The taking of Tiverton, with the castle, church, and fort, by Sir Thomas Fairfax, on the Lords-day last, Octob. 19. 1645. Wherein was taken Colonel Sir Gilbert Talbot, the governour. Major Sadler, major to Col. Talbot. 20. officers of note. 200. common souldiers. Foure peece of ordnance. 500. armes, with store of ammunition, provision, and treasure. Also the severall defeats given to Goring, by his Excellency, and all Gorings forces fled before him. Published according to order. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92124 of text R200331 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E306_1). 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. 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A92124) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 113262) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 50:E306[1]) The taking of Tiverton, with the castle, church, and fort, by Sir Thomas Fairfax, on the Lords-day last, Octob. 19. 1645. Wherein was taken Colonel Sir Gilbert Talbot, the governour. Major Sadler, major to Col. Talbot. 20. officers of note. 200. common souldiers. Foure peece of ordnance. 500. armes, with store of ammunition, provision, and treasure. Also the severall defeats given to Goring, by his Excellency, and all Gorings forces fled before him. Published according to order. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. [2], 6 p. Printed for R.A., London, : Octob. 23. 1645. Attributed to John Rushworth by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Tiverton (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. A92124 R200331 (Thomason E306_1). civilwar no The taking of Tiverton,: with the castle, church, and fort, by Sir Thomas Fairfax, on the Lords-day last, Octob. 19. 1645. Wherein was take Rushworth, John 1645 1102 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. 2007-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-02 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-03 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-03 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The taking of TIVERTON , WITH THE Castle , Church , and Fort , BY Sir Thomas Fairfax , ON THE Lords-Day last , Octob. 19. 1645. Wherein was taken Colonel Sir Gilbert Talbot , the Governour . Major Sadler , Major to Col. Talbot . 20. Officers of note . 200. Common Souldiers . Foure Peece of Ordnance . 500. Armes , with store of Ammunition , Provision , and Treasure . ALSO The severall Defeats given to Goring , by his Excellency , and all Gorings Forces fled before him . Published according to Order . LONDON , Printed for R. A. Octob. 23. 1645. THE TAKING OF TIVERTON , Castle , Towne , Church , and Fort , By Sir Thomas Fairfax . SIR : IT hath pleased God still to blesse our endeavours above expectation , all the glorie be given to God . We have taken in Tiverton , both the Towne , Castle , Church , and Fort , a place of so great strength , that had not the Lord done wonderfully for us , wee might rather have admired their strength , than expected to be Masters of it ; the manner wherof , together with other passages since my last , I have here enformed you , since our advance from Chard untill this present . We advanced on Tuesday the 14 of October instant from Chard , and marched to Honniton ; and Gorings horse ( through the carelesnesse of some of our Guards ) fell upon our out-quarters , and tooke some fortie Dragoones and Foot , and those horse of Gorings returned presently to their quarters about Exeter ; wee quartered that night , and all Wednesday , and Wednesday night about Honniton , and met with some of Gorings straglers and others , we have ( divers ) come in to us , and on Wednesday the 15. of October instant , we advanced from Hunnington and marched that day to Columbton , where the Lord Miller was quartered with two Regiments of Horse and one of Dragoons , the towne being slightly fortified : but immediately upon our advance , they quitted that place and fled ; We had then intelligence , that Greenvill was with about two thousand foot that day viz. Wednesday Octob. 15. instant at Bow , and it was supposed that the next day he would be in conjunction with Goring , most part of his Horses then quartered in the villages on this side of Exeter , about Cliffe , Silverton , Stoake , Rew , Hucksham , and all the Parishes thereabouts ; The Foot ( which formerly did belong to Gerhards Brigade of old ) then quartered most of them at Broadcliffe . On Thursday Octob. 16. instant , Major-Generall Massey was ordered to advance to Tiverton , and so to quarted beyond the River with his Brigade , and there was the good effect of that took in the enemies Quarters , and Major Generall Massey did soone possesse himselfe of the Town of Tiverton , the Enemie marched away , onely those who were left in the Castle , and the Church , to keep those places . It was then conceived hard for us , nay almost impossible for us to hinder the Enemies Horse from marching Eastward , if he do attempt it with the whole strength , except Lievtenant-Generall Cromwell ( with his whole Brigade ) come up to us ; And that day wee began to extend our quarters towards Broadminch , and so nearer to Exeter . On Friday the 17. instant , our Generall Sir Thomas Fairfax sate downe before Tiverton-Castle and Church , to take them in , and summoned the enemy to deliver them up , of which being denied , we planted our batteries against them , which went forwards that day and the next . On Saturday Octob. 18. instant , our batteries were finished by the afternoone , and on this day being the Lords day Octob. 19. instant , the Generall caused severall great pieces to be planted on the batteries against the Castle verie early , so that they were ready to play by breake of day , and all our Cannon began to play about seven a clocke in the morning , against the Castle , and the Enemie from thence answered us with their pieces , but did no execution upon us . And after many shot that we had made against them , a Cannonier by one shot gallantly performed this businesse , for he broke the chaine of the Draw-bridge with a bullet , which passeth over to the entrance of the Castle , which falling downe , the chaine being so broken , our Souldiers fell on without any further order from the Generall , they being loth to lose such an opportunitie , and loving rather to fight than to look on when God gives them such occasion , which took good effect , for they soone possessed themselves of all ; they presently entred the Castle and Church , in which wee had foure men slaine : yet such is the mild and gentle carriage of the Generall , and his desire to spare the effusion of bloud , as much as may be , that notwithstanding they took it by storme , yet he himself gave command , that quarter should be given to all those who were alive : wee took in the castle Sir Gilbert Talbot who was Governour of the place , 20 other Officers , 200 Souldiers , four peece of Ordnance , good store of Armes and Ammunition , and abundance of treasure , which was divided amongst the Souldiers . The castle was verie strong , and the works all regular . The Generall intends to march on Munday for the releefe of Plymouth , and wee heare that Lievtenant-Generall Cromwell did intend to quarter at Dorchester as the last night , and cometh on verie hard marches to joyne with the Generall . Gorings Horse are marched towards Plymouth . Tiverton , Octob. 19. 1645. at nine a clock at night . A List of what was taken at Tiverton . Colonell Sir Gilbert Talbot , the Governour . Major Sadler , Major to Col. Talbot . 20 Officers of note . 200 Common Souldiers . Foure Peece of Ordnance . 500 Armes , with store of Ammunition , Provision , and Treasure . FINIS .