A letter from Colonell Harvie, to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex. Novemb. 10. 1643. It is his Excellencies pleasure that this letter be forthwith printed. John Baldwyn, Secretary to his Excellency. Harvey, Edmund, 1594-1673. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86072 of text R17955 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E75_24). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A86072 Wing H1051 Thomason E75_24 ESTC R17955 99860310 99860310 155520 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A86072) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 155520) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 13:E75[24]) A letter from Colonell Harvie, to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex. Novemb. 10. 1643. It is his Excellencies pleasure that this letter be forthwith printed. John Baldwyn, Secretary to his Excellency. Harvey, Edmund, 1594-1673. [8] p. Printed for John Wright in the Old-bailey, London : Novemb. 11. 1643. An account of Prince Rupert's attack on Newport 4 Nov., 1643. Signed and dated at end: Oulny Novemb. 6. 1643. Edmond Harvey. Signatures: A⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Essex, Robert Devereux, -- Earl of, 1591-1646 -- Early works to 1800. Newport Pagnell (Buckinghamshire) -- History -- Siege, 1643 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 16412-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. A86072 R17955 (Thomason E75_24). civilwar no A letter from Colonell Harvie, to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex.: Novemb. 10. 1643. It is his Excellencies pleasure that this letter Harvey, Edmund 1643 904 2 0 0 0 0 0 22 C The rate of 22 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER From Colonell Harvie , To his Excellency ROBERT EARLE of ESSEX . Novemb. 10. 1643. IT is his Excellencies Pleasure that this Letter be forthwith printed . John Baldwyn , Secretary to his Excellency . LONDON : Printed for John Wright in the Old-bailey , Novemb. 11. 1643. A LETTER FROM Colonell HARVEY , to his Excellency ROBERT Earle of Essex . Right Excellent , THe Kings forces to be revenged on us , for our falling into their Quarters on Thursday last , came on Saturday morning with seven or eight Regiments of their Horse , foure hundred Dragoneers , and two hundred commanded Musqueteers , mounted behind the Troopers , this party commanded by Prince Rupert , about seven in the morning fell upon our Quarters , our Scouts gave us the Alarum some what too late , not above a quarter of an houre before their body appeared within Musquet shot of the Townes end , and they assured us that they had well viewed their whole party , and that it could not be more than five hundred , which imboldned me to draw forth , our Troope into the Field , but no sooner had we drawne out , but their grosse appeared , at which time but eight Troopes were marched out of the Towne , but not drawn up , the Enemy came downe the hill amaine to charge us , to prevent our embattelling , the want of which , with the sight of their great body , occasioned ours to retreat too fast , and disorderly into the Towne , and some much farther . The Enemy entred the Towne , and upon their first falling in , we beate them out againe with a very small number , but they sent a fresh and a greater supplie , and forced us to retreat over the Bridge , at the end of which , we drew up all we could prevaile with to stand , which was about two hundred , and the Enemy came also over the Bridge , and drew up in the same Meadow , but with forty Horse or thereabouts , I charged those then there drawne up in number about sixty , and they most hastily retreated over the Bridge , we pursuing them , where many of them were wounded , slaine , and tumbled over the Bridge , but with their Musqueteers they beate us backe againe , to the end of the Bridge next Newport . This done , we againe marched over the Bridge with fiftie Horse , and in despight of them , entred into the Towne , and advanced , and kept the Towne , and cleared it , and drew out into the Field , and faced them . In great haste and feare , ( as those we tooke after confessed ) they marched away , and some of those beaten out of the Towne ( as some of Towcester assu●ed us ) ran thither and told the rest that the Round-heads had cut them all off , which gave them a hot Alarum , so that thence they sent threé hundred Musqueteérs to their reliefe , and the better to make good their retreate . There were found dead upon the place 19 persons of theirs and ours , and twenty of theirs were dressed two miles beyond Oulny , and the Lieutenant to the Earle of Downe , with our other there by us taken Prisoner who stayed behind ; We ●ooke also a Coronet of theirs Prisoner , whose name as I remember is Gatton , one of your Excellencies Life-guard , and sir others , threé persons of quality of theirs ( by their habite slaine ) one reported to be a Major , another a Captain of Horse , whose bodies they in our sight carryed away ; they tooke eight or nine of ours prisoners , the revenge I hope they will not brag of , we lost about forty Horses and tooke of theirs more , we saved our owne Collours , and tooke none of theirs . My Lord be pleased to excuse me for the delaying , as to give your Honour a speedy account as was my duty , which I ommited , save only , I sent my Captaine Lieutenant to do it verbally that so in writing I might set it forth more certainly , then at that time I could , which is all I dare present ( save onely ) that from the Committee at Northampton yesterday , I received advertisement , which instantly I sent to the Major General , that foure other Regiments of Horse the night before , were come from Oxford to Prine Rupert , and more Foote to march up unto him : when this party was abroad they left a guard of Horse & Foot , with their Ordinance in Towcester , which was before those foure Regiments came up , so that it 's apparant they have a great party , and they give it out they will have Newport againe what ever it cost them . With pardon for my boldnesse in presenting these unto your Excellency , I remain OulnyNovemb . 6. 1643. My Lord your most humble Servant Edmond Harvey . 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