A RELATION Of the Actions of the PARLIAMENTS FORCES, Under the command of the Earl of Bedford General of the Horse, against those which came from Shirbourn unto Babell-hill near un●o Yerrell, upon Wednesday the 7th of this instant September, 1642.  
Which was extracted out of a Letter sent to the Parliament from Dorchester the 10th of September: 1642.  
Signed by Bedford, Denzill Hollis, john Northcot, George Chudley, Walter earl, Tho: Wroth, Alex: Popham, Charles Essex, William Strode, john Pine, Cle: Walker, Hugh Rogers, Ro: Hartin.  
Together with The Copy of Captain AISCOGHS Letter to a Friend of his in LONDON.  
London, Printed for E. Husbands and J. Franck. Sept. 13.   

A Relation of the Actions of the PARLIAMENTS Forces, under the command of the Earl of Bedford, General of the horse, against those which came from Shirbourn unto Babell-hill, near unto Yerrell, upon Wednesday the 7th of this instant September, 1642.  
UPon Tuesday the sixth of September, the Parliaments forces did rise from before Shirbourn, and went that night unto Yerrell a Town being four miles distant from Shirbourn; where we lay on Wednesday to refresh ourselves, upon which day it pleased God to give us a great taste of his goodness, to the great shame and loss of the Enemy: About two of the clock in the afternoon there appeared a great body of their horse and foot upon a great hill within a little mile of the Town called Babell-hill, and so was it truly to them a Babel of Confusion. Upon which we presently put ourselves in Array aswell as we could, to make good all the outways, and guard the Magazine, which to do we found but very few men, and more Pikemen than Musquetiers, for the Musquetiers found themselves to be most employed upon all occasions, and therefore they principally shifted away, and we sent out to that side where the Enemy appeared, three Troops of horse, and some Musquetiers, they standing still at the top of the hill, braving of us, and calling us Rogues and Round heads; our men went up the hill to charge them, Captain Arscogh one way, Captain Tomson another way, a little after him, and Captain Balfour a third, and our Musquetiers after as fast as we could; Aiscogh came up to them first, & charged one of the Troops through and through, and charged the second, but then was glad to wheel about; by that time Tomson came in to him, and upon the sight of him all the Enemy's horse began to shog a little, and our two Troops coming to charge, they turned and ran away, disbanded and routed, and ours followed upon the execution, and killed many of them, they think about eighteen or twenty, some very well habited, who seemed to be persons of quality, and their foot who had played upon our horse and foot coming up the hill, were left to our mercy, our foot and norse killing them, and they running away like dogs; He that commanded them was one Bamfield a Sergeant Major, who is taken prisoner, and with him about a score of his common Soldiers, the rest that commanded the foot are believed to be slain; amongst them one Hassey a Captain, for his Commission was found in his pocket, himself clad in plush, Balfoures Troop was forced to fetch a great compass, for it is a very high hill, and ill way who could not come in soon enough; if the night had not come on and a very dark on, we had made a great execution amongst them, for their whole strength of horse was there, five or six Troops and most of their foot, Sir Ralph Hopton was there with his Troop, Captain Digby, and Sir Francis Hawley with theirs, and the Lord Paulet, Sir john Paulet, Sir john Stowell, Sir Thomas Lunsford, Colonel Asburneham, Sir john Barteley, Colonel Lawdy, and Lieutenant Colonel Lunsford were there: we do verily believe that some of them are come short of home, for they came in the night before the Moon risen with lanterns and candles, and fetched away the bodies of them of quality, we only found the next morning twenty or thirty of our men; there were but five lost in all, and a very few, not above three hurt, all but one of the slain, are of Captain Aiscoghs Troop, who hath showed himself a very valiant youngman; We desire to know what must be done with the prisoners, whom, till we receive order, we will take care shall be safely kept: Thus it hath pleased the good God of heaven, who is the great God of Battles to bless us, whose name we cannot sufficiently magnify for his goodness to us, bringing on the Enemy in their great jollity and strength, to be so shamefully defeated by a handful of us, and those who were tired out with extraordinary sufferance of watching and cold; Blessed be his name for it.  
This was extracted out of a Letter sent to the Parliament from Dorchester, the 10th of September, Signed by Bedford, Denzill Hollis, John Northcot, George Chudley, Walter earl, Thomas Wroth, Alexander Popham, Charles Essex, William Strode, Jo: Pine, Cle: Walker, Hugh Rogers, Ro: Hartin.   

A Copy of Captain Aiscoghs LETTER TO A Friend of his in London.  
THis day after our coming from Sheiburne, the Enemy did us the favour to come to Babell-hill which is a little off Yerrell, the Town where we lay, so news was brought that the Enemy was come, and orders given that we should sound to horse, and then directions came to us from my Lord who should stay to guard the Town, and the rest should go, Pretty and Ducet was to stay, and the rest was to go; And truly Sir when we came to see them, every body did judge them to be at least a thousand, besides they were upon the top of a great hill, which was a●●xtream disadvantage to us; yet praised be God we got very well off, and indeed better than was expected by any body that did see what danger we were in, the way that I went was so narrow, that we did march but two a breast, and when we came to the top almost, we had an Ambuscado of six Musquetiers of each side the way to entertain us, but they missed us all, and at the top of the hill there was young Stowell my fellow traveller with his Troop; so after we had changed two or three brace of Bullets together with a little slashing, they began to retire; No man can justly tell how many we slew of theirs because we dispersed them so; but we were forced to retreat into the Lane, because there was no body to second me, and then came two Troops of fresh horse on us: I lost five of my own men, it was Gods great blessing we were not all cut off, but I trust in him that he hath preserved us for to do him more service: My men were very resolute and valiant, I thank God, as soon as we had charged we went up again, and they were all run away. This is all that I have to trouble you with at this present.  
Dorchester the 9 of September.  
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