5 Iulii, 11 at night. A letter from the Leaguer before Colchester, sent to the Honorable Committee at Derby-House, of the great fight between his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, and the forces in Colchester. Ordered by the said Committee, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Gualther Frost, Secr' Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92113 of text R203407 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E451_23). 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 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A92113 Wing R2321 Thomason E451_23 ESTC R203407 99863370 99863370 115566 2240960796

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92113) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 115566) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 71:E451[23]) 5 Iulii, 11 at night. A letter from the Leaguer before Colchester, sent to the Honorable Committee at Derby-House, of the great fight between his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, and the forces in Colchester. Ordered by the said Committee, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Gualther Frost, Secr' Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : July 7. 1648. Signed on A3v: J.R., i.e. John Rushworth. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Colchester (England) -- History -- Siege, 1648 -- Early works to 1800. A92113 R203407 (Thomason E451_23). civilwar no 5 Iulii, 11 at night. A letter from the Leaguer before Colchester, sent to the Honorable Committee at Derby-House, of the great fight betwee Rushworth, John 1648 7 494 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. 2007-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

5 Iulii , 11 at night .

A LETTER From the Leaguer before Colchester , Sent to the Honorable Committee at DERBY-House , OF The great Fight between his Excellency The Lord FAIRFAX , AND The Forces in Colchester .

ORdered by the said Committee , That this Letter be forthwith Printed and Published .

GUALTHER FROST Secr'

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , July 7. 1648.

At the LEAGUER before Colchester , July 5. Eleven at night . SIR ,

THe Enemy sallyed forth at East-bridge about eight in the morning , with One thousand Foot and Three hundred Horse , and fell on our guard very suddenly , and surprised some of them being countrey-men , the rest retreated to the main guard : Colonel Whaley perceiving what advantage the Enemy had got , presently advanced with his horse and got between them and home , whilest the Tower Regiment advanced towards the Front , and routed both Horse and Foot together , and took about One hundred prisoners , the most of them miserably wounded , the Soldiers giving them a payment for their poysoned Bullets : About Twenty of the Enemy was slain on the place , most Gentlemen , their good apparel and white skins speak no less : Lieutenant Colonel Weston , eldest Son to Sir Richard Weston , and two Captains more were taken prisoners , they confess they were One thousand Foot , besides Horse ; and some of the prisoners say , a Colonel was slain on the place , where their Foot fell ; the Retreat was so hasty , that our two Drakes which they surprised at East-bridge , they left behinde , so that we gained them , the house and Turnpike , where we formerly were : Lieut: Colonel Shambroke was shot in the body , the Bullet since taken out , and we finde it poysoned , boyled in Copprice ; our Soldiers hope to be revenged of them the next engagement for this poysoned Bullet : Captain Moody who commanded a Troop of Suffolk horse , was taken prisoner , ingaging the Enemy very boldly in person ; one Soldier had his Leg shot off with a great Bullet , and some wounded . The Enemy was this day so sufficiently beaten , that unless hunger , which breaks stone walls , inforce them to play their last game , they will no more appear .

Your servant , J. R.
POSTSCRIPT .

The Colonel or person of quality slain , had Rings on his finger , which the Soldiers cut off before he was dead ; many of them had two shirts on , which would make one believe they intended an escape . One Wood a Commander of Horse , lately a Supermerary Reformado , was slain on their side .

FINIS .