A full relation of the defeate given, and victory obtained upon Saturday last, by our forces at Abbington: commanded by that noble and faithfull commander, Major Generall Browne, against the Oxford forces, commanded by the two Princes, Rupert, and Maurice, who then with much confidence came to storm and take the aforesaid garrison. In a letter from Collonell Samuel Harsnet, to Captaine Jones in London. Imprimatur, Ja. Cranford. Harsnet, Samuel. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87173 of text R21495 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E24_14). 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. 7 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 A87173 Wing H922 Thomason E24_14 ESTC R21495 99871435 99871435 123846 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. A87173) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 123846) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 5:E24[14]) A full relation of the defeate given, and victory obtained upon Saturday last, by our forces at Abbington: commanded by that noble and faithfull commander, Major Generall Browne, against the Oxford forces, commanded by the two Princes, Rupert, and Maurice, who then with much confidence came to storm and take the aforesaid garrison. In a letter from Collonell Samuel Harsnet, to Captaine Jones in London. Imprimatur, Ja. Cranford. Harsnet, Samuel. [2], 5, [1] p. Printed by R. Cotes, for Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill, London : 1645. Annotation on Thomason copy: The 5 in the imprint date is crossed out; "Jan: 13"; "1644". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Maurice, -- Prince, 1620-1652. Rupert, -- Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682. Browne, Richard, -- Sir, 1602?-1669. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A87173 R21495 (Thomason E24_14). civilwar no A full relation of the defeate given, and victory obtained upon Saturday last, by our forces at Abbington:: commanded by that noble and fai Harsnet, Samuel. 1645 1251 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A FVLL RELATION OF The Defeate given , and Victory obtained upon Saturday last , by our Forces at ABBINGTON : Commanded by that Noble and faithfull Commander , Major Generall Browne , against the Oxford Forces , Commanded by the two Princes , Rupert , and Maurice , who then with much confidence came to storm and take the aforesaid Garrison . In a Letter from Collonell Samuel Harsnet , to Captaine Jones in LONDON . Imprimatur , Ja. Cranford . LONDON , Printed by R. Cotes , for Ralph Smith , at the Bible in Cornhill , 1645. A FVLL RELATION OF THE Defeate given , and Victory obtained upon Saturday last , by our Forces at ABBINGTON . January 12. 1644. SIR , I Have had a longing desire to requite your love in giving mee a Relation of that Fight of Alford ; but never could meet with an opportunity , but some thing the Lord hath now vouchsafed worthy the Relation to our worthy Friends . I came on Friday night from Henly with our Company that came with us from London . Some others of our Garrison that wee found at Reading , and from thence after mid-night , past very quietly by Wallingford , and so about three a Clock came safe to Abbington , seeing none in our way to trouble us , but having been not above three houres here , wee had an Allarum from the same way wee came , which was about halfe a mile from us in Oxfordshire , called Cullum Bridge , which they posseft themselves of , before wee had time to draw forth any party to charge them ; there were parties from Oxon , and from Wallingford , Prince Rupert Commanding in Chiefe , with whom was Prince Maurice , Sir Henry Gage , Governour of Oxford , and many other great Commanders ; their Force were supposed to bee in all about three thousand Horse and Foote , with two peeces of Ordinance . Behinde the said Bridge was a great hill with many hedges , which they lined with Musqueteers , to the great annoyance of our men . But our Noble Major Generall upon hearing of the Allarum , Commanded our men to Armes , which was cheerefully obeyed : and by parties were drawn along the Cawsie , that did lead from the Town to that Bridge , ( Meadowes over-flowed with water , being on both sides ) and comming to charge them at the Bridge , the Enemy stoutly opposed us , but to their losse , whereupon wee had two Drakes commanded thither : And our men cheerefully drawne into the water on both sides , did so pelt them , while the Drakes plaid upon the Bridge , that after foure houres fight wee drove them from the Bridge and the Hedges , and made them retreat , and wee having got the Bridge , which being of Stone , they had partly broken down . Yet our men got over , Commanded by Major Bradberry , Major to Collonell Sparrowes Regiment of Essex , at the entring over which Bridge hee was slaine , but have not lost above eight or ten men at the most , and so the Enemy was forced shamefully to retreat . The Fight beganne betimes in the morning , at which instant there was a party of three score and ten , or fourescore Horse from Farringdon , to set upon our Horse , quartered at a Village called Drayton in Barkeshire , on the other side of the Town , neere two miles off , the Enemy was there , Commanded by Major Hatton Farmer , Major of the Prince his Regiment , our Horse carryed themselves very couragiously , beat the Enemy out of their quarter , and pursued them within a mile of Farringdon , and killed the Major with divers others , and mortally wounded the Captaine Lieutenant of the Prince his Regiment , took many of the Men and Horse , amongst whom were five Irish men , which wee hanged the same day in the Market place , and not above twelve of these Horse got into Farringdon , the rest slaine or taken , without the losse of any one of our men , or Horse . Their intent was , as wee are informed by Prisoners , and a Trumpeter , that this evening came from Oxford , to desire the Majors body , that the Horse should give us an Allarum on the one side , whilst the Foote stormed us on the other . And another that this day came from Oxford , did give our Major Generall information , both of them affirme , that wee have slaine Sir Henry Gage , Governous of Oxford , and many others of great quality . It is reported that Lieutenant Colonell Lower , Deputy Governour of Wallingford , is slaine , time will produce more : I am confident the Enemy had a great advantage of us by the bridge and hills , yet the Lord fought for us , and hath delivered us out of their hands , for which we desire thanks may be generally given to the Lord of hosts , the God of Victory and in particular for this preserving of us in our passage hither , the Enemy being upon their march very neere us ; and had they taken us , it would have occasioned great Triumph in the Enemy ; there being of us foure Colonels ; besides other Captaines and Commanders . Our Major Generall , Doctor wilson , and Quartemaster Generall Burrowes , remember their loves to you , and would have given you a touch hereof , but I undertooke to save them that labour ; I pray you acquaint our Friends herewith : as having exprest nothing but what I know to be truth . One of the Messengers from Oxford informeth us that Prince Rupert engaged himselfe to the King and Lords , that hee would have Abbington on Saturday before twelve a clocke at noone , but missing his hopes hee was ashamed to march into Oxford with the Forces that returned , but came in privately another way , and there the Lords mock't him , askt him Where is Abbington , that hee boasted hee would so suddenly have . But wee gave them such a breakfast , that I thinke , hee will have little stomacke hereafter to come and visit our Noble Major Generall ; wee could not for want of Horse pursue the victory , Collonel Fines having left us , and I thinke God would not vouchsafe to doe him so much honour as to bee present at so noble an exploit : for the number of ours slaine , I have already given youan accompt : The slaine of the enemy are not yet certainly knowne ; the Countrey reports of three or foure Carts of dead and wounded Corpes they tooke with them . Besides many of theirs were drowned ; others throwne in after they were slaine , and some found dead upon the place . Abbington the 12 of January , 1644. at nine a clocke on Sabbath day night . I rest your Loving Friend and Neighbour , SAM. HARSNEY . FINIS .