PRINCE ROBERT HIS Proceed with His MAJESTY'S Army in BERKSHIRE: BEING The true Copy of a Letter sent from a Gentleman at Newberie in Berkshire, containing these Particulars following: viz. 

1 That (by Secretary NICHOLAS his repent) His Majesty intends to march with His Army into Sussex, Kent and Essex, or to Salisbury and Southampton in the West Parts.  
2 That the Parliament hath petitioned His Majesty for a treaty of peace by the Earls of Northumberland and Pembroke, and some Members of the Commons.  
3 The number of His Majesty's Army, and the number of His soldiers billeted in divers places.  
4 The effect of Prince ROBERTS Warrants for contribution, with the quantity of money which is coined travelling upon wheels, first invented by Leniell His Majesty's Engineer.    
LONDON, Novemb. 8. Printed for J. Faber. 1642.   

THE PROCEED OF PRINCE ROBERT with His MAJESTY'S Army in BERKSHIRE: BEING The copy of a Letter sent from Newberie in Berkshire to a Gentleman in London.  
Right Worthy Sir,  
I Cannot but be obliged unto you for your continual favours towards me and my son Robert at Lincoln's Inn: I have understood by your Letters the forwardness of the City of London, and the strength of men, ordnance, and other implements of implements of engines in all places, for the resisting of His Majesty's Forces. I confess possession is it points of the Law, so their managing the city with strength is a sure ground of resistance, but I believe to little purpose; for on tuesday I rid to Oxford, and through thousands of His Majesty's Army, which exceeds the number of your relation, and having spent the day in the city, I came late to my home at Newberie, and there was no injury offered me by the way, or had forceably taken from me the value of a point, though it hath been related that neither horsemen nor footmen, waggon or carrier can travel about their occasions, but the soldiers make them their prey: I can assure you they are kept in good order, without doing pillage, as is related. And to come to my former discourse, when I came to Oxford, I saw at the least fifty burials following one another, and in an hour's respite as many more, ●hich I conceived were the corpse of some ●●at at were slain in the last fight. After this I came to my Inn at the Katherine-Wheel, and I chanced upon Secretary Nicholas, with whom I drank my part of a pint of wine, and entering into discourse, I gathered, that neither the King or his Nephew have any intent to come to London, but that they will pass the river at Henly, and so march into Sussex and Kent, and from thence into Essex, where his Majesty is assured of a great party, if not for the present in those Eastern parts, that then it is his Majesty's pleasure to go to Salisbury and Southampton, where he expects great aid from Hopton, Stowell, and others in the West Country. M. Secretary Nicholas told me, that Sir John Killagrew came with a message from the Parliament to petition His Majesty that the Earls of Pembroke and Northumberland might have admittance to parley concerning a treaty of peace, and that his Majesty was graciously pleased to accept thereof, provided that none before excepted in his Majesty's Declaration dated the twelfth of August, presume to trouble his Majesty upon pain of death, and that the Commissioners exceed not above 20. at the most. He certified me likewise, that his Majesty's Forces are a great many more than some of your Pamphlets made mention. I cannot but believe of a greater number, for they were billeted full ten miles in length, and three miles in breadth, you may judge how they were dispersed; for at Wallingford there lay a thousand soldiers, at Twiford and Ockingham a thousand; and on tuesday night last they were both pillaged, as also Reding hath been pillaged of at least five thousand yards of cloth, besides other things of worth; which happened by the false-heartedness of each other in the said town, and none else, as I can hear of about us: divers Troops of horse and Foot-companies are billeted at Thetcham, Wellington, and about, besides great store at Newberie, and many petty Villages thereabouts, and the soldiers at Oxford and Abbington. Prince Robert hath sent a party to Windsor to demand the town and Castle, but the messengers had a repulse, and were told by the Parliaments Forces which were billeted there, that the Prince should win it and wear it: and thus much I can assure you; for I had it from the Secretaries own mouth.  
There is one main thing which I have omitted, and that is, the multitude of Warrants which have issued forth under the command of Prince Robert to all places within twenty miles of his Army, it runs in the nature of General Lesley his Warrants at his entering of Newcastle, commanding all men to provide and bring to his Army all manner of food and sustenance for his soldier's relief, as also that the country provide both horse and men for the assisting of him in the said war, and that all those that will not assist him, to pay a contribution of money for their refusal.  
And this is the effect of the said Warrants, as I can rightly understand. Plate and money is brought to his Majesty in abundance, and the Coiners of his treasure carried upon wheels, and coin money travelling. It is a most excellent invention of Leniell His Majesty's Engineer, whom we thought to have been cut off in the last fight at Kinton. And so I wish you and yours health, leaving you to God's protection, and rest,  
Newberie, Novemb. 4. 1642. Your faithful friend, ANTHONY VAUX.