A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, concerning the miraculous taking of Tiverton-Castle with the church Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A57923 of text R212258 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R2323). 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. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A57923 Wing R2323 ESTC R212258 99835094 99835094 39747 2264174614

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A57923) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 39747) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2215:10) A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, concerning the miraculous taking of Tiverton-Castle with the church Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : October 23. 1645. Signed: I.R., i.e. John Rushworth. Dated: Tiverton, Octob. 19. 1645. Reproduction of the original in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (Early English books). eng Lenthall, William, 1591-1662 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Tiverton (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. A57923 R212258 (Wing R2323). civilwar no A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, concerning the miraculous taking of Tive Rushworth, John 1645 1 323 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. 2003-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-03 Sampled and proofread 2003-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire , Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons , Concerning the miraculous taking of Tiverton-Castle with the Church . SIR ,

THis day ( being the Lords-day ) after Forenoon Sermon , the Generall called a Councell of War , and agreed to Storm immediatly ; parties were drawn out to fall on in their severall Posts ; and whilest the Councell of War was sitting , the Gunner with round shot brake the Draw-Bridge , which immediatly fell down ; our Souldiers without order , or staying for their Ladders , fell on , beat the Enemy from their works into the Church and Castle , who took down their bloody Flag , and cryed for quarter : Col: Talbot , Son to Sir Sherington Talbot , Major Sadler a Renegado , and twenty Commanders more , and above Two hundred common Souldiers are prisoners , Four piece of Ordnance , great store of Ammunition : Our men gave quarter , though they blew up some of our men in the Church . I never see men more resolved then they were at this time : This place is of great use to us ; not onely in order to the straightning of Exeter , but to secure any Ammunition , &c. that shall be sent us , and keeps the passe open to Plimouth . To morrow the Army marches ; Gorings Horse being gone towards Plimouth : I am Sir ,

Your faithfull Servant , I. R. Tiverton , Octob. 19. 1645.

This Bearer was an Eye-witnesse of our Souldiers entring and carriage .

ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament , That this Letter be forthwith Printed and Published .

H : Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , October 23. 1645.