A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, of the fight between His Excellency's the Lord Fairfax forces at Maidstone, and the Kentish forces, June 1. 1648. Printed by the command of William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92116 of text R203405 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E445_37). 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'). 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A92116) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 115564) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 70:E445[37]) A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, of the fight between His Excellency's the Lord Fairfax forces at Maidstone, and the Kentish forces, June 1. 1648. Printed by the command of William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : June 3. 1648. Signed at end: John Rushworth. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, -- Baron, 1612-1671. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Kent -- Early works to 1800. Maidstone (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A92116 R203405 (Thomason E445_37). civilwar no A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons,: of the fight between His Excellency's the L Rushworth, John 1648 656 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 C The rate of 15 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER SENT To the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS , OF The Fight between His Excellency's The Lord Fairfax Forces AT MAIDSTONE , And the KENTISH Forces , JUNE 1. 1648. PRinted by the Command of William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons . London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons . June 3. 1648. TO The Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS . SIR , THe particulars are too many to be related at this time concerning this last nights Ingagement with the Enemy at Maidstone , which in brief was such as never was since these VVars began ; This Army strugled with so much difficulty to overcome a stubborn and resolute Enemy : The Fight begun about Seven of the clock at night , about a mile from Maidstone , and before we could beat them from hedge to hedge , and get in at the Barracado's , it was past Nine ; and after we had entred the Town , we disputed every street and turning ; they having Eight pieces of Canon , which they discharged above Twenty times upon our men in the streets , and by Gods mighty help and assistance we overcame them between twelve and one of the clock at night , being every minute in all that time firing upon their horse and foot , and they upon us , it being extreme wet weather during all this time of Ingagement ; we took about Four hundred prisoners , and near as many Horse , our Forlorn-hope of horse gave the red Standard of horse as gallant a charge as ever was seen , which is said to be General Hales his Troop . The reason why the Ingagement began so soon , the Train and the Rear of the Army being three miles off ( and not come up ) was , that the Forlorn of horse and foot being ingaged in viewing the Town before it was dark , came off safe : The Enemy being with their whole body of horse and foot within two miles on the top of the Hill towards Rochester all day long in view of our Army , about Eight thousand men , who , as they perceived that we did not dispute the pass at Alsford , which was very difficult for us to have done ; they sent in a supply of Twelve hundred horse and foot to those before in the town of Maidstone , who came in just as we ingaged , being Seamen , Apprentices , and most part Commanders and Cavaliers that have formerly been in arms against the Parliament . There were in all , as we guess , Two hundred then slain in and about the town , and Captain Price a very honest and stout Gentleman , Col : Hewsons Captain Lieutenant , was also slain , and about thirty more of our men , most falling at the mouth of the Canon with Ca●e shot ; we took Eight pieces , six Iron , and two Brass , abundance of Arms , having been up all night , and want of time cannot send more particulars at present : Onely I desire God to let you see how the old quarrel is revived by the same party , with greater violence then at first . You will shortly understand what Earls , Lords , and other persons of quality appeared in this business . His Excellency from the first minute of Ingagement to the last , could not be drawn off from a personal and hazzardous attendance on the service , and is much impaired in his health . John Rushworth . Maidstone , June 2. 1648. 6 in the morning . FINIS .