TERRIBLE news FROM YORK: DECLARING The barbarous Actions of the Cavaliers at York, in plundering the houses, seizing the goods, and imprisoning the persons of those Citizens that refuse to contribute money to maintain a War against the Parliament, having already plundered above twenty citizens' houses, and imprisoned diverse of the Aldermen, for not contributing money to maintain the foresaid War. Also how they cruelly threaten to kill diverse godly and religious Ministers in the said City, if they will not preach as they would have them.  
ALSO The Earl of ESSEX his Instructions to the Counties of Derby, Northampton, Warwick, and diverse other Counties, to stand upon their guard, and raise the power of the Counties to withstand the Cavaliers, and prevent the like miseries and calamities in other parts of this kingdom.  
Printed for Th. Thompson. October 19 1642.   

TERRIBLE news FROM York: Wherein is showed the barbarous actions of the Cavaliers in plundering the houses of the Citizens of York, who refuse to contribute money towards the maintaining of a war against the Parliament.  
Also the Lord general his Instructions to the Counties of Derby, Northampton, Warwick, and divers other Counties, for preventing the like miseries in other places.  
THe miseries of this kingdom are almost grown to a height, the malignant Party now hath begun to plunder the City of York, and have already plundered above twenty houses in the said City for not contributing towards the designs of the Cavaliers to maintain a war against the Parliament: diverse Aldermen that refused are committed, and one Alderman that was entrusted by the Act of Parliament for gathering up of money for the Parliament, and hath a thousand pound in his hands, hath but seven hours given him to consider whether he will deliver up the money, or be plundered and imprisoned. Moreover they threaten the best Ministers about the City, that they will be the death of them, unless they preach as they would have them: they have carried Sir John Bourchier to York: the Lady Melton being about to send her goods by water towards Hull, had all her goods, money and plate, to the value of a thousand pound, taken by the soldiers as they were putting into the Bark; they will suffer none of any degree whatsoever to depart the city without lending of money.) The ●hi●ft Cavaliers that bear sway in the City of York are Sir 〈◊〉 Wortley, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Sir John Kay, M. Francis Nevil and others; the Earl of Cumberland stands for a cipher, they do what they please without his advice. There is a thousand Foot and three troops of Horse marched towards Cawood where M. Hotham is, and Sir Thomas Glemham hath an intent to force him thence, so that if the other Regiments of Foot that the Parliament hath appointed for the securing of that county come not to aid them, M. Hotham must of necessity retreat to Hull.  
Certain Delinquents revenues are to be made stop of: Two pensions of the Duke of Richmond, one of 2100: l. per annum, another of 1400. l. per an. To the Lord Willoughby of Eresby, 1000 l. per an. To the Earl of Bristol 2000 l. per an. To the L. Grandison, 500 l. per an. &c.  
The English Fleet lately lying before Galloway, which is the strongest town they have, except Limbrick, and there laid siege to it: so the Lord of of Clenrikard came down and conferred with our Lord Forbes, and the Merchants of the town: they strongly replied, and said, that they were the King's loyal subjects, and had not offended in the least thing, but that the soldiers in the King's Fort had done them wrong: but had the King sealed to our Commission, we should have found enough against them, that we might truly have made an onset upon the town: we were so near the town with our garrison, that we could hear them plainly call our Parliament rogues, Parliament-dogs, and Puritan-Dogs: so you may very well conceive what subjects they are. On the third and fourth day we refetched aboard our soldiers, and the sixth day we set sail from Gallaway to go to Limbrick, and on the ninth day we arrived in Limbrick river, and on the two and twentieth day we laid siege to the Knights of the elms Castle, that is to say in English, the Knights of the valley; the which Castle we played upon two days and two nights with two Demi-Canons: so the second day we entered the Castle, slaying all we found alive: but when we came to bury them we found but eighteen or twenty, the rest made an escape and got into the woods: there came a great army of the Irish within sight of the Castle; there marched out betwixt four and five hundred, and when they began to approach, the Irish men fled, and durst not stand: We took in this Castle a thousand bushels of Wheat, three or four thousand weight of Butter, besides Barley, Malt and salt beef: this Castle we took on the three and twcntieth of September with the loss of five men, a Trouper and a Footman in the pursuit after the first landding, and three other after we came under the Castle walls, two common soldiers, and the Master of captain Thompson's ship.  
The Lord general hath sent Instructions to the counties of Derby, Warwick, Northampton, & divers other countries in those parts to raise the power of the Counties, and stand upon their guard, to secure themselves from the Cavaliers, who plunder every place where they come without distinction of persons: for the Cavaliers endeavour to come towards London, and plunder by the way, hoping that the Lord general cannot remove fast enough to prevent them, but his Excellency hath sent ten pieces of Ordnance and two thousand men to stop their passage at Coventry, that they may not pass that way: the counties of Northampton and Warwick are already in a warlike posture, and furnished to oppose the Cavaliers.  
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