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✚ edward hail●tone.   
THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD; OR, A TRUE NARRATION Of the unparalelled Victory obtained against the Popish Army at the taking in of Wakefield in yorkshire, by the Lord Fairfaxe his Forces, May 20. 1643.  
As it was sent in a Letter from one in that Army, to his friend here in London, not altering it from his native tone, more like Chaucers English, then ours here.  
Besides an advertisement of great Concernment.  
London Printed in the year, 1643.   

The Pindar of Wakefield, OR, A true Narration of the unparalleled Victory obtained against the popish Army, at the taking in of Wakefield in yorkshire, by the Lord Fairfaxe his Forces, May the 20. 1643. As it was sent in a Letter from one in that Army to his friend here in London, not altering it from his native tone, more like Chaucers English then ours here. Besides an advertisement of great Concernment.  
My barn,  
I Have had many a Caude heart of my awne, it is sea long since I had onny wit of thy being weele, I was sare flade thou wert gane from the canny City of London to leuke abrade for better work, whilke I crow will be far warse than to stay at hame: I have been too too jolly since my entertainment under the guide Lourd Fairfaxe, whea loves God, Religion, the King, and his Countries guid in his saule, and has nea ends of his awne, God knawes, my Lourd is about to sand a fallow of purpose to the Parliament, of hate work we have had lately in the taking of Wakefield, which I desire to unfauld to thee, and tell my Neeme Wully of it. On Saturday last, being twea dayes since, my Lourd general gave Command that one thousand of us of the foute, and eight or neene troops of horse, with twea or three companies of dragoons should march about Saturday last tea a place called Howley, the Lord Savils house, where we all met about one of the clock at night, and it was vary mirke, and the Ginny Howlets cried sare, and we had nea orders whirke way to march, at last Sir Thomas Fairfaxe, wheas Command we were to gang by, asked us if wee wauld follow him, we all cried one and all, we would live and d'ye with him, sea we marched on twea miles, and stumbled on the quarters of our deadly enemies, and gard them run fro us, and we took neither mere nor less then one and twenty prisoners, and laid four asleep for evermare: by that time the lark began to sing, we were within a mile of Wakefield, and about four a clock there appeired a body of Horse advancing with speed towards us, which scared us mickle, for we hoped weele to take them napping, but Sir Thomas Fairfaxe put life into the Horse, & tauld them they should faire nea warse then he did, and our daughty sergeant mayor said as mickle to the Foute, and thereupon our horse charged sea hame, that they enforced the enemy to flee back into the Town: Then I was my sell with those under my Command to beate them out of the hedges in one of the Closes on the right hand, where after six times charging we got the hedges there, as others of our foute did in other places, and we gard them all to their outworks and trenches in the town, but we followed them sea clase, and played sea thick upon them( though they shot bullets out of their great guns as thick as hops against us) that wee made them run out of their warks, and we lowped up upon them, and turned one of their greatest brass guns upon them, which made them cry, Walloway all was tint and gane: Then Sir Thomas Fairefaxe at the tea end of the town scaured the streets, and lieutenant alured with his awne hands, took the general of the Queens Horse prisoner, they call him colonel Gooring, the Lasses in the town did greet sare to see him led away, it seems he is mickle beloved of ordinary weemen, as weele as by the great anes: but whea trow you did I let drive at the entrance of the town, ene Sir William Carnaby our awne countryman, or Mr. Francis Car●aby; be mess, I is sure it was tane or beath of them, and I hit him hame, but alas, when all was mast done, whea did oppose us but a guide friend of ours, Sir William Lambton with his Regiment, I was wea at heart for him for his pratty barns, for he answered our Trumpeter he scorned Quatter, but in discharge of the employment I undertook. on my saule I know it is mere for the guide of my dread sovereign, then the queen and all her Papists in her Army do for him, I let drive at him, and whewed him soundly, and we gard him flee also, and took a number of his Regiment prisoners; when this was done, the town was our awne, and my sell among others fell a plundering, but we had like to have been whupt for our pains, for our Commander in chief would not let us do wrong to the Inhabitants, nor strip the common Souldiers, but anely search their pouches for gaude or silver; Sir William Fowles who Commanded another squadron of horse, came in at the other end of the Town, and stopped the flight of the enemy, if he had come titter, our part had been better; sea wee took noe mere but fourteen hundred scutcheon twea prisoners, besides the twenty and one in our march, and ilk one of us brought to Leeds a prisoner, being between fourteen and fifteen hundred, whereof the Commanders and Officers here inclined( which I had from my colonels awne hands) are a parte, wee brought away with us twenty six or tweney seven ensigns colours, I wat not weele which, and 3. or 4. Cornets Colours, one of them was ●ane from Sir Marmaduke Wivells son, wee brought also away with us four brass great guns with all their baggage arms, & ammunition they left in the town, with divers horse also, and returned( but glory bee to our guid God and not to man for it) with the same to Leeds, and lost not in the fight Neene men, about sixty wounded, and not above fifty of the enemies were slain, for they durst not bide to fight: Sir William Carnaby and Sergeant mayor Hotlby and Lieutenant colonel Saier are said to be the anely men of no●e slain of the Enemies side; my sell and twenty mere got into the kirk garth and wee paid them hame with muskett shot from the new●e of the kirk and walls about it: The reason why Sir Thomas Fairefaxe would not leave a Garrison in the town, was, least the Enemy should get head, and fall upon Leeds or Bradford, and my Lourds forces are not enough to keep Garrisons in Wakefeild, Leedes, Bradford, Hallifaxe, and Howley, and to keep the country open to bring in provision for supply of our Army; we marvel mickle the Parliament will sand us neither money, nor arms, nor Horse, which we want mast, if they did we would( with Gods help I say still) be other master of the field or streiten their Quarters, and open the passage to Hull, which would bring in Trade again to these Clathing towns, and monny guide things besides; I tell you what you may do weele to do, to put into the head of some Parliament man, by way of diversion, I speak as a young soldier, to sand some Forces by Sea to take Newcastle, where there was not on Tuesday last aboune 300. Souldiers heir, and at Tinmouth, and thou knawest weele their Commander Sir T.R. will lop away at first shot. If Newcastle were tane you shall have bonny fires awe Winter long, and the cavaliers that have interest in the Colliers, and Salt-pans, and customs, will quickly raise 60000. pound to defray the charges in taking the town; by that little judgement I have of London, I am of opinion there is nothing in the world like the taking in of Newcastle for them: you have but twea ways to do it; by your own sels In the South; or by our bretheren beyond Tweed, if it bee attempted by either, it will enforce all our country men, Northumberland, and bishopric men to desert the queen to defend their own Country, and then I am sure the Riddells, the Grayes, the Lambtons, the Widdringtons and all the Keele-men will leave the queen, and then three parts of four of her Army is gane, and shee will bee then in a Germaine condition: what course soever you take, do not take arms against the Parliament, for though wavering at first, I see God is on their side, and doth mere then man.  
Sall I tell you the Story of an awde wife in Wakef●eld as she was sitting on the midding wringing her hands and greeting after the fight was done, that she had lived sea long, and she had heard of the Pindar of Wakefield, Geordy green, and Little John, but never thought sick doings had been in the world, and never since shee was born did she, and she thinks nene else in the town observe the Song of Geordy green before now, And not shift themselves till monday, and repeated these aude Verses following; 
In Wakefield on a green, upon a Whitsunday,  
The Maids in Wakefield would go dance, Put on your smocks on monday.  She swore that aude Mother Shipdon was a Witch, for she prophesied of these times: the rest of the Letter is matter of privacy, and harder English to understand.  
Leeds this Witsun-Munday, May 22.   

The List of the Commanders & Officers taken Prisoners, are as followeth:  

general Goring.  
Sir Tho: Bland, Lieutenant Colonel to Sir George Wentworth.  
Lieutenant Col: St. George.  
Lieutenant colonel Mackmoyler.  
sergeant mayor Car.  
captain Car.  
captain Knight.  
captain Wildbore.  
captain Rudstone.  
captain Pemberton.  
captain Croft.  
captain Ledgard.  
captain Lasly.  
captain Rally.  
captain Nuttall.  
Captain Lieutenant Benson.  
sergeant mayor Carnaby, and Captain Nuttall left wounded in Wakefield, upon their engagements to bee true prisoners.   

Lieutenants.  
Monokton.  
Thomas.  
Wheateley.  
Kent.  
Nicholson.   

ensigns.  
Squire. Vavasour.  
Masken. Lumpton.  
ducat. Stockhald.  
Balwinson. Davies.  
Car. Gibson.  
Smaythwait. Ballinson.  
Watson. smelled.  
Haliburton. Cornet Wivell.   
There were in the town( he writes) about three thousand foot, eight troops of horse, and colonel Lambtons Regiment, which came also to their assistance. There were one thousand five hundred horse and foot of the Lord Fairfaxes, which obtained this glorious Victory against them.  
FINIS.