Major Gen: Poyntz's letter to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons: or, A true relation of the storming and taking of all the works and stables of Belvoyr-Castle. Together with a letter from Adjutant Gen: Sandys, concerning the same fight, wherein the enemy had no quarter granted them. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Poyntz, Sydenham. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90920 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E309_38). 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. 4 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 A90920 Wing P3136 Thomason E309_38 ESTC R200437 99861189 99861189 113317 2248525151

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A90920) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 113317) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 51:E309[38]) Major Gen: Poyntz's letter to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons: or, A true relation of the storming and taking of all the works and stables of Belvoyr-Castle. Together with a letter from Adjutant Gen: Sandys, concerning the same fight, wherein the enemy had no quarter granted them. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Poyntz, Sydenham. Sandys, Richard. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 6, [2] p. Printed for Edw. Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Golden Dragon in Fleetstreet, neer the Inner-Temple, London, : November 25. 1645. The final leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Belvoir Castle (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. eebo Major Gen: Poyntz's letter to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons: or, A true relation of the storming and ta Poyntz, Sydenham. 1645 7 557 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. 2010-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2011-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2011-02 Sampled and proofread 2011-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

Major Gen: Poyntz's LETTER TO The Honorable William Lenthal Esq ; Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS : OR , A true Relation of the Storming and taking of all the Works and Stables of BELVOYR-CASTLE .

Together with a Letter from Adjutant Gen: Sandys , concerning the same Fight , wherein the Enemy had no Quarter granted them .

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That these Letters be forthwith printed and published .

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

London , Printed for Edw. Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Golden Dragon in Fleetstreet , neer the Inner-Temple , November 25. 1645.

To the Honorable , W: Lenthall Esq ; Speaker of the House of Commons . SIR ,

THe last night I drew up these Forces with me before Belvoyre Castle , and sending in a Summons , the Governour returned me this Answer ; Sir , I am no lesse distrustfull of Providence then you are : and return you Answer , That I was not placed here by the King to surrender to Rebells ; And for the effusion of blood you mention , the crime will be your own , not mine ; Therefore I will not give one inch of ground I am able to maintain with my sword , against all your attempts made against this place , and your Servant Jervace Lucas ; whereupon my men being in readinesse , we stormed their works in four severall places , and after an hours dispute entred , and possessed our selves of all their Works and Stables , so that in a short time I hope to return you a good accompt of that place : I cannot as yet , hear any thing of the Foot ordered to me out of the Eastern Garrisons , so that my going against Newark is much retarded thereby , and out of York there is neither horse nor foot as yet appears : I shall , according to the trust repofed in me , use my best endeavour for the Publique , and ever remain , Sir ,

Your faithfull and humble Servant , Sednham Poyntz . Botsford , 21. Nov.
SIR ,

I Am extremely tired with the last nights storming , and being assured that you will have a more particular Relation from others , but I shall say thus much , the Works were the strongest I have seene in England , and gallantly defended , and our men at first discouraged so much , that the Generall , my self , and some other Officers were fain to keep the men at the Works with our swords : we had one Major and two Captains wounded , and two Ensignes killed ; the number of Souldiers lost I yet know not , they had no more quarter then their bold answer to our Summons deserved : wee have possessed our selves of the Spring that supplyes them with water , and doubt not but fuddenly to reduce it . I am in haste , and rest

Your Servant , Richard Sandys . Botsford , 21. Nov. 1645. FINIS .