A most True and Exact RELATION OF Both the battles fought by his Excellency and his Forces against the bloody cavaliers.  
The one on the 23. of October last, near Keynton below Edge-Hill in Warwickshire, the other at Worcester by colonel Brown, Captain Nathaniel, and John Fiennes, and colonel Sands and some others.  
Wherein the particulars of each Battle is punctually set down at large for the full satisfaction of all people, with the Names of the Commanders and Regiments that valiantly stood it out.  
Also the number and Names of the chief Commanders that were slain on both sides; All which is here faithfully set down without favour or partiality to either Army.  
Written by a worthy Captain Master Nathaniel Fiennes. And commanded to be Printed.  
London, Printed for Joseph Hunscott. Novem. 9 1642.   

Mr Nathaniel Fiennes his Letter to his Father.  
My Lord,  
I Have sent to your Lordship a Relation of the last battle fought in Keynton Field, which I showed to the general and lieutenant general of the Horse, and divers Colonels and Officers, and they conceive it to be right and according to the truth: For the ill writing of it, I desire that your Lordship would excuse me, for I had not time to write it over again; yet I suppose it may be read, and your Lordship may cause it to be written fair, if your Lordship think it worth so much. For that which your Lordship writeth concerning my brother John, it is a most false and malicious slander which that fellow hath raised upon him, that he should be the first man that fled on the left wing, when as none of your lordship's sons were in the left wing, and my brother John was not at all in the field while the fight was; for by occasion that I entreated him on Saturday morning, when we marched towards Keynton (little dreaming of a battle the next day) to go to Evesham (which was but three miles from the quarter where our Troops lay, before they marched with the Army to Keynton) for to take some Arms that were come thither the night before, for such of our men as wanted Arms, and so to come after to the rendezvouz at Keynton. He could not come thither on Saturday with those men of both Troops which went back with him to Evesham for their Arms, but the next day he came thither between three or four of the clock; at which time our left wing being defeated, many of the runaways met with him as he was coming to the Army; and happily among the rest, this fellow that raised this report; for that vivers which your Lordship mentioneth, was not Captain vivers (for he was in Banbury) but a brother of his that was in one of colonel Goodwins Troops, and as I heard my brother say, he saw him there; and I heard my Lord general say, that Vivers was one of the first that ran away: Now it seems that those men that ran away so timely, seeing my brother before them, reported as if he had fled from the Army, which is so contrary to the truth, that he took a great deal of pains to make his own men and Captain Vivers men which were with him to stand, and to stop the runaways that came from the Army, and this he did, and made two or three stands, and at length gathered a pretty body upon a hill together, and with them (there being Captain Keightlyes' and Captain Cromwell's troop, at length came to them also) be marched towards the Town; and hearing the enemy was there (as indeed they were there with the greatest part of their horse) they made a stand, and sending forth their Scouts to give them intelligence where the enemy and where our Forces were, at length they came to knowledge of colonel Hampdens' Brigadoe that was coming another way to the Town, and so joining themselves unto them, they came to the Army together. My Lord general is very sensible of the wrong that this fellow hath done my brother, and will inquire after him to have him punished, as he hath written to my Lord Wharton concerning him, to let you know so much. Master Bond whom he citeth for one of his authors, denies that ere he spoke to my brother at all, or that he saw any such thing of flying, as that base fellow reporteth, and this your Lordship shall have under his hand. It had been a strange thing if my brother that showed so much courage at Worcester, should have been so faint-hearted upon this occasion: But I strange that men will give credit to every idle fellow; if they will, they may hear that my Lord general, and all the Officers every one of them ran away. But my Lord, as your Lordship hath great cause to be thankful, together with us, to God, that in all these late actions of danger, hath preserved the persons and lives of all your three Sons, so also for preserving their honours, and the honour of Religion; that in this cause they have never flinsht, but have all of them in their several places and conditions been as forward to hazard their persons into the midst of theirs and God's enemies as any whosoever. And of the truth of this (though we do not vapour so much as some do) there are enough, and those very honourable witnesses that can and will affirm it as well as  
Your lordship's most obedient Son, NATHANIEL FIENENES.   

A most true Relation of the battle fought by his Excellency and his Forces against▪ the bloody cavaliers.  
THe two and twentieth of October, being Saturday, his Excellency the Earl of Essex came with twelve Regiments of Foot, and two and forty Troops of Horse, and a part of the Ammunition and Artillery, to Keynton, a little Market-Town, almost in the midway between Stratford upon the Avon, and Banbury, there being three Regiments of foot, and nine or ten Troops of horse, with seven Pieces of Cannon, and good store of Ammunition coming after, together with six Companies of Dragooners: The Dragooners, and two of the Regiments of Foot, with the Cannon, and nine or ten Troops of horse, came to Keynton on Sunday night, a little before the day went down: The Regiment, viz. the Lord Rochford's, came not into the Army till Monday in the afternoon. The King's Army was lodged on Saturday night, about Cro●reds and Edgeco●, some 6 or 7 miles from Kenyton; And having, no doubt, got intelligence that part of our Army, and Artillery, with a great part of our Ammunition was behind us, they thought they could not have a better opportunity to fight with our Army, esp●cially if they could get the advantage of the hill before us, it being a very high and steep assent, which if they were put to the worst might serve them for a Retreat, as it did, it being that which saved them, their Carriages, and the Colours of their Regiments of foot that ran away; for of those that fought it out, we took most of them, excepting only those two Regiments that stood it out till night, and went off with their horse in an orderly way. The enemy having resolved to give us battle, and no whit doubting of the Victory, they being more than we were, both in horse and foot (a considerable Brigado of our Army being behind) and having a great opinion of the resolution of their soldiers, wherein they were partly deceived, and partly not, as it happened also on our side: They returned back towards Edge-hill, and made all possible speed to gain the hill before us (which they did, by reason that his Excellency had not timely intelligence of their design, otherwise we were much nearer the hill, and might have been possessed of it before them) And by that time our Army was drawn out of the Town about a mile and half towards the hill, the Dragooners, and some of the enemy's Foot were coming down the hill; Their horse having gotten down most of them on their right hand, and placed themselves in a fair Meadow, at the bottom of the hill; Their Cannon and Ammunition, with the rear of their foot, were something long ere they came down. And if we had charged them before their Cannon and all their Foot were come down, we might have had a great advantage: but they got all down into the Meadow at the foot of the hill, and there drew up their Army very handsomely, their horse being on their right Wing for the most part, and their Dragooners, and some few Troops of horse on their left Wing; some of their prisoners said they had four Regiments of horse on that wing also; but I could never speak with any of our Army, that either saw any such number of horse, or could tell what they did, unless they went directly to Keynton, to plunder the Carriages without charging our Army at all.  
For our Army, it was drawn up upon a little rising ground, and being amongst the horse, I could not well discern how the foot were drawn up; only I know they were most of them a good space behind the horse, when we began to charge: but for the horse, there were three Regiments on the right Wing of our Army, viz. The Lord general's Regiment, commanded by Sir Philip Stapleton; Sir William Belfores Regiment, lieutenant general of the horse; and the Lord Fieldings' Regiment, which stood behind the other two, in the way of reserve.  
On the right Wing of our Army, was Sir James Ramsey, with some 24 Troops, for many of our Troops were not in the Field that d●y. The Armies being thus placed one against another with no great odds of wind or ground (but what there was of wind the enemies had it, the ground b●ing reasonable indifferent on both sides) after m●ny shot of Cannon, which did very little hurt amongst us, and very much amongst them, their foot advancing for the most part against our right Wing, and their horse against the left Wing of our army. Their horse had the better of our horse that were on our left Wing, and routing them, drove them back upon our foot, and amongst the rest, upon colonel Hollis his Regiment, which was in the rear, and they broke through it, yet they ran not away, nor seemed to be at all dismayed at it; but four other Regiments ran away, and fought not at all, and many of them cast away their Colours, and so the enemy took them np, having scarce got so much as one Colour or Cornet of those Regiments or Troops that fought, whereas all the Colours that we got from them, and the King's Standard, which we had a long time in our possession, were taken out of the midst of their best Regiments that fought it out very resolutely: Our left Wing being thus put to the worst, the day was very desperate on our side; and had not God clearly fought for us, we had lost it; for had the enemy's horse when they had routed the left Wing, fallen upon the rear of our right Wing, in all probability the army had been wholly defeated: But they made directly to the Town, and there falling upon our Carriages, most barbarously massacred a number of poor Waggoners and Carters that had no arms to defend themselves, and so fell to pillaging and pursuing those that ran away, so long, till they met with colonel Hampden, who with the other Brigado of the Army (which came with the Artillery and Ammunition which was behind) was by this time come near to Keynton, and the enemies Troops falling upon him as they pursued our men that ran away, he gave them a stop, and discharging five pieces of Cannon against them, he slew some of them; whereupon they returned in some fear and disorder: But when they came back into the Field, they found all their Infantry, excepting two Regiments, cut in pieces or defeated and run away; for it pleased God to put such courage into four or five of our Regiments of foot, and two Regiments of horse, the Lord generals, commanded by Sir Philip Stapleton, and Sir William Belfores, that they defeated all their Regiments of foot, except two. Sir William Belfores Regiment of horse charged a Regiment of the enemy's foot, before any foot came up to assist him, and breaking into it, cut most of it off; and after, by the assistance of some of our foot, he defeated another Regiment, and so we got up to the greatest part of the enemy's Ordnance, and took them, cutting off the jeers of the horses that drew them, and killing the Gunners under the Carriages, but were forced to leave them without any to guard them, by reason we were fain to make good the day against seseverall Regiments of foot that still fought with a great deal of resolution; especially that which was of the King's Guard, where his Standard was, close by which Sir William Belfores Regiment rode when they came from taking the Ordnance; and they taking us to be their friends, and we them some of our Company, shook hands with some of them, which was the cause that after riding up towards the Lord general's Regiment of horse, they gave fire upon S. William Belfores Regiment, and discerning each other to be firends, we joined Companies; and so with half the Lord general's Regiment, which his Excellency himself led up, charging the King's Regiment, we defeated it, took the Standard, took the general of the King's Army, the Earl of Lindley▪ and his son, and colonel Vavasor, who was lieutenant colonel of that Regiment, and killed Sir Edward Varney upon the place (who carried the Standard) colonel John Munroe, and divers others: In this charge, and generally throughout the day, the Lord general's Troop, consisting most of Gentlemen, carried themselves most valiantly; and had all our Troops, or our left Wing been made of the same metal, the enemy had not made so easy an impression into them. And what is said of my Lord general's Troop, may most truly, and to his high praise, be said of himself; and also that noble Earl, the Earl of Bedford, general of the horse, for both of them rode all day, being in the heads of the several Troops and Regiments, to give them directions, and to bring them on upon the enemy, hazarding their persons as far and further than any particular soldier in the Army. By this time all the enemy's foot being dispersed and gone, excepting two Regiments, they retiring themselves, found their Ordnance behind them without any Guard, and there they made a stand, and made use of their Cannon, shooting divers shot at us; at which time our Regiment of foot began to want Powder, otherwise we had charged them both with horse and foot, which in all probability would have utterly ruined their Infantry, for those two Regiments were the only st●ke which they had now left in the hedge: But partly through want of Ammunition, and partly being tired with fighting all the day (the whole brunt of the battle having been sustained by two Regiments of horse, and four or five of foot) we made no great haste to charge them, so that the enemy's horse that had been pillaging at Keynton had leisure to come about, some on one hand of us, and some on the other, and so joined with their foot: Yet as they came back on our left hand, Sir Philip Stapleton, with his Troop, went out to charge some 4 or 5 Troops of them, which went away from him as fast as they could upon the spur to the rest of their Company, and their foot that stood by their Ordnance, most of the enemy's horse being gathered to their foot, most of our horse also gathered to our foot, and so we stood horse and foot one against the other till it was night. Our Army being thus possessed of the ground that the enemy chose to fight upon, stood there all night; the enemy having withdrawn their Army to the top of the hill for more security to themselves, where they made great fires all the night long, whilst we in the mean time drew back some of our own Ordnance, which they had once in their possession, and some of theirs which they had left behind.  
The next morning, a little before it was light, we drew back our Army towards the Town to our other Brigadoe and artillery and Ammunition that was come and lodged there, and the enemy drew out their horse in the morning upon the side of the hill, where staying till towards night, whilst their foot was retiring behind the hill and marching away, at length a little before night, their horse also marched away; and about an hour after, our horse also marched towards their Quarters, the Foot and som● horse staying all night in their Quarters, in and before Keynton; and the next day the whole Army both horse and foot marched towards Warwick to refresh themselves; instead of which, if they had marched towards Banbury, they would have found more victuals, and had in all probabilities dispersed all the foot of the King's Army, and taken his Canon and Carriages, and sent his horse farther off to plunder, whereas now because we did not follow them though they quitted the field to us which we fought on, and left their quarter before us the next day, yet they begin to question who had the day: It is true, there were Colours and Canon taken on both sides, without any great difference in the numbers, but for the number and quality of men slain and hurt, it is verily believed, they lost four times as many at the least as we did, and in saying four times as many, I am confident I speak much below the truth. There were slain on their side the Earl of Lindsey general of their Army, the Lord Aubigney brother to the Duke of Richmond, Sir Edward Verny colonel, John Mourse and divers other gentlemen and Commanders, and very many hurt. Of our side were slain the Lord St. John, colonel Charles Essex, lieutenant-colonel Ramsey, and none other of note, either killed or dangerously hurt that I can hear of; they acknowledge that they lost 1200 men, but it is thought they lost 2000: and whereas they report we lost divers thousands, where one man judgeth that we lost 400, ten men are of opinion that we lost not 200 soldiers, besides the poor Waggoners and Carters.  
These Persons underwritten were all of the Right wing and never stirred from their Troops, but they and their Troops fought till the last minute. 

The Lord general's Regiment.  
Sir Philip Stapleton.  
Captain Draper.  
Sergeant Major Gunter.  
Lord Brookes.  
Captain Sheffeild.  
Captain Temples.  
Captain Cromwell.   

Sir William Belfores Regiment.  
Sir William Belfore.  
Sergeant Major hurry.  
Lord Grey.  
Captain Nathaniel Fiennes.  
Sir Arthur Hasilrigge.  
Captain long.     

A LETTER, Purporting the true relation of the Skirmish at Worcester.  
SIR,  
I Would not have troubled you with the relation of the fight that happened betwixt our Troops and those under the condust of Prince Rupert near Worcester so long after the action, but that I understand you have still many false reports concerning it at London, to the disadvantage of the public and of particular persons: And though I shall not undertake (nor is it possible for any one man) to give an exact account of all particulars, yet so far forth as I shall make a relation of the business I shall make a true one according to that which I either saw myself or received by credible information from others.  
He that commanded in chief in this action was colonel Brown, who being at Alcester with his Regiment of dragoons and two Troops of Horse, under the command of Captain Nathaniel, and Captain John Fiennes, he went to my Lord general, and as it should seem suggested to his Excellency that with addition of some more Horse, he might do some service in surrounding the City of Worcester, before his Excellency came thither with his Army, and in keeping all supplies from going into the Town, and those Troops from going out that were already in it. So colonel Sands with his Regiment of horse, and three Troops more being sent to colonel Brown to Alcester, (though they had marched ten miles that day) yet they were permitted only to refresh themselves an hour or two, and to give their horses a little hay in a meadow