Tvvo letters the one from his Excellencie, Robert Earl of Essex, to Anthony Nicoll, Esquire, a member of the House of Commons : the other from VVarwick-castle to Sir Samuel Luke at his quarters, concerning the state of the city of Gloucester. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38663 of text R40256 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3337). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A38663 Wing E3337 ESTC R40256 18779967 ocm 18779967 108355 2240886582

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A38663) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108355) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1651:33) Tvvo letters the one from his Excellencie, Robert Earl of Essex, to Anthony Nicoll, Esquire, a member of the House of Commons : the other from VVarwick-castle to Sir Samuel Luke at his quarters, concerning the state of the city of Gloucester. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646. Bridges, Jo. 7 p. Printed for Edward Husbands, [London] : Sept. 1, 1643. The second letter signed: Jo: Bridges. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. eng Nicoll, Anthony. Luke, Samuel, -- Sir, d. 1670. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A38663 R40256 (Wing E3337). civilwar no Tvvo letters: the one from his excellencie, Robert Earl of Essex, to Anthony Nicoll, Esquire, a member of the House of Commons. The other fr [no entry] 1643 8 519 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2004-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-11 Sampled and proofread 2004-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

TWO LETTERS : The one from His Excellencie , Robert Earl of Essex , To Anthony Nicoll , Esquire , a Member of the House of Commons . The other from WARWICK-CASTLE , To Sir Samuel Luke at his Quarters : Concerning the state of the City of Gloucester .

Ordered by the Commons in Parliament , that these Letters be forthwith printed : H : Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com.

Printed for Edward Husbands , Sept. 1. 1643.

To my much respected Friend , ANTHONY NICOLL , Esquire . SIR ,

THe cause of our lying still to day was , that the Clothes and Arms might be disposed , but principally , that Col: Harvey might not be too far engaged , who is marching after with the Associated Forces , and I hope , will be neer us to morrow night ; and then I doubt not , but we shall march without stop or stay . By the inclosed , you 'l see what I hear from Warwick .

Your assured Friend , ESSEX .
For the HONORABLE , Sir Samuel Luke , AT HIS QuARTERS . Honorable Sir ,

I Sent an answer to yours of the 26. this morning , and in obedience to his Excellencies commands presently dispatched away a Messenger to Gloucester ; since which time ( i. ) this day about Twelve of the clock , came hither Two substantiall Men from the Town ; by whom I perceived , none of those Messengers I formerly sent , came into the Town ; yet they assured me , the Town was in a very good condition , and full of courage , having every day put the Enemy to much losse . Yesterday morning upon an outfall they killed Sir Jacob Astley ( as the Souldiers report ) I heard by a prisoner , that A Man of principall respect was killed : It was agreed between them and the Governour , at their coming away , That in case Relief were coming , they should this Night , about Twelve of the clock , make Fires upon Bredon-hill ; which the Town was to answer , by doing the like upon the Colledge-Steeple ; wherupon I shewing them your Letter for their satisfaction , accommodated them with Horses , and sent them speedily away , to put their Designe in execution .

Sir , I finde , the Kings Foot there are few , and those in very ill condition , so that whensoever the town makes a sally , the quarter they fall upon , runs without striking a blow ; The Town hath not lost above Ten persons , of Men , Women , and Children , slain .

If in any thing I have a capacity to serve you , if you please to honor me with your commands , you shall finde ready and cheerfull obedience from

Sir , Your affectionate humble Servant , Jo: BRIDGES . Warwick-Castle , 28. Aug. about 9. at night . FINIS .