THE TWO SPEECHES OF THE LORD WHARTON, Spoken in Guild-Hall, Octob. 27. 1642. In which are contained a full and true Relation of the Battle between the two Armies at Kinton. Corrected by the Authors own hand.  
London Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, 1642.   

The Lord Wharton his Speech.  
MY Lords, and you the Aldermen, and Commons of this City, in a business of this very great consequence & concernment, it was very well known to my Lord General, that you could not but be full of great expectations: whereupon my Lord according to his duty took care for to give information to the Parliament, to those that had sent him, of what had proceeded; in the very next place it was his particular respect to this City, to my Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, the Common Council, and all the Commons of this City, that they might likewise be acquainted with the success of that business, towards which they themselves had been at so much expenses, and had showed so much love and kindness in all the proceed of this business: for that purpose, because that Letters might be uncertain, and might miscarry, there being great interception of them, (the Forces of the Armies being close together) my Lord thought fit to send Master Strode, a Member of the House of Commons, and myself, who should not willingly have undertaken to have been messengers of ill tidings, and for the truth of our report, though we already hear that there are those that have so much malignity as to oppose it, yet the certainty of it will clear itself, and therefore there shall need no Apologies to be made, but that which shallbe said to you shallbe nothing but the truth, in a very clear way of relation of what hath past.  
Gentlemen, I shall open to you as near as I can, as it comes within my memory, those things of circumstance which are worthy the taking notice of, and one in the first place shall be, the occasion why so many of the Forces were not then upon the place, which you will find to be upon very good ground and reason, for the preservation of the Countries that were behind, and of this City, which is the particular thing in the care, and now under the diligence of my Lord General to preserve. There was left at Hereford, which lies upon the confines of Wales, a Regiment of Foot under the Command of my L. of Stamford, and a Troop or two of Horse, that the power of Wales might not fall in upon , and upon the of river of Severn, and so upon the West. There was likewise left at Worcester (which you all know how it is seated upon the river of Severn, and what advantage it hath to intercept all force that shall come from Shrewsbury down into the West) a Regiment of my Lord's Saint john's, and Sir John merrick's. There was for the safety of Coventry (for that was a Town it was likely the King might have fallen upon) the Regiment of my Lord Rochfort; but it seems that his Excellency the Earl of Essex his Army did so quickly come up to the Kings, that the King thought it no way fit or advantageous for him to spend any time upon those places, for certainly they would have quickly been relieved, so that the King slipped by Warwick and Coventry, though they are Towns, as particularly under the eye and care of those which direct the King's Counsel, as any other in the whole kingdom, excepting this. There was likewise upon the suddenness of my Lords march, two Regiments of Foot, one under the command of a Gentleman you all know, Colonel Hampden, and the other under the command of Colonel Grantham, with some 10. or 12. Troops of Horse, and these were one days march behind for the guard of some powder, and ammunition, and artillery, which my Lord would not stay for, purposely upon his diligence and desire that there should not be an hour lost in his march up to the other Army, and that he might make all haste in coming up to the safeguard of this Town, & his desire thereof was such, that he kept for 2. or 3. days together a days march before those Forces afore named with Col. Hampden, and so there being another Regiment lodged in Banbury, occasionally for their own safety, there was with my Lord when the Battle was fought upon the Lord's day, 11. Regiments of Foot, and about the number of 35. or 37. or 40. Troops or Horse. That which makes me say this to you, is partly for your satisfactions that you may know the reasons of the absence of so many of the Forces, and partly that you may give the more glory to God for his blessing, and for his preservation of that remnant of the Army which was together; being as I have said about 11. Regiments of Foot, and a matter of 35. or 40. Troops of Horse.  
Upon the Saturday at night about nine or ten a clock at night the Army came to Kenton, and the next morning about 7. a clock (though all that night there was news came that the King was going to Banbury) we had certain information he was coming down a hill, which is called Edge-hill, which hath some advantage by nature for breast-works, and such things as those are; that hill the King's Army came down, his Army coming down, my Lord of Essex presently drew out into the Field and drew his Army into a place of as good advantage as possible he could, though the other Army had the advantage of the hill, which they were possessed of before, and at the beginning of the day the wind it was against us, and was for the advantage of the other Army. The preparation on both sices was for the making of them ready for fight, and the Kings coming down the hill was so long, that there was nothing done till 3. or 4. in the afternoon, saving the shooting of some Cannon. And Gentlemen I shall tell you the worst as well as the best, that you may know all, and that when you have known the worst, you may find it in your judgements, to give the more praise to God for his mercy, after there was so much probability of having the worst of it.  
After that we had shot 2. or 3. pieces of Ordnance, they began for to shoot some of theirs, and truly not long after, before there was any near execution, there was 3. or 4. of our Regiments fairly ran away. I shall name you the particulars, and afterwards name you such of those as at the present shall come within my memory that did the extraordinary service, whereof you will find those of this City to have been very extraordinary instruments. There were that ran away, to be bold with myself first, my Regiment, my Lord Mandevil's, Sir William Fairfaxes, Sir Henry Cholmleyes, these did fairly run away in despite of the Officers.  
Gentlemen, you see by this time I am like to tell you the truth of every thing; but yet I must say this, that though they did so, yet I hope there will be a convenient and good number of them got together again, that may show themselves in better condition, and better way of service then yet they have done, I hope so, and by the blessing of God it may be so, for they are but young Soldiers, and we have seen very good experience of some that have this last battle done very extraordinary and gallant service, who had the misfortune before to be under a cloud. Not long after there was a charge upon the left wing of the Horse, and there I conceive there was a matter of 18. or 19 Troops, and truly I cannot say they did so well as they should though I hope that they will be brought together again to do very good service hereafter; but so it is they had the worst of it; by this you will see that at the beginning of the day we might think it would not prove so well as it pleased God it did afterwards in the close of the day, for 4. of our Regiments were departed and one half of the Horse were not in good order; but it pleased God then to begin to show himself for after they had past the left wing of our Horse, I cannot attribute it to any thing but Gods own providence, their Horse that had passed through ours went to the Town where all our baggage was; the baggage of the Officers and the private persons of the Army, not they of the Artillery or public treasury, but the Colonel's carts, and the Captain's Carts, and such provision as that; there they took a bait upon our pillage and fell a plundering, while the rest of the Army was a fight, and indeed my Lord General had some more loss then ordinary by some  and money he had there, but we thank God for it, for thereby the rest of our Army had better opportunity to do that service they did.  
My Lord General himself upon this extremity did begin to show himself to be more than an ordinary man, and indeed I think more than I have heard tell of any man, for he charged up at several times, both with Horse and Foot, and particularly at the head of one of the divisions of his own Regiments of Foot, which was raised here in Essex, and though so many ill passages happened before, yet with his Excellency's valour, conduct and encouragement, his own Troop of Horse fell with that division of his Regiment of Foot upon the Kings own Regiment (which they had most hopes of) and was called the red Regiment, and after a sore and bitter fight (for to give them their due both sides fought very well, and particularly my Lord General's Sergeant Major who did very gallantly) there was killed the King's Standard-bearer Sir Edw. Varney, they took the King's Standard which was raised up against the Parliament, and it was brought my L. General, and he delivered it to a servant which was not so careful as he ought to have been, but lost that by carelessness which was gotten by force. We took likewise the King's General prisoner, and carried him away; we took prisoner my Lord General's son, my L. Willoughby, that person you have heard so much of, and been so well acquainted with here, Col Lunsford which should have had the tower, he was likewise taken prisoner and Sir Edward straddling, Col. Vavasour, and divers others of quality, My Lord Awbirney, & Munroy a Scotchman of great quality was slain. While these were upon this service. I must give the right to divers other of the Officers of the Horse which were upon the right wing, that they did extraordinary service too, that was my L. of Bedford himself, who did very gallantly, and Sir Wil Belfore the late Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Philip Stapleton, and all that Troop which formerly had been under some other kind of report, they did extraordinary service, charged very bravely, after they had stood as I am informed seventeen shot of Cannon shot against them, by all which God be thanked not a man of them hurt: there was likewise very extraordinary service performed by my Lord Grace, and Sir Arthur Hazlerig, who indeed was a help to give a great turn to the day, by cutting off a Regiment of the Kings, which was called the blue Regiment, and there were many other Gentlemen of great worth, that did very extraordinary service too; I would not have you understand, that others did not do, because I remember not their names, for I speak to you now but on the sudden, naming only these that come to memory, and you will hear more of the rest upon other occasions. Upon the close of the day, we know it for certain, that the best Regiment of the Kings was cut off, and the next best Regiment, which was that under my L. of Lindsey: there was all the prisoners taken I told you of: there were those persons of quality slain I told you of, and there was as we conceive (this I tell you upon information, as we conceive, and are informed by the Countrymen that saw them bury the dead next day, and bring them up into heaps, there was I say, as is informed and conceived) about 3000. of theirs slain; and we cannot have any information, to give us reason to believe that there was above 300. of ours slain; And this was to be observed of God's providence in this day's work, that though the battle began so improbably of our side, yet before the close of the night we had got the ground that they were upon, we had gotten the wind, and we do not know, nor by information conceive, that there was 20. men of ours killed by all the King's Cannon: when it was night there could be no more fight, we drew our Forces together, and so likewise did the King, they were then but at a reasonable distance, it may be three times, or six times the distance of this room, or some such like distance, but in the night the Forces of the King withdrew up the Hill from whence they came; and my L. General amongst others sent myself for to bring on those forces which I told you were a days march behind with Colonel Hampden, which about one or two a clock at night came up accordingly; and joined with the rest of the Army, when the King had drawn his Forces up the hill, my Lord General about one or two a clock drew us a matter of three quarters of a mile further from the hill, that he might be out of the power of the Cannon. We stood to our Arms all the night, in the morning we drew ourselves again into the fields, but we heard no more news of the other Army, more than we saw some scattering men, and some Troops of Horse on the top of the hill, which came to bury the dead, and take away some of their Cannon, and such things as those were, but they came no otherwise down the hill, neither that day, nor on Tuesday, though there were divers reports flew abroad and I believe came hither, that there was fight on Monday and Tuesday, yet there was no fight, for the King kept on the top of the hill, and when Master Strode and myself came away on Tuesday at 4. a clock, we can assure you there was no more action, than was on the Lord's day.  
Gentlemen, I shall after I have declared this narration to you, say no more than this, that certainly my Lord General himself, hath deserved as much in this service for his pains and care, and for the particular success that was upon it, as truly I think ever any Gentleman did; and in the next place, that as God of his own immediate providence did thus declare himself for the owning of his own cause, so you will not forget to apply yourselves to God, to give him the glory, and to entreat his blessing upon the future guidance of the great work.   

The Lord Wharton his second Speech.  
GEntlemen, I shall trouble you but with a word or two, the one is upon part of that narrative, which I began with all, wherein truly I take myself to be very much beholding to that Gentleman that; spoke after me, that he did not forget to inform you of the extraordinary blessing, that God bestowed upon the courage of honest pious and religious men: for truly there was very few that did any extraordinary service, but such as had a mark of Religion upon them: That which I omitted to tell you, was this, that one great cause of the preservation, & of the success of that day, was that the Troops under the Command of Prince Robert, while we were a fight, not only pillaged the baggage (which was but a poor employment;) but killed Countrymen that came in with their teems, and poor women, and children that were with them; this I think comes not amiss to tell you, because you may see what is the thing they aim at, which is pillage, and baggage, and plundering, and the way which they would come by it is murdering, and destroying, and therefore it will come in very properly, to encourage you to that work, which these two noble Lords have so well opened unto you, which is, the standing upon your defence, and to that I shall only add this, that when you shall have done that in that measure, and in that proportion (which we do not doubt but you will do, because you have always shown your affections, and your wisdoms, to be so great in the carriage on of this business, I say, when you shall have so behaved yourselves,) there is no doubt but God's blessing will be upon it, and you will be sure to have an extraordinary back, the Army will be sure to be on the one side, when you with your strength will be on the other side, and when that Army shall lie between these two, without question it will come to a very short conclusion, when you may reap the fruit of your labours that you have been at, to your benefit, and your posterities.  
FINIS.