A GREAT VICTORY IN THE NORTH, OBTAINED By the Forces under the Command of Lieutenant General CROMWELL, against Duke Hamilton, and the Scottish Army. Wherein is declared, the manner of the late Fight near the Confines of York, the routing of Lieutenant General Cromwell's Forces upon the first O●set, and after three mile's pursuit (by the Scots) rallied again, fell upon the Scottish Forces, killed Duke Hamiltons' Lieutenant Colonel, a Major, divers Captains, Officeta, and Soldiers, routed the whole Body, and regained the●r ground.  
Also another Fight near Pomfret castle in Yorkshire, a Defeat given to the Parliaments Forces, and divers taken prisoners, and carry●d to the said Castle.  
Whereunto is annexed, An humble Petition to the Kings most Excellen Majesty, concerning the King and his People, and ev●ry subject in particular of thi● his Kingdom of England.  
Behold! all ye that pass by stand still, and see the wonderful works of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of England, by His Servant King Charles.  
Aug: 8th London, Printed for the welfare and happiness of all true and Loyal Subjects. Anne Dom. 1648.   

A Great fight between the Forces belonging to Lieutenant General Crumwell, and the Scots forces under the Command of Duke Hamleton.  
Right honourable,  
MAjor General Lambert having received some fresh supplies, and joined his Army with the additional forces sent from Lieutenant General Cromwell, a motion was made to dispute a piece of ground with the Scots, which was assented to, and about 20 Troops of the Lieut. Gen. horse charged the Scots, both parties bodied, and some action happened, but the Scots being to rumerous, the Livet. Gen. horse were forced to retreat; the Scots pursued, protesting not to leave a man of them alive; whereupon the English rallyed, charged Duke Hambletons' own Regiment of horse, and some others that pursued them, and after a great conflict worsted them, put them to a retreat and followed the pursuit within one mile of the main body, and made good their passage with the loss of 15 killed, and some few wounded. The Scots loss is far more, their number killed, wounded and taken prisoners amounting to 85. some of them being men of quality, as the Dukes, Lieut. Col. a Major, our headquarters 10. miles on this side Barnard Castle, the Scots advancing up with small parties, but the Body moves slowly. We hear that the Wasps of Pomfret have stung some of L.G. Cromwell's horse, and took their Riders, sallying upon them as they were on their march to the Maj. Gen. A small defeat: the gaining of which, cost them dear, they lost in the dispute near upon 20. Officers and Soldiers, the Governor himself being dangerously wounded.  
York August 1648.   

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
M●st gracious Sovereign,  
IT is the saying of Solomon (the penman of the Holy Ghost, and the wisest King that ever was) Prov. 21.1. The King's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the Rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth: I, a poor despicable man, (despicable because poor) do presume, out of my sincere loyal affection, and duty to your Maj. and my earnest desire for the reuniting of You with your Parl. & Subjects of this Kingdom, to offer, or rather to sacrifice, my weak Conceptions to Your gracious Acceptance or Refusal. Sir, We are all in an Egyptian darkness, be you but pleased to cause the Sunshine of your Mercy and Goodness to break out upon Your poor Subjects of this Kingdom; and there is great hope we may soon be delivered from this fearful Confusion whereinto we are fallen. For my own part, I believe, Your Maj. not being conscious of the misery Your poor Subjects are in (in regard of the unkingly restraint You are for the present unhappily under) is the cause You cannot be so zealous, as otherwise you would, to redress it; & that your want of knowledge of the present conjuncture of Affairs is that which renders your people so infinitely miserable, that they are ready every minute to precipitate themselves into the Gulf of Despair. It is said of Almighty God, There is mercy with him that he may be feared, and his mercy is over (or above all works: And I believe (without least flattery I speak it that there is abundance of Mercy and Bowel● of Compassion with You, towards Your poor Subjects, that You may be both loved and feared; and that Your mercy will shower itself down to the amazement and reproach of those that seem not to believe it: Did I say, Your Mercy, yea and Your Justice also, even against Yourself, in the voluntary clouding of Your own Princely Royalty; and that Prince, who shadows his own Glory (merely for the good of his Subjects) is a rare Pattern: And the first giver of so great an (unexampled) Example, must needs render himself glorious to all Posterity. Sir, in the first place, I presume (with boldness enough I confess, yet will I not fl●tter you so much as to say, I beg your Maj. pardon for it) to remember you, that self-denial is the only way to happiness, Temporal (here, Eternal hereafter:) and had it been but a little practised on all hands (by the 3. Estates of Parl.) at the beginning or budding forth of these unhappy differences, (although Malice itself cannot but say, that Your Maj. acted Your part, and the very Lepers of Samaria shall one day rise up in Judgement against some, & say that that was a day of good tidings, and they ungratefully held their Peace, In your abolishing of Monopolies, putting down the Star-Chamber, disannulling the High Commission Court, outing of Bishops from the House of Pears, Regulating the Council Table, granting of Triennial Parliaments, and continuing of This, not to be dissolved without the consent of both Houses;) Your Maj. and Your People had not felt Gods heavy hand, as You and they have done for these seven years past, and yet do: but for me to presume to tell your Majesty what Self-Denial is, were a most unpardonable offence.  
And yet, for your Majesty to believe that this Peace offering, which you sacrifice to the good and happiness of your people) in the sad condition your Majesty is in, and the most miserable one they are plunged into) can be happily begun without self denial (one your part first, and then all the people's part also) is (so far as I can apprehend in Reason and Religion) altogether impossible: and by the sequel of my discourse I doubt not but to make good the truth of it at the full.  
Sir, look into your own heart, and see whether in former times you were not more your own (or others who abused you then your subjects universally: The word proprium is of a near relation, and I doubt whether it sits not as close the hearts of Kings as of subjects, which your Majesty well knows is not compatible with self-denial. Sir, you are a great Monarch (true) yet you are but a Steward (nomine & re) a Steward of the great house of the Commonwealth; and one day it shall be said to you, as to the Steward in the Gospel, (Red rationem) Give an account of thy stewardship; And the accounts of Kings are of a vast extent. Sr. you are a Shepherd also a Shepherd of a great flock, our Saviour calls himself a Shepherd, the great Shepherd of Israel, and he tells you, a good Shepherd will die for his Sheep he did so: And S. Paul. Phil. 2, 5 speaking of our Saviour Christ, and there deducing him from all eternity to time, hath these words; Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ jesus: who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, etc. And shall I doubt your Majesty will imitate our bl●ssed Saviour in all you can? I doubt it or: He prayed for this persecutors, and taught us so to do, he forgave his enemies that crucified him even upon the cr●sse [Father forgive them, they know not what they do] nay he died for them [who died, saith the Apostle for the sins of the whole world.] You are not desired Sr. to die out of the world, or to part with your soul, by a sequestration of it from the body. Let the greatest curse that ever fell one the head of any man, fall on that head that hath but such a wish or thought in his heart. All you have to do or suffer, is but to part with a syllable or two, from one single word, a few let●ers cut off from that Monster, as the people call it PREROGATIVE, a little paring off some superfluous part of it, will prove Balm from Gilead, to heal this whole Nation of the most Epidemical disease that ever yet seized this poor dying Kingdom.  
Sir, it was said in the beginning of this Parliament, (by Mr. Pym, if I mistake not that the Parliament would make you a glorious King, and who knows whether your Maesty, when you were in the head of your Army at Edghil, (or else where) had not some hopes to make yourself a (glorious King? And I have been told, that this Army would have persuaded you, when time was, that they make you a glorious King.  
Sir, you have failed in your hopes, they in their promises, and who knows whether, what your Majesty hoped and they promised, and they performed not, may not yet be done another and a better way, if (at least) you will be pleased to take him for your guide (who hath hitherto so miraculously preserved you, and I hope ever will.) I say (Sir) taking God for your guide all may be made good, and and may yet, be brought to pass by yourself, not by fight any more to the hazard of your Royal person, and the persons of your Princely Issue, and of your Nobility, and the destruction of your loving subjects; but by extending and really performing of those two God like Acts of mercy and justice, without partiality, to all your people. And this is Via Regia indeed, and well becoming the Majesty of King Charles.  
And now Sir, behold how wonderful the ways of God are, contrary to the ways of men, past finding out till himself discover them: you have long lain under the cross (restraint to a King is a great cross, were there no more in it,) you are not free, I dare not say you are a captive, & yet your person, with the power that God hath given you over yourself and the Grace he hath endued you with to serve him must suddenly come forth to the redemption of your Subjects out of their captivity,) captives in their native Country under their fellow subjects) or they are lost, lost for ever. In this Abyss of Exigency, no expedient can be found to save your people but the presence of your sacred Person, armed with mercy & justice, Mercy & justice to your people, and justice against yourself, nor could You so easily do it, as I believe, had not God thus fitted, prepared, and qualified you by the cross; whereby You have obtained a fellow feeling of the miseries of Your subjects; David said of himself, It was well for me that I was afflicted. Great Sr. let Your engagements & promises to Your people for the time to come, in Your perfecting of this blessed peace, be like the laws of the Medes and Persians, irrevocable. And so God shall bless you and Your posterity for ever: so much of good towards his people so much honour to himself, no King ever had in his power to act, as your Maj. nor hath by the saving the effusion of so much innocent blood, & perhaps the Kingdom from utter ruin, which is the prayer of him who is,  
Your Maj. most humble subject and Serurnt R. F.   
FINIS.