A second letter to his highness the Lord Protector from Captain Unton Crooke, signifying the totall defeat of the Cavaliers in the west, under the command of Sir Joseph Wagstaffe. Published by his highness special commandment. Croke, Unton. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A81052 of text R207448 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E830_18). 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 2018 A81052 Wing C7233 Thomason E830_18 ESTC R207448 99866497 99866497 118772 2248513219

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A81052) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 118772) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 126:E830[18]) A second letter to his highness the Lord Protector from Captain Unton Crooke, signifying the totall defeat of the Cavaliers in the west, under the command of Sir Joseph Wagstaffe. Published by his highness special commandment. Croke, Unton. [2], 4, [2] p. Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, printers to his highness, London, : 1654. [i.e. 1655] Last leaf is blank. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March. 20th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Wagstaffe, Joseph, -- Sir. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. eebo A second letter to his highness the Lord Protector from Captain Unton Crooke, :$bsignifying the totall defeat of the Cavaliers in the west, under the [no entry] 1655 7 425 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. 2013-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-01 Sampled and proofread 2014-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A SECOND LETTER TO His Highness THE LORD PROTECTOR From Captain UNTON CROOKE , Signifying the totall Defeat of the Cavaliers in the West , under the Command of Sir JOSEPH WAGSTAFFE .

Published by His Highness special Commandment .

LONDON , Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness , 1654.

A SECOND LETTER TO His Highness THE LORD PROTECTOR Signifying the totall Defeat of the Cavaliers in the West , under the Command of Sir Joseph Wagstaff . May it please Your Highness ,

I gave your Highness last night an account how far I had pursued the Enemy that came out of Wiltshire into Devon ; I sent your Highness the numbers of them , which I conceived to be two hundred ; It pleased my good God so to strengthen & direct me , that although I had none but my own Troop which was not 60. that about ten a clock at night I fell into their quarters at a Town called South Molton , in the County of Devon ; I took , after four hours dispute with them in the Town , some 60. Prisoners , neer one hundred forty horse and arms . Wagstaff himself escaped , and I cannot yet find him , although I am still sending after him ; this party of them was divided into three Troops , Colonel Penruddock commanded one of them , and was to make it a Regiment , Colonel Groves commanded another , and was to compleat it to a Regiment , Col. Jones the third and was to do the like ; these 3. Gentlemen are of Wiltshire , and men of Estates . One of Sir Edward Clarks Sons was with them , he was to be Major to Penruddock , the Prisoners tell me that we killed him .

I have brought all the Prisoners to Exon , and have delivered them over to the High Sheriff , who has put them into the High Gaol . Your Highness may be confident this Party is totally broken , there is not four men in a Company got away ; the Country surprize some of them hourly , the Maior of South Moulton , being with me in the Streets was shot in the body , but like to do well .

I have nine or ten of my Troop wounded , I remain , Your Highness most Obedient Servant , UNTON CROOK . Exon Mar. 16. 1654.