THE welshmen's Lamentation AND Complaint, for te loss of her great Town and City of HEREFORD, Which was taken from her by her create enemy, Sir WILLIAM WALLER; and for te loss of her create Cousin and Commander, M. Fitz-William Conningsby, Governor of her said create City of Hereford.  
Printed in te year (her thinks) of her utter Testruction. 1643.   

The Welshman's Lamentation for the loss of her create Town, and City of Hereford.  
WHen her was beaten in Teane Forest pi her teadly foe, Sir William Waller, her was thought that if her could keep her head and body together till her got to Hereford to her hardy cousins and countrymen there, her should pe in create safety and security, especially when her was informed her enemy was gone from her porders, and marched towards Oxford: for ten her was thought never to have seen her more in her own country, however not pefore her should pe so strong as to resist her, and save her sweet life from her sword, that might make a separation between tat and te body: put O Hone, her expectation was quite frustrate, and her was deceived; for when her was think least of her coming, her heard a strange noise, of Drums and Cuns about te town, te very voice of te Cuns put her into a thousand desperations, her could not tell which way to petake herself, nor how with any courage to run away from her teadly adversaries so near her: to fight her was not able, for her heart was tead pefore, even when her first heard of their approach: in this desperate case her was constrained to call to her a Council of Soldiers, called a Council of War, which her had had too much on pefore; and indeed could never apide te same from te time of her nativity; but necessity has no law nor liberty neither in her country, wherefore nature directed her to save her sweet life pi one means or other, te beasts will do so; put rather ten her would turn to her foes, her would die; upon which her resolution after her had congregated her cousins and countrymen, prethrens soldiers, her fell into these ensuing consultations, and herself peing accounted the wisest in te Senate, her was tesired to teliver her sense, what her thought best to pe done for te present to save herself without fight, if it were possible, and if not, nor no ways for her to run away, ten to propound upon what contitions her should yield to her enemy, upon which after much entreaty knowing herself to have been an old soldier at her house in her own country, put never in any fight till Teane patel (where her was pitifully beaten) her was te more willing to perform their desires, presuming upon her own experience, and terefore her propounded to their grave considerations tese particulars following: viz.  
1 Let her advise her teer cousins and countrymen not to adventure their persons out of te town, put make te same her safety, and now & ten let pullets fly out from te houses among her enemies, and if her can make her provision last till some help and relief may pe sent pi her cousins in Wales, and so let her enemies waste teir pullets and powter in vain, or with little disadvantage to her.  
2 Let her privately make her friends acquainted with her wants, and need of help at 'tis present against her adversaries, pi which tey may send her relief te sooner, put if her could procure any of te English Forces to come to her assistance, her doubted not put her should pi fight make her party could with her foes, put her touts her own countrymen will not adventure teir precious blood in so desperate a combat as must make her enemies leave te town, for tey pe very fearful to hear te sound oft Cuns, and many of tem her scares, will tie with te conceit tereof, pefore tey can come to her aid.  
3 If no assistance come to her in time, ten her sense is, Tat her may endeavour privately in to night at some secret place of te town, to run away with her head on her shoulders, and if her can conveniently carry away any of her prog, to take te same away with her, that her foes may have no advantage tereby when tey come into te town, and her would also if her could carry away with her her coods and arms.  
4 If her may not with safety effect any of these things, ten her must pe constrained to yield up her town upon tese conditions, and terefore her conceives it necassary to propound to her enemies tese Propositions following, which being granted, her willbe willing to leave te town, and save her life pi returning into her own country, where if once her has te fortune put to return, her will see all war and fight at te Tevill, pefore her will adventure herself in such toing again, for her perceives her has had no success in all her erterprises according to her expectation; for her was think to have cotton create store of goods, and made herself rich with te spoils of te English put her was deceived ●rein, 〈◊〉 conditions for te surrendering up her town which her would have condescended unto, be tese ensuing, viz.  
1 That her may have free liberty to co out of te town with her arms and ammunition, & poe conducted into her own country with a Passport for her honest carriage when her shall be passed te fear of her enemies, lest her should steal from her neighpour any coods, for her hands have been addicted to teevery, that her doubts her shall not leave it so long as her live.  
2 That her may have liperty to carry with her her belly timber, as her cousin, pacon, sheese, leek, poultry, and all her prog to keep her alive and honest in her journey and march, and carriages allowed her for that purpose.  
3 That her maimed cousins and countrymen, and those that are lamed in te fight, may pe left in te town till tey pe recovered of their health, and able to travel into their own country.  
4 That her with all her fellow Officers may pepardoned and exempted from future questioning and calling to account for her treas● cable plots and actions against her country ●●●d te English people, and her roppery and pillaging of tem, contrary to te Laws of te Kingdom, and against her own liperty and freedom, for te which her posterity will curse her in time to come, when her shall be tead and puried.  
If all these things be granted, her will go into her own country, and pe jocund with her teer wife Shone, and her shildren, which was call tem Shinkin ap Evan, and Randall ap Morgan, and live hereafter (if her enemies will let her alone) in peace and quiet, put if her cannot obtain of her foes tese conditions, ten her must take her fortune as it falls, whether i be to be hanged, killed, or imprisoned, or made slaves to her adversaries, te very conceit of either hath almost struck her with teeth already, then must her take up her mourning song to the tune of O Hone, & sigh out her life with sorrow, that her Welsh blood so hot of nature, that it were able to fire mountains, and boil te sea like a cauldron in her conceit, and that herself was slay multitudes of armed men, should be now confined to te pleasure of her foes, who if her were put with tem in te field, her could destroy tem with te preath of her pack parts as soon as pi fight.  
FINIS.