A True RELATION Of VERY GOOD SERVICE Done by the ANTILOPE And some other ships, under the Earl of Warwick's Command, at Berwick, Newcastle, and the Holy Island, the latter end of May, and beginning of june last 1643.  
Faithfully expressed in a Letter from a Gentleman of Quality, who was in the Service, to a friend of his in London,   woodcut of person standing beneath a tree 
LONDON: july 4. Printed by Elizabeth Purslow. 1643.   

From Aboard HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP called the ANTILOPE.  
In Holy-Island Road, upon the Coast of Northumberland, this 11 of june, 1643.  
SIR,  
I Have thought good hereby to acquaint you with our prosperous success in the North parts of this Kingdom, which is thus. On the 19 of May we set sail out of the Downs with a Convoy of ten Ships for Holland, and arrived safe at Amsterdam the 21, on which day we sailed again for Newcastle Bar, and ten Leagues to the Southward of Newcastle, we met with 7 or 8 sail of our own men of War, which we sent away from the Downs when we went for Holland, so we took them under our Command and gave them the Colours of our Squadron. May the 24 we came right before Tynmouth Bar, and with our Ship stood right in before the Castle, and within shot of it to see if they would shoot at us, but they did not, neither did we at them, the wind then being fair, and West North-West, we discovered two Ships coming over the Bar, before they were ware of us, and when we were within ken of them, they could not go bacl (being much amazed to see our Ships on such a sudden) but checked into the Shore, thinking to stand to their heels, but we firing six pieces of Ordnance at them, made them submit, whereupon they bore up to us, and so we made them lawful Prize, upon examination we found them to be of Lyn, and had carried Corn to Newcastle, for the relief of the Romish Rout, and Antichristian crew there, whereupon the Castle was presently in an upreare, we observing the soldiers running too and again, expecting still when they would shoot at us, but they did not, being belike jealous of the lower-Townes men, whom they feared would have taken our Part, and doubtless they would have done so, had we proceeded on: we came then to an Anchor before the Bar, about Sun set, and that night we had a wellwisher who stole off in a boat, and gave us intelligence of a great Papist that lived about a mile North from the Castle, within half a mile off the shore, the House I knew well, and the owner thereof, one Mr. Cramlington of Newsham, who had made ready half a dozen Horses and Men to go to the Earl of New Castles Army, whereupon I animated the Captain to prevent his going, and likewise I undertook to be their guide, so about 12 a Clock at night, we armed fourscore men, well provided, whom we landed on the shore, and thence marched up in order unto the House, and placing our Sentinels, round about it, we repaired first to the Stable, thinking to make all sure there, but we found not only all the Horses gone, but the Gentleman himself, the day before? after some small opposition, we entered the House, but found no Ammunition at all therein, whereupon our Soldiers plundered it, & so returned on Shipboard. The next morning we set sail for Barwick, and that day came before the Town, the Mayor and Townsmen were wavering, but upon sight of our ships became firm for the King and Parliament: that night we set about a hundred soldiers on shore, and marched to Colonel Haggerstons of Haggerston Castle, five mile's south of Berwick, which Castle we presently took in, and the Colonel and his son Prisoners, having them ab card at this present, to be sent up to the Parliament, by the next first convenient prize we take: we are certainly informed he was raising a Regiment of Horse for the Popish Army, I was of his acquaintance, and likewise knew him to be one of the most Arch-Papists in those Parts; but my forwardness in this service against him, he took most unkindly, that I should have my finger in such Pies. Our Plunder there, worth 300 li. was the next morning divided before his face aboard the ship. Leaving Berwick in a posture of Defence for King & Parliament, & a man of war to ride before the town as they desired, on the 29 of May we set sail from thence for the Holy-Island, (six miles from Barwick) and summoned the Castle for King and Parliament, but being denied by the Captain, we let fly a broad side at it, & were answered again in our own language, the Cannon's thus playing a while on both sides, and yet no hurt done, we running in with our ships under the Castle, and landing a hundred men they came to a Parley, and yielded upon condition to have paid unto them a years pay due to them from his Majesty, the which we promised to do; And so the first of June we took the impregnable Castle of Holy-Island (which forty men may keep against four thousand without any blood) this Castle we have fortified with our own men, and some of the old Soldiers who refused to fight, we have now some fourteen sail this day with us. The generality of the people in and about Newcastle pray for us, & hope that we will freethem from the cruelty they suffer at this time, I hope it will be the first news you hear from me.  
These things are well known for truth, therefore you may be bold to acquaint your friends with them if you please; we have secured Barwick, taken the Holy-Island, Town and Castle; one of the greatest Soldiers in Northumberland is prisoner with his son a Captain, plundered the Papists, and struck the Country thereabouts into a Favour, we take divers prizes, pray for the Coming of the Danes, with whom we are ready to Encounter, chase the Dunkirkers, cherish the commons of Newcastle, fright the Magistrates, and shut up their Haven, the next News you hear from me, will be about some service, we expect to perform against Newcastle itself and then I will write to you more at large.  
I had almost forgot to signify to you, that this great Colonel whom we have taken had like to have made an escape away, for at our first entrance into the Castle, he slipped out at a back door & was mounted on horseback, but being espied by the Soldiers, they fired four Muskets at him, killed his Horse dead on the place, shot his man through the boot top, but killed neither of them, both he and his son were newly come from the Earl of Newcastles Army, and were then raising a Regiment of Horse for his service; that night there was 7. Troops of Horse within two miles of his Castle, which we knew not of, but I wonder how they could forbear laughing the next morning, when they came to hear their Colonel snapped up by a Ship, we had no sooner brought them to our boat, and got all our men and luggage into them, but down came his Troop to the Seaside, (our Ship riding a mile and half from the shore) where sitting on Horseback, they discharged their Pistols at us, but we being out of thereach of them, fired some of our Muskets again at them from the Ship, and so we parted.  
FINIS.   

July 3. 1643.   

Imprimatur,  
H. Walley.