my Ears, and methinks I hear each Subject wish, that we would briefly establish the Church-Government with all Expedition,

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