Good nevves from Plymouth being a true relation of the death of Sir Ralph Hopton, and many of his commanders, vvho by treachery fought to surprise the good towne of Plymouth. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85358 of text R212606 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[111]). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A85358 Wing G1064 Thomason 669.f.6[111] ESTC R212606 99871210 99871210 160972 2248514357

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85358) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160972) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f6[111]) Good nevves from Plymouth being a true relation of the death of Sir Ralph Hopton, and many of his commanders, vvho by treachery fought to surprise the good towne of Plymouth. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Francis Wright, London : Frebr. [sic] 20. 1643. An imaginary account of an event which had not taken place. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1642". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Hopton, Ralph Hopton, -- Baron, 1598-1652 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Plymouth (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A85358 R212606 (Thomason 669.f.6[111]). civilwar no Good nevves from Plymouth: being a true relation of the death of Sir Ralph Hopton, and many of his commanders, vvho by treachery fought to s anon. 1643 1 424 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Good Newes from Plymouth : Being a true Relation Of the death of Sir Ralph Hopton , and many of his Commanders , who by treachery sought to surprise the good Towne of Plymouth .

ON Munday last there was a great Treason found out , which is , That Sir Nicholas Slaning , being acquainted with one of the Master Gunners in Plymouth , sent him a Letter to this effect : That if he would charge his Guns with Powder and Paper , and give false fire , hee would give him an hundred pound ; this newes being brought to the Mayor of Plymouth , he presently send for the said Gunner , and imprisoned him , and wrote backe a Letter in the Gunners name , that all should be effected according to Sir Nicholas Slanings desire ; upon which promise , Sir Ralph Hopton went on , and set upon one of the out works , with confidence to enter ; but Plymouth men having charged their great Peeces with small shot , discharged upon them , and slew eight hundred of their men , amongst whom Sir Ralph Hopton was one .

This is very certain , I heard two men take their oaths , that they being at Stratton , saw a Horse-litter , guarded with sixty Horse , who said these words : If the Devonshire-Rogues should heare of Sir Ralph Hoptons death , wee are all undone .

On Thursday last , Bar. Northcot having gathered 8000. men from the North parts of Devonshire , the Parliament was set on by the Cavaliers at Chafford , ten miles from Exeter , where they had a fight , and slew sixe of the Cavaliers upon the place , and one Commander , cousin to Sir Ralph Hopton ; Sir William Maulton with the losse onely of one man , and one hurt , the Lord be praised for it : The Commission of the Millitia , have by their Warrant gathered all the Countrey together , which are to meet this day together in a Body at Brint , and to morrow to advance to Plymton . There are in all of our men for certaine , 30000. which are of good courage .

Divers Letter speake the same thing , onely they differ in number , and speake of 17000. armed men in the field , and severall Townes and in Exeter .

London , Printed for Francis Wright , Frebr . 20. 1643.