An exact relation of the delivering up of Reading to His Excellencie the Earl of Essex; and how the Kings forces have quitted Cyrencester and Brill: with the true relation of the fight at Caversham. As it was sent in a letter to the speaker of the House of Commons, by these worthy members of the said House: Sir Philip Stapleton, John Hampden, and Arthur Goodwin, Esquires. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Stapleton, Philip, Sir, 1603-1647. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93801 of text in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E100_11). 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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A93801) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 155860) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 18:E100[11]) An exact relation of the delivering up of Reading to His Excellencie the Earl of Essex; and how the Kings forces have quitted Cyrencester and Brill: with the true relation of the fight at Caversham. As it was sent in a letter to the speaker of the House of Commons, by these worthy members of the said House: Sir Philip Stapleton, John Hampden, and Arthur Goodwin, Esquires. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Stapleton, Philip, Sir, 1603-1647. Goodwin, Arthur, 1593 or 4-1643. Hampden, John, 1594-1643. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut 8 p. Printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the middle Temple, London : May.I. 1643. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. Reading (Berkshire) -- History -- Siege, 1643 -- Early works to 1800. A93801 (Thomason E100_11). civilwar no An exact relation of the delivering up of Reading to His Excellencie the Earl of Essex;: and how the Kings forces have quitted Cyrencester Stapleton, Philip, Sir 1643 773 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. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion An Exact RELATION Of the delivering up of READING To his Excellencie the Earl of ESSEX ; And how the Kings Forces have quitted Cyrencester and Brill : With the true Relation of the fight at Caversham . As it was sent in a Letter to the Speaker of the House of COMMONS , by these worthy Members of the said House : Sir Philip Stapleton , John Hampden , and Arthur Goodwin , Esquires . Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament , That this Letter be forthwith Printed and published . Hen : Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London , Printed for Edw. Husbands , and are to be sold at his shop in the middle Temple . May . 1. 1643. An exact Relation of the delivering up of Reading . Mr. Speaker , BEing come to a point about the taking in of Reading , we conceived it convenient to give you a brief account of our short siege : After ten miles march on Saturday the fifteenth of April , we made our approaches that night , taking some advantages from hedges and ditches unslighted by the enemy . On Sunday we sate down before the Town , batter'd with our Ordnance , and plaid it with our small shot all that day , in which the Governour received a hurt upon the head , which rendred him unfit for further service : we had very warm worke , and hot returnes from the Town . On Munday we advanced our approaches as they could . On Tuesday in the night the King sent in a relief of men and Ammunition , which we could not prevent by reason of the scituation of the Towne , and their advantages of Barges which we could not command , being wholly engaged on Berkeshire side . On Munday last at night we sent out a party of Horse and Dragooners as far as Dorchester , which did beat up the enemies quarters , routed their Horse and Foot , killed and took many prisoners : On Tuesday morning last the Enemy did beat a Parley , and accordingly came out to Treat , and in the interim while the businesse was depending , the Kings Army appeared for their relief , and fell on with their Artillery foot & horse , upon our guards on Oxfordshire side , but being roundly received after above an hours fight , the enemy was routed with the losse of above a hundred men , and three hundred Armes . The King , Prince Charls , Prince Rupert , Prince Maurice , and the Generall being all in the field , that night our Capitulation was concluded ; and now his Excellency being very tender of the Town that they should not bee plundered , and as carefull that the souldiers might receive due incouragement ; hath appointed twelve shillings per man for an extraordinary , and so we are advancing to take possession , for the consequence of which successe I doubt not but the wiser and well-minded will see reason to think and thanke God , the businesse having a blessing in it of a great , and growing constitution ; if a short survey be but taken of the considerable Circumstances , being rendred with so little losse of bloud in so short a time , and the King resolved to relieve it : Not to mention the ten peices of Canon they relinquish'd , nor the restitution of the VVestern-cloaths taken from our friends , nor their being forced upon this to quit Cirencester and Brill , so that had the enemy such a foundation , they would advantagiously relate all passages to their honors ; which we chose rather to point at then insist upon , leaving the reallity of the service to report it self , being fewer words and more blows is our businesse . We have here a true Narrative of the businesse since wee came before Reading , and do thinke fit to adde the number of the Enemies Forces and ours , that you may see the blessing of God upon us at the late encounter at Caversham : The Enemy had forty five Troops of Horse , and nine Regiments of Foot , besides Dragooners . We had there to encounter them , Colonell Barclays and the Lord Roberts Regiments onely . Sir , Your assured friends , and humble Servants , Philip Stapleton . John Hampden . Arthur Goodwin . Reading , 27. April , 1643. FINIS .