A letter sent from Mr. Anthony Provvse minister of Gods vvord at Shaston, in Summerset-shiere to a friend in London, August 8. 1642. Prowse, Anthony, b. 1597 or 8. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91133 of text R212441 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[63]). 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 A91133 Wing P3880 Thomason 669.f.6[63] ESTC R212441 99871063 99871063 160924 2248521439

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A91133) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160924) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f6[63]) A letter sent from Mr. Anthony Provvse minister of Gods vvord at Shaston, in Summerset-shiere to a friend in London, August 8. 1642. Prowse, Anthony, b. 1597 or 8. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for E.P., London : [1642] Publication date from Wing. Respecting military operations in Somerset-shire. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Military maneuvers -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Somerset (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A91133 R212441 (Thomason 669.f.6[63]). civilwar no A letter sent from Mr. Anthony Provvse, minister of Gods vvord at Shaston, in Summerset-shiere to a friend in London, August 8. 1642. Prowse, Anthony 1642 1 386 1 0 0 0 0 0 26 C The rate of 26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER SENT FROM Mr. ANTHONY PROWSE , Minister of Gods word at SHASTON , in Summerset-shiere to a Friend in LONDON , August 8. 1642. SIR ,

I Have often receiv'd newes from you I doe now exchange , the newes is past with us , this weeke you have heard I beleeve how Marquesse Hartford came this weeke to Summerset for the Array , it began on Munday last at Wells , the place of the Rendevous , there came 800. Troopers bravely horst from the Lord Pawlet , Lord Digby , Lord Cottington , Sir John Strell , Sir R●lph Hopton , and other Knights and Gentlemen in that County , and others for that service , and at the first tooke away all the Ammunition that the troopes brought with them . On thursday last the troopers rangeing from place to place , to bring in all Companies that might assemble to annoy them , meet with 500. Souldiers comming from Bridgewaters side with Colonell Pine , the Parliement man , and were surprised by Lunsford , who by an ambush slew two of the Company , hurt 16. more , and routed that company , and tooke their Armes , and the Captaine Preston tooke quarter , and was brought to Wells ; But this Friday there are above 15000. well appointed men assembled on Mendipp for King and Parliament , and have taken the Hill adjoyning to Wells , where they have planted their Cannons , and have the Towne at command , and there are 20000. more speedy to come , and comming from all parts of Sommersetshiere : Glouc. Wilts , Devon . and Wales , insomuch that the Marquesse with all his Royallists the chiefe of those parts are now in feares , and this day are endeavouring to get away , and wee all beleeve they will steale away in the night , for they are threatned to be brought to the Parliament , what I write you I have from sure hands , who were present at this .

If you meete Sir Walter Earle suddenly , I pray you acquaint him with what I write

Dated Shaston 8. August . A. Prowse .

London , Printed for E. P.