A letter from a person of honour, relating the slaughter of a party of 300 horse, by the forces under the command of the Earle of Holland, July 7. 1648. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87935 of text R210948 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[72]). 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 A87935 Wing L1422 Thomason 669.f.12[72] ESTC R210948 99869696 99869696 162865 2240941558

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A87935) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162865) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f12[72]) A letter from a person of honour, relating the slaughter of a party of 300 horse, by the forces under the command of the Earle of Holland, July 7. 1648. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], London : printed in the year 1648. Dated at end: July 8. From the Head-quarters at Hounslow-heath. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History, Military -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A87935 R210948 (Thomason 669.f.12[72]). civilwar no A letter from a person of honour, relating the slaughter of a party of 300 horse, by the forces under the command of the Earle of Holland, J anon. 1648 1 236 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
A LETTER FROM A Person of Honour , relating the slaughter of a Party of 300 Horse , by the Forces under the command of the Earle of Holland , July 7. 1648. SIR ,

TO prevent the usuall practice of the adverse Party , to belie us out of Victories , and to encourage their welaffected-ones , who follow onely Power and Successe , not the Justice of the Cause ; ( for I cannot believe , they can by these Arts , discourage those who are resolved to joyne in vindicating their King , their Religion , their Laws & Liberties ) I send you this brief information of what hapned the last night : After a short Skirmish of our Scouts , we understood by them , a Party of Horse were not far off , and the better to entertain them we lined the Hedges ( my haste will not give me leave to write you a Relation at large ) we lost about 10 men , but amply revenged their deaths , by the slaughter of the greatest part of their 300 Horse . My Lord now marcheth with his full body of Men : this you may affirm to your friends , or any one you meet withall , from your —

JULY 8. From the Head-quarters at Hounslow-heath .

LONDON , Printed in the Year 1648.