THis day wee have gotten more Intelligence of yesterdays business , and finde it to be a greater Victory then afore we conceived it , for we understand from good hands within the Town , that as they had Officers of quality slain in the field , so they have had some dead since they were brought into the town , and that divers of their officers received very dangerous wounds .

They much lament that their success was no better , in regard they drew out all the considerable Foot they had in the town , leaving not Six hundred upon the Line , and had thought by this upon our fresh soldiers , to have fleshed their men for further service .

This day the Enemy drew out on this side of the town , as if they would have interrupted our men in the new work they are making near the Lord Lucas his house , but they did not attempt it , neither would our Canon give them leave to stay long without the walls .

It is certified from all hands within that town , that their hearts are very much down , and that the conditions offered would now be acceptable , that the Lord Goring and Lord Capel carry things high and peremptorily , but Sir Charls Lucas more moderate , the townsmen are infinitely weary of their company . Butter is not to be had under Five shillings a pound , and Cheese almost at so dear a rate , and the Soldiers do seize upon the Meal at the Mills , and Bread at the Bakers , which doth reduce the Townsmen to extreme misery for want of Bread : we are resolved to undergo hard duty , but we will ruine the Horse if they indeavor to escape : Captain Moody who was taken prisoner is sore wounded , but is this day exchanged , the Enemy had forty two prisoners of ours , and we ninety six of theirs , a Trumpeter is gone about the exchanging of them : Lieutenant Colonel Shambrook is dead of the shot he received by the poisoned Bullet , and many of the prisoners we took yesterday are likewise dead of those wounds and cuts they received , meerly for their using of poysoned Bullets , who otherwise had received fair quarter .